Morphic Resonance, a concept by Rupert Sheldrake
It asserts that the present is very much determined by the forces of the past and has become my foundation for understanding the world. This concept, which, in short, suggests that there are 'fields' underlying the material world which tend to shape our world beyond just the physical atomic, molecular explanations we have learned, suggests that the patterns of the past very much influence and largely determine how things will be and look in the future. In some ways, to me, they are an avant garde scientific meeting of the Tao and Science, though still very controversial. Shapes and forms are, in some way predicable, not only because of genetics and DNA "off and on" switches, but also by the force fields of our universe at many scales from micro to macro, from microcosm to macrocosm.
I chose this picture of trees on a promontory at Dinosaur National Monument because these shapes, are no doubt formed by the combined force fields of the dna of the species, the climate, the location, the eons of weather patterns, insects and other animals who interacted with it, and no doubt many other forces which we don't even understand. A sceptic of the linear cause effect world of science, I am reminded that we still really don't know how a cat purrs, and Quantum Physics has brought us to a multi-universal threshold, all of which allows me to speculate that Mr. Sheldrake is on to something profound, and has given these matters so much thought, that I wish to credit him.
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