…so-called laws of nature are more like habits, that each species has a kind of collective memory, a bit like what Jung called the collective unconscious. He was talking about human collective memory. I'm talking about everything. So a giraffe has a…

…find someone who's interested in their dreams. And indeed, they can reveal a great deal about the mind, as Freud and Jung and many other psychotherapists have shown. But basically, they're not taken very seriously in our world. Most people don't bother to…

…And many people see gods and goddesses in their dreams. When I got interested in this idea of collective dream consciousness, which Jung, of course, wrote a great deal about in his idea of the collective unconscious as a kind of collective memory, I got…

…are experiencing not any memories of things that have happened. We're experiencing things that are not personal at all, what Jung would call archetypes of the collective unconscious. But we can also experience things that haven't yet happened, sometimes a…

there's a collective memory collective field sharing as you put it and this is similar to the idea of the psychologist C.G. Jung that there's a collective unconscious that we all draw on Jung took from Freud the idea of the unconscious mind and people…

…put it and this is similar to the idea of the psychologist C.G. Jung that there's a collective unconscious that we all draw on Jung took from Freud the idea of the unconscious mind and people had said this before Freud as well but that A lot of our…

…it as the personal unconscious, you know, buried memories and things you'd forgotten that were part of your own life. But Jung said that the collective unconscious that can express itself through our dreams or fantasies, for example, is a collective memory…

…of the structure of the fields. Now, in the human mind, I think these morphic fields correspond quite closely to what Jung called archetypes, which are patterns or structures that organize the psyche, the way in which psychic contents are organized and…

…also occurs, of course, between therapists and clients in what Freud called transference and countertransference. And both Freud and Jung had many telepathic experiences with their patients when they were away from them during the week between seeing them.…

…too that i i've observed i know pauline has too over the years is a very peculiar phenomenon that What Carl Jung described as being complexes. Originally they were psychophysiological and psychosocial systems that had a degree of autonomy separate to the…

…deep structure resonance that comes through. And when you feel that with someone, there's absolutely no doubt. I am a critic of Jung in the sense that he's misused, I think, in popular psychology at the moment. But there is a kernel of extreme…

…resonance. But for us, it was as if Freud and Breuer were somehow present. And that went so far. And then later, Jung returned, building upon that foundation. And of course, Breuer and Freud were built upon the foundation of the very early hypnotherapists,…

…not in kind. Whereas the conventional view is that if there's a collective memory at all of the kind presumed by Jung, then it's completely different from individual memory, which depends on changes inside the brain. So roughly, that's the idea. And it's…

…the collective unconscious. It absolutely does. Morphic resonance offers a potential physical, maybe even testable mechanism for what Jung described. Those archetypes, the universal patterns of experience that seem to shape the human psyche across cultures. Jung…

…what Jung described. Those archetypes, the universal patterns of experience that seem to shape the human psyche across cultures. Jung saw this mainly as a human psychological phenomenon. But Sheldrake takes it much further. He's saying this organizing…

…does. In modern psychology, Carl Jung's concept of the collective unconscious also carries a family resemblance, even though Jung spoke in symbolic and archetypal terms rather than biological fields. Across traditions, echoes hint at shared patterns. We…

…really make a difference. This leads to the idea of collective memory, which I mentioned right at the outset. In psychology, Jung, among others, has proposed that all human beings draw upon a collective memory. And morphic resonance would mean that if the…

…draw upon a collective memory. And morphic resonance would mean that if the idea didn't already exist, you'd have to invent it. But Jung thought of it as just a human collective memory. He could never explain how it worked, which is why his ideas are…

…were there at the beginning. The hypothesis also says that each species has a kind of collective memory, a bit like what Jung called the collective unconscious, and that each member of the species draws on the collective memory of the species and in turn…

…of animals are their instincts, their inherited patterns of behavior. And we, of course, have a collective memory as well. It's what Jung called the collective unconscious. So this collective memory is a key feature of all of nature. The whole of nature is…

…I mean, after all, quite well known idea. I mean, this is the basis of Jung's idea of the collective unconscious. And, Jung, the psychologist C.J. Jung, had this idea that we all draw upon this collective unconscious, which is a kind of collective memory,…

…quite well known idea. I mean, this is the basis of Jung's idea of the collective unconscious. And, Jung, the psychologist C.J. Jung, had this idea that we all draw upon this collective unconscious, which is a kind of collective memory, a collective human…

…when it comes to his views on God, I find it rather hard to know what he's actually saying. I mean, he's talking about Jung and about archetypes, all very clever. But, you know, I'd like to know whether he goes to church, whether he prays, and that…

