The Souls of Plants
An ancient intuition is that plants have souls and even participate in the life of God by virtue of being alive. But what sense can be made...
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The Sheldrake Vernon Dialogues
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...
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20 of 102 episodesArt & the Sacred Today
Does art need to have a sacred dimension to be art at all? What are the sources of inspiration? In this dialogue, which is the 102nd in the...
Making Sense of the Resurrection of the Body
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yU1CQIE4T10 Many people report apparitions of their loved ones after death, and even of loved dogs and ca...
Patron Saints
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/274OwKLCsFM Support the show on Substack: https://rupertsheldrake.substack.com Saints and genii locorum,...
The Quiet Revolution
Support the podcast by subscribing on Substack https://rupertsheldrake.substack.com Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qbRW_iehUA0 The mood...
The Wisdom of the Imagination
The imagination is often regarded as a valuable but fanciful capacity. But what if imagination were not an optional extra, or even the posse...
What is really known about consciousness?
You may agree that the so-called hard problem of consciousness exposes the deep inadequacies of a materialist worldview. But the alternative...
Does nature obey laws?
The conviction that the natural world is obedient, adhering to laws, is a widespread assumption of modern science. But where did this idea o...
Living in an Age of Spiritual Crisis
Much of the modern world has become uncoupled from the transcendent in a cultural experiment Nietzsche called the death of God. But might th...
Evolution: From Natural Selection to Omega Point
Watch: https://youtu.be/_ywyQIFMtQE Darwinian evolution shapes modern biology, but the notion of evolution has a wider history, too. In this...
Forms and the Reformation of Science
Forms are all around us: clouds, flowers, creatures, even systems of thought and logical relations. And yet the nature of forms is rarely pa...
Purposes in Nature and Minds
One of the premises of modern science is that nature is devoid of purposes. Instead, purposeless explanations for phenomena are sought. And...
How does memory work?
No one knows. Repeated experiments have failed to locate where memories are stored in the brain, casting doubt on the conventional assumptio...
Randomness and Indeterminism
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...
The Fullness of Life
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...
Force Fields, Behind the Fog of Maths
Einstein remarked that there was physics before Maxwell and physics after Maxwell, the difference being the introduction of modern field the...
Matter is Frozen Light
The everyday stuff called matter turns out to be both more fascinating and stranger than we usually assume. In this episode of the Sheldrake...
The Nature of Energy
Energy is a key organising principle in modern science, the conversation of energy being a grounding and universal law. But what is energy?...
The Speed of Gravity
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...
Humanity’s role in nature. Are we more than just a problem?
Environmental degradation caused by technological progress is in the news almost everyday. So can any sense be made of an ancient intuition...