Millions of people around the world claim personalexperience of unexplained phenomena, which can be as simple as ‘knowing’ who iscalling them when the telephone rings. Mainstream science can provide noexplanation for this, other than dismissing it as mere delusion. RupertSheldrake, after many years of investigating telepathy, the unexplained powersof animals and human precognition, believes that he can. Sheldrake claims thathis theory of ‘morphic resonance’ not only explains these widespread phenomena,it also shows how simple organic forms can self-organise into more complexones, as an addition to Darwin’s process of Natural Selection. According toSheldrake:

“The formation of habits depends on a process calledmorphic resonance.