A Design-Theorist's Brief Guide to Rupert Sheldrake

I first encountered Rupert Sheldrake through the 1993 PBS documentary A Glorious Accident. He was featured in that documentary along with Oliver Sacks, Daniel Dennett, Stephen Jay Gould, Freeman Dyson, and Stephen Toulmin. I found Sheldrake engaging, insightful, and congenial. I hoped one day to correspond with him.

He and I have now been in touch for over a decade. I've read some of his work and he has read some of mine. He even provided an endorsement for my most recent book, Being as Com...