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Holy Trinities: Threefold Models of Reality - Live in London
28 May 2026
01:22:35
Across decades of reading and travel, something has struck me again and again: wildly different traditions, from Daoism to Hinduism to Christianity, converge on a threefold or Trinitarian model of ultimate reality. In this talk I trace that pattern through philosophy, theology, and modern physics, and suggest it reflects something fundamental about the nature of things.
Many churches will be celebrating the Holy Trinity on Sunday May 31, Trinity Sunday.
This talk was recorded live at St James’s Church London, May 13th, 2026 as part of the Alternatives programme. The full video with human readable transcript is available on substack.
Science, Spirituality & the Practices That Transform Us, with Dr. Jessica Harland
21 Oct 2025
01:07:40
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0_Lkku3QH-c
What if gratitude isn't just good manners, but measurably changes your wellbeing? What if the medieval Christians were right about nature being alive, and we've spent the last 400 years getting it fundamentally wrong? And why are half a million people now walking ancient pilgrimage routes across Europe when rationalist materialism promised to free us from such "superstitions"?
In this wide-ranging conversation at Hampstead Parish Church, I explore these questions with Dr. Jessica Harland, touching on everything from my early crisis of conscience in a vivisection lab to discovering LSD at Cambridge, from the Protestant Reformation's assault on pilgrimage to why your GP should probably be prescribing forest walks. We go into the scientific evidence behind spiritual practices—yes, there are thousands of peer-reviewed studies—and discuss why saying grace before meals, walking to holy places, and reconnecting with the living world aren't quaint relics of the past, but practices our secular age desperately needs to rediscover.
Whether you consider yourself religious, spiritual-but-not-religious, or simply curious about why these ancient practices refuse to die, I hope you'll find something here that sparks your imagination—and perhaps your own spiritual journey.
Recorded at The Parish Church of St John-at-Hampstead, October 2025. If you're in London, I highly recommend coming by to experience choral evensong. https://www.choralevensong.org/uk/the-parish-church-of-st-john-at-hampstead-27.php
Reconnecting With Religious Roots, with Bishop Marc Andrus
11 Mar 2025
00:34:08
A dialogue with Marc Andrus, former Bishop of California, at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. Our ancestors’ lives from birth to death were shaped and structured by spiritual traditions but today many people are no longer connected to religious festivals or practices. This loss of religious faith in unprecedented, and in 2016 in the UK a survey showed that for the first time in history a majority of the population say they have no religion. In this dialogue Rupert and Marc discuss the possibility of reconnecting through festivals, pilgrimages and sacred places.
Microcast: What happens when we die?
10 Feb 2022
00:04:59
Rupert answered this question during a talk given at Hollyhock in 2014. Might dreams tell us something about what happens when we die?
The full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxsNpMpPT3Q
Psi in Everyday Life, Evidence and Debate: University of Northampton
08 Feb 2022
01:36:28
A talk at the University of Northampton given on the 27th of November, 2018 - Morley Room, Waterside Campus.
Video of the talk: https://youtu.be/JtW-FowdF44
Microcast: A Reaction to Sam Harris on the Advancement of Science Versus Spirituality
03 Feb 2022
00:04:47
Thanks to The Psychedelic Society (http://psychedelicsociety.org.uk) for this excerpt from a conversation between Rupert and Robin Carhart-Harris, with Stephen Reid hosting. Recorded on the 26th of June, 2019 at EartH, Hackney, London, UK.
The full talk: https://youtu.be/l4HuFHWPc6k
Science, Spiritual Practices and Ways to Go Beyond; IONS Keynote Address
01 Feb 2022
00:35:08
Rupert’s keynote address at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS https://noetic.org) 18th International Conference in Santa Clara, California, July 19th, 2019.
