Society,spirit & ritual Morphic resonance and the collective unconscious part II

Rupert Sheldrake i s a theoretical biologist whose book, A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation, continues to evoke a storm of controversy. Following i s the second i n a series of articles wherein Sheldrake presents his ideas for amplifying Jung's concept of the collective unconscious and archetypal psychology. He concluded his first article with these words:

The approach I am putting forward is very similar to Jung's idea of the collective unconscious. The main difference i s that Jung's idea was applied primarily to human experience and human collective memory. What I am suggesting i s that a very similar principle operates throughout the entire universe, not just in human beings. If the kind of radical paradigm shift I am talking about goes on within biology - if the hypothesis of morphic resonance i s even approximately correct - then Jung's idea of the collective unconscious would become a mainstream idea. Morphogenic fields and the concept of the collective unconscious would completely change the context of modern psychology.