Rupert Sheldrake. Maniac.
He wanted to explain just the sort of phenomenon you've highlighted, Mr Percy. How did the trees know there would be monkeys? Or monkeys, trees? To paraphrase: there was a morphic resonance prior to the separation of trees and monkeys resulting in a [time shifted, presumably] symbiosis and the perfect fit between the branch and the monkey's tail we see today.
Once the "scientist" rejects God, everything becomes warped. All theories are self-referential. If there was no "common ancestor" there would be no monkeys, apes, humans, fish or trees. Or, in Sheldrake's case, no oceans either since there would be no morphogenetic field to call them into existence.
Those are not my opinions, by the way. Just to clarify.
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Much of my work in the following years was concerned with following up these ideas and was summarised in my main theoretical work, The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature, published in 1988. In late 1980s and early 1990s I explored a variety of experimental approaches for the investigation of unexplained phenomena that might help to enlarge our scientific view of the world, summarised in my book
Seven Experiments That Could Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Revolutionary Science, (1994). [I have decided to leave the titles in the quote, hope that's OK]
One of the seven experiments concerned unexplained abilities of animals, and I published a series of papers on the unexplained powers of animals.
See papers on Unexplained Powers of Animals
I summarised much of this research in my book
Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals (1999).
Also, since the late 1980’s I have been doing research on the sense of being stared at, which has wide implications for the nature of vision and of minds, and this research was described in a series of papers
See papers on The Sense of Being Stared At .
This research is summarized in my book,
The Sense of Being Stared At, And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind (2003).
See Morphic Fields for a general introduction to the theory. [linked in the source]
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