Many disputes concerning
originality, such as that between Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace as
to who first came up with the idea of Natural Selection, would become redundant
if we looked at them from an Afterlife perspective. The following quotation
from Lutheran theologian and pastor, A.D. Mattson (transmitted post-mortem
through the medium Margaret Flavell) is typical of many accounts of creativity
on earth. Rupert Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonance looks at the
phenomenon of ideas spreading horizontally, without direct diffusion through
imitative learning (such as the bluetits in Britain in the 1950s, who appeared to learn to peck the aluminium tops off milk bottles more quickly in one area of the country once their cousins elsewhere had mastered the trick). Accounts such as Mattson's from the astral plane describe how and why
this happens. This may well involve the same physical 'grid' or 'field' of
conscious energy implied in morphic resonance, or could be a slightly different
mechanism of direct vertical communication between the material and astral or
mental planes. These theories may not be amenable to scientific testing, but
they certainly chime with direct observation and provide a possible explanation
for a phenomenon that is common and well attested.
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| A.D. Mattson |
How Thought Forms Influence
Creative Work on Earth
Sometimes when you on earth
are concentrating intensly on something- profound problems or difficult
mathematical equations, for example – suddenly you are not conscious of you
anymore. You seem to be just the thought. If you can, try to recognize at that
moment that you are then on the beltway of all thought and all thinking. Even
in a physical body, one can be on the mental plane, in the world of thought. It
is from that level that the great inspired ideas come down to earth.
Many ideas
and inspirations never reach anybody on earth, because they are beyond the
scope of the human brain. However, when there is a need to take humanity one
step forward, or to educate people in a certain way, then there is a
concentrated effort for thought forms to be showered down. You may notice that
suddenly there are many books on a new subject. That is because people have
picked up on the new ideas coming down. It is from this world of idea as that
one particular kind of architecture appears in many different areas at the same
time, or new space vehicles are developed simultaneously. When people all
around the world have the same idea, it is because each has received creative
thought help from the world of ideas. Nothing, not a single thing, can
be created unless it has already been created in the world of ideas. This is
the creative aspect of God.
References and biographies
Evidence from Beyond: An
Insider’s Guide to the Wonders of Heaven – and Life in the New Millennium, p.67.
More After Death Communications
Received from Theologian A.D. Mattson. Through Clairvoyant Margaret Flavell.
Edited by Ruth Mattson Taylor. Brett Books, Brooklyn, New York, 1999.
The Rev. A. D. Mattson (1895-1970).
Lutheran theologian and pastor. Augustana Theological Seminary (Lutheran School
of Theology), Chicago.
Margaret Flavell, clairvoyant, and
graduate of the London School of Paranormal Psychology and Sanctuary of
Healing. During World War II she was commissioned by Lord Hugh Dowding, Marshal
of the Royal Air Force, to use her abilities to trace missing RAF pilots.
Methodist by background.
Descriptions of morphic resonance
and possible explanations for the phenomenon are given in Rupert Sheldrake,
The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of
Nature (Icon Books: London, 2011) as well as elsewhere in
Sheldrake's work.
