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Review Summary: Scientists Explore the Last Frontier - the Zero Point Field |
Date: 2003-06-11 |
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Details: With an ear for human interest and eye for detail, Lynne McTaggart masterfully tells the true story in THE FIELD of how pioneers in science and consciousness research are working to achieve a more complete understanding of the true nature of reality -- an understanding which includes (rather than ignores) consciousness.
THE FIELD describes how scientists have gradually become aware of what appears to be a unifying energy structure in our universe. This "Zero Point Field" provides us with a simpler explanation for how things work than previous overly-complex ideas require. Simplicity in science is a good thing, because it generally indicates which theories will win out as time goes by. The Zero Point Field theory demonstrates it's elegant simplicity by allowing physicists to derive the famous equation F=ma (rather than take it as a starting assumption), and by helping medical practitioners understand the underlying scientific basis for homeopathy.
Our scientific conceptualization of this universe has changed considerably over the last few centuries and now faces one of the biggest overhauls ever -- and THE FIELD demonstrates why the Zero Point Field is likely to be the last frontier for us to explore. THE FIELD is packed with detailed descriptions of some of the most exciting experiments recently conducted by leading researchers in the field of consciousness such as: Cleve Backster, Jacques Benveniste, William Braud, Bob Jahn, Edgar Mitchell, Fritz-Albert Popp, Hal Puthoff, Rupert Sheldrake, Russell Targ, Elisabeth Targ, and Charles Tart.
I give this book my highest recommendation.
(Cynthia Sue Larson has a degree in physics from UC Berkeley and is author of the book "AURA ADVANTAGE: How the Colors in Your Aura Can Help You Attain What You Desire & Attact Success") |
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Review Summary: Resistance is futile. |
Date: 2005-06-26 |
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Details: After receiving and ignoring several proddings from others to get this book, I finally yielded after coming across it while researching the issues behind Codex Alimentarius. I've read quite a few books on new agey topics starting out with Peter Russel's The Awakening Earth in 1986, and I prefer those that use a disciplined, logical, and non-sensicial approach, such as Gregg Braden's The God Code, Dr. Bruce Lipton's The Biology of Belief, and Dr. David Hawkins' Power vs Force. So initially I thought "what could a journalist tell me that I already don't know?" Well it appears quite a lot. The Field is a compelling read which I found quite exciting at times as the retelling of various experiments and discoveries unfolded. The knowledge of these are worth the price alone, but the real value for me comes from the connections Lynne McTaggart makes by pulling these common threads together. That type of astute integration can only be done by someone of great quality, and shows the Author modelling the same positive attributes of the hidden field of consciousness, that is discussed in the book itself.
Excellent value, a must buy.
Daniel John Hancock |
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Review Summary: Lucid Exploration Of The Quantum-Holistic View Of Reality |
Date: 2003-09-12 |
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Details: In The Field, the author takes the reader along on a quest to understand the metaphysics that underlie our perceived universe. This book mainly reviews the data and theories of scientists exploring new paradigms in physics, consciousness, and subtle energy fields. While the evidence in these areas is open to theoretical interpretation, the findings consistently disprove dominant materialistic and mechanistic notions about life and the universe. The Field makes it evident that a deep analysis of scientific paradigms will lead those seeking a greater truth into the realm of metaphysics and consciousness, which have traditionally been the terrain of mystics, philosophers and spiritual seekers. This book provides an excellent overview of the most important developments in the sciences that examine the most vital issues of existence. This book is also great for challenging materialists and even some religious fanatics, as it documents contradictions to widely held beliefs. |
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Review Summary: An impressive description of paranormal effects |
Date: 2005-03-07 |
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Details: This is probably the most complete and readable description of all the paranormal research that has taken place both in this country and abroad.
McTaggart describes research and documented evidence of the apparent telepathic and telekinetic powers of the brain as well as its ability to affect the health status both of the individual and of others. She relates experiments that presumably prove that even chickens and rabbits have such powers. She mentions some of the (mostly secret) experiments in remote viewing carried out by our government during the Cold War. McTaggart describes experiments in homeopathic medicine, where the curing substance is diluted to such an extent that it is there only as a memory, and yet still remains potent.
Such information, of course, has appeared in other books. McTaggart, however, goes on to point out that the classical idea that events are not influenced by the observer does not hold in quantum physics dealing with electrons and sub-particles. She proceeds to describe at great length the Random Effects Generator, essentially a computerized random number generator, and how it is affected by conscious and unconscious wishes of nearby, and even remote, observers. A large amount of information that she describes is based on results obtained through such machines.
So far, the description deals with presumably real experimental observations. Where the book takes a giant leap, however, is in its identification of what enables these effects: the Zero Point Energy Field. The basic principle in Heisenberg's and Bohr's quantum theory is that sub-atomic particles don't exist until they are observed. The entire Creation Theory of our modern physicists is based on the idea that sub-atomic particles can continuously jump into existence and then disappear, as long as both operations take place in less time that the Planck period (10exp-43 seconds) since we cannot observe anything within such a small time interval. These continuous particle appearances and disappearances are described by a field which McTaggart postulates that we have the ability to affect. This field presumably involves huge quantities of energy that could become accessible if only we only knew how. (Interestingly, she does not question the source of such a huge amount of energy in our universe.)
The final conclusion is that everything is interrelated, and everything consists of energy vibrations. Everything is one, so it is little wonder that we can affect our environment with our conscious or unconscious thoughts. Personally I agree with this final statement, but there is no proof that McTaggart's postulated Zero Point Energy Field is the real enabling mechanism. Instead, it could easily be the recently postulated vibrating energy strings, as claimed by Lewis Tarter in his God Theory, or some other mechanism not yet identified. In any case, however, the existence of such an effect can have tremendous theological implications. I definitely recommend this book.
(The writer is the author of Christianity without Fairy Tales: When Science and Religion Merge.)
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Review Summary: What the Bleep in book form |
Date: 2006-09-26 |
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Details: McTaggart brings together many of the scientific discoveries of the 20/21st century that don't fit neatly into the box, and drive the editors of peer reviewed journals to their Pepto Bismol. Quantum physicists around the world are embarrassing their colleagues with such suggestions that the quantum field, or zero point field, is a quantum soup that connects all of us, enabling shared thoughts, dreams, clairvoyance, remote viewing, dream influencing, mental influencing of random number generators and the potential of an untapped energy that science has only dreamed of.
McTaggart also looks at the evidence that is beginning to point to the existance of the human energy field by way of Kirlian imaging, Popp's photon emissions from DNA (the human as a being of light), and Benveniste's wonderful experiments on the vibrational signature of matter (involving the much debated nature of homeopathic substances, where nothing of the original substance remains, except for the vibration of where it was).
Heresy! cries the world's leading universities.
Don'cha love mainstream science?!
McTaggart reports from the coalface of the physics faculties of the world, making the discoveries simple enough for lay people to understand and fanning the flames of the debate as to what lies between the smallest quantum particles that make up you, me and the universe, and is everything connected and enfolded a la Bohm at the most infinite level?
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