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Science and Spiritual Practices: Transformative Experiences and Their Effects on Our Bodies, Brains, and Health Paperback – October 8, 2019

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"I have personally adopted many of the practices Rupert Sheldrake describes in his book and experienced more love, joy, empathy, gratitude, and equanimity as a result." ―Deepak Chopra, MD

The effects of spiritual practices are now being investigated scientifically as never before, and many studies have shown that religious and spiritual practices generally make people happier and healthier. In this pioneering book, Rupert Sheldrake shows how science helps validate seven practices on which many religions are built, and which are part of our common human heritage: meditation, gratitude, connecting with nature, relating to plants, rituals, singing and chanting, and pilgrimage and holy places.

A book for anyone who suspects that in the drive toward radical secularism, something valuable has been left behind.
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"I have personally adopted many of the practices Rupert describes in his book and experienced more love, joy, empathy, gratitude, and equanimity as a result. We are all indebted to Rupert, who has tirelessly brought us deep insights from both science and spirituality." ―Deepak Chopra

“Rupert Sheldrake once again acts as a bridge builder between science and spirituality . . . Psychological and scientific studies are cited to underpin his findings, and an engaging account of his own life path helps to create a very accessible and authentic tone for the reader . . . It’s a testimony to his courage and integrity that he continues to harness the horses of both science and spirituality to pull the chariot, and he drives his vehicle well.” ―Quest: Journal of the Theosophical Society in America

"For readers wishing to follow his path, Sheldrake offers advice on seven ways in which we can begin to appreciate the transcendent world of the Spirit . . . We learn how to connect with the more-than-human world of nature; to respect plants and explore the benefits of small orchards; to value rituals and experience pilgrimages; to enjoy the power of music through chanting. All these practices can deepen the meaning of our lives and open our minds to a universe flooded with consciousness." ―Church Times

“A simultaneously grounded and inspiring approach to appreciating the benefits of both science and religion.” ―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“With accessible suggestions, clear arguments, and an encouraging tone, Sheldrake makes a good case for reincorporating bygone spiritual habits.” ―Publishers Weekly

"Rupert Sheldrake is not only a consummate scientist, but is a person alive to the spirit. I am personally grateful for the writing and publication of Science and Spiritual Practices, and not only endorse it wholeheartedly, but look forward to the support and depth it will bring to my own life.” ―Marc Andrus, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California

"Science and Spiritual Practices is a breakthrough. It is a promise and sign of hope in a dire time, an apocalyptic time, but a potentially revelatory time also . . . Is it true that the modern age of antagonism between science and religion, psyche and cosmos, can be healed? Is it true that this is happening right now? That spiritual experience is available to believers and unbelievers alike? Read this important book and find out for yourself." ––Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox, Progressing Spirit

"I love this book! For its clarity, its first-person stories and applications, its science and experientially based facts, its timeliness, its humor, its blunt questions and challenges put to the guardians of die-hard scientific materialism, its breadth of topics and depth of insights historical, philosophical, religious, and spiritual. Few living scientists have the courage and the chops to ask the questions Rupert does, research them, and deliver answers in language all can understand. Be prepared as you read this book for an exciting and free-ranging ride, a sort of scientific pilgrimage journeying into spiritual practices and how they have benefited and can benefit humanity." ―Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing

"This is a refreshing and reflective work, a great contribution by a scholar whose intellectual life has been dedicated to showing connections among practice and polity, science and Spirit. His Science and Spiritual Practices reminds us clearly that everything is connected." ―Jeffrey Patnaude, author, teacher, priest

"Urgent, vital, gently devastating, and an exhilarating read. Buy it, read it, and give it to all your friends and all acolytes of scientism. Sheldrake will help us stay alive and be more alive. We all need his help." ―Charles Foster, Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, and author of Being a Beast

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Counterpoint (October 8, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1640092641
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1640092648
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.6 x 0.7 x 8.6 inches
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Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 85 scientific papers and 9 books, and the co-author of 6 books. He was among the top 100 Global Thought Leaders for 2013, as ranked by the Duttweiler Institute, Zurich, Switzerland's leading think tank. On ResearchGate, the largest scientific and academic online network, his RG score of 33.5 puts him among the top 7.5% of researchers, based on citations of his peer-reviewed publications.

He studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he was a Scholar of Clare College, took a double first class honours degree and was awarded the University Botany Prize (1963). He then studied philosophy and history of science at Harvard University, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow (1963-64), before returning to Cambridge, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry (1967). He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge (1967-73), where he was Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology. As the Rosenheim Research Fellow of the Royal Society (1970-73), he carried out research on the development of plants and the ageing of cells in the Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge University. While at Cambridge, together with Philip Rubery, he discovered the mechanism of polar auxin transport, the process by which the plant hormone auxin is carried from the shoots towards the roots.

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Sujittra Chaturongkul
5.0 out of 5 stars I Find Rupert Sheldrake Extremely Intelligent
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I find Rupert Sheldrake extremely intelligent and comprehensive. I really like this book that he writes. He goes the usual informal style, yet worth pondering and opening of visions. I decide to quote the summary of his book from the last section of his last chapter as follows.

"The sciences have penetrated into realms of the very large and the very small which our ancestors knew nothing about. The trouble is that the sciences give us vast amounts of data, but it is devoid of personal and spiritual meaning.

By contrast, traditional spiritual connections with the more-than-human world found meaning and significance everywhere, but knew nothing of these recent discoveries of the sciences. To combine these two approaches is a uniquely modern challenge.

