Here he describes a series of intermittent apparitions associated with a Coptic church in a suburb of Cairo, Egypt, between 1968 and 1971, that were witnessed by over a million people. He evaluates a number of conventional explanations for the phenomena and finds them all incapable of explaining the reported observations.

Biologist Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, author of A New Science of Life and The Presence of the Past, has stimulated and even startled the scientific world by challenging mechanistic thinking in the life sciences. Dr. Sheldrake proposes a startling alternative to the idea that genetic programming is solely responsible for diversity of form, development of behavior and development [...]