Social groups as morphic fields have a kind of built-in memory. In human families the family has a kind of field and the field of the family has patterns and habits within it, and this is most graphically illustrated by a form of psychotherapy called systemic family constellations, pioneered by the German psychologist Bert Hellinger.

An excerpt from a talk at the 2012 IONS Conference in San Francisco. https://noetic.org

Video of the talk: https://youtu.be/ty5lz9mVezU