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Science Set Free

By Rupert Sheldrake
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The bestselling author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home offers an intriguing new assessment of modern day science that will radically change the way we view what is possible.

In Science Set Free (originally published to acclaim in the UK as The Science Delusion), Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows the ways in which science is being constricted by assumptions that have, over the years, hardened into dogmas. Such dogmas are not only limiting, but dangerous for the future of humanity.
 
According to these principles, all of reality is material or physical; the world is a machine, made up of inanimate matter; nature is purposeless; consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain; free will is an illusion; God exists only as an idea in human minds, imprisoned within our skulls.
 
But should science be a belief-system, or a method of enquiry? Sheldrake shows that the materialist ideology is moribund; under its sway, increasingly expensive research is reaping diminishing returns while societies around the world are paying the price.
 
In the skeptical spirit of true science, Sheldrake turns the ten fundamental dogmas of materialism into exciting questions, and shows how all of them open up startling new possibilities for discovery.
 
Science Set Free will radically change your view of what is real and what is possible.

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4.5
“This was one of the best books I've read in a very long time. I'm currently a graduate student in physics so it feels like this book was written explicitly for someone like me. The book was littered with physics examples that were very enlightening for me. Many of the dogmatic principles of modern science that he listed were things that I either explicitly or implicitly believed to some extent. I feel I have always pushed aside many of the 'alternative' medicinal practices and anything to do with telepathy offhand without giving them much thought or credence. After reading this book I have realized that there is no reason to dismiss topics such as this, why not hear out what the researchers have to say/write about it? If I'm to believe that quantum mechanics acts at the fundamental level of our universe, why is it so crazy to think that telepathy is something that can exist? Those both seem equally 'crazy' yet physicists are taught to simply accept quantum mechanics as a fundamental part of our universe. My only complaint is that it sometimes felt repetitive when he would repeatedly reference ideas from previous chapters. Certainly some of the time it was helpful as a refresher/to highlight an idea, but it sometimes felt like a little much to me.”

About Rupert Sheldrake

DR. RUPERT SHELDRAKE is a biologist and author of more than 80 technical papers and ten books, including A New Science of Life and Dogs That Know When Their Owners Come Home. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, where he was Director of Studies in cell biology, and also was a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. From 2005-2010, he was the Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for research on unexplained human abilities, funded from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California, and a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute in Connecticut. He is married, has two sons, and lives in London. His web site is www.sheldrake.org.

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