According to most spiritual traditions, the path to enlightenment is a slow and tortuous one, only arrived at after years of contemplation, deprivation, or mental and physical discipline.
A number of new organizations, such as the Oneness Foundation, purport to teach people a special meditative and psychological process that will speed up this process, specifically by rewiring the brain.
But is there any evidence that a simple mental discipline is powerful enough to to eliminate mankind’s fund…
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Added by Lynne McTaggart on July 17, 2008 at 5:51pm —
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Yesterday, I had an extraordinary meeting with Anurag Gupta, a young man with great aspirations to create global transformation, largely by changing the way businesses work. He has worked with many companies as a management consultant, and in virtually every instance, he finds that when they set a company mission statement of higher purpose, abundance follows.
I have seen the power of such a mission statement firsthand. Not long ago, I paid a visit to Clarus Transphase Scientific in Mari
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Added by Lynne McTaggart on June 27, 2008 at 2:10pm —
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Scientists and mathematicians were stunned the other day when a new crop circle appeared in a barley field in Wiltshire. When mathematicians analyzed it, they realized that the concentric shapes represented the coded image of a fundamental equation.
The 150-foot diameter image, found near Barbury Castle, an Iron Age fort, represented the…
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Added by Lynne McTaggart on June 19, 2008 at 3:49pm —
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Last week, a small item in the the British papers concerned a grandmother from North London who’d lain in a coma for six weeks – until she heard her baby granddaughter’s scream and abruptly opened her eyes.
Mrs Devbai Patel, the 56-year-old mother of four, from Neasden, north London, had sustained severe injuries to her brain, stomach and arm after a truck mounted the sidewalk near her home, and smashed into her before it hit a veterinary clinic. The driver had been killed instantly, and Devbai…
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Added by Lynne McTaggart on June 12, 2008 at 3:52pm —
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Last week I announced that we’d be setting up discussion groups centered around different “Field” topics. I enlisted your help in suggestions, and a number of you came back with some wonderful ideas.
Reggie suggested we set up a group called ‘Connecting with animals’. “A shaman once told me to listen very carefully to my whippet, Ollie. I do now and it is remarkable,” he wrote. “We have a beautifully re…
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Added by Lynne McTaggart on June 5, 2008 at 4:04pm —
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Most us who are interested in spirituality or the new science are beginning to redefine our world and what it means to be human. We now understand that we’ve grown up with the wrong scientific story - with a notion of ourselves as separate — lonely people in a lonely universe — and our world a static place of objects operating according to fixed laws in time and space.
We know we need a new way of ‘being’ — a blueprint for living in unity — but we don’t know where to begin. We don’t, in short,…
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Added by Lynne McTaggart on May 29, 2008 at 4:11pm —
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To Westerners, illness is an individual, isolated event. It is something that entirely and solely belongs to him.
The native American view of illness and healing, as with everything else in their world, rests upon the notion of relationship. They view their lives, as well as their states of health, as subjective and participatory, as part of other processes—past, present and future. A physical symptom is simply a metaphor for a spiritual illness—a manifestation of imbalance. An individual who i…
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Added by Lynne McTaggart on May 22, 2008 at 2:55pm —
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Stories abound of animals eating just the right things to heal themselves. After witnessing sick bears eating the roots of Ligusticum plants and getting better afterwards, North American Native Americans gave the plants a name which means ‘bear medicine’.
Most conventional scientists have disparaged anecdotes such as these, putting them down to myth—until recently. Animal behaviourists have discovered that animals appear to have a natural instinct, across species, for determining which plants ca…
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Added by Lynne McTaggart on May 8, 2008 at 5:45pm —
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More than 50 years ago, Dr. Franz Halberg of the University of Minnesota discovered that many biological processes appear to run according to an in-built clock. Later experiments showed him that living things respond to the same 24-hour rhythm, in tandem with the earth’s rotation.
Halberg also discovered that living things keep in time to many other periodic rhythms; half-weekly, weekly, monthly and yearly cycles govern virtually every biological function.
The human pulse and blood pressure, b…
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Added by Lynne McTaggart on May 1, 2008 at 1:37pm —
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I am fascinated by the idea that a variety of native cultures don’t promote remembering or conceptualization of experience. Without memory, they have no recollection of positive or negative past events to color new experience. In a sense, they see the world anew every single day.
