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Episode 38: Morphic Resonance Theory and the Universal Life Force with Rupert Sheldrake, PhD

Expanding on Consciousness

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The Origins of Form-Shaping Fields

Theory of 'form-shaping fields' was first proposed in the 1920s. The idea is that organisms have form-shapes, like magnetic fields within a magnet. But no one could explain how these fields were inherited because they're not in genes and couldn't be carried in genes. Henri Bergson's work on memory led him to this theory.

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