ASCENSION FORUM
Forum for Ascension Studies & Universal Metaphysics
The Scientific Case for a Purposeful Universe
Dr Samuel Wilkinson is a professor at Yale, a psychiatrist, and the author of the new book: Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply About The Nature of Our Existence.
His books makes a compelling and provocative case that life (particularly human life) is inherently purposeful, drawing from evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience in order to do so.
In this conversation, we explore:
— Dr. Wilkinson‘s view that life is fundamentally a test and the implications this has for how we live our lives
— How each of us have the potential for both good and evil contained within
— Why relationships are the number one variable in happiness, our sense of purpose, and mental health.
— The cognitive illusions that cause us to search for happiness in the wrong places, and how to overcome them.
And more.
A very interesting interview. A point that sprung out for me was when Wilkinson talked about the two shipwrecks on Auckland Island where one crew mostly perished and the other thrived. The members of the first crew were all in service to the self, only trying to save themselves, where the captain of the other ship carried a wounded man on his back as he swam to safety. This crew was taught by example to work together and to look out for each other, and thus survived. It is certainly noteworthy when you think of what Da Ojadasan’ka Adamus Valen San said in “A dog called Luke” about the shift from the service to self to the service to others and the whole.
So, even though this example may be hundreds of years old, it shows very clearly that the only way to thrive as an individual and as a whole is through service to the other and the whole.
A very interesting interview indeed.
I Love this phrase:
’There should be the strong emphasis on your relationship with the Divine.
If you have that belief and your relationship with those around you, you know those close to you, that is a very important practice that helps me remind me that my brain is not necessarily wired to the predict what is going to make me happy.
We’ve all kind of got this hierarchy of values and what happens in addiction is that that is hyjacked by the substance on the behaviour of choice.’
Thanks for sharing and enjoyed listening to it❤️🙏❤️
