Nautis Project

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?”

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.