Editing Rupert Sheldrake (section)

=== ''The Rebirth of Nature'' (1991) ===
Published in 1991, Sheldrake's ''The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God'' addresses the subject of [[New Age]] consciousness and related topics.<ref name=rebirth/><ref>{{cite book |last=Sheldon Ferguson |first=Duncan |year=1993 |title=New Age Spirituality: An Assessment |publisher=Westminster John Knox Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aGqPXnDtnzwC&pg=PA204 |page=204 |isbn=9780664252182}}</ref> A column in ''The Guardian'' said that the book "seeks to restore the pre-Enlightenment notion that nature is 'alive'," quoting Sheldrake as saying that "indeterminism, spontaneity and creativity have re-emerged throughout the natural world" and that "mystic, animistic and religious ways of thinking can no longer be kept at bay."<ref>{{cite news|title=The rebirth of mother earth|last=Schwartz |first=Walter |work=[[The Guardian]]|date=7 January 1991|page=7}}</ref> The book was reviewed by [[James Lovelock]] in ''Nature'', who argued that "the theory of formative causation makes testable predictions," noting that "nothing has yet been reported which would divert the mainstream of science. ... Even if it is nonsense ... recognizing the need for fruitful errors, I do not regard the book as dangerous."<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Lovelock | first1 = J. E. | year = 1990| title = A danger to science? (review of ''The Rebirth of Nature'' by Rupert Sheldrake) | journal = [[Nature (journal)|Nature]] | volume = 348 | issue = 6303| page = 685 | doi = 10.1038/348685a0 | s2cid = 46012105 }}</ref>