May the force be within you...

A theory of morphic resonance by Rupert Sheldrake, suggests...

• similar forms (morphs, or "fields of information") reverberate and exchange information within a universal life force.

Hmmm..the concept of the "force" from the Star Wars world seem familiar ? But of course that was a cheap mash of ancient Zen and Hindu philosophies.

On a serious note, Sheldrake points out...

• the idea of mysterious telepathy-type interconnections between organisms and of collective memories within species
• accounts for phantom limbs, how dogs know when their owners are coming home, and how people know when someone is staring at them