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The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe Paperback – January 2, 2008
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“A big, bold, brilliantly crafted page-turner with HUGE ideas that challenge every last view about how the world works. This is both a primer to understand the law of attraction and the essential book of our age.” ― Jack Canfield, author of The Success Principles(TM) and featured teacher on The Secret(TM)
“One of the most powerful and enlightening books I have ever read. A magnificent job of presenting the hard evidence for what spiritual masters have been telling us for centuries.” ― Wayne W. Dyer
During the past few years science and medicine have been converging with common sense, confirming a widespread belief that everything―especially the mind and the body―is far more connected than traditional physics ever allowed. The Field establishes a new biological paradigm: it proves that our body extends electromagnetically beyond ourselves and our physical body. It is within this field that we can find a remarkable new way of looking at health, sickness, memory, will, creativity, intuition, the soul, consciousness, and spirituality.
The Field helps to bridge the gap that has opened up between mind and matter, between us and the cosmos. Original, well researched, and well documented by distinguished sources, this is the mind/body book for a new millennium.
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Print length268 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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Publication dateJanuary 2, 2008
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ISBN-10006143518X
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ISBN-13978-0061435188
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“This is both a primer to understand the law of attraction and the essential book of our age.” — Jack Canfield, author of The Success Principles(TM) and featured teacher on The Secret(TM)
“One of the most powerful and enlightening books I have ever read.” — Wayne W. Dyer
“This is an important book. . .It stretches the imagination.” — Arthur C. Clarke
“A fascinating and excellent presentation about the true nature of life that we need to be aware of and accept.” — Bernie Siegel, MD, author of Love, Medicine & Miracles and Prescriptions For Living
“This book liberates consciousness and restores it to its majestic and rightful position as a causal power in the universe.” — Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Words, Reinventing Medicine, and Healing Beyond the Body
“The vast scope of this book lifts the veil on the state of being that is our birthright.” — Nexus
“Fascinating, provocative and highly readable . . . One of the most thought-provoking reads of [the year.]” — The Ecologist
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In this groundbreaking classic, investigative journalist Lynne McTaggart reveals a radical new paradigm—that the human mind and body are not separate from their environment but a packet of pulsating power constantly interacting with this vast energy sea, and that consciousness may be central in shaping our world. The Field is a highly readable scientific detective story presenting a stunning picture of an interconnected universe and a new scientific theory that makes sense of supernatural phenomena. Documented by distinguished sources, The Field is a book of hope and inspiration for today's world.
About the Author
Journalist and author LYNNE MCTAGGART is one of the preeminent spokespersons on consciousness, the new physics, and the practices of conventional and alternative medicine. The author of The Intention Experiment, she lectures worldwide and is co-executive director of Conatus, which publishes well-respected health and spiritual newsletters. She lives with her family in London.
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The Field Updated Ed
The Quest for the Secret Force of the UniverseBy Lynne McTaggartHarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Copyright © 2008 Lynne McTaggartAll right reserved.
ISBN: 9780061435188
Chapter One
Light in the Darkness
Perhaps what happened to Ed Mitchell was due to the lack of gravity, or maybe to the fact that all his senses had been disoriented. He had been on his way home, which at the moment was approximately 250,000 miles away, somewhere on the surface of the clouded azure and white crescent appearing intermittently through the triangular window of the command module of the Apollo 14.
Two days before, he had become the sixth man to land on the moon. The trip had been a triumph: the first lunar landing to carry out scientific investigations. The 94 pounds of rock and soil samples in the hold attested to that. Although he and his commander, Alan Shepard, hadn't reached the summit of the 750-foot-high ancient Cone Crater, the rest of the items on the meticulous schedule taped to their wrists, detailing virtually every minute of their two-day journey, had been methodically ticked off.
What they hadn't fully accounted for was the effect of this uninhabited world, low in gravity, devoid of the diluting effect of atmosphere, on the senses. Without signposts such as trees or telephone wires, or indeed anything other than the Antares, the gold insect-like lunar module, on the full sweep of the dust-grey landscape, all perceptions of space, scale, distance or depth were horribly distorted; Ed had been shocked to discover that any points of navigation which had been carefully noted on high-resolution photographs were at least double the distance expected. It was as though he and Alan had shrunk during space travel and what from home had appeared to be tiny humps and ridges on the moon's surface had suddenly swollen to heights of six feet or more. And yet if they felt diminished in size, they were also lighter than ever. He'd experienced an odd lightness of being, from the weak gravitational pull, and despite the weight and bulk of his ungainly spacesuit, felt buoyed at every step.
