And whether democracy stops at the borders of the nation state, and if that has anything to do with spiritual awakening. Graham and I also have a somewhat animated discussion about whether it is possible to raise consciousness by way of traditional politics or not. There is no reason why any part of the universe couldn't affect us.” ”It is to a large extent based on quantum physics. It has not been published, but Graham puts it out on Medium, bit by bit. His growing astrological insights led him to later write a book about how this ancient knowledge might be true–from an outsider’s perspective. This information had a powerful impact on him. Many of the lyrics are about the same esoteric topics that he writes about.ĭuring his period of spiritual awakening, Graham Pemberton’s mentor pointed out that Graham was going through a heavy Saturn return. His songs are of a singer-songwriter type. ”That is the path I should have taken in my youth.” We conclude that Jung has had a profound significance for the spiritual growth of both of us. We discuss whether Jung is still today as ridiculed in academia as he used to be. Stanislav Grof is another of Graham’s heroes, as is Carl Jung. However, if history means anything, a new paradigm will eventually take over.” But the question is, how much further have we come?” asks Graham Pemberton.
”You could argue that quantum physics destroyed materialism a hundred years ago. Like many others who have looked seriously into this topic, Pemberton thinks David Bohm was the most spiritual among the leading quantum physicists. Recently, Carlo Rovelli is with ”Helgoland” trying to take quantum physics back to almost materialism.
Pemberton has written a whole series of articles about Danah Zohar’s ”The Quantum Self”. Ten years later Ken Wilber tried to take the hype down, and then in the 1990s the quantum–spirit connection became more prominent again. Two books in the 1970s by Fred Alan Wolf and Fritjof Capra triggered an uptick. There have been some fascinating ups and downs in the interest for this topic in the mainstream. Lately, he has explored just about every influential book that has been written about the connection between quantum physics and mysticism. I got in touch with Graham after having read some of his many in-depth essays and articles on Medium about spirituality and modern science. The dramatic character of Graham's intense six-month awakening period eventually dissipated. One powerful dream told him that his life hitherto had been like a Monty Python movie, and now it was time to get back to normal. I saw that things were interconnected, and I realized that consciousness has nothing to do with the brain.” Graham experienced ”a lot of weird stuff” like vivid dreams and wild synchronistic events. This inward looking triggered a spiritual awakening.” I then made a decision, influenced by someone who was like my mentor, to look inside instead of outside. Previously he had adhered to atheism and existentialism and had a period of left wing political activism. When Graham Pemberton was 29 years old, an often crucial point in life astrologically known as the first Saturn return, he had a powerful awakening. Read the episode as an essay on Medium here. My answer, and the answer from ever more others, is that the next big leap in our evolution will have to be inward - possibly the most important leap so far. We have a feeling of ”… what now?” Artificial intelligence? Advanced biotechnology? Out in space? What is the purpose of all that we are doing? We have tried to mitigate our fear of death and our feeling of loneliness through the idea that more physical assets or larger social or cultural capital can enhance the quality of life. This sense of meaninglessness is basically derived from the dreamlike illusion of separation and death we have been living in for thousands of years. Many feel an emptiness and a lack of purpose before the future. If that doesn’t tell the listener much, which is understandable, I can say that this conclusion also goes for most other writers out there. Its message is arguably more important than anything I have ever conveyed. It is about meaning, future, consciousness, society and science. This solo episode (part one of two) is about humankind’s most pivotal revolution in the coming decades and centuries, hands down.