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	Rupert Sheldrake: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dr Rupert Sheldrake (born 1942) is a controversial British[For more info, click on this link] biologist biologist quick summary:
		A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of organisms....
		A morphogenetic field (or morphic field), according to biologist rupert sheldrake, is a biological (and potentially social) equivalent to an electromagnetic...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ru/rupert_sheldrake.htm (921 words)

	Sheldrake: an appraisal
		Sheldrake describes them as 'fields of information', saying that they are neither a type of matter nor of energy and are detectable only by their effects on material systems.
		Sheldrake, however, rejects the idea of morphic resonance being transmitted through a 'morphogenetic aether', saying that 'a more satisfactory approach may be to think of the past as pressed up, as it were, against the present, and as potentially present everywhere' [7].
		Sheldrake also suggests that our conscious self may be regarded either as the subjective aspect of the morphic fields that organize the brain, or as a higher level of our being which interacts with the lower fields and serves as the creative ground through which new fields arise [8].
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dp5/sheld.htm (5204 words)

	Sheldrake
		Rupert Sheldrake begins his hypothesis by explaining some of the more difficult notions behind biology, but it soon becomes apparent that there is a good deal more going on in biology than even biologists themselves care to admit.
		In the first chapter, Sheldrake examines some of the unsolved problems in modern biology; the success biology has obtained in the context of the underlying problems still confronting biologists in the fields of behavioral science, evolution, the origins of life, psychology and parapsychology.
		Sheldrake goes on to examine the Darwinian notion of evolution from a morphogenetic point of view, using terms such as divergence of chreodes, suppression of chreodes and the influence of other species.
	members.tripod.com /~Glove_r/Sheldrake.html (3732 words)

	Rupert Sheldrake & "Morphic Resonance" - OccultForums.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dr Rupert Sheldrake, a former research fellow at Cambridge University, said this may not be coincidence but evidence of "morphic resonance", by which creatures communicate the benefits of their experiences to others without direct contact- a kind of subconscious telepathy, if you will.
		Sheldrake has done a pretty good job of isolating the evidence for morphogenetic resonance but thus far his meanderings into telepathy etc are primarily threatening to discredit his whole line of thinking - at least in the short run.
		Sheldrake is working with a currency (sociological/behavioral) which is, by it's nature, is squishy and unreliable because of the alternative influence of unrelated conditions (experience/history), etc. Who knows if he didn't measure an effect because there's nothing there, or because the parrot wasn't in a mood to cooperate.
	occultforums.com /showthread.php?t=5768 (2787 words)

	! Parapsychology Wins Blind Testing Survey / Rupert Sheldrake Psychic ESP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sheldrake found that blind techniques were somewhat common in physiology and genetics departments, but virtually ignored in physics, chemistry and molecular biology departments.
		Sheldrake reported that some of university staff admitted that experimenters' biases and expectations could theoretically influence research in their departments, but they denied that this was enough of a danger to be concerned with.
		Rupert Sheldrake is far from being a reliable source, and on the basis of his previous escapades, anything he says should be taken with a grain of salt the size of a Ford Explorer.
	www.parascope.com /en/articles/blindScience.htm (1381 words)

	Salon People Feature \| Rupert Sheldrake: The delightful crackpot
		If you've seen Rupert Sheldrake plugging his book "Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals" on your television, you may assume he's just some new-age Dr. Dolittle, exploring your pooch and kitty's potential as mind readers.
		Sheldrake makes an off-the-cuff comment that he discovered from old radar records that the speed of light slowed during the 1940s.
		Rupert Sheldrake is only a heretic in the Church of Science.
	www.salon.com /people/feature/1999/11/23/sheldrake/print.html (1007 words)

	Hootenanny Talks w/ Rupert Sheldrake
		Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., a former Research Fellow of the Royal Society, a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard, and former Director of Studies in Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Cambridge University, is a leading scientist in the field of biology.
		Rupert Sheldrake was extremely generous in giving me some of his time and the benefit of his thought as we sat having coffee and dessert in a downtown cafe.
		Sheldrake says that although scientists have noticed this effect for years, they usually ignore it, or assume it to have a mechanistic explanation.
	www.hootenanny.com /hoot/3/sheldrake.html (5697 words)

	Dialog on Leadership: Rupert Sheldrake Interview
		Rupert Sheldrake: Well, once a pattern has occurred then the theory says it will tend to occur more rigidly the second time, as long as what happens the second time is similar to what happened the first time.
		Rupert Sheldrake: They are a combination of both formal and final causes, because they’re an end towards which the system moves.
		Rupert Sheldrake: Well, my current research is really looking more to intention, the power of the gaze, human telepathy, fields between people, and the detection of these fields.
	www.dialogonleadership.org /Sheldrake-1999.html (7053 words)

	Rupert Sheldrake Interview
		RUPERT: Well, the idea is that each species, each member of a species draws on the collective memory of the species, and tunes in to past members of the species, and in turn contributes to the further development of the species.
		RUPERT: The orthodox theory in biology and in chemistry, and indeed in science, is the mechanistic theory of nature that says all natural systems are like machines, and are made up of physical and chemical processes.
		RUPERT: I think that any organized structure of activity--which includes dreams and some mystical experiences, and altered states of consciousness--any pattern of activity has a structure, and in so far as these mental activities or states have structures, then these structures could indeed move from person to person by morphic resonance.
	www.levity.com /mavericks/rupert.htm (6246 words)

