This kind of stuff is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the insanity of this world that has been forced upon us. It's the only thing that makes me feel warm inside. Thank you for making this.
Anyone who chooses the path to enlightenment outside of dogma or traditional religious avenues will at some point uncover this information in one way or another, and there's plenty of information here on TH-cam to fill your head with. However, as much of it as I've seen over the years (I'll be 19 in 2 weeks, I started the journey when I was 12, didn't have a full fluid working model until I was 17 ... 5 years of the most ruthless rigorous searching of knowledge I've ever done) .. Your presentation was among the most grounded and concise. Very well put together, sir. Kudos and props to you, and thank you for the service you're doing the world!
I wish Peter Russell had been my teacher in high school and professor in college. My soul lights up when I listen to him speak. Every lecture is an exciting adventure.
I have burst into tears at 45:00 What a revelation What a revelation... It all makes sense. All my life I have been looking for THAT link that links it ALL. Love to you All. Namaste.
Man, I'm listening to too many of these. 12 years later and Stephan Schwartz's voice was immediately recognizable... Here's to both these gents seeing the walls come down: they've done enough to make it happen. Paz y luz. ✨
Peter, my son who is 17 participated in his first vipassana meditation last night. He had a wonderful exciting experience, so much so, that tonight when he came home from football practice he asked to do it again, eagerly. Tonight, he listened to your Monroe HSinc CD that you gave to all, at the end of your "Opening to Stillness" course. I, am as equally excited about his eagerness and willingness to participate. NAMASTE!
Peter, just wanted to share my joy on two great feats today. One, I just finished Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason." And, two......After much effort and toil, reading the works of many great minds, endless hours of youtube lectures/meditations have finally discovered the importance/value of "I AM", wept like a baby. I always said....I can smell a ego a mile away but "I AM", me, metaphorical hole-in-the wood, was out of my intellectual awareness. It has been a wonderful day, to say the least. God Bless!
Michael, firstly, I realize that this won't just abruptly make me enlightened, but have to ask anyway... Could you explain in a succinct, plain English sort of way (i.e. no guruesque riddles) what you have discovered to be the importance of I AM? I am on a similar search to yours and have found no answers that don't sound almost deliberately obtuse and evasive. ty in advance for your answer...
vickie smith, so sorry it took me so long to reply, for I haven't been here for some time. You asked a profound question and will do my best to answer it; however, would be willing to bet that Christ, Buddha, et al, would say "one must find the answer....on their own". From an analogous/metaphorical standpoint (I got this from Peter), i.e., "hole in the wood" analogy which purports the difficulty of describing a hole in a piece of wood without using the piece of wood as a relational/relative tool. This metaphor is correlative to the difficulty of describing the quintessential true self without materializing certain human attributes, accolades, empirical data, past events, pseudo knowledge/beliefs; e.g., disguising our true identity........which is awareness/spirit/energy. One, is normally tied up in the mind made story with their perceptions veiled to relative experiences, oblivious/unbeknownst to most that they are merely the observer/participator/witness of thought, that there is no value to thought. One is not their thoughts/beliefs and they don't define who we are. Most equate their identity with their thoughts and their since of self is generated by the mind (giving us a false since of self). The beauty to having this insight is.......one, doesn't let the SELF look for forms that are not real . And, one then develops the understanding that our own identity is the silent watching of thought (the holy spirit). The reason for this inherent defect is Darwinian/Reptilian, i.e., the guard of our soul.....the all mighty ego, looking for threats, danger, survival. Tolle and Adyashanti will help you the most with this. Albeit, Joel Osteen, Christ, and many more have unique insights.
I keep coming back to this talk over and over because there is something here that you can't find most other places. Because of success in my personal dreaming practices and extensive experiences with lucid dreaming, the things Russell is saying strikes a chord in me that rings with a some familiar truth. I don't care what other people say, my belief is that we are in a shared dream making the world around us in some mysterious way that we don't understand yet.
Thank you for replying Mr Russell and yes I did sign up for your classes on your website. I have to say that at this point in my life I really need to get away from all the distractions that humanity has fallen prey to. I am a US Marine and that alone is enough distraction to make me focus on this world as a purely time/space/matter construct. I need a way to reach what is truly real. That has been my quest for a while and is the reason why I found your videos and books.
Peter, I first heard you on Eckhart Tolle TV a couple of years ago...your talk is one of the clearest I have ever heard in many years of research. I just began a discussion on ETTV Community under this talk's title with your quotes and and TH-cam link. Thank you DEEPLY....david
Mr. Russell, Thank you for your work. To me, coming to this outlook (through your work and that of a few others) has been the most rewarding experience of my entire life. I feel so much better now, about the death of my father, and the fact that my relationships with my children, wife and mother cannot last forever. Please forgive me, if I jump to conclusions and assume this justifies a belief in life after death and/or a deity. To me, this is all consistent with that underlying consciousness.
it's very hard to swallow such an eye-opening truth. how does one live in a "world" that's "make-believe"? ... consciousness is beautiful and innocent, and can be experienced when one is around children who have yet to be soured by the cruelty of others and dissapointmets of life. indeed, this was a great talk.
