Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World

If you’re looking for substance behind the premise that what you think influences your reality, then this book will provide some satisfaction.  Lynne McTaggart provides numerous examples of how bona fide scientists have studied and tested the power of human intention to change the world.

The experiments examined here touch on a variety of subjects including quantum physics, particle theory, unified field theory, ESP, prayer, healing, and positive and negative intention.  The larger part of this book narrates all the experimental evidence the author considers appropriate.  This is well-presented and surprisingly easy to read – not deadly dull and dryly scientific as you might expect.  All the relevant information is here: the purpose of each experiment, who conducted it, what they expected to find, how it was carried out, the actual results and conclusions, including those not always supportive of the author’s argument.

The results are frequently exciting in their implications.  Did you know the heart has a slightly faster reaction time than the brain in precognition tests?  In fact, the evidence suggests it actually sends additional information to the brain for processing – ‘’the heart may hold the largest antenna.”  And that we pick up other people’s emotions through our intestines? – “the home of the gut instinct is indeed the gut itself.”

The last couple of chapters cover firstly, a blueprint for using intention effectively in your own life and secondly, a series of personal and group experiments.  You are invited to be part of worldwide intention experiments, providing you are passionately interested and committed.

Often, the explanations are quite detailed.  The author is to be applauded for putting together so much information in such a digestible way.  She states: “The observer effect in quantum experimentation... suggests not only that the observer brings the observed into being, but also that nothing in the universe exists as an actual ‘thing’ independently of our perception of it.”   Read the evidence, construct an intention programme and draw your own conclusions.