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

Aside from the excellence of her bringing these findings together in readable language... Lynne also keeps her balance as your mind as a reader gets blown away by the fact of homeopathy over the internet, distance healing, that going back to heal yourself or someone before an illness starts and the now theoretically explained and possible wonders of anti-inertia travel, everyday levitation etc.

She also keeps her balance as the experiments she describe make it clear that perception creates reality. Change your perception and you change the reality (not just the way you think about it).She is delicate not to rub in the awesome truth that therefore we each have total responsibility over the reality that we create through our conscious and unconscious use of thought every moment of our lives. Something I need to remain aware of more of the time.

In reading this now, most of what I have seen and witnessed in the last 40 or more years has been squarely pushed back in my face. Among other things, unprompted by me, my six year old son has described auras since he was four and has completely accurate bouts of ESP. So my question is, surely we cannot educate our children as if we do not know all of what is described in this book, when they so clearly experience it first hand, day in day out. We cannot go on talking about chopped up reality as if we do not understand and have not experienced deeper out of time space interconnectivity. Think of the implications for how we describe and teach about all the physical, biological and human created systems? (One of my distant educational backgrounds being traditional Oxford neoruphysiology). This is what is currently blowing my mind, especially when I see how these things are still being taught in many schools. Can I extend my son's understanding and knowledge of reality in a way that he can pass intellectual exams if need be, but which also honors and builds on what he already so clearly knows. The same udnerstandings which so clearly had become a proven known part of the collective scientific human psyche (mainstrean publications or not) in the years before his birth. (and which have been seen/known in many different ways in different cultures for thousands of years).

My only query on this exceptional and very important book is why the last chapter is written in the past perfect ('had') instead of present or present perfect ( at least'have'). I personally read the book as gathering together my past experiences, insights, knowledge,, deeply affecting my present and that it must seriously and deeply inform my future from this moment on. In writing in the past perfect, it was almost as if the author wanted to seal off the findings herself. But they are here, present, they ARE the reality... these scientists have ensured that.. as has your writing them up.

In my much humbled view, I am the one who needs to change fast, instantaneously for that matter, if I am going to be of any help to my children rather than a useless conditioned dinosaur stuck in some out of date corner of time and space.... with appallingly unnecessary destructive habits. This book is a profound gift for any of us who have a need to transform fast so that we may be able to resonate a little better with those, probably your children too, who are already light years on.


Collates evidence for what we all intuitively know.   October 29, 2001
28 out of 32 found this review helpful

Lynne Mctaggart has excelled herself with The Field. It must have been a most difficult book to write; wrestling with scientific evidence while attempting to translate academic jargon into verbage suitable for Joe Public. The Field presents understandable evidence which now explains the previously 'un-understandable' in the world of metaphysics.
Not a book for the faint-hearted but wonderful if you persevere and like me, take time to read slowly.
Well done, Lynne!


An amazing book to question your view of reality   March 28, 2006
38 out of 44 found this review helpful

Firstly let me say that I am not someone who accepts or believes anything blindly and would not consider myself a gullible new age person yet this book has had a huge impact on my beliefs about the world and even the universe, confirming in some instances many things I had read elsewhere and dovetailing too perfectly them to be mere coincidence (Zen, Fuzzy Thinking, spiritual healing, Taoism)
In a nutshell this book confirms (as crazy as this may sound to many) that our minds are not separate from matter but have a direct connection and influence on matter. The book provides an incredibly convincing case for this through the presentation of countless rigidly controlled experiments carried out by many reputable scientists.

These scientists have discovered through the relatively new branch of science of quantum physics many things which eastern philososophies have been saying for thousands of centuries about duelism: Mind and matter are not seperate but are one and the same.

I was particularly immpressed with the way everything is backed up by detailed descriptions of the way the experiments were conducted (though some of the scientific terminology can be a little daunting at times) leaving little room for counter arguments. I don't doubt there would be many scientists who would dispute the results of these experiments because they do not fit into their own classical view of the universe and are a threat to it but this is nothing new in science where thinking outside the Newtonian box is frowned upon and considered heresy. So please do not be put off by the negative comments a few reviewers have given (I don't understand how they can ignore the controlled experiments)
There were many things in this book which amazed me especially the chapter on the nature of Time. Also the information about how scientist have discovered that as soon as you try to analyse or observe the very smallest elements of matter, it immediately takes on a new form. It's as though observation sets our world in stone. The startling implications of this are that our perception creates reality.
I am trying to get everyone who will listen to me to read this book it is a fantastic book. If you are interested in this book I would also reccommend: "The Tao of Physics", "The Holographic Universe", "The Hidden Messages in Water" and "Fuzzy Thinking"


A fascinating synthesis of science and religion   November 3, 2001
31 out of 36 found this review helpful

This is the most exciting book I've read in a long time. It brings together in-depth scientific investigation into phenomena related to quantum physics with psychic and healing experiences. Now when someone looks sceptical when I talk about 'energy' I shall refer them to this book for an explanation. The scientific bits are fairly hard going - and all praise to Lynne McTaggart for getting her head around them - but stick with it and you will be amply rewarded.


Fascinating fusion between Science and Spirituality   January 30, 2006
H. R. Trigg (Swindon, Wilts United Kingdom)
27 out of 32 found this review helpful

This is a stunning and thought-provoking book, which cleverly compiles results from ‘paranormal’ experiments. We’re not talking ghosts and ghouls, we’re talking about mind experiments, the zero point field, homeopathy, remote viewing etc. And the results all point towards the ‘new’ science, Quantum Physics, the science of ‘possibility’ being a viable and correct science. This book is not designed to dispel the ‘faith’ system but simply brings science and spirituality that much closer. I have studied the Kabbalah for 3 years and the similarities are fascinating, and no doubt similar of most spiritual thoughts. This book is well written, and easy to understand for the layman. It’s an excellent introduction to the world of Quantum mechanics (and if you enjoy it, then you should watch ‘What the bleep do we know’ ) and there are a few processes that I have personally put into action (we are simply talking about ‘thought’) which appear to have worked! It’s simple, we create our own destiny, and we are able to create our own path. Fascinating…