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

The Science Delusion:
Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry

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Press Reviews... The Independent ... The Financial Times ... The Spectator ... The Guardian
Full details and review by Robert McLuhan

American Edition
Published in the US by Random House in May 2012, where it will be called Science Set Free
Meanwhile, it can be ordered from the UK Book Depository with FREE SHIPPING to the US, Canada and continental Europe
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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.
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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

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?

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Do some dogs really know when their owners are coming home?
Hear what Rupert Sheldrake and skeptic Richard Wiseman have to say on the Skeptiko podcast
Take part in the debate and participate in a new research project at Open Source Science. Open Source Science
New Skeptico research... Video of dog experiment
Grants are available for this research.

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.
We are progressively building the full collection. Latest on line is
Morphogenetic Family Fields Part 2
The Trialogues Morphic fields and telepathy within family groups

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.

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

Have you thought of someone who then sends you a text message?
Send Rupert your observations