In 1972, while visiting Rene Thom in France, I discovered the work of Hans Jenny of Basel. Under the influence of the esoteric Christian mystic Rudolph Steiner, Jenny had continued the research of Ernst Chladni, the founder of acoustics, upon the forms created in a field of acoustic vibration. Later that year, while staying at the ashram of Neem Karoli Baba at Kainchi, in the Himalayan foothills of North India, I abstracted the work of Chladni and Jenny into a mathematical model for morphogenesis, and applied it to neurobiology, that is, brain waves. This work was published on my return from India to the University of California, in 1975, as the paper, Vibrations and the realization of form. During this same period of time, Rupert Sheldrake was writing his first book on morphogenesis in the ashram of Dom Bede Griffiths, in Tamil Nadu, South India. Both of us were undoubtedly influenced by the Hindu theories of the akasha, that is, an infinite, vibrational field of intelligence. Naturally, when we met in 1982, we found we had much in common. Our friendship and discussions over the years are the basis of the work reported here.