Rupert Sheldrake and the Memory of Nature

What if nature had memory?

What if everything we do, feel, and learn leaves a living imprint on the world?

Rupert Sheldrake, a British biologist and pioneer of holistic thinking, proposed an idea as bold as it is poetic: the existence of morphic fields, a kind of natural collective memory that guides the development of all living beings—from the shapes of crystals to the movements of a flock of birds.

What Are Morphic Fields?

Sheldrake suggests that every form and behavior in nature is influenced by invisible patterns that evolve over time. Every time something is repeated—a gesture, an emotion, a way of growing—it is imprinted into this field. And thanks to this “morphic resonance,” what has happened once tends to happen again more easily.

Dogs, Intuition, and Telepathy

One of his most well-known experiments observed how certain dogs seem to know in advance when their human is coming home, even without any external cues. For Sheldrake, this could be an example of connection beyond space-time, a kind of natural communication that all beings, including humans, might be in the process of rediscovering.

Science Without Borders

In books like A New Science of Life and The Science Delusion (also published as Science Set Free), he invites us to liberate science from its own limits and open up to mystery, intuition, and consciousness, not to abandon reason, but to expand it.

Sheldrake reminds us that we are part of a larger field, that we are not separate from the world we inhabit.Every thought, every loving gesture, every insight… may be planting memory in the invisible web of life.