Editing Rupert Sheldrake (section)

===In popular culture===
Between 1989 and 1999, Sheldrake, [[ethnobotany|ethnobotanist]] [[Terence McKenna]] and mathematician [[Ralph Abraham (mathematician)|Ralph Abraham]] recorded a series of discussions exploring diverse topics relating to the "[[Anima mundi|world soul]]" and evolution.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=sheldrake.org |title=The Sheldrake–McKenna–Abraham Trialogues |url=http://www.sheldrake.org/Trialogues/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128060018/http://www.sheldrake.org/Trialogues/ |archive-date=28 November 2013 }}</ref> These resulted in a number of books based on the discussions: ''Trialogues at the Edge of the West: Chaos, Creativity and the Resacralization of the World'' (1992), ''The Evolutionary Mind: Trialogues at the Edge of the Unthinkable'' (1998), and ''The Evolutionary Mind: Conversations on Science, Imagination & Spirit'' (2005). In an interview for the book ''Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse'', Sheldrake says he believes the use of [[psychedelic drugs]] "can reveal a world of consciousness and interconnection", which he says he has experienced.<ref name="Brown2005">{{cite book|last=Brown|first=David Jay|title=Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse: Contemplating the Future with Noam Chomsky, George Carlin, Deepak Chopra, Rupert Sheldrake, and Others|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uCF5SBj0EmUC&pg=PA75|access-date=13 December 2013|date=6 June 2005|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=9781403965325|pages=75–}}</ref> Alternative medicine advocate [[Deepak Chopra]] is a supporter of Sheldrake's work.<ref name=baer>{{cite journal|doi=10.1525/maq.2003.17.2.233|title=The Work of Andrew Weil and Deepak Chopra—Two Holistic Health/New Age Gurus: A Critique of the Holistic Health/New Age Movements|year=2003|last1=Baer|first1=Hans A.|journal=Medical Anthropology Quarterly|volume=17|issue=2|pages=233–50|pmid=12846118|s2cid=28219719}}</ref><ref name=chopra-review/>

Sheldrake's work was amongst those cited in a faux research paper written by [[Alan Sokal]] and submitted to ''[[Social Text]]''.<ref name=Hoax>{{cite book |editor=Sokal, A. D. |year=2000 |title=The Sokal Hoax: The Sham that Shook the Academy |publisher=University of Nebraska Press.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QkcuQFBXLFQC&q=Sheldrake |isbn=978-0803219243}}</ref> In 1996, the journal published the paper as if it represented real scientific research,<ref name=Will>Will, George, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QkcuQFBXLFQC&dq=George+Will+Gibberish+Sokal&pg=PA91 ''Smitten with Gibberish''], [[The Washington Post]], 30 May 1996. Republished in ''The Sokal Hoax: The Sham that Shook the Academy'', edited by Alan Sokal. University of Nebraska Press (2000). Retrieved 10 November 2013.</ref> an event that has come to be known as the [[Sokal affair]]. Sokal later said that he had suggested in the hoax paper that 'morphogenetic fields' constituted a cutting-edge theory of quantum gravity, adding that "This connection [was] pure invention; even Sheldrake makes no such claim."<ref name=Hoax />

Sheldrake has been described as a New Age author,<ref name="Guardian holistic"/><ref name=gunther/><ref name=frazier/> but does not endorse certain New Age interpretations of his ideas.<ref name=hanegraaff/>

The 2009 ''[[Zero Escape]]'' video game ''[[Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors]]'' was inspired by Sheldrake's morphogenetic field theories.<ref name="Oswald2016">{{cite journal |last1=Somerdin |first1=Melissa |title=The game debate: Video games as innovative storytelling |journal=The Oswald Review |date=2016 |volume=18 |issue=1 |page=7 |url=https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1165&context=tor |access-date=5 November 2022}}</ref><ref name="Siliconera2010">{{cite news |title=999: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors Interview Gets Philosophical, Then Personal |url=https://www.siliconera.com/999-9-hours-9-persons-9-doors-interview-gets-philosophical-then-personal/ |access-date=5 November 2022 |work=Siliconera |date=3 September 2010}}</ref>