Morphic Fields

Referenced in 3 episodes

Definition

Fields proposed by Sheldrake that may facilitate the transfer of information across time and space, influencing a system's development and behaviors.

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The Most Controversial Biologist Alive Breaks Down Telepathy

American AlchemyOct 31, 2026

Biologist Rupert Sheldrake argues that nature is shaped by invisible 'morphic fields' carrying a collective memory, which he believes can explain everything from how spiders know how to spin webs to telepathy between mothers and babies. He walks through experiments on dogs that know when their owners are coming home, the sense of being stared at, waking just before alarms, and rats that learned mazes faster across unrelated populations. The conversation also ranges into conscious plasma and a possibly conscious sun, the physics of angels, David Bohm's banished physics, and why mainstream science refuses to look at the evidence.

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36.17 - MU Podcast - Super Special Spooky Halloween Special

Mysterious UniverseOct 30, 2026

Hosts Brandon Thomas and Joe Hodgden trade campfire-style ghost stories for a Halloween special. The tales include British ghosts said to have followed the London Bridge to Lake Havasu, Arizona, and a 1963 Boy Scout who woke up with 1870s-era shell casings after an apparent encounter with outlaw Black Jack Ketchum. They also revisit two famous English poltergeist cases, the Cock Lane Ghost and the Drummer of Tedworth, plus an invisible strangling entity from a Brad Steiger book.

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36.07 - MU Podcast - Strange Powers of the Mind

Mysterious UniverseAug 21, 2026

Hosts Brandon Thomas and Joe Hodgdon dig into Warren Smith's 1968 book 'Strange Powers of the Mind' and its accounts of premonitions, mind reading and mental mastery. They cover a Wisconsin teen who ignored a fatal premonition, a Polish count buried alive under a baseball diamond, and a German mentalist who allegedly read a murderer's mind to find a hidden rifle. They also discuss the 1944 Mad Gasser of Mattoon panic, Kenyan witch doctors cursing soccer matches, and hypnosis used to boost athletes' performance.

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