Peter a wonderfull lecture! Being mechanical engineer I understood "the difficult" part completely and enjoyed every other bit with my whole hart. soon people will understand that there really is no spoon :) your devotion, love and search for truth are inspirational and pave the way for so many of us to follow. Thank you from the bottom of my hart. Love, Marin, Croatia
I have never seen any lectures from this gentleman before. My "I"-ness is impressed. He explained this concept very eloquently and was able to keep it very easy to listen to. I thought he did a great job simplifying a complicated and very provoking theory. I'll be looking for more from him! -RB-
@consciousdreamer1 I hadn't posted the full version on my channel before. Others have on their channels, but the quality is variable, often the aspect ratio is wrong and they have had to split it in parts. I decided to make a good quality version of the original available. I am indeed working on some updated material along these lines. Stay tuned.... Peter
What can you say that is not already said in the comments below. I have read From Science to God but hearing this lecture was awe inspiring. Thanks Peter.
Ever since early childhood i pondered why there is evil, why there are people who do harm onto other beings..Peter Russell's understanding of consciousness, of love, of self has helped me tremendously in making sense of this. people who lack empathy and consciousness are but a shell, a mirror-studded vessel to be filled with outside stimuli. the game of 'evil' is to use you, overtly or covertly, to fill the vessel and for you to mirror to them their reality.Their all-encompassing, all-devouring ego and will prevents them from connecting with God, with light, with love. It is in the pretense of having that connection that they do so much harm. They willfully refuse to do the work of knowing thyself and instead put all their effort in maintaining the appearance of it.
absolutely fantastic speech! I have known for a long time the truth of the consciousness within ourselves and if connected with it , truthfully and honestly it guides you through any and all matters in life. It is a connection to God, the Devine and everything in creation.
I agree on first point. My views have evolved over the years, and if I were to remake this (which I'd like to do someday) I'd conclude that they are indeed the same.
Hey Peter :) I think a remake is in stall! My feedback would be to break down the physics at the end. I love physics and did very well in it in school and think myself still v "in to" it but the physics went way too fast for me to follow easily and that's actually where some of the greatest revelations lie. Glad to have found you and looking forward to that remake! :) ;)
Excellent talk. I like the fact that you call it the 'Kantian Revolution' (51:17). Some apt quotations: "I did not grow up in the Kantian tradition, but came to understand the truly valuable which is to be found in his doctrine ... only quite late. It is contained in the sentence: 'The real is not given to us, but put to us (by way of a riddle).'" - Einstein
excellent talk, well researched and well delivered. the audience are incredibly enthusiastic and clap like sea lions at almost any trivial information delivered by Russell.
Just stopping back by a year later to see how many views my favorite lecture of all time has. Wow - over 34,000! Awesome. I know I've referred a lot of people here - well, "lot" being relative, as my channel is small. Anyway, thanking you again from the depths of my heart for posting this whole lecture. It is simply magical, Peter - nothing less. :))
Yes, it is very special. Glad you enjoyed it. It represents almost a sea change in viewing the NDE. The fact that he's a brain surgeon couldn't be more perfect - & that his experience was so unutterably deep.
All I know for sure is my experience in the moment. But the consistency of that experience strongly suggests that there is an external world (noumenon) determining my experience.
Thank You Peter for sharing Your enjoyable perceptions. I found Your lecture confirming,clarifying and well delivered. The light hearted way You relate the info is refreshing and makes easy listening of material that some stuffed up self important folk can make tough listening. Sharing this with as many as I can !
Great analogies and explanations! One way I try to explain self-awareness & that the mind and brain must be separate is to say "a book can't read itself". Thank you for posting! God bless!
This video changed my life, or perhaps more accurately this particular life experience, and I frequently refer back to it. I do hope it hangs around permanently for all to access, because I've no doubt many other lives are continuing to be changed by it too. I've gone on to listen to many other nondualist philosophers but no other discourse I've heard explains the view so succintly as this lecture, arguing powerfully from principles of Physics and reason. Wonderful!
Beautiful Peter........ well done. You have put words and intellectual understanding to what many of us have always felt deep down, but have been unable to speak. We must learn to set aside our cognitive dissonance and embrace the possibility of the weird......
Peter, was reading a book called "The God Theory" written by Bernard Haisch, when to my delighted surprise your name popped up with two pages of your background and theories. Hope he gave you a copy, lol. Have made much progress in my life since I took your course "Opening to Stillness" at Monroe. It was a wonderful experience to be in the company of so many great minds with understanding. Your philosophy and physics discussions/insights were a dream come true. NAMASTE
Peter, you have managed to put into words something I know innately, and that I confirmed to myself through my meditations and my inward voyages with LSD in my youth some 45 years ago. What I was able only to describe as Cosmic Consciousness, you explained so adroitly. Thankyou
And there is the "I" that is aware of all experience, whether conceiving or perceiving. Although in the final analysis, the knower is not separate from the knowing.
