Dr Rupert Sheldrake – A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance After Forty Years

How is the past still present?

A joint event with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)

PLEASE NOTE: as this event is being hosted by our partner IONS this requires a second very quick registration after you book your ticket in order to get your Zoom link directly from IONS. When you complete your booking on the form below you will be emailed a registration link, which you will need to click and enter your name and email one more time (for free) – thank you.

RECORDINGS will be available to watch through the IONS website for one week after the event and all attendees will be sent this link. 

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Rupert Sheldrake’s first book ‘A New Science of Life’ caused both excitement and consternation when it first appeared in 1981. The editor of the journal Nature famously condemned it for heresy, describing it as “the best candidate for burning there has been for many years.” Sheldrake proposal was that memory is inherent in nature; the “laws of nature” are not fixed commandments imposed on the universe at the Big Bang, but rather habits that evolve.

The process of morphic resonance carries the memory of past systems into subsequent similar self-organizing systems, and applies to molecules, cells, organs, organisms, and societies of organisms. This hypothesis predicts that each species has a kind of collective memory. If rats learn a new trick in London, for example, rats all over the world should be able to learn the same trick quicker.

In this talk, Sheldrake will summarize this hypothesis and discuss how developments in science over the last forty years have made it more plausible.

⦿ Please note: this is a donation-based event.

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About the speaker:

Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, is a biologist and author of more than 90 scientific papers and nine books, including ‘The Presence of the Past’. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and of Schumacher College, in Dartington, Devon. He lives in London.

His web site is www.sheldrake.org.

The third edition of ‘A New Science of Life’, fully revised and updated, is published in the UK by Icon Books, and in the US, retitled ‘Morphic Resonance’, by Park Street Press.

TICKETS

PLEASE NOTE: as this event is being hosted by our partner IONS this requires a second very quick registration after you book your ticket in order to get your Zoom link directly from IONS. When you complete your booking on the form below you will be emailed a registration link, which you will need to click and enter your name and email one more time (for free) – thank you.

RECORDINGS will be available to watch through the IONS website for one week after the event and all attendees will be sent this link.