The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Memory of Nature

The Presence of the Past by Rupert Sheldrake is a groundbreaking book that challenges our understanding of biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, and sociology.

This fully revised and updated edition provides new evidence and research in support of Sheldrake's controversial theory of morphic resonance, which proposes that all self-organizing systems inherit a collective memory that influences their form and behavior.

Exploring the major role that morphic resonance plays in animal instincts, cultural inheritance, religion, and ritual, as well as the larger process of evolution, Sheldrake shows how nature is not ruled by fixed laws but by habits and collective memories.

This book offers a replacement for the outdated mechanistic worldview that has dominated biology since the nineteenth century and will change the way you think about the natural world forever.