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Science Set Free

By: Rupert Sheldrake
Narrated by: Rupert Sheldrake, Jane Collingwood, David Timson
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The best-selling author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home offers an intriguing new assessment of modern-day science that will radically change the way we view what is possible.

In Science Set Free, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows the ways in which science is being constricted by assumptions that have, over the years, hardened into dogmas. Such dogmas are not only limiting, but dangerous for the future of humanity.

According to these principles, all of reality is material or physical; the world is a machine, made up of inanimate matter; nature is purposeless; consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain; free will is an illusion; God exists only as an idea in human minds, imprisoned within our skulls.

But should science be a belief-system, or a method of enquiry? Sheldrake shows that the materialist ideology is moribund; under its sway, increasingly expensive research is reaping diminishing returns while societies around the world are paying the price.

In the skeptical spirit of true science, Sheldrake turns the 10 fundamental dogmas of materialism into exciting questions, and shows how all of them open up startling new possibilities for discovery.

Science Set Free will radically change your view of what is real and what is possible.

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Thought-provoking Ideas • Scientific Dogma Critique • Pleasing Author Voice • Well-researched Arguments • Humble Tone
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Beautiful and highly practical. One shortcoming : the other male reader. Sheldrake himself is edifying to listen to.

Stunning and compelling

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My initial interest is to understand more about Shelldrake’s research about “morphic resonance” but this specific book is not yet available on Audible. This book was fun to listen to, very well researched and grounded. I highly recommend this book to all persons who are proud, open-minded scientists and to the lay person alike that intuitively knows that there is more to science than cold, hard material data.

A must read for the scientist and lay person alike

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The truth is out there, possibly beyond us humans and certainly that of our current modes of limited scientific thinking. Rupert beautifully boxes the religion of science, exposing its weak, dogmatic foundations and poking holes through the protective cloaks of the priesthood. For non-scientists, this book is quite effective - most of us don't have "skin in the game" that drives us to protect "our precious" science, thus, the concepts are quickly absorbed and understood. But for scientists, they are the ones who deeply need this information and are the least likely to engage with it. Why? Friends, we are in a very dark room...

A light in a very dark room

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The scientific status quo is the new Catholic church and needs to be questioned via its own processes. This book will explain why and how it can be done.

The book that proves what you've already suspected

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Having always felt that using mathematical equations and results as evidence as opposed to actual observational evidence in cosmology has gone too far, I picked this book to learn more about such patterns in other fields. It is a great book and there is a good deal of information here and it left me yearning for more. However, Rupert should not simply dismiss all the successes material science has produced so far. I feel that material science is but one leg of a bipedal animal that the "understanding" process is. We need to figure out what the other leg is.

Scientific community is not immune to politics, funding games, bias, ineffective peer review etc. And this reflects on any real progress we are making. All of us need to jointly explore this more. This book is a good start.

Gaps in the current scientific approach

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This book is very unique
It is all making sense
Real science shouldnt have prejudices

Science without prejudices

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All true scientists must read Sheldrake’s book. As everything in our world is in need of disruption, and rightly so, the mechanistic view of science is no exception. Perhaps it should have been the first to be so.

A most important work

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Read this book with an open mind and a humble heart, especially those of you regularly worshipping at the temple of Science.

An important book, a sobering read

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Science Set Free is a carefully written deep dive into the scientific method and the catastrophic effects of the state of the scientific endeavor today having morphed into a dogmatic self-limiting system. The point of the book is the liberation of science from dogmatisms to re-energize the scientific pursuit of knowledge.

The author carefully analyzes the current state of affairs in science as a dogmatic pursuit of materialism that has assumed many untestable principles as facts. These assumptions are then treated as barriers to scientific investigations of the very foundations of science itself.

I urge everyone to read this book with an open mind and true scientific investigative spirit. I think you will become a better scientist in the process.

An informative and liberating analysis of the scientific method

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Sheldrake lays out the strongest and most logical confrontation of assumed science dogma to date. He doesn't claim to have ALL answers, but he clearly identifies many huge holes in the hyper-materialist perspectives, then proposes alternate possibilities, which are unified by an overarching theory. This book is complex, rich in detail, and historically expansive and instructive. Throughout, the histories and the threads of current scientific thought are laid out, giving the reader/listener an exceptionally lucid understanding of current debates and perspectives.

One caveat: If you have made up your mind (as one reviewer clearly has), this book will infuriate you. Fair warning: This book is for strong, open minds only.

Dear Science: Put up or shut up.

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