DNA Symphonies & Surreal Spillovers
Dear Metapsychonauts,
If you happened to be in or around Longmont, Colorado, we hope you have a chance to join us for Stellar Sunday—our monthly creative showcase featuring spoken-word piano collaborations, traditional Nepali folk dance, and musical poetry that co-creates itself with the audience. [Update: This event has already occurred, but you can watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/live/-CcROvg1rnA]
Now, let’s dive into this week’s offerings from the edges of the known…
When Darwin Meets Jung in the Laboratory of the Impossible
Charles Wolf’s “DNA Resonance: Jung, Darwin & the Hundredth Monkey Theory” ventures into highly controversial territory—proposing that DNA itself might serve as a “dynamic antenna” participating in non-local information exchange. While such ideas remain far outside mainstream scientific consensus and face significant skepticism, Wolf’s framework opens up fascinating new theoretical and experimental possibilities.
Wolf’s hypothesis is beautifully audacious: what if genetic material doesn’t just store information but broadcasts it, creating morphic fields that allow species to share acquired knowledge instantaneously across populations? He suggests Jung’s collective unconscious might have a literal biological basis in DNA’s quantum properties, while Darwin’s natural selection operates alongside a second evolutionary layer—resonance.
The piece wrestles with the controversial Hundredth Monkey phenomenon, where behavioral innovations appear to spread through populations without direct contact. Rather than dismissing it outright, Wolf proposes that DNA’s helical structure and bioelectrical properties might enable it to function as both receiver and transmitter, facilitating what he calls “behavioral synchronization” beyond classical physics.
“If consciousness partly exists outside the brain in a shared physical medium,” Wolf writes, “it may be less a problem of emergence and more one of entanglement.” It’s a vision of evolution as participatory rather than purely competitive—culture not just reflecting biology but actively shaping it through resonant fields.
The piece has already sparked intelligent discussion in our community, with readers engaging the implications of quantum biology for consciousness studies. If you find Wolf’s synthesis intriguing, the conversation continues in our comments section.
The Domestic Uncanny: When Porridge Becomes Performance Art
Jo Farrant’s “Porridge Play” delivers body horror through the lens of breakfast routine, transforming the mundane act of washing a porridge bowl into existential theater. This surreal story follows a narrator whose relationship with Derek—a complicated romantic partner—and sense of self begin dissolving alongside the oats clinging to their dishware.
What begins as observations about a child riding bikes and finding Derek’s crusted porridge under her eye spirals into a grotesque meditation on intimacy, decay, and bodily autonomy. Farrant’s protagonist experiences their body as increasingly foreign—first noticing porridge on their skin, then eventually dismantling themselves piece by piece to join their limbs in a washing machine cycle.
The story operates with dream logic that feels both absurd and deeply familiar. Farrant captures the uncanny way domestic objects and routines can suddenly become threatening when viewed through the lens of dissociation or depression. Their narrator observes: “I start to miss my stomach. The way it would fill and empty, the squeeze of my ribs in a hug, the heaving when I breath or sing or vomit out leaves and mud and birthday cake.”
It’s Kafka meets Cronenberg over a bowl of oats, with results that are simultaneously hilarious and deeply unsettling. The piece explores how bodies become alien when relationships fragment, how the most ordinary breakfast can become a site of existential horror.
The Frequency Spectrum of Reality
Wolf reaches toward quantum mechanics of collective intelligence while Farrant dives into the anarchic poetry of bodily dissolution. One proposes that our genes might be broadcasting frequencies of shared knowledge; the other suggests our bodies might be performing for an audience we’ve forgotten we’re part of.
Perhaps both pieces explore the same underlying mystery: how information moves through systems—genetic, relational, corporeal—in ways that exceed our ordinary categories. Whether through DNA resonance fields or the strange theater of domestic routine, something is always being transmitted that rational explanation can’t quite capture.
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Resonantly yours,
Marco V Morelli
Editor-in-Chief, Metapsychosis journal
Co-Creator, Cosmos Co-op
Hi Lysa… we are glad you are here. Nice to meet you!
Mike Eisenberg
Thank you. nice to meet you too!