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Awaken the Living Awareness Within Glossary
Morphogenetic Fields are fields that play a causal role in morphogenesis. This term, first proposed in the 1920’s, is now widely used by developmental biologists. According to the morphosis of formative causation, these fields contain an inherent memory, transmitted from similar past organisms by the process of morphic resonance.
A morphogenetic field is one which shapes a growing plant or animal (or even chemical systems such as crystals), based on the forms of previous organisms (or crystals) of the same species (or chemical form). An embryo, for example, might “tune in” to the forms of past members of the species. In their instinctive behavior, animals might draw upon some sort of species “pooled memory” or “memory bank.” In his paper, “Can Our Memories Survive the Death of Our Brains? (The Proceedings of the Symposium on Consciousness and Survival), Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the main proponents for morphogenetic fields, says the following about these fields:
“If we pick up our own memories by tuning into our own past states, and these memories are not stored inside our brains, then why don’t we tune into other people’s memories? Perhaps we do. If we tune into the memories of large numbers of people in the past, we would not be aware of all the specific memories of particular events in their lives, but rather a kind of composite of pooled memory which would contain the basic forms or patterns of their experience and thought. This idea closely corresponds with C. G. Jung’s theory of the archetypes in the collective unconscious; and Jung’s approach to psychology harmonizes well with the notion of morphic resonance.”
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