…baby giraffe, and of instinct. And we too, I think, draw on a collective human memory, similar to what the psychologist Jung called the collective unconscious. So this is a rather radical idea, and perhaps its most radical implication, the one that's most…

…past. But we're also similar to a whole range of other people as well. And that is then the collective memory that Jung was talking about. So individual memory and collective memory both depend on resonance, but one is more specific than the other. So…

…with similar culture and background, hereditary background. So there's a kind of collective memory as well. And the psychologist Jung, the Swiss psychologist, has already a well-developed theory of human collective memory, which is more specific for people who…

…are more like habits, that each species has a kind of collective unconscious or collective memory, a bit like what Jung called the collective unconscious, and that through morphic resonance, by ourselves resonating with ourselves in the past, that our own…

…mind like for the most part And we have to remember, of course, that the mind includes consciousness and what Freud or Jung would have called the unconscious. Yeah, I rather like the quip, what would be amazing is not if a computer became conscious,…

…that habits are inherited by morphic resonance, not through the genes. They're a kind of collective memory. A bit like what Jung called the collective unconscious in the human realm. I think all species have a collective memory on which the individuals draw…

…parents and children, lovers, husbands and wives, best friends, and sometimes therapists and clients who have a transference and countertransference. Jung and Freud both noticed this and wrote about it. One of the studies I've done, which I describe in my…

…is why we resonate with ourselves. We resonate with lots of other people. That's the basis of collective memory, which Jung called the collective unconscious. But we resonate most specifically with ourselves. That's how our memories work, I suggest. Attempts…

…similarity. We're all similar to lots of people in the past, especially members of our own family. And it would explain what Jung called the collective unconscious, a collective memory on which we all draw. But the reason we have our own memories is…

…the conventional theory would say collective memory doesn't really exist or it's just a cultural inheritance that is not at all what Jung was saying. And individual memory is stored somewhere in the brain in as yet unidentified brain traces. So I think the…

…similarity. We're all similar to lots of people in the past, especially members of our own family. And it would explain what Jung called the collective unconscious, a collective memory on which we all draw. But the reason we have our own memories is…

…the conventional theory would say collective memory doesn't really exist or it's just a cultural inheritance that is not at all what Jung was saying. And individual memory is stored somewhere in the brain in as yet unidentified brain traces. So I think the…

…people in my own field, biology. I've had much less opposition from people in psychotherapy. For example, Jungians, followers of C.G. Jung, love morphic resonance. And when my first book came out, A New Science of Life, As inundated with speaking invitations…

…inside our brains. We tune into them. We also tune into lots of other people's memories, the collective memory, like Jung called it the collective unconscious. Individual memory and collective memory differ in degree, but not in kind. We more specifically…

…really make a difference. This leads to the idea of collective memory, which I mentioned right at the outset. In psychology, Jung, among others, has proposed that all human beings draw upon a collective memory. And morphic resonance would mean that if the…

…draw upon a collective memory. And morphic resonance would mean that if the idea didn't already exist, you'd have to invent it. But Jung thought of it as just a human collective memory. He could never explain how it worked, which is why his ideas are…

…and interested, and some people actually liked the idea, particularly Jungian psychotherapists, because it fits very well with the work of Jung. And then when I was in the U.S., I gave some seminars in universities, but then people in other places like…

…And the idea of a collective human memory is, of course, not a new one. It's been around for a very long time. Jung, the psychologist, suggested we all tap into a collective memory. And I'm saying the same thing, only I'm saying it's just part of…

…of collective memory on which each individual draws and to which it contributes. And this is a bit like what Jung called the collective unconscious, except I'm saying it's not just humans, it's everywhere, everything in nature, even crystals. A particular…

…than to anyone else. But I think we also tune into lots of other memories from other people, kind of collective memories, as Jung said in his idea of the collective unconscious, and that we tune into other people by resonance too. But it's less specific…

…into it. So I think we tune into morphic resonance and that each species has a kind of collective memory, and that Jung, when he talked about the collective unconscious, was talking about just this kind of collective memory. So I think, yes, morphic…

…collective unconscious, was talking about just this kind of collective memory. So I think, yes, morphic resonance underlies what Jung called the collective unconscious, which is, in his view, a memory, a collective memory of archetypal experiences have become…

…deep archetypes in human experience. Each species has a collective memory. So I'm suggesting that the human collective memory, which Jung called the collective unconscious, is just one aspect of a much larger reality of collective memory in general. Excellent.…

…tank A would act different than creature in tank B. And, um, so I think you just beautifully encapsulated that. Um, this quote from Carl Jung, I think sums that up perfectly is I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become. So it's, it's…

