Dr Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than sixty technical papers and nine books, including Dogs That Know When Their Owners are Coming Home. A former Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he took a PhD in biochemistry, and philosophy at Harvard University, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, near San Francisco, and lives in London with his wife and two sons.
You will certainly never take the miracle of the senses for granted again -- Dr James Le Fanu The Tablet 20041018 Sheldrake uses many case studies, along with scientific theory, to support his research, and the result is, quite literally, mind-expanding The Good Book Guide 20041018 Dr Rupert Sheldrake continues to chart a new course in our understanding ...The application of this understanding has the potential to heal our world -- Deepak Chopra, M.D. 20041018 [Sheldrake's] genius lies in his taking well-attested anecdotal phenomena like telepathy, the sense of being stared at and anticipating alarm calls, then puts them to the scientific test. In doing so his work not only extends - indeed stretches - the mind, it extends science in a new and creative direction. David Lorimer, Scientific and Medical Network Review