the timboucher experience

Just doing a little more background research on all this stuff. From,
Mystery of Matter, Chapter 2:

“Morphogenetic fields are not kinds of energy, but they play a causal role in determining the forms of the systems with which they are associated.’ (8) They are ‘ spatial structures detectable only through their morphogenetic effects on material systems.. Thus there must be one kind of morphogenetic field for protons; another for nitrogen atoms; another for water molecules; another for sodium chloride crystals; another for the muscle cells of earthworms; another for the kidneys of sheep; another for elephants; another for beech trees; and so on.’ (9)”

Hm. The best simplest description of entelechy I have found is on this page, and it refers to the dynamic purpose coded into something. Such as, the entelechy of an acorn is to grow into an oak tree. The entelechy of a caterpillar is to grow into a butterfly. And so on, that everything has a hidden future form or purpose that it develops towards.

More from Mystery of Matter:

“Things are as they are because they were as they were.” (15) There is a memory inherent in nature that is passed on from one generation to another by means of morphic resonance. Memory does not have to be conceived as something engraved on our brains, but rather, might be directly present to us. The morphic fields of past organisms might somehow continue to be present to us.

Another (I’m hot on the trail)

The concept of purposive organizing principles which are non-material in nature have been reinvented again and again.” (20) Even the idea of the universe as a machine implies a plan of organization. Whether we look to the laws of nature or information theory, we return to the fundamental idea of form. “Information is what informs; it plays an informative role…” (21) “Is the information Platonic, somehow transcending time and space? Or is it immanent within organisms?” (22) For Sheldrake this kind of biological information, or morphogenetic fields are immanent in organisms and “inherited in a non-material manner.” (23) These morphogenetic fields are physically real fields with their own spatio-temporal organization. Past fields influence present ones by “a non-energetic transfer of Information.” (24) Therefore, while physically real they are not like the fields physics knows, and involve “a kind of action at a distance in both space and time” which doesn’t decline with distance in space and time. (25)

And this is just cool:

Not only will an organism tune into its own past by a kind of self-resonance, it will also tune into the collective memory of past fields. Something like telepathy could be explained as a tuning into the fields of other people. Even belief in reincarnation could be related not to one person having lived a former life, but having tuned in to the morphic field and the associated memory of the person who lived before.

Getting closer:

For Jung, the contents of the collective unconscious is made up of archetypes which are innate psychic structures, and Sheldrake likens these archetypes to morphic fields that contain “the average forms of previous experience.”

Damn! Maybe I should just shut up and order this book. It’s full title is: “The Mystery of Matter: Nonlocality, Morphic Resonance, Synchronicity and the Philosophy of Nature of St. Thomas Aquinas”

• Archetypes
• Throwing in the towel
• Archetypes in Systems Dynamics
• Marketing to the Archetypes
• Plasmate & Meme