Blog 4

We’ve reached the end of The Field and although at times I found it very hard to understand, overall I enjoyed the challenge of reading the book. Since I am someone who needs proof to believe in something my interest in the book peaked in the second half of the book.
I found Elisabeth Targ’s experiments with prayer and healing in chapter ten to be very inspiring. I’m not really a spiritual person, but after examining the results of Targ’s experiments with AIDS patients it’s hard not to believe in the power of prayer. No matter what the religion, the positive thoughts and prayers from the healers seemed to have an overwhelmingly good effect on the terminal AIDS patients and now I know why people believe in the power of prayer so much. The idea that, the intention of the healer maybe as important as their medicine actually scares me when I think about getting sick and going to see a doctor. Obviously every time a doctor sees a patient their head may not be in the game. I feel as if now I have something else to worry about when I go to the doctor’s office. Although, it is refreshing to know that if a doctor really believes in and cares about what there doing they may have an even better affect on you.
In chapter eleven when Roger Nelson took his PalmREG into the pyramids to see how the machine would react to a sacred site it reminded me of something right out of a Ghostbusters movie. It does make sense that these places would be giving off some sort of energy considering all the people who have been through them trying to gain some spiritual connection. When Nelson had different readings in the Great Pyramid of Khufu (positive trend in the Queen’s Chamber and a negative trend in the King’s Chamber) it made me wonder if this had any connection to experiments earlier in The Field when men and women had different outcomes in REG experiments. I used to think that those mass gatherings where people would meditate for peace were more for the benefit of the people praying, but after seeing how the crime rates dropped in cities where more people practiced TM, I realize that there must be some truth to it.
Chapter twelve did a good job in tying all the key players together in The Field. In my earlier blogs I discussed how some in the mainstream scientific community tried to discount many of the amazing discoveries listed in this book. After reading how many of these scientists came together in the UK to discuss space travel it gives me hope that their ideas will be given more validity in the coming years. It seems that science and religion are coming closer together each time these pioneers in there field’s make another discovery. Hopefully in the future men like Edgar Mitchell won’t have to lecture about adventures in space just to fund their true passion of research into the unknown.