Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake
Alfred Rupert Sheldrakeis an English author, public speaker, and researcher in the field of parapsychology, known for his "morphic resonance" concept. He worked as a biochemist and cell biologist at Cambridge University from 1967 to 1973 and as principal plant physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics until 1978...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth28 June 1942
Rupert Sheldrake quotes about
bears belief kind
There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.
creativity thinking patterns
I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.
atheist atheism phases
I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.
patterns moments behavior
At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.
new-york memories past
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
mean thinking people
What you do, what you say and what you think can influence other people by morphic resonance. There is no immoral filter in morphic resonance, which means that we have to be more careful about what we are thinking if we are concerned about the affect we have on others.
philosophy reality materialism
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
memories animal behaviour
The morphic fields include all kinds of organizing fields...: The organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and cultural systems, and of mental activity can all be regarded as morphic fields which contain an inherent memory.
speech fields culture
Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual...
art creativity air
Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it...
reality filled-in leaving
The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in.
creative ongoing principles
The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.