Joe Rogan Experience #550 - Rupert Sheldrake
September 17, 2014
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as posted by the channelRupert Sheldrake is an author, lecturer, and researcher in the field of parapsychology, known for his proposed theory of morphic resonance.
Guests & Subjects Covered
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51 claims extractedRats learn faster through collective memory across continents
Human genome project failed to deliver promised results
Genomics company shares collapsed after genome project
Genetic predictions explain only 5% of human height
FDA shut down 23andMe for misleading disease predictions
Harvard Business School calls biotech a massive money-losing scheme
Scientific taboo against inheritance of acquired characteristics reversed
Soviet Union persecuted geneticists over inheritance theory
Nature magazine editor compared Sheldrake's book to Mein Kampf
Darwin believed in inheritance of acquired characteristics
Darwin documented inherited phobia in dog from parent trauma
Neo-Darwinism rejected Darwin's inheritance of acquired characteristics
Fundamentalist creationism is uniquely American phenomenon
European churches accepted evolution while America rejected it
Reagan administration recruited radical Christians as electoral base
American political parties switched sides since Civil War
Bible provides stronger biblical basis for slavery than abolition
Fundamentalism used biblical texts to justify slavery and oppose evolution
Sheldrake rejected Christianity as teenager, later became Christian
Scientific education packages atheism with mechanistic worldview
Psychedelics revealed limitations of scientific materialism
Hindu philosophy lacks Christian emphasis on helping others
Sheldrake found Christian ashram combining yoga and Christian worship
Sheldrake practices Christianity while wife practices Tibetan Buddhism
Catholic Church associated with child sexual abuse by priests
Priest giving marriage counseling despite alcoholism and abuse allegations
Celibacy requirement for Catholic priests causes sexual abuse
Sheldrake's first DMT experience with Terence McKenna was transformative
John the Baptist induced near-death experiences through drowning
Baptist total immersion baptism was actually drowning ritual
Scholars believe Moses experienced DMT-induced visions at burning bush
DMT experiences may be direct contact with divine consciousness
Hindu cow worship may relate to psilocybin mushrooms on cattle
Scientific taboo against studying sense of being stared at
Mind extends beyond brain through visual projection
Children more sensitive to being stared at than adults
Sheldrake's four-year-old son scored 100% on staring detection test
Children under nine most sensitive to being stared at
Amsterdam Science Museum staring detection experiment highly significant
Women more likely to experience being stared at than men
Dogs telepathically sense owners coming home
Skeptic Richard Wiseman replicated dog telepathy results
Dogs detect owners' intentions 80% of the time
Telephone telepathy experiments show 45% accuracy, replicated
Telephone telepathy occurs through intention transmission
Nursing mothers telepathically sense baby's needs
Animal groups coordinated by morphic fields
Telepathy occurs only between emotionally bonded people
Sports teams coordinate through morphic fields
Precognition experiments show 53-54% accuracy on emotional stimuli
Body responds emotionally five seconds before stimulus appears
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