Video of the talk: https://youtu.be/8F1AsThU3_I
The books: Science and Spiritual Practices https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/science-and-spiritual-practices
· Meditation · Gratitude · Connecting with nature · Relating to plants · Rituals · Singing and chanting · Pilgrimage and holy places
Ways to Go Beyond And Why They Work https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/ways-to-go-beyond-and-why-they-work?yt=IONS2019
· The Spiritual Side of Sports · Learning from Animals · Fasting · Cannabis, Psychedelics and Spiritual Openings · Powers of Prayer · Holy Days and Festivals · Cultivating Good Habits, Avoiding Bad Habits and Being Kind
Microcast: Tim Freke, Consciousness is About Possibilities
27 Jan 2022
00:05:43
An excerpt from a longer conversation between Rupert and philosopher Tim Freke (https://timfreke.com), an internationally respected authority on world spirituality and the bestselling author of more than 20 books.
Watch the full conversation: https://www.sheldrake.org/videos/sheldrake-talks-with
Rowan Williams, A Trinitarian Classification of Spiritual Practices
25 Jan 2022
00:41:28
Dr Williams responds to Rupert's talk on spiritual practice, starting at 33:20.
Rupert speaks with Dr Rowan Williams, noted poet and translator of poetry, the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Learned Society of Wales. In 2013, he was made a life peer, becoming Lord Williams of Oystermouth, in the City and County of Swansea.
Recorded in January of 2020.
Microcast: William Blake, Newton and Angels
20 Jan 2022
00:04:09
This is an excerpt from an episode of the South Bank Show on Blake originally broadcast in 1995. Watch the full documentary here: https://youtu.be/Qvx0on0Hj2I
The image being discussed is Blake's painting of Newton from 1795: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(Blake)#/media/File:Newton-WilliamBlake.jpg
New directions in Agriculture
18 Jan 2022
01:06:23
Rupert's talk at the _Earth Talks: Joy of Six_ series, delivered by Schumacher College in partnership with Dartington Hall. Recorded at Schumacher College on September 23rd, 2020.
https://www.dartington.org/whats-on/
The Spiritual Aspects of Farming, Oxford Town Hall
14 Jan 2022
00:13:38
Rupert’s talk at the 2020 Oxford Real Farming Conference. Recorded at Oxford Town Hall, Jan 9th, 2020
http://orfc.org.uk/
Rupert Spira, the Nature of Consciousness
13 Jan 2022
00:33:22
Recorded in April of 2020
Rupert Spira is an international teacher of the Advaita Vedanta direct path method, author of several books, including "Being Aware of Being Aware" and "The Nature of Consciousness: Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter". He hosts retreats in Europe and the US, as well as weekly webinars. He's also a notable ceramic artist.
https://non-duality.rupertspira.com
The Healing Power of Animals, with Bishop Marc Andrus at Grace Cathedral
26 Feb 2025
00:32:03
A dialogue with Marc Andrus, former Bishop of California, at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. Many people who keep pets have experienced their ability to comfort and heal. There is now a pet therapy movement where people take dogs and cats into hospices and children’s hospitals, and the human animal bond can help many physical and mental issues. In this dialogue Rupert and Marc discuss the many powers of animals and explore to what extent animals themselves live spiritual lives.
Microcast: Questions for Materialists part 4
06 Jan 2022
00:04:43
Many materialists believe that psychic phenomena are impossible, and hence illusory. Here are a couple of questions you might ask your materialist friends or family members:
Have you yourself ever had any seemingly telepathic experiences? What might persuade you to change your mind?
John Butler, For All the Saints
04 Jan 2022
00:37:17
Rupert visits Derbyshire to discuss saints, holy places and much more with John Butler, one of the first organic farmers in the county. John spends about four hours a day meditating in Bakewell Parish Church, as he has almost every day for 25 years.
