The Field: Validating The Supernatural Universe

[Riddick]

Science has recently begun to prove what ancient myth and religion have always espoused: There may be such a thing as a life force.

Authored by Lynne McTaggart, indefatigable investigative journalist, The Field is a highly readable scientific detective story offering a stunning picture of an interconnected universe and a new scientific theory that makes sense of supernatural phenomena.

A bit like finding there is such a thing as 'The Force' in Star Wars, The Field tells the story of respected frontier scientists all over the globe who have produced extraordinary evidence to show that an energy field - The Zero Point Field - connects everything in the universe, and we ourselves are part of this vast dynamic cobweb of energy exchange.

The Field also reveals a radical new biological paradigm - that on our most fundamental level, the human mind and body are not distinct and separate from their environment, but a packet of pulsating energy constantly interacting with this vast energy sea.

What Biology Tells Us

• The human being is a survival machine largely powered by chemicals and genetic coding.
  The brain is a discreet organ and the home of consciousness, which is also largely driven by chemistry – the communication of cells and the coding of DNA.
  Man is essentially isolated from his world, and his mind is isolated from his body.
  Time and space are finite, universal orders.
  Nothing travels faster than the speed of light.

What The Field Has Discovered

• The communication of the world does not occur in the visible realm of Newton, but in the subatomic world of Werner Heisenberg.
  Cells and DNA communicate through frequencies.
  The brain perceives and makes its own record of the world in pulsating waves.
  A substructure underpins the universe that is essentially a recording medium of everything, providing a means for everything to communicate with everything else.
  People are indivisible from their environment.
  Living consciousness is not an isolated entity. It increases order in the rest of the world.
  The consciousness of human beings has incredible powers, to heal ourselves, to heal the world – in a sense, to make it as we wish it to be.

LINK

Related: The Amazing Holographic Universe

[Doka]

Ah yes, here we are stuck in a 3D world, with what appears to be dwindling imaginations.

[LisaA]

Maybe the world is the way it is not because of other people screwing it up for us, but because we envision it this way collectively.

[Dale O Sea]

Interesting..could shed some light on dark matter/energy that theoretical physicists are now trying to figure out. Perhaps this is where Einstein should have been looking to complete his unified theory?

[Lore]

I just put this book on my Kindle. Should make some interesting reading.

[Fan]

I don't want to be rude about her book but this sounds like just another book in a series of new-age self-improvement type books. From the celestine prophecy to The Secret to The Field. They are just rehashing hindu and buddhist spirituality, but mixing it with science. This is Castaneda, Watts, Huxley type material. Not saying they are wrong, but it has been said before.

Yes, you control the universe with your mind. I think we all know this. You decide to build a deck, and voila! A deck gets built. It may get a little more subtle, but there is little difference. How you think affect what happens. Science doesn't know why, they can't explain it, and even if they could we could not understand it.

Take a bunch of LSD and you will realize what they are getting at. That is why it is so terribly illegal

[Dale O Sea]

The main article is dated 2006 too - last updated in 2010..could be relevant.

LSD works, as do certain mushrooms and other flora. With care and supervision it's arguably safer than drinking alcohol. Very enlightening - an ancient, proven practice or acquiring 'other-worldly' knowledge.

[Riddick]

For folks who like their science straight and scholarly sans any New Age hoo-ha, here's an article from the Calphysics Institute -

Zero Point Energy and Zero Point Field

Excerpts:

