Causative Formation and Activism
by The Galactica Publishing Guild
The theory of formative causation was first proffered in a work by first British biologist Rupert Sheldrake. In a book entitled A New Science Of Life, Sheldrake challenged the modern concept that evolution occurs simply through random alterations in the DNA. According to a phenomenon Sheldrake called “morphic resonance”, all groups of things are developmentally governed by a field, an idea cognate to the “wave-particle” duality of quantum physics. According to Sheldrake, this field governs evolution—through the DNA. The simplest example to demonstrate this field is a famous story Sheldrake uses, about monkeys on the island of Koshima (The 100th monkey principal), off the coast of Japan. Scientists fed the monkeys unwashed sweet potatoes, and one exceptionally bright one named “Imo” discovered that is she washed her potatoes in the sea, they were less gritty and tasted better. Soon all the monkeys on Koshima had learned the trick. But so had other monkeys on the mainland—monkey which had no kind of contact with those of Koshima.
Some would call this “telepathy”, but
telepathy is limited to the mind (or at least our use of the term is), while
“morphic resonance”
applies to all things, animal, vegetable & mineral. Some substances are
extremely difficult to crystallize in the laboratory, but as soon as one
laboratory has succeeded in doing it, the substance begins to crystallize much
easier all over the world. At first it was thought that visiting scientists had
carried tiny fragments of the new crystals on their clothing or in their hair.
But this possibility was finally eliminated through careful controls.
Apparently, the crystals, like the monkeys, were somehow “learning” from one
another.
This phenomenon has a connection to the principle of quantum physics called “non-locality”, wherein it was proven in 1982 that any two particles which originate in a single enclosed system maintain some form of non-spatio-temporal “resonance”. By this I mean that the two particles remain “aware” of each other no matter what their later positions are relative to space or time, even in defiance of relativity. In fact, non-locality has essentially overthrown the theory of relativity to reveal that we live in a quantum mechanical universe, but dogmatic physicists, unwilling to accept this, now seek the “tachyon”. The “tachyon” would be a particle capable of travelling faster than light, which physicists hope they can still contain within the theory of relativity and thus maintain their “classical” worldview. The truth is, that like the relationship of Newtonian physics to relativity, relativity now relates to quantum physics only in that it is useful for pragmatic measurements. But like physicists had to admit almost 100 years ago, the classical theory is useful only—but does not describe actual reality.
Sheldrake set out to prove his theory of Formative Causation with a number of experiments. One of these involved sending out thousands of “trick” pictures, in which a face is concealed in a mass of lines. He predicted that once a certain number of people would be able to see it immediately. This is precisely what happened.
If Sheldrake is right—and dogmatic science
has fought him tooth and nail—then Carl Jung's psychology would also seem
vindicated, over the more “accepted” psychological theories, for his
collective unconscious
must be seen as the mentation of the highly evolved morphic
field of man. The consequences of Sheldrake's theory are obviously immense.
We would have to begin to recognize that our mass media—movies, television, magazines, newspapers, radio—is largely to blame for the chaotic state of our society. The chief qualification for “air time” seems to be that a subject be full of negative ideas, unvirtuous activity, misrepresentations of fact, revisions of history, and every rationalistic excuse imaginable for why this is so. We stuff this poisonous rubbish down the throats of our children, and apparently believe that we are equipping them to face a “bright” future.
On the other hand, a fairly large group of
insightful persons could begin to positively affect the morphic field of our
people if we dedicated ourselves to doing so. According to Sheldrake, this would
influence the entire field, and would begin to spread naturally to increasing
numbers of people. And perhaps the next generation would be born with the
ability to see the world and life rightly, and the essence of our
culture-struggle would be totally changed.
