Robert Temple
PROFESSOR ROBERT TEMPLE is author of a dozen challenging and provocative books, commencing with the international best-seller, The Sirius Mystery. His books have been translated into a total of 44 foreign languages. He combines solid academic scholarship with an ability to communicate with the mass public. He is Visiting Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and previously held a similar position at an American university. For many years he was a science writer for the Sunday Times, the Guardian, and a science reporter for Time-Life, as well as a frequent reviewer for Nature and profile writer for The New Scientist.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and has been a member of the Egypt Exploration Society since the 1970s, as well as a member of numerous other academic societies. He has produced, written and presented a documentary for Channel Four and National Geographic Channels on his archaeological discoveries in Greece and Italy, and he was at one time an arts reviewer on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Kaleidoscope’. In 1993, his translation of the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh was performed at the Royal National Theatre in London. With his wife, Olivia, he is co-author and translator of the first complete English version of Aesop’s Fables, which attracted a great deal of international press attention at the time of its release, as the earlier translations had suppressed some of the fables because of Victorian prudery.
Robert Temple is one of the most intrepid writers and thinkers of our time. Best known for his top-selling work The Sirius Mystery, he has written books on Chinese science, ancient Egyptian wisdom, and the baffling astronomical knowledge of the Dogon people of West Africa.
In his latest book, A New Science of Heaven, Temple explores a topic on the scientific vanguard—plasma. A gas composed of positive ions and free electrons, plasma makes up 99 percent of the matter of the universe. This interview, with Quest magazine editor Richard Smoley, will delve into this fascinating and provocative theme, including its implications for the human biome and esoteric ideas about the etheric body. Temple’s picture of plasma will overturn your current view of the universe.
Temple was a colleague of the late Dr. Joseph Needham of Cambridge, in association with whom he wrote The Genius of China, which has been approved as an official reference book (in Chinese) for the Chinese secondary school system, and which won five national awards in the USA. He has done archaeometric dating work and intensive exploration of closed sites in Egypt with the permission of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. His research into historical accounts of the Sphinx is the first comprehensive survey ever undertaken.
The Science of Heaven: An Interview with Robert Temple
Robert Temple – Proof that the Universe is Conscious: How Plasma Research can Explain the Unexplainable, 22nd August 2023
Egyptian Dawn and the Megaliths of North Africa – Prof. Robert Temple FULL LECTURE
The Sirius Mystery Revisited | Prof. Robert Temple | Origins Conference
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