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the development of the human body might serve as microcosm of the entire cosmic evolutionary process
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It’s said that the human body contains 50 trillion cells.
These cells present themselves variously as they construct the many parts and aspects of the body. The cells of the liver, or the arm, or the eye, on and on, perform different functions – yet each shares a common heritage.
Every cell of the body derives from the original cell, the primal fertilized egg. And every cell, each among the 50 trillion, despite the multiplicity of function, carries exactly the same genome.
How to account for the vast variation? The degree of complexity, so byzantine and convoluted, that is the human body, cannot be accounted for by randomness and natural selection.
Every cell, each among the 50 trillion, carries exactly the same genome, but the cells of the various components of the body do not equally express that hidden genome. In each case, much of the genome lies dormant, inactive, but the latency is particularized.
Dr. Sheldrake’s theory of morphic fields best represents the data.
Morphic fields, “hidden blueprints”, activate a cell’s genome strategically to fit the needs of the developing body.
We are led to suspect that this is the essence of the evolutionary process by which all structures in the universe “assemble themselves”.
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