bLoG 4

Blog 4

Wow J What a journey!!

I think one of the coolest parts of the last three chapters was the REG machine collecting evidence that there may be a “collective consciousness”. First of all, I think it is cool that Nelson was walking around and going places with portable REG machines… the palmREG machines. And that the REG machine, which acted like a thermometer, picked up the moments of peak attention. And the study was done over and over again, involving the opera, the Superbowl, the OJ Simpson trial, humor conferences, the Academy Awards. I find it very interesting that when people were thinking the same way, or a lot of people were feeling the same emotions, therefore creating a large “scale”, the machine was affected. So if I understand this correctly, how the group (watching the Superbowl, the Simpson trial, etc..) responded affected the field, and therefore changed the pattern of the machine. So the natural question is, what to do with it?? Perhaps there is a greater good which we have yet to discover by the means of working as one collective consciousness, one example in the book was the wishing away rain clouds. This one threw me for a loop, the idea that we can control with our mind the preconceived “randomness” (for lack of a better word) of the weather. I will keep this in mind if I plan to have an outdoor wedding, perhaps I should note on the invitation—“All guests please wish for superb weather the week leading up to the day of the ceremony..” I don’t know, this is a radical and fascinating idea, but I still think weather is unpredictable, well, at least unaffected by human wishes. In countries that suffer from horrible droughts, they wish for rain, they dance for rain, they have festivals and perform rituals to bring in the rain… so why do they suffer so long in drought? And Princeton students just wish for good weather on graduation day, and boom- done. Are the graduates better “wishers”??


So I have reached the end of The Field, and I have gained a lot of insight from the book. Admittedly, my favorite parts of the book were the beginning chapters. I really enjoyed trying to understand the “scientifics” of the Field, it challenged me, and I loved learning new and exciting things about our bodies and how they function. I thrive off of reading success stories involving alternative medicine, survival stories from the death grip of cancer, and I enjoyed learning about the mechanisms of our beings, even if some of the jargon went over my head. I found the last chapters to be more of a challenge, as I have stated before. I accept the theory that there is light inside of the cell, but I had a hard time accepting the findings and data of remote viewing. Toward the end of the book I would read a paragraph, and find myself dismissing what McTaggart was reporting, so I decided to try a strategy. Obviously we all bring our beliefs, perceptions, and biases to the table when we read or try to understand something (as we discussed in class) so toward the end of the book I really tried to counter my preconceived perceptions head on. I spent more time with the last chapters of the book because I would read the words slower, with a sincere attempt at open mindedness, in going back, I was able to come to an understanding of what was being reported. Certainly no one in the class is going to agree and accept everything in The Field, but the book has helped me to “hear out” the radical, and has been a four week long challenge, in which I feel I have grown and learned how to truly listen and ponder on an idea or belief different than my own.