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Fields of the mind: recent experimental evidence
Dr. Rupert Sheldrake

We have been brought up to believe that the mind is located inside the head. But there are good reasons for thinking that this view is much too limited. Recent experimental results show that people can influence others at a distance just by looking at them, even if they look from behind and if all sensory clues are eliminated. And people's intentions can be detected by animals from miles away. But perhaps the commonest kind of non-local mental influence occurs in connection with telephone calls, where most people have had the experience of thinking of someone shortly before that person rings, or of knowing who is calling when the phone starts ringing. Dr. Sheldrake showed how his hypothesis of morphic fields could provide a new way of understanding how the mind extends throughout and beyond the body.

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 75 technical papers and several books. His new book is The Sense of Being Stared at, and Other Aspects of the Extended Mind. He studied natural sciences at Cambridge University and philosophy at Harvard, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow. He took a PhD in biochemistry at Cambridge and was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, where he was Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology. As a Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he carried out research at Cambridge in developmental biology. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California, and Director of the Perrott-Warrick Research Project funded by Trinity College, Cambridge. He lives in London.

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