Archives for April, 2008

Podcast: The Sense of Being Stared At


Duncan Campbell’s podcast, Living Dialogues, features an interview with Rupert Sheldrake from June 2007. Here is a summary from the website: “As Rupert and I discuss in the this fascinating dialogue, his morphic field theory goes beyond the range of other invisible fields accepted by modern science, such as the field of gravity and electro-magnetic [...]

A Book for Burning?


When Sheldrake’s book A New Science of Life was published in 1981, proposing the theory of morphic resonance instead of DNA as the basis for shapes and behavior in nature, Sir John Maddox denounced it fiercely in an editorial titled “A book for burning?”

Inconvenient Facts in Physics


There is an interesting article on Suppressed Science about the bizarre belief that science has just about gotten it all wrapped up. Many scientists believe that they are somehow on the verge of knowing everything. I know that sounds laughable but this is a real position taken by many within the scientific community. Here is [...]

Chris Carter on Skeptiko


Chris Carter is on this week’s Skeptiko podcast. Rupert Sheldrake wrote the Forward to Carter’s book Parapsychology & The Skeptics and said this of the book: “A masterly guide to the frontiers of science, belief and exploration. Carter leads us through the interplays of dogma, speculation and empirical research in a stimulating way. The controversy [...]

Sheldrake in National Review


Sheldrake makes an appearance on the conservative National Review blog in the article, End of Consciousness by John Derbyshire. Derbyshine says of Sheldrake’s presentation, “Dr. Sheldrake came to us with a limp, and delivered his address from a chair, having been stabbed in the thigh by a lunatic at a different consciousness conference earlier in [...]

Carl Jung and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin


The next issue of What Is Enlightenment? is going to an interesting one. Here is the excerpt: “In one of WIE’s most eclectic issues yet, we trace the profound influence that the 20th-century luminaries Carl Jung and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin have had on the way we see ourselves and our world, and how their [...]