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Reality and Resonance
- Nuocontinuum and Morphic Field, excerpt from "The Nuonic nature of nonlocal reality."
- A. Mahlberg (Madison WI), "Evidence of collective memory: A test of Sheldrake's theory." Journal of Analytical Psychology, 1987. 32:23-34. Mahlberg provides a succinct summary of the theory of morphic resonance:
Mahlberg: "Sheldrake's hypothesis can be seen as a general theory that explains and includes Jung's understanding of the collective unconscious. Basically, Sheldrake postulates that there is a dimension he calls a morphogenetic [or "morphic"] field that is beyond space and time but has a two-way interaction with events in space and time. The morphogenetic field consists of resonance patterns that are produced by the forms of things that occur within space and time.
"When a form is taken in space and time, it is `recorded' as a resonance pattern in the morphogenetic field. When a similar thing begins taking form, it is influenced by the existing resonance pattern to take similar form. When the second form exists, it likewise effects a resonance pattern, which results in a merging of the two resonance patterns, and an increase in the strength of that resonance. It therefore becomes progressively easier and more probable for things to take a form that has already been assumed by previous similar things ..."
Mahlberg continues ... "Sheldrake's theory therefore leads to the hypothesis that it is progressively easier to learn something ... as more and more people have already learned that material."
From Mahlberg's Summary: "The presence of collective memory was tested by having three groups of students [n = 40, 52, 36] learn the Morse Code, which had been previously learned by a large number of people, and a Novel Code that had never been learned by others and was constructed so as to be of equal intrinsic difficulty. [There was a delay between the testing of each group: Group 1, thirteen weeks, then Group 2, eleven weeks, then Group 3.] As predicted, the Morse Code was initially easier to learn, and the Novel Code itself became easier over the three groups. The results confirm Sheldrake's theory and lend credibility to Jung's concepts of the archetype and the collective unconscious while suggesting that the latter contains much more than archetypal memories."
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