The Japanese monkey, Macaca fuscata, had been observed
in the wild for a period of over 30 years.
In 1952, on the island of Koshima, scientists were providing
monkeys with sweet potatoes dropped in the sand.
The monkeys liked the taste of the raw sweet potatoes,
but they found the dirt unpleasant.
An 18-month-old female named Imo found she could
solve the problem by washing the potatoes in a nearby
stream. She taught this trick to her mother. Her
playmates also learned this new way and they taught
their mothers too.
This cultural innovation was gradually picked up by
various monkeys before the eyes of the scientists.
Between 1952 and 1958 all the young monkeys
learned to wash the sandy sweet potatoes to
make them more palatable.
Only the adults who imitated their children
learned this social improvement. Other adults
kept eating the dirty sweet potatoes.
Then something startling took place.
In the autumn of 1958, a certain number of
Koshima monkeys were washing sweet potatoes -
- the exact number is not known.
Let us suppose that when the sun rose one morning
there were 99 monkeys on Koshima Island who had
learned to wash their sweet potatoes.
Let's further suppose that later that morning,
the hundredth monkey learned to wash potatoes.
THEN IT HAPPENED!
By that evening almost everyone in the
tribe was washing sweet potatoes before
eating them.
The added energy of this hundredth monkey
somehow created an ideological breakthrough!
But notice.
A most surprising thing observed by
these scientists was that the habit of
washing sweet potatoes then jumped over the sea --
Colonies of monkeys on other islands and the
mainland troop of monkeys at Takasakiyama
began washing their sweet potatoes.
Thus, when a certain critical number
achieves an awareness, this new awareness
may be communicated from mind to mind.
Although the exact number may vary,
this Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon
means that when only a limited number
of people know of a new way, it may
remain the conscious property of these people.
But there is a point at which if only one more
person tunes-in to a new awareness, a field
is strengthened so that this awareness
is picked up by almost everyone!
in the wild for a period of over 30 years.
In 1952, on the island of Koshima, scientists were providing
monkeys with sweet potatoes dropped in the sand.
The monkeys liked the taste of the raw sweet potatoes,
but they found the dirt unpleasant.
An 18-month-old female named Imo found she could
solve the problem by washing the potatoes in a nearby
stream. She taught this trick to her mother. Her
playmates also learned this new way and they taught
their mothers too.
This cultural innovation was gradually picked up by
various monkeys before the eyes of the scientists.
Between 1952 and 1958 all the young monkeys
learned to wash the sandy sweet potatoes to
make them more palatable.
Only the adults who imitated their children
learned this social improvement. Other adults
kept eating the dirty sweet potatoes.
Then something startling took place.
In the autumn of 1958, a certain number of
Koshima monkeys were washing sweet potatoes -
- the exact number is not known.
Let us suppose that when the sun rose one morning
there were 99 monkeys on Koshima Island who had
learned to wash their sweet potatoes.
Let's further suppose that later that morning,
the hundredth monkey learned to wash potatoes.
THEN IT HAPPENED!
By that evening almost everyone in the
tribe was washing sweet potatoes before
eating them.
The added energy of this hundredth monkey
somehow created an ideological breakthrough!
But notice.
A most surprising thing observed by
these scientists was that the habit of
washing sweet potatoes then jumped over the sea --
Colonies of monkeys on other islands and the
mainland troop of monkeys at Takasakiyama
began washing their sweet potatoes.
Thus, when a certain critical number
achieves an awareness, this new awareness
may be communicated from mind to mind.
Although the exact number may vary,
this Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon
means that when only a limited number
of people know of a new way, it may
remain the conscious property of these people.
But there is a point at which if only one more
person tunes-in to a new awareness, a field
is strengthened so that this awareness
is picked up by almost everyone!
Now lets marry this thought with the concept by Rupert
Sheldrake who mentions that the seat of thought
IS OUTSIDE THE BODY.
Does this mean that each of the hundred monkeys
added to this "pool of thought" and after a critical
mass, the pool of thought linked to the
common pool of thought of all the species of monkey?
As though the control centre of the monkeys really
not each indidivual monkey brain but out
somewhere.
What does that mean to us humans? Question of
where does a thought come from ? Is it from
inside the brain or somewhere outside?
What is the intelligence of that thought pool.
How does it decide which thought to send.
SOmetimes its easy, thoughts come from associations.
But some come completely from the blue.
Even the first thought when we wake up.
Since thought leads to action, and action to destiny,
is getting to the source of this thought pool
the end of destiny ?
Or that is the beginning of a new destiny,
this time driven by Right action.
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