Watch the talk: https://youtu.be/aiXXlt-8l40
John's website: https://spiritualunfoldment.co.uk
Microcast: My Friendship with Terence McKenna
30 Dec 2021
00:05:15
Terence McKenna was an ethnopharmacologist, shamanologist, and author, known for his theories on plant hallucinogens and the bardic skill with which he conveyed his ideas. Sadly Terence died aged 53 on April 3, 2000. We were close friends and had many wonderful conversations, many of which are available on my website at: https://www.sheldrake.org/videos/terence-mckenna
Two of our conversations, trialogues with Ralph Abraham, were published in book form:
Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/chaos-creativity-and-cosmic-consciousness
The Evolutionary Mind: Conversations on Science, Imagination & Spirit https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/the-evolutionary-mind
This is an excerpt from a conversation with Roi Yozevitch https://www.youtube.com/c/RoiYozevitch
The Science Delusion / Science Set Free
27 Dec 2021
01:34:24
In The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (published in the US as Science Set Free), I show the ways in which science is being constricted by assumptions that have, over the years, hardened into dogmas. Such dogmas are not only limiting, but dangerous for the future of humanity. In 2020 I released an updated edition with new findings. https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/the-science-delusion-science-set-free
This talk was hosted by Georgia Graham of TalkBox TalkBox is a community organisation that draws people together to collectively engage in talks, debates and discussions. They curate cutting edge, and now virtual, events with informal and welcoming atmospheres. https://www.thetalkbox.co.uk
Recorded on Dec 27th, 2021.
Microcast: Waking Before Alarm Clocks Go Off
23 Dec 2021
00:05:21
Please email your experiences with this phenomena to sheldrake@sheldrake.org
For more information on this phenomena see my book _The Sense of Being Stared At_ https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/the-sense-of-being-stared-at-and-other-unexplained-powers-of-human-minds
Rediscovering God
21 Dec 2021
01:24:26
Many people used to think that belief in God would disappear with the advance of science. But that has not happened, and some prominent atheists are now trying to reinvent religion. What is going on? Is the universe ultimately conscious or unconscious? And if consciousness pervades all nature, how does it work?
Recorded in August of 2014, at Hollyhock on Cortes Island, Canada. https://hollyhock.ca/
Microcast: Questions for Materialists part 3
16 Dec 2021
00:04:08
The third in a series of questions. Please try them out with your materialist friends!
Do you think that dark matter is conserved? Is there always the same amount of dark matter? Can you accept that there may be a continuous creation of dark energy as the universe expands?
Graham Hancock, Consciousness and the Limits of the Materialist Paradigm
14 Dec 2021
01:13:26
Recorded on November 5th, 2021
A dialogue from Beyond The Brain 2021 – Further Reaches of Consciousness Research, with host David Lorimer, organzied by the Department of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia, the Scientific and Medical Network, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and the Alef Trust.
Graham Hancock is the NY Times best-selling author of a series of controversial books, notably Fingerprints of the Gods (1995), Heaven’s Mirror (1998), Underworld (2002), Magicians of the Gods (2015) and America Before (2019), investigating the possibility of a lost advanced civilization of the Ice Age. He is also known for his work on the role of altered states of consciousness in the origins of art and religion — an interest explored in his 2005 book Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Man. https://grahamhancock.com/
Beyond the Brain is the world’s premier conference series exploring new research on whether and how consciousness and mind extend beyond the physical brain and body. This year’s event covers the limitations of scientific materialism, parapsychological research, implications of NDEs, savant syndrome, indigenous gateways to the soul and the nature of universal love. There will also be an experiential session on each day. https://scientificandmedical.net
Watch on YouTube https://youtu.be/BeaWkX_ASkI
Microcast: The sense of being stared at, is it directional?
09 Dec 2021
00:04:09
Have you ever felt that you are being looked at from behind and turned to see someone watching you? Or that you've been watching someone and they turn and look directly at you? I believe this experience has a directional quality to it and I would like to hear from those who have felt this directional sense.
Please email your experiences with this phenomena to sheldrake@sheldrake.org
Morphic Resonance After Forty Years
07 Dec 2021
01:19:40
Recorded in London on June 21st, 2021
On June 21, 1981, Rupert published his first book “A New Science of Life” in which he proposed the hypothesis of morphic resonance, the idea that memory is inherent in nature. This talk was given on the fortieth anniversary, to the Institute of Noetic Science and the British Scientific and Medical Network.
Is Christianity a victim of its own success? with Bishop Marc Andrus at Grace Cathedral
17 Dec 2024
00:29:51
A dialogue with Marc Andrus, former Bishop of California, at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. European civilisation has been shaped in many ways by its Christian heritage. In the Middle Ages the Church started schools, universities and hospitals, and set up systems for caring for the sick and the poor. In the twentieth century, the hospice movement was started by Christians. Even the principles of democracy and human rights are rooted in the Christian doctrine that all people are equal before God. Yet these achievements are now widely seen as a triumph of secularism. What is going on?