I have been training meditation for certain period my life but remained in something unclear - about meditation - mental experience and after it I went through reading science books trying to know what is real message of science progress of theory of relativity and quantum, thanks to Peter I could go through both lines together through consciousness. Now I am really happy and do really appreciate for his great message as mentioned above lecture.
Bravo! Finally something to show my scientifically minded/material based buddies! I love how elegantly these esoteric and physical ideas are shown to support one another. It gives me hope. :D
Mr Russell. I see in your discourse a glimpse of how the rishis/mystics might have stepped through, to climb the Himalayan summit, the mahavakya, "Aham Bramhasmi", I am Bramhan. I loved your unique and novel parallel drawn here between Light and Consciousness. As you know, There is already a parallel between Consciousness and Light principle in classical vedanta (for its non-participating and yet enlivening nature). It was a great presentation.
Absolutely great video. It was a joy to watch it. Basically all things we know from religious, philosophy and science came into one in your talk - very easy to understand, a totally unified view of God/Universe/World/Consciousness/"The I" etc. Actually from the point of view of the photon the photon/light is everywhere (because can reach every point in space for zero time). It also means for photon the Universe exists for a single moment or equivalently the Universe always exists.
Yes, that is what I was pointing to when I said the knower is not separate from the knowing, there is only the knowing of experience. The idea (or experience) of a separate knower is another appearance in consiousness.
Loved your presentation. Elegant slides, humorous, and thought-provoking. I knew consciousness was mysterious, but your view of light was enlightening.
I’m the same, I just can’t stop listening to this over and over again. I play it to anyone who will listen, it just feels like there’s some very important ideas here that people ought to be aware of.
we also have memory. One thing I have noticed in all things, life, matter, energy and even things on the sub-quantum level down to strings and such, is the existence of contructive relationships and destructive forces. Science may or may not have explaination and if they do it's in technical terminology or mathematical equations, but this screams to me CONCIOUSNESS!!! It also tells me that love/constructive relationships and hate/destructive forces, are as fundamental properties as consciousness
very interesting presentation, for me personally anyway. I've always believed that achieving a more fuller explanation of existence requires an understanding of both Science AND Spirituality. You refer to Eastern philosophy, Hindu/Krishna especially, touching on Vedic scripture, but Kabbalah and Buddhism are equally valid in their own way too. And your references to quantum physics, including the photon being a boson,ie both an exchange and virtual particle, is all right up my street. Thanks.
This is a nice history and overview of the folly of understanding anything. Truth does not exist but entertainment does or seems to. Our goal seem to be more for entertainment. Truth and understanding are what entertains you.
Awesome video! It gets everything that I have come to think of,through years and years of searching, about the true nature of reality spot on. This sums it ALL up.
This excellent video asks the most valid question imaginable ‘What is consciousness’, yet the constituent primes into consciousness & therefore the actual definition is not addressed. It’s said that consciousness is ‘awareness’ or ‘mind’, yet such are the RESULTS of consciousness, which certainly go some way towards it, but are not in themselves definitions. To understand it, one needs to first appreciate the TWO preeminent forces that antagonistically constitute the result we call consciousness
At 16:59 Why? We are specialized in the ability to perceive / simulate our environment inside our head to aid our survival. Since we ourselves are part of and interact with that environment it makes sense that we should perceive / simulate ourselves also. Hence self awareness. So that's why.
Dear Sir thank you for sharing this video so much , now i finally understand how life started it is 0 same like Light travel in space it is just simply Action in manifestation . thanks alot sir i finally understand more about consciousness , your sharing had improved my meditation .
Peter, this is a wonderful video - Thank you for sharing ♥ I only intended to watch the first few minutes, and ended up being so absorbed I had to watch the entire thing - I'm glad I did.
Excellent!!! This was such well constructed lecture, very clear, down to earth and straight forward. Your comment about the wave/particle nature of a photon was a revelation to me, EUREKA!
"How does something as immaterial as consciousness arise out of something as unconscious as matter? (David Chalmers). It doesn't. It is the other way around. The seeming material arises out of the immaterial consciousness. The light shines itself as the various shapes of form.
Semantics. You can call the light 'decomposing atoms' or 'dancing atoms', who cares? The point that I am making is that form impressions (mind impressions) arise out of the reality of the formless (consciousness/awareness/Self) and not the other way around.
Magdi Badawy Consciousness always arises itself materially---gathering composition which it has chosen to suit itself. [Ordered Consciousness --> Gathered Material = Random Matter --> "Assembled" Consciousness] At the same time---matter (a mental construct or perception / sensual interpretation) is gathered through natural Laws to "apparently" arise synchronicitically a harmony or system of resonance producing consciousness. Although it is not quite (entirely) true to say that this harmony only causally forms consciousness.., the idea of matter PRODUCING consciousness is never a process that can exclude the matter itself with which the consciousness has itself produced (from its materialization constructs / holograph-ordering projections). Matter producing the consciousness it would have to have assumed (non-consciously) would thus then be a process couched within the orderly consciousness with which it can only take place. In coming to bound the physical in mental terms (understanding), it is to be done so from processes with inclusion to itself as it relates to what it has to --- the process of order with which things to have made sense would be held without place.
