Emotional Sentience: The Nature of Consciousness & Spiritual Experience

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Katherine T. Peil: Founding Director of non-profit EFS International, whose mission is fostering global emotional wisdom. From a background in Pantheistic spirituality and clinical and social psychology, her lengthy interdisciplinary inquiry into the biophysical substrates of emotion led to the identification of its previously mysterious biological function: as an ancient “self-regulatory sense” – an evaluative perceptual mechanism through which living systems directly participate in self-organizing and evolutionary processes, and one that invites deeper inquiries into the physics of consciousness. This new science also casts light upon innate “biovalues, which scientific methodology has long avoided, as well as vital processes that inform common spiritual experiences, and the healthy development of empathic moral conscience. It provides a biophysically informed vision of “naturalistic spiritualty”, one that echoes the common wisdom across the great religious traditions, while challenging such time honored assumptions as “sin” and the “good and evil” dichotomy.

Ultimate Truth & Our Purpose on Earth

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Tiokasin ruminates on the indigenous view of consciousness and our connection as Earth herself.

#34 Conversations on Complexity (Encore)

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A discussion of Neil's new book "Notes on Complexity"

The Way is Awkward

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By the river it is cool and gray at last after a night of longed-for rain, however intermittent

Fungal Brains

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A new study claims that fungi possess great intelligence to the point that they can make decisions

A New Tribal National Marine Sanctuary

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The waters off Central California are now part of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, the result of a decades-long campaign by local Indigenous leaders

Why Insect Memories May Not Survive Metamorphosis

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The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t persist in adults

Tomb, Womb, Cocoon

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The body is a tomb

#101 Apian Wisdom

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A discussion at the intersection of cultural, spiritual, and ecological dimensions of natural honeybee life.

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