Rupert Sheldrake Archive

Sheldrake’s Other 4 Experiments


Sheldrake’s most popular work has been about the sense of being stared at, pets that know when their owners are coming home, and homing pigeons. However, there are 4 other very interesting experiments that don’t get as much attention. Here is a brief overview of those:
Variability of Fundamental Constants
Organization of Termites
Reality of Phantom Limbs
Effects of [...]

Canine Cognition and Behavior Grant


The University of Florida’s Canine Cognition and Behavior Lab has received a research grant to investigate the human-animal bond and its implications for human consciousness research. Dr. Clive Wynne is the lead researcher on the project, “I am thrilled to be involved with what I hope will be the definitive study into how dogs know [...]

$250k Bond for Sheldrake Attacker


A man accused of stabbing a lecturer on thought transference last month at a downtown Santa Fe hotel will remain in jail unless he can come up with $250,000.

On Friday, state District Judge Michael Vigil set the cash-only bond for Kazuki Hirano of Yokohama, Japan, who has been held for a month at the [...]

Sheldrake Skypecast


If you are a Skype user and would like join a live conference call to discuss Rupert Sheldrake’s theories and experiments feel free to join in. If you have any related experiences (a dog that knows when you are coming home, being stared at from behind, etc.) you would like to share or new ideas [...]

The Skepticism of Believers


This year The Edge asked leading thinkers, “What have you changed your mind about? Why?” This is a great question. You should check out some of the answers. Here is Rupert Sheldrake’s answer to the question:

I used to think of skepticism as a primary intellectual virtue, whose goal was truth. I have changed my mind. [...]

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 [...]