Until today I'd never heard of Peter Russell... :-( That's my problem. I came to this from a spiritual rather than a scientific perspective, although I'm aware that quantum-physics tends to draw both parties together. For me, this lecture expresses the things that I have always known at my deepest-level. Namaste, Peter
Peter, thank you for this masterfull lecture/talk It wasn't just profound, but also well paced, playful, intelligent and splendidly delivered. Your talk was all about creating space out of matter, simplicity out of complexity. I think this is by far the best way of understanding the inside/outside reality. Light, conciousness and existence are pretty much the same thing. Some may call it love and you know what - it doesn't matter. I would like to frase it this way:" Harmony is god". It is what we crave for, but hardlly ever come to experience in it''s fullest. Anyhow, this leads to my question. What are your thoughts on self-awereness? Is it the very key to human species evolving from experience oriented animals to inside looking "hippie" creatures? I am just starting to wonder. What or who ever put the consciousness in motion,if we imagine it happened that way, is the most wonderfull and weird figure I've ever heard of.
I think self-awareness in the sense of being aware of being aware emerged with the ability to think (an offshoot of language) and reflect upon our experience. And there then arose the idea of an experiencing self.
Amazing!, could it be that were are not only affected by the world we are actually also affecting and creating the world as it is now?. Thank you Peter!
I just bought the book "From Science to God" a couple days ago and finished it yesterday and I must say that It opened my eyes to so many possibilities. I think I wanna start my own quest to find God and I mean that in the sense of the real God that is us. I wanna learn to meditate and reach that stillness. With my busy life I don't know if I can devote hours after hours to reach the same quiet that you reached. I will try (not not try) and I know I will get there. Any help will be appreciated.
thank you for this beautiful lecture. Very good. I just finished (in Dutch) White Hole in Time and Global Brain. Also very interesting. I have seen a lot of videos of Tolle and I read everything of Neale Donald Walsch: so good to see so much similarities and beauty in all of these works! Thank you, greetings from Holland.
I believe that something like this is absolutely right. I also believe (and I don't know how obvious this may seem to however many people) that this is closely related to the concept behind manifesting/prayer... The idea, I think, is that through creative, positive, visualization a person can "align" themselves with a specific series of "frames" such as are referenced by Nexus. You visualize, or pray for, the series of "frames" of a life that looks like the life you want and you align yourself..
This structured field still needs to evolve to reach the stage of human experience. All the discoveries of science still hold. But we have to revise our ideas of what it is the laws apply to. They do not describe the unfolding of matter (which is purely a mental construct) but the unfolding of the field of consciousness.
As an undergraduate in Physics/Maths (1978) I was fascinated with the "Lorentz Transformation" equations in Einstein’s Special Relativity. I believed I understood the concepts, but could not understand why the teachers never wanted to acknowledge that from “lights point of view” the light from the Sun/Stars takes NO TIME to travel its distance. From our perspective off course its ~8m for the Sun & ~4.2 LYears to closest Star. This they acknowledged, but from the other perspective they didn't.
This kind of stuff is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the insanity of this world that has been forced upon us. It's the only thing that makes me feel warm inside. Thank you for making this.
Anyone who chooses the path to enlightenment outside of dogma or traditional religious avenues will at some point uncover this information in one way or another, and there's plenty of information here on TH-cam to fill your head with. However, as much of it as I've seen over the years (I'll be 19 in 2 weeks, I started the journey when I was 12, didn't have a full fluid working model until I was 17 ... 5 years of the most ruthless rigorous searching of knowledge I've ever done) .. Your presentation was among the most grounded and concise. Very well put together, sir. Kudos and props to you, and thank you for the service you're doing the world!
metallicaowns83 how are you coming with your progress now? :)
awakening, aware, so young, wow......
People like you are the walking jewels , doesn't matter what u r doing now,, you've won me over!
I wish Peter Russell had been my teacher in high school and professor in college. My soul lights up when I listen to him speak. Every lecture is an exciting adventure.
One for the top five videos on my queue. Hoping to get Dr Russell on my show
It stands among the most important videos 'of all time' ;)
I have burst into tears at 45:00
What a revelation
What a revelation...
It all makes sense.
All my life I have been looking for THAT link that links it ALL.
Love to you All.
Namaste.
THIS VIDEO SHOULD BE EVERYWHERE
:) I know that feel bro! Happy for you!
Most OUTSTANDING presentation I ever watched. Thank you very much, Prof. Russell.
Man, I'm listening to too many of these. 12 years later and Stephan Schwartz's voice was immediately recognizable...
Here's to both these gents seeing the walls come down: they've done enough to make it happen.
Paz y luz. ✨
Peter, my son who is 17 participated in his first vipassana meditation last night. He had a wonderful exciting experience, so much so, that tonight when he came home from football practice he asked to do it again, eagerly. Tonight, he listened to your Monroe HSinc CD that you gave to all, at the end of your "Opening to Stillness" course. I, am as equally excited about his eagerness and willingness to participate. NAMASTE!
