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The Science of
Psychics
That's
what separates Rupert Sheldrake from the New Age pack. A botanist who
earned a doctorate in biochemistry from Cambridge University and later
studied at Harvard University, Mr. Sheldrake has earned an
international reputation for applying scientific method to
quasi-scientific subjects.
Mr. Sheldrake spoke over the weekend at the Association for
Comprehensive Energy Psychology conference at the Westfields Conference
Center in Chantilly, winning a standing ovation from the crowd of 350
and demonstrating why he's the world's foremost go-to guy on all things
paranormal.
Mr. Sheldrake, 60, abandoned a successful career in plant biology to
advance a theory he calls "morphic fields and morphic resonance," which
holds that living beings inhabit unseen fields through which they can
unconsciously transmit and receive information.
He says that's why so many people say they can sometimes tell who's
calling before they pick up the phone or why dogs seem to know when
their masters are coming home. He cited interviews with hunters who say
they never look directly at their prey for fear that the animal will
sense their stares and flee.
Rather
than rely on anecdotal evidence, Mr. Sheldrake has conducted thousands
of experiments aimed at testing the validity of such phenomena. In one
trial involving two subjects, one of whom was blindfolded, he found
that people successfully say whether they're being stared at 60 percent
of the time, higher than the 50 percent accuracy that would be expected
if they merely guessed.
In an experiment on telephone telepathy, he had subjects decide who was
calling from a list of four prospective callers. The rate if it were
random chance would be 25 percent, but his subjects averaged an
accuracy rate of 40 percent.
The experiment works best, he said, when the subjects have a close
emotional tie. In a special aired on British TV, he conducted the trial
with five sisters. Their accuracy rate was 50 percent.
"I
think what this shows is that we're much more interconnected with our
environment than we think we are," Mr. Sheldrake said.
His detractors, led by members of the British scientific community, are
legion. An article in Salon referred to him as "a heretic in the church
of science." A Canadian blog, the Tyee (http://thetyee.ca), likened his
theory to that of the Force in "Star Wars."
His
most prominent critic, John Maddox, editor emeritus of Nature magazine,
called one of Mr. Sheldrake's books "the best candidate there has been
for book burning in many years."
Mr. Sheldrake has challenged his critics to repeat the experiments on
their own. "It's extraordinary how this huge, rich body of experience
has been excluded from science just because it doesn't fit with the
accepted theory of vision," Mr. Sheldrake said.
The
skeptics, as he calls them, haven't slowed him down. His speaking
calendar is full, and his research is now being funded by Trinity
College, Cambridge. He has published 10 books, the latest being "The
Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind."
His latest experiment involves e-mail telepathy. He said he's now in
discussions with Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL and Google about developing a
test that would be easily accessible from their Web sites.
The
idea would be to bill the experiment as a way to " 'find out how
telepathic you are -- take this easy test,' " said Mr. Sheldrake. "I
think it's something that could catch on in a big way."
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