This is a very philosophical question and you’re likely to get a lot of different answers/opinions depending on who you’re talking to.
My answer to this is that we’re just one thing that sometimes seems to be more than one thing and that this fact is true at all levels of our apparent existence.
But this ‘energy’/‘matter’ dualistic paradigm is very classic and a thoroughly pragmatic lens through which to view the world. Certainly more effective than ruling out entire categories of easily observed and experimented with phenomena just because we don’t understand the ‘material’ mechanisms of action!
One of the more interesting parts about our experience here is that by changing your mind about how the world works, you’ll often see it behave in different ways. We know that particles behave differently based on whether or not we’re watching them and have proved it repeatedly and experimentally. It appears that this ‘observer effect’ applies even to sub-atomic particles. That means everything is, to some extent, responding to expectation. Isn’t that wild?
Change your paradigm and change the world.
That’s a potentially valid way to describe it – keeping in mind that ‘you’ consist of a potentially incredible number of various morphic fields all interacting with each other to be more than the sum of their parts.
I sometimes prefer to think of it as ‘harmonizing’. The morphic field and I are having a duet – it sings a note and I sing a note and I’m trying to harmonize so we’re singing the same note. I get a strong mental impression of ‘waveforms’ trying to match one another – but waveforms and canyons look an awful lot alike! There are a lot of metaphors that work.
Here’s some more food for thought:
I’d question what we mean when we think of something being ‘contained’ within us. Where is the ‘boundary’ that marks ‘you’ versus ‘not you’? After all, if ‘you’ belong to a @Zigford Holon which belongs to a Human Holon which belongs to a Creatures on Earth Holon (Please note for the purposes of this example, these ‘Holons’ are abstract organizational buckets only!) which in turn belongs to a ‘Living Things’ Holon which ultimately belongs to ‘A Universe’ Holon, wouldn’t it be fair to say that all boundaries are inherently arbitrary?
We ‘decide’ on these boundaries on the fly and they shift perpetually. For example, if you’re engaged in psychic work, your ‘boundary line’ for what constitutes ‘you’ is being purposefully shifted to encompass alternate experiences, right? When you think about your situation as a @Zigford that’s one thing, but when you think about ‘your’ situation as a country, doesn’t ‘your’ ‘boundary line’ expand in a very purposeful and deliberate way? When you imagine something, real or not, ‘where’ does this ‘imaginary’ action ‘occur’? When we see another human being, do you ‘experience’ this sight inside your skull or is the ‘boundary line’ that is ‘you’ pushed out to encompass and interact with this other human being?
You’re reading my words – you’re interacting with me in some sort-of liminal space ‘between’ ‘you’ and ‘me’. Part of ‘my’ experience is being made part of ‘you’ right now. Where’s the boundary line?
Which isn’t to say that I haven’t occasionally preferred the ‘contained in’ paradigm myself – imagining myself like a crystal bottle full of various explosive energetic forces. Our ‘image’ or concept of bottles or containers implies a hard line between ‘this’ and ‘that’. There are situations where this sort-of viewpoint is valuable!
I couldn’t (or wouldn’t) say with certainty how various creators go about this task, but I would say that the sound is just a carrier. On its own, it’s ‘just a song’. Just like a mandala by itself is ‘just an image’. It may or may not have its own implicit meaning. We talk about ‘vibrations’, but we’re not necessarily referring to physical (material) vibrations, if that makes sense.
There are maybe two easy ways to think about this.
Many kinds of ‘magic’ are ‘symbolic’ or ‘representational’ magic. These include the very well known examples like Voodoo Dolls or Poppets as well as ceremonies like the Headless/Bornless Ritual or the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram or what have you.
What happens when you do this ‘kind’ of magic is a matter of definition. You are literally saying, “This equals That.”
- “This doll with my boss’ hair on it IS my boss.”
- “This person I seem to be IS an ancient, omnipresent god worshiped since before there were words to worship them.”
- “This place I’m standing IS the cross-roads of phenomenal arcane power.”
It’s a matter of definition. This equals That.
- “This song IS the morphic resonance of neuron activation.”
- “This image IS the morphic resonance of psychic abilities.”
Alternately, if you prefer a more science-y explanation, you don’t need to look any further than Quantum Entanglement – which is this idea that subatomic particles that interact with one another continue to have influence on each other even after they’ve been separated.
If you think of Morphic Fields as being ‘stored’ or ‘imprinted’ on the Zero-Point field of energy – a ‘sea’ of quantum ‘foam’ on which subatomic particles (and therefore all experienced reality) ‘floats’ – and knowing that the behavior of particles is directly impacted by perception and expectation, then it seems clear that one could create sufficient resonance to ‘entangle’ molecules or ‘impress’ morphic fields at a distance. After all, we create resonance with each other all the time (I’m doing it to you, right now with these words!), so this phenomenon is not really that mysterious.
Through this lens, the music or imagery (or just the mental concept) is directly resonating the target. The ‘tuning fork’ metaphor works well here to imagine what’s happening – one tuning fork (the morphic field) is already vibrating and the song/image is like the air molecules between the two tuning forks.
The ‘tuning fork’ vibrates on a ‘smarter brain’ field and your brain, which is brain-like by definition, begins to vibrate too.