Peter, just wanted to share my joy on two great feats today. One, I just finished Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason." And, two......After much effort and toil, reading the works of many great minds, endless hours of youtube lectures/meditations have finally discovered the importance/value of "I AM", wept like a baby. I always said....I can smell a ego a mile away but "I AM", me, metaphorical hole-in-the wood, was out of my intellectual awareness. It has been a wonderful day, to say the least. God Bless!
Michael, firstly, I realize that this won't just abruptly make me enlightened, but have to ask anyway... Could you explain in a succinct, plain English sort of way (i.e. no guruesque riddles) what you have discovered to be the importance of I AM? I am on a similar search to yours and have found no answers that don't sound almost deliberately obtuse and evasive. ty in advance for your answer...
vickie smith, so sorry it took me so long to reply, for I haven't been here for some time. You asked a profound question and will do my best to answer it; however, would be willing to bet that Christ, Buddha, et al, would say "one must find the answer....on their own".
From an analogous/metaphorical standpoint (I got this from Peter), i.e., "hole in the wood" analogy which purports the difficulty of describing a hole in a piece of wood without using the piece of wood as a relational/relative tool. This metaphor is correlative to the difficulty of describing the quintessential true self without materializing certain human attributes, accolades, empirical data, past events, pseudo knowledge/beliefs; e.g., disguising our true identity........which is awareness/spirit/energy. One, is normally tied up in the mind made story with their perceptions veiled to relative experiences, oblivious/unbeknownst to most that they are merely the observer/participator/witness of thought, that there is no value to thought. One is not their thoughts/beliefs and they don't define who we are. Most equate their identity with their thoughts and their since of self is generated by the mind (giving us a false since of self).
The beauty to having this insight is.......one, doesn't let the SELF look for forms that are not real . And, one then develops the understanding that our own identity is the silent watching of thought (the holy spirit).
The reason for this inherent defect is Darwinian/Reptilian, i.e., the guard of our soul.....the all mighty ego, looking for threats, danger, survival.
Tolle and Adyashanti will help you the most with this. Albeit, Joel Osteen, Christ, and many more have unique insights.
I keep coming back to this talk over and over because there is something here that you can't find most other places. Because of success in my personal dreaming practices and extensive experiences with lucid dreaming, the things Russell is saying strikes a chord in me that rings with a some familiar truth. I don't care what other people say, my belief is that we are in a shared dream making the world around us in some mysterious way that we don't understand yet.
Citizen of Earth what you are saying is true. It proves itself in testing. Have you heard of Neville Goddard?
Everything is God, including you. You matter because you are here now with all of us, stay strong and stay healthy. Everyone wants to see your smile
You're a legend Peter Russell. You changed my life. :)
Thank you for replying Mr Russell and yes I did sign up for your classes on your website. I have to say that at this point in my life I really need to get away from all the distractions that humanity has fallen prey to. I am a US Marine and that alone is enough distraction to make me focus on this world as a purely time/space/matter construct. I need a way to reach what is truly real. That has been my quest for a while and is the reason why I found your videos and books.
I keep coming back here. Thank you, Peter.
My favourite lecture of all time.
Peter, I first heard you on Eckhart Tolle TV a couple of years ago...your talk is one of the clearest I have ever heard in many years of research.
I just began a discussion on ETTV Community under this talk's title with your quotes and and TH-cam link.
Thank you DEEPLY....david
Thanks so much Peter. This video has the ability to open up so many doors. I'm grateful I found it years ago.
Mr. Russell,
Thank you for your work. To me, coming to this outlook (through your work and that of a few others) has been the most rewarding experience of my entire life. I feel so much better now, about the death of my father, and the fact that my relationships with my children, wife and mother cannot last forever.
Please forgive me, if I jump to conclusions and assume this justifies a belief in life after death and/or a deity. To me, this is all consistent with that underlying consciousness.
it's very hard to swallow such an eye-opening truth. how does one live in a "world" that's "make-believe"? ... consciousness is beautiful and innocent, and can be experienced when one is around children who have yet to be soured by the cruelty of others and dissapointmets of life. indeed, this was a great talk.
What beautiful truth, shared in a loving, accessible way through an enlightened mind fully engaged.
Peter a wonderfull lecture! Being mechanical engineer I understood "the difficult" part completely and enjoyed every other bit with my whole hart.
soon people will understand that there really is no spoon :)
your devotion, love and search for truth are inspirational and pave the way for so many of us to follow. Thank you from the bottom of my hart.
Love, Marin, Croatia
BRILLIANT! YOU HAVE HELPED ME TREMENDIOUSLY THANK YOU VERY MUCH.LOVE AND LIGHT
I have never seen any lectures from this gentleman before. My "I"-ness is impressed. He explained this concept very eloquently and was able to keep it very easy to listen to. I thought he did a great job simplifying a complicated and very provoking theory.
I'll be looking for more from him!
-RB-
@consciousdreamer1 I hadn't posted the full version on my channel before. Others have on their channels, but the quality is variable, often the aspect ratio is wrong and they have had to split it in parts. I decided to make a good quality version of the original available.
