Luminary: Peter Russell
This dialogue pairs two of the most prolific and insightful big picture visionaries of our day: Ervin Laszlo and Peter Russell.
Although consciousness remains an enigma for science, mystics have been "inner scientists" exploring the subject first-hand, and from their discoveries have sprung our great spiritual traditions.
Modern science, which has enjoyed so much success in furthering our understanding of the material world, has singularly failed to account for consciousness. Integrating leading-edge ideas in physics, psychology, and philosophy, Peter Russell challenges science's assumptions about the nature of reality.
The essential wisdom of the world's spiritual traditions might be summed up in two words: Let Go. Integrating ideas from Eastern and Western models, we will explore the essence of spirituality—beyond techniques, teachers, and texts. Why aren't we getting what we really want? How can we free ourselves from dictates of the ego mind?
James O'Dea, Marilyn Schlitz, Peter Russell, and George Zimmer address deep questions posed by IONS members during a 2003 Conference plenary session. Hear this esteemed noetics panel discuss what role IONS, other organizations, and individuals play in facilitating a global shift in consciousness.
Peter discusses the ongoing paradigm shift in science as a new Copernican revolution in which consciousness, the Self, returns to the center.
Consciousness is, in Peter's view, the anomaly that will bring about the next scientific revolution. Can self-understanding lead us to discover what it is in our thinking that leads us to conflict, disintegration, and destruction, or to cooperation, health, and love?
Peter Russell discusses the need for a spiritual renaissance in these turbulent times. He is a physicist with a spiritual practice and author of the book "Waking Up in Time: Finding Inner Peace in Times of Accelerating Change."
As a mathematician and physicist with a deep interest in Eastern philosophy, Peter Russell has spent much of his career in search of a bridge between science and spirituality. In this 4-part audio series Peter cogently explores how external reality (defined as space/time/matter) is but a manifestation of consciousness.