In this episode I pay a visit to the London home of the brilliant English biologist Rupert Sheldrake. Trust me, you don't want to miss this one: Rupert says one profound, fascinating thing after another. Also, he is at times downright hilarious, especially when he’s exposing the fundamentalism of the crotchety materialist Richard Dawkins and others like him.

—pilgrimage (3:17)
—the centrality of incarnation in Christianity (9:05)
—how evolutionary science sheds light on the story of Christ’s sacrifice and the archetype it instantiates (12:00)
—how morphic resonance might inform the roles that archetypes play in artistic inspiration (also the mysterious dream behind a line of my poetry about a “voice of pure banana cream Jesus”)  (17:19)
—epic takedown of Richard Dawkins (22:05)
—Rupert challenges Steven Pinker to a debate about telepathy (30:53)
—why it’s actually worse for a scientist than for a religious person to be a fundamentalist (32:33)
—my brother’s telepathic, archetypal dream involving me and a "mystery fruit" (33:43)
—the changes that Rupert would like to see in Western culture over the coming years (38:20)

Rupert Sheldrake’s books:
https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake

If you have questions for me about this episode or anything else, hit me up at greg@gregbrownderville.com. If I get some good questions, I might do a Q&A episode.

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