[Redbook2:225][19820220:1700b]{The Soul of the Universe
[continued]}[20th
February 1982]
19820220.1700
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So,
for example, the information structure might guide the migratory bird
(using Sheldrake's* example – I have read to page 32) to its
destination, or the grazing animal to greener pastures; but it would
not necessarily save the prey from the predator, although it might
partially alert each to the other. More significantly for us, it
might produce these well-known effects – which I have felt and
still feel – by which in the study of 'mysticism' one's learning is
guided as if by an unseen teacher, whose suggestions are sometimes
felt extremely strongly and sometimes only deduced after the event,
giving rise to a perceptible pattern in externally unrelated events
such as visits to new bookshops, connections with new people, the
words of different speakers in different contexts on adjacent
evenings, and the inner effect of external perceptions. This sort
of manifestation (part inner, part outer) would be far more likely**
by this theory because there is little fundamental conflict in this
response-area; those who do not seek to stimulate it, ignore it. In
the pursuit of money, however, this kind of manifestation would be
less likely (although not impossible) because, on the whole, money,
being a method of measurement of relative scarcity, is a medium of
competition, desire for which produces conflicting stimuli.
*[Rupert
Sheldrake:] A New Science of Life.
**[i.e.
than other sorts of manifestation]
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