Rupert Sheldrake
Author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals
About the Author
Rupert Sheldrake is the former director of studies in biochemistry and cell biology at Cambridge University. He lives in London.
Works by Rupert Sheldrake
Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals (1999) 543 copies
Seven Experiments That Could Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Revolutionary Science (2002) 231 copies
Natural Grace: Dialogues on creation, darkness, and the soul in spirituality and science (1996) 139 copies
Associated Works
What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (1914) — Contributor — 633 copies
Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse: Contemplating the Future with Noam Chomsky, George Carlin, Deepak Chopra,… (2005) — Contributor — 67 copies
Twilight of the Clockwork God: Conversations on Science and Spirituality at the End of an Age (1999) 25 copies
Fortean Times 98 — Contributor — 2 copies
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- Legal name
- Sheldrake, Alfred Rupert
- Birthdate
- 1942-06-28
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Tamil Nadu, India
Dartington, Devon, UK
London, England, UK - Education
- Clare College, Cambridge (PhD, biochemistry, 1967)
Harvard University (philosophy and history of science) - Occupations
- biologist
biochemist
plant physiologist
parapsychology researcher - Relationships
- Purce, Jill (wife)
Sheldrake, Merlin (son)
Sheldrake, Cosmo (son) - Organizations
- Institute of Noetic Sciences
Schumacher College. Devon, England
Temenos Academy, London
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Hyderabad, India - Awards and honors
- Frank Smart Prize for Botany (1962)
Bridgebuilder Award (2014)
Lucia Torri Cianci prize for innovative thinking (2015) - Short biography
- Rupert Sheldrake è un biologo e saggista britannico, noto soprattutto per la sua discussa teoria della "risonanza morfica", che implica un universo non meccanicistico, governato da leggi che sono esse stesse soggette a cambiamenti.
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Reviews
Seven Experiments That Could Change the World: A… by Rupert Sheldrake
Bit like the Curate's egg - good in places. I enjoyed the more 'down to earth' chapters on pigeon homing for example. Not so keen on the mathematical discourses into Plank's Constant and the like though I appreciate that he talks frankly about open minded detachment not really being how things are done in science.
I really wanted to like this book. But it was so out there I couldn't even force myself to pick it up most days. Pseudoscience doesn't do it justice with what this book was about.
If the author was writing several thousand years ago before we had any of the modern science and trying to explain phenomena like genetic inheritance or memory then his metaphor of psychic resonance would probably be just as good as the competing magic theories but today, with what we know, this has got to be a joke. The author's snide remarks and confident claims are not backed by any evidence. The author appears to be angry he isn't treated seriously - I gave up my time to read this book in good faith as I never heard of his ideas before and I'm not convinced.… (more)
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Statistics
- Works
- 36
- Also by
- 8
- Members
- 3,380
- Popularity
- #7,539
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 55
- ISBNs
- 200
- Languages
- 14
- Favorited
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