About
Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, is a biologist and author best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance. At Cambridge University he worked in developmental biology as a Fellow of Clare College. He was Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics in Hyderabad, India. From 2005 to 2010 he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick project for research on unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge.
Read More Upcoming AppearancesOut in North America: Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work
The e-book and audio book, read by Rupert, are now available in the US and Canada. You may also pre-order the paperback, due out in September.
Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work
Seven Spiritual Practices in a Scientific Age. Order from Amazon UK, Amazon US, Hive, Kobo, Barnes and Noble and Audible.
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Animal Powers
In the late 1980s and early 1990s I explored a variety of experimental approaches for the investigation of unexplained phenomena that might help to enlarge our scientific view of the world.
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Telephone Telepathy Test
Can you tell who's calling you? This test requires three participants and about 10 minutes.
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TED "Bans" the Science Delusion
On January 12th, 2013, Rupert gave a talk entitled The Science Delusion at TEDxWhitechapel.
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Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work
Sheldrake talks with Brian Rose on London Real; March, 2019
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Sacred Song, and Where to Find it
Rupert reports on an online guide to choral evensong. Published in Resurgence & Ecologist, Jan/Feb 2016.
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Podcasts and Streaming Audio
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Church Times Interview
"If you want to learn meditation, you can learn it online or go on courses; but if you want to learn how to pray, it’s much harder." Church Times, 23 February 2018, by Terence Handley MacMath.
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Latest Scientific Paper
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Can Morphic Fields Help Explain Telepathy and the Sense of Being Stared At?. Published in Mindfield Bulletin (2019), Volume 11 Issue 1, 26-33, by Rupert Sheldrake.
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Upcoming Events
Heath and Hampstead Society Lecture:
Bird Navigation: How do swifts find their way back to Hampstead, and how do pigeons home?
London
October 17
Thursday
7.30 pm
Rosslyn Hill Chapel
Hampstead
London NW3 1NG
Sir Alister Hardy Memorial lecture:
Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work: Science and Spiritual Practices
Oxford
October 19
Saturday
10.30 am
St Giles
Oxford
OX1 3LW
