title: Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery
author:  Rupert Sheldrake 
description: <br />"Science is ready to evolve beyond materialism and dogma.Rupert Sheldrake is a pioneer who is paving the way for the future of the sciences." <br /><b>Deepak Chopra, M.D., author of <i>War of the Worldviews</i></b><br /><br />This provocative and engaging book will make you question basic assumptions of Western science. I agree with Rupert Sheldrake that, among other problems, those assumptions hinder medical progress because they severely limit our understanding of health and illness. I will recommend <i>Science Set Free</i> to my colleagues, students, patients, and friends.<br /><b>Andrew Weil, M.D., author of<i>Spontaneous Happiness<br /></i></b><br />Rupert Sheldrake may be to the 21st century what Charles Darwin was to the 19th: someone who sent science spinning in wonderfully new and fertile directions. The only thing that is certain in science is that it will change. In SCIENCE SET FREE, Sheldrake gives us an inspiring picture of what these changes are likely to be."<br /><b>Larry Dossey, M.D. author of<i>Reinventing Medicine</i></b><br /><br />Science is often portrayed as a paragon of intellectual freedom. It's a quaint idea, but it's not true. Some key concepts in science have hardened into unshakeable, unquestioned dogma<i>. Science Set Free</i>exposes ten of the key dogmas of modern times. If even one is slightly off, then the scientific world is in for a shock, and the aftershocks will have huge impacts on technology, medicine, and religion. Rupert Sheldrake skillfully examines each dogma and argues, with evidence, that all ten dogmas are wrong. After reading this book I am persuaded that he's right. If you agree that science must be freed from the shackles of antiquated beliefs, then read this book. If you don't agree, then read it twice.<br /><b>Dean Radin, Ph.D., author of<i>The Conscious Universe</i></b><br /><br />This is a terrific, engrossing book that throws open the shutters to reveal our world to be so much more intriguing and profound than could ever have been supposed.<br /><b>James Le Fanu, author of <i>The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine</i></b><br /><b></b><br />Certainly we need to accept the limitations of much current dogma and keep our minds as open as we reasonably can. Sheldrake may help us do so through this well-written, challenging, and always interesting book. <br /><b>Sir Crispin Tickell, <i>Financial Times</i></b><br /><b></b><br />Rupert Sheldrake does science, humanity and the world at large a considerable favor. <br /><b>Colin Tudge, Ph.D., <i>Independent</i></b><br /><b></b><br />A fascinating, humane, and refreshing book that any layman can enjoy. . . . Dr. Sheldrake wants to bring energy and excitement back into science . . . He has already done more than any other scientist alive to broaden the appeal of the discipline, and readers should get their teeth into the important and astounding book.<br /><b>Jason Goodwin, <i>Country Life</i></b>
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  Also by Rupert Sheldrake
  
  
  
  
  
  A New Science of Life (1981; new edition 2009)
  
  
  The Presence of the Past (1988; new edition 2011)
  
  
  The Rebirth of Nature (1990)
  
  
  Seven Experiments That Could Change the World (1994; new edition 2002)
  
  
  Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home (1999; new edition 2011)
  
  
  The Sense of Being Stared At (2003)
  
  
  
  
  
  with Ralph Abraham and Terence McKenna
  
  
  Chaos Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness (2001)
  
  
  The Evolutionary Mind (2005)
  
  
  
  
  
  with Matthew Fox
  
  
  Natural Grace (1996)
  
  
  The Physics of Angels (1996)
  
  The Science Delusion
  
  
  
  
  
  Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Rupert Sheldrake
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Coronet
  
  
  An imprint of Hodder & Stoughton
  
  
  An Hachette UK company
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © Rupert Sheldrake 2012
  
  
  
  
  
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