The Cow Behind the Barn with Kevin Caldwell: An Artist’s Way of Seeing Life, Humanity, the Universe, and the Divine
The Cow Behind the Barn podcast is an artist’s way of exploring art, religion, humanity, the universe, and the mystery of the divine, presented by songwriter, poet, and contemplative Kevin Caldwell, PhD, and the...
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22 | Philosophy, Panpsychism, and the Consciousness of Things
Do inanimate things like rocks have consciousness? What does philosophy, and especially panpsychism, have to say? Is it true? Do the religions of the world and physics and philosophy sing in harmony? Table Collective...
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21 | Quantum Physics and the Consciousness of “Things”
Do inanimate things have consciousness? What does quantum physics say and how does that fit with what the religions of the world say about it? How might consciousness and non human “things” be entangled?
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20 | Jewish, Christian and Muslim Sacred Texts on Consciousness and “Things”
Do inanimate things have consciousness? The sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have some very important things to say as to whether any “thing” has consciousness. This Episode explores areas where they...
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19 | Buddha and Lao Tzu on Consciousness and “Things”
Do inanimate things have consciousness? The Buddha has some very important things to say as to whether anything has consciousness. Lao Tzu has his own way of seeing the matter. These two giants differ and they agree.
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18 | A World Animated by Consciousness?
Plants and animals and rocks: what, if any of it, is conscious? And if conscious, then in what way? This Episode looks for insights from animism and from the Bhagavad Gita for a starting point…at least for now.
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17 | Consciousness, Rocks, and Ways of Seeing
Are rocks conscious? Plants? What assumptions, what ways of seeing, do we make when we begin to answer questions like this? Are there other ways to see the world?
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16 | The “I” and Consciousness
What is consciousness, and the self? And what is conscious, what has a self? And why does it matter? This can be a life and death matter. This the first in a series of Episodes that will explore the nature of...
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15 | The Art of Time: Insights from the Physics and Philosophy of Time in the Eyes of an Artist
Through the words and intuitions of 6 poems and songs, Kevin uses his own interpretations and reinterpretations of his art to express how he sees time in the light of physics, philosophy and the insights of religious...
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14 | The Philosophy of Time
What do Aristotle, Kant, and Bergson say about time? What about Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic views? And what does all that look like in poetry and song? This Episode explores all that (and a...
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13 | The Physics of Time
Is time the same everywhere, for everyone, all the time? Is it absolute or somehow subjective? What is the nature of past and present and future? When a moment passes where does it go, and where did it come from? This...
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12 | The Time has Come to Talk About Time
What is time? This Episode explores time from the viewpoint of how we speak of time, use time, and experience time. Future Episodes will dig more deeply into what time actually is.
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11 | Art and the Cosmos
One artist’s way of portraying the cosmos, having been inspired by quantum physics, the Gita, the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Genesis, the Gospel of John, the Quran, Quantum Physics.
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