Peter Russell: Meeting Exponential Change with a Quiet Mind

About this episode

Tami Simon speaks with Peter Russell about navigating the challenges of exponential change and the importance of stillness in an accelerating world.

The world is accelerating faster than the human mind was built to handle. So what do we do with that? Tami Simon speaks with Peter Russell—physicist, consciousness pioneer, and author of How to Meditate Without Even Trying, featuring a foreword by Eckhart Tolle. Together, they discuss navigating exponential change, the stresses of an AI-driven world, the possibility of our species' extinction, and why effortless stillness may be the most essential skill of our time. 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 . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Host: Tami Simon

Guest: Peter Russell

Topics covered

• exponential change
• AI-driven world
• spiritual understanding
• effortless stillness
• consciousness

Keywords

• exponential change
• AI
• spirituality
• meditation
• consciousness
• stillness
• awakening

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: How to Meditate Without Even Trying

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