Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, is a biologist and author of more than 75 scientific papers and several books, including, most recently, The Sense of Being Stared At. A former Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University; Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard; and Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he is currently the Perrott-Warrick Research Scholar, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. www.sheldrake.org