Rupert Sheldrake Stabbed At New Mexico Conference

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Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D. Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 75 scientific papers

and ten books. A former Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he

studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he was a

Scholar of Clare College, took a double first class honours degree and

was awarded the University Botany Prize. He then studied philosophy at

Harvard University, where he was a Knox Fellow, before returning

to Cambridge, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry. He was a Fellow of

Clare College, Cambridge University, where he carried out research on

the development of plants and the aging of cells. At Clare College he

was also Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology.

From 1968 to 1969, based in the Botany

Department of the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, he studied rain

forest plants. From 1974 to 1985 he worked at the International Crops

Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad,

India, where he was Principal Plant Physiologist. While in India, he

also lived for a year and a half at the ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths in

Tamil Nadu, where he wrote his first book, A New Science of Life. He is

the current Perrott-Warrick Scholar

and Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project. He is also a Fellow of the

Institute of Noetic Sciences, near San Francisco, and an Academic

Director and Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute in

Connecticut. He lives in London with his wife Jill Purce www.healingvoice.com and two sons.

He has appeared in many TV programs in Britain and overseas, and was

one of the participants (along with Jay Gould, Dennett,

Oliver Sacks, Freeman Dyson and Toulmin) in a TV series called A Glorious Accident,

shown on PBS channels throughout the US. He has often taken part in BBC

and other radio programmes. He has written for newspapers such as the Guardian, where he had a regular monthly column, The

Times, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Sunday Times, Times

Educational Supplement, Times Higher Education Supplement and Times Literary Supplement, and has contributed to a variety of magazines, including New Scientist, Resurgence, the Ecologist and the Spectator.

Books by Rupert Sheldrake:

A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation (1981)

The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature (1988)

The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God (1992)

Seven Experiments that Could Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Revolutionary Science (1994) (Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the British Institute for Social Inventions)

Dogs that Know When Their Owners are Coming Home, and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals (1999) (Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the British Scientific and Medical Network)

The Sense of Being Stared At, And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind (2003)

With Ralph Abraham and Terence McKenna:

Trialogues at the Edge of the West (1992), republished as Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness (2001)

The Evolutionary Mind (1998)

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Rupert Sheldrake Stabbed At New Mexico Conference

An Englishman speaking on " thought transference "

during an international conference at La Fonda on

Wednesday was stabbed in the leg by a Japanese

man who seemed upset by his remarks, witnesses

said.

Rupert Sheldrake of London was sitting up and

alert as medics took him on a gurney to an

ambulance outside Santa Fe's historic hotel at

the southeast corner of the Plaza. Asked if he

was OK, Sheldrake smiled and responded, " I hope

so. "

Hirano Kazuki, 33, of Yokohama, Japan, spent

Wednesday night in jail after he was arrested on

charges of aggravated battery and assault with

intent to commit a violent felony. He provided no

resistance as officers led him in handcuffs from

the hotel.

Hirano had been attending the 10th International

Conference on Science and Consciousness. Other

attendees said he had been acting oddly. They

said he confronted Sheldrake earlier this week,

telling him he heard voices and saw demons.

Another featured speaker at the conference told

the man he was " full of negative energy " and

counseled him to " calm down, " said Evan Mecham,

an attendee from Broomfield, Colo.

Another attendee, Graves of Tel Aviv,

Israel, said he had tried to talk to Hirano

earlier in the conference, but he did not

respond. On Tuesday, Graves said he watched

Hirano as he sat on a bench, rocking back and

forth, like an orthodox Jew in prayer. " Why the

hell would he attack that guy? " he asked.

Sheldrake's keynote address was titled " Memory

and Morphic Resonance, " and his workshop was

" Fields of the Mind: Experimental and Research

and Practical Intuition, " according to a catalog

on the conference which began Monday and

concluded today. Sheldrake, described as a

biologist with a doctorate degree, is the author

of Seven Experiences that Could Change the World.

of Fresno, Calif., said Sheldrake

had been talking about how thoughts can be

transferred by staring into another's eyes.

During the lecture in the main ballroom on La

Fonda's second floor, an Asian man left the room

and when he returned, he didn't take a seat but

stood near the podium with his eyes closed like

he was meditating, said.

The attack came when Sheldrake called for a break

about 3 p.m. said he started to leave the

room when he heard a commotion. By the time he

looked back, he said, an Asian man was being held

on the floor by four people while a fifth held a

knife in a napkin. Mecham said the knife was a

folding type that hunters typically use.

said Sheldrake had a 2- or 3-inch cut on

the front of his left thigh, just above his

kneecap, causing blood to spurt some 8 inches

into the air as he lay on his back. , who

is a physician, said he stemmed the blood loss

while they waited for the ambulance and police.

Had Sheldrake not been standing at the podium,

said, the stab wound might have been more

serious because it would have been higher on his

body.

said when he asked Hirano why he stabbed

Sheldrake, Hirano mumbled something he couldn't

understand. " He seemed like he was in a trance or

schizophrenic, " said. " He seemed to be

angry. "

Police Capt. said the first

law-enforcement officers to arrive on the scene

were his brother, Chief , and

Sheriff's Lt. Marco Lucero, who both had been at

a meeting at City Hall, and Officer Cecil Sena,

who patrols the Plaza and downtown. By the time

they arrived, conference attendees had subdued

Hirano and were treating Sheldrake,

said. He said Sheldrake was taken to St.

Regional Medical Center where his injuries were

determined not to be life-threatening.

After police found Hirano's Japanese passport,

which listed his home as Tokyo, said, " we

notified the Japanese consulate to advise them of

the custody of one of their nationals. " Hirano

was booked into the Santa Fe County jail about 9

p.m. and is expected to be arraigned this

afternoon in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court.

His online booking sheet listed his home as

Yokohama.

Many people attending the conference appeared

shaken by the incident and declined to comment. A

man who helped subdue Hirano would only say, " The

creator will take care of the rest of it. "

Attendees gathered for a prayer session before

leaving La Fonda on Wednesday afternoon.

Source: The New Mexican

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-- " Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. " Rabindranath Tagore

-- " Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. " Rabindranath Tagore