From THE FIELD

From the last chapter of The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe by Lynne McTaggart:

"Every day in the laboratories, these scientists caught a tiny glimmer of the possibilities suggested by their discoveries. They'd found that we were something far more impressive than evolutionary happenstance or genetic survival machines. Their work suggested a decentralized but unified intelligence that was far grander and more exquisite than Darwin or Newton had imagined, a process that was not random or chaotic, but intelligent and purposeful. They'd discovered that in the dynamic flow of life, order triumphed.

These are discoveries that may change the lives of future generations in many practical ways, in fuel-less travel and instant levitation; but in terms of understanding the furthest reaches of human potential, their work suggested something far more profound. In the past, individuals had accidentally evidenced some ability - a premonition, a 'past life', a clairvoyant image, a gift for healing - which quickly was dismissed as a freak of nature or a confidence trick. The work of these scientists suggested that this was a capacity neither abnormal nor rare, but present in every human being. Their work hinted at human abilities beyond what we'd every dreamed possible. We were far more than we realized. If we could understand this potential scientifically, we might then learn how to systematically tap into it. This would vastly improve every area of our lives, from communication and self-knowledge to our interaction with our material world. Science would no longer reduce us to our lowest common demominator. It would help us take a final evolutionary step in our own history by at last understanding ourselves in all of our potential.

These experiments had helped to validate alternative medicine, which has been shown to work empirically but has never been understood. If we could finally work out the science of medicine that treats human energy levels and the exact nature of the 'energy' that was being treated, the possibilities for improved health were unimaginable.

These were also discoveries which scientifically verified the ancient wisdom and folklore of traditional cultures. Their theories offered scientific validation of many of the myths and religions humans have believed in since the beginning of time, but have hitherto only had faith to rely on. All they'd done was to provide a scientific framework for what the wisest among us already knew.

Traditional Australian Aborigines believe, as do many other 'primitive' cultures, that rocks, stones, and mountains are alive and that we 'sing' the world into being - that we were creating as we name things. The discoveries of Braud and Jahn showed that this was more than superstition... On our deepest level, we do share our dreams.

The coming scientific revolution heralded the end of dualism in every sense. Far from destroying God, science for the first time was proving His existence - by demonstrating that a higher, collective consciousness was out there. There need no longer be two truths, the truth of science and the truth of religion. There could be one unified vision of the world.

This revolution in scientific thinking also promised to give us back a sense of optimism, something that has been stripped out of our sense of ourselves with the arid vision of twentieth-century philosophy, largely derived from the views espoused by science. We were not isolated beings living our desperate lives on a lonely planet in an indifferent universe. We never were alone. We were always part of a larger whole. We were and always had been at the center of things. Things did not fall apart. The center did hold and it was we who were doing the holding. We had far more power than we realized, to heal ourselves, our loved ones, even our communities. Each of us had the ability - and together a great collective power - to improve our lot in life. Our life, in every sense, was in our hands.

These were bold insights and discoveries but very few had heard them. For thirty years, these pioneers had presented their findings at small mathematical conferences or the annual meetings of tiny scientific bodies created to promote a dialogue on frontier science. They knew and admired each other's work and were acknowledged at these small gatherings of their peers. Most of the scientists had been young men when they made their discoveries, and before they embarked on what turned out to be life-long detours they had been highly respected, even revered. Now they were approaching retirement age, and among the wider scientific community most of their work still had never seen the light of day. They were all Christopher Columbus and nobody believed what they'd returned to tell. The bulk of the scientific community ignored them, continuing to grip tightly to the notion that the earth was still flat.

The space propulsion activities had been the only acceptable face of the Zero Point Field. Despite their rigorous scientific protocols, nobody in the orthodox community was taking any other discoveries of theirs seriously. Some, like Benveniste, had merely been marginalized. For many years, Edgar Mitchell, now 71, depended on lectures about his exploits in outer space to fund his research into consciousness. Every so often Robert Jahn would submit a paper with unimpeachable statistical evidence to an engineering journal, and they would dismiss it out of hand. Not for the science, but for its shattering implications about the current scientific world view.

Nevertheless, Jahn and Puthoff and the other scientists all knew what they had. Each carried on with the stubborn blinkered confidence of the true inventor. The old way was simply one more hot-air balloon. Resistance was the way it had always been in science. New ideas were always considered heretical. Their evidence might well change the world forever. There were many areas to be refined, other paths to go down. Many might turn out to be detours or even dead ends, but the first tentative inquiries had been made. It was a start, a first step. the way all science started."

teke me beck... to when i was heppeh

Why were we so happy as children?
Because we only had one main objective: to do whatever you wanted to do. That was the primary law that governed all our actions.
And 99% of the time, we did it. And it made us happy people.

When something got in the way or our parents wouldn't let us do something, we fought.
Not just mentally, but we fought with all of our might, kicking and screaming and cursing your evil parents in your head. And in this event, and in many subsequent events after that, we gained life experiences. Experiences that taught us to mind society, restrict ourselves, and say no to our inner desires for happiness.


But that was at a time when we didn't know anything, one might say.
An "innocent" time that is lost and cannot be recovered due to the progression of time.

But why? Our spirit knows no context of time. It's not a finite material, an object that fades with time. Our lives are not like clay, tender at first but only to be hardened and useless over time, unless you choose to be. Our spirit, the desire to be happy and do the things we want to do, still resides in all of us, as strongly as it did when we were children. It's innate. But no, we must consider all the wisdom, knowledge, and experiences that happened as we got older in age. We can't just do whatever the hell we want, they say. There are rules and restrictions, they say. These regulations, derived from life experiences, were actually supposed to help us become better and "wiser" people, but actually they haven't taught us much. It only taught us how to limit ourselves. It only taught us how to double-check ourselves instead of following our hearts, preventing us from being free.


Of course, learning and growing wiser is an inevitable part of human life. But there are two routes a person can take.

We can live life, gain experiences, and let the "realities" of the world continue close our hearts.

Or we can live life, learn and grow, gain experiences all the same, yet keep our inner hearts open to our childlike, natural desires, which in turn opens ourselves to the true pursuit of happiness.

The second route... yes it sounds pretty sappy. But I'd much rather take that road than the other anyday. (But what is sappy? Isn't it just something that we're too ashamed to admit that it's a sweet, good thing?)


Though we are all human, you are not me. And I am not you.
Yes we are all kin, and yes we are all pursuing the solutions to life, but my electromagnetic brain waves don't reside in your brain and yours doesn't reside in mine.

You are you, and only you can make yourself truly happy.