#morphogenetic fields

Sasha García monitors the candles that she is burning for a limpia, a spiritual cleanse. :: [NY Times]

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" [...] and as far as erasing emotions are concerned... Because emotions are magnetic fields, you can erase them with stronger magnetic fields."

[Dr Jerry Tennant]

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“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.” ― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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“The brain-disease model overlooks four fundamental truths: (1) our capacity to destroy one another is matched by our capacity to heal one another. Restoring relationships and community is central to restoring well-being; (2) language gives us the power to change ourselves and others by communicating our experiences, helping us to define what we know, and finding a common sense of meaning; (3) we have the ability to regulate our own physiology, including some of the so-called involuntary functions of the body and brain, through such basic activities as breathing, moving, and touching; and (4) we can change social conditions to create environments in which children and adults can feel safe and where they can thrive.

Morphogenetic Fields?! | Danganronpa Lapse (Chapter 1 - Part 1)

"It's not difficult to find statements made by both Pagans and non-Pagans that Pagans are polytheistic. This can be true, but it isn't necessarily true. What is true for Paganism on the whole is that Pagans may believe anything they wish about deity." - Joyce and River Higginbotham's Paganism: An Introduction to Earth-Centered Religions

This post is based off of a very informative chapter in the aforementioned book above. It's a very beginner type book but nevertheless helpful and informative.

Pagan divinity belief systems:

-A monotheist believes in only one deity. Its essence may be split across multiple forms, but it still sources back to one deity.

-A polytheist believes in multiple separate deities that share divine power.

-A pantheist believes that all created world is deity, that divinity is collective in all things. Deity may or may not be conceptualized as a being or a personality.

-An animist believes everything to have divinity or a soul. Where a pantheist believed deity is everywhere in different amounts, an animist believes deity is everywhere in equal amounts. Again deity may or may not be conceptualized as a being or personality.

Now that we've addressed belief systems, allow me to introduce you to Joyce & River's handy visualization they've dubbed the God Map.

The map consists of two continuums, two axes on which deity can be conceptualized.

On the vertical axis we have transcendence and permeance. A deity that is separate, removed from creation above humanity, and generally considered unreachable would be absolutely transcendent (eg the Christian concept of God). A deity that is immanent, that is intrinsically imbued in our reality, that is not removed from creation would be absolutely permeating (eg pantheism and animism).

"Another way to describe transcendence and permeating is with the terms "without" and "within". A transcendent deity is visualized generally as living outside of you, or "without". Those who want to talk to a transcendent deity address themselves to a being or energy "out there". A permeating deity, in contrast, can be visualized as living inside you, or "within". Those who want to communicate with this sort of deity address themselves to the energies they feel most intimately connect with."

Someone who believes deity is equally transcendent and permeating could be described at a panentheist, or that deity is smack dab in the middle of the vertical continuum of the God Map.

The horizontal continuum of the God Map addresses the concepts of being concrete or abstract.

A deity visualized as concrete commonly takes form in that of a human (eg the Christian god having long grey hair and a beard, being male, wearing robes) or even animals (eg ancient Egyptian deities). These deities are visualized as moving, talking, and acting in "concrete" ways. This visualization is also classically considered anthropomorphic.

At the other end of the spectrum, an abstract deity will not be visualized with physical characteristics or emotions. A person who uses this type of conceptualization may have a difficult time describing deity, as it tends to be personal and unique to the practitioner. Some see deity simply as energy alone or spiritual force, for lack of a better term.

Just as panentheism is the blend between the extremes on the vertical continuum of the God Map, there exists blends of the extremes on the horizontal continuum.

These ideas include aspects of deity being both a being and also an energy form. Ideas such as archetypes, numinous energies, the collective unconscious, thought forms, and morphogenetic fields sit on the middle of the horizontal axis.

The concept of archetype sources to psychoanalyst Carl Jung; "an archetype is an essence of lived experience that has recurred so frequently in human history that it develops a "signature" or "presence", and it may act as a blueprint for behavior."

Archetypes could be considered to be an aspect of the collective unconsciousness, which is described by Jung as a memory bank of lived experience that exists in everyone's unconscious minds. Archetypes are commonly conceptualized as data banks of information within our collective unconscious. When archetypes are fed so much energy over time, they are thought to have an energy or independence of their own - these super charged archetypes are referred to as numinous energy.

The form of conceptualization encompassing archetypes, the collective unconscious, and numinous energy is referred to as the morphogenetic field. This term was coined by physicist Rupert Sheldrake, who theorized that living matter is all connected through energy fields that transcend space and time.

The intentional creation or manipulation of an energy field is said to be a thought form. It is commonly theorized that deity exists simply because of thought forms, simply because humanity has willed them to be, consciously or otherwise.

Energetic Anatomy: A Guide To The Human Energy Fields & Etheric Bodies

The human energy field is an aura of etheric energy that surrounds and overlays our physical selves and interacts with our mind body and spirit.

There are many human energy fields. These include the physically measurable electromagnetic and magnetic fields generated by all living cells, tissues, and organs, and the body as a whole. But there are also biofields—subtle or putative fields emanating…

How explain the difference between organisms that have the same genes and proteins? Morphogenetic fields... 

“Da mesma forma que você pode construir dois prédios diferentes com os mesmos tijolos e cimento, se você tem planos diferentes, você pode construir organismos diferentes, com campos diferentes, mesmo se as moléculas constituintes forem muito similares, como são em humanos e chimpanzés.”

Rupert Sheldrake - A Matriz Viva (2009)

“Just as you can build two different buildings with the same brick and cement, if you have different plans, you can build different organisms with different fields, even if the constituint molecules are very similar, as they are in humans and chimpanzees.”

It would be conceivable that morphogenetic fields are infinite. They are simply present and can not be explained by anything else. This would mean that morphogenetic fields of all the chemical substances, crystals, animals, and plants that existed or would have existed on the earth, even before the formation of this planet, were in a latent state.