The Science of Spirit. Part 9
By: Seeker
Rupert Sheldrake is an interesting man – he has followed his scientific conscience even though it has moved him to the outer borders of his chosen profession. But he has stayed true to his beginnings – even though his hypotheses are ‘out there’ compared to normal Biology, he applies rigorous scientific method to them.
Some of the things he has found and explored are fascinating in themselves but he has tried to maintain a path to bring them into a coherent whole.
There were birds in Holland before the 2nd World War which learned to peck holes in the tops of milk bottles to extract the cream before the householders came to the door to get the milk. Those birds don’t live very long, so when WW2 interrupted milk deliveries a couple of generations of birds lived and died before deliveries began again. Shortly after the deliveries began the birds were back pecking holes again.
Now there is no way we know of that the birds after the war could have learned to get the milk. But somehow they knew there was food there and very quickly found out how to get it.
The 100th Monkey event in Africa is another example. A chimp in a small chimp tribe discovered she could wash the mussel meat she’d dug up to remove the gritty sand. Slowly the rest of her tribe learned how to do this as well. Then it was noticed that a neighbouring tribe was starting to wash their shellfish as well. This was strange because there wasn’t any known communication between the tribes – but it was feasible perhaps that a member of one tribe had gone to live with the neighbours – feasible that was until it was realized that chimps many miles away were starting to do the same thing!
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