Remember too that the music or the image aren’t required to ‘tune into’ a morphic field. If you remember the ‘felt sense’ of the field, you can call on it any time after you’ve encountered it, which further reinforces this ‘non-local’ ‘independent’ nature. It’s an organizing principle that you can call on ‘at will’ and if it can resonate something, it will.
Definitely this is one aspect of ‘strength’ and ‘speed’. For example, in evolution there are these ideas like ‘convergent evolution’ where various animals adopt the same feature but in different circumstances – wings evolved several times over the course of history on earth and each time it seems to have happened ‘faster’ and the same is true for eyes. Alternately, many animals seem to be ‘evolving’ down a ‘crab-like’ chreode – presumably because so many animals have already traversed this path before.
Let’s not forget that the morphic fields built by the Cap’n get ‘stronger’ ‘on their own’ over time – this is directly describing this effect as the chreodes are deepened by repeated exposure.
You might also consider things like… ‘Distance’ or ‘Alignment’ – how much like Thing A is the morphic field? A morphic field that applies to humans may not apply to dogs, for example, but depending on which things are at play, there may be enough similarities that it might work for both. A brain that’s already a lot like the target field will resonate stronger and louder.
And when we’re talking about ‘artificial’ morphic fields, you also have to consider things like how well they’re built, what they’re doing and how they’re trying to achieve the objective. Perhaps they work ‘top down’ on a higher level definition or perhaps they work ‘bottom up’ from a more biological (or molecular) perspective – maybe they combine both, of course!
And I would also be remiss if I didn’t mention that while these things ‘seem’ to be the case when we’re talking about morphic fields, they aren’t the only mechanism for ‘energetic programming’ and many creators aren’t using them (even if they say they are).
Though this may be another one of these cases where ‘all the things are ultimately one thing’ (as morphic resonance describes the effects of virtually everything fairly well), it often feels like a good distinction to make.
I think we’ve seen significant evidence of this in the forum. People with weakened or damaged nervous systems have a harder time with fields and find themselves becoming overwhelmed earlier. Even relatively benign fields can play merry-hob with their systems and stronger fields like Plasma Flaunt can outright lay them out for days.
When you’re sick and your CNS system is already under pressure, certain kinds of fields will take a heavier toll on you and zonk you out faster, right?
This is something you can experiment with directly if you have a proxy for your CNS status (dead hangs from a pull up bar are a great one).
Food for thought:
Amputees often continue to report ‘sensations’ in their limbs in the form of ‘phantom limb pain’. This is often described as a neurological condition, but perhaps this is just the literal extension of their sense of self – the energetic imprint of their nervous system.
Or said another way, their ‘definition’, their ‘organizing principle’ includes the limb even if the ‘matter’ is ‘missing’.
‘Matter’ is often described as a ‘denser’ ‘layer’ and it’s the one we’re most familiar with, but our sense of self doesn’t ‘end’ where the matter leaves off, does it?
You got it. This is the Way.
Energetic work to extend the reach and strength of your nervous system in one way, physical work to develop the strength and resilience of your nervous system in another way. Doing one or the other will help, but doing both will improve this by a LOT.
Try it for yourself and you’ll see.
They sure are. It’s morphic fields all the way down (and up). 
@JAAJ talks about this a lot in a really great way so I don’t want to belabor the point (just go read @JAAJ’s stuff!), but a lot of our most important work is to Build Alignment. We do that by working on the various aspects of ourselves to get out of our own way.
That is to say, the various ‘parts’ of us can all be considered ‘individually’ to some extent – if you’ve ever done any Jungian style Shadow Work, you’ll be all too aware of the ‘plurality’ that makes up the ‘entity’ you think of as ‘you’ – and each of them have their own organizing principles and their own structure and thus their own direction to move in.
Through diligent effort, we can ‘unify’ these aspects of ourselves and get everything moving together in one direction – the direction we choose.
We are so amazing that we have substantial power to sabotage ourselves and ‘resist’ or ‘undo’ the effects we’re so feverishly chasing. How much ‘authority’ we might have at each of those layers can vary wildly depending on our organizing principles.
For example, you may not conventionally think of yourself as having any control what-so-ever over an aortic heart valve, so it might be ‘easy’ to fix (or break) energetically with a simple adjustment to its definition. But you might feel (subconsciously or not) a great deal of ‘ownership’ over the way your face looks or how many extra pounds you’re carrying around your middle so you won’t let some musical track take them away from you!
If you’re ‘not all on the same page’, it’s very easy to imagine how an overriding organizing principle might subvert, misdirect or otherwise poo-poo an end result. This is sort-of a prickly topic to touch on though.
I think it nicely and succinctly clarifies virtually the entire library on the subject of manifestation. YMMV, of course! Even the Ancients wrote ‘Like Attracts Like’. This is a Metaphysical Truth with a capital T.
If you are able to Resonate\Vibrate like your destination or desire, then you are literally reshaping the world around you. This equals that.
This is why things like ‘the Law of Assumption’ work. If ‘your’ organizing principles say it’s so, other entangled aspects realign to make it so. They must, it’s their definition.
There are certainly many more things to consider and think over, experiment with and discover. The aspects of Resistance or ‘Wanting from Lack’ are particularly interesting chestnuts to chew on. I could write a lot more about them, but…
I’m not trying to write a textbook on Manifestation or anything over here – it’s a little out of scope! 