Showing posts with label Rupert Sheldrake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rupert Sheldrake. Show all posts

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Energy Fields









Recent science reveals that everything has an energy field. With few exceptions, such as the arora borealis, these fields are invisible. Frequency is everything. Anything that seems to be a solid object if broken down into smaller and smaller components is seen to be only energy.

" This pulsating energy field is the central engine of our being and our consciousness, the alpha and the omega of our existence. "There is no 'me' and 'not me' duality to our bodies in relation to the universe, but one underlying energy...?"  -Lynne McTaggart, THE FIELD, Page xiv.

The whole universe seems to be an energy filed, made up of energy fields.  We actually are the sum of our vibrations (your personal frequency).

We literally create and sustain our very lives at this basic energetic level. It may be the only thing we actually control, but are mostly unaware of it. But we can learn to understand the profound implications of the energy fields being generated by various kinds of vibrations.

In her books Lynne Mc Taggart discusses scientific discoveries that support the theory that the universe is unified by an interactive field. Research in the field of human consciousness supports the theory that "the universe is connected by a vast quantum energy field" that can be influenced by thought.

Physicists have discovered that atoms consist of vast amounts of empty space. Even so-called "real" sub-atomic particles are a "little knot of energy which briefly emerges and (then) disappears back into the underlying field." Physicist Richard Feynman has written that there is enough energy contained in one cubic meter of space to boil all the water in all the oceans of the world.

Protons and neutrons are composed of even smaller particles called quarks. As far as we know, quarks are like points in geometry. They're not made up of anything else. In other words, the physical world you see around you consists of electromagnetic waves – light! Your physical body is not that physical at all. It is light, or energy.  

Now we regard the quantum field as fundamental, and the existence of particles is a consequence of the behavior of the quantum field. One of the core principles of Quantum Physics is the idea that reality ( the photons that produce the light-illusion we all occupy ) exists in infinite possible states. 

But science has not even figured out what consciousness is. Matter may well be an illusion and reality may be far more vast than we have imagined.

Rupert Sheldrake in his book, A New Science of Life, proposes that all systems are regulated not only by known energy and material factors but also by invisible organizing fields. These fields are causative because they serve as blueprints for form and behavior.

Apparenently whenever one member of a species learns a new behavior, the causative field for the species is changed, however slightly. If the behavior is repeated for long enough, its "morphic resonance" affects the entire species. Sheldrake called this invisible matrix a "morphogenetic field."

The action of this field involves "action at a distance" in both space and time.The effect of these fields reaches across the time and space barriers normally applied to energy. That is, their effect is just as strong at a distance as it is at close range.

Morphic Resonance Field apparently shapes all matter from atoms and crystals to humans, and is made up of both organic and psychological elements. The field is invisible, but its impact is observable. Sheldrake's examples of larger fields include spirit, and social fields. The essence of Now Healing is that we do not "do healing"
 
 Morphic resonance is a process whereby self-organising systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits.
 
Memory need not be stored in material traces inside brains, which are more like TV receivers than video recorders, tuning into influences from the past. And biological inheritance need not all be coded in the genes, or in epigenetic modifications of the genes; much of it depends on morphic resonance from previous members of the species. Thus each individual inherits a collective memory from past members of the species, and also contributes to the collective memory, affecting other members of the species in the future.
 
Sheldrake's experiments offer compelling evidence that telepathy is a normal aspect of interaction, especially between beings who know each other well. Resonance fields also stimulate and empower creativity, passion, and joy as we go about focusing our intention and attention on truly learning to thrive.

So ordinary matter is composed of atoms and molecules in vibration, but these are only energy patterns, not solid matter. Spiritual vibrations are a way of viewing everything in the universe, Understating spiritual vibration helps us recognize when we're moving through dense, heavy emotions, so we can let them go and maintain a higher, lighter frequency.


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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Rupert Sheldrake





AN EVENING WITH RUPERT SHELDRAKE

We are in an extraordinarily unusual time in relation to science and spiritual practices it’s particularly unusual because we are in the stage at which the pursuit of organized religion has declined to a remarkable degree. Only about 5% of the population of Britain regularly attend church services, for example. Yet at the same time there is a tremendous growth in the interest in spiritual practices. And we now have access to spiritual practices from all the world's traditions. Millions of people practice Yoga and Meditation, for example. When I was a child most people had never heard of Yoga and Meditation, outside India, or outside Theosophists, and possibly…

But now it is very common. Every small town has Yoga studios. At the same time these practices are being investigated scientifically which had not happened before. And in 2001 a huge handbook was published called The handbook of Religion and Health, and a second edition was published in 2012, reviewing more than 2,500 papers in peer reviewed journals, studying the effects of spiritual and scientific practices.

The overwhelming consensus was that these practices have very beneficial affects make people healthier, happier and live longer. Presumably the opposite must be true. People who don’t have these practices are unhappier, unhealthier, and live shorter. Which is why I think militant atheism should come with a health warning. Because when people are persuaded to give up religious practices it leaves them with a kind of void. And because of thet a new generation of atheists are advocating spiritual practices.

