blog four

The end of The Field opens up a (literal) world of new beginnings and advantages in our lives as we know them. The final chapters of this book have revealed to us a new understanding that we have abilities beyond our traditional expectations. I have been awakened by the information presented by McTaggart and see certain aspects of life differently than before my encounter with The Field and all its possibilities.

Chapter ten dealt with the Field's healing options, which I thought were fascinating (not so much that they exist but that they were able to be--to some degree--proven to exist and measured). I wholeheartedly agree that the studies pertaining to the Field and collective consciousness support the existence of God or a life force. Though I did think that the nature of the experiments with the AIDS patients were inhumane on some level (the fact that one group of patients had more "treatment" than others--this is a life or death situation and it would have been great to be in the group treated by the healers but mortally tragic to be in the other group), I do see how experiments like this are necessary in order to benefit human kind as a whole. Though I am Roman Catholic, I have always believed that all religions are essentially the same and that we just label things differently and our ceremonies differ based, typically, on culture, so it was unsurprising (to me) that the denomination of the healers didn't matter; only that they were calling on a greater force to aid the subjects of their intentions.

Chapter eleven provided profound insight into the idea of a collective conscious, especially where TM was concerned. However, I am still at a loss as to how this is all measured. If the same machines are used to measure local interest (meetings, social gatherings, sacred sites, etc.) as world interest (Princess Diana's death, the September 11th tragedy), how can it be concluded that any particular event is causing the data to deviate from the expected average? For example, if I had a REG machine in my pocket on the day of September 11, 2001 and I was unaware of the events, does this mean that my REG wouldn't read anything? What if I had been with family that week, mourning a loss of a relative (separate from the events of the American tragedy) and my REG was responding to that, would there be a change in my REG measurements on the day of the tragedy? How did the experimenters know that the REGs were recording the HIs and LOs from the Academy Awards and that their machines hadn't picked up frequencies from a nearby church service or another worldwide event that was going on simultaneously but secretly or outside the awareness of the researchers? Though this chapter helped to solidify the notion and apparent power of a collective conscious, it still left me with a lot of questions.

Finally, the twelfth chapter wrapped up the research and the gist of the book, citing that the pioneers who had once believed in traditional scientific tenants were now converts to a more modern science that included the Zero Point Field. It is because of this field that they were all able to discover what they did and begin to apply their victories to the propulsion of mankind and his abilities. The Field concludes with inspirational assertions that the universe is within our control if we'll only open ourselves to the power of the interconnected Zero Point Field.