Fields of Information
Fields are something that we cannot see, but we can see or experience the effects that these fields have on our lives. The gravitational field for example, which is all around us and indeed the universe. We feel its effects (it weights us to our earth), we move around the sun, and the moon moves around our gravitational field.
Another familiar commonly known field is the electromagnetic field. This is a very different kind of field, but one that underlies many things that we take for granted in our world. In a descriptive sense it is a carrier of different types of vibrations. We cannot see them but again, we experience them through the help of radio and cell phone transmitters.
Sheldrake (1988, p 97) further describes fields as ‘non-material regions of influence.’ Fields offer a space where activities take place; across which objects influence other objects, across a distance.
These are the fields that we are familiar with. But there are other fields that Sheldrake describes under his general hypothesis of formative causation.