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

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This important book stretches the imagination. We are on the verge of another revolution in our understanding of the universe. - Arthur C. Clarke And what could be more real, than stepping into that reality, into your power, in its full breadth and scope?

What is the Zero Point Field? Even after reading this book, I’m not sure I can really explain it. In quantum physics, all microscopic objects vibrate because of quantum fluctuations. The energy created by these constant fluctuations of electromagnetic waves is the Zero Point Field. The ZPF is, in theory, the source of all energy and matter. All beings (consciousness) are connected to and in communication with one another through this field; our intention focuses this energy and creates the world around us. The act of observation is literally a creative act; our intention creates our reality. (Which, honestly, isn’t all that different from how I would define poetry, or any other genre of art.) De twee bovenstaande alinea's zijn misschien een beetje een dubbeling met de achterflap voor jullie, maar dit stukje is mijn review en die achterflap klopt dus heel erg goed :) It explains that everything is connected by the Zero Point Field (ZPF), a sea of energy that reconciles mind with matter, classic science with quantum physics, and science with religion. I always try not to write anything bad about any book unless I have to (when I say "I have to" I mean on those really really pointless books), but I didn't find anything in this book.

Err, no. The first big mistake that McTaggart makes, is not treating the Zero Point Field as an hypothesis at all. Instead of testing the Zero Point Field hypothesis, her approach is rather different: looking up scientific research in which results turned up that can’t be fully explained or simply haven’t yet, and then saying something among the lines of: “Well, look here! Those results (or gaps/discrepancies) can be explained completely and utterly by the existence of the Zero Point Field, because… [followed by explanations concerning the current topic]”. And because the Zero Point Field is the supposed perfect answer, it exists. That is the crux of McTaggart’s reasoning, and there’s definitely something terribly wrong with that, even from a non-scientific point of view.

Bohr und Werner Heisenberg erklärten aufgrund von Experimenten, ein Elektron sei keine definierte Einheit, sondern existiere als ein Potenzial, als Summe aller Möglichkeiten, bis wir es beobachten oder messen, wodurch es sich auf einen bestimmten Zustand festlegt. W Knyga liūdna, ilgesinga, nostalgiška, o autoriaus lakoniškas stilius toks paprastas, bet pilnas jausmo ir lengvumo. The Field is the sixth novel by the Austrian author and actor Robert Seethaler. He resides in Berlin and Vienna. l got introduced to this beautiful book by Pedro's glowing review:

The Field has inspired thousands of people from various walks of life, including religious leaders, physicists, healers and, most important of all, those who have been seeking scientific evidence for their innate sense that they are not separate, and that they do not live in isolation from others and the earth. Dakle, u pitanju je 29 priča koje pričaju mrtvi. Polje je groblje jednog malog austrijskog grada Paulštata, te tih 29 glasova govore o svojim danima provedenim u tom gradiću. Baš kako se i očekuje, oni pričaju po neku epizodu iz svog života, a kroz celu knjigu saznajemo koliko su zapravo njihovi životi isprepletani ne samo između sebe, već i utkani u sam grad Paulštat. Svaka priča ima drugačiji narativni tok, što samo pokazuje koliko je Zetaler zapravo sjajan pisac jer može na toliko načina da prenese emocije. Tėvo žingsniai prieškambaryje. Motinos kailinės kepurės kvapas. Gydytojas. Naktinių seselių balsai. Geležinkelis. Mūsų pirštai šleikščiai švelniuose minkštų kino salės kėdžių tarpuose. Kelionės autobusu. Tamsūs žiemos vakarai. Ant virtuvės grindų palietas pienas. Kryčiai. Žaizdos. Randai. Jos rankos. Jos pėdos. Jos kakta. Šiukšlių konteineryje dėžė su kaladėlėmis. Sausainiai. Obuoliai. Sumuštinis. Trylika taurių, ir dar negana. Negyvi paukščiai prie laukujų durų. Ant palangės gaištanti vapsva it dūzgiantis vilkelis. Muzika iš tolo. Mirtis ateina kaip vėjas. Pasiima tave. Ir nusineša. Maar lukt het hem ook, deze eenzatige Harry Stevens? Een gedachten ten einde te denken, de doden te verstaan en uit hun lessen te leren? En kunnen kunnen ervaringen misschien zijn eigen sterfelijkheid verlichten (denk aan de lessen voor de stervenden in Het Tibetaans Dodenboek, een - oorspronkelijk Tibetaans boeddhistisch - cultboek voor de hippies uit de vorige eeuw).

The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (2007) ISBN 0-00-719458-7

The Queen’s Green Canopy

It is kind of like that and also not like that at all. The voices speak their stories into the readers' hearts. Just beautiful. Robert Seethaler does not make you look at gravestones and read inscriptions and ponder from the outside what the people might have been like. You get to listen and learn from them (how their lives were). Maar net zo beangstigend is het idee dat er na de dood niets meer is. Geen hiernamaals, geen bewustzijn.

Circa dertig Paulstadters van vroeger en ‘nu’ vertellen ons - en Harry Stevens misschien - hun verhaal; het verhaal van hun leven, soms van hun sterven en van dood en hoe ze die hebben ervaren. Prachtige stukjes van menselijk karakter van levensfilsofieën, met een paar lijnen geschetst, bijna als een karikatuur, maar fijnzinniger, menselijker, ontroerender, wranger. Een staaltje van tekenkunst! This book is ridiculously fascinating. And wonderfully heady. And very, very difficult to grok. What you may or may not know about me: I am enchanted (albeit still utterly mystified) by quantum mechanics. If Peter Vollhardt, my Organic Chemistry professor at UC Berkeley in 1989, had somehow managed to explain quantum mechanics a little more clearly at the time, the course of my life may very well have been different. I might be working in a weird little lab somewhere, investigating the Zero Point Field, which is what Lynne McTaggart explores in The Field. In her book The Field, McTaggart asserts that the universe is unified by an interactive field. The book has been translated into fourteen languages. [4] a b Mark Henderson (30 October 2004). "Junk medicine: Anti-vaccine activists". The Times. London . Retrieved 17 December 2009. At first glance, the fact that physical matter reality can be affected by nonphysical matter might seem outlandish, even crazy, except this notion has been studied extensively and with surgical precision for quite some time.McTaggart has a personal-development program called "Living The Field" which is based on an idiosyncratic interpretation of the zero point field as applied to quantum mechanics. She appears in the extended version of the movie What the Bleep Do We Know!?, [8] (2004). The importance of these studies cannot be overstated. In McTaggart’s own words, the implications from these consciousness studies: It will remain remarkable, in what every way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of our external world led to the scientific conclusion that the content of the consciousness is the ultimate universal reality.”4 Het laatste hoofdstuk is natuurlijk voor Harry Stevens: ‘Als levende nadenken over de dood. Als dode over het leven praten [...] Twee zaken die niets van elkaar begrijpen. Vermoedens zijn er wel. En herinneringen. Ze kunnen allebei bedrieglijk zijn.’ (ib.: 233)