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Memory Across Time & Space - Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, Biologist

The DemystifySci Podcast

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Is There a God in the Universe?

I wonder with super militant atheists, if you couldn't offer a new definition of God that would allow them to soften their positions because they're allergic to the superstition. And yet we have a sense that there's an emergent property of all things together and I'm not sure why that can't be God. What opens up many people who are materialist is direct experiences of mystical type experiences through psychedelics. But when nature and religion were separated in the 17th century, all of those experiences were shifted away from God and into science.

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