Chapter 44
Morphic
Fields
Memory is a river; the silver wink of a fish’s tail as it breaks the
morning calm; the shadow of a passing cloud across the sand. Memory is
lightning. It’s the smell of the burned pines on the far bank (you can see the
scar where the bolt struck), and the splintered treehouse concerned parents had
torn down while you were gone at school. Memory is the Christmas tree that’s
always better than the one you had the year before—though not the one, no;
nothing could top that tree.
-Mike Strayer
The morphic
fields of mental activity are not confined to the insides of our heads. They
extend far beyond our brain though intention and attention. We are already
familiar with the idea of fields extending beyond the material objects in which
they are rooted: for example magnetic fields extend beyond the surfaces of
magnets; the earth’s gravitational field extends far beyond the surface of the
earth, keeping the moon in its orbit; and the fields of a cell phone stretch
out far beyond the phone itself. Likewise the fields of our minds extend far
beyond our brains. – Rupert Shelldrake
Jackie
was impressed by the words of her new colleagues. And they needed her, both Dr. Jenkins and
Stan assured her. The key to more direct
contact than the Freezer allowed had to do with her morphic fields. Jenkins was certain that traces of the fields
could be found in the interstitial realms between the different parallel
universes, in fact the very nature of quantum interactions required some sort
of trans-dimensional fields, and her morphic fields were the perfect candidates. Similarity of forms must translate across all
worlds, all universe, where such forms existed.
No doubt, the general effects in one reality would be stronger than
within others, but what Jenkins said made Jackie realize that her problem of
her seed fields was answered … the seeds of forms (initial forms before morphic
resonance had a chance to kick in) had already existed in other universes … there
was never really anything new … just new things breaking forth across the
interstitial barriers between alternate realities.
Stan
was still a little unclear of the concept of morphic fields beyond those of
biology at first, so Jackie explained further.
“Here’s
a great example of behavioral fields in the real world. In the 1920’s in England, were the first milk
truck deliveries where bottles of fresh milk were delivered with little
aluminum covers by milkmen. I think you
had milkmen in America didn’t you?”
“Yes,
of course, though our lids were different, we had proper caps.”
“Well,
in Europe, we didn’t, just thin bits of aluminum glued over the open
bottles. And of course, this was whole
milk back then. Not that I was around in
the twenties, of course, this is just from research. Well, by the late twenties, something
interesting occurred, a species of bird, the English tit, a cousin, I believe
of your titmouse, developed a new behavior.”
“The
birds, or one or two of them, at first, would come shortly after the milkman
had left the fresh bottles of milk at the doorstep. They used their beaks to lift the caps enough
so they could sip the cream off the top of the milk.”
“How
clever,” Stan said.
“Yes,
well, in a matter of months, the behavior was quickly adopted by tits in the
neighboring counties from whence the behavior originated. This could be explained quite simply by other
birds in the vicinity mimicking this successful behavior. No magical explanations need apply.
“But
within the year, the behavior spread not only all across England in those areas
that got milk deliveries but also spread into Holland and Denmark where similar
milk bottles and tits existed. By the
time the war came, scarcely a bottle of milk on any doorstep would be safe from
the attack of the tits.”
“That’s
still explainable by learned behavior” noted Stan.
“Indeed,
it is. However, when the war hit, milk
deliveries were suspended across England, Holland and Denmark. Poor tits had to work for a living once
again. After the war ended is where
things get inexplicable.”
“How
so?”
“Tit’s
don’t live that long. Therefore during
the war at least two or three generations of tits would have passed between
those that had employed the cream stealing behavior. Once the milkmen were back at it … so were
the tits, almost all at once across the regions that employed the same cap technology,
despite the fact that none of them could have mimicked nor learned this
behavior from their parents or any other tits.
This continued until the consumption of whole milk was replaced by milks
with no cream.”
“Interesting,
so you’re suggesting the morphic behavioral fields are the only possible
explanation?” Stan said, questioning as much as agreed.
“There
is really no other solution,” Jackie stated proudly.
“Exactly,”
said Jenkins chiming in. “We think we
have isolated something with our quantum computer that seems to correspond with
your morphic fields. We need your help
in defining and further isolating these trans-dimensional fields.”
“Sounds
fun,” she replied.
“If
you can help us do that … then we will not only be able to share computation
between multiple parallel universes, but to communicate with them as well,
perhaps, even to travel between them and beyond them.” Rian Jenkins said with a
twinkle in his eyes.
copyright 2017 Diana Hignutt
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