~ ∞ ~ Awaken the Living Awareness Within: Morphogenesis ~ ∞ ~

Awaken the Living Awareness Within Glossary

Morphogenesis - the coming into being of form.

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~ ∞ ~ Awaken the Living Awareness Within: Morphogenetic Fields ~ ∞ ~

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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~ ∞ ~ Awaken the Living Awareness Within: Morphic Field ~ ∞ ~

Awaken the Living Awareness Within Glossary

Morphic field is a field within and around a self-organizing system that organizes its characteristic structure and pattern of activity. According to the hypothesis of formative causation, morphic fields contain an inherent memory transmitted by previous similar systems by morphic resonance and tend to become increasingly habitual. Morphic fields include morphogenetic, behavioral, social, cultural, and mental fields. The greater the degree of similarity, the greater the influence of morphic resonance. In general, systems most closely resemble themselves in the past and are subject to self-resonance from their own past states.

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~ ∞ ~ Awaken the Living Awareness Within: Morphic Resonance ~ ∞ ~

Awaken the Living Awareness Within Glossary

The influence of previous structures of activity on subsequent similar structures of activity, organized by morphic fields. According to the hypothesis of formative causation, morphic resonance involves the transmission of formative influences through or cross time and space without a decrease due to distance or lapse of time.

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