Rupert Sheldrake

Institute of Noetic Sciences

In letzter Zeit hat das Interesse an Erfahrungen am Lebensende (ELEs; „end-of-life experiences“) bei Menschen zugenommen, aber ELEs bei Tieren wurden bisher nicht untersucht. In diesem Beitrag stellen wir die Ergebnisse einer Studie vor, die wir durchgeführt haben, um Berichte über bemerkenswerte Verhaltensaspekte von Tieren während ihrer letzten L...

Some people say that they can wake sleeping people or sleeping non-human animals by staring at them. We investigated the natural history of these claims by examining more than 240 accounts submitted to us over a 30-year period by informants in the UK, US, Germany and several other countries. Most of these reports, 145 cases, concerned waking sleepi...

In surveys, most people say they have detected being stared at, and/or that by staring they have made people turn around and look back at them. We investigated whether there is a comparable sense of being listened to. Can people tell when another person is listening to them on the telephone? In automated, randomized tests conducted on telephones, p...

There has recently been an increased interest in end-of-life experiences (ELEs) in hu- mans, but ELEs in non-human animals have not yet been assessed. In this paper, we present findings from a study we performed to collect and analyze reports about re- markable behavioral aspects of animals during their last phase of life. After public appeals in w...

Objective. To develop user-friendly automated telephone telepathy tests. Method. In one kind of test, three participants who knew each other were linked together continuously in a conference call format. In each trial, the receiver was selected at random. The other two participants were muted and one was selected at random as the caller and asked t...

Response to Peter Brugger’s commentary.

In an earlier study, Rupert Sheldrake, Pam Smart, and Michael Nahm reviewed accounts of end-of-life experiences (ELEs) involving non-human animals. They showed animal ELEs to be similar to human ELEs, suggesting common underlying processes. Here, we consider apparent after-death communications (ADCs) from non-human animals and compare them to accou...

The sense of being stared at, or scopaesthesia, is very common, and its existence is supported by experimental evidence. However, it contravenes the standard scientific assumption, dating back to Kepler’s discovery of retinal images in 1604, that vision involves only the inward movement of light – intromission – but not the outward movement of imag...

ere is a deep divide between people's direct experiences and the standard understanding of vision as taught in biology and psychology. When the looker cannot be seen and other sensory cues are excluded, the sense of being stared at, also called scopaesthesia, is impossible from the conventional point of view. Yet it seems to happen. Here, we sugges...

There has recently been an increased interest in end-of-life experiences (ELEs) in humans,but ELEs in non-human animals have not yet been assessed. In this paper, wepresent findings from a study we performed to collect and analyze reports about remarkablebehavioral aspects of animals during their last phase of life. After publicappeals in which we...

Ageing, death, and potential immortality lie at the heart of biology, but two seemingly incompatible paradigms coexist in different research communities and have done since the nineteenth century. The universal senescence paradigm sees senescence as inevitable in all cells. Damage accumulates. The potential immortality paradigm sees some cells as p...

The recent panpsychist turn in philosophy opens the possibility that self-organizing systems at all levels of complexity, including stars and galaxies, might have experience, awareness, or consciousness. The organismic or holistic philosophy of nature points in the same direction. Meanwhile, field theories of consciousness propose that some electro...

In this review, I discuss the possibility that dying cells produce much of the auxin in vascular plants. The natural auxin, indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), is derived from tryptophan by a two-step pathway via indole pyruvic acid. The first enzymes in the pathway, tryptophan aminotransferases, have a low affinity for tryptophan and break it down only wh...

-- Mindfield Bulletin, (2019), Volume 11 Issue 1, 26-33 -- The morphic field hypothesis proposes that minds are systems of fields that are located inside brains but also extend far beyond them, just as the fields of magnets are both within magnets and extend invisibly beyond them. Morphic fields contain attractors (goals) and chreodes (habitual p...

