Blog #2

As was the case with our first readings, I find there are many interesting ideas presented in chapters 4 through 6. For example, I remember when I took an intro to psychology class and we read about the brain. The readings in that class focused on the different parts of the brain and how each one functioned. It was, as the brain is usually described, the container or “file cabinet” of all our information. Yet, after reading The Field I realize that this may not be correct. Perhaps the brain isn’t the “file cabinet” of our information, but simply the organ we use to tap into a much larger information source—The Field. As stated in the book, “some scientists went as far as to suggest that all of our higher cognitive processes result from an interaction with the Zero Point Field” (95).

Something about this idea (that our brains are just the tools to interact with the Field) is hard for me to grasp. Perhaps it’s just the fact that I’ve always thought of the brain in its traditional sense of “file cabinet.” Indeed, McTaggert goes on to say, “This kind of constant interaction might account for intuition or creativity – and how ideas come to use in bursts of insight, sometimes in fragments but often as a miraculous whole” (95). I’d like to think I come up with my own ideas. Yet, if McTaggert is right, then our ideas aren’t really our own creation but that which we’ve discovered from this large information source, The Field. This kind of blows a hole in our American strivings for individuality, but it also presents some awesome possibilities.

For example, what if we’re only using a tiny fraction of the information available to us from the Field? Modern science has come up with many miraculous inventions (vaccinations and life-saving surgeries, to name a few), but what if by simply tapping into The Field we could have insights far beyond what we currently know? Could we, as Popp seemed to imply in Chapter 3, cure the body of cancer simply by getting in synch with The Field?

I would imagine, with a source as large as The Field, that the possibilities are endless. Theoretically, human life could be greatly improved by more interactions with The Field. However, right now this is not happening. It might be said that mystics and other spiritual believers are tapping into The Field, but there isn’t currently widespread use by the average person. If we ever do find a way to tap into The Field, and if it actually is the large source of information McTaggert says it is, then I’m excited to see what might happen. Until then I’ll just have to be content with imagining what might someday be.