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SOCIETY AS SUPERORGANISM
I want to explore some ideas about the social and cultural aspects of morphic fields and morphic resonance. A familiar comparison might be that of a hive of bees or a nest of termites: each is like a giant organism, and the insects within it are like cells in a superorganism. Although comprised of hundreds and hundreds of individual insect cells, the hive or nest functions and responds as a unified whole.
My hypothesis is that societies have social and cultural morphic fields which embrace and organize all that resides within them. Although comprised of thousands and thousands of individual human beings, the society can function and respond as a unified whole via the characteristics of its morphic field. To visualize this, it is helpful to remember that fields by their very nature are both within and around the things to which they refer. A magnetic field is both within a magnet and around it; a gravitational field is both within the earth and around it. Field theories thus take us beyond the traditional rigid definition of “inside” and “outside.”
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Krishnamurti: A Dialogue on Love
Two young men had come from the town nearby. The bus had brought them to the corner, and they had walked the rest of the way. They worked in an office, they said, and so couldn’t come any earlier. They had put on fresh clothes, which the old bus hadn’t soiled, and they came in smiling but rather shyly, their manner hesitantly respectful. Once seated, they soon forgot their shyness, but they still weren’t quite sure how to put their thoughts into words.
What sort of work do you do?
“We are both employed in the same office; I am a stenographer, and my friend keeps accounts. Neither of us has been to college, because we couldn’t afford it, and neither of us is married. We don’t get much pay, but as we have no family responsibilities, it’s enough for our needs. If either of us ever gets married, it will be quite another matter.”
“We are not very well-educated,” added the second one, “and though we read a certain amount of serious literature, our reading isn’t intensive. We spend a great deal of time together, and on holidays we go back to our families. There are very few in the office who are interested in serious things. A mutual friend brought us to your talk the other day, and we asked if we could see you. May I as you a question, sir?”
Of course.
“What is love?”
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