Blog 2

I remember a specific moment, while reading chapter 4, when I picked up the glass beside me and peered into the contents, as if I was looking at water for the very first time. Obviously, we come in contact with water numerous times on a daily basis, but what made me pick up my glass and slide the water around in a slow motion, was that I was considering water for the very first time. “Water could act as a template for the molecule, for example, by an infinite hydrogen-bonded network, or electric and magnetic fields (63).” “If water were able to imprint and store information from molecules, this would have an impact on our understanding of molecules and how they ‘talk’ to one another in our bodies…. In any living cell, there are 10 thousand molecules of water for each molecule of protein (63).” These words were what made me peer into my glass and think it truly astonishing that something tasteless, colorless, odorless, taken for granted, perhaps never in a lifetime considered, could potentially change the way scientists understand the living cell, because in reality there is so much more to discover about water!

I think a very fun part of reading The Field is the fact that McTaggart is presenting several ideas that (as Benveniste said, speaking as a scientist) “demolish everything he had been taught to believe”. She is presenting the ideas and theories of men and women who are pioneering on new terrain. She is presenting ideas that challenge the accepted and grounded ideas of the scientific community. As one such example, this idea that the Zero Point Field creates a medium for our cells communicate, and have their own language, is wondrous to me. This means we are communicating with our world much more than we realize. For it is a fact that the stars have their own binary pulses and “music” (89).

As another thought, I had a hard time understanding parts of chapter 5. Page 95 talks about and “outrageous idea, that short and long term memory does not reside in our brains at all but, instead is stored in the Zero Point Field.” Further down on the page: “If they are correct our brain is not a storage medium but a receiving mechanism in every sense and memory is simply a distant cousin of ordinary perception.” And lastly: “Lashley’s rats with the fried brains were able to conjure up their run in its entirety because the memory of it was never burned away in the first place.” So I left this chapter a little confused about memory loss, from accidents, traumas, etc. What accounts for this then? Is there really no memory loss, but rather a hindrance from tapping into the Zero Point Field’s storage of memory? I was hoping this would be explained, but it wasn’t.

Lastly, chapter 6 reminded me of a scene from Disney’s version of Matilda. Matilda was the little girl who had the power to control and move objects with her mind. I found the results of the RNG and PEAR studies remarkable, although I still can’t help but remain skeptical after reading the chapter. It definitely posed some challenges to our ideas of influence over our world, and the chapter also spoke a lot about our definition and understanding of consciousness. As I understand it, the power of human consciousness and our powers of influence all work within the Zero Point Field, and the more I read about the ZPF, the more I am beginning to grasp a concept of what it is, and what it means to me.