Review : Space-time stretch

In Natural Grace (Bloomsbury/Doubleday, £13.99/
$22, ISBN 0 7475 2627 3), Rupert Sheldrake and Matthew Fox conduct a
dialogue on science and spirituality. Sheldrake is famous—or infamous,
according to your views—for his advocacy of morphic resonance: the notion
that if a rat in Sheffield learns a maze, all rats around the world will
find it
easier to learn that maze pattern. Now Sheldrake stretches time, as well as
space, to suggest that ritual and religion resonate morphically through human
history, framing our beliefs—and explaining why we find ritual
satisfying.
One for the New-Agers.