The Field: The Quest for the Secrets of the Universe Critique - Book Report/Review Example

The field: the Quest for the secret force of the universe Introduction The field: the Quest for the secret force if the universe by a Lynne McTaggart is a mysterious book that more seems like a mystery or a fiction novel. t he writing is more an investigative reporter who weaves together discoveries that have been made over time by many physicists, medical doctors and other scientists who have over the time made interesting findings and theories that leave us puzzled to the truth or the mastery of scientific theories. This book was largely chosen due to the mystery it tries to uncover in relation to the human life and humanity position in a mysterious world that seems more strange than familiar to humans. Summary The book largely investigates the mysterious theories that scientist, doctors, physicist and psychiatrist, and how these professionals are obsessed with these theories. The writer takes the reader through a strategic journey into the science that sounds new to humans, and more mysterious than a world that humans are aware of. The writer takes the reader though strategic research and interviews with the leading scientists all over the world as she explains areas that have been long “the domain of religion, mysticism, alternative medicine or new age speculation” (McTaggart, xix). The universe in these theories seems more unreal and very strange to the human’s mind as the writer terms the new discoveries “the science of the miraculous” (McTaggart, i). The writer portrays a rapidly changing world that is shifting away from the ancient discoveries that have been used all along, to assume a new process as the writer elaborates that “random, predatory, purposeless and solitary” theory of evolution is about to be disposed (McTaggart, xiv). In this case, McTaggart explains that the theories of earlier scientists such as Newton, Darwin Niers Bohrs atomic theories have been done away with, and new science that involve particles energy in the universe has taken over. The Zero Point field is described as “an ocean of microscopic vibrations in the space between things…….a engulfing sea of energy and quantum field” (McTaggart, xvii). Currently, as the book narrates, it is through this new Zero Point Field that life resonates around in the whole universe. This motion process therefore incorporates all bodies including humans themselves who are made of the mind, cells and our feelings, and into this one time ether that science regarded as an empty vacuum. The book therefore invites the reader to a new perspective of viewing the universe away from the old perspective. This is observed in the readers introductory remarks that “we are posed on the brink of a revolution – a revolution as daring and profound as Einstein’s discovery of relativity” (McTaggart, xxiii). The author presents the contrasting perception of the moon and compares this to the normal perception of the universe we know, and presents a perception of two different worlds where distance, time, vision and everything is so confusion that the explorers who went to the moon such as Ed and Houston could not comprehend what hey had really experienced (McTaggart, 6). The feeling of Ed reveals of interconnectedness among all the planets through an invisible web. This further expresses the idea of resonance as McTggart expounds of a world where everything revolves about a strategic center. In addition, the discovery of the electron that virtually composes all matter and cells explains the resonance idea of interconnectedness in the universe. The scientist studying the electron found that “it exists as a potential…. O f all probabilities until we observe or measure it, at which point the electron freezes into a particular state. Once we are through looking or measuiring the electron dissolves back into the ether of all possibilities” (McTaggart, 120). Through this discovery the writer notes that there is a trend of moving towards a ground where science in the new era leads to an all probability that might result to an intersection of the spirit and science in humans. This means that man is part of a larger universe that is interconnected and that revolves round the Zero Point Field. The force felt and the interconnectedness experienced by the explorers on their journey form the moon as McTaggart (6-7) argues is an elaboration of this zero point field that has shattered previous theories. The remarkable human interaction with the universe was expressed by Braud, psychologists who studied how the individual influence in a person could internally affect other living things. According to this study, detachment was more influential than what Braud calls “intense willing of striving” (McTaggart, 138). This might refer to the effectiveness of the strategy of exchanging with the Zero Point Field energy than trying to extract from it. In addition, in the study of DNA and the relation to cancer and patients losing coherence in light emissions, Fritz, a biophysicist infers that “we are ill when our waves are out of synch” (McTaggart, 52). This was the theory behind the wave resonance in the body from biophoton emissions that function as a communication system in the body and between bodies, and this might be considered to be a function of the Zero Point Field. Most interesting was the finding by Dr. Schemp using the MRI machine who found that “short and long term memory don’t reside in our brain at all, but instead are stored