Angels: Where Science Fears to Tread with Rupert Sheldrake & Matthew Fox

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This stimulating discussion with Rupert Sheldrake and Matthew Fox, two visionary pioneers of modern science and theology, will transform how you think about the most popular of all spiritual beings–angels. Study of the Christian mystics led Fox and Sheldrake to ìthe most startling part of our research,î which was ìto discover how Aquinasí discussion on angels practically parallels todayís discussion upon physics … Angels are great beings,î not just ìbare-bottomed cherubs that you want to pinch.î Fox and Sheldrake explore the new cosmology in which the universe is a living, developing organism, and they raise the intriguing possibility that angels play a role in the actual governing of the universe itself. (For more New Dimensions dialogues with Rupert Sheldrake find program #2080, #2593, #2792)

Mathew Fox, Ph.D. and Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D. are co-authors of The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm where Science and Spirit Meet (HarperSanFrancisco 1996) and Natural Grace: Dialogues on Creation, Darkness, and the Soul in Spirituality and Science (Doubleday 1996.) Fox is a theologian, the President of Friends of Creation Spirituality and author of many books, including Original Blessing (Three Rivers Press 2000), Confessions: The Making of a Postdenominational Priest (HarperSanFrancisco 1996), A New Reformation! (Wisdom Publications 2005), and The Hiddden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine (New World Library 2008). To learn more about the work of Matthew Fox to to www.matthewfox.org. Rupert Sheldrake studied natural sciences at Cambridge and philosophy at Harvard, took a Ph.D. in biochemistry at Cambridge and is the author of more than fifty scientific papers. He’s the author of many books including The Presence of the Past (Times Books 1995), Seven Experiments That Could Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Revolutionary Science (2nd Edition with Update on Results) (Park Street Press 2002), A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance (J.P. Tarcher 1995), and The Rebirth of Nature; The Greening of Science and God (Bantam 1991). To learn more about the work of Rupert Sheldrake go to www.sheldrake.org

Topics Explored in this Dialogue:

• Why angels are so popular today
• How modern physics parallels and transforms our conception of angels
• How the split between science and spirit came about and how the two are being reconnected
• What is the importance of wonder and awe in scientific study
• What is the quest for the animate
• Why we need darkness as well as light
• How ëThe Enlightenmentí has left us in the dark
• How our ego narrows and colors our discoveries and visions

Host: Michael Toms Interview Date: 10/7/1996 Program Number: 2593