On the Japanese island of Kosima, a colony of wild monkeys lived, which scientists fed on sweet potatoes (yams), scattering them on the sand. The monkeys liked the sweet potato, but didn't like the sand on it. And then one day, 18-month-old female Imo found that she could solve this problem by washing the sweet potato.
She taught this trick to other monkeys. And when all the monkeys in the flock learned how to wash the sweet potato, the monkeys living on the nearby islands suddenly, without any external motivation, also began to wash the sweet potato. Given that there was absolutely no contact between them, it was very difficult to explain this phenomenon.
In science, this phenomenon is called the "effect of the hundredth monkey." How can this phenomenon be explained?
According to some scientists, in order for some population (for example, humanity) to receive new information or make some kind of discovery, a critical mass of individuals (people) is needed, which would look for an answer to the question posed.
Another example. A hundred years ago, Johnny Weissmuller (the future Tarzan in the movies) swam the 100 meter crawl distance faster than anyone else in the world - in 1 minute 22 seconds, and became the world champion. Only 50 years have passed, and 1 minute 22 seconds is only the second junior swimming category.
Do you remember how young people learned to snowboard about ten years ago? Everyone was skiing then, and snowboarding was a novelty. They got up on the board, even having the skill of skiing, for a long time and painfully, with bruises and broken sides. On the third or fourth day, they began to descend somehow. What now? Look, it took only a few years, the "hundredth monkey" learned to ride the board. People go by themselves on the very first day! Almost immediately! So something happened at the field level? After all, physically a person has not changed at all.
In 1981, the work of Rupert Sheldrake, an English specialist in the field of biochemistry and cell biology, was published, entitled "The New Science of Life: A Hypothesis of Formative Causality." Sheldrake put forward a hypothesis about the existence of morphogenetic fields (or M-fields). In his opinion, in addition to the fields already known to science, there are invisible structures that form the bodies of crystals, plants, animals and somehow determine their behavior. The field serves as a kind of matrix that forms and regulates each subsequent unit of the same type.
These new units tune in to an already existing archetype, not limited by space and time, or enter into resonance with it, and then reproduce it. Each new unit, as it is formed, in turn strengthens the M-field, and thus a certain "habit" is established. This theory applies to everything from crystals to complex living organisms.
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As Sheldrake pointed out, his attention to the problem was awakened by the work of the famous psychologist from Harvard, William McDougall, performed in the twenties of the last century. The scientist experimented with rats and found that with each successive generation, rats were more and more successful in finding a way out of the maze. When experiments were tested in Scotland and Australia with unrelated strains of rats, this ability was found to be improved in all rodents.
According to Sheldrake's theory, the human nervous system is also controlled by M-fields, so the same principle can be applied to humans, which would greatly help to understand the mechanism of mastering skills.
As Sheldrake himself said, some aspects of the hypothesis about the formation of causality resemble elements of various traditional and occult systems, for example, the concept of the presence of a group soul in each animal species or the theory of akash (ethereal) records.
But what are these fields and where do they come from? For more than 50 years, their nature has remained a mystery, and their existence is hypothetical. Like the fields known in physics, they bind together similar objects in space, but, moreover, they also bind them in time. The idea is that the morphogenetic fields that develop in developing animals or plants come from forms that existed before individuals of the same species.
The embryos "tune in" to them, as it were. The process of this adjustment is called morphoresonance. In exactly the same way, the field that organizes the activity of the nervous system of animals of the same species is manifested: in their instinctive behavior, animals use the "memory bank", or "total memory," of their species.
Sheldrake's hypothesis can explain cases of parallel inventions, intuitive knowledge, the possibility of accelerated learning and development, the brainstorming effect.
Matter has a fine structure of energy levels, and their purpose is not fully understood. All this directly indicates the existence of certain natural communications, receiving-yomo-transmitting channels, a virtual coordinate system, etc., which, as we assume, are inherent in all cells and structures of a living organism. These properties are vitally necessary for matter, without them the development of organisms, adaptation, and, possibly, the species, related telepathic selective connection, of which Sheldrake speaks, is unthinkable.