The standing wave patterns formed on the surface of a vertically oscillated fluid enclosed by a container have long been a subject of fascination, and are known as Faraday waves. In circular containers, stable, radially symmetrical Faraday wave-patterns are resonant phenomena, and occur at the vibrational modes where whole numbers of waves fit exac...

Context: Joint attention is the shared focus of two or more individuals on the same object. Sensory cues, such as detecting the direction of another person׳s gaze, play a major role in establishing joint attention. It may also involve a kind of mental resonance that might be felt by the people involved. Objective: The aim of this study was to fi...

Joint attention is the shared focus of two or more people on the same thing. Do they know that others are attending to the same object entirely through sensory cues, such as observing the direction of others' gazes, or does joint attention also involve a kind of mental resonance ? Parapsychological investigations have shown a small but significant...

To carry out automated experiments on mobile phones to test for telepathy in connection with telephone calls. Subjects, aged from 10 to 83, registered online with the names and mobile telephone numbers of three or two senders. A computer selected a sender at random, and asked him to call the subject via the computer. The computer then asked the sub...

Journal of International Society of Life Information Science (J. Intl. Soc. Life Info. Sc). Telepathy in connection with telephone calls is the commonest kind of apparent telepathy in the modern world. It usually occurs between people who have strong bonds or emotional connections with each other, such as parents and children, husbands and wives,...

Contemporary science is based on the claim that all reality is material or physical. There is no reality but material reality. Consciousness is a by-product of the physical activity of the brain. Matter is unconscious. Evolution is purposeless. This view is now undergoing a credibility crunch. The biggest problem of all for materialism is the exist...

https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/viewpoints/liberating-science-from-pervading-materialism/8625633.article The ‘scientific worldview’ is based on the claim that all reality is material or physical. There is no reality but material reality. Consciousness is a by-product of the physical activity of the brain. Matter is unconscious. Evoluti...

Field observations have suggested that wolves and other wild animals may communicate telepathically over many miles, and surveys have shown that about 50% of dog owners and about 30% of cat owners believe that their pets may respond to their thoughts or silent commands. Among humans, apparent telepathy is most commonly reported between members of f...

Michellany: A John Michell Reader, (2010) pp 72-76, Michellany Editions, London

Audaz, brillante, claro e incisivo, este libro constituye un dramático desafío a los supuestos más fundamentales de la ciencia establecida. La teoría convencional postula que la naturaleza está gobernada por leyes inmutables; lo que el autor sugiere es que la naturaleza tiene memoria, y que esta memoria se propaga por medio de un proceso de conexió...

The aim of this study was to carry out automated experiments to test for telepathy in connection with text messages. Subjects, aged from 11 to 72, registered online with the names and mobile telephone numbers of three senders. A computer selected a sender at random and asked him/her to send a short message service (SMS) message to the subject via t...

Lewis Wolpert has bet Rupert Sheldrake that by 1 May 2029 we will be able to predict how an embryo develops, including any abnormalities, based only on its genome

In an automated online telepathy test, each participant had four senders, two actual and two virtual, generated by the computer. In a series of 12 30-sec. trials, the computer selected one of the senders at random and asked him to write a message to the subject. After 30 sec., the participant was asked to guess who had written a message. After the...

Can people sense telepathically who is sending them an email before they receive it? Subjects, aged from 12 to 66 years, registered online with the names and email addresses of 3 senders. A computer selected a sender at random, and asked him to send an email message to the subject via the computer. The computer then asked the subject to guess the s...

The sense of being stared at, or scopesthesia, was investigated experimentally with participants working in pairs. Two participants were tested repeatedly and the effect of attentional transition was investigated. In some tests, in the pre-trial period the starer stared at the staree, who was blindfolded, and in others the starer did not stare duri...

Although much is known about the effects of plant hormones and their role in the control of growth and differentiation, little is known about the way in which hormone production is itself controlled or about the cellular sites of hormone synthesis. The literature on hormone production is discussed in this review in an attempt to shed some light on...

