Sheldrake Morphogenetic Fields and Extrasensory Perception

Sheldrake Morphogenetic Fields and Extrasensory Perception Rupert Sheldrake Rupert Sheldrake is a theoretical biologist whose book, A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation (Tarcher, 1981) evoked a storm of controversy. Nature described it as "the best candidate for burning, " while the New Scientist called it "an important scientific inquiry into the nature of biological and physical reality. " Because his work has important implications for Jung's concepts of the archetype and the collective unconscious, we have invited Sheldrake to present his views in a series of four essays which will appear in successive issues of PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES. These essays will be updates of his presentation on "Morphic Resonance and the Collective Unconscious, " which he gave in May of 1986 at the Human Relations Institute in Santa Barbara. Audio recordings were made by Alpha Omega Cassette Enterprises of Pasadena, California. In this essay, I am going to discuss the concept of collective memory as a background for understanding Jung's concept of the collective unconscious. The collective unconscious only makes sense in the context of some notion of collective memory. This then takes us into a very wide-ranging examination of the nature and principle of memory-not just in human beings and not just in the animal kingdom; not even just in the realm of life-but in the universe as a whole. Such an encompassing perspective is part of a very profound paradigm shift that is taking place in science: the shift from the mechanistic to an evolutionary and wholistic world view. The Cartesian mechanistic view is, in many ways, still the predominant paradigm today, especially in biology and medicine. Ninety percent of biologists would be proud to tell you that they are mechanistic biologists. Although physics has moved beyond the mechanistic view, much of our thinking about physical reality is still shaped by it-even in those of us who would like to believe that we have moved beyond this frame of thought. Therefore, I will briefly examine some of the fundamental assumptions of the mechanistic world view in order to show how it is still deeply embedded in the way that most of us think. Morphogenesis -- the growth of form from a single cell embryo -- is a problem of biological order of unprecedented precision timing of correlated events of both spatial and temporal nature. One doesn't see anything like this in dealing with inanimate matter. Naturally, beginning with Erwin Schroedinger, an impressive group of scientists have suggested that the currently known laws of physics may not be enough to explain Morphogenesis. Many biologists have propounded the idea of a morphogenetic field -- a condition of space that retains the memory of the form that the embryo evolves towards under the guidance of the fields. But these earlier works hold on to the concept of local fields and also to the materialist belief in "upward causation" -- the supremacy of matter as the cause of everything. But morphogenesis has overtones of teleology (the idea that some final purpose is driving the system) to many. And the biologist Rupert Sheldrake has injected new principles in the old idea of morphogenetic fields to incorporate teleology, non-locality, and downward causation. His morphogenetic fields are purposive and non-local. They are not material. They are capable of downward causation in matter through a new principle called "morphic resonance". According to Sheldrake, as soon as a new form comes about, it sets up its own field which is continually reinforced with its ongoing replication, thus explaining the memory exhibited in morphogenesis. However, there is the question of the source of the morphogenetic fields that resonate with matter -- an implicit dualism. The purpose of this essay is to show that although dualistic in its original form, Sheldrake's ideas can be given sound footing on the basis of Quantum principles applied in the conceptualisation of the living cell within the context of a new science -- science within consciousness, a science based on the primacy of consciousness. Dean Radin Extrasensory Perception and Quantum Models of Cognition The possibility that information can be acquired at a distance without the use of the ordinary senses, that is by “extrasensory perception” (ESP), is not easily accommodated by conventional neuroscientific assumptions or by traditional theories underlying our understanding of perception and cognition. The lack of theoretical support has marginalized the study of ESP, but experiments investigating these phenomena have been conducted since the mid‐19th century, and the empirical database has been slowly accumulating. Today, using modern experimental methods and meta‐analytical techniques, a persuasive case can be made that, neuroscience assumptions notwithstanding, ESP does exist. We justify this conclusion through discussion of one class of homogeneous experiments reported in 108 publications and conducted from 1974 through 2008 by laboratories around the world. Subsets of these data have been subjected to six meta‐analyses, and each shows significantly positive effects. The overall results now provide unambiguous evidence for an independently repeatable ESP effect. This indicates that traditional cognitive and neuroscience models, which are largely based on classical physical concepts, are incomplete. We speculate that more comprehensive models will require new principles based on a more comprehensive physics. The current candidate is quantum mechanics. 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