Rupert Sheldrake Interview: The case for Morphic Resonance

Rupert Sheldrake has been a Cambridge University Don, acknowledge as one of the brightest Biochemists of his generation, winner of the university botany prize, former Research Fellow of the Royal Society, Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard University and fellow of Clare College. He is also writer of many books including A New Science of Life, The Presence of the Past, Seven Experiments that could change the World and The Science Delusion

Questions Discussed
1 Bring us up to date on your thinking about Morphic Resonance and the ideas behind that.
• Can you give some examples ?
2. Can you explain Morphogenics and what you mean by that?
• Jung Archetypes and the Collective Unconsciousness
• What evidence is there for morphic resonance?
• Does it make predictions. Is it falsifiable ?
3 You first expressed your ideas in A New Science of Life. What was the reaction to that?
• Did the reaction surprise you?
• Is the problem of acceptance a lack of a causal mechanism?
• Do you regret anything about the way you launched your ideas?
4 How is science affected materialism?
“The 'scientific worldview' has become a belief system. All reality is material or physical. The world is a machine, made up of dead 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.”
• Why is that a delusion? – the science delusion
• Can you have a non-materialistic science?
5 Why is science not open to new ideas?
• Is science affected by groupthink?
• or is science more of a dogma? Does it deal only with certainties?
• How is science supposed to work?
• Why doesn’t it work like that? What needs to change?
6 What of the link between science and faith? Are they non-overlapping magisteria?
• Would we have science without faith?
8 What does the future hold for Rupert Sheldrake? Do you have any further ambitions?
9 If there was one piece of advice you would hold out to new scientist just starting out today, what would it be?

[DavidD-vo]

I would need more study to better understand morphic resonance. But one thing I'd like to point out is my admiration for Prof Sheldrake's willingness to stick to his evidence. It takes significant courage to swim against the tide.

[justinwilliams]

Brilliant, I thoroughly enjoyed this fascinating interview. One wonderful takeaway from this video is that one can evolve huge personal freedom through this understanding and way of the universe, regardless of any formal or 'official' understanding. I resonate! 😇

[dejioyewo]

A very interesting and insight information. Thanks very much

[Anders]

My guess is that the morphic fields are structured vacuum energy! And that it's just that the fields are on a much smaller scale than what can be measured today with scientific instruments. Also protein folding inside cells is done with such fields I think, and that dark matter is something similar on a much larger scale yet still subatomic structures.

[nome]

Sounds a bit like some kind of pan psychism or field of consciousness, which while I'm happy to say I don't rule out, I also see no necessity to rule it in.

[Theo-oba]

All I see is two men who have worked hard to be the best at what they do... Eisshh... motivation oh... let me continue reading... 👓👓👓 one day....