Peter Russell: Meeting Exponential Change with a Quiet Mind
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The Sounds True Podcast Network. And so I see us, you know, moving towards a world in which we have technology, technology beyond our dreams, along with a world that's really breaking at the seams. And How do we how do we live with both of those together? In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guest is Peter Russell, author, speaker, and leading thinker on consciousness and contemporary spirituality, with a first-class honors degree in theoretical physics and psychology, along with a master's degree in computer science.
From the University of Cambridge, England. Peter also, in addition, studied meditation in India, and he's been a teacher of meditation for more than five decades. The way he teaches meditation, one of the things he emphasizes is complete effortlessness. And we're going to hear more about that. You may have heard of Peter Russell from the work that he created in the 1980s.
He coined the term global brain with his bestseller by the same name, in which, ready for this? He predicted the Internet and some of the impacts it would have on our collective connectivity. In addition to writing The Global Brain, Peter is the author of more than 10 other books, including a new book. It's a special Eckhart-Tolle edition, and Eckhart writes a forward to the book.
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