‘Why couldn’t it be a genetic inheritance?’‘The rapid accumulation of cultural and behavioural habits cannot be explained genetically,’ said Jean-Paul, ‘because the geneticists insist that behaviour does not modify the genome. Adaptation can only occur through the slow, blind process of natural selection, shaped by the accidental mutations which give a slight reproductive edge to their carriers.’‘Anyway,’ said Crystal, ‘the extension of the theory into “morphic resonance” completely blows the genetic connection. After the first crystallization of a solution, which may be very long and difficult, the process grows easier and easier, even in laboratories remote from each other, where no exchange of information or crystals has taken place. The solution exists in a field that is becoming increasingly grooved and tilted towards crystallization.’‘These grooves of habituation,’ said Jean-Paul, ‘are what Sheldrake calls “creodes”.’While Jean-Paul and Crystal tried to establish the reality of this phenomenon for Patrick, he was already preoccupied with its implications at another level.
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