Memories Are Everywhere And Nowwhere
Most scientists believe that all memories imprinted on the brain are stored there by electrical action in the bridges between the brain's nerve cells, called synapses. In the light of this hypothesis, memories should be stored in specific locations inside the brain. If this theory is true however, it ought to be possible to pinpoint the exact spot where certain kinds of memories are recorded. So far however, a multitude of studies have revealed that all memory remains intact unless very large areas of the brain have been destroyed. On scientist had remarked that memory seems to be“everywhere and nowhere in particular”.
Why Is A Dog Always Dog-Shaped?
As an answer to this enigma, Sheldrake suggests that the brain is in all probability, not a warehouse filled withmemories but a complex system of conduits for transporting them in and out. He reached this conclusion while forming an explanation for the way that all species inherit their unique characteristics- for example, why a dog is always dog-shaped. Accepted theory alleges, that an animals form is determined by it's genetic code retained in the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) atoms of it's cells, even though scientists have not yet established exactly how this transfer takes place.
The Nature Of Formative Causation
Because DNA cells are the same wherever they are found in an animal's body-whether in the fur, the flesh or the eyes - Sheldrake suggests that DNA does not determine an animal's anatomy. Since the makeup of cells in various parts of an animal varies
considerably, he suggests that the cells cannot all have been programmed by an identical genetic code.
considerably, he suggests that the cells cannot all have been programmed by an identical genetic code.
Have Past Generations Created Their Own Species?
Sheldrake's theory is that as the shapes of living creatures have evolved, they have created a form creating (morphogenetic) field. This field ensures that the animal's descendants will conform to the patterns by generations of their own kind, be they giraffes, ostriches or kangaroos. Therefor, the individuals of past generations have, in effect, created the forms of their own species. As each new individual develops, it contributes to the morphogenetic record.
Morphic Resonance
The term that Sheldrake gives to the means by which creatures are able to communicate with those that resembled them in the past. As he says:”The thing that an organism resembles most closely in the past is itself”. He suggests that morphic resonance not only allows for individuals to communicate with past members of their own species but also enables an individual creature to tune into it's own past. Thus, memory is a journey made by the mind into the past via morphic resonance and not physical data stored in the brain.
The Collective Unconcious
Biological tenets hold that all living things can be explained by physical and biochemical processes. This hypothesis is now being challenged by Sheldrake's belief since morphogenetic fields and memories do not exist in any as yet measurable physical form. In Sheldrake's hypothesis he offers support for an idea put forth by the eminent Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung, called the “collective unconscious”. Jung theorized that there is a pool of unconscious images and wisdom shared by all humans. Perhaps the collective unconscious could be a form of species memory, by which all human experience is passed on to us via "morphic resonance"
The Entire Universe Is One
"Modern Science is now beginning to confirm what Spirituality, Philosophy, Sages, Ancient teachings and psychedelics have been saying for millennia, that the entire Universe is One and that what we think of as "reality" is just an illusion.. And the only real thing in the Universe is Consciousness"
"If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet." ~ Niels Bohr See videoHERE
"If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet." ~ Niels Bohr See videoHERE
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