Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation

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 spaceWhen 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.