Who is Rupert Sheldrake

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Biologist known for his theory of 'morpho-genetic fields'. These fields make learning something easier once it's been learned before by someone else. This would explain strange chemical behavior as well as the increased speed with which difficult cross-word puzzles are made.

Three reasons to love Rupert Sheldrake 

  1. He's smart

  2. He's daring

  3. He's controversial

The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence 

Googletechtalks shares a lecture by Rupert Sheldrake about the mind beyond the brain. First he talks about the nature of consciousness: we don't know what it is, or how the mind works. Consciousness is one of the most exiting frontier areas in science today. Sheldrake suggests that the mind is field like: it extends beyond the brain. This explains a range of controversial phenomena, like telepathy.
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A New Science of Life - Rupert Sheldrake's claim to fame 

A New Science of Life

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This is the book that put Rupert Sheldrake in the limelight and ruined his reputation with ordinary biologists. He shows that there is a learning effect in nature (the theory of morpho-genetic fields) that applies to species as a whole.

Rupert Sheldrake: Telephone Telepathy 

Many people tell stories about telephone telepathy: people aren't always right about who is calling them, but they are way more successful at this than can be explained by chance. This video shows a test with the Nolan sisters.
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Rupert Sheldrake Films and DVD's 

Unexplained Powers of Dogs and Other Animals

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Accessing the Mystic - Regaining a Sense of the Sacred

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The Magical Childs Transcendent Mind

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The Nature of the Mind

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Terence Mckenna talks to Rupert Sheldrake  

Discussing Rupert Sheldrake's ideas about morphic resonance. He shares how orthodox biology contrasts with his own ideas which have to do with a memory of form which is not materially based.
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So, what are morpho-genetic fields?  

Morphogenetic fields are fields through which members of a biological species (say: dogs, humans etc.) can learn something faster because previous members of that species have already learned it. This learning would happen without the individuals meeting each other. So if rats in England learn something, rats in Japan should be able to learn that same thing faster.

Source: http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-moreonmorphgnicflds.html

The Extended Mind - Telepathy. Pt 1/3 

Hundreds of stories about cats who avoid vet appointments. One vet actually stopped having vet appointments, because cat owners just never showed up.
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Rupert Sheldrake books 

The Evolutionary Mind: Conversations on Science, Imagination and Spirit

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Sheldrake and His Critics: The Sense of Being Glared At

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The Sense of Being Stared At : And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind

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Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness

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The Extended Mind - The Sense Of Being Stared At. Pt 1/3 

Rupert Sheldrake explains how fields work and how that concept can help us explain the phenomena that many people feel when they are being stared at.
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Staring experiment - are we all clairvoyant? 

To find out whether we are all unconsciously clairvoyant, Rupert Sheldrake did a staring experiment. That is: he did an experiment to find out whether people are aware when someone else is staring at them.

Critics claim that his experiments weren't conducted properly and therefor do not prove anything.

source: http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-09/staring.html

Rupert Sheldrake books 

Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals

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The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature

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The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God

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The Rise of Shamanism 

Rupert Sheldrake shares his meeting with a shaman in the jungle of Orissa, India.
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Rupert Sheldrake - member of the Theosophical Society 

Rupert Sheldrake Links 

Rupert Sheldrake
The website of this biologist and author.
Rupert Sheldrake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sheldrake was born and grew up in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.[4] Sheldrake studied biochemistry at the Clare College, Cambridge, graduating with a double First Class honours degree. He was a Frank Knox fellow at Harvard, studying philosophy and history. He returned to Cambridge where he gained a PhD in biochemistry and was a Fellow at Clare College. He was a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. He later went to Hyderabad, India. For a year and a half he lived in the ashram of Bede Griffiths.[4][5] In September 2005, Sheldrake received the Perrott-Warwick Scholarship for psychical research and parapsychology, which is administered by Trinity College, Cambridge.[5][6]
Morphic field - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Morphic field is a term introduced by British biologist Rupert Sheldrake.
Rupert Sheldrake: A Theosophical Appraisal, by David Pratt
Morphic Fields and the Memory of Nature
Most biologists take it for granted that living organisms are nothing but complex machines, governed only by the known laws of physics and chemistry. I myself used to share this point of view.
Staring Effect and Rupert Sheldrake (Skeptical Inquirer September 2000)
Rupert Sheldrake claims that people can tell when somebody is staring at them. Unfortunately the sequences used in Sheldrake's research are not properly randomized. When random sequences are used people can detect staring at no better than chance rates.
Rupert Sheldrake Interview
I did biology because I was interested in animals and plants, and because my father was a biologist. He was a natural historian of the old school, with a microscope room at home and cabinets.
Rupert Sheldrake - Morphogenetic Fields And Beyond
Morphogenetic Fields And Beyond New research is undermining old ideas of separation by Robert Gilman, including an interview with Rupert Sheldrake.

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Harold Scarbro wrote

I concur with the editor of "Science" that Sheldrake is promoting pseudoscience, and people should be warned about his wacky, unsubstantiated theories. He spent too much time in the ashram in India, and lost all of his critical abilities to some fuzzy, spiritualistic way of thinking that he learned there. Poor Sheldrake!

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Hi, great lens, a new science of life is a really fascinating book and more should be done to follow up on its thesis. I've made you a featured lensmater on http://www.squidoo.com/groups/esoteric

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