Any biological object in the process of life generates a complex picture of physical fields and radiation. Their spatio-temporal characteristics carry important information about the state of human organs and tissues. Their influence on the surrounding world is also undoubted; it is also quite possible that they also serve as the material substrate that transfers the thoughts of some and introduces them into the consciousness of others.
The idea of the existence of extracellular information structures was first expressed by the Austrian researcher P. Weiss at the beginning of the 20th century.
He suggested that around the embryo, or embryo, a certain field is formed, which he called morphogenetic. It, as it were, molds individual organs and whole organisms from cellular material, determines the sequence of their formation in space and time.
Each cell of the body has an individual morphogenetic field, which carries information about the entire body and the program for its development. The fields of individual cells are combined into a single morpho-genetic field, which envelops and permeates the entire organism, is in constant connection with each cell and controls all operations for the formation and functioning of both each cell and the whole organism. According to this concept, the carrier of hereditary information is no longer the cell nucleus, but its morpho-genetic field, while DNA only reflects the information carried by the field. The morpho-genetic field is constantly changing, reflecting the dynamics of the development of the organism. Thus, the concept of morphogenetic fields is based on the thesis of extracellular information, and the "volumetric" nature of this field is assumed,because it must cover all cells of the body.
Since the existence of morphogenetic fields is closely linked with the existence and functioning of biological structures, it follows from this that when the biological structure dies, the morphogenetic field should also disappear. True, no one has yet succeeded in fixing the validity of such a conclusion, but this follows from the fact that such a field is considered as a derivative of cellular structures, and if the cells die, then the field must inevitably disappear. The morphogenetic field can exist as long as at least one cell of the organism is alive.
Thus, the concept of morphogenetic fields assumes their local nature, closely related to the location of the biological formation. However, later on, this interpretation of the concept of morphogenetic fields was significantly expanded, suggestions were made that extracellular information structures are of a broader nature.
This is reflected in the explanation of many phenomena using the so-called "fields of consciousness".
Man, in some deep sense, thinks with his whole body. The question arises as to whether a person is the creator of continuous thinking or only a receiver of those streams that flow outside of him? If the second assumption is true, then all the efforts of a person aimed at perceiving these flows: meditation, the reception of psychedelic drugs, participation in the mysteries and, finally, the ability to ask oneself questions in the language of discrete representations and wait for an answer to them - all these are just different ways settings.
Jung believed that "… progress consists in the preparation of consciousness and for the perception of ideas from somewhere outside its flowing streams." For example, some serious mathematicians are deeply convinced that in their creative activity they do not invent, but discover abstract structures that exist really and independently.
Rupert Sheldrake noted that a person assimilates knowledge the easier, the more people know it. He once asked English students to learn three Japanese quatrains. At the same time, one was just a set of words, or rather, hieroglyphs, the second was a work of a little-known modern author, and the third was a classic example of Japanese poetry, known in the Land of the Rising Sun as well as we have “I remember a wonderful moment”.
It was the classic quatrain that the students remembered best! Note that none of them knew Japanese and had no idea which of the poems was a classic, which was a newly composed opus, and which was completely nonsense!
After this experiment, repeated more than once, Sheldrake suggested that there is a certain field of images common to all people. This field, along with many others, also contains the image of an old Japanese quatrain, it is known to many, and therefore its image is firmly "imprinted" in the field and is more accessible than, for example, the image of a verse just composed. Anything can become images of such a field: information, feeling or behavior model. Moreover, not only humans have such fields, but also animals, birds, insects, plants, and even crystals. Sheldrake called image fields morphogenic, that is, those that affect the structure or shape of things.
In another experiment, a psychologist from the United States, Arden Malberg, suggested that volunteers learn two versions of Morse code of the same complexity. The secret was that one version was actually Morse code, and the other was an imitation of it. Without exception, all subjects learned the standard version of the code faster and easier, although they did not know about the trick and did not know that only one version of the alphabet was true.
