Morphic resonance is a connection across time from the past to the present.

And it's a process that occurs between organized patterns of activity

on the basis of similarity.

What it means in effect is that each species has a kind of collective memory.

So every giraffe tunes in bimorphic resonance to the form and to the behavior of previous giraffes.

Every crystal, as it crystallizes, tunes in to the way that previous crystals of the same chemical crystallized in the past.

So there's a kind of memory given by morphic resonance in all kinds of things.

And in the realm of animal behavior, for example, it leads to quite striking predictions.

If rats learn a new trick here in London, then rats all around the world should be able to learn the same trick quicker just because the rats have learned it here.

The more that learn it, the easier it should get everywhere else.

And there's already evidence that this actually happens from studies of rats and laboratories

when lots of rats have learned something, other rats all around the world find it easier to learn.

And this doesn't depend on any

normal kind of connection between the different rats or the places. It happens

because of morphic resonance on the basis of similarity.

The same applies to crystals.

When a new chemical is made for the first time,

it's usually very hard to crystallize it.

And as time goes on, it gets easier to crystallize all around the world.

And I think the reason for this is that Morphic resonance connects up the crystals so they tune

into a kind of collective memory. So Morphic resonance works through

morphic fields, the organizing fields of chemicals and biological systems and the word morphic comes from the Greek word for form.

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