	Hugo Nielsen's System & Rupert Sheldrake´s Theory
		Sheldrake has in a series of books tried to explain some unexplained processes in biology in particular and in communication in general.
		Sheldrake thinks that the capacity for remembering, recalling, recollecting, or recognizing is dependent on morphic resonance.
		Sheldrake´s morphic unit or holon is a unit of form or organization which are organized in nested hierarchies of units within units, e.g.
	www.cellcomsystem.com /english/scientific/sheldrake.htm (3018 words)

	Rupert Sheldrake - Morphogenetic Fields And Beyond
		Sheldrake is a biologist, and for many years biologists have found it hard, using only physics and chemistry, to explain the way that living things grow into their normal forms.
		Sheldrake's brilliant contribution was to take what have been fairly loose ideas about morphogenetic fields and formulate them into a testable theory.
		We cannot yet say that Sheldrake's ideas about morphogenetic fields have been proven to the satisfaction of his fellow scientists, but it looks to me as if they are on their way to that kind of general acceptance.
	www.context.org /ICLIB/IC12/Sheldrak.htm (3778 words)

	A New Science of Life: Jeffrey Mishlove Interviews Rupert Sheldrake
		Sheldrake is the creator of a new hypothesis of biological functioning, one which has been very controversial and very stimulating in the life sciences.
		SHELDRAKE: Well, I think that, if you like, the interplay of habit and creativity, which we see within ourselves, is in a sense an interplay of what's fixed and what's changeable, and I think that in many traditions there have been images of the ultimate which have involved both those principles.
		SHELDRAKE: I think it would be more comparable to understanding the mystery of creation, or the world we live in, because the essential feature of morphic resonance is this kind of memory in nature and this kind of habit.
	www.williamjames.com /transcripts/sheldra1.htm (3428 words)

	Amazon.ca: Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sheldrake believes that the "telepathy" between pets and humans, or between flocks of birds or schools of fish that move as a single organism, can be explained this theory.
		Sheldrake is less persuaded by anecdotes that suggest animal clairvoyance--warning of something in the near future--but refuses to disallow the possibility.
		Sheldrake's bold and influential hypothesis of morphic fields (first developed in his 1988 book The Presence of the Past) asserts that members of a group are linked by self-organizing regions of influenceAfields that have a history, evolve, contain a collective...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0609805339 (1777 words)

	morphic resonance
		Morphic resonance is a term coined by Rupert Sheldrake for what he thinks is "the basis of memory in nature....the idea of mysterious telepathy-type interconnections between organisms and of collective memories within species."
		Sheldrake has been trained in 20th century scientific models--he has a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Cambridge University (1967)--but he prefers Goethe and 19th century vitalism.
		In short, although Sheldrake commands some respect as a scientist because of his education and degree, he has clearly abandoned science in favor of theology and philosophy.
	skepdic.com /morphicres.html (730 words)

	Book review of Rupert Sheldrake
		Sheldrake believes that the physical sciences will not solve the riddle of life because life is due to a holistic property that eludes the physical sciences.
		The foundation of Sheldrake's concept of formative causation is the idea that there is a memory inherent in nature (an idea borrowed from the nineteenth century biologist Samuel Butler).
		Sheldrake approach is that all of nature may be viewed as a living organism.
	www.thymos.com /mind/sheldrak.html (622 words)

	Skeptical Investigations - AUTHOR Page
		According to Sheldrake's hypothesis of formative causation, these questions remain unanswered in part because convention is hobbled by the reductionist assumption that finding the answers to such questions is largely a matter of figuring out the machinery of nature, of getting to the bottom of an ultimately mechanical universe.
		But Sheldrake suggests that nature is not a machine and that each kind of system - from crystals to birds to societies - is shaped not by universal laws that embrace and direct all systems but by a unique "morphic field" containing a collective or pooled memory.
		Rupert Sheldrake describes this process as morphic resonance: the past forms and behaviors of organisms, he argues, influence organisms in the present through direct connections across time and space.
	www.skepticalinvestigations.org /books/sheldrake.htm (1348 words)

	The Newsletter of The North Texas Skeptics
		Sheldrake, Ph.D., is a former Research Fellow of the Royal Society and was a scholar of Clare College, Cambridge, and a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard University.
		Sheldrake calls the principle underlying all of this "morphic resonance." That is, things of the same form (morph) resonate with each other and exchange information.
		Sheldrake asserts this capability was not learned bird-to-bird, but was individually acquired by birds, remotely located and not in communication with each other.
	www.ntskeptics.org /1998/1998january/january1998.htm (4171 words)

	Luminary: Rupert Sheldrake \| Shift In Action (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 75 scientific papers and ten books.
		Biologist, author, and IONS Fellow Rupert Sheldrake addresses the question of the survival of consciousness after bodily death by considering the possibility of memory storage outside of the physical brain.
		Rupert Sheldrake’s 1981 hypothesis of “morphic fields” has continued to stir a lot of excitement in research at the frontiers of consciousness.
	shiftinaction.com /discover/luminaries/rupert_sheldrake (581 words)

