Evidence That Your Mind is NOT Just In Your Brain - Rupert Sheldrake

In this episode Rupert Sheldrake, biologist and author, debunks the standard view that the mind is nothing but brain activity and argues that our mind is extended in every act of visual perception.

Thank you!

[artawhirler]

Somebody once said that "looking for consciousness inside the brain is like looking for musicians inside a radio."

[tranquility]

I was looking at the moon one night, it was super clear and bright. I was thinking about how far away it was compared to me, suddenly it occurred to me - this space I know is between me and the moon and beyond, it exists in my consciousness and also independent of it, huh. So it exists in my consciousness and I am my consciousness I am also everything that is within and without and I suppose vice versa. I don’t stop at my skin, my consciousness is more than just visual and audio signals coming into my head. Then wham - it hit me, wow we are everything and everything is us. That was the start of my spiritual journey.

[Axiomatic]

I used to live in a street with lots of foot traffic. Sometimes I'd look out the window and watch people. It happened frequently that I was looking at someone (from up and behind) and they'd turn around and look directly at me. So yeah, I believe people (at least some) do feel it when they're being stared at.

[dmlife]

People feel when we look at them with love, disgust, and judgment even if we try to hide our expressions. There is an emotional side to the gaze that cannot be denied.

[SC-jdql]

I was surfing one time, and I could feel something in the water. It was a very intense feeling. I had felt this very "fishy" sense a few times before and I would lift my arms and legs out of the water. But this time was a little different. So, when I got on shore, maybe a minute later a 8-9ft bullshark came up almost out of the water, so close that it nearly beached itself. It did this a few times before disapearing into the waves. It was mind blowing.

[TheMightyPika]

It has never dawned on me that something comes out of my eyes. I've never heard of anyone saying that something comes from their eyes. It would never dawn on me in a thousand years to imagine something like that, and yet here's this video saying that it's a rather common thought.

[Sentientdreamer]

Many years ago when I was in massage school we were instructed to work on the area where amputated limbs would be.
One of my classmates had someone with an amputated limb and did as she'd been taught.
The client's feedback was SO positive and they felt like it was one of the best sessions they'd ever had.

[B-LEVE]

I guess that would explain why you know when someone is looking at you.
It's crazy sometimes when you turn and look them straight in the eyes.

[ricodias]

"Trust your gut" you know...that gut feeling.

[coldbounce]

I was so certain of this theory in my early 20s that I was constantly scanning for ways to prove it to myself.. I worked in Manhattan at the time, and to the right of my desk was a big window with a view of a tall office building. It was a weekend and i had noticed that the building was more or less empty on that day. While I was working I suddenly felt eyes looking at me. Without turning, I thought to myself, "Okay, I really feel eyes looking at me right now." The gaze felt like it was at the back of my head, definitely outside the frame of my visual periphery, and I determined that this was a good setting for an experiment. I decided that in a moment I was going to turn around and look in the direction of where I felt the stare coming from. I turned quickly to where I had felt the gaze and in the massive office building there was one person standing in a window looking at me. That was all the proof I ever needed to know that there are invisible forces at play in this life.

[kingjsolomon]

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves. - Nisargadatta Maharaj

[ti-lohy]

I drive for a living and I can affirm that placing your eyes on a person is the best way to get them to notice you even if they seem to have tuned out the world.

Most people feel the weight of your stare, and will at least glance to dispel the sensation of that extra weight. That's when they usually notice me in my work truck.

[reprogrammingmind]

Rupert Sheldrake is always interesting!!

[StrikeTheRoot]

you lost me at vision is something that exits the eye? let's not overcomplicate the brain. It's literally been proven that our brains can be altered and our whole self-identity can be altered with changes to brain physiology and chemistry. We ARE our brains. that's it. nothing more, nothing less. change the brain, change the person.

[trinabaker]

I had menengitis in my 20's, it caused my brain and nervous system to be incredibly sensitive to light. I had all my windows blacked out, had sunglasses on just for the desperation to know light wouldn't reach my eyes, while I was under blankets. 3 am my husband opened the door in the living room when he got home from work ... the porchlight 2 blocks away managed to reach me ... and I felt it ... throught my whole entire body. I felt the pain of it in my feet ... legs ... arms and hands ... my eyes. I was under heavy blankets with sunglasses on and still felt it.
I have never forgotten that pain.

[Cgraham]

I believe that it is our times to awaken, there was never this much resources when I was younger.

[Veromoi]

My grandma who is actually pretty science minded shared a story with me recently, where she said many years ago she had a friend who was on a field trip of sorts with students and another adult, and they ended up getting trapped and snowed into like a snow cave. Nobody survived, unfortunately. My grandma was not worried about her friend, in fact, she didn’t even even know about this field trip .The night her friend passed away. My grandma had a dream that she could hear her friend calling her name and my grandma went to a door and she couldn’t open it and she could see shadows under the door and she kept trying to open the door, but it was impossible.. she woke up to the news the next day that her friend passed away. And remember this was before cell phone so nobody was texting back-and-forth. Also, my grandma shared that a couple of other people had dreams that same night very intense that had to do with snow and people being trapped. it’s very intense, but to me this proves something without a shadow of doubt

And pardon any grammatical errors I am using speech to text

[nancye]

Somebody might’ve commented on this already, but did you know Robert Sheldrake is the father of the mycologist and author Merlin Sheldrake, and Cosmo Sheldrake, the amazing musician. I like to think they must’ve had an amazing childhood with a father like this.

[nickdeacon]

I never had a reason to think anything came out of the eyes until maybe a decade ago. For context, I'm a personal trainer, movement guy blah blah. And I observed that we seem to grip with our eyes, more specifically our vision. So we lock eyes with things (say a ball in sports, opponent in martial arts, or even spotting a ledge in parkour or "being a cat"). Once the eyes are locked, we are essentially "gripping" that point virtually with our vision/eye input. The point is fixed, and we readjust and conform our body shapes AROUND that point to get close to it / away from it / whatever the particular scenario.

[sand]

That "being stared at" thing is such an uncomfortable feeling and also undescribable. You just feel followed, threatened and stared at at the same time then you turn around and see an elderly woman leaning out of a window 100 metres away but she's turned away. But you know it: It was her. I don't know why, I just know it.