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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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September 12, 2004: Intent and The Field - Lynne McTaggart

Sep 12, 2004
2h 53m
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Art Bell opens with updates on Hurricane Ivan, now at Category 5 strength with 160-mile-per-hour winds bearing down on the Cayman Islands. He covers the mysterious North Korean explosion that left a satellite-visible crater, insurgent attacks in central Baghdad, and a SETI signal detected from a thousand light years away that scientists cannot yet explain. A Florida businessman announces plans to dump thousands of pounds of absorbent powder from a 747 into Ivan to weaken the storm.

Lynne McTaggart, author of The Field, joins from London to discuss the zero point field, an enormous energy present in the space between all matter that physicists have historically subtracted from their equations. She explains how quantum non-locality and the observer effect suggest that human consciousness acts as an ordering force on indeterminate matter, essentially setting reality like unset jello. McTaggart cites Elmer Green's copper wall experiments, where healers' voltage output increased 100,000 times during intentional healing, emanating primarily from the abdomen.

The conversation explores the practical implications of intention science. McTaggart references Elizabeth Targ's studies showing that diverse healers, from Christian practitioners to Native American shamans, produced measurable healing effects on terminal patients regardless of religious framework. She discusses Princeton's Global Consciousness Project, the evidence for precognitive dreams before 9/11, and her plans to conduct large-scale intention experiments with noted scientists.

Key Moments

  1. Buddhist monks drying freezing wet blankets: McTaggart cites Harvard research on Buddhist monks who, wrapped in wet 40-degree blankets, can raise their body temperature through focused intention enough to dry the blankets within minutes.

  2. Healers altering hydrogen-oxygen bonds in water: McTaggart describes studies showing healers touching salt water can shift the hydrogen-oxygen bonds, decreasing molecular bonding, with similar Russian psychokinesis research finding intention measurably alters water structure.

  3. Why Russia leads in psi research: McTaggart and Art note Russian researchers, plus the University of Edinburgh, Princeton, and Freiburg, take psi seriously as legitimate science, while official US/UK programs lag behind despite the Stargate psychic spying program.

  4. Princeton GCP and 9/11 anomaly: McTaggart describes the Global Consciousness Project's random event generators registering a significant statistical shift before the first plane hit the World Trade Center, alongside earlier shifts during events like Princess Diana's death.

  5. Art admits trying to mass-direct hurricanes: Art confesses he stopped his on-air mass-intention experiments because manipulating hurricanes scared him; McTaggart agrees mass intention requires a small, controlled, scientifically targeted scope, like a single hospital, before tackling weather.