Jennifer Lee#StayCurious
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Was it a morphic field in action?3/15/2024 Have you heard of morphic fields? According to British biologist Rupert Sheldrake, morphic fields are invisible, organizing fields that shape the form and behavior of living things and are present in all living systems. They are thought to be not just the result of physical interactions, but also to emerge from the collective memory and experience of a group or species. The theory suggests that when a living system interacts with its environment and learns from its experiences, it leaves a "memory" or impression in the morphic field associated with that location, which can be accessed by other living systems present in the same location. This idea is sometimes referred to as the "memory of nature" and may explain phenomena such as the "inheritance of acquired characteristics" and the ability of animals to learn and adapt to their environment. One possible example of how a morphic field impression might be noticed is the phenomenon of "cultural transmission" in animals. Cultural transmission refers to the way that certain behaviors or habits are passed down from one generation to the next within a species. For example, some species of birds have been observed to use specific tools or techniques to find food, and these behaviors can be passed down through the generations without the individual birds being taught directly by their parents. This phenomenon could be explained by the idea that the collective memory and experience of the species is stored in the morphic field associated with that species, and that individual birds are able to access this information and learn from it. I had an interesting experience involving a mouse overpopulation that I believe was an example of a morphic field in action. Country living and cats seem to go hand in hand. This cat, as we came to learn by the tattoo in his ear was named Fred. We didn't know how he came to be hanging around our place, but we were happy he did. He was a lovely cat, very affectionate and a great mouser. He joined our family when he was nine years old until his passing at 16. He was great pals with our llama's! By the spring following his passing our barn was over run with mice. They were running around everywhere! Getting well fed by eating our chicken's feed.
As we thinking that we needed to get another cat, we learned the nearby farm we buy our honey from had taken in a stray cat that was not getting along with their other cats. It was decided that this cat would come and live with us. I noticed within a day of this new cat being present that there was not a single mouse to be found in the barn. There was no way the cat could have dispatched so many mice so quickly. This made me wonder if there was a morphic field at play. If previous mice had left information in a morphic field that cats signaled danger to mice, is it possible that the present mice picked up on that and moved out as soon as the cat arrived? Mice live pretty short lives. None of the mice that our previous cat would have enountered would have still been alive in our barn to have had a direct experience with a cat. So it's either an inherent instinct or could it be information that the mice are able to access from their environment energetically as in a morphic field? But what really is instinct anyway? How do animals just seem to know certain things about their environment? #StayCurious
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