Rupert Sheldrake had been putting
forward a view of the transmission of
patterned structures in nature through what he
calls «morphic resonance» in «formative causation» (see his book, A New Science of Life: the Hypothesis of Formative Causation).
For jet lag or shift work In the pipeline: Two clinical trials have found that a new medication
called tasimelteon helped subjects whose sleep
pattern had been shifted
forward by five hours fall asleep faster and sleep for longer.