Billionaires, Brains and Belief

Could bliss be transmitted by a Happy Helmet? Are the fantasies
of the super-wealthy secretly shaping our lives? In this episode
of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark
Vernon discuss a new novel, Double Blind, by Edward St Aubyn. It
is a story of ideas, including issues previously explored in
these dialogues, from the nature of consciousness and the
revelations of psychedelics, to the missing heritability problem
and the replication crisis. St Aubyn has richly addressed our
moment with its environmental and existential concerns. His
characters explore matters of paramount important as they effect
real lives. His book invites us to ask ourselves about the
worldviews we hold and the ways in which our imaginations reach
out for tomorrow.