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Biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake and psychotherapist Mark Vernon explore the frontiers where rigorous science meets life's deepest mysteries. Through original research and thoughtful dialogue, they investigate consciousness, memory, spiritual practices, and the nature of reality itself—questioning the materialist assumptions that have dominated science for centuries. Their conversations bridge empirical investigation with ancient wisdom, offering fresh perspectives on everything from prayer and dreams to the extended mind and humanity's role in nature.
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Signup to Generate a PitchBiologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake and psychotherapist Mark Vernon explore the frontiers where rigorous science meets life's deepest mysteries. Through original research and thoughtful dialogue, they investigate consciousness, memory, spiritual practices, and the nature of reality itself, questioning the materialist assumptions that have dominated science for centuries.
The Sheldrake Vernon Dialogues is hosted by Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon. The show has published 103 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Science and Spiritual Practices" (6 October 2026, 32 minutes), "The Souls of Plants" (1 September 2026, 44 minutes), and "Art & the Sacred Today" (21 July 2026, 43 minutes).
The Sheldrake Vernon Dialogues publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 38 minutes across 103 episodes.
Booking probability for The Sheldrake Vernon Dialogues is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Sheldrake Vernon Dialogues requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Sheldrake Vernon Dialogues's contact route on record: public web form.
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Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon hosts The Sheldrake Vernon Dialogues, a religion podcast with 103 episodes published.
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Episode #104
Why is beauty so important to scientists, even those without religious convictions? And is that in some way connected to the failure of New Atheism, which began two decades ago this year? Rupert’s two books on science...
Episode #103
An ancient intuition is that plants have souls and even participate in the life of God by virtue of being alive. But what sense can be made of that today? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert...
Episode #102
Does art need to have a sacred dimension to be art at all? What are the sources of inspiration? In this dialogue, which is the 102nd in the series, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon, explore how meaning and beauty, truth...
The Sheldrake Vernon Dialogues
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yU1CQIE4T10 Many people report apparitions of their loved ones after death, and even of loved dogs and cats. But how do these after-death communications align with the Christian...
Episode #99
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/274OwKLCsFM Support the show on Substack: https://rupertsheldrake.substack.com Saints and genii locorum, or spirits of place, are the names in various wisdom traditions given to...
Episode #98
Support the podcast by subscribing on Substack https://rupertsheldrake.substack.com Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qbRW_iehUA0 The mood has shifted. Subjects that were once taboo - like God - are now discussed...
Episode #97
The imagination is often regarded as a valuable but fanciful capacity. But what if imagination were not an optional extra, or even the possession of human beings alone, but a fundamental feature of reality? In this...
Episode #96
You may agree that the so-called hard problem of consciousness exposes the deep inadequacies of a materialist worldview. But the alternatives - various forms of panpsychism, panentheism and idealism - raise rich and...
Episode #95
The conviction that the natural world is obedient, adhering to laws, is a widespread assumption of modern science. But where did this idea originate and what beliefs does it imply? In this episode of the...
Episode #94
Much of the modern world has become uncoupled from the transcendent in a cultural experiment Nietzsche called the death of God. But might this spiritual crisis prove to be a time of rebirth? In this episode of the...
Episode #93
Watch: https://youtu.be/_ywyQIFMtQE Darwinian evolution shapes modern biology, but the notion of evolution has a wider history, too. In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon...
Episode #92
Forms are all around us: clouds, flowers, creatures, even systems of thought and logical relations. And yet the nature of forms is rarely part of the modern scientific conversation. In this episode of the...
Episode #91
One of the premises of modern science is that nature is devoid of purposes. Instead, purposeless explanations for phenomena are sought. And the strategy has proved hugely productive. Except that allusions to purpose...
Episode #90
No one knows. Repeated experiments have failed to locate where memories are stored in the brain, casting doubt on the conventional assumption that memories are stored as material traces. In this episode of the...
Episode #89
Watch on YouTube https://youtu.be/_TZ-8RMPHM8 Randomness and luck, fate and providence. How do these facets of life relate to one another? Or is everything, actually, mechanically determined with synchronicities, say...
Episode #88
At school, we learn that being alive is to possess certain functions, from respiration to reproduction. But what is life and why can the word “life” be used more widely than referring only to biological life? In the...
Episode #87
Einstein remarked that there was physics before Maxwell and physics after Maxwell, the difference being the introduction of modern field theory. So what difference did fields make and, more to the point, what are they...
Episode #86
The everyday stuff called matter turns out to be both more fascinating and stranger than we usually assume. In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon ask just matter is...
Episode #85
Energy is a key organising principle in modern science, the conversation of energy being a grounding and universal law. But what is energy? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark...
Episode #84
Isaac Newton is best known for his theory of gravity. And yet, the great scientist also insisted: "the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know.” In other words, notions like gravity, and force in general, are...
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British Pilgrimage Trust
Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Paleobiology, University of Cambridge
Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at Syracuse University and London Metropolitan University, Radiophrenia
best-selling author of Morphic Resonance, The Science Delusion
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