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at a predictable peak-point after the publication of the newspapers, when the maximum number of people have tried to solve the puzzle.
The assumption is that some sort of stored memory or macromorphic field interacts with the individual fields. It is said that there are buildings and places, which have special resonances and healing effects. Particularly noted are places of pilgrimage or places of worship that attract large number of people and which are ancient storing collective memory. We all know how a piece of paper, a document, a statue, a painting, etc. become the worthier the older they become.
Another plausible argument in favour of formative causation is the phenomenon of synchronicity which is so scientifically described and documented by David Pete in his book of that title (199). The more resonating a mindmore creative, for example-the more synchronic becomes its experience. We are all familiar with the fact that our lives and destinies shape not the way they are planned but through seemingly by chance occurrences-a phone call or newspaper ad, attending a conference, the unluck of losing the train or job, which led to something most unexpected. It is true that such things do not occur too often to those who don't have faith in these chances, but if we pause and think we will often find that our lives and destinies are shaped by vibration, frequencies, resonances far profounder than we would ever care to admit.
Sheldrake has not propagated a System Theory as Capra does. But if his Morphogenetic ideas are going to become credible for a larger scientific community and public at large, the implications are so profound, nothing short of a new Copernican revolution, which will set the first one in eclipse. Sheldrake is stretching the evolutionary worldview as the revolt against the mechanistic worldview of the classical physics to the utmost. A universe, whose main stay is memory and form in place of the eternal laws that sustained the modern man for three
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