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Every book Rupert Sheldrake recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Rupert Sheldrake has recommended or discussed 6 books on podcasts, as of October 2, 2021.
- Rupert Sheldrake has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of October 2, 2021.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of October 2, 2021.
- The 3 books Rupert Sheldrake has mentioned in the most episodes, as of October 2, 2021: The Psychic Side of Sports, The Sword of the Lord and DMT: The Spirit Molecule.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Rupert Sheldrake aired on October 2, 2021.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Rupert Sheldrake appears on, in one place — not just one.
Rupert Sheldrake’s most recommended books
- The Psychic Side of Sports by Michael Murphy
- The Sword of the Lord by Andrew Himes
- DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin
- The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication Volume 1 by Charles Darwin
Rupert Sheldrake is an English author and parapsychology researcher. He proposed the concept of morphic resonance, a conjecture that lacks mainstream acceptance and has been widely criticized as pseudoscience. He has worked as a biochemist at Cambridge University, a Harvard scholar, a researcher at the Royal Society, and a plant physiologist for ICRISAT in India. During his podcast appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience and Modern Wisdom, Sheldrake discussed and recommended various books related to history, biology, and anomalous phenomena. He recommended Andrew Himes's The Sword of the Lord as a detailed exploration of the history of American fundamentalism, and Michael Murphy and Rhea A. White's The Psychic Side of Sports for its accounts of psychic phenomena experienced by athletes. In conversations about psychedelic experiences and evolutionary theory, Sheldrake referenced Rick Strassman's DMT: The Spirit Molecule, highlighting its legal research program on DMT. He also discussed Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene in relation to neo-Darwinian models, and brought up Charles Darwin's lesser-known work, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, to explain Darwin's specific views on the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
Books recommended by Rupert Sheldrake
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The Psychic Side of Sports
The Psychic Side of Sports by Michael Murphy and Rhea A.
Recommended“and Michael Murphy who founded the esin Institute did a fascinating book called the psychic side of sports”
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The Sword of the Lord
The Sword of the Lord by Andrew Himes is a non-fiction book that examines the history, rise, and cultural influence of Christian fundamentalism in the United States.
Recommended“it's called The Sword of the lord it's written by a guy called Andrew heims”
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule
DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman is a scientific and clinical investigation into the effects of dimethyltryptamine, chronicling the first FDA-approved human clinical studies on psychedelics in decades.
Discussed“and in fact rick strassmann who wrote a book on dmt called dmt the spirit molecule where he had a legal research program on dmt found that quite a number of people did indeed encounter these figures”
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The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins is a prominent 1976 work of evolutionary biology that popularizes the gene-centric view of evolution.
Discussed“this is the basis of Richard Dawkins work for example his book The Selfish Gene is based on that model”
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The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
Discussed“he wrote a book called the variation of animals and plants under domestication it's less well known than his most famous book The Origin of Species”
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The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication Volume 1
Discussed“he wrote a book called the variation of animals and plants under domestication it's less well known than his most famous book The Origin of Species”
Where to get it
Books Rupert Sheldrake wrote
- Dogs that Know when Their Owners are Coming Home
- A New Science of Life
- Science Set Free
- Science and Spiritual Practices
- The Presence of the Past
- The Science Delusion
- The Sense of Being Stared At
- Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Does Nature Have A Hidden Memory? - Rupert Sheldrake - #379 | Modern Wisdom | 2021-10-02 | 1 |
| #550 - Rupert Sheldrake | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2014-09-16 | 5 |
Other mentions (16: passing, ad reads, own books)
“but when it comes to actually testing it there have been quite a number of experiments over the years which are summarized in the new edition of my book a new science of life”
“so i published a whole book about unexplained behavior of animals called dogs that know when their owners are coming home and i published these experiments in peer-reviewed scientific journals as well”
“um and i i summarize the um some of this research in in my book the science delusion where i look at the 10 dogmas of contemporary science and how science could become much more interesting and informative if people went beyond these dogmas instead of being imprisoned in a kind of straight jacket of dogmatic thinking”
“i discussed this in my book the science delusion there's a whole chapter there on heredity and genes”
“um now that again again i have a chapter on this in my book the science delusion because one of the assumptions of conventional science is that memories are all stored inside the brain”
“In my book science and spiritual practices i actually talk about um near-death experiences in the context of rites of passage or initiation”
“In my book science and spiritual practices i actually talk about um near-death experiences in the context of rites of passage or initiation”
“so the science delusion which is the one where i look at the 10 dogmas of science including about inheritance and and psychic phenomena and the laws of nature”
“science and spiritual practice about seven different spiritual practices including meditation singing and chanting and pilgrimage which have measurable beneficial effects”
“science and spiritual practice about seven different spiritual practices including meditation singing and chanting and pilgrimage which have measurable beneficial effects”
“and the most recent one ways to go beyond and why they work where i deal with seven more spiritual practices including spiritual effects of sports learning from animals spiritual openings through psychedelics and fasting”
“so I wrote this up in a book called a new science of Life which was published in 1981”
“then I wrote another book called the present of the past um which puts the theory forward in its fullest form and that's my main theoretical book”
“it's less well known than his most famous book The Origin of Species”
“so anyway I I wrote about this in my book the sense of being stared at about this research and about its implication for the nature of our minds”
“I wrote a book called dogs that know when their owners are coming home I did lots of experiments on”