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Dr Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance. Mark Vernon is a psychotherapist and author. Together they discuss: consciousness, prayer, a...
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/274OwKLCsFM Support the show on Substack: https://rupertsheldrake.substack.com Saints and genii locorum,...
Support the podcast by subscribing on Substack https://rupertsheldrake.substack.com Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qbRW_iehUA0 The mood...
The imagination is often regarded as a valuable but fanciful capacity. But what if imagination were not an optional extra, or even the posse...
You may agree that the so-called hard problem of consciousness exposes the deep inadequacies of a materialist worldview. But the alternative...
The conviction that the natural world is obedient, adhering to laws, is a widespread assumption of modern science. But where did this idea o...
Much of the modern world has become uncoupled from the transcendent in a cultural experiment Nietzsche called the death of God. But might th...
Watch: https://youtu.be/_ywyQIFMtQE Darwinian evolution shapes modern biology, but the notion of evolution has a wider history, too. In this...
Forms are all around us: clouds, flowers, creatures, even systems of thought and logical relations. And yet the nature of forms is rarely pa...
One of the premises of modern science is that nature is devoid of purposes. Instead, purposeless explanations for phenomena are sought. And...
No one knows. Repeated experiments have failed to locate where memories are stored in the brain, casting doubt on the conventional assumptio...
Watch on YouTube https://youtu.be/_TZ-8RMPHM8 Randomness and luck, fate and providence. How do these facets of life relate to one another? O...
At school, we learn that being alive is to possess certain functions, from respiration to reproduction. But what is life and why can the wor...
Einstein remarked that there was physics before Maxwell and physics after Maxwell, the difference being the introduction of modern field the...
The everyday stuff called matter turns out to be both more fascinating and stranger than we usually assume. In this episode of the Sheldrake...
Energy is a key organising principle in modern science, the conversation of energy being a grounding and universal law. But what is energy?...
Isaac Newton is best known for his theory of gravity. And yet, the great scientist also insisted: "the cause of gravity is what I do not pre...
Environmental degradation caused by technological progress is in the news almost everyday. So can any sense be made of an ancient intuition...
Do our minds reside solely inside our heads, or perhaps bodies? Or do they extend into the wider world, perhaps even reaching to the stars?...
Churches are in decline, certainly in the western world. People tend not to turn to a priest for spiritual insight or advice. But is a lived...
Prayer, alongside meditation, is an integral part of religious traditions. God can be prayed to but also saints and angels. In this episode...
Watch on Youtube Terminal lucidity is the phenomenon of individuals who are dying receiving a surge of life, perhaps to say goodbye, as thei...
Why do people offer praise and gain from it? Does God require, even demand praise? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert...
68Objectivity has come to be regarded as a prime ingredient of reliable knowledge. But what is objectivity, how has it arisen, and is the no...
The secular historian, Tom Holland, has made the case that atheistic humanism is, at heart, an off-shoot of Christianity. In this episode of...
A renewed interest in Christianity? Old traditions of myth and place revived? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Shel...
The Scientific and Medical Network organised a gathering on Friday 8th July to mark Rupert’s 80th birthday and reflect on his work. In this...
This episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues continues Rupert and Mark's exploration of Dante’s Divine Comedy, taking a lead from Mar...
This episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues continues Rupert and Mark's exploration of Dante’s Divine Comedy, taking a lead from Mar...
This episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues is the second part of a conversation between Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon on the Inferno...
The Divine Comedy by Dante is one of the great spiritual works of the Christian tradition. But how can it be read and what does it mean? In...
The label “gnostic” is used to recommend and condemn. So what is, and what was, Gnosticism? This episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues,...
Meditation, yoga, vegetarianism. Eastern practices have become a feature of western life. But what do we learn from them? This episode of th...
Covid has brought the reality of death into the centre of our lives, but what can we learn about death in response? This episode of the Shel...
Why do matters as seemingly unconnected as children’s stories and shamanic encounters feature talking animals? This episode of the Sheldrake...
Could bliss be transmitted by a Happy Helmet? Are the fantasies of the super-wealthy secretly shaping our lives? In this episode of the Shel...
The discussion of alternative worldviews, from various forms of materialism to types of idealism, has exploded in recent years, and the noti...
We naturally talk about seeking the light at the end of the tunnel, or hoping to be enlightened. But are such phrases that reference light m...
Artificial intelligence is rarely out of the news. But what is it? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and M...
Most, perhaps all, cultures have moments of the year for fostering links with those who have died. In the western Christian world, the days...
The accusation of pseudo-science is often made against those involved in the New Age, and sometimes rightly so. But as Rupert Sheldrake and...
World religions and inspired individuals alike say they are the recipients of divine revelation. But what might that mean? In this new episo...
Did you know Albert Einstein advocated telepathy research or that Marie Curie attended seances? In this edition of The Sheldrake-Vernon Dial...
A new film, Infinite Potential: The Life and Ideas of David Bohm – https://www.infinitepotential.com – has just been released for free onlin...
Cathedrals are increasingly welcoming novel explorations of their tremendous interiors. In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, R...
Psychotherapies that work, though with no agreement about how they work, are becoming mainstream. For example, EMDR is widely used in the tr...
Climate change has become the climate crisis, even climate emergency. In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake be...
Many today struggle to perceive spiritual reality. But might we be passing through a stage in the evolution of human awareness? In this epis...
Aristotle called three a perfect number. We offer three cheers of praise. Christians envisage God as triune. In this new episode of The Shel...
The origins of religion lie deep in the story of human evolution. But as Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss in this new episode of The...
Big histories are big sellers. Noah Yuval Harari, David Christian and Felipe Fernández-Armesto are among the authors attempting to tell a de...