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	*8Mind Power News* Saturday, August 23, 2003 Issue No. 9 WELCOME TO MIND POWER NEWS... Hello everyone, and welcome to another edition of the Mind Power News e-zine, a weekly update of news headlines, scientific developments and cutting edge resources pointing to the astounding powers of the human mind. This issue is being sent out to 2081 subscribers!Thank you all for your support! THIS WEEK... We look into the work of Rupert Sheldrake, a brilliant cellular biologist who has been receiving loads of media coverage for his new book "The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind," in which he theorizes that paranormal and telepathic powers are not all that esoteric, but have their basis in the physical, biological world. 'SIXTH SENSE' MAY BE BIOLOGICAL By Cecelia Goodnow Seattle Post-Intelligencer Reporter If Rupert Sheldrake is right, at least seven out of 10 of you reading this article have felt the prickly sensation of being stared at. Maybe you've also had feelings of foreboding that later proved true. Or perhaps you've been startled to answer the phone and hear the loved one you were just thinking about. Far from paranormal, these experiences are rooted in our biology, says Sheldrake, a Cambridge-trained biochemist and maverick thinker who's been called "a scientific heretic who refuses to be burnt at the stake." He says scientific exploration of these common experiences could lead to a new understanding of human and animal minds -- if science could overcome its dogmatic hostility toward this line of inquiry. "In my book, what I'm trying to do," he said, "is put forth the scientific evidence." Sheldrake argues for a new concept of the mind -- one not bounded by the brain, but operating through fields of influence that he believes are present throughout nature. He suggests these "morphic fields" organize the development and behavior of animals, plants, social groups and mental activity, from human and animal telepathy to such everyday mysteries as the synchronized swooping of flocks of birds. "I don't claim to explain all these things or to understand them," Sheldrake said. "I say, here's what seems to be going on." For example, he posits that telepathy is a kind of morphic field, a social field that allows distant members of a pack or tribe to stay in contact or warn of danger. As an example he cites wolf packs, which scatter over hundreds of miles to hunt without losing their group cohesion. "Telepathy depends on social bonds," Sheldrake said, adding that the ability seems to be stronger in animals than in most people. For his views, Sheldrake has been called everything from visionary to crackpot and, in the spirit of free debate, he posts the remarks of his most vocal critics on his Web site, www.sheldrake.org The most memorable brickbat came from Sir John Maddox, emeritus editor of the scientific journal "Nature," whose 1981 quote about Sheldrake's first book, "A New Science of Life," has become legend: "This infuriating tract . . . is the best candidate for burning there has been for many years." Sheldrake said healthy skepticism is essential to science, but he objects to "dogmatic skepticism," or "scientific fundamentalism," which rejects on principle the exploration of anything outside conventional theories. As a result, Sheldrake said, many areas of human and animal behavior have never been investigated. "The mind itself, and what the mind can do," he said, "is almost virgin territory." Read the full article here: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Reporter
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	SEVEN EXPERIMENTS TO TEST YOUR PSYCHIC POWERS Rupert Sheldrake's website includes a few simple experiments which you can carry out in order to test your natural inclination toward paranormal experiences. Have fun! *Seven Experiments* In the spirit of Darwin, who recorded many of his observations in the simplicity of his garden and never held an institutional post, Dr. Sheldrake encourages enthusiasts of the paranormal to explore seven of the world's most enigmatic common occurrences by using simple resources of their own. *Staring Experiment* The feeling of being looked at from behind is remarkably common. So is the experience of looking at someone from behind and finding that they turn round. Surveys show that about 90% of the population have personally experienced these phenomena. *Photo Experiment* In this experiment, instead of looking at the subject directly, the looker looks at his or her photograph instead, while the subject is seated in another room. The procedure is otherwise similar to that of the "sense of being stared at" experiment. *Telephone Experiment* Many people have found that they think about someone they haven't thought of for a while, and then that person calls. Also, many people say that sometimes when the telephone starts ringing they sometimes know who is calling them, even when they had no reason to expect this person to call. Test your powers here: http://www.sheldrake.org/experiments/ MORE MEDIA COVERAGE OF RUPERT SHELDRAKE Based on the results of 5,000 case histories, 2,000 questionnaires, 1,500 telephone interviews and a decade of experiments involving 20,000 people, Mr. Sheldrake asserts that intuition is not paranormal, but rather a normal function drawn from our biological past. By Alexandra Gill, Globe and Mail First, Sheldrake is a crackpot, albeit a bright and amusing one. He has proposed, for example, seven experiments that could change the world (and written a 1995 book by the same name). Those experiments include determining the organization of termites, the underlying directional mechanisms of homing pigeons, why pets sometimes sense when their owners are coming home, and the effects of researchers' expectations upon their work. By Scott LaFee , San Diego Union-Tribune Sheldrake is enough of a scientist to know that you can't prove anything by stories alone. After all, a few surprising coincidences will always happen by chance, and no doubt some of these will find their way to www.sheldrake.org. So Sheldrake adds plenty of hard experimental data to back up his stories. *Book Review by David Papineau,* The Globe and Mail
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