We are all on journeys. Spiritual practices can enrich our lives and give us a stronger sense of connection with each other, as well as with life and consciousness beyond the human level. These practices can help us accept some of the many gifts that we are offered and give thanks for them. The more we appreciate what we have been given, the greater our motivation to give."

Personally, I just think God or Godness is the answer to all problems.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Love this book. Just what I need right now
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2024
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I feel so familiar with Rupert’s material as I have always felt the same way he describes things but he is so encompassing with his knowledge and explains things so well that he takes what has never been explained and explains it! I am very interested in learning more about his work with bio morphism and how learning is speeded up the more people that have learned something. Cool!
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Jeanne Marie Lambrianou
4.0 out of 5 stars A good representation of religious tools and their effects
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2019
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I liked the consideration of the 7 elements examined here, and put to scientific scrutiny. My trouble with it is, Mr. Sheldrake had to assume that religious experiences had to be scientifically analyze-able to be made legitimate. Is he trying to win over materialists? Still, it was a good read, worth the time and note-taking.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderfully intelligent and inspiring book.
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Rupert Sheldrake is my favorite author. I have read many of his books, starting with "Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home". I read it in 2000 and just gave it to my two talented teenage granddaughters. Sheldrake has a unique investigative mind and a wonderfully creative approach. I'm reading it slowly to absorb his uniqueness and creativity - he is great company. Right now I'm reading the section on gratitude and find it deeply inspiring. This is a book written by an unconventional author. Open-minded readers will have great enjoyment from reading anything written by Rupert Sheldrake, but especially from reading "Science and Spiritual Practices." HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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Oregon Jess
5.0 out of 5 stars A Spiritual Scientist for Our Times
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2018
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If you care about the confluence of science and spirit, if you have any curiosity at all about the mysteries of nature in its myriad forms, if you have even the vaguest inkling about Quantum Physics and is thrilling discoveries regarding the true nature of reality as we know it, then this clearly-stated, accessible, beautifully reasoned offering was written just for you. The London Sunday Times predicts that Rupert Sheldrake will, one day, "be seen as a prophet." Read this book -- read all his marvelous books! -- and you'll surely agree. Sheldrake's work is a gift to us all.
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leemon
3.0 out of 5 stars a typo in this book, and so intelligent informations.
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2019
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<Isaac, the grandson of Abraham> --- but Isaac is his son, not grandson.
(sorry, but I don't know where to tell this point)
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PBin
5.0 out of 5 stars good read
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2019
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The good Doctor has a few talks about this subject on youtube but he goes into a little more detail here. It is good to read an very educated man (or woman for that matter) have a deeper understanding of the world we live in
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Viktoria
5.0 out of 5 stars Expands world perception
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2018
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I like Sheldrake's book. I like his holistic approach to science and spirituality. It resonates with my personal experience. We live in a world where everything is connected to everything. Everything includes many things that we cannot see and/or perceive. But these things exist despite of our opinion about them. This book is easy to read and understand.
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Fernão Morato
5.0 out of 5 stars Before you buy the book, please consider...
Reviewed in Canada on December 1, 2019
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Michiel van Schothorst
5.0 out of 5 stars Another Sheldrake
Reviewed in Germany on October 18, 2019
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Sheldrake has opened my eyes on many subjects in all his former books. His Morphic Resonance concept should finally be accepted by mainstream science as the principle behind universal consciousness. The way he has shown the shortcomings in the "mainstream science religion" are to the point and should be revealing to those who have not been "prisoned" by their peers. In this book Sheldrake shows how several human activities such as being grateful and "feeling" nature have scientific evidence as being supportive to our wellbeing. I hope that many scientific sceptics will read this. I hope that all other readers will find joy in connecting with the religious man Rupert Sheldrake as I did.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Encouragement for the irreligious
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 15, 2018
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Rupert Sheldrake makes no bones about his own faith but his personal spiritual journey has been extremely diverse and extensive. He proposes that for those, like myself, challenged by our own rationalist convictions whenever religion nudges into our lives yet conscious of a palpable void in ourselves where active faith might normally function, there is another option. Simply to select from the range of signature practices common to most faiths and varieties of worship and to find our own personally acceptable and enjoyable ways of incorporating them into our lives. An example is to sing with others in praise or celebration. Another to go on pilgrimage. This might be to a holy or spiritual site, or a place of great natural beauty, or somewhere that you personally revere (for example Shakespeare’s birthplace, if you really like Shakespeare). The book is easy to read, well organised and a sincere personal document without the cringeworthy missionary narrowness so common in the introductory materials of specific faiths.
Having read this I can see how a lot of happy non-religious people do pragmatically incorporate more than one of the suggested practices into their lives - in other words Sheldrake’s insight and intuition are actually borne out by what I can observe in my friends, almost none of whom adhere actively to any faith. If you feel discontented, disconnected, aimless or rootless this is a self-help book that empowers its readers to select their own directions towards a life less ordinary (however unremarkable it may look from the outside).
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Mr John P Scoble
5.0 out of 5 stars Food for thought for everyone
Reviewed in Australia on November 12, 2021
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Sheldrake provides a balanced assessment of religion and atheism, pointing out the advantages and excesses of each. His theory of morphic resonance is interesting and worthy of further exploration. He examines many studies that demonstrate the health benefits of spiritual practices. As a Christian, I found this affirming.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book and well worth the money
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 24, 2021
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Rupert is both an excellent scientist as well as being easy to understand as if he uses jargon he explains it well. The practical suggestions in the book are very easy to do and are for anyone. I am a scientist and I’ve recommended his books to many lay readers who have found them very enjoyable and easy to grasp
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