Rupert Sheldrake’s work has always been controversial, especially in the realm of mainstream science. His first book, A New Science of Life, which outlined his revolutionary theory of morphic resonance – patterns that govern the development of forms, structures and arrangements – was famously described as heresy and magical thinking by John Maddox, Editor of Nature, who called it “The best candidate for burning there has been for many years”.
The dispute over Rupert’s views on telepathy and other psychic phenomena has raged for over twenty years, but what it boils down to ...
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