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Ever wondered if your intentions, prayers or wishes have a real, calculable effect on the world? Here, from Lynne McTaggart, groundbreaking author of 'The Field', comes riveting accounts of scientific investigations and real case histories with evidence that we are all connected and our intentions can be harnessed as a collective force for good. For the last 40 years renegade scientists, experimenting with the limits of quantum physics, have made seemingly impossible discoveries. 1966: a lie-detector expert accidentally discovers that plants can read thoughts. 1982: meditating Buddhist monks in the Himalayas turn their bodies into a human furnace. 1994: a psychologist's experiments reveal a stream of light flowing from healers during healing. These events form part of an extraordinary scientific story and revolutionary discovery - that thought is a thing that affects other things. In The Intention Experiment, Lynne McTaggart, author of the international bestseller The Field, joins forces with a team of international, renowned scientists to test the effects of focused group intention on scientifically quantifiable targets - animal, plant and human. The Intention Experiment is a truly revolutionary book that invites you, the reader, to take part in the greatest intention experiment in history. The results of McTaggart's 'global laboratory' started with the focused intention that made a geranium leaf glow to evidence to show that group intention is powerful enough to affect targets more than 5000 miles away and may even affect global warming. These remarkable results prove human thought and intention has the power to focus our lives, heal our illnesses, clean up our communities and improve the planet. This book also shows you how to harness that power to make changes in your own life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15054 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Review
Previous praise for The Field: "This important book!makes a good case that we are on the verge of another revolution in our understanding of the universe-perhaps even greater than the one that heralded the Atomic Age." Arthur C. Clarke "Fascinating, provocative, and highly readable...One of the most thought-provoking reads of [the year]." The Ecologist

About the Author
Lynne McTaggart is author of 'The Field' and 'What Doctors Don't Tell You' and is founder of the successful newsletter of that name. She is well known to the media and a popular lecturer, bridging the alternative health and mind, body, spirit camps. Her Living the Field conferences have attracted thousands.

Customer Reviews

The Real Deal
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".

A Bible on The Science of Intention
As a qualified life coach, with a special interest in miracles, manifestation and abundance, I have read well over 30 publications on the subject. Lynne's is by far the most detailed, interesting and useful. More and more scientific evidence is emerging to support the view that we have far, far more control over our life circumstances, than we could ever think possible. Via her international network of scientists, Lynne has fully researched the world of intention and together with the splendid events and publications produced by her organisation: 'Living the Field', she will, in my opinion, go down in history as the pioneer of organised and effective group intention.

Read this masterpiece and it will change your paradigm forever.

review of the book for Feng Shui News
"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.