The baseline inspiration for ‘New Life’ was the news we received in December 2021 that we would be welcoming two new babies into our extended family in the summer of 2022.  As many first-time grandparents would tell you, this was quite amazing. I hadn’t ever really considered myself as a ‘grandparent’ before; I still consider myself very much a ‘work in progress’. Apparently one can do both. In any case, miraculous nature of the announcements soon superseded all such sundry vanities and I found myself wanting to fully explore this experience, specifically the intricate interplay between our souls, psychic reality, and the physical world.

The theories of morphic resonance, quantum mechanics, and Carl Jung's theory of synchronicity offer fascinating perspectives on how the human soul actively participates in the formation of its own psychic and physical reality.

Morphic resonance, proposed by biologist Rupert Sheldrake, suggests that there exists a collective memory or field of information that influences the development and behaviour of living systems. Similarly, quantum mechanics suggests that at a fundamental level, disparate aspects of reality are interconnected and, in fact, a result of consciousness itself.

These concepts hint at the idea that our souls, as individual manifestations of consciousness, interact with and shape the world around us through a subtle interconnectedness that transcends traditional notions of cause and effect.