Resonating with Sheldrake and Purce

Reality Sandwich and Evolver Vancouver are hosting an evening with Rupert Sheldrake and Jill Purce on Friday, July 17th.
We'd love to collect a few questions from Reality Sandwich readers for possible inclusion in the Q & A.
And we'll post the replies back here after the event. Feel free to post your question in the comments section below.
Dr. Sheldrake will be speaking on Morphic Resonance and Ms. Purce, the pioneer of the Sound Healing movement, will give an experiential presentation on the healing voice.
More information, bios, video clips, links & tickets:
sheldrakepurcevancouver.org
Evening includes: Local Visionary Art Exhibit:
Spirit Art Gallery and Market Environment by lightscience.ca
Simon Haiduk - symbiosonic.com
Autumn Skye - autumnskyemorrison.com
David Heskin - newskinstudio.com
Aloria Weaver - lightweave.org
Lunaya Shekinah - lunaya-shekinah.com
The Galactik Trading Card Spirit Art Microgallery Exhibit
elvism.net (which was featured by Erik Davis in this RS blog post.)
Banyen Books will have a table including several of Rupert's Books, Jill's books, and the Reality Sandwich Anthology: Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age (Tarcher/Penguin)
Horchata (drink of the gods)
Raffle Prizes from Namarupa magazine, Highlife World Music, Voices of Prana, and ecojot.
Part Proceeds to: Seva Canada & Manjari Sankurathri Memorial Foundation
Presented by: Reality Sandwich, Evolver.net, Banyen Books, Hollyhock, Namarupa, Light Science, Tribal Harmonix and Mutual Admiration Planet.
Portrait Detail of Dr. Sheldrake by Dugald Stermer.
Used by Permission.
- 7-13-09
- Andy Warren's blog
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A question for Rupert
A question for Rupert:
I have arrived at the conclusion, from having read many of your books and the books of many others, that humanity is indeed approaching a singularity of sorts.
As if all roads actually do lead to the same place, I have been driven to the opinion that all apocalyptic prophecy ever written is pointing to a punctuated evolutionary event, which I would describe as a spontaneous metanoic mutation to unity consciousness driven into existence perhaps by a stressor such as a massive biological die off, or a dramatic visitation by an off planet life form (or a combination of both).
My continuing studies point ever more strongly to the possibility/necessity of this bifurcation, but I would like another’s opinion of my conclusions.
The more I ruminate over all that I’ve read, and all that I’ve experienced, and all that I’ve concluded, the more convinced I become that none of the technologies we create will result in our embarking on the path we need to take in order to survive because of the persistent dualities within politics, and finance, and morality, and religion; in everything it seems—even quantum physics! This base of duality seems to be the preventive barrier to all essential human progress, and it exists and persists essentially as a foundation; as a platform from which our very consciousness begins its essays of the ground around it. We are, it would seem, in a civil war within our own consciousness. Without an evolutionary bifurcation to unity consciousness, how can humanity survive? And since such evolutionary time is not available to us (time is running out for the changes we desperately need to make), isn’t a punctuated mutation to unity consciousness the only possible resolution?
Having read your positions on the “habits (not laws) of nature”, the necessary metamorphosis of any established chreode (sp?) into a new habit of nature, your enlightened conclusions concerning Morphogenetic Fields and their effects on earths biology (and possibly on human psychology) in the areas of both species stability, and species mutation, I believe this question (conversation) would be best addressed to you.
Is a spontaneous metanoic mutation of human consciousness for the purpose of our species survival an appropriate logical posibility, in your esteemed opinion?
Does it not seem to have been foretold in many (if not all) of the mystical traditions?
Are there any other questions on this subject I should be asking here?
Thank you for addressing my question, and thank you for all of your inspiration to date.
P.S. Please pardon the manic construction of this hastily prepared question. Given more time I would have composed it better.
Animal/Human evolution
Thank you for these questions
Hugh & Leon, thank you for these interesting and well-written questions.
Will do my best to get replies from Dr. Sheldrake this weekend and post them back here on RS in the near future.
peace, Andy