The universe is not in a steady state; there’s an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.
The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in.
Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don’t know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it...
At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they’ve been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual...