Science With Soul: Reflecting on Rupert Sheldrake’s 80th Birthday Celebration

The Scientific and Medical Network organised a gathering on
Friday 8th July to mark Rupert’s 80th birthday and reflect on his
work. In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert
and Mark Vernon discuss the day, recalling remarks made by
speakers including Merlin Sheldrake, Jill Purce, David Lorimer
and Pam Smart. They discuss a variety of themes seminal to
Rupert’s work, from science as the calling to share in a living
cosmos to the business of coping with sceptics, which is not
without its amusing as well as tricky moments. The conversation
celebrates the richness of an engaged and free approach to the
study of the natural world, with its many mysteries, often active
immediately around us everyday.