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In field experiments carried out at Hyderabad, India with early and mediumduration cultivars of Cajanus cajan sown at the normal time, in July, removal of all flowers and young pods for up to 5 wk had little or no effect on final yield. The flowering period of the deflowered plants was extended and their senescence delayed. The plants compensated f...

This paper describes an automated online telepathy test in which each receiver had four senders. In a series of 10 trials the computer picked one of the senders at random and asked her to write a short message to the receiver. At the end of the one-minute trial period, the receiver was asked to guess which sender had written a message, and she rece...

S ummary Auxin was detected in samples of substrata supporting bryophytes in a variety of locations in both Britain and Malaya. Activity occurred on chromatograms at zones corresponding to the Rf of indole acetic acid. The range of concentrations found, 0.4–10.4 μg/1, probably represents a two‐ to five‐fold underestimate due to losses during extrac...

Ervin Laszlo's concept of the Akashic Field includes the idea of a cosmic memory. This field is a universal field, and Laszlo's (2004)8. Laszlo , E. 2004. Science and the Akashic Field, Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International. View all references scientific starting point is the physics of the vacuum underlying space itself. A similar idea o...

cestou hledání pravdy o kosmických inteligencích, cestou vedoucí napříč obory a překlenující zdánlivou propast mezi tradičním chápáním mimolidských sfér a soudobým vědeckým poznáním. Snaží se nalézt spojnici mezi spirituálním a vědeckým pojetím univerza. (dialogy o nadlidských sférách a kosmických inteligencích)

This study investigated possible telepathic communication in connection with e-mails. On each trial, there were four potential e-mailers, one of whom was selected at random by the experimenter. One minute before a prearranged time at which the e-mail was to be sent, the participant guessed who would send it. 50 participants (29 women and 21 men) we...

Many animals escaped the great Asian tsunami on Boxing Day, 2004. Elephants in Sri Lanka and Sumatra moved to high ground before the giant waves struck; they did they same in Thailand, trumpeting before they did so. How did they know? The usual speculation is that the animals picked up tremors caused by the under-sea earthquake. This explanation se...

Most people have had the experience of turning round feeling that someone is looking at them from behind, and finding that this is the case. Most people have also had the converse experience. They can sometimes make people turn around by staring at them. In surveys in Europe and North America, between 70% and 97% of the people questioned said they...

For the purpose of this discussion, I am taking it for granted that the sense of being stared at is real. The weight of available evidence seems to support its factual existence, as discussed in my earlier article in this issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies. Some people will dispute this conclusion, and there is as yet no universal consen...

The feeling of being stared from behind is well known all over the world, and most people claim to have experienced it themselves. There have been surprisingly few empirical investigations of this phenomenon. I describe a simple experimental procedure with subjects and lookers working in pairs. In a random sequence of trials, the looker either look...

The ability of people to guess who is calling on the telephone has recently been tested experimentally in more than 850 trials. The results were positive and hugely significant statistically. Participants had four potential callers in distant locations. At the beginning of each trial, remote from the participant, the experimenter randomly selected...

_Revista Argentina de Psicología Paranormal_ RESUMEN Muchas personas afirman saber quien llama antes de atender el teléfono, o haber pensado en alguien sin razón aparente, y la persona luego llama. Llevamos cabo una serie de experimentos para testear si la gente podía o no decirnos realmente quien estaba llamando por teléfono. Cada participante tuv...

Aimée Morgana noticed that her language-using African Grey parrot, N'kisi, often seemed to respond to her thoughts and intentions in a seemingly telepathic manner. We set up a series of trials to test whether this apparent telepathic ability would be expressed in formal tests in which Aimée and the parrot were in different rooms, on different floor...

Many people claim to have known who was calling before they picked up the telephone, or to have thought about someone for no apparent reason, who then called. We carried out a series of experiments to test whether or not people really could tell who was telephoning. Each participant had four potential callers, and when the telephone rang had to gue...

