The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe

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Summary: Stunning Information
Review: A fantastic piece of scientific reporting, knowledgeable enough to explain complex physics processes so that the lay person can understand. Adding to this other reading I've done, it makes it clear that science and philosophy are moving closer to each other. Those of us with minds open enough to at least speculate and imagine, are seeing and hearing scientific support for things we've known intuitively for a long time. What an exciting book!

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Summary: God found (again)
Review: A great book - possibley the best I have read - but why (if God has been "found" as the "Zero Point Field") isnt the whole world aware of it via the media? Vested intererest in career, money or just incredulity? Thought and intention manifest themselves in statistcially measurable phenomena. The boundaries between individuals is blurred. In a sense we are part of a "Matrix" or "Borg" - but the "blue pill" makes it very difficult to see this. Light, Life, Love and Laughter.

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Summary: Pulls it all together!
Review: In short I really appreciate this book. It is a terrific mind-bender!

Lynne McTaggart has done a great job in pulling together the work of so many "legitimate" researchers who are pushing their explorations into strange but fruitfull territories... not the Twilight Zone, but rather the profit zone as measured in intellectual coinage.

What I most appreciate is the light it plays on so many things that I have read before; I can see now that their material circled around some hidden assumption which remained an unstated "given" ... which turns out to be "The Field"

If you are a student of the human condition I would suggest you read it... but first temporarily suspend your dis-belief mode!

One reason for me in writing this letter is that an unkind reviewer mocked not only this work but a statement from another reviewer. He used the term, "moronic"

That bothered me. Indeed, this critic is a very learned gentleman in Chemistry and Quantum mechanics, but I think he was unfair in his dismisal of the field as being a mere virtual mathematical anomaly. However, the Field's effects can be measured ... and have been. I thought he was "off" concerning his absolute skepticism and intellectual contempt regarding the posibility of validating Newton's unsubstantiated 2nd law, F=ma.

from an online paper by the proponents of the Field.

(snip)

"In our formulation, the m in Newton's second law of motion, F=ma, becomes nothing more than a coupling constant between acceleration and an external electromagnetic force. Thus what we are proposing is that Newton's second law can be derived from the laws of electrodynamics, provided one assumes an underlying
zero-point field."

(snip)

Now from that description I don't readily see how the critic's objection -- as I understand it -- addresses what they are talking about. I'm left wondering if he bothered to read the book.

Hey, hang all ten! read It!

Bill G.(blown away by this book like a tumbling tumbleweed!)

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Summary: Lucid Exploration Of The Quantum-Holistic View Of Reality
Review: 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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Summary: Delivers an expanded view of the universe
Review: Leading edge scientists and healers are brought together in this ground-breaking compendium of examples of the Field. This primal field, the fabric of the universe, connects everyone to each other and to all life. Lynne also shows many illustrations of how life energy travels through the Field in spiritual healing, acupuncture and energy medicine. This breakthrough book is a classic in the making.


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Summary: Your "gut" feelings may be more scientific than you thought!
Review: Lynne McTaggart boldly dives in where few dare to go... the murky, much debated realm between God and Science. In a thoroughly detailed and meticulously researched fashion, she lays open study upon study that point to the possibility of a universal energy source, the "Zero Point Field" as she cites it. This "force" operates on a quantum level of photon vibrations that precedes and supercedes the strict bio-chemical mentality of current science. This book challenges a lot of long held beliefs, including...

*Man is isolated from the world (People are indivisable from their environment)
*The brain is the seat of consciousness (Living consciousness is not an isolated entity)
*The human being is a survival machine powered by genetic coding (Cells and DNA communicate through frequencies)

Perhaps one of the most profound and summarizing statements is McTaggart's assertion (based on volumous research) that...

"A substructure underpins the universe that is essentially a recording medium of everything, providing a means for everything to communicate with everything else."

If taken for what it is, the book amounts to the peaceful overthrow of many long held scientific beliefs and models, and establishes a framework that accomodates both science and spirituality. A good read.

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Summary: Was "Star Wars" on to something?
Review: Lynne McTaggart has opened up a hugely interesting topic, the question of a "life force". Is "God" perhaps our name for a unifying field of energy that shapes our existence? Are psychic phenomena such as telepathy, pre-cognition, and ESP simply vibrations in the fabric of the universe? Fascinating questions. She has done a tremendous amount of research well documented in the index. I was excited to read this book; I hoped to learn what modern science has discovered about this concept. Much of the book is pertinent to the scientific exploration of this topic, however I was disappointed with the inclusion of so much pseudo-science. She dismisses the work of skeptics much to easily and is too quick to accept minor deviations in case studies as significant. Those with an interest in the topic will enjoy reading the book, but unfortunately it can't be taken too seriously.

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Summary: Rofl....riiiiight!
Review: Talk about something Star Wars would be jealous of; this book. I mean this is the biggest reach of science fiction I have seen in years! Her ideas had me rolling on the floor. The absurd reasoning and made up theories with zero proof. I know! Pink elephants are really the life force of our universe. If you can find one you will be supreme! .....

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Summary: So wrong, so sad
Review: The following statement attributed to another reviewer is absolutely false. The zero point field comes out of quantum electrodynamics. F=ma is classical physics. There is no F analog in QED so F=ma cannot come from QED. This non-scientific BS and the morons who believe are the reason this country sucks so much.

The zero-point field is a mathematical result of transforming the electromagnetic field in plane-waves to harmonic oscillators. It is a divergent, infinite quantity which has no meaning.

Cynthia S. Larson "www.realityshifters.com"

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.


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Summary: Intriguing
Review: The title of the book aptly describes it "it's indeed a quest", the book is investigative, reads like a mystery, very comprehensive and well researched, no part of the book felt like speculation to me (of course some chapters/topics are more interesting than others), each chapter builds on the previous one, goes beyond mundane books about "Quantum Physics", I would highly recommend this book.