By Gonny 
Rupert Sheldrake, Family Constellations, and the Miraculous Logic of the Field
Introduction: When the Past Still Breathes
Some truths don’t come with thunder.
They arrive softly…like a whisper on the edge of your mind.
That’s how The Presence of the Past by Rupert Sheldrake feels: a whisper of something you’ve always known.
It suggests that the world isn’t held together by rigid laws, but by memory. That nature, like humans, remembers, and those memories are not stored in brains, but in invisible fields. It’s a theory both mystical and scientific. Challenging yet strangely familiar.
As A Course in Miracles gently reminds us:
“Time is not real. It is a belief that what has passed is still happening, and that what is yet to come has already been decided.”
Could it be that Sheldrake’s field is a scientific echo of this spiritual truth?
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I. Morphic Resonance: Patterns That Remember
Sheldrake’s core idea is called morphic resonance.
It says: every time something happens…a cell forms, a behavior appears, a song is sung…it leaves behind a kind of energetic trace. The more it happens, the easier it becomes for it to happen again.
Just like a path in the grass that gets clearer every time someone walks it.
This field of accumulated memory is what shapes the habits of nature.
And these fields are everywhere: in biology, behavior, culture, even thought.
It means:
-A crystal forms faster because others formed before it.
-Rats in one country solve a maze more quickly after rats in another country do.
-New traditions, or traumas, in families become stronger through repetition.
And suddenly, we’re no longer alone in time. We’re part of a field of memory.
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II. The Family Field: Constellations and Ancestral Echoes
Nowhere does this idea resonate more clearly than in Family Constellation work.
In a constellation, people represent family members and something mysterious happens. They begin to feel things they couldn’t possibly know. Emotions emerge, voices speak, bodies move in ways that are eerily accurate.
How?
Because, as Sheldrake would say, the family has its own morphic field.
An invisible structure of relationships, unresolved pain, love, guilt, and memory.
The constellation is not a performance. It’s a re-connection to a memory field, one that still resonates even generations later.
It’s the soul remembering….in the morphogenetic field.
A Course in Miracles teaches that healing happens when we bring the past to the present and choose again…this time, with love.
“Forgiveness is the healing of the perception of separation.”
In that space, the field begins to shift.
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III. Habit or Healing? The Role of the Miracle
While Sheldrake describes how patterns repeat,
A Course in Miracles reveals how patterns dissolve.
Miracles are not bound by habit. They cut through cycles of suffering by correcting the mind’s perception.
In that sense, morphic resonance explains how pain can linger. But the miracle shows how love can interrupt it.
Think of it like this:
Sheldrake gives us the map. The Course shows us the exit.
And when used together, they allow us to approach old pain not with fear, but with curiosity and readiness to release.
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IV. Is This Science or Spirit?
This is where some minds get nervous.
Is Sheldrake’s theory science? Or is it just “spiritual fluff”?
Truthfully… it’s both. Or neither. It’s a bridge.
He dares to say that memory does not have to live in synapses. That trauma is not just psychological… it’s relational, energetic, and field-based.
He joins voices like:
-Carl Jung, who spoke of the collective unconscious
-David Bohm, who described the implicate order
-ACIM, which teaches that “the world you see is the witness to your state of mind”
These thinkers hint at a reality beyond cause and effect…one of resonance, consciousness, and wholeness.
A field not of physics, but of forgiveness.
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V. Healing the Field
So what do we do with this knowledge?
We pause.
We become gentle with ourselves.
We realise: “Maybe this pain isn’t just mine. Maybe this fear… has been echoing for generations.”
And then…we do something revolutionary.
We forgive.
We forgive not just others, but entire patterns.
We forgive history.
We forgive memory.
And in that, we become miracle workers.
Not by fixing the field, but by remembering we are not the field.
“You are not a body. You are free.” (W-199)
And the field remembers, too.
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Conclusion: You Are the Shift
Sheldrake helps us see how patterns repeat.
Family constellations show us where they still live.
But ACIM teaches us that we can leave the field and return to Source.
You don’t have to carry your mother’s fear.
You don’t have to relive your grandfather’s shame.
You can bless the field and walk freely through it.
And who knows?
Perhaps when one of us forgives… the whole field feels lighter.
Because healing isn’t private.
It’s shared.
Just like memory.
Just like love.
With love and light,
G.
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