Navigating Consciousness with Rupert Sheldrake

About Navigating Consciousness with Rupert Sheldrake

A wide ranging discussion of consciousness at the intersection of science and spirituality with Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, a biologist and author best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance. At Cambridge University Rupert worked in developmental biology as a Fellow of Clare College. He was Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics in Hyderabad, India. From 2005 to 2010 he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick project for research on unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge.

Publisher

Rupert Sheldrake

Category

religion & spirituality · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Nov 2021

Latest episode

14 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 129 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   14 Sept 2026

   Spiritual Practices That Actually Work

   Spiritual practices work, and this is not a matter of opinion. Scientists have been measuring their effects for more than thirty years, and there are now thousands of papers in peer-reviewed journals showing that people with a regular spiritual or religious practice tend to be healthier, happier and longer-lived than those without one, whatever they happen to believe. In this talk I look at the practices themselves rather than the arguments around them: gratitude, meditation and prayer, mantr...

2. 

   24 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The World Soul and the Fields of Nature | Clare College, Cambridge University

   Biologist Rupert Sheldrake discusses how the "world soul" evolved into modern scientific fields, offering a new perspective on nature's purpose in this interview.

3. 

   28 Jun 2026

   A Book for Burning, with Jonas Atlas

   Host Rupert Sheldrake interviews author Jonas Atlas about the personal and professional costs of challenging scientific dogma and the evolving landscape of genuine inquiry.

Inside a recent episode

The World Soul and the Fields of Nature | Clare College, Cambridge University

Published 24 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And both of them, Govich was working on the development of mushrooms and plants, and Weiss was working on animal embryos. And they came to the conclusion that there must be an invisible field that shaped the developing organisms that somehow ordered the system under its control. A leaf would have a leaf field that shapes the leaf. The whole plant would have a plant field. And this idea of morphogenetic or form-shaping fields became quite widespread in biology until the development of molecular biology in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, when the whole of biology got hijacked by molecular biology and became all about molecules, DNA, highly reductive. […]

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• Jonas Atlas
• Jessica Harland
• Marc Andrus

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