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  • Rumi: The Most Famous Sufi Poet in the World

    Places Rumi back in his thirteenth century Islamic and Sufi setting, a useful corrective to the greeting card version of his poetry. From Let's Talk Religion.

  • Meister Eckhart and Christian Mysticism

    A careful introduction to the life and thought of the Dominican preacher whose sermons on the ground of the soul brought him before the Inquisition. From Let's Talk Religion.

  • Paul Halpern on Synchronicity: Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung

    A physicist and historian of science discusses the odd collaboration between Jung and the quantum pioneer Wolfgang Pauli, and how the idea of synchronicity came out of it. From Dr Brian Keating.

  • Carl Gustav Jung and the Red Book (Part 1)

    The opening session of the Library of Congress symposium held to mark the publication of the Red Book, with scholars discussing how the manuscript was made and what it changes about our picture of Jung. From the Library of Congress.

  • Carl Jung and the Shadow: Integrating the Hidden Power of Your Dark Side

    A short, well sourced introduction to Jung's idea of the shadow and what he meant by integrating it, drawing on his own writings. From Academy of Ideas.

  • Psychedelics: Lifting the Veil. Robin Carhart-Harris

    The neuroscientist behind the Imperial College brain imaging studies explains what psilocybin and LSD appear to do to brain activity and why that matters for psychiatry. From TEDx Talks.

  • Why Psychedelics Feel So Religious: Entheogens Explained

    A religious studies scholar looks at entheogens across traditions and at what the modern research on mystical experience can and cannot claim. From ReligionForBreakfast.

  • The Science of Psilocybin and Its Use to Relieve Suffering

    Roland Griffiths summarises the Johns Hopkins psilocybin studies, including the work with cancer patients and the measured role of mystical type experience. From TEDMED.

  • Julian Jaynes, the Bicameral Mind, and the Origin of Consciousness: Interview with Marcel Kuijsten

    An extended interview on Jaynes's claim that introspective consciousness is a recent cultural invention, given by the theory's best known advocate, so watch it as the case for the defence. From the Julian Jaynes Society.

  • What Creates Consciousness?

    A long panel discussion in which neuroscientists and philosophers argue over whether the brain alone can account for inner experience. From World Science Festival.

  • How Do You Explain Consciousness? David Chalmers

    The philosopher who named the hard problem lays it out in under twenty minutes, along with the radical ideas he thinks may be needed to solve it. From TED.

  • William R. Newman on Why Isaac Newton Believed in Alchemy

    The historian who has spent decades on Newton's alchemical manuscripts sets out what Newton was trying to achieve and why it made sense in his own century. From TVO Docs.

  • Alchemy on the Cutting Edge: Lawrence M. Principe

    The leading historian of alchemy, who is also a working chemist, explains what the alchemists were really doing in their laboratories and why historians now take them seriously. A full lecture from Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.

  • What Is the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus? Origins of Alchemy and Hermetic Philosophy

    A scholarly account of where the Emerald Tablet actually comes from, tracing it to its Arabic sources and following its influence on later alchemy and Hermetic thought. From ESOTERICA.