What Is Mainstream Science Hiding? | Rupert Sheldrake and Hilary Lawson

Rupert Sheldrake speaks to Hilary Lawson about scopasthesia, morphic resonance, his ongoing struggle with the scientific establishment, and his core worldview.

What are the beliefs you would never give up?

00:00 Introduction
00:45 Why have you found the scientific community so difficult to convince?
05:08 Is your interpretation of experimental data affected
by your underlying philosophical views?
08:00 Do you consider your own theory to be a model, or the truth?
10:26 What are the potential applications of your theories?
13:05 Are there key pieces of evidence that your skeptics are ignoring?
16:47 Are there parts of your philosophical framework
that you would never give up?
20:10 To what degree does conventional scientific wisdom –
and public interest – guide what you write?
24:02 What would you like to achieve next?

Rupert Sheldrake has spent decades defying science's unspoken dogmas. Labelled a heretic, he continues to ask one radical question: what if the universe remembers? In this conversation with post-realist philosopher Hilary Lawson, Sheldrake defends morphic resonance, recounts his excommunication by orthodox science, and explores how consciousness, memory, and mind might stretch far beyond the brain.