Rupert Sheldrake - Distant Mental Influence

Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 80 scientific papers and ten books. A former Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he was a Scholar of Clare College, took a double first class honours degree and was awarded the University Botany Prize. He then studied philosophy and history of science at Harvard University, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow, before returning to Cambridge, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, where he was Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology. As the Rosenheim Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he carried out research on the development of plants and the ageing of cells in the Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge University.
While at Cambridge, together with Philip Rubery, he discovered the mechanism of polar auxin transport, the process by which the plant hormone auxin is carried from the shoots towards the roots.

From 1968 to 1969, based in the Botany Department of the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, he studied rain forest plants. From 1974 to 1985 he was Principal Plant Physiologist and Consultant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India, where he helped develop new cropping systems now widely used by farmers. While in India, he also lived for a year and a half at the ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths in Tamil Nadu, where he wrote his first book, A New Science of Life.

From 2005-2010 he was the Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project, funded from Trinity College,Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, near San Francisco, and a Visiting Professor and Academic Director of the Holistic Thinking Program at the Graduate Institute in Connecticut.
He lives in London with his wife Jill Purce www.healingvoice.com and two sons.

He has appeared in many TV programs in Britain and overseas, and was one of the participants (along with Stephen Jay Gould, Daniel Dennett, Oliver Sacks, Freeman Dyson and Stephen Toulmin) in a TV series called A Glorious Accident, shown on PBS channels throughout the US. He has often taken part in BBC and other radio programmes. He has written for newspapers such as the Guardian, where he had a regular monthly column, The Times, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Sunday Times, Times Educational Supplement, Times Higher Education Supplement and Times Literary Supplement, and has contributed to a variety of magazines, including New Scientist, Resurgence, the Ecologist and the Spectator.

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[FireFlood]

Absolutely fascinating! As Niels Bohr put it, if you are not shocked by quantum physics you don't understand it. Funny enough Richard Feynman's quote is that if you think you understand quantum physics, you don't understand quantum physics :) Neither do I understand it or think I understand it, but I am still truly shocked of the implications of it. Even if I could go "back", I wouldn't want to. Thank you for this video, yet more evidence...

[metaRising]

@FireFlood Such a fascinating subject. I agree! An understanding of quantum physics my be illusive but I believe the mystery of where physics encounters consciousness can be well demonstrated and certain root implications can be inferred. For example, consciousness exists on the same continuum as physical reality. Quantum physics also apparently demonstrates that reality has an observation driven component.

[FireFlood]

@metaRising I agree that the effect has been sufficiently observed over many and various experiments to conclude that it's real. Though the word "real" would need to be redefined. Still, should we assume that we are to make use of this newly discovered power ? Among the "believers", no one seems to question if altering reality is fair to begin with. Presumably, the ruling elite used it to get to where they are. We're encouraged to jump on the gravy train but I'm cautious of doing so.

[metaRising]

@FireFlood Its not such a case for believer or sceptic, rather the question: 'Is the evidence sufficient under all appropriate scientific criteria?' If that is true then we advance our pursuit beyond that evidence.

Its not that we choose to alter reality and whether or not we should. Rather that we are in essence already participators in a greater dynamic interaction of life and that if we are aware of this, we might lead more harmonious, more evolved existences.

[Marleyites]

I love Dr. Sheldrake. I agree with Terence McKenna's description of him as "the greatest biologist of the age." And the video "Forms and Mysteries" is my all-time favorite. It's the only thing that has made me laugh since my mother passed a few weeks ago. She also loved Dr. Sheldrake, from the days when she was an Edgar Cayce guru and she wrote a book called THE DREAM DICTIONARY. She wasn't too engaged of late due to health reasons, but she remembered him fondly. Bless up one and all.