We now have the strange situation in which we have Sam Harris, one of the new atheists, is now giving online meditation courses. And Alain de Batton, one of our leading aethist philosophers in Beitan, recently wrote a book called, Religion for Atheists, in which he points out that when people loose their traditional religious practices and faith, then they loose out on a whole range of things, which are helpful for religious people: gathering together regularly, being supported by that community in times of adversity, having a sense of community, praying, singing together, celebrating festivals, having rites of passage, praying.

If people give up traditional practices, they usually give up all these things as well. And Alain de Batton recognizes that these are very important for human health, well being, and flourishing. Which he is trying to re-invent atheists versions of these practices.


The above is a paraphrased excerpt from a transcription of the YouTube presentation


Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, who, while having a perfectly good PhD in biochemistry, prefers to spend much of his time on parapsychology with some truly amaising results.  In his quest to explore phenomena that science finds hard to explain, he has been condemned "in exactly the language that the pope used to condemn Galileo, and for the same reason.

Dr. Sheldrake shows the ways in which science is being constricted by assumptions that have, over the years, hardened into dogmas. Such dogmas are not only limiting, but dangerous for the future of humanity. According to these principles, all of reality is material or physical; the world is a machine, made up of inanimate matter; nature is purposeless; consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain; free will is an illusion; God exists only as an idea in human minds, imprisoned within our skulls while societies around the world are paying the price.

In the skeptical spirit of true science, Sheldrake turns the ten fundamental dogmas of materialism into exciting questions, and shows how all of them open up startling new possibilities for discovery. Science Set Free will radically change your view of what is real and what is possible.

"I think what we’re heading for is a post-materialist worldview which is what my book (Morphic Resonance)  is trying to point the way towards. We could have a holistic way of looking at things, a scientific investigation into things, which leaves these bigger questions open. For example, in one chapter of the book where I’m dealing with the dogma that memories are stored as material traces inside the brain that becomes the question, are memories stored as material traces in the brain?

I’m not confident memories are stored in brains. I think that brains are more like tuning devices, more like TV receivers than like video recorders. Now that’s really a scientific question, how is memory stored? We can do experiments to try and find out how memory works.

So for materialists it’s a simple two-step argument. Memories are stored in brains; the brain decays at death, therefore, memories are wiped out at death. Whereas, if memories are not stored in brains then the memories themselves are not wiped out at death. They’re potentially accessible. That doesn’t prove they are accessed, that there is personal survival. It just means that’s a possibility whereas with materialism it’s an impossibility. So one position leaves the question closed and the other leaves it open."                                             - Interview with Alex Tsakiris

Why do many phenomena defy the explanations of conventional biology and physics? For instance, when laboratory rats in one place have learned how to navigate a new maze, why do rats elsewhere seem to learn it more easily? Rupert Sheldrake describes this process as morphic resonance: the past forms and behaviors of organisms, he argues, influence organisms in the present through direct connections across time and space. Calling into question many of our fundamental concepts about life and consciousness, Sheldrake reinterprets the regularities of nature as being more like habits than immutable laws.

The first edition of A New Science of Life created a furor when it appeared, provoking the outrage of the old-guard scientific community and the approbation of the new. The British journal Nature called it "the best candidate for burning there has been for many years." A lively debate ensued, as researchers devised experiments testing Sheldrake's hypothesis, including some involving millions of people through the medium of television. These developments are recorded in this revised and expanded edition of New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance

Sheldrake explains how past forms and behaviors of organisms determine those of similar organisms in the present through morphic resonance. The Hypothesis of Formative Causation proposes that the forms of self-organizing systems are arranged and fashioned by "Morphic fields." He proposes that the process of morphic resonance leads to stable morphic fields, which are significantly easier to tune into. He suggests that this is the means by which simpler organic forms synergetically self-organize into more complex ones, and that this model allows a different explanation for the process of evolution itself, as an addition to Darwin's evolutionary processes of selection and variation.

There is a fine line between moderation and censorship. At TED.COM (Technology, Entertainment and Design) on January 13, 2013, Rupert Sheldrake gave a talk in which he suggests that the modern scientific worldview has become associated with ten dogmas, and makes the case that none of them hold up to scrutiny. According to him, these dogmas — including, for example, that nature is mechanical and purposeless, that the laws and constants of nature are fixed, and that psychic phenomena like telepathy are impossible — are holding back the pursuit of knowledge.

TED’s scientific advisers have questioned whether his list is a fair description of scientific assumptions, and TED administrators have publicaly aligned themselves with the old paradigm of materialism, which has dominated science since the late nineteenth century. TED have decided to censor Rupert Sheldrake and remove this video from the TEDx YouTube channel. This has caused some controversy and should make Sheldrake all the more interesting.