One of the few areas in which detailed quantitative data are available over decades is in the scores of IQ (Intelligence Quotient) tests. If morphic resonance occurs, average performance in IQ tests should be rising—not because people are becoming more intelligent, but because IQ tests should be getting easier to do as a result of morphic resonance from the millions who have done them before. This effect is now well-known, and is called the Flynn effect, after its discoverer, James Flynn.
Large increases in IQ test scores have occurred in many different countries, including the U.S., Japan, Britain, France, Germany and Holland.[x] Many attempts have been made to explain this “Flynn effect,” but none have succeeded.[xi] Flynn himself describes it as “baffling”.[xii] Morphic resonance could provide a natural explanation.
The ‘paranormal’ is normal
The theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance has far-reaching implications in all branches of science. One powerful implication is that some of the phenomena conventional science terms “paranormal” is simply the result of organisms—animal or human—tuning into the information available in the morphic field. Telepathic abilities are normal, not paranormal; natural not supernatural. We all draw upon a collective memory, whether we are aware of it or not. And even the so-called laws of nature are more like habits; they evolve as we evolve.
[i] Sheldrake (1981), op. cit.
[ii] Sheldrake (1988a), op. cit.
[iii] Ibid., Chapters 13 and 14.
[iv] Sheldrake, R. (1994) Seven Experiments That Could Change the World. Fourth Estate, London, Chapter 3.
[v] Sheldrake (1988), op. cit.
[vi] Sheldrake (1981), op. cit., section 9.6.
[vii] Sheldrake, R. (1999) Dogs That Know When their Owners Are Coming Home, And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals, Part V. Crown, New York.
[viii] Sheldrake (1988a), Chapter 8..
[ix] Sheldrake, R. (1988b) Cattle fooled by phoney grids. New Scientist Feb 11, p.65.
[x] Flynn, J. (1987) Massive IQ gains in 14 nations. Psychological Bulletin 101, 171-191.
[xi] Neisser, U. et al. (1995) Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns. American Psychological Association Report; Horgan, J.(1995) Get smart, take a test: A long-term rise in IQ scores baffles intelligence experts. Scientific American, November, 10-11.
[xii] Horgan, op.cit.
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