…people at random, calls them up. So say I was doing the test and you were one of my callers. Say my wife, Jill, was the other one. You'd get a call saying, this is Rupert's telephone telepathy test. Please think about Rupert. When you're ready, press…

…test. It says, one of your two callers is on the line right now waiting to speak to you. Press one for Alan, press two for Jill. So I then say who I think it is out of these two people. And as soon as I guess that's recorded on that database, the…

…one of these four people, but you don't know which one. Before you pick the phone up, you have to say who. I think it's Jill. Pick it up. Hi, Jill. You're right or you're wrong. And there's a one in four chance of being right by just guessing, 25%.…

…you don't know which one. Before you pick the phone up, you have to say who. I think it's Jill. Pick it up. Hi, Jill. You're right or you're wrong. And there's a one in four chance of being right by just guessing, 25%. In fact, in these experiments,…

…one, gratitude is another, rituals are another, singing and chanting another is something I learned a lot about through my wife, Jill Pass, who teaches singing and chanting. So I think all of these are enormously enriching and important, but I think they…

…which many spiritual traditions leave out the natural world. I mean, there's not much about it in Buddhism. I once, with my wife, Jill, I was visiting a lama above the sacred Lotus Lake in Himachal Pradesh in India. Lived in a cave. And we climbed up…

…girl, her mother and an Indian professor were with them at the conference. They said, hold up a picture in front of her. And Jill found a picture on her smartphone. And it was actually of an Indian guru smoking a kind of cigar with a turban and robes…

Well thank you Rick, thank you Jill and thank you all for coming. This is one of my favorite places in the whole world which is why Jill and I and our sons Merlin and Cosmo come here every year and it's one of the high points of our year and I…

…thank you Rick, thank you Jill and thank you all for coming. This is one of my favorite places in the whole world which is why Jill and I and our sons Merlin and Cosmo come here every year and it's one of the high points of our year and I just…

…we've got the cat. The only problem was the mouse. And when I started catching wild mice to do this experiment, I'm afraid Jill objected to this particular experiment. But anyway, my experiment was that you videotape a cage with the mouse in. You have a…

…you know well and their numbers. And then the computer picks one of those two callers. Say I'm the subject and I've got two callers, Jill and Joe. Then it will pick Jill or Joe and ring them up and say Jill gets it. She'll answer it and say, this is…

…the computer picks one of those two callers. Say I'm the subject and I've got two callers, Jill and Joe. Then it will pick Jill or Joe and ring them up and say Jill gets it. She'll answer it and say, this is Rupert's telephone telepathy test. Please…

…I'm the subject and I've got two callers, Jill and Joe. Then it will pick Jill or Joe and ring them up and say Jill gets it. She'll answer it and say, this is Rupert's telephone telepathy test. Please think about Rupert. And when you're ready, press 1.…

…ID says, telephone telepathy test. It says, one of your two callers is on the line right now waiting to talk to you. Press 1 for Jill, press 2 for Joe. So I guess. If I guess Jill, I'm right. If I guess Joe, I'm wrong. 50% chance of being right by…

…is on the line right now waiting to talk to you. Press 1 for Jill, press 2 for Joe. So I guess. If I guess Jill, I'm right. If I guess Joe, I'm wrong. 50% chance of being right by chance. The scores are coming in very significantly above chance. And…

…the way people behave within that group. This is something which is practically explored through family constellation work. My wife, Jill, does this kind of work and it's an extraordinarily effective form of family therapy because it treats the whole family…

…me to speak about it at a conference they were having in India in the beginning of 82, which is where I met my wife, Jill. As a result of that and the fact that the people started writing about it in California, I was invited to California for the…

…practices has very much dovetailed with my work. I don't know if you'd like to take on from here. Well, when I met Jill in 1982, I recently published my first book, A New Science of Life, which was about morphic resonance. The idea of a memory…

…literally working in the fields to a whole other world of ideas and people I hadn't met before and one of them was Jill and Jill was talking about forms and spirals and patterns in nature which overlapped very much with my own interests. She was coming…

…working in the fields to a whole other world of ideas and people I hadn't met before and one of them was Jill and Jill was talking about forms and spirals and patterns in nature which overlapped very much with my own interests. She was coming to it…

…me how the measurable scientific effects of spiritual practices can have profound transformative effects on people. And that, as Jill mentioned, resulted in my writing two books about spiritual practices, Science and Spiritual Practices and Ways to Go Beyond…

…about spiritual practices, Science and Spiritual Practices and Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Worked, a title that Jill suggested herself. Each book deals with seven different spiritual practices which have been studied scientifically. And both those books…

…And that made total sense to me and I started doing that and it got me interested in spiritual practices. My wife, Jill Pearse, teaches chanting and meditation, and she's been doing that for many years. And again, chanting and meditation, chanting is a…

…and I have not seen each other for 10 months or so. He flew in from Vancouver this afternoon. I saw he and Jill for the first time this evening. I have yet to see Merlin, who is the latest adumbration of the Sheldrakean morphogenetic compressants. And…

…the very essence of chanting, which is present in all religious traditions. Indeed, that's one of the things my wife, Jill Perster, she re-pioneered the power of group chanting and gives workshops on chanting. And they're open to everyone, whatever their…

…been teaching for decades now. I'm not going to talk about this evening because I was, as it were, outsourcing this to Jill. I brought some of her pamphlets, healing voice workshops, which she gives here in London. She's had years of experience and she…

…what happened in its early phase can get echoed down the generations Yes, a very important point. I've never worked with organisations, Jill has to some extent, but I'm sure the same principles apply and you must have had many experiences of this. And I…

…notion of prehension, I think this does link across and links to this notion of nested systems. And you're talking of Jill Pearse's work with constellations. That we are picking up and sensing in many different ways beyond that which is just immediate…

…we've got the cat. The only problem was the mouse. And when I started catching wild mice to do this experiment, I'm afraid Jill objected to this particular experiment. But anyway, my experiment was that you videotape a cage with the mouse in. You have a…