Where is the mind? –

“We have been brought up to believe that our minds are inside our heads, that mental activity is nothing more than brain activity…However, I suggest that our minds extend far beyond our brains; expand through fields that link us to our environment and with each other.

The author of these words is the British biologist who, when he was working in the Department of Developmental Biology at the University of Cambridge, began to consider that it was not possible to study biology only in terms of genes and molecules, but that there had to be a line of research from a more holistic perspective.

From that moment on, he has been developing various innovative theories that in many cases have generated controversy and in all cases have opened a different perspective on biology. Among his proposals, we highlight in this article the Theory of Morphic Fields that he exposes in his book A new science for life.

“Morphic resonance is the influence of earlier structures of activity on later similar structures of activity organized by morphic fields. Allows memories to be transmitted through space and time and from the past. Which means that all self-organizing systemssuch as molecules, cells, crystals, plant and animal societies, they have a collective memory from which individuals feed and to which they contribute”.

It seems that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits, that is, there are certain biological phenomena that are more likely to occur as they occur more times. Or what is the same, behaviors acquired by a species would be inherited by subsequent generations.

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Sheldrake cites as an example a study with rats carried out at Harvard during the 1920s and which lasted several decades. Rats learned to escape from a water maze, and subsequent generations learned faster and faster. After the rats had learned to escape 10 times faster at Harvard, they found that the Edinburgh and Melbourne rats began to escape just as well as the Harvard rats. And this effect was not limited to the offspring of the trained rats but to the entire community of individuals.

For Sheldrake, the keyword is “habit.” Through habits, morphogenetic fields vary their structure and promote structural changes.

What follows is that if one individual of a species learns a new ability, it will be easier for all of that species to learn it, because the ability “resonates” with everyone, no matter how far away they are.

In a Bioneuroemotion consultation, when a person specifies their conflict, the “resonance” is sought in the family tree. Transgenerational transmission could occur in this “morphic field” because there is a common memory shared by all members of the clan even if they have not lived in the same space-time.

The Bioneuroemotion method is based on the observation of how the programs of our ancestors are expressed in the following generationsand how these programs have a sense and a logic that is beyond the comprehension of the dual mind.

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