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Rupert Sheldrake, Scientist, Author, Visionary

Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author and scientific visionary. In his early days at Cambridge where he studied biology and biochemistry he found that there was a great gulf between his original inspired interest in life-- actual living organisms-- and the kind of biology he was taught: orthodox, mechanistic biology which essentially denies the life of organisms but instead treats them as machines. Rupert discovered the work of Goethe, and a different kind of science, a holistic science that integrated direct experience and understanding. He went on to explore new ideas in quantum theory, philosophy of science, parapsychology, alternative medicine, and the holistic philosophy of nature. He lived for a year and a half at the ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths in South India, where he wrote "A New Science of Life" (Blond and Briggs, 1981). Among other works he authored is "The Presence of the Past" (Collins 1988), "The Rebirth of Nature" (Century, 1990), "Trialogues at the Edge of the West" with Ralph Abraham and Terence McKenna, (Bear and Co., 1992) and with Matthew Fox he co-authored "Natural Grace: Dialogues on Science and Spirituality" (Bloomsbury, 1996) and "The Physics of Angels" (Harper Collins, 1996). His book "Dogs that Know When Their Owners are Coming Home, and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals" (Hutchinson) was published in 1999, and won the British Scientific and Medical Network Book of the Year Award. In July 2000 he was the H. Burr Steinbach visiting scholar at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in Massachusetts.  His most recent book is "The Sense of Being Stared At, And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind" (Hutchinson 2003). He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, San Francisco. Rupert lives in Hampstead, London, England with his wife, Jill Purce and their two sons. Jill is the pioneer of the international sound healing movement. Check out the Jill Purce website.

Read Rupert's complete bio at his website, which includes articles, research and ongoing research the public can participate in, a free e-newsletter, a cool glossary with definitions of such terms as: dialectical materialism, entelechy, evolution and teleonomy and much more.