Recent Additions and Changes to this Site

(Most recent at top)

Science, Spirituality and the Origin of Consciousness

Extensive audio interview with Greg Moffitt of Legalise Freedom. An up-to-date perspective of key aspects of Peter's current thinking.

Eckhart Tolle and Peter Russell on Meditation

New video of Eckhart and Peter discussing meditation and how to let go of any resistance or expectation.

Effortless Meditation

Why any trying or effort in meditation is counter-productive.

How To Meditate Without Even Trying

Online meditation course in 5 weekly lessons delivered via the internet, featuring some of the special techniques I've developed in recent years.

Exploring Consciousness: East and West - Trailer

Trailer excerpt for PBS TV show Exploring Consciousness: East and West with Peter Russell and Sraddhalu Renade. Plus info on local timings

Experiments in Truth

Nice podcast with Zachary Daniel Wolk, covering my latest thoughts on a global brain and various other topics.

New Facebook Page

I'll be posting audios, videos, quotes, new articles, etc here. "Like" it to receive my up-do-date information.

NonDual Vipassana

A non-dual duet. Peter Russell and Shauna Shapiro discuss a non-dual approach to meditation and jointly guide a meditation. (30 mins)

The Guru Within

Satsang given at the Sivananda Ashram, Nassau. Science and spirituality as complementary perspectives on cosmos. Accessing inner wisdom in service of awakening. (50 mins)

The Mystical Positivist

Excellent radio interview, going deeply into topics concerning consciousness and reality.

Crisis and Spiritual Awakening

Peter Russell discusses the state of the world and our collective response to it with IONS Research Director Cassandra Vieten.

100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People

I was dumbfounded to find myself listed number 21 amongst the new Watkins list of the "100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People"

A Speck in Infinity: Journey Deep into the Cosmos

A short video (5 mins) that takes you on a stunning visual journey from the night sky out through the Milky Way into the sea of galaxies that lie beyond.

Science, Consciousness, and—dare I say it—God

Article from Pathways magazine, exploring how research into the nature of consciousness will unwittingly bring science and spirituality closer together. (This is a pdf file. If your browser does not have a pdf plugin, you will can save [right click] the apparently blank page and read it off-line.)

Forgiveness Meditation

I was asked to create this for the 10-yr remembrance of 9/11. But it is also valid for forgiveness in general.

Samsara and Nirvana and Letting Go

Two excerpts from video shot at Burning Man, 2010 .

Does Our Brain Really Create Consciousness?

My first blog for the Huffington Post, which received considerable praise and attention.

Recordings from "Exploring the Mystery of Consciousness" Workshop

The Purpose of Life and the Universal Quest
Buddha, Dukkha and the Journey to Now [Also as video]
The Acceleration of Awakening: It's Getting Easier all the Time
Ayahuasca: Is it really an entheogen? [Also as video]

The Easiest of Times: The Hardest of Times

Contrasting Buddha's time with ours. We have it easy and difficult in opposite ways.

How Do I Pray?

I pray not for divine intervention in the world around, but for divine intervention in my mind, for therein lies the root of my discontent.

Primacy of Consciousness - Video

My most popular YouTube video can now be viewed in its entirety as a single piece.

The Primacy of Consciousness - Conf Keynote

Audio of keynote from 2010 Science and NonDuality Conference exploring how modern science is unwittingly pointing towards the essence of the cosmos being mind not matter.

There's No Such Thing as Ego

What we call "ego" is not a thing, a separate self, but a process, a mode of thinking that we caught in.

Science and NonDuality

Three clips of Peter, from the new triple DVD of the 2009 Science and Non-Duality Conference, exploring the questions: What is Non-Duality? What is the "I"? Is there such a thing as enlightenment? Visitors to this site get 25% discount on the DVD.

Seek and Ye Shall Not Find

"Seek and Ye Shall Find!" In daily life this may be true; but when it comes to finding our own inner essence, the opposite is true.

2012

Short video on the significance of 2012. Not the date itself so much as a symbol for the temporal epicenter of a cultural earthquake.

The Path of No Path

The paradox that occurs with some non-dual teachings of there being nowhere to get to; you are already there. But how to realize you are already here?

Love

Two new short audio streams on love. Love as a fundamental quality of consciousness and Falling Back into Love.

Natural Mind - Essay from Sept 09 Resurgence

E F Schumacher once said, "We are now far too clever to be able to survive without wisdom." The question is, will humanity take the quantum leap in consciousness needed to create a resilient future?

What is Wisdom?

Data—Information—Knowledge—Wisdom. But what is wisdom and how does it fit into this progression?

Usury—The Root of All Evil?

Why the charging of interest has been banned by most religions, and how it lies behind many of the world's problems. Particularly relevant in today's financial meltdown.

A Singularity in Time

My chapter from book The Mystery of 2012, published by Sounds True. Explores implications of accelerating change for full awakening of human consciousness.