Like many mothers who feared for
their family’s safety during World War II, Mona Miller was evacuated
from London to the peaceful seaside town of Babbacombe in Devon.
It
seemed like a wise precaution but, shortly after her arrival there with
her young children, Mrs Miller became increasingly uneasy.
‘I had a feeling that I must leave Devon and return home,’ she told me.
‘At first I dismissed the idea; why leave when I was so happy and contented despite the war going on around me?
‘But
the feeling increased. The walls of my room seemed to speak to me: “Go
home to London.” I resisted the call for about four months then, one
day, like a flash of light, I knew we must leave.
Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world’s most innovative biologists and writers, is best known for his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory.He worked in developmental biology at Cambridge University, where he was a Fellow of Clare College.
