The Tyranny of Materialism

Rabbi Adam Jacobs speaks to Dr. Edward Kelly, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia about the existence of non-material reality. To find out more about Dr. Kelly's work, visit med.virginia.e...
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01:03 What do you mean by “tyranny of materialism”?
03:15 How did the Division of Perceptual Studies begin?
06:05 How is parapsychology received at the University of Virginia?
08:35 Why can’t we explain the origin of consciousness?
12:47 How is our understanding of the metaphysical world?
19:51 How do we overcome this wall of resistance?
27:55 Would Carl Sagan be convinced of your research?
32:33 Is there a specific undeniable case of reincarnation?
35:36 Can inorganic matter have consciousness?
39:07 Do subatomic particles exhibit consciousness?
42:16 How do categorical influences challenge materialism?

[@weissmann7770]

This is a great series. Long overdue. You are in the forefront

[@sherrybirchall8677]

Are you ever going to get past finding and presenting evidence, and onto the subject, the tyranny of materialism? You should do a time stamp on this.

[@chrisallard1819]

Fascinating - many thanks

[@maureensurdez7841]

facinating

[@martinwilliams9866]

Science isn't equivalent to materialism / physicalism, it's empirical which means it deals with sensory experience, "Physical" usually implies the existence of the non-empirical physical as well ie what you sense is still there even when not sensed, one could argue that science does deal with the empirical physical & assumes the non-empirical physical, however even that doesn't mean it is equivalent to materialism/ physicalism as that requires an extra step suggesting that nothing else exists apart from those & in fact most of scientific data is falsified hypotheses ie the null hypothesis, which is about things that have no existence. The non-empirical physical could be described as metaphysical. There's also panprotopsychism which suggests that in physical things, there resides a property that is the basis for consciousness, I would suggest it is responsiveness, for instance if you kick a stone an impact wave propagates through it & it moves, it has experience, even though there's apparently no memory, consciousness could be a multiple & reflexive form of this.