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Parapsychology and The Skeptics

6. September 2007

Sheldrake has written the Forward for a new book, Parapsychology and The Skeptics, by Chris Carter (not the X-Files Chris Carter), on the history of dogmatic skepticism and parapsychology. The book opens with a very interesting anecdote from the seventeenth century - when people believed that balls of fire came hurtling to Earth from space [...]

Sheldrake at the Temple in Thanjavur

20. August 2007

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Not that I am trying to establish any spiritual or epistemological ancestry in my view of the world … but here is another hero/friend of mine at the Shiva Temple in Thanjavur. You may not know that from 1974 to 1985 Dr. Sheldrake worked at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) [...]

Podcast: Can Dogs Know?

18. August 2007

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Great podcast from the website Skeptiko by Alex Tsakiris. Alex’s guests are Dr. Rupert Sheldrake and Dr. Richard Wiseman on whether dogs can “know” when their owners are coming home. Take a listen.

The Need for Heretics

17. August 2007

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The radical, brilliant theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson has just written a interesting essay on the the need for heretics in science. Since Rupert Sheldrake has been battling this kind of stereotype for his entire career, it’s interesting to see that being a maverick is somehow coming back in fashion. Almost daily I’m reading about “new” [...]

Photons Flout the Light Speed Limit

17. August 2007

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From the New Scientist magazine, “It’s a speed record that is supposed to be impossible to break. Yet two physicists are now claiming they have propelled photons faster than the speed of light. This would be in direct violation of a key tenet of Einstein’s special theory of relativity that states that nothing, under any [...]

China Bans Reincarnation

14. August 2007

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From the Washington Post: In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to [...]

10 Unsolved Mysteries Of The Brain

9. August 2007

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From Discover Magazine: “Of all the objects in the universe, the human brain is the most complex: There are as many neurons in the brain as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. So it is no surprise that, “despite the glow from recent advances in the science of the brain and mind, we [...]

61 Seconds

17. July 2007

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Have you ever wondered why there are 12 months in a year, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute? It’s one of those things we take for granted every day. This system has always seemed pretty arbitrary to me but you can find out the logic behind this by looking at [...]

Man With an Extended Mind

30. June 2007

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Documentary film maker, Jes Benstock, met up with Dr. Rupert Sheldrake a few months ago. Benstock was making a short documentary about Dr. Sheldrake and his work on the extended mind. They take part in a series of Sheldrake’s experiments to see if anything really happens. Can we tell if we’re being stared at from [...]

How Do Pigeons Home?

4. June 2007

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One of the most interesting of Sheldrake’s proposals from the book Seven Experiments is mobile pigeon lofts. He goes into some detail in the book but he also brings up the topic during the Glorious Accident round table discussion. In this clip, he challenges some of the prevailing views and brings the group to laughter [...]

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Parapsychology and The Skeptics

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Podcast: Can Dogs Know?

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Photons Flout the Light Speed Limit

China Bans Reincarnation

10 Unsolved Mysteries Of The Brain

61 Seconds

Man With an Extended Mind

How Do Pigeons Home?

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