Rupert Sheldrake outraged the scientific establishment in the early 1980s with his hypothesis of morphic resonance, and his book A New Science of Life was denounced by the journal Nature as ?the best candidate for burning there has been for many years?. With his academic career torpedoed, Sheldrake has become the champion of ?the people's science?. Books such as Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home and The Sense of Being Stared At have won him popular acclaim and continued academic opprobrium in equal measure. In "Sheldrake and his Critics" (a special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies), Sheldrake summarizes his case for the ?non-visual detection of staring? and his claims are scrutinised by 14 distinguished researchers, to whose commentaries Sheldrake then responds. Anthony Freeman, in his editorial introduction, explores the concept of ?heresy? in science and in religion and asks why it provokes such hostility.
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Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist, a former research fellow of the Royal Society at Cambridge, a current fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences near San Francisco, and an academic director and visiting professor at the Graduate Institute in Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Cambridge University and was a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, where he carried out research on the development of plants and the ageing of cells. He is the author of more than seventy-five scientific papers and ten books, including Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home; A New Science of Life; The Presence of the Past; Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness; The Rebirth of Nature; and Seven Experiences That Could Change the World. Visit the author's web site at www.Sheldrake.org
Freeman read chemistry and then theology at Oxford University and was ordained in 1972. "When God In Us" was first published in 1993 he was dismissed from his parish for contravening church teaching, but he remains a priest in the Church of England.
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Staring at Sheldrake,
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I am a lay reader of this particular text, but still found it a very useful critical analysis of Sheldrake's theories. To gain a thorough understanding of Sheldrake's views, there is nothing more helpful than to examine Sheldrake's study being scrutinized by his peers. I would recommend this text to anyone who wants to gain a fuller understanding of Sheldrake's methodology and conclusions and the profound implications they have for the entire realm of science.
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In September 1981 the prestigious scientific journal Nature carried an unsigned editorial (subsequently acknowledged to be by the journal's senior editor, John Maddox) titled 'A book for burning?' (Maddox, 1981). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
remote staring detection, staring effect, staring trials, alternation bias, staring experiments, stare trials, perceptual projection, autonomic staring detection, looking trials, remote attention, autonomic detection, weighted mean effect size, unseen gaze, distant intentionality, extramission theories, intromission theory, extramission theory, reflexive model, being stared, phenomenal space, neural causes, morphic fields, looking experiments, missing studies, sensory clues Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rupert Sheldrake, Psychical Research, New York, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Journal of Parapsychology, British Journal of Psychology, Parapsychological Association, Skeptical Inquirer, Biology Forum, Susan Blackmore, Annual Convention, Oxford University Press, Richard Wiseman, Robert Baker, Alternative Therapies, British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Cambridge University Press, Christof Koch, Developmental Psychology, Imprint Academic, Proceedings of Presented Papers, Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire, The Skeptic, Beacon Press, Bertrand Russell New!
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In September 1981 the prestigious scientific journal Nature carried an unsigned editorial (subsequently acknowledged to be by the journal's senior editor, John Maddox) titled 'A book for burning?' (Maddox, 1981). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
remote staring detection, staring effect, staring trials, alternation bias, staring experiments, stare trials, perceptual projection, autonomic staring detection, looking trials, remote attention, autonomic detection, weighted mean effect size, unseen gaze, distant intentionality, extramission theories, intromission theory, extramission theory, reflexive model, being stared, phenomenal space, neural causes, morphic fields, looking experiments, missing studies, sensory clues Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rupert Sheldrake, Psychical Research, New York, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Journal of Parapsychology, British Journal of Psychology, Parapsychological Association, Skeptical Inquirer, Biology Forum, Susan Blackmore, Annual Convention, Oxford University Press, Richard Wiseman, Robert Baker, Alternative Therapies, British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Cambridge University Press, Christof Koch, Developmental Psychology, Imprint Academic, Proceedings of Presented Papers, Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire, The Skeptic, Beacon Press, Bertrand Russell New!
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- Understanding Consciousness by Max Velmans on 4 pages
- The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature by Rupert Sheldrake on page 49, and page 126
- Theories of Vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler by David C. Lindberg on page 30, and page 49
- Science, Consciousness and Ultimate Reality by David Lorimer on page 48, and page 82
- A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance by Rupert Sheldrake on page 4, and page 49
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