	THE UNIVERSAL ORGANISM with RUPERT SHELDRAKE, Ph.D.
		SHELDRAKE: The hypothesis starts from the idea that the development of embryos -- the growth of a baby, for example, in the womb, or the growth of a tree from a seed -- that developmental biology depends on organizing fields, called morphic fields.
		SHELDRAKE: Well, if they're like the mind, they're much more like the unconscious mind than the conscious mind, because we have to remember that a large part of the mind, as Freud and Jung and others have told us, is unconscious.
		SHELDRAKE: Yes, I think there is. And I think the question is to find out how mindlike it is. If we could begin to work out just in what way it was mindlike, we might come to a better understanding of our own minds, and the way they're related to our bodies.
	www.intuition.org /txt/sheldrak.htm (3980 words)

	AlterNet: A Heretic for Our Times
		Sheldrake, one of the world's leading spokesmen for a more holistic and democratic vision of science, might easily be grouped with the Romantics, except that his insights about the world are based on empirical research rather than poetic feelings.
		Sheldrake's views are widely shared by many people -- indeed by so many that it's seen as a looming problem in Britain and Europe as the public increasingly looks upon science as a tool of corporations and big government, not an institution that benefits average citizens.
		Sheldrake notes that independent scientists, including Charles Darwin, have been responsible for many important breakthroughs because they probe for answers in ways quite different than their well-funded peers in universities, research institutes or corporations.
	www.alternet.org /story/31009 (6593 words)

	In the Presence of the Past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rupert Sheldrake is best known for his controversial theory of "formative causation " which implies a non-mechanistic universe, governed by laws which themselves are subject to change.
		Esalen institute, where Rupert's wife, Jill Pearce, was teaching a workshop in the art of overtone chanting.
		Rupert spoke to us about the subtle processes involved in the evolution of nature through time, painting a simultaneously intricate and simple picture of a dynamic universe where previously unrecognized functions of space-time are constantly at work interacting with every aspect of life on earth.
	www.levity.com /mavericks/shel-int.htm (340 words)

	Rupert Sheldrake Online - Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1981, Sheldrake outraged the scientific establishment with his hypothesis of morphic resonance.
		Interviewed by Matthew Cromer of the AMNAP blog Rupert discusses his current thoughts on ways of opening skeptical minds to the possiblity of perinormal phenomena.
		The Sense of Being Glared At Rupert's hypothesis of morphic resonance and the case for "non-visual detection of staring" is scrutinised by 14 critics and responded to.
	www.sheldrake.org (517 words)

	Amazon.com: A New Science of Life: Books: Rupert Sheldrake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sheldrake's thinking seems radical because he does not subscribe to orthodox scientific assumptions that the universe operates like a machine; instead, he sees it as much like a living organism.
		Sheldrake is adept at drawing theoretical correlations between various realms of science and life itself in a manner that simultaneously alienates both the poet and the scientist.
		Sheldrake's hypothesis is interesting and warrants further exploration, but do not make the mistake of regarding it as equivalent to the established fact of a scientific theory.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0892815353?v=glance (2544 words)

	Scientific American: Rupert's Resonance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But according to Rupert Sheldrake, it is because the collective successes of the morning resonate through the cultural morphic field.
		Morphic resonance, Sheldrake says, is "the idea of mysterious telepathy-type interconnections between organisms and of collective memories within species" and accounts for phantom limbs, how dogs know when their owners are coming home, and how people know when someone is staring at them.
		Sheldrake responds that skeptics dampen the morphic field, whereas believers enhance it.
	www.sciam.com /print_version.cfm?articleID=00022BBF-C300-1353-830083414B7FFE9F (684 words)

	Mind Power Newsletter Template
		If Rupert Sheldrake is right, at least seven out of 10 of you reading this article have felt the prickly sensation of being stared at.
		Sheldrake argues for a new concept of the mind -- one not bounded by the brain, but operating through fields of influence that he believes are present throughout nature.
		Sheldrake said healthy skepticism is essential to science, but he objects to "dogmatic skepticism," or "scientific fundamentalism," which rejects on principle the exploration of anything outside conventional theories.
	www.mindpowernews.com /009.htm (941 words)

	Natural Grace by Matthew Fox and Rupert Sheldrake : Booksamillion.com (0385483597, Paperback)
		The chasm between science and religion has been a source of intellectual and spiritual tension for centuries, but in these ground breaking dialogues there is a remarkable consonance between these once opposing camps.
		In Natural Grace, Rupert Sheldrake and Matthew Fox show that not only is the synthesis of science and spirituality possible, but it is unavoidable when one considers the extraordinary insights they have both come upon in their work.
		Sheldrake, who has changed the face of modern science with his revolutionary theory of morphic resonance, and Fox, whose work in creation spirituality has had a significant impact on people's sense of spirit, balance each other with their unique yet highly complementary points of view.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=0385483597 (195 words)

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