The Convergence of Science and Spirituality (Part One) | Donald Hoffman & Rupert Spira

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• DA

  @david203 · 3 years ago

  About the fear of death, discussed right at the end: after many years of practicing Transcendental Meditation, six years ago the occurrence of Stage 4 colon cancer started a year of treatments that gave me constant feedback that I had lost all fear of death. From the moment of diagnosis through all the treatments I found myself enjoying the process as an interesting adventure, free of any anxiety, worries, or fears. There were times when the pain was almost unbearable, but I simply asked for pain medication, which worked nicely most of the time. Never did I wish for something different to happen; I accepted everything. I especially loved my devoted caregivers and my cancer support group. I agree with Hoffman that effective meditation really works to help us enjoy life. I have fortunately survived the cancer and have been free of it for over five years.

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• IN

  @Intrasimulation · 3 years ago

  We are so privileged to be witnessing such an important moment in human history: physics, philosophy, neuroscience, cognitive psychology and spirituality are converging in a unique way for the first time, ever. This is a Copernican shift!

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• AB

  @Abdulralbader · 3 years ago

  I had to pause the video half way through and give credit to Simon and his brilliant moderation. Thank you for the beautiful way your facilitated this conversation.

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• AN

  @anitastewart4359 · 2 years ago

  Two of my favorite great Minds coming together discussing one of my favorite topics with so many amazing insights, thanks to both and would love more of the conversation to continue.

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• HO

  @HoscoFelix · 2 years ago

  Great conversation, a meeting of two beautiful minds. Very well moderated too, an excellent balance of taking the guests' thoughts to the next logical step while being constructively provocative and keeping it grounded. Also, Mr Spira has such a poetic way of speaking that he's a pleasure to listen to no matter what he's saying!

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• PA

  @paulkeogh7077 · 3 years ago (edited)

  At <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rafVevceWgs&amp;t=4740">1:19:00</a> minutes Don asks “why does the one localise” into seemingly separate conscious agents. Rupert says we cannot know the answer but I wonder whether it’s the necessary condition for the One to be real: because the One is the many and only through each separate agent, does the One constitute reality. Another way of expressing this is to imagine that from the perspective of wholeness the many parts appear as one: like looking at the Earth from space, an astronaut sees one unified “object” although it has innumerable parts all contributing to and contextualised by the whole. For the One to be fundamental and the ultimate reality it must be simultaneously every “thing” and no “thing”. It must be unity and individuality, non-duality and duality. Rupert is spot on when he says, that fundamental consciousness is “that” within which everything manifests, from which all things take form and by which all forms come to know themselves their ultimate ground of being, reality or the One.

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• YO

  @Your-True-Self · 3 years ago

  Wow, I started watching out of interest and couldn&apos;t stop until the end. Rupert I love your work and your gift of communication. Don I hadn&apos;t heard before but the combination was amazing, well done Simon for the choreography. &nbsp;Brilliantly and thoughtfully presented, Thank you

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• ST

  @stevenkingneff · 3 years ago

  What a privilege to listen these two. I practice passage meditation and use the following passage attributed to Sankara from around 700CE. It seems to speak to this discussion. “ I am reality without beginning...I have no part in the illusion of ‘I’ and ‘you’, ‘this’ and ‘that’. I am ...one without a second, bliss without end, the unchanging, eternal truth. I dwell in all beings as the pure consciousness, the ground of all phenomena, internal and external. I am both the enjoyer and that which is enjoyed. In the days of my ignorance, I used to think of these as separate from myself. Now I know that I am all.”

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• CH

  @chiefcheeser · 3 years ago

  The interviewer is absolutely over the moon with how good this is!

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• BI

  @BigJack512 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I‘be listened to hundreds of conversations with Don, Rupert, Bernardo and others. &nbsp;For me this is perhaps the most clear and impactful &nbsp;synthesis of idealism, non-duality, and current scientific inquiry yet. 🙏

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• PI

  @pikiwiki · 3 years ago (edited)

  &quot;a lot of people don&apos;t discriminate between the core message of the Perennial Philosophy and the temporal as well as cultural temperament in which it is expressed&quot; Extremely accurate

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• TL

  @tl3684 · 3 years ago

  Without a doubt, this has been the most impactful conversations I&apos;ve ever listened to....and thank goodness we didn&apos;t lose Mr. Hoffman last year.

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