in the Zero Point Field” (McTaggart, 95). This puts humans as elements among equals in the unified theory of mind and matter….., which further stresses Bohm’s vision of the world of unbroken wholeness” (McTaggart, 94). These findings place humans at the center of the universe, and consider humans as an element in the universe that resonates around the Zero Point Field, through waves and interconnectedness that seems too strange to humans to grasp. This affirms the author’s assertion that the modern science has offered a new perspective in science that trashes the pervious scientific theories and models, including the Newtonian models and Darwinian theories. Personal applications The book ‘The field: the Quest for the secret force of the universe’ has a large significance in my life today and into the future. The book largely expounds the phenomena of what my day to day events entail into detail, and extrapolates this to the Zero Point Field that ensures resonance in the universe. The book enhances more understanding of my daily psychological operations that are more connected to the Zero Point Field. The explanations of human consciousness through the use of neurons enhance a better understanding of the human mind as connected to the entire universe system “……. Every neuron of the brain could log on at the same time and speak at every other neuron simultaneously via the quantum process within… all the brain’s function as related with the interaction between brain physiology and the Zero Point Field” (McTaggart, 93). This understanding of the human consciousness in connection with the centre around which everything in the world revolves is a better understanding of the brain operation as placed in the larger context of the universe. This is further elaborated by the theory of the “unbroken wholeness “(McTaggart, 94). The fact that long term and short term memory “do not reside in our brain at all but instead are stored in the Zero Point Field” (McTaggart, 95), means that whenever we experience any conscious or unconscious memory activity, it does not actually reside in our memory and is stimulated by wave mechanisms from the Zero Point Field. This is a good revelation of interconnectedness between the human mind and the entire universe. Therefore, intuition and creativity are not in our minds, and this explains why we have to interact more with the world to gain knowledge. The more we interact the more the information is stored in the Point Zero field. Therefore creativity and intuition is “a sudden coalescence of coherence in the field” (McTaggart, 95). This explains the power of our memories that is so great that the memory is the greatest asset that we have. In fact, though the Zero Point Field, we can have the intention and the “capacity to create, to organize, even to heal” (McTaggart, 122). Largely, it is through this power of our mind that we can achieve the impossible, as we use the forces and the effects that the Zero Point Field in the universe. It is through this that the mind is enhanced through some altered states of “medication, relaxation, dreams” (McTaggart, 137). Ervin Laszlo largely implies that by relaxing; it limits the extent to which one is tuned on to bandwidths in large numbers of wavelengths in the Zero Point Field. This brings out the power of the psychiatrists playing around with the mind of a person, and this in most cases leads to healing. Ervin Laszlo theory might be responsible for the cases of creativity in humans, and might largely explain what enables us to make genius thoughts in our daily operations. The Zero Point Field allows us to disconnect the body as a matter and the consciousness of our lives in the though the mind that is interconnected with the Zero Point Field, from where it derives its information as earlier explained. Largely, it is through this force that we understand ourselves better as composed of two worlds; the material world and the spirit world. The relaxation by Ervin explains why one can be healed through consciousness, and largely offers the current and future understanding. Therefore, the book takes us through the new scientific theories, and invites us to revisit our inner selves to view our consciousness, and try to revisit the unconsciousness nature that can reveal more about our lives in presently and into the future. Impression The book was too much detailed for the class, and requires extended thinking and analysis of puzzling theories and scientific evidence to understand the universe. In most cases, the cases are not easy to understand and require a deep reflection and analysis as regarding the universe, and the interconnectedness with the human person. The book is exciting and reveals too much information that we are not aware of in our daily lives, and tries to introduce us into a new science where particle science in dealing with elections and photons in wave mechanism is the order of communication between matters. These theories are also too complex and require an elaboration by a professional in the field to actually grasp the essence behind them. However, it is a book that I would recommend others to read to unravel the mysterious universe that we are more strangers to, as we lack information regarding the real universe. Generally, the book leaves us hanging and thinking deeper and searching our identity in the complex universe. Work cited McTaggart, Lynne. The Field: The quest for the secret force of the Universe. NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008. Read More