Happy Monday

I'm taking a class called Psychology of Personal Effectiveness. Some of the things the class and textbook stress are the interconnectedness of everything and the importance of being a global citizen. In one chapter, the authors discussed Lovelock and the Gaia hypothesis. Cool huh. I love this class. Anyway, in a recent chapter, the authors talked about Rupert Sheldrake. In his 1981 book called A New Science of Life, he explored the notion of morphic resonance. In a nutshell, it implies that all matter and living things are connected and affected by fields that influence not only their structure but also their behaviors.

It has been observed, for instance, in a particular species of monkey that when a new behavior has emerged and has been adopted by a certain number of monkeys, then all the monkeys acquire this behavior. This occurs even when they have been isolated on another island from the monkeys who originally expressed the new behavior. Thus there seems to be an interconnection that cannot be explained by traditional science. Sheldrake suggests that these fields function at every level of organization of matter, plants, and societies.

The point the book is trying to make is that when enough people begin to believe something new, then that idea or possibility becomes a new reality for all people and that while no one knows what the tipping point may be, each person who develops their consciousness as a global citizen is helping to move all humanity towards that consciousness.