#morphic resonance

'all things pass' by Loui Jover

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“I like the idea of these rituals, anger and resentment, like other patterns of emotional response, are not merely personal; they have a generic, habitual quality. For example, if you get into a resentful state of mind, simply by being in that state of mind you tune in by morphic resonance with countless people who have been resentful in the past, including yourself. So you are influenced by your own past resentments and the resentments many other people have felt. You tune in to a generalized sense of resentment. These things are transpersonal in the sense that they possess us. Good habits can also possess us. We’re not usually very original. Most of the feelings, habits, states of mind we get into, many other people have had in the past. When we get into them we’re linking ourselves to all the people who have been in similar states before us.

If we’re in a state of Grace, then we’re part of what, in a christian context, we call the communion of saints.”

Natural Grace ::: Rupert Sheldrake

David Bohm: His Life and Ideas (June 2020)

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake's Morphic Resonance theory. “After obtaining his PhD, Sheldrake became a fellow of Clare College,[35] working in biochemistry and cell biology with funding from the Royal Society Rosenheim Research Fellowship.[36] He investigated auxins, a class of phytohormones that plays a role in plant vascular cell differentiation.[37] Sheldrake and Philip Rubery developed the chemiosmotic model of polar auxin transport.[38]

Sheldrake says that he ended this line of research when he concluded,

The system is circular. It does not explain how [differentiation is] established to start with. After nine years of intensive study, it became clear to me that biochemistry would not solve the problem of why things have the basic shape they do.[37]

Having an interest in Indian philosophy, Hinduism and transcendental meditation, Sheldrake resigned his position at Clare and went to work on the physiology of tropical crops in Hyderabad, India,[9] as principal plant physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) from 1974 to 1978.[7][9] There he published on crop physiology[39] and co-authored a book on the anatomy of the pigeonpea.[40]

Sheldrake left ICRISAT to focus on writing A New Science of Life, during which time he spent a year and a half in the Saccidananda Ashram of Bede Griffiths,[9][41] a Benedictine monk active in interfaith dialogue with Hinduism.[1] Published in 1981, the book outlines his concept of morphic resonance,[9] about which he remarks,

The idea came to me in a moment of insight and was extremely exciting. It interested some of my colleagues at Clare College – philosophers, linguists, and classicists were quite open-minded. But the idea of mysterious telepathy-type interconnections between organisms and of collective memories within species didn't go down too well with my colleagues in the science labs. Not that they were aggressively hostile; they just made fun of it.[9]

After writing A New Science of Life, he continued at ICRISAT as a part-time consultant physiologist until 1985.[7]

Since 2004,[42] Sheldrake has been a visiting professor at the Graduate Institute in Bethany, Connecticut,[41] where he was also academic director of the Holistic Learning and Thinking Program until 2012.[41] From September 2005 until 2010, Sheldrake was director of the Perrott–Warrick Project for psychical research for research on unexplained human and animal abilities, funded from Trinity College, Cambridge.[35][43] As of 2014, he was a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California and a fellow of Schumacher College in Devon, England.[44]’” “...Sheldrake's morphic resonance posits that "memory is inherent in nature"[3][8] and that "natural systems ... inherit a collective memory from all previous things of their kind."[8] Sheldrake proposes that it is also responsible for "telepathy-type interconnections between organisms."[9][10] His advocacy of the idea offers idiosyncratic explanations of standard subjects in biology such as development, inheritance, and memory.

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