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Science, Philosophy & Spirituality – Season 1

Posted by Dr Terry Cooke-Davies | Jul 1, 2022 |

An integrated review of what science, philosophy and spirituality contribute to our understanding and experience of the world today.
We each have a unique ‘worldview’ that is shaped by our knowledge, experiences and our beliefs. This course will provide the opportunity to examine (and possibly expand) that worldview in the light of modern scientific discoveries, critical questions posed by philosophers, and diverse beliefs revealed through spiritual traditions. It will be of particular interest to people who care about the lasting damage that humanity is causing to our home planet, and who are seeking to understand what resources the fields of science, philosophy and spirituality can offer

Don’t Just Look Up – Pay Attention

Posted by Dr Terry Cooke-Davies | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog Post, Philosophy, Science, Spirituality |

Netflix’s new satirical science fiction film, Don’t Look Up, set viewing records when it started streaming on Christmas Eve in 2021. It lampoons government, political and media indifference to a catastrophic threat to the survival of homo sapiens, but unsurprisingly offers no diagnosis for how humanity got itself into such a dire state. Coincidentally, Iain McGilchrist’s magisterial new book The Matter with Things was published just six weeks before the movie, and it offers a vision based in well-researched neuroscience of how humanity could return to a better way of living.

The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World

Posted by Dr Terry Cooke-Davies | Jan 9, 2022 | Books |

Is the world essentially inert and mechanical – nothing but a collection of things for us to use? Are we ourselves nothing but the playthings of chance, embroiled in a war of all against all? Why, indeed, are we engaged in destroying everything that is valuable to us?

In his international bestseller, The Master and his Emissary, McGilchrist demonstrated that each brain hemisphere provides us with a radically different ‘take’ on the world, and used this insight to deliver a fresh understanding of the main turning points in the history of Western civilisation.
In this landmark new book, Iain McGilchrist addresses some of the oldest and hardest questions humanity faces – ones that, however, have a practical urgency for all of us today. — amazon.co.uk

Faith and Science: Why getting along with each other is so hard.

Posted by Dr Terry Cooke-Davies | May 5, 2021 | Blog Post, Life together |

Two prominent leaders call for cooperation to confront the challenge of both the coronavirus pandemic and the climate emergency. But to work together in harmony, we have to face up to the brute facts of our need to belong, our tendency to create “them” over against “us”, and our habit of allowing disagreement to escalate into conflict.

Pathways to Wisdom: the Risky Adventure of Expanding One’s Horizons

Posted by Dr Terry Cooke-Davies | Mar 1, 2021 | Reflections |

How six books on cosmology, human nature, consciousness, stories and thermodynamics challenge the faith of a progressive Christian.

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Don’t Just Look Up – Pay Attention

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