wisewords Lynne McTaggart on the POWER OF GROUP INTENTION by April Thompson T
hirty years ago, speaker, author and journalist Lynne McTaggart recovered from an illness using alternative approaches to health. Since
then, she’s been exploring the frontiers of healing through consciousness and alternative medicine. In the 1990s, McTaggart, who lives in London, started a newsletter called What Doctors Don’t Tell You, now an international magazine and popular platform at
wddty.com that cites thousands of resources show- ing what works and doesn’t work in conventional and alternative medicine and how to beat chronic condi- tions naturally. McTaggart’s seven books include The Intention Experiment, The Field, The Bond and most recently, The Power of Eight. Her latest work examines the transformative power of small groups of people sending thoughts together for a common goal.
Can you summarize the results of your experiments of healing through collective intentions? We’ve done hundreds of experiments us- ing small and large groups; 30 were tightly controlled scientific studies conducted in conjunction with researchers at institutions such as the University of Arizona, University of California and Penn State University. The experiments have involved all kinds of inten-
tions, ranging from the relatively simple to the impossibly complex. The large-scale intention experiments involved upwards of 25,000 par- ticipants remotely logging onto a website to view photos of the targets, sometimes 8,000 miles away, and sending them a well-defined intention, like changing the pH balance of
water or healing a war veteran of post-trau- matic stress disorder. To date, 26 of those 30 experiments resulted in positive, measurable, mainly scientifically significant effects. We’ve seen the pH of water change by a full pH number and seen seeds grow twice as much as control seeds. We also conducted three peace intention experiments with interesting results: After our eight-day intention for Sri Lanka during its civil war, violence levels fell; the government had won several decisive battles that week; and within a few months that 25-year war was over. We can’t say with certainty that we
had a hand in this, but our other peace experiments showed similar results. If it happens a few more times, that becomes compelling.
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