Read your post,,, left some comments I think,,, No, haven't heard of nor read Rupert Sheldrake,,,, I'll have to check it out,,,, there is PROOF that CONSCIOUSNESS is fundamental to the "creation" of matter,,, so it becomes obviouse that the "NON-Physical" is the creator or the "physical",,,,,

and the newest (and best) model of everything accounts for that fact and is the ONLY theory that explains why constants (like the speed of light) are what they are:

further example of the UNITY of everything can be found in Quantum Entanglement and Boes-Einstein Condensates


all of these together make it pretty clear the SPIRITUAL (aka NON-Physical) is the foundation of Material and hence matter did not evolve to the level of consciousness,,, matter conforms to the ongoing conscious experience of the ONE act (verb) of EXPERIENCING (aka the Observation). We are the non-physical CONSCIOUS OBSERVER that exists within everything that interacts with anything else,,, that which is capable of recognizing "other",,, even though there truly is no "other" in the non-physical layer.