To recap from last issue. Morphogenetic theory, as stated by Professor Rupert Sheldrake, will assume the following: That morphogenetic (formcreating) fields exist. That these are spatial and as real as any gravitational or electromagnetic field (they might be called habit patterns of form). An Mfield will both order and shape matter—matter in crystal, cell, tissue, organ, whole organism—through morphic resonance. At higher levels morphic resonance can influence behavior and even collective thought. But this resonance will transmit only from like form to like form. Moreover, M-fields function not just across space but through time as well. Each previous M-field, therefore, is retained in the present. Thus a species’ entire formal history will be available to it at all times.
Example: the mysterious crystal. This is accepted, if inexplicable, fact: as soon as a new crystal has been grown, it will at once become possible to grow that same crystal anywhere else. Scientific effort to explain this phenomenon has been strained at best. The crystal seed was airborne in an unaccountable manner. Or brought around on some lab technician’s beard. Sheldrake, enlisting morphogenetic theory, would hypothesize that morphic resonance is a carrier for crystalline contagion. New crystals shape new (if relatively weak) M-fields, which can transmit across distance—just as rat intelligence broadcast from Boston to Edinburgh in the experiment discussed last issue. But here you appreciate that morphic resonance isn’t just some unknown effect of sensation or intellect. A crystal doesn’t putter around with ESP.
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