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The Ripple Effect: Sheldrake, Morphogenic Fields, and The New Science

  • Writer: Admin
    Admin
  • Mar 5, 2017
  • 3 min read

In this article I'am going to talk about the Ripple Effect. First I will describe what it is, give an example, and then define what Morphic Resonance has to do with the Ripple Effect.

The Ripple Effect is simply the effect that one energy has on another. Think of a drop of water falling into a pond. The drop merges with the pond but at the same time sends a shockwave throughout the entire pond. That single drop can effect an entire pond. Now how is this helpful to us as human beings. Well, think of human beings as activity or information. We are always doing something whether it be sleeping, eating, working. We are made up of the activities that we do. So what activity we do is a certain energy. And this energy has an affect on all the other energies around us. Spaces are set up for people to act a certain way and build up a particular kind of energy.

Now what is interesting about the Ripple Effect is that that energy that one individual is building within himself is affecting other individuals, but on an unconscious and subtle level.

There is this book called the 100th Monkey. It's about an experiment with two groups of Monkeys. A group of scientists was studying the monkeys who eat potatoes. One day one monkey had the idea to wash his potato in the ocean and then eat it which gave the potato a salty taste. He enjoyed this and the other monkeys in the group followed suit. However, scientists were startled when they found another group of monkeys who had never come in contact with that first group enacting the same behaviour not long after. How was this possible? They had no physical contact? The old adage, "Monkey see monkey do," just doesn't quite cut it here.

There is an interesting biologist by the name of Rupert Sheldrake who says that these things are possible because of Morphic Resonance. Morphic Resonance is, "...the influence of previous structures of activity on subsequent structures of activity organized by morphic fields. It enables memories to cross over time and space from the past."

What it means is all self organizing systems rely on a collective memory to which the individual draws from but also contributes. This means that as a species we learn not by just seeing, or being taught face to face but rather by simply just being. When one being learns something it sets out a ripple that effects other beings as well. Think of Jung's collective psyche. The collective psyche is what binds all humans together at the unconscious or subtle level. The collective psyche is the pool in which all individuals from a species collects and draws from.

Scientists found that when the pattern of behaviour or survival strategy is learned by at least 100 species then that energy starts playing out through the species even though they haven't come in contact with that pattern of behaviour.

This is essentially what happened with the group of two monkeys. What does this mean for the human race? It means that we are hardly individuals. Yes, we are separate and individual but we do affect each other in a great number of ways. Every single thing you do has a ripple effect and effects the people both in your life and outside of it. This means that we should be highly aware of everything that we are doing and do everything with conscious intent.

 
 
 

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