Why I am Still an Anglican, Edited by Caroline Chartes. Editor’s Note: A book of essays by members of the Anglican Communion. Notable is a quaint witness given by biologist Alfred Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, the formulator of the “chemiosmotic model of polar auxin transport,” and of the infamous “Morphic Resonance” theory. It is the latter conceptualization by which Animists—those claiming that ordinary objects such as houseplants and adhesive tape have souls—are known to avow heartfelt kinship with Dr. Sheldrake, who postulates (albeit not in this book) that molecules voluntarily change form randomly. In the case of the resultantly-obsolete common-cold drug, Ampicillin, said molecules render their unexpected deliberate mutations against humanity, while beling identifiable as composing the entire etiology behind the “100th Monkey Rule,” which is, itself, worth a Googling jaunt. As a side note, Dr. Sheldrake has postulated that Entelechy, the Aristotelian idea that the soul is the optimal potential that human form can reach, happens scientifically through Morphic Resistance, and by extension, reframes the Platonic idea of “anamnesis” (innate knowledge) of man’s being made in God’s image, and thus (are you still with us?) Prevenient Grace thereby being the innate knowledge of humans “remembering” their proto-theosis oneness with God, calling to mind the hylomorphism—being the notion by which Aquinas used Aristotle’s idea that Matter arrives at its resultant touchable Form to explain that the ultimate superb physical Form that humans can know and receive through their senses occurs via Transubstantiation (ie, Hylomorphic Entelechy executed by a Roman Catholic Priest, who invokes God’s performing of Morphic Resistance during the Eucharistic Prayer, to reproduce the Hypostatic Union out of the species of bread and wine—all of which humans have the anamnesis (innate knowledge to know) as betold them through their Prevenient Grace—to remember innately that they were created by God and are part of Him until they, if purified, recombine with God forever during Theosis after death.  Are you confused? Arguably, Dr. Sheldrake is not.  You and the Transubstantiated Eucharist now have a scientific explanation about why you both come from God and why you yourself metaphysically can reunite you with God, unless your molecules decide to turn you into a duck-billed platypus (and thus cannot) or the molecules in the Host rebel and make the wafer suddenly decide to turn into a clothes iron. Whether you consider him to be a parapsychologist who wields pseudoscience, or a genius, you have to accept Dr. Sheldrake as your pew neighbor if you belong to the Anglican Communion, and, with all this in mind, this book contains his soulful profession of being one. He comes off like a very nice bloke, all the same.