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an affirmation of God in a different way. Instead of the usual 'Godcreated-the-universe-story', here is the latest in 'Creation' by a Harvard trained Bristish Scientist, biologist and philosopher; Mr. Rupert Sheldrake. In his latest classic entitled, "A New Science of Life", he has stated that there is a subtle connection between things, there is an influence of form upon form, of past influencing present form by way of a process which he calls 'morphic resonance' which physics does not yet understand. Further, he elaborates that each one of us is tuned to a field of influence. It works like an electromagnetic field which science calls 'morphogenetic field'. This is a bypothetical notion developed to deal with how 'the organization of form and shape we are' is accomplished by Nature. Within each large field, we are also tuned into the past and present of smaller fields which influence individual clans, tribes, or breeds. There are other even smaller break-downs down to the particular's immediate parents. Weight of all these influences bears down on each and every one of us. All living organisms contribute their experiences to a 'Memory Pool' in the Cosmos even as generation follows generation. From this 'morphogenetic memory pool', information is drawn by organisms who can resonate with it and so it boils down to the fact that we vibrate with our past, present and future, all in the present.
In another recent book entitled "The Great Evolution Mystery", by Mr. Gordon Rattay Taylor, it is more clearly and vehemently put. Taylor observes, "If there is any one solitary fact which emerges distincly from evolutionary studies, it is that evolution is not the execution of a consumate overall plan, divine or otherwise. There could be 'Force' at work in the universe of which we have as yet scarcely an inkling and the human mind is 'pregnant' with promise".
Can these 'morphogenetic memory pool' and 'force' be 'Karma Pudgala Vargana' as taught in Jainism? Just think about it.
There is yet another way in which the state of the universe is described. David Bohm, an erudite Professor of Theo
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