I have heard from several people how difficult this book is to read. To me, it is almost pure pain. Don't get me wrong, I love the subject material, but I cannot wrap my head around it because of the way it is written. As a former science/engineering major, I am used to topics like these being written in textbooks and view about half of what McTaggart is saying as a waste of space. After discussing the readings with a couple of my classmates, I became convinced of my feelings. After being given explainations about the readings, it made more sense to me. I could actually understand what McTaggart was trying to say.

In Chapter 6, McTaggart suggests that it is possible to make things happen just by thinking them. In fact, theres a 54% chance of that. This got me thinking about how many times it has happened to me. I spent a good couple hours the other day just thinking "I hate this book...I can't read this book...I have NO idea what she is saying." And guess what? I had a miserable, unsucessful two hours. This seems to happen a lot to me; I become conviced that something won't happen and it doesn't. This happens less often when I try to make something good happen. I began to wonder if most of that 54% is the bad things that people are so conviced will happen. This may be because, at least for me, I tend to have stronger pessamistic feelings. But either way, it shows that there is some sort of "Field" that has a direct connection to our brains. The strong thoughts in our brains must transfer over to somewhere else and have a direct effect on the world around us.

McTaggart also suggests that the brain doesn't actually store memory; it is just a receptor of sorts. This makes a lot of sense when you relate it to what I said in the last paragraph. Information comes into our brains and leaves it contantly. If we have strong thoughts or feelings, they stay with us for a while, but then leave. Where do they go, and do they have an effect on that place? If there is a 54% chance that thinking about an event will make it happen, then it seems obvious that these thoughts are not confined to our brains. Our thoughts travel out into the "Field" and then back into our lives.