Morphogenetic Fields and Carl Jung's Collective Unconscious
- From: Laurent <cyberdyno@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:01:32 -0700
The other day I was thinking about hyperspace and where I got this
phrase from - "Hyperspace is like a 3D filter through which all 4D
(reality) must pass before it can enter the 'light cone'." - and
remembered it was something I had read by Jack Sarfatti. This is how
he used to describe hyperspace. Sarfatti used to compare hyperspace
with Plato's Forms (ideas) realm. Remember Plato's allegory of the
cave, where he describes the world we see as shadows casted by objects
we can't see? Jack Sarfatti used to compare hyperspace with that
concept, but I think that later on he dropped that idea. Now he is
involved with the concept of Morphic Fields, which exist as matter in
spacetime. Maybe he finally realized that information is constantly
growing, and that for that to be possible there must be process, and
for there to be process there has to be motion, therefore time, and
Plato's Form's realm is supposed to be motionless and timeless. In my
views, which I developed about five years ago, what I call hyperspace
is very similar to this Morphic Fields theory.
The main difference between Plato's Forms realm and Jung's collective
consciousness, is that Jung's consciousness exists here, in spacetime,
as matter waves. Plato's realm exists in what Jack Sarfatti calls
hyperspace, a 3D non-material realm, as frozen ideas which we access
with our mind in spacetime. I agree with Jung and not Plato, I believe
information is always material and can only exist in spacetime, as
waves. Information is a product of process, and since the aether is
motionless it is devoid of process. Information grows because of
process as waves interact with each other mainly through a mechanism
called wave superposition which makes possible exchange of information
between waves through parallel information processing.
How can a dog sense his owner is coming home 15 minutes before showing
up, even when the owner was returning home out of the regular time?
This is one of the questions Sheldrake works with. I think he's right.
We are surrounded by fields (morphogenetic) which exchange information
existing as space just like radio and TV waves exist.
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MORPHIC FIELD
A field within and around a self-organizing system that organizes its
characteristic structure and pattern of activity. According to the
hypothesis of formative causation, morphic fields contain an inherent
memory transmitted by previous similar systems by morphic resonance
and tend to become increasingly habitual. Morphic fields include
morphogenetic, behavioral, social, cultural, and mental fields. The
greater the degree of similarity, the greater the influence of morphic
resonance. In general, systems most closely resemble themselves in the
past and are subject to self-resonance from their own past states.
MORPHIC RESONANCE
The influence of previous structures on subsequent similar structures
of activity organized by morphic fields. According to the hypothesis
of formative causation, morphic resonance involves the transmission of
formative influences through or across time and space without a
decrease due to distance or lapse of time.
MORPHOGENESIS
The coming into being of form.
MORPHOGENETIC FIELDS
Fields that play a causal role in morphogenesis. This term, first
proposed in the 1920s, is now widely used by developmental biologists.
According to the hypothesis of formative causation, these fields
contain an inherent memory, transmitted from similar past organisms by
the process of morphic resonance.
McKenna, and Rupert SheldrakeFrom Trialogues at the Edge of the West by Ralph Abraham, Terence
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"Morphogenetic fields carry information only (no energy) and are
available throughout time and space without any loss of intensity
after they have been created. They are created by the patterns of
physical forms (including such things as crystals as well as
biological systems). They help guide the formation of later similar
systems. And finally, a newly forming system "tunes into" a previous
system by having within it a "seed" that resonates with a similar seed
in the earlier form."
[...]
"In addition, these same concepts can be used to explain some of the
mysteries about human memory. In effect, our brains are not so much
libraries as they are sending and receiving stations that leave a
continuous trail of experience imprinted in morphogenetic fields and
then "recall" previous experiences by tuning into that trail.
If these ideas are correct, then the "storehouse of memory" is not the
least bit private since morphogenetic fields are universally available
and continue to exist regardless of what happens to their original
source. The only thing that makes our mental processes seem private is
that we naturally resonate most strongly with our own past mental
states. In other words, each of us broadcasts on a unique channel to
which, generally, no one else listens. Yet in principle, someone else
could tune into "your" memory and thoughts, and indeed, in practice,
we do - as the common experience of "reading" another person's mind
attests.
These ideas can be carried further to consider what happens when many
people have a similar thought. The information stored in the
morphogenetic field should then be stronger and accessible over "more
channels." In that case we would expect it to be easier for new people
to also "have" that thought (or skill, insight, or whatever). One
aspect of this would be the creation of what Jung called the
collective unconscious.
What proof is there that these ideas have any validity? One and a half
years ago when I wrote the article about morphogenetic fields for IC
#6, most of the experimental support for Sheldrake's ideas came from
the reinterpretation of old experiments. One of the most intriguing
involved teaching rats to run a particular maze. Each new generation
of rats learned it faster even though there was no direct physical way
for any generation to pass its learning on to the next. Since then, a
variety of new experiments have been performed." ---
http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC12/Sheldrak.htm
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"Pauli`s idea of a regulative principle lying beyond the mind-matter
distinction is intertwined with the Jungian concepts of archetypes and
synchronicity. Synchronicity refers to the occurrence of
representations of archetypes in meaningful coincidences that defy
causal explanation ... behind the process of nature that we already
know and understand there lies another, which acausally weaves meaning
into the fabric of nature." -- Henry Stapp, Ph.D., head of the Physics
department at Berkely University.
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"Jung posited the existence of a conscious and an unconscious mind. A
model that psychologists frequently use here is an iceberg. The part
of the iceberg that is above the surface of the water is seen as the
conscious mind. Consciousness is the part of the mind we know
directly. It is where we think, feel, sense and intuit. It is through
conscious activity that the person becomes an individual. It's the
part of the mind that we "live in" most of the time, and contains
information that is in our immediate awareness Below the level of the
conscious mind, and the bulk of the ice berg, is what Freud would call
the unconscious, and what Jung would call the "personal unconscious."
"
[...]
What is the Collective Unconscious?
"The collective unconscious is different. It's like eye color. If
someone were to ask you, "How did you get your eye color," you would
have to say that there was no choice involved - conscious or
unconscious. You inherited it. Material in the collective unconscious
is like this: inherited. It never came from our current environment.
It is the part of the mind that is determined by heredity. So we
inherit, as part of our humanity, a collective unconscious; the mind
is pre-figured by evolution just as is the body. The individual is
linked to the past of the whole species and the long stretch of
evolution of the organism. Jung thus placed the psyche within the
evolutionary process."
"What's in the collective unconscious? Psychological archetypes. This
idea of psychological archetypes is among Jung's most important
contributions to Western thought. An ancient idea somewhat like
Plato's idea of Forms or "patterns" in the divine mind that determine
the form material objects will take, the archetype is in all of us.
The word "archetype" comes from the Greek "arche" meaning "first, and
"type" meaning "imprint or pattern." Psychological archetypes are thus
first prints, or patterns that form the basic blueprint for major
dynamic counterparts of the human personality. For Jung, archetypes
pre-exist in the collective unconscious of humanity. They repeat
themselves eternally in the psyches of human beings and they determine
how we both perceive and behave. These patterns are inborn within us.
They are part of our inheritance as human beings. They reside as
energy within the collective unconscious and are part the
psychological life of all peoples everywhere at all times. They are
inside us and they are outside us. We can meet them by going inward to
our dreams or fantasies. We can meet them by going outward to our
myths, legends, literature and religions. The archetype can be a
pattern, such as a kind of story. Or it can be a figure, such as a
kind of character." --- http://www.lcc.ctc.edu/faculty/dmccarthy/engl204/seven-lecture.htm
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