I am indeed working on some updated material along these lines. Stay tuned.... Peter
I have seen it again and it is truly sublime. THANK YOU Peter! 🙏🏻❤
What can you say that is not already said in the comments below. I have read From Science to God but hearing this lecture was awe inspiring. Thanks Peter.
This is honestly one of the most important videos on youtube.
Thanks. Glad you liked it.
Ever since early childhood i pondered why there is evil, why there are people who do harm onto other beings..Peter Russell's understanding of consciousness, of love, of self has helped me tremendously in making sense of this. people who lack empathy and consciousness are but a shell, a mirror-studded vessel to be filled with outside stimuli. the game of 'evil' is to use you, overtly or covertly, to fill the vessel and for you to mirror to them their reality.Their all-encompassing, all-devouring ego and will prevents them from connecting with God, with light, with love. It is in the pretense of having that connection that they do so much harm. They willfully refuse to do the work of knowing thyself and instead put all their effort in maintaining the appearance of it.
absolutely fantastic speech! I have known for a long time the truth of the consciousness within ourselves and if connected with it , truthfully and honestly it guides you through any and all matters in life. It is a connection to God, the Devine and everything in creation.
I agree on first point. My views have evolved over the years, and if I were to remake this (which I'd like to do someday) I'd conclude that they are indeed the same.
Hey Peter :) I think a remake is in stall! My feedback would be to break down the physics at the end. I love physics and did very well in it in school and think myself still v "in to" it but the physics went way too fast for me to follow easily and that's actually where some of the greatest revelations lie. Glad to have found you and looking forward to that remake! :) ;)
As a science teacher, all I can say is...wow, you've really made me think. Really hard. Great stuff.
Excellent talk. I like the fact that you call it the 'Kantian Revolution' (51:17).
Some apt quotations:
"I did not grow up in the Kantian tradition, but came to understand the truly valuable which is to be found in his doctrine ... only quite late. It is contained in the sentence: 'The real is not given to us, but put to us (by way of a riddle).'" - Einstein
excellent talk, well researched and well delivered. the audience are incredibly enthusiastic and clap like sea lions at almost any trivial information delivered by Russell.
Just stopping back by a year later to see how many views my favorite lecture of all time has. Wow - over 34,000! Awesome. I know I've referred a lot of people here - well, "lot" being relative, as my channel is small.
Anyway, thanking you again from the depths of my heart for posting this whole lecture. It is simply magical, Peter - nothing less. :))
Yes, it is very special. Glad you enjoyed it. It represents almost a sea change in viewing the NDE. The fact that he's a brain surgeon couldn't be more perfect - & that his experience was so unutterably deep.
All I know for sure is my experience in the moment. But the consistency of that experience strongly suggests that there is an external world (noumenon) determining my experience.
Thank You Peter for sharing Your enjoyable perceptions. I found Your lecture confirming,clarifying and well delivered. The light hearted way You relate the info is refreshing and makes easy listening of material that some stuffed up self important folk can make tough listening. Sharing this with as many as I can !
Great analogies and explanations! One way I try to explain self-awareness & that the mind and brain must be separate is to say "a book can't read itself". Thank you for posting! God bless!
This video changed my life, or perhaps more accurately this particular life experience, and I frequently refer back to it. I do hope it hangs around permanently for all to access, because I've no doubt many other lives are continuing to be changed by it too. I've gone on to listen to many other nondualist philosophers but no other discourse I've heard explains the view so succintly as this lecture, arguing powerfully from principles of Physics and reason. Wonderful!
Beautiful Peter........ well done. You have put words and intellectual understanding to what many of us have always felt deep down, but have been unable to speak. We must learn to set aside our cognitive dissonance and embrace the possibility of the weird......
Peter, was reading a book called "The God Theory" written by Bernard Haisch, when to my delighted surprise your name popped up with two pages of your background and theories. Hope he gave you a copy, lol.
Have made much progress in my life since I took your course "Opening to Stillness" at Monroe. It was a wonderful experience to be in the company of so many great minds with understanding. Your philosophy and physics discussions/insights were a dream come true. NAMASTE
Thank you for this brilliant exposition of the nature of reality!
Peter, you have managed to put into words something I know innately, and that I confirmed to myself through my meditations and my inward voyages with LSD in my youth some 45 years ago. What I was able only to describe as Cosmic Consciousness, you explained so adroitly. Thankyou
And there is the "I" that is aware of all experience, whether conceiving or perceiving. Although in the final analysis, the knower is not separate from the knowing.
I have been training meditation for certain period my life but remained in something unclear - about meditation - mental experience and after it I went through reading science books trying to know what is real message of science progress of theory of relativity and quantum, thanks to Peter I could go through both lines together through consciousness.
Now I am really happy and do really appreciate for his great message as mentioned above lecture.
Bravo! Finally something to show my scientifically minded/material based buddies! I love how elegantly these esoteric and physical ideas are shown to support one another. It gives me hope. :D
Mr Russell. I see in your discourse a glimpse of how the rishis/mystics might have stepped through, to climb the Himalayan summit, the mahavakya, "Aham Bramhasmi", I am Bramhan.