• Quantum mechanics predicts the existence of what are usually called ''zero-point'' energies for the strong, the weak and the electromagnetic interactions, where ''zero-point'' refers to the energy of the system at temperature T=0, or the lowest quantized energy level of a quantum mechanical system. Although the term ''zero-point energy'' applies to all three of these interactions in nature, customarily (and hereafter in this article) it is used in reference only to the electromagnetic case.
  ...
  Zero-point energy is the energy that remains when all other energy is removed from a system. This behaviour is demonstrated by, for example, liquid helium. As the temperature is lowered to absolute zero, helium remains a liquid, rather than freezing to a solid, owing to the irremovable zero-point energy of its atomic motions. (Increasing the pressure to 25 atmospheres will cause helium to freeze.)
  ...
  Quantum physics predicts that all of space must be filled with electromagnetic zero-point fluctuations (also called the zero-point field) creating a universal sea of zero-point energy. The density of this energy depends critically on where in frequency the zero-point fluctuations cease. Since space itself is thought to break up into a kind of quantum foam at a tiny distance scale called the Planck scale (10-33 cm), it is argued that the zero point fluctuations must cease at a corresponding Planck frequency (1043 Hz). If that is the case, the zero-point energy density would be 110 orders of magnitude greater than the radiant energy at the center of the Sun.
  ...
  According to relativity theory, energy is equivalent to mass as a source of gravity, thus zero-point energy should gravitate, which according to general relativity means producing a positive curvature in space-time. At first glance one might assume that if there is an enormous amount of zero-point energy underlying the universe, its effect would be to dramatically curve the universe to a minute size. Indeed, if the spectrum of zero-point energy extends to the Planck scale, its energy density would be the mass equivalent of about 1093 grams per cubic centimeter which would reduce the universe to a size smaller than an atomic nucleus.
  
  Zero-point energy behaves differently. For ordinary radiation, the ratio of pressure to energy density is w=1/3c2, which is customarily expressed in units whereby c=1, and thus the ratio is expressed as w=+1/3. But for zero-point energy the ratio is w=-1. This is owing to the circumstance that the zero-point energy density is assumed to be constant: no matter how much the universe expands it does not become diluted, but instead more zero-point energy is assumed to be created out of nothing.
  
  A further peculiarity is that a ratio of w=-1 implies that the zero-point energy exerts a negative pressure which, counter-intuitively, leads to an expansion of space-time.
  
  Thus zero-point energy would appear to be identical with the mysterious dark energy, but unfortunately if the energy spectrum does continue up to the Planck frequency, there may be 120 orders of magnitude more energy per cubic centimeter than the observations of cosmic acceleration permit. Indeed, this amount of zero-point energy, interpreted this way, would have accelerated the universe into oblivion in microseconds.
  ...
  Schroedinger was apparently the first to note that solving the Dirac equation for the motion of the electron resulted in a necessary component that could be interpreted as random, speed-of-light fluctuations of a point-like particle. He dubbed this motion ''zitterbewegung'' (German for ''jitter motion''). In SED theory, the phenomenon of zitterbewegung is caused by the electromagnetic zero-point fluctuations.
  
  Several things are interesting about zitterbewegung. First, since the fluctuations occur at the speed of light, then at this level the electron would have to be massless, mass arising at some higher level of motion. Secondly, the fluctuations smear out the average position over a volume the Compton radius in size, which suggests a physical interpretation of the wave function and the associated probability density. (Scattering experiments indicate that the electron is far smaller than its Compton size, indeed point-like for all we know.) Thirdly, simulations that have recently been done show that if such a massless, fluctuating point particle is accelerated in an electric field, the zitterbewegung acquires a helical motion suggestive of spin. The possible association of zitterbewegung with spin has been made by a number of authors over the years such as Barut and Zanghi, Hestenes, Huang, Weisskopf, etc.
  
  Zitterbewegung thus suggests possibly deep connections between zero-point energy and the mass-energy relationship of matter and with the quantum properties of particles.

"Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers."
-Bernard Haisch, Calphysics Institute Director

[Riddick]

The Cosmic Computer, Simulated Realities, the Zero-Point Field, and Touching What is Real
John Smith—17 Feb 2013

Is the universe a giant cosmic computer? Are we living in a computer simulation? Can consciousness be simulated? If reality is an illusion, how do we wake up to what is real? This is an open-minded exploration of some of these issues.

QUANTUM PHYSICIST KEN WHARTON, in New Scientist magazine (9 Feb 2013), questions the assumption that physicists have made since the time of Newton: that the universe works like a massive computer. Given the state of the world in one instant, and the laws that determine the behaviour of that world, we just have to crunch the equations (either through solving them or using computer simulation) to predict the future in the next instant.

There will be a growing deviation of the mathematical model from reality due to non-linear effects which makes prediction impractical, but philosophically this is how scientists regard the future — as basically the solution to complex equations. Science is all about prediction. And this is why finding the theory of everything is the holy grail for physicists: in theory it will allow us to map the whole future of the universe.

The question is this: is the universe actually doing what scientists are doing to create the future? Is the universe crunching equations like a computer?

