Welcome to Roon Soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the paranormal.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week for our very first show of the new year, we have an unbelievably special guest,

the one and only Dr. Rupert Sheldrake.

Dr. Sheldrake joins us to talk about his latest book, Science and Spiritual Practices,

which is already available to you lucky people in the UK or you lazy people, me basically,

who never got around to updating Kindle Store Country preferences since leaving the UK 18 months ago.

A fantastic chat unsurprisingly.

Dr. Scheldrich, thank you very much for your time.

It's good to be with you. Wonderful. So I have a traditional first question here, but I would like to switch it up a bit for your good

self because the listeners are by a large very familiar with your work and we all

cheer along when we hear you talk about things like materialism and and so on and

you've been at this for a little while so my first question

Dr. Sheldon is are we winning?

Oh yes I think so I mean the the dogmatic materialist worldview is crumbling I show that in my

previous book the science delusion and since that book came out things have changed even further

The for example in evolutionary theory

Neudominism is now regarded as sort of old hat. I mean the idea it's just random mutations and natural selection is untenable because of the rise of epigenetics in the last 10 to 15 years.

And now people are calling for a new evolutionary synthesis, a whole new way of understanding

evolution.

Within physics, the problems of dark matter and dark energy have got worse, not better,

because all attempts to find the supposed source of dark matter have failed and people are saying, well, you know, does

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