Editing Rupert Sheldrake (section)

===''Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work'' (2019)===
Reviews for the book were mixed. In ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', journalist [[Steven Poole]] called Sheldrake's writing "very engaging" and said his defense of prayer worked "sometimes, but not always" and was "not really good enough".<ref name="PooleTelegraph2019">{{cite news |last1=Poole |first1=Steven |title=Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work review: Can science and spirituality mix? |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/ways-go-beyond-work-review-can-science-spirituality-mix/ |access-date=1 December 2022 |work=The Telegraph |date=5 April 2019}}</ref> Veterinary surgeon and barrister [[Charles A. Foster]], writing in [[Literary Review]], called the book "a very mixed bag" but also "funny, wise, [and] full of whimsical weirdness".<ref name="FosterLiteraryReview">{{cite news |last1=Foster |first1=Charles A. |title=More Morphic Resonances |url=https://literaryreview.co.uk/more-morphic-resonances |work=Literary Review |language=en}}</ref>

Writing in the ''[[Times Literary Supplement]]'', anthropologist Jonathan Benthall called the book "an affable, erudite manual to show how life need not be boring", and Sheldrake's arguments "soft at the edges, sometimes presenting his hypotheses as facts".<ref name="BenthallTLS2019">{{cite news |last1=Benthall |first1=Jonathan |title=Rupert Sheldrake" Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work |url=http://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A631649843/AONE |access-date=1 December 2022 |work=Times Literary Supplement |date=12 April 2019 |page=31}}</ref>