Re-Discovering God
This evening, Rupert will speak about his own spiritual journey, which included a long atheist phase starting as a teenager and continuing until his late 20s.
He will describe how travelling in India in 1968 and later living and working in India from 1974 to 1985 had a transformative effect on his worldview, how experiences with psychedelics expanded his understanding of consciousness, how his disillusionment with mechanistic materialism gave way to a broader and more inclusive view of scientific possibilities, how meditation, prayer and other spiritual practices have informed his life, how he rediscovered a Christian path in India and learned from Father Bede Griffiths, in whose ashram he lived for 2 years in Tamil Nadu and how he became involved with the British Pilgrimage Trust and the rediscovery of pilgrimage in Britain.