Full article at energygrid.com

From the site:

• Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. Orwell, 1984
  
  Energygrid Magazine is a multi-issue publication that challenges orthodoxy in all shapes and forms. Our aim is not just to promote alternatives but to encourage genuine open-mindedness.

[Riddick]

More!

BEYOND E=mc2
A first glimpse of a postmodern physics, in which mass, inertia and gravity arise from underlying electromagnetic processes
ZPF article from The Sciences magazine published by the New York Academy of Sciences

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The Field of All Possibility
A look at the amazing discoveries surrounding the Zero Point Field and its physical and metaphysical implications. Is this the collective unconscious of Jung, or the Akashic Records of Cayce? Can the ZPF provide unlimited, free energy for space travel? Are UFOs already using the ZPF?

Modern Science and the Paranormal, By Marie D. Jones Chapter Eight
Link

[Lore]

I don't want to be rude about her book but this sounds like just another book in a series of new-age self-improvement type books. From the celestine prophecy to The Secret to The Field. They are just rehashing hindu and buddhist spirituality, but mixing it with science. This is Castaneda, Watts, Huxley type material. Not saying they are wrong, but it has been said before.

Yes, you control the universe with your mind. I think we all know this. You decide to build a deck, and voila! A deck gets built. It may get a little more subtle, but there is little difference. How you think affect what happens. Science doesn't know why, they can't explain it, and even if they could we could not understand it.

Take a bunch of LSD and you will realize what they are getting at. That is why it is so terribly illegal

Interesting you should bring up this idea that some of the religions of the world have gleaned this information and used it for thousands of years.

But like all enlightening religions, only a few really understand and practice the tenants of their religion.

How to create within in the bonds of any religion isn't really understood by the masses that profess to be part of the religion.

In his book "Autobiography of a Yogi," Paramahansa Yogananda stated that he was eager to come to the US because it was well understood by his religious community that the West was going to prove scientifically what his Eastern religion had known for years.

The community knew that having what their faith had always known prooved scientifically was going to reach the masses in a way the non religious could understand.... and that understanding would change the world.

Many people are tired of faith which hasn't worked for most of them, but will accept something that is scientifically sound.

What Lynn McTaggart and the scientists quoted in the book are doing is not trite although to seems they are only on the threshold of proof and understanding. These are new ideas in that they are just now reaching a modicum of acceptability in the scientific community. This is fresh, cutting edge scientific study and while many physicists will dismiss the idea outright, many others will remain skeptical or even open minded all the while observing to see if anything comes of the research.

By the way, if people really understood what Christ was saying instead of being caught up in the devotion aspect of the religion, it would be very clear that the same understanding in other religions lies very much within the realm of Christianity.

[Riddick]

Brilliant Disguise: Light, Matter and the Zero-Point Field

• "Let there be light" is certainly a beautiful poetic statement. But does it contain any science?
  
  Is matter an illusion? Is the universe floating on a vast sea of light, whose invisible power provides the resistance that gives to matter its feeling of solidity?
  
  Astrophysicist Bernhard Haisch and his colleagues have followed the equations to some compelling - and challenging - conclusions. Link

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UFOs and the Zero Point Field:
You Can Get Here From There

• Most ufologists agree alien spacecraft must be using a highly advanced technology or propulsion system to move across vast distances in short periods of time. Quantum physics may hold the answer, and that answer just might be the Zero Point Field (ZPF).
  
  Full Article adapted from PSIence:How New Discoveries in Quantum Physics and New Science May Explain the Existence of Paranormal Phenomena © 2007 Marie D. Jones

[Riddick]

A Conceptual Framework for Consciousness
Based on a Deep Understanding of Matter

Joachim Keppler, Philosophy Study Vol. 2 No. 10, October 2012

Abstract:

• One of the main challenges in consciousness research is widely known as the hard problem of consciousness. In order to tackle this problem, I utilize an approach from theoretical physics, called stochastic electrodynamics (SED), which goes one step beyond quantum theory and sheds new light on the reality behind matter. According to this approach, matter is a resonant oscillator that is orchestrated by an all-pervasive stochastic radiation field, called zero-point field (ZPF).
  
  The properties of matter are not intrinsic but acquired by dynamic interaction with the ZPF, which in turn picks up information about the material system as soon as an ordered state, i. e., a stable attractor, is reached. I point out that these principles apply also to macroscopic biological systems. From this perspective, long-range correlations in the brain, such as neural gamma synchrony, can be interpreted in terms of order phenomena induced and stabilized by the ZPF, suggesting that every attractor in the brain goes along with an information state in the ZPF.
  
