The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe - Hardcover

Lynne McTaggart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006019300X ISBN 13: 9780060193003

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2002

Synopsis

Reveals that the human body is surrounded by a field of electromagnetic energy that profoundly influences physical and mental health, identifying a link between humanity and the cosmos while investigating areas of alternative medicine.

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About the Author

Lynne McTaggart is an American award-winning investigative journalist whose books include The Baby Brokers: The Marketing of White Babies in America and Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times. In the mideighties she moved to England and founded a newsletter, What Doctors Don't Tell You, which today is now the top newsletter in Britain and considered one of the best newsletters in the United States as well. What Doctors Don't Tell You was published as a book by Avon in 1999 and has been translated into six languages.

Reviews

McTaggart, an investigative journalist (What Doctors Don't Tell You), describes scientific discoveries that she believes point to a unifying concept of the universe, one that reconciles mind with matter, classic Newtonian science with quantum physics and, most importantly, science with religion. At issue is the zero point field, the so-called "dead space" of microscopic vibrations in outer space as well as within and between physical objects on earth. These fields, McTaggart asserts, are a "cobweb of energy exchange" that link everything in the universe; they control everything from cellular communication to the workings of the mind, and they could be harnessed for unlimited propulsion fuel, levitation, ESP, spiritual healing and more. Physicists have been aware of the likelihood of this field for years, McTaggart writes, but, constrained by orthodoxy, they have ignored its effects, which she likens to "subtracting out God" from their equations. But, McTaggart asserts, "tiny pockets of quiet rebellion" against scientific convention are emerging, led by Ed Mitchell, an Apollo 14 astronaut and founder of the Institute for Noetic Sciences, an alternative-science think tank. McTaggart writes well and tells a good story, but the supporting data here is somewhat sketchy. Until it materializes, McTaggart may have to settle for being a voice in the wilderness.
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Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006019300X
• ISBN 13: 9780060193003
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268