And this concept of inspiration or ideas kind of living in the ether around us, tapping on the shoulder of someone in a state ready to receive them, might actually have a complementary scientific theory proposed by Cambridge biologist Rupert Sheldrake.

Morphic resonance is a hypothesis I first put forward in 1981.

I'm suggesting that the whole universe has a kind of memory.

The so-called laws of nature are actually more like habits.

They evolve along with the universe.

This means that when you make a new chemical compound and crystallize it, the first time you make the crystals, there won't be a habit.

They haven't happened before.

And biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake says we see this in nature all the time.

So hence, you know, being excited about it and wanting to put it to you.

Thank you.

This is a very rich field and plants are a very big part of my own life.

I started out as a child.

interest in plants.

My father was a herbalist.

I collected my pressed plants.

I think that's even the expression that Mother Nature uses in Patinus, sort of tumbles out into the world around us so that the world around us is this kind of overflow of life itself, which is partly why it's so, you know, so varied and so beautiful.

I'm wondering if you could tell us a little bit about that study.

Well, I got interested in telepathy because, um, as I've just said, I think minds are extended beyond brains, and I think they extend beyond brains in every act of perception, visual perception or auditory perception.

But I think they also extend beyond brains through our intentions, and I think that other people can detect them.

So if I have an intention to call you on the phone, Chloe, and I'm thinking about you, you might detect that intention Just because I'm thinking about you.

And then if I call you on the phone, what might happen is you might say to me, "That's funny, Rupert, I was just thinking about you, and then you rang me." And actually, that telephone telepathy experience is extremely common.

About 85% of people have had that experience, thinking of someone who then calls, or just knowing who it is when the phone rings before they look at caller ID or pick up the receiver and answer.

So I think that telepathy is a, a matter of extended intention.

And you, uh, kind of alluded to it, but what in that environment enabled you to move from this more Western scientific thinking and to be opening yourself to the collective unconscious, to the spiritual expression?

self-evident."Um, do you think we're getting any closer to being in the third stage of that, or are we still, still stuck back in the first?

Well, I think it depends what you're looking at.

For example, some of my research has been on psychic phenomena in dogs.

You know, this is summarized in my book, Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home.

Not just dogs, but cats, horses, parrots, other animals.

Now, when it comes to the question of can dogs or cats pick up your intentions telepathically, the great majority of people in the population are completely open to that.

I mean, after all, in America, more than 50% of households have pets, and people who live with these animals notice these things, and so that's a really kind of mainstream view.

What's your take on, on synchronicity and, and what, what would you define a synchronicity as?

His book prompted others to share their stories with him.

When my book, Dogs That Know When Their Owns Are Coming Home, was published, I received lots of letters from people about their animals.

One of them came from a young woman in New York called Aimee Morgano, who told me that her parrot, Enkisi, an African grey, picked up her thoughts and even picked up her thoughts when she was dreaming and slept in her bedroom and woke her up by commenting on her dreams noisily.

So I was very intrigued to meet this parrot and so the next time I went to New York City, I visited her.

And I found that what she said was true.

This parrot not only had an incredible vocabulary and was astonishingly articulate, probably the biggest vocabulary of any parrot ever, but I immediately did a test with her.

I said, can we do a test? We're going to a separate room from the parrot.

But Dr. Sheldrake has a theory about why these abilities may have developed in the first place.

And this concept of inspiration or ideas kind of living in the ether around us, tapping on the shoulder of someone in a state ready to receive them, might actually have a complementary scientific theory proposed by Cambridge biologist Rupert Sheldrake.

Morphic resonance is a hypothesis I first put forward in 1981.

I'm suggesting that the whole universe has a kind of memory.

The so-called laws of nature are actually more like habits.

They evolve along with the universe.

This means that when you make a new chemical compound and crystallize it, the first time you make the crystals, there won't be a habit.

They haven't happened before.

I

I think that the idea that it's all in the brain is an unnecessary limitation.

Materialist thinking about the brain is extraordinarily local.

It localizes all these things actually inside the head.

But within the sciences, since the 19th century, we now have a much broader view of matter and the way that nature is organized.

And this is broadened through the concept of fields, first introduced into science by Michael Faraday in relation to electric and magnetic fields, then through Einstein's general theory of relativity, taken to include the gravitational field.

And there are many fields in science now.

Must be 19+.

the standard theory.

And if you like, that then gets polarized and enacted in the current.

Yes, I think that's true.

