I’ve always wondered why I’ve such a strong a strong pull to the past and the ancestors. Even certain places etc. This has just led me to investigate Morphic Resonance.
“Morphic resonance is a process whereby self-organising systems inherit a memory from previous similar systems. In its most general formulation, morphic resonance means that the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. The hypothesis of morphic resonance also leads to a radically new interpretation of memory storage in the brain and of biological inheritance. Memory need not be stored in material traces inside brains, which are more like TV receivers than video recorders, tuning into influences from the past. And biological inheritance need not all be coded in the genes, or in epigenetic modifications of the genes; much of it depends on morphic resonance from previous members of the species. Thus each individual inherits a collective memory from past members of the species, and also contributes to the collective memory, affecting other members of the species in the future.”
I feel that the ancestors – in those days long ago, before TV and when they all lived in pure faith – understood and accepted this concept much better than we do today.
This, in turn, led me to an article :
Prayer: A Challenge for Science : Rupert Sheldrake
Interesting.
I call it Faith.
But what do non-experts like me know? :o)
Hidden History Research 
I also admire Sheldrake’s work. I read one of his books a couple years ago. His writing is not for the faint of heart. He is a serious scientist with extensive data to back up his hypotheses, and his writing is very much academic. But his ideas are so innovative, I wish they were more known to the general public. He has suffered terrible vilification at the hands of his peers over the years. Yes, I completely agree our ancestors understood things that we have lost sight of. I think Jung was working towards these ideas in his hypothesis of the collective unconscious. Jung also believed that Europeans (Brits included), were somewhat insulated from the horrific effects of industrialization and capitalism because they still lived there…on the land, near the graves of their ancestors. He never expressed it as a sort of resonance with collective experience, but the inference is definitely there. Americans, on the other hand, were completely cut-off and uprooted from the gifts of the ancestors, in his view.
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I know Sheldrake’s name but not so much his work. You got me with the vilification by his peers. Oh, yes. A sure sign he came up with something unmentionable (?)
Morphic Resonace,,,,urm….resonated with me. It explains nature and animals. And us. Collective Consciousness.
I got really angry when Dan when to college to study psychology (as a side line) and they only taught Freud. I said, “Jung?” Nope. No way. The teachers wouldn’t touch him!
I didn’t ever think that about Americans being less connected to the land etc. But. It makes some sense. You know the old joke about the Brits being obsessed with the weather? Well, change weather to natural elements, the land, the seasons etc and………! :o)
Love the way you help me think
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