Part 1
I have just finished reading and digesting a book called “The Field” by Lynne McTaggart. In this post I am going to quickly go through what she says in light of what I have learned from other sources and in particular of what I “know” from dowsing and have theorised – or put together – myself.
To begin with, the cover really attracted me for one particular reason and that was that Wayne Dyer had recommended it. Now Wayne and I go back aways and I first came across his work when exploring the realms of personal development – where Wayne is a well known speaker and author. I also know that Wayne only recommends books when he wants to – rather than when the publisher(s) want him to, so this was a big “pusher” for me.
Introduction
Although I have placed the provocative “Vs” in the title of this post I have to say that isn’t really fair as I am going to be agreeing with a lot of what Lynne has to say. Although, I have to say I am going to be critical in parts.
I want to point out that throughout this post I might drop all sorts of words, that hint at … “What the hex has that got to do with Druidry” my defence is two fold – firstly – I am an Edge Wizard and thus this topic falls quite happily into “my” remit, second this blog has more posts about dowsing than about druidry (fight it out if you will) and The Field, in my opinion has a lot to do with Dowsing.
My point is this…if you don’t know what a word means…www.google.com
Lynne’s book starts off with ESP of the (slightly) Zener kind. In particular some semi-covert experiments that were conducted by Edgar Mitchell whilst on his return trip from the moon. The implied suggestion that Lynne further details is that the means of Telepathy was via The Field. From this rather non scientific basis Lynne steps out into science – er – that isn’t science.
The Field
What is the field? My first encounter – although I didn’t know it at the time – with the field was in the Sci-Fi tv-series Stargate SG1.
Fairly late on in this series the explorers ostensibly led by the MacGyver famed Richard Dean Anderson discover a power module that has tremendous properties. This power source is referred to in the series as a Zero Point Module or ZPM for short.
Now as I was reading The Field it dawned on me that Lynne’s description of this field was exactly the same as that of a ZPM…(hey don’t let this put you off).
You can go off and read the Stargate description of this device by the link above. However here is a what the field describes it as. In the book it is called Zero Point Energy and quite simply it is energy from nothing, well almost…
Now, my science – particularly fringe science – is fairly good, at least to the extent of the ideas so I will have a bash at explaining what “ZPE” is.
If we took a trip out into the vacuum of space and made a box that nothing could get in or out of. Then – somehow – we managed to suck every particle out of this box so that the – understanding would be – that it is empty. It wouldn’t be. I know, sounds like a magic trick doesn’t it.
What quantum physics says is that “virtual” particles flip in and out of existence and as such you cannot determine that the box is “empty” indeed you can’t ever empty the box.
On a side-line the magic is that if you could grab these “virtual” particles then you would be getting energy for nothing.
Now this is where my physics become confusing because my understanding about this kind of particle is that, since nothing can be created, these particles come with their opposite in tow and so they are destroyed upon collision. The exception being in the presence of a black hole where the “partner” particle might get swallowed by the hole and thus leaving the remainder as Hawking Radiation. Perhaps it is the explosive energy of the partners colliding that is theorised?
Anyway, I digress. The Field is taking this phenomenon in two parts. The first that this energy exists the second is that it vibrates (ahhhh).
Vibrates is the right and wrong word to use. Let’s go back to the box in space. If we were able to count the virtual particles in the box at any time (quantum uncertainty principles say we cant) then let say that there are 10 in second one and 15 in second two and 10 in second three and so on. Then this would make the vibrational frequency i.e. it is the frequency of change in the particles that makes “the” frequency.
The field in the book is this ZPE energy and the correlation that is intimated with subtle energy, such as Chi, Ki, Prana, Grace etc is that the frequency or vibrations of Chi is the very same ZPE vibrations. This is “intimated” in the book and Lynne (as far as I can recall) doesn’t explicitly say this.
In Part 2 of this story I will go through the journey that Lynne takes on her way to putting ZPE together with things like healing and miracles.
Kal Malik