Microcast: Questions for Materialists part 2
02 Dec 2021
00:02:50
The second in a series of questions. Please try them out with your materialist friends!
Do you think you are a complex machine? Have you been programmed to believe in Materialism?
Geshe Tenzin Namdak, Science and Contemplative Traditions
30 Nov 2021
01:53:57
Recorded May 25, 2021 Rupert and Buddhist teacher Geshe Tenzin Namdak discuss how science and contemplative traditions can inform us about the nature of reality, the interconnectedness of all phenomena and the relation between consciousness and the material world. Geshe Tenzin Namdak first worked as an environmental researcher having graduated in hydrology from Van Hall Larenstein University, The Netherlands. He started studying Buddhism at Maitreya Institute in 1993 and took ordination from His Holiness the Dalai Lama before engaging in his formal studies in Buddhist philosophy and psychology at Sera Jey Monastic University, South India, in 1997. He completed the entire twenty-year Geshe program at Sera Jey in 2017 and the traditional one year Vajrayana study program at Gyume Tantric College in January 2019, the first Westerner to do so. Because of his deep interest and background in science and as a member of Sera Jey’s Education Department he spoke on and organized various dialogues and conferences on contemporary science and ancient contemplative wisdom of the mind and its philosophy. Currently, he is the resident teacher at Jamyang Buddhist Centre, London, and teaches worldwide.
About Science & Wisdom LIVE: Science & Wisdom LIVE is a project of Jamyang London Buddhist Centre.
Each dialogue explores the middle ground between science and contemplative wisdom, focusing on themes such as the ethics of artificial intelligence, gender equality, climate change, and the benefits of mindfulness and meditation for mental health.
Find Out More: www.sciwizlive.com
Copyright: Jamyang London Buddhist Centre, 2021.
Microcast: Questions for Materialists part 1
25 Nov 2021
00:03:59
The first in a series of questions. Please try them out with your materialist friends!
Is the mechanistic worldview a testable scientific theory, or a metaphor? If it is a metaphor, why is the machine metaphor better in every respect than the organism metaphor?
David Bentley Hart, Learning from Animals
23 Nov 2021
00:58:22
Recorded June 9th, 2021 A dialogue with the philosopher David Bentley Hart, author of _Roland in Moonlight_ in which he has conversations with his dog Roland. David is one of my favourite philosophers and this is our first dialogue.
He has just started a new subscription channel for his writings: https://davidbentleyhart.substack.com
Microcast: Terminal Lucidity in Animals
18 Nov 2021
00:03:12
This is an appeal for information about experiences with dogs, cats and other animals that are about to die. I am trying to find out if ‘terminal lucidity’, whereby some people with dementia recover their memory and clarity soon before dying, occurs in non-human animals too.
Please email your experiences with this phenomena to sheldrake@sheldrake.org
The Rebirth of Nature
16 Nov 2021
00:59:24
Recorded April 23rd, 2020.
Rupert urges us to move beyond the centuries-old mechanistic view of nature, explaining in lucid terms why we can no longer regard the world as inanimate and purposeless. He shows that recent developments in science itself have brought us to the threshold of a new synthesis in which traditional wisdom, intuitive experience, and scientific insight can be mutually enriching.
This is Rupert’s first live online talk, conducted by Hardo Pajula of the Edmund Burke Society in Estonia. Many thanks to Hardo and the EBS for permission to republish this audio recording. http://www.burke.ee/
___Read the book___ The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God https://www.sheldrake.org/books-by-rupert-sheldrake/the-rebirth-of-nature
Holy Days and Festivals, with Bishop Marc Andrus at Grace Cathedral
03 Dec 2024
00:21:12
Many traditions include holy days or ‘holidays’ as days of festivity to celebrate and many traditional festivals revolve around the cycles of creation including solar and lunar cycles, harvests, death and rebirth. Festivals help connect individuals and the community to the pulse of nature. Rupert and Marc explore the on-going relevance of festivals and holy days in the modern secular world.
