Does God Push or Pull?

This is an excerpt from a longer talk recorded in August of 2014, at Hollyhock on Cortes Island, Canada.

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Dr Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than eighty technical papers and ten books, including A New Science of Life. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, where he was Director of Studies in cell biology, and was also a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. From 2005-2010 he was the Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for research on unexplained human abilities, funded from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California, and a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute in Connecticut.

[wildbillhackett]

I agree Rupert. You cannot kick down the doors of Heaven with drugs or meditation and the like. Those will only result in false visions. You must be invited in---drawn in through no effort of your own.

[michellecd]

According to Rev Michael Bernard Beckwith; "Pain pushes, til the vision pulls!" <3

[Hedgewalkers]

I had a professor once ask me if I thought that altruism exists; the reasoning behind this argument is that if altruism, true altruism exists, a person wouldn't get anything out of it (including a warm happy feeling). So he askes persistently, does true altruism exist, in which I replied, who gives a $h^t. To me, altrusim is simply to love for love's sake, the truest path to the divine in my opinion, who cares if you get a happy feeling in being kind or loving others. We're supposed to feel good about being close to God no?

[ptimal]

I often wonder why I have the response I do when seeing something "beautiful". The stars, a galaxy, a mountain, a stream in a forest, a butterfly. All these natural things that give me a surge of awe, wonder, appreciation, beauty. Even things like sound, music. Something interesting is I get a very similar feeling from observing the behaviors of others. A kind gesture, a heroic act, a passionate speech, a mother bear protecting her cub. Even if I imagine doing something great, something that would make someone else elated or inspired. All of these things feel similar, as if they all are similarly composed. I just wonder what it means. What do the galaxy and the heroic act share? Or the passionate singer and the stunning mountains. It's like witnessing a power, a deeper power or force, that maybe a part of me yearns for but I do not understand what it really is.

[YamenHawit]

Rupert’s talks are gold! 👌 exactly what I’ve been searching for.

Thank you (from Palestine 🇵🇸 ✌🏽)

[miglenas]

Exactly. "Whether we are aware of it or not." Pulling within the unconscious (mind or spirit) towards bringing it to the conscious (heart or soul). From In to Out. Same moving Hand for everyBody and each Soul. The ultimate purpose - towards the Divine Unity, and Light, enLightMent. The pull is always happening, at any stage of development and growth. It comes into manifestation to the conscious through multiple "shifts" that eventually will lift the Soul to its Source (and purpose). But all this is possible only at these "shifts" of the consciousness that ultimately move (Us) Beyond and bring all to the One.
Friends, do not be afraid of the pull, as it is the perfect mover.
Peace and Love. ♥️♾️🌬1️⃣💫

[robertforsythe]

LOVE is the frequency of Father. He gives free will. This is the real way he brings back his children. Reincarnation is key to making sure there are no mistakes.

[sarahrussell]

Thank you for speaking the real True Word. ❤

[gangh]

This is Beautiful Rupert. Thank you for making this available for all of us to listen to and take in❤

[RaushanKumar-sdqn]

Wonderful, Completely changed the perspective. Thank You Doctor

[RickLambert]

I think the universe is both push and pull, like operating a steering wheel with both hands at three and six, one hand is in push the other in pull. The torus, compression and extension simultaneously. Yin to Yang ☯️

[peacelovejoy]

God is not a person;
God is a Presence Personified in us.
Spirituality not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God's Presence, Goodness, Truth and beauty.

Spirituality is natural goodness.

The only pushing and pulling going on is created by the ego.
The Ego Mind, - the greatest Con - Artist ever 🌬

[KaliFissure]

The universe creates space for us to fall into.

There is a sphere of light and this creates low pressure, because Bernoulli, and gravity is the pull towards this low pressure. Time. The surface of everything but moving 90° to us and so invisible.
An event horizon surface is this laid bare.

[brushbros]

Selfishness is the most powerful attractor, not goodness or altruism.

[cjvilleneuve]

well its both, , its vibrating, therefor its pushing and pulling .

[justinakers]

The guy from the thumbnail reminds me of Henry/one/vecna from stranger things.
"He found a memory that made him angry, but also sad. Do you maybe have a memory like that?"

[andreasjour-spitzer]

Thank you Mr Sheldrake. A very good observation. The drive of our decisions and actions is also intrinsically content-based. Ultimately, this results in, or is related to, free will. One could cite thousands of examples from everyday life.

[musicsubicandcebu]

Truth may seem but cannot be;
Beauty brag but 'tis not she;
Truth and beauty buried be.

[cad]

god gives, givers go to god because like conditions seek their like conditions, opposites do not attract so much as they void each other, attraction or pull does not exist for a pull is a push from the other side, but should not to be confused with desire

[elleyc]

Rupert! As I look at the news tonight it seems we are being driven to destruction rather than drawn to the Creator’s infinite love. Perhaps attraction works both ways that we can be compelled in either direction?