Rupert Sheldrake: The Scientist They Tried to Silence

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 923 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Rupert Sheldrake is one of the most controversial scientists alive. When his first book was published, its ideas were considered so taboo that one prominent journal suggested it should be burned, and his TED Talk was taken down following intense backlash from members of the scientific community. In this episode of the Align Podcast, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake explores the controversial concept of morphic resonance, telepathy, and the mystery of memory beyond the brain. Dr. Sheldrake shares insights on spiritual disconnection, depression, rites of passage, psychedelics, and offers wisdom for the next generation on living a connected life. ALIGN PODCAST EPISODE #582 THIS PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY: Go to https://ax3.life/align and use the promo code ALIGN for a 20% discount Get 15% off at Kaizen (clean electrolytes): https://LiveKaizen.com/align Support your cells and how you age with Mitopure® Gummies from Timeline. Visit https://timeline.com/ALIGN and save up to 39% off your Mitopure® Gummies. OUR GUEST RUPERT SHELDRAKE, PHD, is a biologist and author best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance. At Cambridge University he worked in developmental biology as a Fellow of Clare College. He was Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics in Hyderabad, India. From 2005 to 2010 he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick project for research on unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge. DR. RUPERT SHELDRAKE 🌐 Website ▶ https://www.sheldrake.org/ ▶ YouTube ▶ https://www.youtube.com/@RupertSheldrakePhD 📸 Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/rupertsheldrake/ AARON ALEXANDER 📸 IG ▶ https://www.instagram.com/aaronalexander/ 🤳 TIKTOK ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@alignmethod 👉 SUBSCRIBE ▶ https://www.youtube.com/@AlignPodcast?sub_confirmation=1 🌐 WEBSITE ▶ https://www.alignpodcast.com TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 00:40 How Telepathy Might Work Beyond Physics 00:16:21 Is Memory Really Stored in the Brain? 00:24:29 The Controversial Morphic Resonance 00:39:34 Are We Truly Individuals or Expressions of the Past? 00:46:05 Spiritual Disconnection and the Rise of Modern Depression 00:54:28 Death, Rebirth, and the Power of Initiation Rituals 01:05:22 Extreme Sports, Crime, and the Need for Rites of Passage 01:16:42 Terence McKenna, Friendship, and the Early Internet 01:21:32 Meditation, Prayer, and Wisdom for the Next Generation ABOUT Aaron Alexander is the best-selling author of The Align Method and host of The Align Podcast — a Top 10 Philosophy show with over one million monthly views. For two decades, he has helped the world’s greatest performers, athletes, and CEO’s improve the way they move, breathe, and regulate their nervous systems — simply put, he helps the best in the world feel and function even better. Aaron’s mission is simple: to inspire and educate people to live in alignment — body, mind, and beyond. Through the podcast and Align Breathing certification program, he teaches the principles of posture, breath, and movement that reconnect us to our natural state of strength and ease. TOPICS 1. Morphic Resonance Theory 2. Telepathy Research 3. Human Memory 4. Consciousness 5. Epigenetics vs. Inherited Habits 6. Organ Transplant Memory Phenomena 7. Spiritual Growth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Rupert Sheldrake is one of the most controversial scientists alive.
0:03.0	His work has disrupted the foundation of modern biology so much that his TED Talk was removed,
0:08.0	and nature once called his book a book for burning.
0:11.0	I think there's already plenty of evidence for telepathy.
0:15.0	Telepathy typically happens between people who know each other well and who are closely bonded.
0:21.6	Parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers, best friends, close colleagues.
0:26.6	50% of dogs seem to know when they're in as are coming home, about 30% of cats.
0:31.6	These things are common.
0:32.6	What the results of those experiments show is that Dr. Rupert Sheldry, thank you so much for making time to be here.
0:48.4	I've been a mega fan of your work for a very long time.
0:54.5	So I'm very grateful to get to have this conversation with you.
0:58.8	From your perspective, is there a way to confirm with 100% certainty,
1:06.7	the validity of the phenomenon of telepathy.
1:11.4	We confirm something like this with 100% certainty to a skeptic.
1:15.6	Well, no, not for a hardcore skeptic,
1:17.8	because they're simply not interested in the evidence.
1:20.7	And, you know, the state of the art in the skeptic movement,
1:24.3	I subscribe to the skeptical inquirer,
1:26.9	so I keep my finger on the pulse of
1:28.8	the, you know, hardcore skeptics. And, you know, the latest, two or three years ago,
1:37.4	O'Cock, who's one of their top people, and a guy called Raybo, published a paper in
1:43.4	psychological bulletin, arguing that no evidence
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