All Souls Day, with Bishop Marc Andrus at Grace Cathedral
22 Oct 2024
00:27:35
A dialogue with Marc Andrus, former Bishop of California, at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. All Souls Day — the day of the dead — falls on November 2, and is particularly spectacular in Mexico. Hallowe'en, or All Hallows' Eve, is the eve of the festival of the dead, which starts with All Saints' Day on November 1.
Angels and the festival of Michaelmas
19 Sep 2024
00:26:17
Rethinking Education: From Passive Learning to Holistic Understanding with Dr. James Mannion
17 Sep 2024
01:01:59
In this episode of the "Rethinking Education" podcast, I join Dr. James Mannion to explore the state of modern education and its implications for science and spirituality. We discuss the dominance of the passive voice in science education, the impact of a moral vacuum, and the need for a more holistic, hands-on approach to learning. Drawing from my experiences, I argue for reimagining education to embrace interdisciplinary connections, practical engagement with nature, and a broader understanding of consciousness beyond the brain. Join us as we challenge the status quo and explore new ways of fostering curiosity and creativity in the classroom.
Watch on YouTube https://youtu.be/lX3AyZy7oS4
Consciousness, Temples, Mysticism, and Science, with Praveen Mohan
05 Sep 2024
01:21:32
In this episode, I join Praveen Mohan to explore the deep connections between science, consciousness, and spirituality. We delve into the purpose of ancient temples, the resurgence of pilgrimage in both India and Europe, and the implications of panpsychism and morphic resonance. This conversation offers fresh insights from my experiences living in India, discussing the mystical roots of sacred places with someone steeped in the culture. Tune in for a thoughtful exchange on how science and spirituality intersect and why challenging materialist paradigms can open new doors for understanding our reality.
Watch on Praveen's Channel: https://youtu.be/zBEwy8cpt8M
Finding God in Nature and Consciousness; from the Realizing God Online Summit
13 Aug 2024
01:01:53
In this interview with Dr. Marc Stollreiter for the Realizing God Online Summit, Rupert Sheldrake shares his journey from atheism to spiritual awakening, discussing the intersection of science and spirituality, the power of prayer, and the revival of pilgrimage in modern times.
Attend the Summit https://realizing-god.com
Running from 02/07/2025 - 02/16/2025, the summit includes workshops, Satsangs and interactive sessions led by esteemed spiritual guides from around the world.
Vision Quests, with Marc Andrus, Bishop of California
29 Jul 2024
00:34:17
Many cultures have rites of passage, especially for people entering adulthood. Among many Native American communities boys often underwent a vision quest by going out into the wilderness alone and fasting. Rites of passage for girls were generally quite different. Monastic retreats also offer a kind of vision quest although people on retreat do not have to encounter the external struggles of the physical landscape, but like the early hermits have to wrestle with internal struggles. In this dialogue Marc and Rupert explore the potential for vision quests in the modern world.
How do Animals Predict Natural Disasters? London Society for Psychical Research
07 Oct 2025
00:34:05
For more see Rupert’s Substack article on this topic 👉 https://rupertsheldrake.substack.com/p/animal-warnings-of-earthquakes
Recorded on November 4, 2017 at the Society for Psychical Research in London.
When disasters strike, it is often animals who seem to know first. Long before seismographs were invented, people noticed that snakes, rats, dogs, and birds behaved strangely in the days leading up to earthquakes. Similar reports come before tsunamis, avalanches, air raids, and even medical crises like seizures. Are these simply heightened senses—an ability to detect tremors, gases, or subtle vibrations—or do they point to something deeper, an anticipatory awareness we do not yet understand?
In this talk, I share some of the evidence I’ve gathered over the years: from ancient Greek accounts to modern field studies, from the Chinese earthquake networks under Mao to the toads of central Italy abandoning their mating grounds days before a quake. The pattern repeats across cultures and circumstances, yet mainstream science has largely dismissed it as superstition.
Why is that? What are we overlooking when we ignore such a consistent body of observations? Could systematic study of animal behavior, especially with today’s global communications, provide early warnings and even save lives?
I don’t claim to have the answers. But I invite you to explore these questions with me, and to consider what they reveal not only about animals, but about our shared sensitivity to the unseen.
