\u2026Judy Cannato\u2019s thoughts on morphic resonance from her book The Field of Compassion came to mind.
Now, Rupert Sheldrake\u2019s biological theory that \u201clike attracts like,\u201d would seem to be a Universe away from a Dr. Seuss story, but is it? According to Cannato:<\/p>\n
\u201c[G]enetic material alone cannot account for the development of living systems. Sheldrake proposes that systems are surrounded by non-visible fields that carry information or memory from one generation to the next, thus making a new behavior patterns easier to learn. \u2026The human person is a field of energy and information rooted in the body but extending out from the body, interacting with the energy and information of others. None of us is a discreet, separate unit, but an integrated system of interactions and relationships connected to all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cannato suggests that we can alter our energy and information fields by the choices we make\u2026and \u201ccan become increasing aware of who we are and how we influence our environment, and that we can and must make choices that are life-giving for all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Using the image of the morphogenic field as a template, she says, \u201cwe can look at the mission of Jesus. Although he never could have used these words, Jesus was about creating a morphogenic field, one in which love is the standard operating procedure and genuine concern for the other is the behavioral norm.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I\u2019m sure the person who wrote this is a very nice person. I expect I would like the person who wrote this and that they wouldn\u2019t intentionally harm a flea. But I would also say that this very nice person is very muddled and that nonsense about morphogenic fields is the sort of thing bruited by a New Age dilettante who doesn\u2019t want to just deal with the Christian revelation as it is. Such bafflegab is the hobby of upscale suburbanites with a horror of The Same Old Thing. It\u2019s a form of snobbery.<\/p>\n
HT: Acts of the Apostasy<\/a><\/p>\n