About Rupert Sheldrake
 
 

Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world’s most innovative biologists and writers, is best known for his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory.

He worked in developmental biology at Cambridge University, where he was a Fellow of Clare College. He was then Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), in Hyderabad, India. From 2005 to 2010 he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick project. , funded from Trinity College, Cambridge.
Rupert Sheldrake... Biography
A Guide to the Website Rupert's Science and Philosophy

Rupert's New Book

The American Edition
Science Set Free

Order now from: Amazon.com
Rupert introduces the US edition
YouTube Video Duration 5min
Reviews:
Deepak Chopra in the San Francisco Chronicle
Skeptico Interview with Alex Tsakiris

UK Edition now in paperback:
The Science Delusion:
Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry

Order Paperback Edition Now!
from Amazon.co.uk
Press Reviews... The Independent ... The Financial Times ... The Spectator ... The Guardian ... Irish Times ... Country Life ... The Sunday Times... London Review .... JSPR
Full details and review by Robert McLuhan


A new fully revised and updated edition of Rupert's bestselling book:

Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home
With an appendix summarizing the controversies about this research and an invitation to readers and their animals to take part in ongoing investigations.
Order the new edition from America...
USA and Canada
Or the previous edition... UK and Ireland


Are the laws of nature more like habits?
A summary of the hypothesis of Morphic Resonance.

A New Science of Life/Morphic Resonance
A fully revised new edition of the controversial science classic, released in 2009.
Order the new British edition: A New Science of Life (Amazon.co.uk).
Order the new US Edition: Morphic Resonance (Amazon.com)

"Books of this importance and elegance come along rarely. Those who read this new edition of A New Science of Life may do so with the satisfaction of seeing science history in the making." - Larry Dossey, MD

The Genome Wager


On July 9 2009, in the New Scientist, Lewis Wolpert and Rupert announced a wager on the predictive power of the genome.
The wager will be decided on May 1, 2029, and if the outcome is not obvious, the Royal Society, the world’s most venerable scientific organization, will be asked to adjudicate. The winner will receive a case of fine port, Quinta do Vesuvio, 2005, which should have reached perfect maturity by 2029 and is being stored in the cellars of The Wine Society.
Lewis Wolpert bets that the following will happen. Rupert bets it will not:
By May 1, 2029, given the genome of a fertilized egg of an animal or plant, we will be able to predict in at least one case all the details of the organism that develops from it, including any abnormalities.
Both agree that at present, given the genome of an egg, no one can predict the way an embryo will develop.
The wager arose from their debate on the nature of life at the 2009 Cambridge University Science Festival, which you can hear in streaming audio here (see the stop press column on the right).
Both have set out their cases in New Scientist here: The Genome Wager

Take part in research with your friends by doing simple experiments with mobile phones or online.

Can you tell who's calling?
Can you tell when someone is hearing the same music as you?
Can you tell when you are being stared at?

Visit our online Experiments Portal

For the last six years Rupert and Andrew Weil have held a series of dialogues on science and healing, available here online.
New Online: Recent Developments in Science and Medicine Hollyhock August 2010

Also: Plants - Hollyhock August 2009
New Science and the Future – Hollyhock August 2008.

Rupert has had encounters or debates with a wide range of skeptics. Find out what they say and how Rupert replies to them:
Peter Atkins - Radio 5 discussion on telepathy, Transcript
Robert A. Baker , Robert Todd Carroll, Richard Dawkins, Chris French - Does Telepathy Happen? debate, David Marks, James Randi, Michael Shermer, Lewis Wolpert, John Maddox, Richard Wiseman , The European Skeptics Congress, and others.
Controversies

Online audio recordings of a series of lively, far-reaching discussions between Rupert and his close friends Ralph Abraham and Terence McKenna.