The authors tested whether participants (N = 4) could tell who was calling before answering the telephone. In each trial, participants had 4 potential callers, one of whom was selected at random by the experimenter. Participants were filmed on time-coded videotape throughout the experimental period. When the telephone began ringing, the participant...

In this newly updated edition, Sheldrake shares years of research into telepathy, the power of staring, remote viewing, precognition, and animal premonitions. Drawing on more than 5,000 case histories, 4,000 questionnaire responses, and the results of experiments on staring, thought transference, phone telepathy, and other phenomena carried out wit...

In scientific research, as in everyday life, our beliefs and biases often influence how we observe and interpret the world. In experimental psychology and clinical research, this problem is widely recognized, which is why experiments in these subjects are often carried out under blind or double-blind conditions. There is solid experimental evidence...

SCIENCE has always been elitist and undemocratic, whether in monarchies, communist states or liberal democracies. But it is currently becoming more hierarchical, not less so, and this trend needs remedying.

A sample of 200 randomly selected people was surveyed in Santa Cruz County, California, to investigate the frequency and nature of anticipations of telephone calls. Of those surveyed, 78% said that they have had the experience of telephoning someone who said that they were just thinking about telephoning them; 47% said that they had had the experie...

The sense of being stared at from behind can be investigated by means of simple experiments in which subjects and lookers work in pairs, with the looker sitting behind the subject. In a random sequence of trials the looker either looks at the back of the subject, or looks away and thinks of something else. In each trial the subject guesses whether...

In the January issue of the Journal Richard Wiseman, Matthew Smith and Julie Milton published a reply to my note (Sheldrake, 1999a) about their claim to have refuted the 'psychic pet ' phenomenon. This claim was made in the British Journal of Psychology (Wiseman, Smith & Milto n, 1998) and widely publicized in the media. It was repeated as recently...

Many dog owners claim that their animals know when a member of the household is coming home, typically showing their anticipation by waiting at a door or window. In previous trials with a dog called Jaytee, recorded on videotape, it was found that he anticipated his owner's arrival more than ten minutes in advance, even when she was returning in un...

The "sense of being stared at" can be investigated by means of simple experiments in which subjects and lookers work in pairs, with the looker sitting behind the subject. In a random sequence of trials, the looker either looks at the back of the subject, or looks away and thinks of something else. More than 15,000 trials have already been conducted...

Many dog owners claim that their animals know when a member of the household is about to come home, showing their anticipation by waiting at a door or window. We have investigated such a dog, called Jaytee, in more than 100 videotaped experiments. His owner, Pam Smart (PS) traveled at least 7 km away from home while the place where the dog usually...

Many people claim to have thought about a particular person who then calls them on the telephone. Through informal surveys I have found that seemingly telepathic telephone calls are common. Two telephone surveys were carried out in London and Bury to investigate the frequency of these experiences in a random sample of the population. In both survey...

In everyday life, as in scientific research, "our beliefs, desires and expectations can influence, often subconsciously, how we observe and interpret things", as a recent article in the Skeptical Inquirer expressed it.(note 1) In experimental psychology and clinical research, these principles are widely recognized, which is why experiments in these...

_International Society for Anthrozoology Newsletter_ Pet owners often comment on the perceptivenesso f their animals.F or example, some cat owners say that their animals seem to know when they intend to take them to the vet, and disappear, even when the person has tried to give the cat no clue. And some dogs are said to know when their owners are...

_Skeptical Inquirer 22(3), 57-58 May / June 1998_

_Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 62: 311-323 (1998)_ Simple experiments to test whether or not people can tell when they are being stared at from behind were carried out in schools in Germany and the United States. Lookers and subjects worked in pairs, with the lookers sitting behind the subjects. In a series of trials the lookers eit...