Fields as Formal Causes, with David Bentley Hart
16 Jul 2024
00:35:28
Watch the talk: https://youtu.be/dU0NIU5d4BI
In this conversation, Rupert Sheldrake and David Bentley Hart delve into the concept of fields in physics, discussing their nature as non-material formative causes and their historical context in scientific thought. They explore the idea that fields, such as gravitational and electromagnetic, act as top-down causes, aligning with Aristotle's formal and final causes, and argue for a re-evaluation of these ancient concepts in modern science.
Dying, Death and Beyond, with Satish Kumar & Guy Hayward
02 Jul 2024
01:10:12
Watch the talk: https://youtu.be/j91Er2Zh3j4
Join Satish Kumar and Rupert Sheldrake in an expansive conversation covering death, reincarnation, the afterlife, cycles, intentional dying, NDEs and more. Hosted by Guy Hayward, this discussion delves into personal memories, cultural practices, and philosophical views on death and what lies beyond. Interview questions were designed in collaboration with death doula Sierra Campbell. Video recorded in Hampstead, London, Dec 7, 2023, by Leslie Knott (Tiger Nest Films), with audio editing by Lucy Martens.
The Power of Chanting: Exploring Sonic Resonance and Morphic Fields
17 Jun 2024
00:11:15
Watch the full talk: https://iai.tv/video/discovering-the-world-beyond-science-rupert-sheldrake
Dive into the fascinating world of chanting and its profound impact on personal and collective resonance. In this enlightening talk, we explore the vibratory power of mantras across different religious traditions. Through a series of simple experiments, discover the physical and spiritual resonance of chanting, from the basic "Amen" to the universal "Om," and learn how these sounds can transform our bodies, minds, and the spaces around us.
The Nature of Phantom Limbs
03 Jun 2024
00:31:41
Video: https://youtu.be/v0i1xc-khTQ
After the amputation of a limb, most amputees experience a phantom limb in the place where their limb used to be. Subjectively, these phantoms feel real even though they do not behave like normal limbs and can be pushed through solid objects. The standard theory is that these phantoms are produced as illusions inside the brain, but Rupert suggests they may be the subjective experience of the fields of the missing limbs, which are located exactly where they seem to be. If so, the phantoms might interact with the fields of other people, and some types of healers may be particularly sensitive to them. Rupert discusses simple experiments that can reveal whether phantoms really are where they seem to be and remain part of the body-field even though the material limbs are no longer even present. This research has profound implications for our understanding of the relations between minds, body images and bodies.
Anatheism: Rediscovering God in a Secular Age
21 May 2024
01:26:57
March 20th, 2024 St. James's Church, London Video: https://youtu.be/QuicgRaE7E8
In this talk, Rupert Sheldrake explores the theme of finding God again, in an increasingly secular society. Drawing from personal experiences in India and his journey through various spiritual traditions, Rupert provides insights into anatheism, or returning to God, and how this process is unfolding in a post-Christian world. He touches on the connections between science and spirituality, the value of pilgrimage and sacred places, and the emerging concept of panpsychism, which considers consciousness as a fundamental quality in nature. An engaging Q&A session with the audience dives deeper into perennial philosophy, the role of feminine energy in Christianity, and the impact of psychedelics on spiritual practices.
Presentiment: Waking Before Alarms, Making Millions Through Day Trading
09 Apr 2024
00:51:18
Most people have had the experience of waking soon before an alarm clock goes off and some can even wake before a specified time without an alarm. The usual assumption is that this depends on an exquisitely sensitive time sense, but Rupert argues that it may be explained better in terms of presentiment, or ‘feeling the future’, or even in terms of an ‘extended present’.
We already know that our sense of the present is not a mathematical instant, but has width, and perhaps it widens over ranges of seconds to include portions of the near future, Presentiment is now a well-established phenomenon in laboratory experiments, carried out at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Cornell University and elsewhere, and may be widely distributed among people and non-human animals.
It could play an important part in everyday life, and become especially significant in fast-moving sports like downhill skiing, tennis and ping pong. Some people may make use of this ability in day trading where they make decisions on movements of the markets over very short time periods, sometimes only a few seconds.