One of the things I'm most interested in at the moment is the big trauma in our national psyche here in all over Britain, really, through the Protestant Reformation, when there was a huge break with what had gone before.

In the Middle Ages, you know, there were great cathedrals and monasteries, and then that disruption that happened in the 1530s.

The monasteries were dissolved.

Pilgrimage was suppressed.

And the whole basis of people's religious life and the cohesion that that provided was broken up.

And I'm just interested in how you connect your kind of spiritual journey and explorations with your scientific ones and how do you see the two informing each other

self-evident."Um, do you think we're getting any closer to being in the third stage of that, or are we still, still stuck back in the first?

Well, I think it depends what you're looking at.

For example, some of my research has been on psychic phenomena in dogs.

You know, this is summarized in my book, Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home.

Not just dogs, but cats, horses, parrots, other animals.

Now, when it comes to the question of can dogs or cats pick up your intentions telepathically, the great majority of people in the population are completely open to that.

I mean, after all, in America, more than 50% of households have pets, and people who live with these animals notice these things, and so that's a really kind of mainstream view.

What's your take on, on synchronicity and, and what, what would you define a synchronicity as?

What would be the substrate in which our telepathic connections would be traveling upon? How does my telepathic relationship to my son, daughter, husband, twin, best friend, person that I'm thinking about, what is the substrate in which that connection travels upon?

Well, if we knew that, um, telepathy wouldn't be so controversial.

Um, it's controversial precisely because we don't know how it works.

And it doesn't work in terms of any of the known, um, set of physical principles in physics textbooks.

I mean, that's exactly why there's a, a controversy about it, because people who think we've basically figured out the basic principles of nature, uh, think it's impossible.

Um, that's why they're not interested in the evidence.

Um, if it happens, which I think it does, it means we have to expand our view of causal connections or links in nature.

Who's, who's John the Baptist? What was he doing in relation to, to, to death and rebirth? Can you share a little bit about that?

His book prompted others to share their stories with him.

When my book Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home was published, I received lots of letters from people about their animals.

One of them came from a young woman in New York called Aimee Morgano, who told me that her parrot, N'kisi, an African Grey, picked up her thoughts, and even picked up her thoughts when she was dreaming, and slept in her bedroom, and woke her up by commenting on her dreams noisily.

So I was very intrigued to meet this parrot.

And so the next time I went to New York City, I, I visited her, and I found that the, what she said was true.

This parrot not only had an incredible vocabulary and was astonishingly articulate, probably the biggest vocabulary of any parrot ever.

But I immediately did a test with her.

But Dr. Sheldrake has a theory about why these abilities may have developed in the first place.

His book prompted others to share their stories with him.

When my book Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home was published, I received lots of letters from people about their animals.

One of them came from a young woman in New York called Aimee Morgan who told me that her parrot, N'kisi, an African Grey, picked up her thoughts, and even picked up her thoughts when she was dreaming.

It slept in her bedroom and woke her up by commenting on her dreams noisily.

So I was very intrigued to meet this parrot.

And so the next time I went to New York City, I, I visited her.

And I found that the, what she said was true.

But Dr. Sheldrake has a theory about why these abilities may have developed in the first place.

And this concept of inspiration or ideas kind of living in the ether around us, tapping on the shoulder of someone in a state ready to receive them, might actually have a complementary scientific theory proposed by Cambridge biologist Rupert Sheldrake.

Morphic resonance is a hypothesis I first put forward in 1981.

I'm suggesting that the whole universe has a kind of memory, the so-called laws of nature are actually more like habits.

They evolve along with the universe.

This means that when you make a new chemical compound and crystallize it, the first time you make the crystals, there won't be a habit.

They haven't happened before.

But after they've crystallized, and it often takes months or years for the first crystals to form, then it should be easier for the same thing to crystallize again anywhere in the world, and the third and fourth and fifth time, it should get easier and easier.

And biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake says we see this in nature all the time.

And this concept of inspiration or ideas kind of living in the ether around us, tapping on the shoulder of someone in a state ready to receive them, might actually have a complementary scientific theory proposed by Cambridge biologist Rupert Sheldrake.

Morphic resonance is a hypothesis I first put forward in 1981.

I'm suggesting that the whole universe has a kind of memory.

The so-called laws of nature are actually more like habits.

They evolve along with the universe.

This means that when you make a new chemical compound and crystallize it, the first time you make the crystals, there won't be a habit.

They haven't happened before.

And biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake says we see this in nature all the time.