The Sheldrake Vernon Dialogues

In 1915, 100 years ago this month, Sigmund Freud published a paper in which he described what he had discovered in his p... Read more

We live in a secular age, it's said, although research also repeatedly suggests that people still pray. Four out of five... Read more

Recent studies suggest that a third of people in the UK believe in guardian angels, and nearly three quarters of America... Read more

Jesus saves, it is often said. But what does that mean? Is it an objectionable notion, implying a bloodthirsty God? In t... Read more

When you look into the blue sky on a sunny day do you glimpse a ball of nuclear fire or, as the London poet and mystic, ... Read more

In this Science Set Free podcast, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss how we are not individuals but rather are mor... Read more

Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss whether atheism is a phase that many people go through, one widely recognised w... Read more

Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss the value of spiritual practices undertaken with others, or as it is known in t... Read more

Until relatively recently, Buddhism was a specialist interest in the west. Now, secular forms of Buddhism, in the shape ... Read more

This ancient question has resurfaced in modern science and atheism. The discovery of the Big Bang as a beginning for the... Read more

History shows that civilisations rise and fall. So where is the west in this cycle? Can the widespread sense of pending ... Read more

In his book, Atheists: The Origin of the Species, Nick Spencer tells the story of atheism as one of protest and politics... Read more

There is a growing new mood in science. The grip that scientific materialism has had on the scientific imagination is be... Read more

Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss ancient Greek philosophy in the latest of the Science Set Free podcast series. ... Read more

Human life is full of rituals, from shaking hands to venerating relics. But how do rituals work, how do they convey mean... Read more

Many people today seek an expansion of mind through the use of psychedelics. So what other worlds, intelligences and ent... Read more

Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss how the communication of science routinely exploits notions of wonder and beaut... Read more

Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss choral evensong, a beautiful evening service sung by choirs in hundreds of chur... Read more

Anxiety about the natural world is high and with good reason. Surprisingly, perhaps, the earliest days of Christianity i... Read more

The depth of the environmental crisis is becoming clearer. Social crises are around us, too. But do these realities stem... Read more