Is Telepathy Real? Dr. Rupert Sheldrake on the Science of Connection
October 29, 2026 · 45 min
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A Cambridge biologist spent decades testing telepathy in labs and found results that are hard to dismiss.
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In this episode
- Why telepathy appears most often between people with strong emotional bonds
- What filmed experiments with dogs reveal about unexplained connection
- How phone-call guessing tests produced results well above chance
- Where mainstream science may be closing doors that deserve to stay open
About this episode
Have you ever thought of someone right before they called? Biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake says that's not a coincidence.
In this episode, Jeff sits down with Rupert Sheldrake, the Cambridge-trained biologist and author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, to look at the evidence for telepathy. Rupert walks through decades of filmed experiments with dogs, nursing mothers, and phone calls, and explains why he thinks the effect depends on emotional bonds, not distance.
Recorded on a pilgrimage in the English countryside, the conversation widens into the limits of materialism, the trust crisis facing our institutions, and why Rupert, a practicing Anglican, finds more open inquiry in church than in a lab.
- Why telepathy shows up most between parents and children, twins, partners, and close friends
- The experiments with dogs who wait at the door when their owners head home
- Rupert's telephone tests, where people guessed their caller far more often than chance
- Why he compares telepathy to quantum entanglement, but stops short of calling it that
- Whether science has become as dogmatic as the religion it once challenged
This episode is for anyone who has felt an unexplained connection to someone they love, or who suspects science doesn't yet have the full picture of the mind.
Originally released in 2025.
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