‘The Field’ looks at mysteries of universe
If you want to believe the material world is transcended by some greater power but find it a difficult idea to accept on faith alone, you may want to read Lynne McTaggart’s “The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe.”
McTaggart is an investigative journalist, not a scientist, and has authored books such as “Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times” and “The Baby Brokers: The Marketing of White Babies in America.”
In “The Field,” McTaggart focuses her exceptional skill on recent scientific findings that imply the universe might be bigger and more integrated than previously believed, and that human beings might not be distinctly separate from their environment, but may be “packets of pulsating power” interacting with a vast universal energy sea.
In chapters like “Beings of Light,” “The Language of the Cell,” “Resonating with the World,” “The Healing Field” and “Telegram from Gaia,” she describes how:
— Hal Puthoff proved mathematically that all matter in the universe is connected to the furthest reaches of the cosmos through Zero Point Field waves.
— Fritz-Albert Popp discovered that living cells and bodies emit a low-intensity light called “biophoton emissions” to create their own morpho-genesis (how similar cells with the same DNA in a fetus decide to become an arm rather than a brain, and vise versa).
— Jacques Benveniste’s experiments showed that cells in a body do not rely on physical or neural contact with one another, but on very low frequency electromagnetic signals to adapt and adjust to their environment.
— Karl Lashley and Karl Pribram found that, while certain parts of the brain performed certain functions, the processing of information was not carried out by any particular group of cells, but by the total mind and body.
— Robert Jahn and Brenda Dunne, after performing a rigorous scientific study, found that normal human beings, with no psychic superstars among them, had been able to affect the random movement of machines simply through a group act of will.
These, and numerous other stories in “The Field,” indicate that the universe of infinite and transcendent possibilities, first open by quantum physics, is now being demonstrated by purely scientific experiments in numerous fields: biology, health, psychology, physics and natural sciences.
McTaggart’s book is not a light read, but neither is it a difficult tome for anyone vaguely familiar with basic science. Depending on one’s interests and familiarities, some parts of the book might seem less “fetching” than others, but it’s published by Harper Perennial, priced well, and — if you need rational evidence that something might await us after death — you’ll probably want to pick it up.
Let me add that I’m a writer and can honestly say, “I wish I’d written this book.”
No greater praise is possible.
