Blog 4...Soviets, Poltergeists, and Violets

Finally, McTaggart got to the point that she has been skirting the entire book!

Leave it to the Soviets to study parapsychology. Early on they also did work on poltergeist activity, such as the possibility of using one as a spy or even a weapon. What they found was that poltergeists are too unreliable and don't listen well.

On page 185, I have to note that I bought an African Violet just before a very depressing time in my life. Needless to say despite me neglecting to properly water it (apparently it had two containers, one was so close to the other you couldn't even tell they were different; so I'd pour water into a larger pot that I had placed it in and for some reason the soil never seemed to get wet...) and despite the fact that it is sitting in a window that has too much sunlight, the thing has grown enormous and keeps flowering.

A depressed Germany had caused the rise of Adolf Hitler? To me there is nothing "paranormal" about that, when people in a nation are going through a bad time they often find a leader who presents his or herself as having the most promise. It's easier to lead people on when they are going through a bad time; even an entire nation of people. When a wheelbarrow of marks was what was needed to buy bread, the German people would have sided with anyone who had shown promise. It just so happened that the Allies blaming them for the First World War had caused them to be extremely Nationalist that they didn't side with somebody who was of a sounder mind.

As my final conclusion about The Field, I wish that McTaggart hadn't written the last three chapters. To me the book was powerful as a stand alone without stating the obvious. In some ways I question whether or not the chapter on healing has the potential to create false hope. Maybe it is because I have run out of fingers to count the number of funerals for family members I've been to, maybe it is because I'm the 2nd oldest generation of my family, and just maybe it is because genetics have damned me to get cancer regardless of if I smoke or not; I don't trust much of what was said about healing using the Zero Point Field. I've had enough close calls and enough things happen to me that I am definitely not an atheist, but I have come to accept fate.

...I am convinced somebody near me in the library is depressed. I was in a good mood when I left my house...