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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…

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For several decades Dr. Rupert Sheldrake has been prodding us to awaken beyond the limitations of western science as we know it.

Trained as a scientist at some of the world’s top institutions, he began to understand that science itself needed to be set free from its own dogma that has accumulated over the centuries. He shows the ways in which science is being constricted by its own assumptions that are not only limiting but dangerous for the future of humanity.

Should science be a belief system or simply a method of inquiry? In the skeptical spirit of true science,…

Rupert Sheldrake has degrees in Biology and Biochemistry from Cambridge, where he later served as Director of Studies in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, as well as a master’s in Philosophy from Harvard. 

After leaving academia, Sheldrake conducted studies and published research on psi phenomena, including “telephone telepathy” (the experience of thinking of someone right before they call you), the sense of being stared at, and dogs and cats who know when their owners are coming home (even at random times). 

Science Set Free (published in the UK as The Science Delusion, in rebuttal to Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion…

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On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…

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