The Morphogentic Field (M-Field),
Satchitananda Connection
Satchitananda is another name for God's second Aspect of Parashakti. Satchitananda can be described as a field of God's Divine Intelligence, Divine Consciousness and Love that is All-Pervasive. All-Pervasive refers to an attribute of something or substance that exists as a continuous field everywhere and through everything. When one is in touch or in tune with this field of God's energy, he or she will be able to make optimum decisions and leads life with a positive attitude. Most modern 'self-help' techniques that are taught by motivation gurus are the same as spiritual techniques of living life intune with Satchitananda.
In scientific circles too there is beginning to be wider acceptance amongst the community of the existence of an universal and interconnecting field of consciousness or intelligence. This universal field is proposed in the theory of The Morphogenetic Field or the M-field. It was first proposed by scientist-philosopher, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, in the 1980’s. Essentially it explains that all life forms are connected by some sort of 'intelligent' field through which information can pass from one life form to another, usually of the same species, instantaneously regardless of the distance between them.
This field is used to explain some obvious experiences we encounter that are yet to be explained in mainstream science. For instance we can easily vouch that children of each successive generation pickup faster on new technologies than the generations before them. We can easily surmise that children are more savvy with computers than their parents or grand parents. Research has shown that children instinctively know advances of their previous generations without even being taught. This is obvious in the creation of new languages. It is found in Creole communities, where children who are born to the first and second generation of parents who created Creole languages know how the grammar of the language worked instinctively–that is through some invisible natural process without being taught by another person. (Creole languages are new languages that are created when different communities who speak different languages blend to form a new community.)
Another mystery in science that the M-field offers explanation for is in the formation of the embryo. Despite research in stem cells and such, it is still a mystery how cells know what organs or tissue to become. The driving intelligence that organizes the duties of each cell in the intial stages of the development of the embryo is still unexplained chemically. This is where the M-field theory offers explanations by postulating that the process is governed by a field of intelligence that exists beyond chemical construction.
There are many experiments that offer conclusive proof of the existence of the M-field. However, the M-field theory is still a relatively new biological theory and has yet to gain mainstream acceptance among the scientific community. Mainstream science is also know as mechanistic science, whereby every occurance or mystery must have an explanation based on the laws of physics and chemistry. The M-field defies the mechanistic approach as it offers an explanation that transcends basic physical laws and seen as too spiritual for mainstream science.
Nevertheless as time passes, more and more scientist are joining the 'spiritual-science,' bandwagon as advances in the study of quantum physics is also pointing to this mysterious spiritual realm as the source of all existence and supporting such teories as the M-field.
The M-field though is not entirely the same of Satchitananda. Scientist who acknowledge the existence of the M-field say that it is species specific. That is each species of animals and plant, even each element has its own M-fields. Inter connectivity between the different M-Fields is yet to be discovered. Whereas Satchitananda or Parashakti is God's Universal Field that interconnects all creation and is the basis of all existence.
To find out more about the M-Field and latest advances in quantum physics you can look up the internet search engines using these key words: Rupert Sheldrake, morphogenetic field, David Bohm, Neils Bohr, quantum uncertainty principle or the string theory. There are also books on these subjects. Among the popular books are–The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra and Beyond the Quantum by Michael Talbot.
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