Rupert Sheldrake, PhD is a biologist and author of more than 85 scientific papers and 12 books, including Science Set Free and Science and Spiritual Practices. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, a Frank Know Fellow at Harvard, and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. From 2005-2010 the Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for research on unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California, and of Schumacher College in Devon, England. His website is sheldrake.org.

Some of Rupert's books:

Science and Spiritual Practices: Transformative Experiences and Their Effects on Our Bodies, Brains, and Health

Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery

The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Memory of Nature

Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: Fully Updated and Revised

Transcript of this interview

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Interview recorded November 20, 2018.

YouTube Video Chapters:

00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump

00:03:14 - Morphic Fields and Morphic Resonance

00:06:30 - Controversy and Memory in Nature

00:09:48 - Morphic Resonance and Memory

00:12:47 - The Ultimate Morphic Field

00:16:02 - The Trinity Principle in Hinduism

00:19:09 - Levels of Consciousness and the Pervading Field

00:22:01 - The Subtle Body and the Dream Body

00:25:06 - Morphic Fields and Boundaries

00:28:14 - Promissory Materialism and the Wager

00:31:28 - The Unfathomable Complexity of the Universe

00:34:41 - The Belief in Science as a Faith

00:37:46 - The Potential of Analog Computing and the Rejection of Materialism

00:40:48 - The Materialistic Perspective on Spirituality

00:44:12 - Dismissing Dzogchen and the Arrogance of Atheism

00:47:13 - Accepting Your Own Experience

00:50:09 - The Fallacy of Winner-Takes-All Thinking and Scientific Fundamentalism

00:53:03 - The Tendency for "One True Path" Ideology in Religion

00:56:13 - The Phenomenon of Homogeneous Hydrogen

00:59:34 - The Divine Ordering Principles in Science and Spirituality

01:02:45 - The Impressive Buildings of Europe

01:06:09 - Exploring the Effects of Drugs on Consciousness 

01:09:06 - Yin and Yang polarity in Taoist philosophy

01:12:27 - Morphic Resonance and Vibratory Patterns

01:15:34 - Father Bede Griffiths and the Ashram Experience

01:19:00 - Comparing Christian and Indian Traditions

01:22:20 - Morphic Resonance in Rituals and Pilgrimages

01:25:23 - Circumambulation in Different Religions

01:28:05 - The Consciousness of Nature and the Sun

01:31:20 - The concept of panentheism

01:34:11 - Interview Release Update