There had also been the distorting effect of the sun, pure and unadulterated in this airless world. In the blinding sunlight, even in the relatively cool morning, before the highs that might reach 270° F, craters, landmarks, soil and the earth -- even the sky itself -- all stood out in absolute clarity. For a mind accustomed to the soft filter of atmosphere, the sharp shadows, the changeable colors of the slate-grey soil all conspired to play tricks on the eye. Unknowingly he and Alan had been only 61 feet from Cone Crater's edge, about 10 seconds away, when they turned back, convinced that they wouldn't reach it in time -- a failure that would bitterly disappoint Ed, who'd longed to stare into that 1100-foot diameter hole in the midst of the lunar uplands. Their eyes didn't know how to interpret this hyperstate of vision. Nothing lived, but also nothing was hidden from view, and everything lacked subtlety. Every sight overwhelmed the eye with brilliant contrasts and shadows. He was seeing, in a sense, more clearly and less clearly than he ever had.
During the relentless activity of their schedule, there had been little time for reflection or wonder, or for any thoughts of a larger purpose to the trip. They had gone farther in the universe than any man before them, and yet, weighed down by the knowledge that they were costing the American taxpayers $200,000 a minute, they felt compelled to keep their eyes on the clock, ticking off the details of what Houston had planned in their packed schedule. Only after the lunar module had reconnected with the command module and begun the two-day journey back to earth could Ed pull off his spacesuit, now filthy with lunar soil, sit back in his long johns and try to put his frustration and his jumble of thoughts into some sort of order.
The Kittyhawk was slowly rotating, like a chicken on a spit, in order to balance the thermal effect on each side of the spacecraft; and in its slow revolution, earth was intermittently framed through the window as a tiny crescent in an all-engulfing night of stars. From this perspective, as the earth traded places in and out of view with the rest of the solar system, sky didn't exist only above the astronauts, as we ordinarily view it, but as an all-encompassing entity that cradled the earth from all sides.
It was then, while staring out of the window, that Ed experienced the strangest feeling he would ever have: a feeling of connectedness, as if all the planets and all the people of all time were attached by some invisible web. He could hardly breathe from the majesty of the moment. Although he continued to turn knobs and press buttons, he felt distanced from his body, as though someone else were doing the navigating.
There seemed to be an enormous force field here, connecting all people, their intentions and thoughts, and every animate and inanimate form of matter for all time. Anything he did or thought would influence the rest of the cosmos, and every occurrence in the cosmos would have a similar effect on him. Time was just an artificial construct. Everything he'd been taught about the universe and the separateness of people and things felt wrong. There were no accidents or individual intentions. The natural intelligence that had gone on for billions of years, that had forged the very molecules of his being, was also responsible for his own present journey. This wasn't something he was simply comprehending in his mind, but an overwhelmingly visceral feeling, as though he were physically extending out of the window to the very furthest reaches of the cosmos.
He hadn't seen the face of God. It didn't feel like a standard religious experience so much as a blinding epiphany of meaning -- what the Eastern religions often term an 'ecstasy of unity'. It was as though in a single instant Ed Mitchell had discovered and felt The Force. He stole a glance at Alan and Stu Roosa ...
Continues...
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- Publisher : Harper Perennial; Updated edition (January 2, 2008)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 268 pages
- ISBN-10 : 006143518X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0061435188
- Item Weight : 8.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.31 x 0.68 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #33,849 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #177 in Mental & Spiritual Healing
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About the author
Lynne McTaggart, one of the central authorities on the new science and consciousness, is the award-winning author of seven books, including the internationally bestselling The Intention Experiment, The Field, The Bond, and her new book The Power of Eight. Her books are now in some 30 languages, and she is consistently listed as one of the world’s 100 most spiritually influential people. As architect of the Intention Experiments, a web-based ‘global laboratory,’ Lynne was prominently featured in the plotline of Dan Brown’s blockbuster The Lost Symbol.
She is also editorial director of What Doctors Don’t Tell You, one of the world’s most respected US health magazines, now published in 16 countries. For the third year running, What Doctors Don’t Tell You has been awarded Best and Most Popular Website of the year for Health and Wellbeing and was also named Ethical Business of the Year.