  In order to build the bridge to consciousness, I employ additional input from Eastern philosophy. From a comparison between SED and Eastern philosophy I draw the conclusion that the ZPF is an appropriate candidate for the substrate of consciousness, implying that information states in the ZPF are associated with conscious states. On this basis I develop a conceptual framework for consciousness that is fully consistent with physics, neurophysiology, and Eastern philosophy.
  
  I argue that this conceptual framework has many interesting features and opens a door to a theory of consciousness. Particularly, it solves the problem of how matter and consciousness communicate in a causally closed functional chain, it gives a physical grounding to existing approaches regarding the connection between consciousness and information, and it gives clear direction to future models and experiments.

Full Article

[Fan]

Interesting you should bring up this idea that some of the religions of the world have gleaned this information and used it for thousands of years.

But like all enlightening religions, only a few really understand and practice the tenants of their religion.

How to create within in the bonds of any religion isn't really understood by the masses that profess to be part of the religion.

In his book "Autobiography of a Yogi," Paramahansa Yogananda stated that he was eager to come to the US because it was well understood by his religious community that the West was going to prove scientifically what his Eastern religion had known for years.

The community knew that having what their faith had always known prooved scientifically was going to reach the masses in a way the non religious could understand.... and that understanding would change the world.

Many people are tired of faith which hasn't worked for most of them, but will accept something that is scientifically sound.

What Lynn McTaggart and the scientists quoted in the book are doing is not trite although to seems they are only on the threshold of proof and understanding. These are new ideas in that they are just now reaching a modicum of acceptability in the scientific community. This is fresh, cutting edge scientific study and while many physicists will dismiss the idea outright, many others will remain skeptical or even open minded all the while observing to see if anything comes of the research.

By the way, if people really understood what Christ was saying instead of being caught up in the devotion aspect of the religion, it would be very clear that the same understanding in other religions lies very much within the realm of Christianity.

I love your post and mostly agree, but I think religion is just one avenue to the same realizations. One can find these places themselves, and you don't need drugs. They are again one avenue.

[Fan]

A Conceptual Framework for Consciousness
Based on a Deep Understanding of Matter

Joachim Keppler, Philosophy Study Vol. 2 No. 10, October 2012

Abstract:

• One of the main challenges in consciousness research is widely known as the hard problem of consciousness. In order to tackle this problem, I utilize an approach from theoretical physics, called stochastic electrodynamics (SED), which goes one step beyond quantum theory and sheds new light on the reality behind matter. According to this approach, matter is a resonant oscillator that is orchestrated by an all-pervasive stochastic radiation field, called zero-point field (ZPF).
  
  The properties of matter are not intrinsic but acquired by dynamic interaction with the ZPF, which in turn picks up information about the material system as soon as an ordered state, i. e., a stable attractor, is reached. I point out that these principles apply also to macroscopic biological systems. From this perspective, long-range correlations in the brain, such as neural gamma synchrony, can be interpreted in terms of order phenomena induced and stabilized by the ZPF, suggesting that every attractor in the brain goes along with an information state in the ZPF.
  
  In order to build the bridge to consciousness, I employ additional input from Eastern philosophy. From a comparison between SED and Eastern philosophy I draw the conclusion that the ZPF is an appropriate candidate for the substrate of consciousness, implying that information states in the ZPF are associated with conscious states. On this basis I develop a conceptual framework for consciousness that is fully consistent with physics, neurophysiology, and Eastern philosophy.
  
  I argue that this conceptual framework has many interesting features and opens a door to a theory of consciousness. Particularly, it solves the problem of how matter and consciousness communicate in a causally closed functional chain, it gives a physical grounding to existing approaches regarding the connection between consciousness and information, and it gives clear direction to future models and experiments.

Full Article

I can't say it is ZPF because I think that is a loaded term, but I do believe there is more to the "aether" than we know. We are starting to see it with research into plant communication, using vibrations and scent messaging. There have been scientific studies that show we know when someone is staring at us, and we all know that instinctively anyways. They sort of suggested that there are "Rays" emanating from the eyes that hit the back of the neck and caused sensation...