{"podcast":{"title":"Legalise Freedom Dot Com","slug":"legalise-freedom-dot-com-6045598","podcast_index_feed_id":6045598,"rss_url":"https://legalisefreedom.podbean.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://legalisefreedom.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/14867543/logo_65nvkk.jpg","author":"Greg Moffitt","episode_count":438,"summary":"Why are we here? Where do we come from? Where are we going? These are eternal questions which humanity is compelled to ask but may never answer. Are we merely born to buy? To consume and die? Is it in our nature to destroy ourselves? Is war our destiny? Or is there some greater purpose and grand design which lies beyond our primitive instincts? The Earth appears to be descending deeper into chaos, but is the disorder and destruction simply part of a larger process? From the nature of reality to the future of humanity, Legalise Freedom asks these questions and more, offering the listener alternative views on a wide range of topics.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/legalise-freedom-dot-com-6045598"},"episode":{"title":"LF41 Peter Russell – Science, Spirituality and the Origin of Consciousness","slug":"lf41-peter-russell-science-spirituality-and-the-origin-of-consciousness","published_at":"2026-03-03T20:40:58+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/legalise-freedom-dot-com-6045598/lf41-peter-russell-science-spirituality-and-the-origin-of-consciousness","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/legalise-freedom-dot-com-6045598","url":"https://legalisefreedom.podbean.com/e/lf41-peter-russell-%e2%80%93-science-spirituality-and-the-origin-of-consciousness/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/54t5zh/LF41-Peter-Russell.mp3","summary":"GET FULL ACCESS TO ALL LEGALISE FREEDOM CONTENT HERE Western science has had remarkable success in explaining the functioning of the material world, but when it comes to the inner world of the mind, it has very little to say. And when it comes to consciousness itself, science falls curiously silent. There is nothing in physics, chemistry, biology, or any other science that can account for our having an interior world. In a strange way, scientists would be much happier if minds did not exist. Yet without minds there would be no science. This ever-present paradox may be pushing Western science into what Thomas Kuhn called a paradigm shift – a fundamental change in worldview. Peter is one of the leading thinkers on consciousness and contemporary spirituality and author of a number of books including From Science to God: A Physicist’s Journey into the Mystery of Consciousness, Waking Up in Time: Finding Inner Peace in Times of Accelerating Change and The Global Brain: The Awakening Earth in a New Century. He believes that the critical challenge today is to free human thinking from the limited beliefs and attitudes that lie behind so many of our problems – personal, social, and global. His mission is to distil the essential wisdom on human consciousness found in the world’s various spiritual traditions, and to disseminate their teachings on self-liberation in contemporary and compelling ways. Peter is a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, of The World Business Academy and of The Findhorn Foundation, and an Honorary Member of The Club of Budapest. www.peterrussell.com Bumper music: Cliff Martinez ‘Traffic OST’Tangerine Dream ‘Cloudburst Flight’","meta_description":"GET FULL ACCESS TO ALL LEGALISE FREEDOM CONTENT HERE Western science has had remarkable success in explaining the functioning of the material world, but w…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4584,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/legalise-freedom-dot-com-6045598/episodes/lf41-peter-russell-science-spirituality-and-the-origin-of-consciousness/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/legalise-freedom-dot-com-6045598/lf41-peter-russell-science-spirituality-and-the-origin-of-consciousness.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}