A highly sought after public speaker, who has spoken in nearly every continent, Lynne has also appeared in many documentaries, including What the Bleep?! Down the Rabbit Hole, I Am, The Abundance Factor and The Healing Field. Lynne and her husband, WDDTY co-founder Bryan Hubbard, author of the groundbreaking book The Untrue Story of You, live in London. They have two adult daughters.
Visit her website: www.lynnemctaggart.com
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john searl, ralph ring, ottis t car, thomas townsend brown, all powered their work with energy from the field. theorized to be a limitless source of energy, and proven worthy of further research. the tech is ready for prime time.
electrogravitics powered by “the field” is the fuel of the 21st century.
lets power the 21st century with the field!
note: my research and study indicate everything is already powered by the field, only at very low efficiencies.
study moray b king and all of his recommended reading, to learn how to increase efficiency to the greatest degrees, as needed for travel, including warp drive travel (with self generated protective force fields, study john searl, searl effect generator and the youtube video “limitless energy from the vacuum” the field is often referred to as vacuum energy, or limitless energy from the vacuum.
may the force, and the field, one in the same, be with you!
The Author starts off her book with the staple description of and the tantalizing possibilities offered by Quantum Physics. It is here that she establishes (with valid scientific research) the existence of a Zero-Point Field, whereby enormous energy fluctuations are incessantly occurring on sub-planck scales even in a "vacuum" where no energy can be thought to exist. It is this energy field that modern scientists have acknowledged as a mere afterthought and discounted in their mathematical models due to its perceived nonexistent impact on everyday macroscopic reality. However, McTaggart exposes such detrimental hubris of the scientific community by shedding light on the fantastic implications offered by "the field" as uncovered by the unsung heroes of Quantum Physics (such as Hal Puthoff). It stands to reason, that if the universe is bathed in a sea of energy, it is only logical to assume that everything in the entire cosmos is connected by its very immersion in it. And since energy is a wave function, and waves are carriers of information when they collide with other waves (entanglement), The Field (courtesy of its energy fluctuations) is like a magnetic tape that records all information, past and future, in the universe on it. After all, according to Einstein's popular E=MC^2, all solid objects with mass (like us) are nothing but energy waves.
After establishing the scientific backbone for the book with such clarity, McTaggart explores The Field as a source of explanation for a variety of scientific conundrums in the last few decades. First is in the area of human biology, where the near-instantaneous communication of bodily functions cannot be accounted for by chemical reactions alone. The author very elegantly demonstrates that our DNA has the ability to emit different frequencies of light that serve to instantaneously coordinate our biological machinations like a conductor of a symphony. She also goes on to explain how homeopathy works in lieu of using the "cohesive" capabilities of water as a recording medium for light frequencies associated with certain drugs, all possible with the existence of The Field. Next, McTaggart ventures to explain how David Bohm and Karl Pribram's Holographic Model ties in beautifully with The Field (enter the Fourier Waves) and together help explain the ability of the brain to process information non-locally in a process called "Superradiance", another example of the cohesion in light. As can be seen, the book, again and again, stresses the importance of "cohesiveness" as a key component in human consciousness.
After building an incredibly strong logical foundation, the book goes on to explore the notion of a collective subconscious; the idea that human societies are constantly exchanging information on an undetectable level, save for those who have mastered the ability to consciously tap into their subconscious and by extension, The Field. This explains the latent ability in all human beings to engage in telepathy, psychokinesis and remote viewing. Experiments after experiments, especially those performed by scientists such as Edgar Mitcell, Janne and Dunne, also corroborate the notion of The Field as a medium for the expression of the collective consciousness of all sentient beings on the planet; a consciousness that is capable of altering and influencing "random" experimental devices well before the occurrence of some of the world's milestone events.
Lynne McTaggart is an eloquent writer who makes reading her book more like a wonderful journey into the human psyche. The trememdous body of experimental evidence she cites in her book gives it that much more acedemic weight. Although I felt the author slightly loss her focus by the middle of the book, she brought it full-circle by the end, making for a most compelling read. If the "Holoraphic Universe" is to be considered the first course in a most extravagant meal, here's the entree.
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The earlier chapters require a bit more focus to navigate, as the information presented is a little bit heavier to wade through, but the book covers a wide range of connected and related topics from a number of different angles and perspectives. Anyone interested in the concepts of energy, the power of the mind, and neuroscience will find much to consider and many connections in the content. A challenging (at times) yet rewarding journey, The Field is well worth the trip.