{"id":459,"date":"2025-02-02T11:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T18:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/?p=459"},"modified":"2025-02-04T12:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T19:47:15","slug":"what-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/2025\/02\/what-is\/","title":{"rendered":"What is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been told that since I am from Mars and worked in Silicon Valley as an engineer that I must have rational scientific explanations for everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes and&#8230;as a yogi there is much that transcends modern\/western explanations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This YouTube video speaks to many of the &#8220;not scientifically proven&#8221; ideas that I have lived with as a yogi and martial artist (the esoteric principles).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Evidence That Your Mind is NOT Just In Your Brain - Rupert Sheldrake\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y9pTbMoufp4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Evidence That Your Mind is NOT Just In Your Brain<\/em> &#8211; Rupert Sheldrake<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-info\">In this episode Rupert Sheldrake, biologist and author, debunks the standard view that the mind is nothing but brain activity and argues that our mind is extended in every act of visual perception. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-info\">Rupert has designed an <strong>app to enable you to test your sensitivity to being looked at from behind,<\/strong> and to find out if you can improve with practice. The test takes just a few minutes to complete. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbnROMTBFUk83SWF4M2NEZGp5NHhUaHhIV2xEUXxBQ3Jtc0tuSndlNDhKajlYZU5xY3RJb2dFLTBLYkFxRlhUaTBQTS1SWlRSQm5CTlplbmRRMWpwZlVmTlNYV1o4cl9pbmZHQndVR1EzbGhDLXE3Tzd3azZOTGdBcllHNTRUWXdJeU01QXctVDZCMzdkeVAtRE5FUQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sheldrake.org%2Fparticipate&amp;v=y9pTbMoufp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.sheldrake.org\/participate<\/a> . If you find you or your partner can indeed improve with practice, scoring repeatedly and fairly reliably above 75%, please let them know by email at sheldrake@sheldrake.org For more information about Rupert Sheldrake&#8217;s research, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbWJ3a1VKQXFrTkFFREN4eHoxM0hybEg3Mlp4QXxBQ3Jtc0ttZ1ZVSDVwZXZxZGpXaVZ3anp3QmFuaTlSMW5JSG1RbHp5U3ZsOHM5OUJkbWRDWGZkWkkyaTVIUGo3OTlCaU9vR01HNHViX1ZjcXh2cXNPbkxiYjVxZjFya294M2RYalljMVU4dkIxVkFYa3U0UkdiUQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sheldrake.org%2F&amp;v=y9pTbMoufp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.sheldrake.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-info\">This talk was part of the 2023 Holberg Debate at the University of Bergen with the neuroscientist Anil Seth and the anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann. 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