Issue 13 September/October 2011
Quantum
live the Bond is to surrender to nature’s drive for wholeness and to recognize the whole in every aspect of our daily lives.”
McTaggart persuades us of the reality of the Bond by offering studies from diverse fi elds of science, by relating stories of people who have made a difference by uniting communities and championing peace and reconciliation, and by offering practices we can incorporate into our own lives to recover our own sense of the Bond and our empathy for and connection to others. Along the way, she offers a new set of “rules” by which we can facilitate this paradigm shift to better live the Bond.
THE BOND: CONNECTING THROUGH THE SPACE BETWEEN US By Lynne McTaggart Reviewed by Joan Parisi Wilcox
Lynne McTaggart, bestselling author of The Field and The Intention Experiment, offers us a new view of personal, social, cultural and global connections in her latest book, The Bond: Connecting Through the Space Between Us. Once again she combines the latest science with human experience to “challenge the way we conceive of ourselves and the world.” Here she amasses the evidence that we are inherently connected from the level of cells to that of societies by what can be considered a force operating in nature that underlies our “will to connect,” which she calls “the Bond.” As she writes, “We have lost our sense of the Bond, but our loss is not irrevocable. We can recover wholeness in our lives and recapture our sense of the connection between things, but doing so requires a very different set of rules from the ones we currently live by. To
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While she succeeds in making the case that cooperation trumps competiveness in just about every aspect of life, from health to business to politics, somehow this book felt less engaging than her other two. It’s diffi cult to pin down why, since this is her most personal book to date. Perhaps, for this reviewer anyway, one of the reasons is that by showing us all the ways we don’t connect—and why we should strive to—McTaggart brings our very humanness into sharp relief, and what she asks of us collectively seems a daunting challenge. The way forward, of course, is for each of us to change ourselves, and then like drops of rain that eventually form an ocean, we will shift our worldview from “me” to “we.” Despite the challenges, like McTaggart, I am optimistic that we can eventually live the Bond.
US Hardcover, Free Press, ISBN 978-1-4391-5794-7, $26
Also available as an ebook and in audio format. Available in the UK in September 2011, Hay House UK UK paperback £12.99
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