In 1991, Pamela Smart's (PS) parents first noticed that her dog, Jaytee, seemed to anticipate her return, apparently waiting for her at the window, beginning around the time she was setting off to come home. In May 1994, PS and her parents began to keep notes on her journeys and Jaytee's reactions. In this paper we describe the results of 96 such s...

A survey of recent papers published in a range of scientific jour- nals showed that the use of blind methodologies is very rare in the so-called hard sciences. In the physical sciences, no blind experiments were found among the 237 papers reviewed. In the biological sciences, there were 7 blind experiments out of 914 (0.8%). There was a higher prop...

A survey was carried out by telephone in London to find out how any pet owners had observed seemingly telepathic abilities in their pets. 52% of dog owners claimed that their animals knew in advance when a member of the household was on the way home, compared with 24% of cat owners. Of the animals that reacted, 21% of dogs and 19% of cats were said...

A telephone survey was carried out in Greater Manchester to find out how many pet owners had observed seemingly psychic abilities in their pets. 46% of dog owners claimed their animals knew in advance when a member of the household was on their way home, compared with 14% of cat owners. Most of these animals reacted 5 minutes or less in advance, bu...

Rupert Sheldrake has written a new book designed to radically challenge the paradigm and practice of science. An IONS Fellow and a Cambridge University-trained biologist, Sheldrake is noted for his unconventional scientific theory of evolution-"morphic resonance." In his new book Seven Experiments That Could Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide...

tr. por Luis H. Romano Haces. Traducción de: Seven experiments that could change the world A partir de las preguntas planteadas por los experimentos propuestos, el autor bosqueja una visión de la ciencia y de ver el mundo distinta, más ecológica. Intenta demostrar que todo está conectado y relacionado y existe la necesidad de una ciencia más compre...

Rupert Sheldrake, a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, is a biologist who has spent many years exploring and developing an alternative view of evolution – one in which "formative causation", "morphogenetic" or "mental" fields play a decisive role. Sheldrake is also a scientist who devotes time regularly to the practice of prayer and explor...

The hypothesis of formative causation predicts that as animals of a given species learn a new pattern of behaviour, other similar animals will subsequently tend to learn the same thing more readily all over the world, as a result of a process called morphic resonance. The more that learn it, the easier it should become for others. This possibility...

Science has traditionally taught us that nature is inanimate and machine-like - a storehouse of resources to be exploited for human gain. Remarkably, it is through science that our entire attitude is being revolutionized. In this book, Rupert Sheldrake traces the mythological and historical roots of our present crisis, explaining how our ancestors...

A telephone survey of 200 households was carried out in North-West California to find out how many pet owners claim to have observed seemingly psychic abilities in their animals. 132 of the households surveyed had pets. 45% of dog owners claimed their animal knew in advance when a member of the household was on the way home, compared with 31% of ca...

_ Revised and expanded in 2012 _ Challenging the fundamental assumptions of modern science, this ground-breaking radical hypothesis suggests that nature itself has memory. The question of morphogenesis - how things take their shape - remains one of the great mysteries of science. What makes a rabbit rabbit-shaped? How do newts regenerate limbs? W...

This is the third in our series of essays by Rupert Sheldrake on the implications of his hypothesis of Formative Causation for the psychology of C. G. Jung. The intense controversy this hypothesis generated with the publication of his first book, A New Science of Life (1981), has stimulated a number of international competitions for evaluating his...

Environmental and cultural factors that may limit the yield of short-duration pigeonpea were investigated over three seasons. Plants in the peninsular Indian environment at Patancheru grew less and produced less dry matter by first-flush maturity than at Hisar, a location in northern India where the environment is considered favourable for the grow...

Short-duration pigeonpea can give up to three harvests in environments with mild winters (eg. minimum temperature above 10°C) such as those prevailing in peninsular India (Sharma, Saxena & Green, 1978; Chauhan, Venkataratnam & Sheldrake, 1984). This is mainly due to the short time (about 120 days) taken to produce the first flush, and the strong pe...