Rupert discusses how this ability could potentially be trained, enabling airline pilots and racing drivers to be better prepared for potential accidents, and helping some people to get rich quick – as some day traders already have – by using intuitive abilities that cannot be duplicated by computers.
References ____ An Experiment with Time by John William Dunne https://archive.org/details/AnExperimentWithTimeEbook ____ Listen to the Animals: Why did so many animals escape December's tsunami? https://www.sheldrake.org/tsunami ____ Predicting the unpredictable; evidence of pre-seismic anticipatory behaviour in the common toad https://www.sheldrake.org/toads ____ Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home https://www.sheldrake.org/dogs ____ Unconscious Perception of Future Emotions: An Experiment in Presentiment by Dean Radin, Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 163-180, 1997 https://www.sheldrake.org/RadinPresentiment
My scientific explorations through fieldwork in Asia and Europe
19 Mar 2024
01:21:34
March 18th, 2024 University College London Expeditions and Fieldwork Society
In this talk given Rupert Sheldrake explores the allure of expeditions and fieldwork, delving into his own adventures exploring Mayan ruins in Mexico and studying tropical plants in Malaysia. Throughout the talk he illustrates how these experiences broadened his scientific and spiritual horizons, connecting this intrinsic human curiosity to our ancestral hunter-gatherer roots.
The Science Delusion: TEDx Whitechapel, the "banned" talk
07 Mar 2024
00:18:46
TEDx Whitechapel, Jan 12, 2013
The theme for the night was Visions for Transition: Challenging existing paradigms and redefining values (for a more beautiful world). In response to protests from two hardcore materialists in the US, the talk was taken out of circulation by TED, relegated to a corner of their website and stamped with a warning label.
Room for discussion was made, but those who condemned the talk never showed up. The vast majority of those who spoke out were outraged, including those who'd never heard of morphic resonance. Ironically, at the time of removal the video had a modest 35,000 views on YouTube; since then, its clones have been watched over 7 million times. The video has been translated into 24 languages by generous members of the YouTube community.
Read more: https://www.sheldrake.org/ted
Desert Island Discs in Hampstead: Music in Rupert’s Life
20 Jan 2024
01:20:31
Modelled on the BBC radio series, this long-standing local programme was produced live by a group in Hampstead, London, in 2023. As the castaway on a theoretical desert island, Rupert could bring with him eight pieces of music (listed below), a few books, and one luxury item.
1:07 If you had not been a scientist what would you have been? 2:27 Getting to the island
4:47 Bach, Mass in B minor (Gloria) 7:25 Purcell, Music for a While 16:47 Monteverdi, Madrigal 24:33 Beatles, Because 36:41 Subbulakshi, Devotional Song 45:07 Mozart, Laudate Dominum 54:55 Cosmo Sheldrake, Solar Walz 1:03:19 Tallis, Salvator Mundi, Hampstead Parish Church Choir
Some music was cut for copyright reasons, or poor audio quality. Here's the playlist on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQNvVzO_W4EzTopdM6ZxrrYBQoIvhxNGe
Psychedelics and Consciousness, University of Sussex
29 Dec 2023
01:27:57
A lecture for the Psychedelic Research Society at the University of Sussex, Nov 6th, 2023.
Consciousness and the Mysteries of Everyday Life – How the Light Gets In Festival
23 Sep 2025
00:40:53
What if the “weird” feelings we shrug off—being watched, knowing who’s calling, waking seconds before an alarm—aren’t glitches but signals? In this talk, given at the How The Light Gets In festival, September 21st, 2025, Rupert Sheldrake argues that these everyday hunches point to mind-to-world reach (projective vision), mind-to-mind links (telepathy), and mind-to-future sensitivity (presentiment). How do we decide what counts as evidence, who gets to ask taboo questions, and how science should treat common human experiences? Beyond anecdotes, Rupert shares simple experiments, huge natural-history datasets, and a working picture of mind as something that reaches, bonds, and anticipates—often strengthened with emotional closeness. He flags practical paths forward: citizen science, the Eyesense Training app to sharpen sensitivity, and real-world applications from caregiving to early-warning via animal behavior.
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