I loved your unique and novel parallel drawn here between Light and Consciousness.
As you know, There is already a parallel between Consciousness and Light principle in classical vedanta (for its non-participating and yet enlivening nature).
It was a great presentation.
Absolutely great video. It was a joy to watch it. Basically all things we know from religious, philosophy and science came into one in your talk - very easy to understand, a totally unified view of God/Universe/World/Consciousness/"The I" etc.
Actually from the point of view of the photon the photon/light is everywhere (because can reach every point in space for zero time). It also means for photon the Universe exists for a single moment or equivalently the Universe always exists.
Yes, that is what I was pointing to when I said the knower is not separate from the knowing, there is only the knowing of experience. The idea (or experience) of a separate knower is another appearance in consiousness.
Loved your presentation. Elegant slides, humorous, and thought-provoking. I knew consciousness was mysterious, but your view of light was enlightening.
keep coming back to this, its a great speech please make more Peter.
Good to hear. I do put up more videos her from time to time.
I’m the same, I just can’t stop listening to this over and over again. I play it to anyone who will listen, it just feels like there’s some very important ideas here that people ought to be aware of.
Always good to be reminded of what we truly are.
Excellent video, thank you for making it available to us.
BRAVO! Finally someone who makes perfect sense.
"You think of yourself as an insignificant thing, yet in you are all of the cosmos" Imam Ali
You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a drop. ~ Rumi
The experience of pure consciousness is how you truly understand the nature of light
It is wonderful work from Peter. I highly appreicate this. Hari Prasad
Bravo! This is best video on the topic I've ever come across. Period.
we also have memory. One thing I have noticed in all things, life, matter, energy and even things on the sub-quantum level down to strings and such, is the existence of contructive relationships and destructive forces. Science may or may not have explaination and if they do it's in technical terminology or mathematical equations, but this screams to me CONCIOUSNESS!!! It also tells me that love/constructive relationships and hate/destructive forces, are as fundamental properties as consciousness
Peter, you have advanced my understandings beyond my wildest imagination, thank you so much for sharing this indulging and essential information.
very interesting presentation, for me personally anyway. I've always believed that achieving a more fuller explanation of existence requires an understanding of both Science AND Spirituality. You refer to Eastern philosophy, Hindu/Krishna especially, touching on Vedic scripture, but Kabbalah and Buddhism are equally valid in their own way too. And your references to quantum physics, including the photon being a boson,ie both an exchange and virtual particle, is all right up my street. Thanks.
Well done, a Lovely Light, my gratitude.
This is just absolutely brilliant
Living in the light!
Sunlight of the spirit!
Thanks for the video. I have been learning with Adyashanti and this is really helpful.
Namaste
This is just absolutely brilliant, thank you Peter, Namaste.
This is a nice history and overview of the folly of understanding anything. Truth does not exist but entertainment does or seems to. Our goal seem to be more for entertainment. Truth and understanding are what entertains you.
Great Lecture Mr Russel!!
Awesome video! It gets everything that I have come to think of,through years and years of searching, about the true nature of reality spot on. This sums it ALL up.
Thank you for a brilliant, heart and mind opening, concise exposé! Much food for growthand meditation !
What an in-depth understanding of consciousness!
This excellent video asks the most valid question imaginable ‘What is consciousness’, yet the constituent primes into consciousness & therefore the actual definition is not addressed.
It’s said that consciousness is ‘awareness’ or ‘mind’, yet such are the RESULTS of consciousness, which certainly go some way towards it, but are not in themselves definitions.
To understand it, one needs to first appreciate the TWO preeminent forces that antagonistically constitute the result we call consciousness
At 16:59 Why? We are specialized in the ability to perceive / simulate our environment inside our head to aid our survival. Since we ourselves are part of and interact with that environment it makes sense that we should perceive / simulate ourselves also. Hence self awareness. So that's why.
Dear Sir thank you for sharing this video so much , now i finally understand how life started it is 0 same like Light travel in space it is just simply Action in manifestation . thanks alot sir i finally understand more about consciousness , your sharing had improved my meditation .
Peter, this is a wonderful video - Thank you for sharing ♥
I only intended to watch the first few minutes, and ended up being so absorbed I had to watch the entire thing - I'm glad I did.
Excellent!!! This was such well constructed lecture, very clear, down to earth and straight forward. Your comment about the wave/particle nature of a photon was a revelation to me, EUREKA!
Great affirmation on what we know of what is. Worth watching to the very end.
Love & Light*** Chalice
Excellent and thought provoking - Pun intended ;-)
42:00 and to the end: Goosebumps.
"How does something as immaterial as consciousness arise out of something as unconscious as matter? (David Chalmers).
It doesn't. It is the other way around. The seeming material arises out of the immaterial consciousness. The light shines itself as the various shapes of form.
light does not shine itself. decomposing atoms shine light
Semantics. You can call the light 'decomposing atoms' or 'dancing atoms', who cares?