The feasibility of growing pigeonpea [ Cajanus cajan (LInn.) Millsp.] as a perennial crop was investigated during 1980-82. The medium-duration pigeonpea genotype 'ICP 1-6', sown in the post-rainy season at a population of 30 plants/m2, was allowed to perennate for 18 months, during which it produced 3 flushes of pods at 5,15 and 18 months after sow...

In this essay, I am going to discuss the concept of collective memory as a background for understanding Jung's concept of the collective unconscious. The collective unconscious only makes sense in the context of some notion of collective memory. This then takes us into a very wide-ranging examination of the nature and principle of memory-not just i...

The approach I am putting forward is very similar to Jung's idea of the collective unconscious. The main difference is that Jung's idea was applied primarily to human experience and human collective memory. What 1 am suggesting is that a very similar principle operates throughout the entire universe, not just in human beings. If the kind of radical...

In Peninsular India medium duration pigeonpeas (Cajanus cajan) are normally sown soon after the onset of the monsoon, in June or July; they mature around December, when they are usually cut down and removed from the field. However, if they are harvested by ratooning or by picking the pods, the plants go on to produce a second flush of pods, which m...

Edited by P. H. Goldsworthy and N. M. Fisher, Blackwell, Oxford (1984)

The influence of seed size on seedling growth of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (Linn.) Millsp.] and chickpea (Cicer arietinum Linn.) was investigated to predict probable consequnces of selection for seed size in breeding programmes. Seeds of 20 pigeionpea varieties with 100-seed weights of 4.5 to 22 g and 23 chickpea varieties with 100-seed weights of 5...

Larger seeds of chickpea (Cicer arietinum) and pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) gave rise to larger seedlings than did smaller seeds. When approximately half the cotyledonary reserves from pigeonpea seeds were removed, seedling weight was reduced to about half of the controls, suggesting that seedling growth was related to the reserve material in the seed...

The hormone auxin is transported through many plant tissues with a definite velocity. It is thought that certain channels, or pumps, located at the basal ends of cells, are responsible for the hormone's transport. It is also known that auxin will induce veins when applied to suitable tissues. T. Sachs has suggested that it is the flow of the hormon...

During the 3 years 1974-77 we studied the anatomy of most of the tissues and organs of the pigeonpea and, in the course of this work, have built up a collection of permanent microscope slides. These are retained in the Anatomy Laboratory at ICRISAT as a reference collection and may be consulted by anyone who is interested. This report contains a b...

_Theoria to Theory: An International Journal of Science, Philosophy, and Contemplative Religion Vol14 1981_ There are three models or paradigms which provide different approaches to the science of biology, the mechanistic, vitalist and organismic. Within the confines of institutional science, the mechanistic theory has been almost completely domina...

Pod photosynthesis is known to contribute to seed filling in a number of legume crops, and may also be of importance in chickpeas (Cicer arietium L.), which have green pods possessing stomata. Although the pods of chickpeas are borne in the leaf axils, they generally hang below the leaves and are consequently more or less shaded; but a few lines ha...

Genotypic differences exist in the sensitivity of cultivars of chickpea to iron deficiency. Sensitive cultivars exhibited typical iron deficiency symptoms when grown on calcareous soils with high pH. FeSO4 sprays (0.5%) corrected deficiency symptoms and increased yields by up to 50% in cultivars inefficient in iron utilization, but gave no increase...

_Theoria to Theory: An International Journal of Science, Philosophy, and Contemplative Religion Vol14, 2 1980_ There are three models or paradigms which provide different approaches to the science of biology, the mechanistic, vitalist and organismic. Within the confines of institutional science, the mechanistic theory has been almost completely dom...

_Theoria to Theory: An International Journal of Science, Philosophy, and Contemplative Religion Vol14, 3 1981_ There are three models or paradigms which provide different approaches to the science of biology, the mechanistic, vitalist and organismic. Within the confines of institutional science, the mechanistic theory has been almost completely dom...