Difference between revisions of "Rupert Sheldrake"

From Wikispooks
Jump to navigation Jump to search
m (smwdocs)
m (ref)
Line 19: Line 19:
 
"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 worked at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India, where he was Principal Plant Physiologist. 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 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 worked at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India, where he was Principal Plant Physiologist. 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.
  
"He is the current Perrott-Warrick Scholar and Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, near San Francisco, and an Academic Director and Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute in Connecticut. He lives in London with his wife [[Jill Purce]] www.healingvoice.com and two sons.
+
"He is the current Perrott-Warrick Scholar and Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, near San Francisco, and an Academic Director and Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute in Connecticut. He lives in London with his wife [[Jill Purce]] <ref> [http://www.healingvoice.com The Healing Voice] - Jill Purce's web site</ref> 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." <ref>[http://www.sheldrake.org/About/biography/ About], Rupert Sheldrake, accessed January 9, 2009.</ref>
 
"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." <ref>[http://www.sheldrake.org/About/biography/ About], Rupert Sheldrake, accessed January 9, 2009.</ref>

Revision as of 08:32, 8 August 2015

"Threat to scientific orthodoxy"
Person.png Rupert Sheldrake   Twitter WebsiteRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(biologist)
RupertSheldrake.jpg
Born1942/06/28
Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire
NationalityBritish
ReligionAnglican
InterestsThe Nature of Science
SubpageRupert Sheldrake/TEDx Whitechapel 2015
A Phd Biologist

Rupert Sheldrake "is a biologist and author of more than 75 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 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 carried out research on the development of plants and the ageing of cells. At Clare College he was also Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology.

"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 worked at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India, where he was Principal Plant Physiologist. 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.

"He is the current Perrott-Warrick Scholar and Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, near San Francisco, and an Academic Director and Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute in Connecticut. He lives in London with his wife Jill Purce [1] 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." [2]

Affiliations

Books by Rupert Sheldrake

  • A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation (1981)
  • The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature (1988)
  • The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God (1992)
  • Seven Experiments that Could Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Revolutionary Science (1994) (Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the British Institute for Social Inventions)
  • Dogs that Know When Their Owners are Coming Home, and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals (1999) (Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the British Scientific and Medical Network)
  • The Sense of Being Stared At, And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind (2003)

With Ralph Abraham and Terence McKenna

  • Trialogues at the Edge of the West (1992), republished as Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness (2001)
  • The Evolutionary Mind (1998)

With Matthew Fox

  • Natural Grace: Dialogues on Science and Spirituality (1996)
  • The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet (1996)

 

A Document by Rupert Sheldrake

TitleDocument typePublication dateSubject(s)Description
Document:Wikipedia Under Threatarticle2015Wikipedia/ProblemsThoughts on Wikipedia succeptibity to systematic bias in matters deemed threatening to hallowed orthodoxy

 

Related Documents

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:Wikipedians in Disrepute - “Guy (JzG)”article2015The editorsSystematic enforcement of the materialistic scientific paradigm against orthodox dissenters on Wikipedia
Document:Wikipedians in disrepute - "Vzaak/Manul"article2015The editorsSystematic enforcement of the materialistic scientific paradigm against orthodox dissenters on Wikipedia

 

A document sourced from Rupert Sheldrake

TitleTypeSubject(s)Publication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:Wikipedia Under ThreatarticleWikipedia/Problems2015Rupert SheldrakeThoughts on Wikipedia succeptibity to systematic bias in matters deemed threatening to hallowed orthodoxy
Many thanks to our Patrons who cover ~2/3 of our hosting bill. Please join them if you can.


References

  1. The Healing Voice - Jill Purce's web site
  2. About, Rupert Sheldrake, accessed January 9, 2009.
  3. Trustees, California Institute of Integral Studies, accessed October 30, 2011.
  4. Advisory Board=, Rhine Center, accessed November 4, 2011.
  5. Scientific and Medical Network Member, organizational web page, accessed February 3, 2012.


SourceWatch.png This page imported content from SourceWatch on 5 August 2015.
SourceWatch is not affiliated with Wikispooks.   Original page source here