Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation

Sheldrake has been savaged by the scientific establishment and today is not the adventurous biologist of his younger days. This revised version of the original 'A New Science of |Life' does carry the marks of the whip in his writing with his carefully crafted equivocations, but it is still exciting reading for those who consider themselves part of the Transformation Community who are tired of being fobbed off with hack scientism.John Burnett

Sheldrake provides some more thorough and thought provoking research into areas where many fear to tread, despite the fact that these phenomenon scream out for sensible investigation. Sheldrake does not fear ideology, and shines a light for inductive reasoning and common sense. I strongly recommend all of his books ... and Science Set Free in particular.

Dr Sheldrake is a self-confessed scientific heretic and with good reason: many of his ideas will be regarded as deeply disturbing to many in the scientific establishment, which adds immensely to the book's readability. The book is probably a little longer than it needed to be in order to illustrate the main features of his hypothesis and the frequent use of examples from biology, understandable from a professional biologist, tends to extend the text into areas that will be unfamiliar to the general reader. His observations on the crystallisation of newly-synthesised chemical compounds seem much more accessible and could perhaps have been developed further.Overall, I found the text stimulating and provocative and I am glad that we no longer treat heretics as we did four hundred years ago.

Must read for every one who want to understand the working of the universe(super consciousness)

From time to time, the different sciences need to have their paradigms shaken, and their philosophical postulates revisited so that new avenues for knowledge and discovery be open.

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This book should be seen as a pioneering work, analysing the shortcomings of the materialist schools on the perspective of evolution and opening to some concepts developed in the beginning of the twenty century. There are more to it, but Sheldrake points towards a start. It was considered, the book to be burnt by some reviewers.

Very good book about ideas to resolve existing ambiguities in biological models which use the mechanical approach to explain development of several life forms. One of the most controversial topic in the field of modern biology. Involves interdisciplinary knowledge such as modern physics, psychology and sociology to prove that the current models we have do not provide enough information to explain the process of functional development. Very inspiring.

Excelente trabalho acerca dos campos que interagem entre os seres e ambiente que o circunscreve.Ciência séria, que nos aproxima das novas realidades do universo.

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This is an amazing book. For long time I had a question how does a chick form in an egg. I know there are chemicals and those chemical molecules produce other molecules but thinking from an engineering perspective that such a complex system as a chick can be formed by simple supplying heat is a miraculous feat. Well this book has that answer.It was on my reading list for ling but I avoided it thinking it must be having lot of biology but no...it has lot of stuff that might interest an engineer as well as physicist.Dr. Sheldrake has done an amazing work of putting forth the ideas with loads of clarity...the biology is very limited and can be immediately googled and understood...the book contains relevant examples to illustrate the points made...Its the next generation of science in the making...

This book is a milestoneread it and go on to come to an understanding of the current transition and be part of itJE

When the first edition of this book came out in 1981 with the title "A New Science of Life," I well remember getting one of the first copies and being electrified by the ideas and the data to support them. There was also the guilty pleasure of reading a book that the editor of the esteemed journal Nature had declared, "This infuriating tract... is the best candidate for burning there has been for many years."In the intervening years Rupert Sheldrake has worked tirelessly to either prove or disprove his hypotheses, published many peer-reviewed papers as well as several more books on this and related topics. I have also had the pleasure of meeting him several times and discussing his ideas with him in great detail. There are three things that have always come across: his intelligence, his integrity and his humility.It is sad that when that Nature editor - Sir John Maddox - passed away last year, a number of commentators took the opportunity to renew their attacks on Sheldrake's work. Many of those attackers have clearly not examined the research - some even admitted it! - neither were they aware of the fact that Rupert had provided Sir John with detailed scientific responses to his critique of a later book, "," but never received a response. So most students of biology and behavior have probably never even heard about this work, and many online sites simply dismiss the notion of "morphic resonance" as pseudoscience.This is the third edition of the book that started all the controversy.So what is this book about, and why does elicit such emotional - and unscientific - responses? The book proposes that current biochemical and genetic models cannot explain the ways in which atoms, molecules, crystals, cells, organs and even ecosystems organize themselves. The Hypothesis of Formative Causation proposes that the forms of self-organizing systems are arranged and fashioned by "Morphic fields." These fields provide the templates for the ways in which organisms develop and are also responsible for the behavior and social and cultural development of organisms and social groups. These are not static fields, they are able to learn and establish new patterns and habits across time and space, which is termed "Morphic resonance."For example, it can be very hard to coax a newly created chemical compound into forming a crystal. But once it has been done in one laboratory, others find it ever easier to make crystals of the new compound. The idea being that the morphic field has learned how to do it. Or another example: rats were taught to run a maze. Once they had learned the task, rats on the other side of the world learned to run the same maze far more quickly. And could it be that the ever-younger age at which people master the game of chess is not only because of the use of computers for training, but also that the morphic field associated with chess is becoming stronger?You will see why this is a controversial theory, even though it answers a lot of questions, and the research data appears firmly to support it. Having examined the research in great detail as well as analyzing virtually all of the supporting material that Rupert cites in this book, I think that his fundamental ideas are correct, and that they will in time be understood to be as important as the ideas of Darwin and the great men and women who created the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics.This new edition is well written and even for someone familiar with the ideas, a thrilling read. And if you are new to the concepts, this is the best book to start with.If you have read an earlier edition of the book, do you need to look at this one as well? My answer is a definite "Yes." Not only is there a new 23 page introduction, the entire text has been updated and there are two appendices - "New Tests for Morphic Resonance" and "Morphic Fields and the Implicate Order - A Dialogue with (the late) David Bohm," which add another 65 pages of fascinating material.Very highly recommended.Richard G. Petty, MD, author of