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The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature
By: Rupert Sheldrake Publisher: Park Street Press Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 416 Publication Date: March 01, 1995 Release Date: March 01, 1995 Studio: Park Street Press
Product Description: Challenging the fundamental assumptions of modern science, this ground-breaking radical hypothesis suggests that nature itself has memory. Sheldrake's hypothesis has been featured in Science, Nature, New Scientist, USA TODAY, and Newsweek. Drawings and photos throughout.
Ground Breaking ^ Couple Dr. Sheldrakes many works on Morphic Resonance with Dr. David Hawkins enlightened works of Qualitative and Quantitative levels of human consciousness and you have the Most Cutting Edge studies of science along with Radical Subjectivity. Enjoy the ride to Your New Paradigm.
pseudoscience passed off theory ^ Sheldrake sees (or invents) gaps in our knowledge of the world. He fills those gaps with supernatural ideas and passes this off as science. The problem is that many of these gaps don't exist, but stem from his lack of specialist knowledge. There isn't a requirement for morphic resonance to understand the world around us. For instance, Sheldrake says it's needed to understand how memory formation works. Neuroscientists already know a lot about this topic and there are no issues which call for a morphic field. Sure, gaps exist in our knowledge but they are most likely to be explained with more simple theories.
Although he performs experiments, only the positive results are deemed "successful" and theory is easily modified to accommodate problems since the ideas are completely unconstrained. The lack of constraints and the difficulty in pinning down the theory make it dificult or impossible to test it formally. These are the qualities of pseudo-science: it looks like science at first but in reality something isn't quite right.
When his theories are tested under rigorous conditions the significant effects tend to vanish.
The scientific community is always looking for new theories to explain what we don't understand. Unfortunately, this isn't it: it fails to explain things we generally do understand. He's a smart guy and sells himself well to the lay audience but don't be fooled: this stuff is a dupe.
From acquisition to inheritance? Maybe so! ^ Rupert Sheldrake's book on formative causation is quite interesting. His theory centers around the idea that biological organisms inherit a sort of collective memory, which then altars their development and form.
One of the questions that Sheldrake addresses is whether an organism can learn, or acquire, certain characteristics and if those characteristics can be inherited by future generations. He discusses the experimental research and theory that pertains to this question, including the studies at Harvard in 1920 (conducted by William McDougall), the fruit fly experiments conducted in Waddington's lab in the 1950's, and so on.
The theory of morphic resonance has some experimental weight behind it; hopefully more and more scientists will look into researching it.
The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature ^ I am fascinated with the writer of this book. Having lived my life as a Wiccan practitioner for over 40 years has allowed me to see what he sees. I am happy that someone is finally putting out into main stream culture the information that we have, for so long, lived with.
Kurlian photography has photographed the electrical maps of living systems for decades. And removing the physical aspect of the living organism does not diminish the electrical blueprint that remains behind as a whole, despite part of the living organism having been removed. Call it whatever you like: the aura is with us. Ready or not, enlightenment will come to unite all of mankind.
He speaks of dampening the process by thinking negative thoughts about the systems he explains. It is a natural thing for us to think the worst. Magic is no different. All texts ask that you simply accept magic as truth and then go about your life. We have always had the power to create our own realities. Now we see why.
THANK YOU, GOD!!! THANK YOU!!!
Paradigm-shifting work ^ Sheldrake's opus shakes the axioms of causality underlying experimental science. Not many books have done that. Not many books can address metaphysical topics, suggest alternatives to the standard Aristotelian underpinnings of science or "naturalism," and do so plausibly without recourse to superstition.
Sheldrake, a biologist, examines the many anomalous phenomena that seem to cut against some very basic beliefs about "how things work." The book integrates observations from many different fields of endeavor from physics to biology to psychology. The scope of this work as as wide as it is deep.
If you have ever read Thomas Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions," this book will resonate along the same lines for you. Well worth your time and money.
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