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depends upon the power structure and the political functioning of that society, which in turn depends upon the power structure and political functioning of the world order.
Whether individual is able to realise his destiny and whether the evolution is able to reach its goal ultimately depends upon whether we have a world order in which individuals are able to realise their inner potentialities.
Considering the fact that large share of our mankind living in the overpopulated South and in parts of the erstwhile second world does not have the social and political condition to realise their individual destinies, it is evident that the present human context-both individual destinies and collective destiny-does not keep pace with the stride of evolution. That this evolutionary anomaly and de-railing can be corrected only in a collective transformative endeavour, is the argument we are advancing in this study.
FORMATIVE CAUSATION & THE EVOLUTIONARY COSMOS
Formative causation is the connecting principle between the morphogenetic field and morphogenetic resonance. It be conceived as some sort of resonant or teleological causation, which operates in a different spatio-temporal or rather differently from the mechanical causation. One example which Sheldrake cites somewhat convincingly is the rat experiment. The conditioning tricks Pavlov taught his experimenting rats are found thereafter repeated by rats in different parts of the world. When rats are conditioned to learn a particular habit, that habit will be repeated by rats of other parts of the world even after the gap of many generations. When a conditioned behaviour is spread out, say in England, more widely, that habit will be learned more easily by rats, say, in Australia. Another phenomenon that Sheldrake cites is that of cross-word puzzles. Tests show that people score more points easily
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