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Science Set Free

10 Paths to New Discovery

by Rupert Sheldrake
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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 Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows the ways in which science is being constricted by assumptions that have, over the years, hardened into dogmas. Such dogmas are not only limiting, but dangerous for the future of humanity.
 
According to these principles, all of reality is material or physical; the world is a machine, made up of inanimate matter; nature is purposeless; consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain; free will is an illusion; God exists only as an idea in human minds, imprisoned within our skulls.
 
But should science be a belief-system, or a method of enquiry? Sheldrake shows that the materialist ideology is moribund; under its sway, increasingly expensive research is reaping diminishing returns while societies around the world are paying the price.
 
In the skeptical spirit of true science, Sheldrake turns the ten fundamental dogmas of materialism into exciting questions, and shows how all of them open up startling new possibilities for discovery.
 
Science Set Free will radically change your view of what is real and what is possible.

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    September 4, 2012

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    • Kirkus

      July 15, 2012
      A proponent of New Age science offers a broad-ranging critique of modern science and presents an alternative approach. An opponent of what he deems to be the mechanistic materialism of current science, Institute of Noetic Sciences fellow Sheldrake (The Sense of Being Stared At, 2003, etc.) urges a return to vitalism, "the theory that living organisms are truly alive, and not explicable in terms of physics and chemistry alone." He claims that his discovery of what he calls the "morphic resonance," activity patterns that "resonate across time and space with subsequent patterns," offers "a range of new possibilities for research." Further, this morphic field holds the key to cures for migraine headaches, the prediction of earthquakes and tsunamis and the solution to many still-open questions in science--e.g., the existence of dark matter. According to his theory, morphic fields operate over time and space so that past events shape the present and resonate simultaneously throughout the universe. They embrace chemical events such as the crystallization of sugars and are responsible for telepathic abilities in animals and humans, as well as other paranormal events such as premonitions. Sheldrake suggests that living organisms inherit a "collective memory of the species, on which each individual draws," and he speculates about the possibility that organisms experience feelings and that animals are not only conscious, but are, to some degree, capable of free will. While there are many open questions remaining in science--from the existence of the Higgs boson to the existence of free will--these continue to fuel debate within the mainstream of science as well as on its fringes. Will appeal to like-minded readers but may be unconvincing to others.

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    • Library Journal

      April 15, 2012

      Biologist Sheldrake, author of the best-selling Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, aims to persuade fellow scientists that a strictly materialist worldview will eventually hold back their work. The lead title in Deepak Chopra's new imprint.

      Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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