[betty boop]

On first reading, the linked essay comes across like something out of Bizarro World. It's strange, weird; but what Sheldrake is saying seems to have a kind of QM "stepped-up-to-the-macro level" feel to it....

[unspun]

It also appears have Jungian overtones, but I don't think that's all bad and I for one trust you too very much, in your ability to weed out discernable reality from preconceptions. (It probably also helps that Sheldrake claims to be a Christian, but don't tell anybody.)

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for the heads up to your review of the article!

It's strange, weird; but what Sheldrake is saying seems to have a kind of QM "stepped-up-to-the-macro level" feel to it....

Indeed. Doing a first pass inquiry on the web, it appears "collective consciousness" is a hypothesis for the evolution of consciousness: The Physics of Collective Consciousness (pdf)