Presence of the Past
Rupert Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonance challenges the fundamental assumptions of modern science. An accomplished biologist, Sheldrake proposes that all natural systems from crystals to human society inherit a collective memory that influen...
The Sense Of Being Stared At
Have you ever had a premonition, the feeling of being watched, or a telepathic experience? Renowned biologist Rupert Sheldrake explores the intricacies of the mind and discovers that our perceptive abilities are stronger than many of us could have...
Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work
To go beyond is to move into a higher state of consciousness, to a place of bliss, greater understanding, love, and deep connectedness, a realm where we finally find life's meaning - experiences for which all spiritual seekers seek. Dr Rupert Shel...
Science and Spiritual Practices
In this pioneering book Rupert Sheldrake shows how science helps validate seven practices on which all religions are built, and which are part of our common human heritage: · Meditation · Gratitude · Connecting with nature · Relating to plants · R...
Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals
With a scientist's mind and an animal lover's compassion, world-renowned biologist Rupert Sheldrake presents a groundbreaking exploration of animal behavior that will profoundly change the way we think about animals--and ourselves. How do cats kno...
Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home
Many people who have ever owned a pet will swear that their dog or cat or other animal has exhibited some kind of behaviour they just can't explain. How does a dog know when its owner is returning home at an unexpected time? Filled with captivatin...
Science Delusion
NEW EDITION The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book (published in the US as Science Set Free), Dr Rup...
Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery
The bestselling author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home offers an intriguing new assessment of modern day science that will radically change the way we view what is possible. In Science Set Free (originally published to acclaim in the UK as The Science Delusion), Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows the ways in which science is being constricted by assumptions that have, over the years, hardened into dogmas. Such dogmas are not only limiting, but dangerous for the future of humanity. According to these principles, all of reality is material or physical; the world is a machine, made up of inanimate matter; nature is purposeless; consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain; free will is an illusion; God exists only as an idea in human minds, imprisoned within our skulls. But should science be a belief-system, or a method of enquiry? Sheldrake shows that the materialist ideology is moribund; under its sway,
Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work
We are in the midst of a spiritual revival. This book is an essential guide. 'Wonderfully clear and inspiring... I regard this as one of the most important books of our generation.' --Larry Dossey, MD, author of One Mind '... a rare and needed voice in an apocalyptic time like ours. The practices he espouses do not take us out of the world but put us back in.' --Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing 'An affable, erudite manual...' --The Times Literary Supplement To go beyond is to move into a higher state of consciousness, to a place of bliss, greater understanding, love, and deep connectedness, a realm where we finally find life's meaning. Scientist and spiritual explorer Rupert Sheldrake looks at seven spiritual practices that are personally transformative and have scientifically measurable effects. He combines the latest scientific research with his extensive knowledge of mystical traditions to show how we may tune into more-than-human realms of consciousness through
Physics of Angels
Physics of Angels
Arguing Science
Arguing Science
Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness
In this book of ""trialogues,"" the late psychedelic visionary and shamanologist Terence McKenna, acclaimed biologist and originator of the morphogenetic fields theory Rupert Sheldrake, and mathematician and chaos theory scient...
Evolutionary Mind
Stimulating and often startling discussions between three friends, all highly original thinkers: Rupert Sheldrake, controversial biologist, Terence McKenna, psychedelic visionary, and Ralph Abraham, chaos mathematician. Their passion is to break out of paradigms that retard our evolution and to explore new possibilities. Through challenge and synergy they venture where few have gone before, leading their readers on an exciting journey of discovery. Their discussions focus on the evolution of the mind, the role of psychedelics, skepticism, the psychic powers of animals, the structure of time, the life of the heavens, the nature of God, and transformations of consciousness.'Three fine thinkers take us plunging into the universe of chaos, mind, and spirit. Instead of leaving us lost, they bring us back with startling insights and more wonder than we knew we had.' --Matthew Fox, 'Original Blessing and Sheer Joy''A jam-session of the mind, an intellectual movable feast, an on-going
Morphic Resonance
New updated and expanded edition of the groundbreaking book that ignited a firestorm in the scientific world with its radical approach to evolution - Explains how past forms and behaviors of organisms determine those of similar organisms in the present through morphic resonance - Reveals the nonmaterial connections that allow direct communication across time and space When A New Science of Life was first published the British journal Nature called it 'the best candidate for burning there has been for many years.' The book called into question the prevailing mechanistic theory of life when its author, Rupert Sheldrake, a former research fellow of the Royal Society, proposed that morphogenetic fields are responsible for the characteristic form and organization of systems in biology, chemistry, and physics--and that they have measurable physical effects. Using his theory of morphic resonance, Sheldrake was able to reinterpret the regularities of nature as being more like habits than
Science and Spiritual Practices
'I have personally adopted many of the practices Rupert Sheldrake describes in his book and experienced more love, joy, empathy, gratitude, and equanimity as a result.' --Deepak Chopra, MD The effects of spiritual practices are now being investigated scientifically as never before, and many studies have shown that religious and spiritual practices generally make people happier and healthier. In this pioneering book, Rupert Sheldrake shows how science helps validate seven practices on which many religions are built, and which are part of our common human heritage: meditation, gratitude, connecting with nature, relating to plants, rituals, singing and chanting, and pilgrimage and holy places. A book for anyone who suspects that in the drive toward radical secularism, something valuable has been left behind.
