Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most original and farsighted scientists, shows that the findings of science over the last few hundred years have depended on the mistaken premise of our separation from nature. In an impressively rigorous and wide-ranging discussion of recent developments in modern science, Rupert Sheldrake goes on to argue that animism (the belief that natural phenomena - including things like plants and rivers - are organised and animated by an invisible force or `soul') is something rather more than just a primitive superstition. Sheldrake then proposes a new code of ethics that acknowledges our involvement in the living world of nature, and shows how we are on the threshold of a new synthesis in which traditional wisdom, personal experience and scientific insight can be mutually enriching. 272pp, 230mm x 158mm, softback, 1994
Psychic development 