…in these mutations, it's just pure chance. But even they have had to give up the idea of total predictability. And I think Jung, you know, saying we're obviously influenced by many factors that act on us. But as Jung says, we have a choice in what…

…the idea of total predictability. And I think Jung, you know, saying we're obviously influenced by many factors that act on us. But as Jung says, we have a choice in what we become and what we choose to do. And if that wasn't the case, you know,…

…us that there's this freedom of the mind to invent and create images, partly based on the past, partly based, as Jung would say, on the collective unconscious, on influences from other minds. And with psychedelic experiences and with dreams, I think what…

…they don't exist anymore. They're extinct. So I think these are deep archetypal patterns in our collective memory. And what Jung called archetypes in the collective unconscious, I think, are morphic resonance patterns, morphic fields. I'm saying more or less…

…and underlies our perceptions, a lot of the mind is unconscious. And as many people have pointed out, including Freud and Jung, the psychologists, much of our mental activity is unconscious. We're not consciously aware of most things we do, even though…

…know. On the other hand, there were a lot of people who really liked it. For example, people who do psychotherapy following Jung with the idea of collective unconscious. They loved it because the whole theory is about a kind of collective memory in each…

…That may in fact have to do with the very meaning of life. We may be gods metacognitive eyes to spy on itself. Like Jung described in his analysis of the book of Job, that was exactly the idea there. And the incarnation of Jesus afterwards being God's…

…past, so we also tune into the memories of large numbers of other people and this is similar as a notion to what Jung called the collective unconscious. So that's a summary of what it's all about. And the experiments I've just been talking about were in…

…look for correlated events around the world, seeing whether certain patterns of events tended to happen around the world what Jung would call synchronicities, which he thought of as manifesting some kind of underlying pattern in the flow of time. And…

…manifesting some kind of underlying pattern in the flow of time. And so the study of synchronicities already exists, of course. Jung initiated it, or even before him, Kammerer and others. So that's one way of looking at time flow, because synchronicities…

…is super conscious all the time. Most of our own mind is unconscious. All our habits are unconscious, and as Freud and Jung and many others showed, a lot of mental activity is unconscious. So I would expect that other minds in nature, including the…

…morphic resonance from lots of people in the And I think that this morphic resonance or collective memory, a bit like what Jung called the collective unconscious, I think that these are shaped by many people in the past and they facilitate learning things.…

…of meaning, experienced as the encounters with gods and dreams and holy places and so on. Now, we experience that internally, as Jung said, the gods have become diseases. But the upside of that maybe is that it's preparing the ground for this huge meeting…

…are more like habits, that each species has a kind of collective unconscious or collective memory, a bit like what Jung called the collective unconscious, and that through morphic resonance, by ourselves resonating with ourselves in the past, that our own…

…what you also say. but is also shaped through consciousness by what he calls ingression. But the notion that there are what Jung would call archetypes, but what Plato calls eternal forms, what the Muslims call the names of God. But these aren't fixed…

…book, and showed yes indeed that seems to happen. There is indeed a kind of collective memory. This is what the psychologist Jung proposed as an idea of the collective unconscious. And I'm suggesting something like that is going on all the time, not just…

…and flowers and fruits develop and roots. And we too, as humans, have a collective memory, which is a bit like what Jung called the collective unconscious. So there's a kind of a memory principle in nature which leads to the formation of habits and…

…archetypes in Plato's philosophy are eternal forms or eternal ideas beyond space and time and beyond change. Now, as I understand Jung, his use of archetypes was much more embedded in the collective unconscious and in some sense, a kind of collective…

…Jungian who really went through the 20 volumes of the collected works at least two, three times, you notice that for Jung, the collective unconscious is not confined in us. By going inwards, paradoxically, we expand outwards because we are surrounded by the…

…itself out along archetypal templates. That's why there are synchronicities. And if you really explore, for instance, the correspondence between Jung and Pauli, when Jung was being particularly careful in his usage of words because he was looking up to a…

…templates. That's why there are synchronicities. And if you really explore, for instance, the correspondence between Jung and Pauli, when Jung was being particularly careful in his usage of words because he was looking up to a Nobel Prize winner, it…

…in his usage of words because he was looking up to a Nobel Prize winner, it becomes fairly clear that for Jung, we both surround and are surrounded by the collective unconscious. The world itself is a manifestation of the collective unconscious which…

…nature. The laws of nature are more like habits. Each species has a kind of collective memory, a bit like what Jung called the collective unconscious. And morphic resonance is the process whereby patterns of activity in the past resonate across time with…

…parents and children, lovers, husbands and wives, best friends, and sometimes therapists and clients who have a transference and countertransference. Jung and Freud both noticed this and wrote about it. One of the studies I've done, which I describe in my…