McTaggart - The power of eight: the miraculous healing power of small groups

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: McTaggart, Lynne, author.

Title: The power of eight : harnessing the miraculous energies of a small group to heal others, your life, and the world / Lynne McTaggart.

Description: New York : Atria Books, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017008522 (print) | LCCN 2017031871 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501115561 (E-book) | ISBN 9781501115547 (hardback) | ISBN 9781501115554 (paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: Telepathy | Small groups. | HealingMiscellanea. | BISAC: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / New Thought. | BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Parapsychology / ESP (Clairvoyance, Precognition, Telepathy). | SCIENCE / Quantum Theory.

Classification: LCC BF1171 (ebook) | LCC BF1171 .M36 2017 (print) | DDC 133.8/2dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017008522

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For Caitlin and Kyle, and in memory of Stella, who didnt need to see in order to believe

The miracles in fact are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock

For many years, I refused to write this book because I didnt believe for one moment the strange healings that were happening in my workshops, which is to say, I had a hard time handling miracles.

By miracles and healings Im not being metaphoric; Im referring to genuine loaves-and-fishes-type miraculous eventsa series of extraordinary and untoward situations in which people were instantly healed of all sorts of physical conditions after being assembled into a small group and sent a collective healing thought. Im talking about the kinds of miracles that defy every last belief we hold about the way were told the world is supposed to work.

The idea of placing people into small groups of about eight started out as a crazy whim of mine during a workshop I ran in 2008, just to see what would happen if group members tried to heal one of their group through their collective thoughts. Id billed them Power of Eight groups, but I may as well have called them Power of Eight Million, so potent did they turn out to be and so much did they rattle everything I thought I knew about the nature of human beings.

As a writer, I am drawn to lifes great mysteries and biggest questionsthe meaning of consciousness, the extrasensory experience, life after deathparticularly those anomalies that upset conventional wisdom. I like to ferret out, as the psychologist William James put it, the single white crow necessary to prove that not all crows are black.

But for all my forays into the unconventional, I remain, at heart, a hard-nosed reporter, the result of my early background as an investigative journalist, and I constantly look to build an edifice of solid evidence. I am not given to arcane references to mysticism, auras, or any sloppy or inchoate uses of the terms quantum or energy. In fact, theres nothing I hate more than unsubstantiated woo-woo, because it gives what I do such a bad name.

Im not an atheistor even an agnostic. A deeply spiritual side to me remains convinced that human beings are more than a pile of chemicals and electrical signaling. But the reason I remain drawn to the Maginot Line separating the material from the immaterial is that I rely upon bell curves and double-blind trials to underpin my faith.

My own, relatively conventional, view about the nature of reality had first taken a knocking after researching my book The Field . I had begun the book as an attempt to understand scientifically why homeopathy and spiritual healing work, but my research soon led me into strange new territory, a revolution in science that challenges many of the most cherished beliefs we hold about our universe and how it operates. The frontier scientists I met during the course of my researchall with impeccable credentials attached to prestigious institutionshad made astonishing discoveries about the subatomic world that seemed to overthrow the current laws of biochemistry and physics. Theyd found evidence that all of reality may be connected through the Zero Point Field, an underlying quantum energy field and vast network of energy exchange. A few frontier biologists had conducted research suggesting that the primary system of communication in the body is not chemical reaction, but quantum frequency and subatomic energetic charge. Theyd carried out studies showing that human consciousness is able to access information beyond the conventional bounds of time and space. In countless experiments, theyd shown that our thoughts may not be locked inside our heads but may be trespassers, capable of both traversing other people and things and even actually influencing them. Each of them had stumbled on a tiny piece of what compounded to a new science, a completely new view of the world.

Writing The Field hijacked me into further pursuit of the nature of this strange new view of reality. I had grown especially curious about the implication of these discoveries: that thoughts are an actual something with the capacity to change physical matter.