Hello friends, welcome back to the show, my guest today is Rupert Sheldrake. He's a biologist and an author best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance.

Morphic resonance is the idea of a mysterious telepathy type connection between organisms and a collective memory within species.

Rupert has spent 30 years investigating and researching this phenomenon much to the annoyance of the scientific community.

Today, expect to learn why it is that rats who are taught to escape from a maze have children who are able to escape it more quickly,

and why rats in other areas of the world learn to escape more quickly as well.

Why dogs are able to predict when their owner is coming home 15 minutes before they arrive at the house,

how blutits drowning in milk can be explained by morphic resonance and much more.

To be honest, I have no idea what's going on with this. It feels so unlikely that all of these experiments could be coincidences,

and there doesn't seem to be a way that they could be explained using traditional scientific methods,

so has Rupert stumbled upon something that no other scientist apart from small other fields that follow in his footsteps have actually worked out.

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