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Forget what you know. His universe is filled with a near infinity of "morphic fields" that come not only from all matter, but also emanate from ensembles of objects on every level of analysis. For example, Sheldrake writes, all molecules have their own fields, but when combined in a cell, the cell gives off its own special field, and thus any recognizable unit is more than the sum of its parts. Through the process of "morphic resonance," fields act on similar fields and become even more alike. This reasoning forms the basis of Sheldrake's central hypothesis, which he calls...
...hypothesis admist a cloud of scientific jargon claiming to explain much. Yet when the smoke clears, so does the plausibility of his argument. Sheldrake attempts to disprove physical theory by proposing the existence of "pure information" in addition to matter and energy. This information provides the foundation for morphic fields and allows them to persist undiminished through time and space. Though he offers a few tests of this theory. Sheldrake explains away outcomes that would seem to disprove his proposal. He himself is extremely credulous, gleeful that his ideas allow for telepathy, reincarnation, collective memory and the like. With...
...tries to grasp man as a product of nature. . . . His new conception of nature ... is . . . immediately expressed in his drawings of animals, plants, trees, and landscapes. He looks with new eyes on the broad realm of creation and discovers in the pulpy flower or plant something zoömorphic, and in the animal something plantlike. He sees trees as tender, trembling creatures hovering in the soft air; landscape is for him no longer a mere background to man but a space filled with light...
July 31 to August 5.--Professor J. Barrell of Yale University. "The Meta- morphic and Triassic Rocks of Western Connecticut...
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