The point that I am making is that form impressions (mind impressions) arise out of the reality of the formless (consciousness/awareness/Self) and not the other way around.
certainly not semantics, fact of reality.
and as for you "point [you] are making", citation needed
Magdi Badawy
Consciousness always arises itself materially---gathering composition which it has chosen to suit itself.
[Ordered Consciousness --> Gathered Material = Random Matter --> "Assembled" Consciousness]
At the same time---matter (a mental construct or perception / sensual interpretation) is gathered through natural Laws to "apparently" arise synchronicitically a harmony or system of resonance producing consciousness.
Although it is not quite (entirely) true to say that this harmony only causally forms consciousness..,
the idea of matter PRODUCING consciousness is never a process that can exclude the matter itself with which the consciousness has itself produced (from its materialization constructs / holograph-ordering projections).
Matter producing the consciousness it would have to have assumed (non-consciously) would thus then be a process couched within the orderly consciousness with which it can only take place.
In coming to bound the physical in mental terms (understanding), it is to be done so from processes with inclusion to itself as it relates to what it has to --- the process of order with which things to have made sense would be held without place.
humans and animals are conscious matter. What's the problem?
This is DEEP and I like! I've been thinking the same things on my own, just not so articulated. Great lecture.
Until today I'd never heard of Peter Russell... :-( That's my problem. I came to this from a spiritual rather than a scientific perspective, although I'm aware that quantum-physics tends to draw both parties together. For me, this lecture expresses the things that I have always known at my deepest-level. Namaste, Peter
Peter, thank you for this masterfull lecture/talk It wasn't just profound, but also well paced, playful, intelligent and splendidly delivered. Your talk was all about creating space out of matter, simplicity out of complexity. I think this is by far the best way of understanding the inside/outside reality. Light, conciousness and existence are pretty much the same thing. Some may call it love and you know what - it doesn't matter. I would like to frase it this way:" Harmony is god". It is what we crave for, but hardlly ever come to experience in it''s fullest.
Anyhow, this leads to my question. What are your thoughts on self-awereness? Is it the very key to human species evolving from experience oriented animals to inside looking "hippie" creatures? I am just starting to wonder. What or who ever put the consciousness in motion,if we imagine it happened that way, is the most wonderfull and weird figure I've ever heard of.
I think self-awareness in the sense of being aware of being aware emerged with the ability to think (an offshoot of language) and reflect upon our experience. And there then arose the idea of an experiencing self.
This talk from Peter Russel says is all. This is where we're going.
Absolutely brilliant! Thanks so much for sharing that with us.
Just a few minutes into the video and I've already been tempted to shout "Finally someone who gets it!" more than once. :)
Magnificent. 100% magnificent. I am unsure how to give my gratitude for such an elegant perception and idea. Thank you, Peter.
Amazing!, could it be that were are not only affected by the world we are actually also affecting and creating the world as it is now?.
Thank you Peter!
Thank you for posting this and sharing it with the world. You are a pioneer. :)
This is a wonderful video to explain brain, mind and consciousness. Thank you.
I just bought the book "From Science to God" a couple days ago and finished it yesterday and I must say that It opened my eyes to so many possibilities. I think I wanna start my own quest to find God and I mean that in the sense of the real God that is us. I wanna learn to meditate and reach that stillness. With my busy life I don't know if I can devote hours after hours to reach the same quiet that you reached. I will try (not not try) and I know I will get there. Any help will be appreciated.
thank you for this beautiful lecture. Very good.
I just finished (in Dutch) White Hole in Time and Global Brain. Also very interesting. I have seen a lot of videos of Tolle and I read everything of Neale Donald Walsch: so good to see so much similarities and beauty in all of these works! Thank you, greetings from Holland.
I believe that something like this is absolutely right. I also believe (and I don't know how obvious this may seem to however many people) that this is closely related to the concept behind manifesting/prayer... The idea, I think, is that through creative, positive, visualization a person can "align" themselves with a specific series of "frames" such as are referenced by Nexus. You visualize, or pray for, the series of "frames" of a life that looks like the life you want and you align yourself..
Excellent! Thank you for posting this, Peter!
I use the word universal not to mean that everyone has access to each other's experiences, but that the faculty of consciousness as such is universal.
Awesome! Just was introduced to this speaker, - sharing this on Facebook and abroad :)
Beautiful video, Mr. Russell!
Very good, ..I feel renewed by this lecture.
This structured field still needs to evolve to reach the stage of human experience. All the discoveries of science still hold. But we have to revise our ideas of what it is the laws apply to. They do not describe the unfolding of matter (which is purely a mental construct) but the unfolding of the field of consciousness.
As an undergraduate in Physics/Maths (1978) I was fascinated with the "Lorentz Transformation" equations in Einstein’s Special Relativity. I believed I understood the concepts, but could not understand why the teachers never wanted to acknowledge that from “lights point of view” the light from the Sun/Stars takes NO TIME to travel its distance. From our perspective off course its ~8m for the Sun & ~4.2 LYears to closest Star. This they acknowledged, but from the other perspective they didn't.
Thank you! I'm really enjoying your books and videos.
Is this Peter's channel?? Wow. Well if so, I would like to thank you first hand for sharing your wonderful insights.