These took place between 1989 and 1998 in America and England.
The collection is now complete. Latest on line is
A Mini Trialogue - Questions and Answers Part 2
The Trialogues The last trialogue between Rupert, Ralph and Terence. They cover a wide range of fascinating topics sparked by audience questions


These mind-stretching trialogues are published in two books The Evolutionary Mind and Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness.
USA and Canada
Britain and Ireland

N’Kisi, an African grey parrot, is the most accomplished language-using animal in the world.
He also seems able to read his owners mind.
Read more about N’kisi

Rupert’s paper with Aimee Morgana... Testing a language-using animal for telepathy

Rupert’s scientific papers are available here online, including his recent papers on email and telephone telepathy.

Rupert's Blog
Science Set Free

New post... The Active Voice


Science Set Free Podcasts

with Mark Vernon
The Spiritual Uses of Science
Is Materialism Inherently Atheistic?
Science as Faith
Can Materialists Have Free Choice?
Mark is a British writer and blogs regularly for The Guardian. His web site is www.markvernon.com


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The TEDx Controversy
Rupert's response
The Debate
The Talk
A Good Summary


Rupert on Auxin
The Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University
A Technical Seminar


Rupert on US National Public Radio
with Steve Paulson
"To the Best of our Knowledge"


How Science has Lost Its Way
Rupert's interview with Mark Leviton in The Sun Magazine
Science Takes a Wrong Turn


Science Set Free
Rupert's lecture at the Electric Universe Conference, January 5, 2013
Youtube video Part I
Youtube video Part 2

Rupert's lecture at the New York Open Center November 21, 2012
Audio Duration 1hr 27mins


Rupert's Huffington Post blog
Why Bad Science is like Bad Religion


London Real TV
Rupert on Science Set Free
YouTube Video - Full Show


Hollyhock Dialogue 2012
Latest in series with Andrew Weil, August 2012
Setting Science and Medicine Free


Science Set Free
Its evolutionary significance by Prof Ashok Gangadean
New Paper


Dialogue wth Andrew Cohen
"Freeing the Spirit of Inquiry"
Audio, London, June 20 2012


Rupert in conversation
with Joan Bakewell on BBC 3
Belief - Science and Religion
BBC iplayer
Also available... MP3 format


Rupert at Goldsmiths College
Lecture: The Science Delusion
Feb 7, APRU Invited Speakers
Audio Recording mp3


Profile of Rupert
The Observer, February 5 2012


Morphic Resonance and Whitehead's Philosophy
Seminar with Rupert and leading Whitehead scholars
Centre for Process Studies, Claremont, California.
Proceeedings video


Science behind Torchwood
TV science fiction uses Rupert's Morphic Fields theory
Independent Blogs - Arts


Through the Wormhole
Rupert with Morgan Freeman
Science Channel Video


Rupert Accuses Wiseman
'Persistent Deception'
Skeptiko Interview


Science of Intuition
Teleseminar with Rupert Sheldrake
Noetic Sciences Audio
Information... IONS Library


The Evolution of Telepathy
Trinity College, Cambridge, February 2011
The Perrott-Warrick Lecture


The Crop Circle Making Competition
Rupert's article from Michellany


Search for Morphic Resonances
Morphic Resonance in the Social Sciences
A Paper on Rupert's Work


Talk on Animal Telepathy
Schumacher College, July 2010
Talk video


Audio Anticipation test
Can you feel which of 4 audio samples you are about to hear? This new test takes less than 6 minutes, and is fun to do.
Audio Anticipation


Consciousness Chronicles
Rupert on the DVD released June 2010
Consciousness DVD


A telephone telepathy experiment with the Nolan sisters now on youtube.
Online video
Rupert's research paper

Rupert vs Richard Wiseman Clash in Skeptico debate


Rupert on screen
Rupert Explains his Ideas Collection of new videos


The Material World
Rupert on BBC Radio 4
Podcast Jan 29th 2009
A New Science of Life
MP3 file Edited discussion


Rupert in Dialogue with Matthew Fox, April 6th 2009
Science, Consciousness and Spirit


Rupert's Goldsmiths College
Lecture, University of London,
Jan 20th 2009
Morphic Resonance, Collective Memory and the Habits of Nature
Video


'Rupert's seminar at Google
September 2, 2008 on Youtube
The Extended Mind


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