Morphic Resonance

The Nature of Formative Causation

By: Rupert Sheldrake

Narrated by: Jez Sands

New updated and expanded edition of the groundbreaking book that ignited a firestorm in the scientific world with its radical approach to evolution

• Explains how past forms and behaviors of organisms determine those of similar organisms in the present through morphic resonance

• Reveals the nonmaterial connections that allow direct communication across time and space

When A New Science of Life was first published the British journal Nature called it “the best candidate for burning there has been for many years.” The book called into question the prevailing mechanistic theory of life when its author, Rupert Sheldrake, a former research fellow of the Royal Society, proposed that morphogenetic fields are responsible for the characteristic form and organization of systems in biology, chemistry, and physics--and that they have measurable physical effects. Using his theory of morphic resonance, Sheldrake was able to reinterpret the regularities of nature as being more like habits than immutable laws, offering a new understanding of life and consciousness.

In the years since its first publication, Sheldrake has continued his research to demonstrate that the past forms and behavior of organisms influence present organisms through direct immaterial connections across time and space. This can explain why new chemicals become easier to crystallize all over the world the more often their crystals have already formed, and why when laboratory rats have learned how to navigate a maze in one place, rats elsewhere appear to learn it more easily. With more than two decades of new research and data, Rupert Sheldrake makes an even stronger case for the validity of the theory of formative causation that can radically transform how we see our world and our future.

Hard to follow

The topic is interesting, but the reader is hard to understand. He doesn't enunciate all that well. I think I will buy the hard copy instead.

A great book mangled by the vocal performance

Today I learned just how much the voice matters. I love the content of this book. But the voice actor slurs words and sentences together with abandon. The result is an incompehensible, dreadully nasal monotone. It's really sad.

Mandatory listening

Rupert Sheldrake clearly builds the foundations of his theory and expounds on them in context in the appendices. Do not skip the appendices. I know I'm coming off as authoritative here but it's mostly to grab the attention of a future me, within the morphogenetic field, so that I can establish a high bandwidth connection via a Creode format of temporal and spatial bridges within the implicate order.