Is Telepathy Real? Dr. Rupert Sheldrake on the Science of Connection

Commune with Jeff Krasno · Oct 29, 2026 · 45m

Have you ever thought of someone right before they called? Biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake says that's not a coincidence.

In this episode, Jeff sits down with Rupert Sheldrake, the Cambridge-trained biologist and author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, to look at the evidence for telepathy. Rupert walks through decades of filmed experiments with dogs, nursing mothers, and phone calls, and explains why he thinks the effect depends on emotional bonds, not distance.

Recorded on a pilgrimage in the English countryside, the conversation widens into the limits of materialism, the…