Spirituality
Engagingly written by one of the world's leading scholars in this field, this comprehensively revised edition tells the story of Christian spirituality from its origins in the New Testament right up to the present day. Charts the main figures, ide...
Spirituality
It has been suggested that 'spirituality' has become a word that 'can define an era'. Why? Because paradoxically, alongside a decline in traditional religious affiliations, the growing interest in spirituality and the use of the word in a variety ...
Spirituality
Engagingly written by one of the world's leading scholars in this field, this comprehensively revised edition tells the story of Christian spirituality from its origins in the New Testament right up to the present day. Charts the main figures, ide...
A World Transfigured
2023 Catholic Media Association First Place Award, Mysticism In A World Transfigured: The Mystical Journey, Philip Sheldrake demonstrates the importance of the mystical dimension of religious belief and practice. Using the words of the great theologian, Karl Rahner, Sheldrake makes the case that the Christian of the future will be either a mystic or nothing at all. In our contemporary world, this judgment applies equally to other religions as well. After chapters on the meaning of “mysticism” and the connection between mysticism and beliefs, Sheldrake describes important dimensions of mystical writings, illustrated by a range of examples. These are “Love and Desire,” “Knowing and Unknowing,” “Wonder and Beauty,” “Mysticism and Everyday Practice,” and “The Mystic as Radical Prophet.” Finally, the book briefly explores why mysticism fascinates so many people in our modern times.
Spaces for the Sacred
A sense of 'place' in relation to human identity preoccupies a wide range of writers from philosophers and anthropologists to architects and contemporary novelists. This preoccupation reflects a sense of rootlessness dislocation or displacement in...
Befriending Our Desires
Desire is at the heart of what it is to be human. The power of desire, while embodied and sensuous, is God-given and the key to all human spirituality. Humanity is blessed with a deep longing that is infinite in extent and can only ultimately be s...
Ett Sammanvävt Liv - Hur Svamparna Förenar Vår Värld, Förändrar Våra Sinnen Och Formar Vår Framtid
Anrika vetenskapsakademin Royal Societys pris för bästa populärvetenskapliga bok 2021. En livsform så märklig och förunderlig att den får dig att se livet på ett helt nytt sätt. Hur kommer det sig att en japansk forskare kan påstå att en slemsvamp är smartare än människor? Och vad har det med IKEA att göra? Kan det verkligen stämma att den största kända svampen på jorden täcker en yta större än 10 kvadratkilometer? Och vad har bläcksvampar egentligen att göra med produktionen av den här boken? Varken växt eller djur, svampar finns överallt på jorden, i luften och i våra kroppar. De kan vara mikroskopiska och samtidigt är några av världens största organismer svampar 10 kvadratkilometer stora, 35 000 ton tunga och över 2 000 år gamla. Svampars förmåga att äta sten lade grunden för det första livet på land, och under 40 miljoner år var det väldiga formationer av svampar som dominerade världens yta. Svampar kan överleva i rymden och frodas i radioaktiv strålning. Svampar kan lösa problem utan någon hjärna och vidgar alla definitioner av intelligens. De kan manipulera djur på sätt som är så imponerande att vi ännu inte förstått fullt ut hur det går till. Upptäckten av hur svampar förenar växtlivet på planeten i ett massivt nätverk Wood Wide Web håller på att omforma hela vår syn på hur icke-animaliskt liv fungerar. Genom att ha gett människan bröd, alkohol och livräddande mediciner har svamparna omformat vår arts historia. Dess förmåga att förtära plast, sprängmedel, gifter och råolja har börjat användas i teknikens absoluta framkant. Svamparnas psykedeliska egenskaper, som påverkat kulturer sedan antiken, har nyligen visat sig bära på tänkbara lösningar på några av våra svåraste mentala sjukdomar. Och ändå har vi knappt kartlagt en bråkdel av de miljoner arter av svampar som lever på jorden. I sin omvälvande upptäcktsfärd tar Merlin Sheldrake oss med in i den spektakulära och okända värld som är svamparnas. Följ med och lär dig om organismerna som skapat vår värld och som är i fullt fart med att forma vår framtid.
