This is an entry from the Inner Potential Centre's back catalogue. To go to the current programme, click here.

morphic resonance & collective memory

rupert sheldrake

wednesday 11 october 7pm

Rupert's hypothesis is that all self-organizing systems, including crystals, organisms and societies, are organized by "morphic fields". These fields contain inherent memory, given by a process called morphic resonance from previous similar systems. By this process, human beings draw upon collective memory, similar to Jung's collective unconscious, and in turn contribute to it. Even individual memory depends on morphic resonance rather than on physical memories stored within the brain. This radical hypothesis is testable experimentally.

Dr Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 75 scientific papers and six books, the most recent being The Sense Of Being Stared At, and Other Aspects of the Extended Mind. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, where he was Director of Studies in Cell Biology, and was a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a visiting professor at the Graduate Institute in Connecticut, and Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge.
www.sheldrake.org

Admission £7.50 (£5.00 concessions)