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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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