Episode Transcript: #550 - Rupert Sheldrake
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All right, well, thank you for your patience, Rupert.
Rupert Sheldrake, ladies and gentlemen.
I came to know of you through the trialogues that you did with Terrence McKenna, who I'm
a huge fan of, and Ralph Abraham.
And I thought they were some really fascinating conversations.
And, you know, all of Terrence's MP3s are very thought-inspiring and made you really, like,
look at things from a very different and peculiar angle that he had.
He had a very unique way of looking at the world.
But I came to know of you from that, and I came to know of your ideas of morphic resonance,
which I found to be really fascinating.
And if you don't mind, just explain to folks at home listening what the concept of morphic
resonance is.
It's the idea of memory and nature, the idea that the whole universe has a kind of memory.
The so-called laws of nature are more like habits.
Each individual in his species draws on a collective memory and contributes to it.
It works on the basis of similarity.
Any pattern of activity that's similar to a later pattern of activity in a self-organizing