Peter Russell: Meeting Exponential Change with a Quiet...
We live in a world accelerating faster than the human mind was built to handle. So what do we do with that?
This week, Tami Simon speaks with Peter Russell—author, speaker, and leading thinker on consciousness and spirituality, with degrees in theoretical physics, psychology, and computer science from Cambridge—about his new book, How to Meditate Without Even Trying, featuring a foreword by Eckhart Tolle. Decades after coining the term “global brain” and predicting the internet, Russell turns his visionary lens on the present moment: a world of staggering technological power and equally staggering stress.
Join Tami and Peter to explore:
- From global brain to global mind: how AI represents the next threshold in humanity’s collective evolution
- Why exponential change is not going away—and the hidden costs it’s placing on our personal and planetary systems
- Forgiving Humanity: why the crises facing our species may be the inevitable result of accelerating development, not human failure
- Accepting the possibility of extinction—and how that acceptance can paradoxically free us to live and serve more fully
- The shift from “saving the world” to navigating these times with grace, compassion, and groundedness
- Why meditation is more necessary now than ever—and how effortlessness, not discipline, is the key
- “Letting in” before letting go: a practice for metabolizing emotion and releasing tension at its root
- The tension in thinking—and how noticing it during meditation changes how we think outside of it
Whether you’re overwhelmed by the pace of the world or simply looking for a steadier way to move through it, Peter Russell offers both perspective and practice.
Listen now and find your way back to the quiet.
This conversation offers genuine transmission—not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. Originally aired on Sounds True One.