Julian of Norwich
Julian of Norwich
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WITH OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE A 'brilliant and] entrancing' (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi--the great connectors of the living world--and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems. 'Grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world.'--Ed Yong, author of An Immense World ONE OF PEOPLE'S BEST BOOKS OF THE 2020S - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, BBC Science Focus, The Daily Mail, Geographical, The Times, The Telegraph, New Statesman, London Evening Standard, Science Friday When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to
Entangled Life
The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller now illustrated with over 100 spectacular full-colour images, showcasing this wondrous and wildly various lifeform as never before'Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing' Robert MacfarlaneWinner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing 2021The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. They can change our minds, heal our bodies and even help us avoid environmental disaster; they are metabolic masters, earth-makers and key players in most of nature's processes. In Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake takes us on a mind-altering journey into their spectacular world, and reveals how these extraordinary organisms transform our understanding of our planet and life itself.'Gorgeous!' Margaret Atwood (on Twitter)'Reads like an adventure story... Wondrous' Sunday Times'Urgent, astounding and necessary' Helen Macdonald'A magical writer' Russell Brand* A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, The Times, Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday, BBC Science Focus and Time Book of the Year *
The Spiritual City
The Spiritual City
Spaces for the Sacred
In Spaces for the Sacred, Philip Sheldrake brilliantly reveals the connection between our rootedness in the places we inhabit and the construction of our personal and religious identities. Based on the prestigious Hulsean Lectures he delivered at ...
Spirituality: A Guide for the Perplexed
Spirituality: A Guide for the Perplexed
The New Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality
This new volume, replacing 'The Westminster Dictionary of Spirituality' by Gordon S. Wakefield (1983), stands as the definitive reference work on all aspects of Christian spirituality. Several years in the making and comprised of more than four hundred completely new entries, this volume incorporates the collective expertise of today's foremost scholars in the field of Christian spirituality. Systematically organized and alphabetically arranged for maximum ease of use, the book includes comprehensive bibliographies; a section of short essays on the content, methods, and current debates in the field; and reading lists to encourage additional reading and research.
Entangled Life - The Phenomenal Sunday Times Bestseller Exploring How Fungi
The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself.'Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing' Robert MacfarlaneThe more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them.They can change our minds, heal our bodies and even help us avoid environmental disaster; they are metabolic masters, earth-makers and key players in most of nature's processes. In Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake takes us on a mind-altering journey into their spectacular world, and reveals how these extraordinary organisms transform our understanding of our planet and life itself.'Reads like an adventure story... Wondrous' Sunday Times'Urgent, astounding and necessary' Helen Macdonald
Ett Sammanvävt Liv - Hur Svamparna Förenar Vår Värld, Förändrar Våra Sinnen Och Formar Vår Framtid
Anrika vetenskapsakademin Royal Societys pris för bästa populärvetenskapliga bok 2021.En livsform så märklig och förunderlig att den får dig att se livet på ett helt nytt sätt. Hur kommer det sig att en japansk forskare kan påstå att en slemsvamp är smartare än människor? Och vad har det med IKEA att göra? Kan det verkligen stämma att den största kända svampen på jorden täcker en yta större än 10 kvadratkilometer? Och vad har bläcksvampar egentligen att göra med produktionen av den här boken? Varken växt eller djur, svampar finns överallt på jorden, i luften och i våra kroppar. De kan vara mikroskopiska och samtidigt är några av världens största organismer svampar 10 kvadratkilometer stora, 35 000 ton tunga och över 2 000 år gamla. Svampars förmåga att äta sten lade grunden för det första livet på land, och under 40 miljoner år var det väldiga formationer av svampar som dominerade världens yta. Svampar kan överleva i rymden och frodas i radioaktiv strålning. Svampar kan lösa problem utan någon hjärna och vidgar alla definitioner av intelligens. De kan manipulera djur på sätt som är så imponerande att vi ännu inte förstått fullt ut hur det går till. Upptäckten av hur svampar förenar växtlivet på planeten i ett massivt nätverk Wood Wide Web håller på att omforma hela vår syn på hur icke-animaliskt liv fungerar. Genom att ha gett människan bröd, alkohol och livräddande mediciner har svamparna omformat vår arts historia. Dess förmåga att förtära plast, sprängmedel, gifter och råolja har börjat användas i teknikens absoluta framkant. Svamparnas psykedeliska egenskaper, som påverkat kulturer sedan antiken, har nyligen visat sig bära på tänkbara lösningar på några av våra svåraste mentala sjukdomar. Och ändå har vi knappt kartlagt en bråkdel av de miljoner arter av svampar som lever på jorden. I sin omvälvande upptäcktsfärd tar Merlin Sheldrake oss med in i den spektakulära och okända värld som är svamparnas. Följ med och lär dig om organismerna som skapat vår värld och som är i fullt fart med att forma vår framtid.
Entangled Life: The Illustrated Edition: How Fungi Make Our Worlds
Merlin Sheldrake's New York Times bestseller, Entangled Life, is now a lavish visual journey into the hidden lives of fungi. When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave. In the first edition of the mind-bending, 'gorgeous' (Margaret Atwood), 'brilliant and] entrancing' (The Guardian) Entangled Life, Sheldrake introduced us to this mysterious but massively diverse kingdom of life. This new edition, abridged from the original, features over 100 full-color images that bring the spectacular variety, strangeness and beauty of fungi to life as never before. Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth
Culture of Copying in Japan
This book challenges the perception of Japan as a 'copying culture' through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies. It addresses a question about why the West has had such a fascination for the adeptness with which the Japan...
Prejudice
This new edition of Prejudice provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject, introducing the major theoretical ideas as well as providing a critical analysis of recent developments. Takes a social psychological perspective, analysing individua...