Author Archives for Matthew

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 [...]

Sheldrake Stabbed in Santa Fe


From local Channel 7 KOAT, “A lecture at a historic Santa Fe hotel turns into a crime scene when a man rushes the stage and stabs the speaker Wednesday. Dr. Rupert Sheldrake was a guest speaker at a conference on how to better understand our lives and co-exist. He was then attacked by Hirano Kazuki [...]

Sheldrake: Audio Lectures and Interviews


Over the years, I’ve collected a pretty big collection of digital audio and video files on Rupert Sheldrake. I’ve been posting most of the videos at nautis.blip.tv. Here are some mp3 files, too. I’ll post more later when I get them all tagged properly.

Science and Spirit


Why is there such a split between science and religion? Was it always this way? As children, were we taught that this is the proper way of the world? Rupert Sheldrake and Matthew Fox discuss these issues in a fascinating talk in Part 2 of Accessing the Mystic.

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