Monday, January 16, 2006

The Field by Lynne McTaggart

The thought-provoking movie What the Bleep Do We Know dramatized quantum mechanical effects. Its Web site had a list of recommended books. The Field was near the top of that list. The Prolog states “Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world. This pulsating energy field is the central engine of our being and our consciousness.” I only state summaries and results, but the book supports these conclusions with descriptions of experiments by noted scientists. One of the top theoreticians of the Zero Point field is my colleague at California State University Long Beach, Professor Alfonso Rueda.

The books three parts are The Resonating Universe (Chapters 1-5), The Extended Mind (6-9), and Tapping into the Field (10-12). Chapter One shows that the self has a field of influence. Chapter Two describes the Zero Point Field as “Zero-point energy was the energy present in the emptiest state of space at the lowest possible energy, out of which no more energy could be removed.” p. 24: “The existence of the Zero Point Field implied that all matter in the universe was interconnected by waves … tying one part of the universe to every other part.” P.26: “the Zero Point Field is a kind of shadow of the universe for all time, a mirror image and a record of everything that ever was.” p. 33: “…there is no mass. There is only charge.” p. 36: “With such a vast energy bank to be harnessed, virtually anything was possible – that is, if human beings had some sort of quantum structure allowing them to access it.”

Chapter Three shows that organisms emit light and communicate with it. The difference between health and sickness show up in the coherence of the light. Chapter Four shows that molecules speak to each other in oscillating frequencies. Water is like a tape recorder. It imprints and stores information. P. 68: “ … recorded the activity of the molecule on a computer and replayed it to a biological system ordinarily sensitive to that substance. In every instance, the biological system has been fooled into thinking it has been interacting with the substance itself…It appeared that the Zero Point Field created a medium enabling the molecules to speak to each other nonlocally and virtually instantaneously.”

Chapter Five shows that we don’t see objects but only their quantum information and out of that we construct an image. Consciousness = coherent light. Memory resides in the Zero Point Field. P. 84: “In a sense, holography is just convenient shorthand for wave interference – the language of the Field… To know the world is literally to be on its wavelength.” P. 85: “In a sense, in the act of observation, we are transforming the timeless, spaceless world of interference patterns into the concrete and discrete world of space and time…We create space and time on the surface of our retinas. As with a hologram, the lens of the eye picks up certain interference patterns and then converts them into three-dimensional images.” P. 94: “This might be a good explanation for free will. At every moment, our brains are making quantum choices, taking potential states and making them actual ones…Consciousness was a global phenomenon that occurred everywhere in the body, and not simply in our brains. Consciousness, at its most basic, was coherent light.” P. 95: “… short- and long-tem memory doesn’t reside in our brain at all, but instead is stored in the Zero Point Field.” P. 96: “In ignoring the effect of the Zero Point Field, they’d eliminated the possibility of interconnectedness and obscured a scientific explanation for many kinds of miracles.”

Part 2 starts with Chapter Six which shows that people influence random events. Each of us creates the world. Chapter Seven shows that people influence one another. P. 138: “Our wishes and intentions create reality. We might be able to use them to have a happier life, to block unfavorable influences, to keep ourselves enclosed in a protective fence of goodwill…Our natural state of being is a relationship – a tango – a constant state of one influencing the other.” P. 139: “In that sense, our intelligence, creativity and imagination are not locked in our brains but exist as an interaction with the Field… Many other studies have shown that strong community involvement was one of the most important indicators of health ...”

Chapter Eight discusses remote viewing. This is amazing. People can describe distant sites. P. 160: “It seemed to suggest that because of our constant dialog with the Zero Point Field, like de Broglie’s electron, we are everywhere at once.” Chapter Nine describes remote viewing of the past and the future, which is amazing but well-documented. P. 175: “So, if you applied these principles to mental health, it could mean that you could use The Field to direct influences ‘back in time’ to alter pivotal moments or initial conditions which later bloom into full-blown problems or disease…It might be that every moment of our lives influences every other moment, forward and backward.”

Part 3 starts with Chapter Ten which shows that healing works. Healers put out their intention, and let go to higher powers. P. 193: “… healing through intention is available to ordinary people…” p. 195: “…individual consciousness doesn’t die.” Mediums work. P. 196: “…Death may be merely a matter of going home or, more precisely, staying behind – returning to the Field.” Chapter Eleven describes collective consciousness, which can be measured. Events where people are intense like the O.J. Simpson trial or Princess Diana’s funeral register on machines. Chapter Thirteen considers possibilities for using the Zero Point Field, perhaps as an energy source. Another application – p. 222: “… if you don’t need the molecule itself, but only its signal, then you don’t need to take drugs, do biopsies or test for toxic substances … with physical sampling.” Pages 224 and 225 contrast the standard principles of physics and biology with the revised view due to the experiments described in this book.

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