Morphic fields and other weirdness!

When I watched the Tarantino-produced film, Hostel, I confess to feeling physically sick as a result. You have to wonder why such a high-profile film-maker lent his name to such a grubby project and what kind of society demands this sort of "entertainment". The genre known as torture porn is programming people to accept this type of violence as the norm and establishing some very dark and disturbing morphic fields.

Morphic fields have been alluded to in other films, such as The Matrix, which is a movie loaded with spiritual concepts and imagery. These fields have been known and understood by mystics of many cultures for perhaps thousands of years but largely ignored by mainstream science, which initially treated them with its usual suspicion and contempt. "If we can't measure it, it's not there!"

As someone who didn't even see the point in taking his physics GCE and struggled to get CSE maths, I'm not about to embarrass myself by clumsily trying to explain the science behind all this! However, the theory is of vital importance and forms the interface between science and spirituality, alongside the broader concepts of quantum physics. If you google "Rupert Sheldrake", you will find plenty of information on the subject and a far better explanation than I can provide!

However, there are a couple of examples of how the field works, which I'd like to mention. A few years ago, biologists studied a group of macaque monkeys in Japan, which had started to wash sweet potatoes in hot springs, in order to remove unpalatable sand from them. Gradually the practice spread throughout the colony until all the monkeys adopted this unusual method.

Now, in many ways this is understandable and demonstrates how resourceful these animals can be and how they are able to pass on useful behaviour. But, what science wasn't prepared for was the spontaneous adoption of the technique by a totally separate colony of macaques on another Japanese island! As far as I'm aware, there are no monkey mobiles or other means of long-distance communication between primates, other than ourselves. The suggestion is that somehow the collective subconscious stored in the morphic field was accessed by the second colony, after a certain vibrational level was reached within the local field and some sort of leap took place.

An equally startling dicovery, also made in Japan, was by the writer and researcher, Masaru Emoto. He claims that it's possible to alter the crystalline structure of a frozen glass of water and make it more aesthetically pleasing, simply by offering positive thoughts and prayer or playing soothing music. There is a whole body of evidence, including double-blind experiments, based on Emoto's work. Again, a partial explanation for this phenomenon could well be the existence of a morphic field.

Now, I bet you've been thinking, what's all this got to do with Kenwyn's spiritual journey?! Well, something I plan to share with you in a later blog is the work of the scientist and visionary, Gregg Braden. This fascinating guy has spent many years travelling the world, exploring sacred sites, talking to religious mystics and other great thinkers. As former technical ops manager at Cisco Systems, and a systems designer for a large defence contractor, he has the sort of enquiring mind and reputation that people take notice of. One of his main lines of enquiry is into the power of prayer, and this has in turn helped me to focus and refine my own spiritual practice. Again, Braden identifies an invisible grid or matrix that links everything in the universe and can be manipulated by our every thought, prayer, word and action.

So, to conclude for now, we have to keep a careful eye on what sort of entertainment we assimilate into our culture because the effects may be far more wide-reaching than we once thought.

In love & light.

Kenwyn