Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation
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New updated and expanded edition of the groundbreaking book that ignited a firestorm in the scientific world with its radical approach to evolution • Explains how past forms and behaviors of organisms determine those of similar organisms in the present through morphic resonance • Reveals the nonmaterial connections that allow direct communication across time and space When A New Science of Life was first published the British journal Nature called it “the best candidate for burning there has been for many years.” The book called into question the prevailing mechanistic theory of life when its author, Rupert Sheldrake, a former research fellow of the Royal Society, proposed that morphogenetic fields are responsible for the characteristic form and organization of systems in biology, chemistry, and physics--and that they have measurable physical effects. Using his theory of morphic resonance, Sheldrake was able to reinterpret the regularities of nature as being more like habits than immutable laws, offering a new understanding of life and consciousness. In the years since its first publication, Sheldrake has continued his research to demonstrate that the past forms and behavior of organisms influence present organisms through direct immaterial connections across time and space. This can explain why new chemicals become easier to crystallize all over the world the more often their crystals have already formed, and why when laboratory rats have learned how to navigate a maze in one place, rats elsewhere appear to learn it more easily. With more than two decades of new research and data, Rupert Sheldrake makes an even stronger case for the validity of the theory of formative causation that can radically transform how we see our world and our future.
| Dimensions | 15.24 x 2.29 x 22.86 cm |
| Edition | 4th Revised, Expanded ed. |
| Isbn 10 | 1594773173 |
| Isbn 13 | 978-1594773174 |
| Item Weight | 327 g |
| Language | English |
| Print Length | 352 pages |
| Publication Date | 1 Sept. 2009 |
| Publisher | Park Street Press,U.S. |
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An unrewarded masterpiece
Sheldrake has been savaged by the scientific establishment and today is not the adventurous biologist of his younger days. This revised version of the original 'A New Science of |Life' does carry the marks of the whip in his writing with his carefully crafted equivocations, but it is still exciting reading for those who consider themselves part of the Transformation Community who are tired of being fobbed off with hack scientism.John Burnett
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Excellent new ideas
Very interesting new ideas about the role of memory.
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Dr Sheldrake is a self-confessed scientific heretic and with good reason: many of his ideas will be regarded ...
Dr Sheldrake is a self-confessed scientific heretic and with good reason: many of his ideas will be regarded as deeply disturbing to many in the scientific establishment, which adds immensely to the book's readability. The book is probably a little longer than it needed to be in order to illustrate the main features of his hypothesis and the frequent use of examples from biology, understandable from a professional biologist, tends to extend the text into areas that will be unfamiliar to the general reader. His observations on the crystallisation of newly-synthesised chemical compounds seem much more accessible and could perhaps have been developed further.Overall, I found the text stimulating and provocative and I am glad that we no longer treat heretics as we did four hundred years ago.
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A fascinating read.
Sheldrake provides some more thorough and thought provoking research into areas where many fear to tread, despite the fact that these phenomenon scream out for sensible investigation. Sheldrake does not fear ideology, and shines a light for inductive reasoning and common sense. I strongly recommend all of his books ... and Science Set Free in particular.
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Lovely book
Must read for every one who want to understand the working of the universe(super consciousness)
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When science and wisdom meet
From time to time, the different sciences need to have their paradigms shaken, and their philosophical postulates revisited so that new avenues for knowledge and discovery be open.
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Five Stars
great quality fast delivery
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important book
This book should be seen as a pioneering work, analysing the shortcomings of the materialist schools on the perspective of evolution and opening to some concepts developed in the beginning of the twenty century. There are more to it, but Sheldrake points towards a start. It was considered, the book to be burnt by some reviewers.
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Must read...very informative and eye opening.
This is an amazing book. For long time I had a question how does a chick form in an egg. I know there are chemicals and those chemical molecules produce other molecules but thinking from an engineering perspective that such a complex system as a chick can be formed by simple supplying heat is a miraculous feat. Well this book has that answer.It was on my reading list for ling but I avoided it thinking it must be having lot of biology but no...it has lot of stuff that might interest an engineer as well as physicist.Dr. Sheldrake has done an amazing work of putting forth the ideas with loads of clarity...the biology is very limited and can be immediately googled and understood...the book contains relevant examples to illustrate the points made...Its the next generation of science in the making...
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A must read to understand our development
This book is a milestoneread it and go on to come to an understanding of the current transition and be part of itJE
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Vale a pena para quem quer ir além
Usei muito para a construção de uma tese na área de Medicina Integrativa. Ricamente ilustrado.
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Great!
Excellent reading for anyone interested in science (biology) or great scientific research
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To boldly go where no-one has gone before.
I thank RS for this informative and instructive review of biology. He formulates a provokative and to me convincing reality. Sheldrake builds all of his arguments on what has gone before, at least in western philospohy and science. I appreciated the clear development of his ideas and the logical refutation of the stochastic mechanisitic model that seems to dominate at present. This book is not for the faint of heart. Sheldrake fearlesly drills down to the quantum level, demonstrating a profound breadth of scientific knowledge. I was a little surprised at the abruptness of the summing leaving me with four distinct but progressively logical and compelling metaphysical insights to our reality. I am not finished with this book by a long shot. One for the bucket list.
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