Let’s consider this in light of science today. Scientiss have discovered that positive and negative emotions are registered in different sides of the brain. Richard Davidson, of the University of Wisconsin’s L
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Added by Lynne McTaggart on April 24, 2008 at 2:58pm —
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Change, when effected from the top of a society, happens at a snail’s pace. If change is to occur through government, there has to be political consensus between competing parties, a vote, legislation and passage. Socal issues are often overlooked or, worse, dealt with in a way that helps industry or the state by sacrificing the happiness of a local community. And consensus politics means compromise that can ignore the needs of many communities, or bowing to economic interests.
An alternative t…
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Added by Lynne McTaggart on April 10, 2008 at 4:30pm —
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In the brain, time does not exist. Extraordinary new evidence shows that the brain cannot distinguish between the recall of our own past (called ‘episodic memory’) and imagination of our future events. Indeed, the same areas of the brain are activated for both activities and are somehow intertwined.
The first clue to this came when researchers at University College London discovered that people with memory problems also have difficulties in imagining their future in any detail.
Patients suffer…
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Added by Lynne McTaggart on April 3, 2008 at 2:30pm —
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I’ve just returned from an Easter weekend in Paris (a perk of living in London), which was lovely as always, even amid four days of freezing cold and non-stop rain.
As you may have heard, all of Europe is experiencing prolonged awful weather. So it got me thinking about rain dancing and all of the traditional methods, used by many native cultures, to change the weather.
Some have worked during emergencies when all the modern technology at our disposal fails.
For instance, for three months in…
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Added by Lynne McTaggart on March 28, 2008 at 3:39pm —
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The most powerful thought in the world is the thought of the work you were born to do.
However, most of us lead compartmentalized lives. We have our passions—and then we have our work. And all too often, they don’t coincide. For many of us, work is something we do in between the important and spiritual highlights of our life—a simple means of paying the bills.
In many instances, our material and spiritual lives clash; we have moral concerns about the manner in which our company conducts busine…
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Added by Lynne McTaggart on March 20, 2008 at 4:32pm —
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Have we all lived other lives before, or are we just tuning into someone else’s life by accident? And why are there so many extraordinary and compelling stories of people — usually very young children — who seemingly remember details of a past life?
To my mind, it’s useful to understand reincarnation as an extraordinary Field experience. The Zero Point Field is a quantum field containing in, a sense, the history of everything that ever was.
Children may be accidentally picking up someone else’…
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Added by Lynne McTaggart on March 13, 2008 at 3:50pm —
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I was astonished some months ago to read a newspaper article quoting some mothers saying that they would be inconsolable if their biological children predeceased them, but not if the same happened to their adopted children. They were quite adamant in their assertion that their love for their adoptive children was different— somehow ‘other’ than — genuine maternal love. In effect, they were saying, it was not as elemental or pure as biological love. It was a strange and imperfect graft, that had…
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Added by Lynne McTaggart on March 7, 2008 at 4:00pm —
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I am endlessly fascinated by extreme weather – not because I’m a fan of wild and wooly weather, but because atmospheric conditions have a profound effect on our ability to access The Field.
Consider the Santa Ana winds in California. During each season of the winds, inhabitants complain of insomnia, migraine attacks, nausea and vomiting, anxiety and tension—even diminished or dimness of vision.
Tempers flare, nerves are frayed, hospital admissions swell, suicide numbers skyrocket. Even the psy…
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Added by Lynne McTaggart on February 26, 2008 at 4:21pm —
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This week I had the privilege of attending a small gathering with Acharya Sri Ananda Giri. He is is one of the close disciples of Sri Kalki, of the Global Oneness Commitment, an organization committed to spreading the sense of oneness
consciousness around the world through the Deeksha blessing.
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Added by Lynne McTaggart on February 21, 2008 at 5:30pm —
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Happy Valentine’s Day. In honor of this day of love, I thought I’d meditate about relationship, and exactly how we relate to others.
We know from science, particularly the ‘Love Study’, which I wrote about in The Intention Experiment, that when you send an intention to your love one, you both begin a process of ‘entrainment’.
Entrainment is a term in physics which means that two oscillating systems fall into synchrony. You can see a perfect example of this if you have two clocks with pendulums…
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Added by Lynne McTaggart on February 14, 2008 at 6:07pm —
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Recently, I was watching the reaction of Simon Cowell, the UK pop music mogul behind America’s and UK’s X Factor, to a young kid, who’d just got through the first round of auditions and was overcome with emotion. Both his fellow judges were whooping it up, obviously enjoying the young man’s moment almost as much as he was, but Cowell was sat stoically, without no hint of expression. An interviewer who’d observed his reaction, inquired later, “Aren’t you happy for him?”
Cowell replied, w…
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Added by Lynne McTaggart on February 7, 2008 at 5:15pm —
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