I wish it worked, but it doesn't!
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Having followed these sorts of books for over 10 years and tried to put them into practice, I am somewhat wise to how they are actually just a load of lies and don't work in reality. This book offers some half baked so-called scientific ideas to back up what is probably a commercial conspiracy but they have no bearing in reality. I would sincerely doubt the authenticity of the so-called "evidence" behind this book. The proof is in the practice, and I can vouch that it doesn't work!
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The Real Deal
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Lynne McTaggart is an award-winning journalist and a best-selling author of "The Field". Although not a trained scientist, she has an uncanny ability to bring complex quantum theory to a practical language that makes sense. "The Intention Experiment" expands on the concepts of purposeful consciousness she introduced in her previous book. Unlike other works that simply offer "New Age" fluff to entice a public hungry for hope, "The Intention Experiment" grounds the contention that thoughts have an innate power to affect living organisms on impeccable double-blind studies conducted by eminent scientists. The ability to change the rate of growth in cancer cells by guided imagery, the effects of distant prayer on t cell count of HIV+ patients, and how blessed water can change its molecular structure, are only a few of the fascinating topics McTaggart covers in her book. Readers can learn about the power of mind-body without having to question the legitimacy of her sources.
"The Intention Experiment" is one of the best books in the genre of what is known as "intention science".
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hard pushed to find something different
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I wanted to read something different, I wanted to have something that would inspire me even more, but it did not. All what I have gained from some of the better books on cosmic ordering are way over what this has given me. Hailed as something new, I was hard pushed to find something different. A lot of conjecture that cannot be disproved, but I was still drawn to the way it put things across. I think if this wasn't based on another New Age science then I might have went for it in a big way.
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Safety. Permission. Freedom.
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We all know positive thinking works and anyone who has worked with people or animals that telepathy works.
We definitely co-operate at the mind thought level as well as the 5 sense level, i.e. our more outwardly obvious communications.
As a Bio healer, manager, father and engineer many questions pop into my head regarding thought power.
The key one is permission and do we or I or anyone have the right to change other people's lives invisibly through the power of thought. I THINK FOR SURE NO. As a Bio Energy healer the first thing we learn is the need for permission. As a doctor, the same permission issue arises. Here it needs to be written.
As a manager we work if to avoid the charge of being bossy, with permission and co-operation. It is called `y' management.
What concerns me greatly about the power of intent, is that it should be used primarily on oneself, without materially changing others lives invisibly, without their agreement and their knowledge.
To change others lives is known as Sorcery. It is also highly illegal and turns people into puppets.
So be careful who's strings you pull!!
I would prefer intent power came back to what is simply called positive thinking, the ability to determine ones own doings and to achieve one's own objectives without invisibly affecting others. That we live by the visible labels we project rather than some invisible power.
I have promoted Lynn's first book on my web site; www.cleanhealing.com but I have some concern re promoting the use of the power of prayer to save our planet. For I think it is an illegal power. Having said that, the use of prayer to think positive thoughts and to brainstorm ones views on what is happening around or inside oneself is very OK It is also a useful way of gathering together ones objectives and plans, such that one actions what one wants to action..
But with the above in mind I am sure you will enjoy her book and I would also recommend her work on questioning various healing methods available to us humans, via her other publications, WDDTY What Doctors Don't Tell You.
Happy reading.
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review of the book for Feng Shui News
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"The Intention Experiment is no ordinary book, and you are no ordinary reader" so begins Lynn McTaggart in her latest book. If you have read her previous book The Field you will probably enjoy this one too. This book expands on one of the topics she briefly mentioned in The Field: intention. Although feng shui itself is not mentioned in this book, everything you will read there has a strong relevance to it - that's why I decided to review it. If you're a student of `exoteric' studies nothing in this book will surprise you though - it's just the science is catching up with the old time perennial wisdom.
"FENG SHUI = INTENTION + RELATIONSHIP + RITUAL" is one of my own simple formulas that I use when teaching feng shui. This book delves well into the structure of those three aspects. And if feng shui means being at the right place and the right time (and doing the right things) chapter two will give you more information on how to use time and place more accurately. Although some of the suggestions on timing might be impractical for most feng shui consultations (see point 8 below), other suggestions are very doable and even desirable as a feng shui standard.
The key message of the book for me is the classical feng shui adage: "THE FUNCTION OF FENG SHUI IS THE CONSULTANT." - the `RELATIONSHIP' part of the above formula. If you have practiced feng shui for a long time as I do, you will know that the more you develop yourself the more successful your feng shui becomes; and this thought can only become a self-fulfilling prophesy because "The Intention Experiment rests on an outlandish premise: thought affects physical reality."
The book is also an invitation to worldwide experiments that you can participate in with a conference in March 2007 (see more on [...]). Plus she quotes some interesting research on experiments designed to affect past events (Praying for yesterday), her own voodoo experiences (The Voodoo Effect) i.e. negative thoughts are stronger than the positive ones, and compassion with techniques such as Tonglen and work by Konstantin Korotkov, a pioneer researcher on measuring life force/chi/auras.
She also mentions research on HeartMath, heart coherence and heart rate variability (HRV). HRV is the hottest topic in medicine now because total health can be predicted using this test. The more different frequencies you can hold in your heart at one time the healthier you are - this is called fractality in heart rate variability. When heart harmonic becomes fractal you get total immune health. (I have a neuro-feedback machine called a Heart-BlissTuner, which can do just that - contact me if you want to have a go - [...] - it was designed by Dan Winter who's work regrettably is not mentioned in the book - check [...]).
So should you buy this book? The Intention Experiment is a bit sensationalist and journalistic. I`m not sure how the hard-core scientists will look at it. On one thing though I'm quite sure: there will be more evidence in the future on how intention works, because it does. If you don't like reading scientific research, go to the end of the book and read the summery of the whole process (see below the key points) which will give you a good idea how to set up a good intention. I you like to back up some of your own feng shui claims with scientific data and statistics, I think this book is worth buying.
INTENTION PROGRAMME from The Intention Experiment by Lynne McTaggart
1. Enter your intention space.
2. Power up through meditation.
3. Move into peak focus through mindful awareness of the present.
4. Get into the same wavelength by focusing on compassion and making a meaningful connection.
5. State your intention and make it specific.
6. Mentally rehearse every moment of it with all your senses.
7. Visualize, in vivid detail, your intention as established fact (in present tense as if it already happened).
8. Time it right - check what the sun is doing, and send intentions on days when you feel happy and well in every way. It's the best to use intention during 1pm local sidereal time (check the web to compute local sidereal time
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The evidence suggests that mind-over-matter intention (that is psychokinesis) works best at points of increased geomagnetic activity. [...]
9. Move aside - surrender to the power of the universe and let go of the outcome.
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