Of course, it is much easier to “catch” your own memory in the morphogenic “ether” than the memory of other people. But theoretically, with skillful “tuning”, the memory of any person or society becomes available. So if you want to learn English, you don't have to pore over dictionaries and listen to cassettes, you just need to "tune" your brain to the "English" wave.
The only pity is that it is not yet known how to do this!
Best of all, the brain "tunes" to well-known images. The same English, for example, is easier to learn than Swahili or Hindi, because much more people speak it. This means that morphogenic fields are not unchanged, they can be modified under the influence of new knowledge. For example, if yesterday unknown knowledge spreads everywhere tomorrow, its field will also spread and become available to a greater number of people (animals, plants, etc.).
Deadly "imprinted" in the morphogenic field and accessible to literally everyone, Sheldrake calls "habits." In his opinion, the universe does not obey once and for all established laws, but lives, in accordance with certain images contained in the common memory of nature. Archaic images - "habits", "responsible" for gravitational and electromagnetic fields, hydrogen atoms, the Ursa Minor constellation, the atmosphere, the world ocean, etc. with other "habits", nature also has a "habit" of change. The evolution of life, culture, man is the striving for development inherent in the nature of things, deeply "imprinted" in its morphogenic field.
If there are morphogenic fields common to all people (animals), then it turns out that everything (and everyone) in the world is interconnected. Whenever we learn something new, not only we, but all people, the whole universe will learn it. Our knowledge becomes common. Just some kind of total common mind!
The theory of morphogenic fields also explains the phenomenon of prediction. A different scheme operates here: a person, making this or that forecast, “sends” certain information to the morphogenic field, which is then returned in the form of an actually accomplished event.
The same “thread” attracts cats and dogs that have lost their way or abandoned far from their owner. In the 16th century, a greyhound hound named Caesar made it from Switzerland to France, where its owner had gone, and found him in the royal palace! And during the First World War, the dog Prince in search of his owner, an army officer, swam across the English Channel! Wild schooling animals behave in a similar way: wolves who have lagged behind the pack always find their relatives, foxes calm the playing puppies, being at a considerable distance from them and not making a single sound, only gazing intently towards their burrow.
It is quite possible that in such cases, animals simply read information from the formative fields of a person or each other. There are frequent cases when our smaller brothers "study" global morphogenic fields. The ability of animals to anticipate disaster is well known. Eyewitnesses recall that in 1960, on the eve of the earthquake in Agadir (Morocco), all stray dogs fled from the city (not only rats flee from danger!). Three years later, the same thing happened in the city of Skopje (Yugoslavia): the dogs running away and then tremors of destructive power. History knows many other similar examples.
Many great inventions were made by completely different people at almost the same time. Probably, it so happens that the same ideas come to minds of many people, but not all of them implement them.
It turns out that all scientific discoveries and achievements took place exactly when the number of researchers reached a critical mass. Of course, for each discovery or new information, there is a critical mass of people involved in solving this problem.
It turns out that it depends on each of us what we eventually transform as a species in time. Is this possible? Yes. It is simply very difficult to believe that the thoughts of an ordinary person, combined with a multitude of similar aspirants, can influence and change the whole world. It only remains to determine where we should direct all our efforts. The reassessment of values and the search for the meaning of further existence is the main question that earthly humanity has approached today. This question should unite earthlings in a joint search for an answer to it.
It is in our power, or rather in the power of every earthling living on our planet, to try to understand what is happening and change ourselves, thereby contributing to the spread of these changes throughout the world. Realize that only you yourself and no one else can help yourself and the entire planet. Everything that happens in this world depends only on you, and only you alone can change it. After all, the critical mass of the transition to a new quality is unknown to us. So, it is quite possible that the "hundredth monkey" who will change the world is exactly you …
"Unknown World" 2012