Navigating Consciousness with Rupert Sheldrake
by Rupert Sheldrake
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Spiritual Practices That Actually Work
Spiritual Practices That Actually Work
About this podcast
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.
Episodes
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- Spiritual Practices That Actually Work · 1 h 13 min · Season 5 Episode 130Spiritual 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…
- The World Soul and the Fields of Nature | Clare College, Cambridge University · 48 min · Season 5 Episode 129We’re often told that the scientific revolution banished souls from nature, leaving a universe of dead matter pushed around by blind forces. I don’t think that’s what happened…
- A Book for Burning, with Jonas Atlas · 1 h 0 min · Season 5 Episode 128Rupert speaks with Jonas Atlas about the high cost of scientific heresy and what it reveals about the gap between science's public face and its private reality. Beginning with…
- Holy Trinities: Threefold Models of Reality - Live in London · 1 h 22 min · Season 5 Episode 127Across decades of reading and travel, something has struck me again and again: wildly different traditions, from Daoism to Hinduism to Christianity, converge on a threefold or…
- Science, Spirituality & the Practices That Transform Us, with Dr. Jessica Harland · 1 h 7 min · Season 4 Episode 126Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0_Lkku3QH-c What if gratitude isn't just good manners, but measurably changes your wellbeing? What if the medieval Christians were right about…
- How do Animals Predict Natural Disasters? London Society for Psychical Research · 34 min · Season 4 Episode 125For more see Rupert’s Substack article on this topic 👉 https://rupertsheldrake.substack.com/p/animal-warnings-of-earthquakes Recorded on November 4, 2017 at the Society for…
- Consciousness and the Mysteries of Everyday Life – How the Light Gets In Festival · 41 min · Season 4 Episode 124What if the “weird” feelings we shrug off—being watched, knowing who’s calling, waking seconds before an alarm—aren’t glitches but signals? In this talk, given at the How The…
- Ancestors and Pilgrimages, with Bishop Marc Andrus at Hollyhock · 53 min · Season 4 Episode 123A dialogue on praying for ancestors and on pilgrimage: Hollyhock, Cortes Island, BC; August, 2016. See Rupert’s Substack for the Latest articles and early access to videos 👉…
- Detoxifying Christianity, with Bishop Marc Andrus at Grace Cathedral · 31 min · Season 4 Episode 122For many people, Christianity is like a toxic brand. Why is this so and what can be done about it? A dialogue with Marc Andrus, the Bishop of California, at Grace Cathedral, San…
- What is a blessing? Is it just wishing someone well, or is there more to it? ...with Marc Andrus · 26 min · Season 4 Episode 121A dialogue with Marc Andrus, former Bishop of California, at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, in August of 2016. See Rupert’s Substack for the Latest articles and early access to…
- What Insights Can Psychedelic Experiences Give Us? University of York · 1 h 22 min · Season 4 Episode 120Watch on Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/rupertsheldrake/p/psychedelic-experiences-what-insights This is a talk I gave recently to the Drug Science and Bioscience…
- Spiritual Practices and Transformative Experiences in a Scientific Age · 31 min · Season 4 Episode 119A talk delivered to the Conference of the International Network for the Study of Spirituality, University of Northampton, UK in June 2025. The INSS is a unique international…
- God in Nature and Nature in God - Panentheism · 55 min · Season 4 Episode 118In this talk, Rupert Sheldrake explores panentheism—the idea that the divine is not separate from the world but present throughout it, while also transcending it. With the grip…
- Reconnecting With Religious Roots, with Bishop Marc Andrus · 34 min · Season 4 Episode 117A dialogue with Marc Andrus, former Bishop of California, at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. Our ancestors’ lives from birth to death were shaped and structured by spiritual…
- The Healing Power of Animals, with Bishop Marc Andrus at Grace Cathedral · 32 min · Season 4 Episode 116A dialogue with Marc Andrus, former Bishop of California, at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. Many people who keep pets have experienced their ability to comfort and heal. There…
- Is Christianity a victim of its own success? with Bishop Marc Andrus at Grace Cathedral · 30 min · Season 4 Episode 115A dialogue with Marc Andrus, former Bishop of California, at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. European civilisation has been shaped in many ways by its Christian heritage. In the…
- Holy Days and Festivals, with Bishop Marc Andrus at Grace Cathedral · 21 min · Season 4 Episode 114Many traditions include holy days or ‘holidays’ as days of festivity to celebrate and many traditional festivals revolve around the cycles of creation including solar and lunar…
- All Souls Day, with Bishop Marc Andrus at Grace Cathedral · 28 min · Season 3 Episode 113A dialogue with Marc Andrus, former Bishop of California, at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. All Souls Day — the day of the dead — falls on November 2, and is particularly…
- Angels and the festival of Michaelmas · 26 min · Season 3 Episode 112
- Rethinking Education: From Passive Learning to Holistic Understanding with Dr. James Mannion · 1 h 1 min · Season 3 Episode 111In this episode of the "Rethinking Education" podcast, I join Dr. James Mannion to explore the state of modern education and its implications for science and spirituality. We…
