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Claes, Joachim The Field Paradigm: 20 Experiments That Can Change The World Edited by: Lilla Nemeth, Howard Chandler Cover Design: Razvan Petre First edition, June 2017 Trade paper Printed in the United States of America Dedicated to all the messengers of the Field Paradigm throughout history… …who were brave enough to try to tell us we are far bigger, far more beauti- ful, and far more powerful than we could imagine in our wildest dreams. From Plato to Einstein…There are far more than you’d think. iii Praise for The Field Paradigm “one of the best, most well written, and compelling tours of Maharishi's knowledge I have ever read” Raja Pat Barrett “I am totally amazed. It is exactly what is needed to bring TM to the pub- lic. Such clear use of simple logic that is accessible to people, such enter- tainment which will actually get them through it, and such deep understand- ing of the Knowledge, put in the language of the time. I am reading it through program. It is a page turner.” Raja John Konhaus “I think this is the most important TM book ever written - from the point of view of making the incomprehensible promise of world peace obvious to anyone with any brains at all.” Richard Broome (TM teacher, South Africa) "fullest intro presentation to Maharishi's knowledge that I have seen...It is truly amazing you can do such a complete introduction to the Maharishi Ef- fect that will be able to fully engage non-meditators in this knowledge. Congratulations." Steve Herzfeld (Uttar Kashi Purusha) “I would like to congratulate you on your great work and achievement. Ma- harishi would have been very pleased with your presentation of the knowledge and events. Your story telling style is captivating; I couldn’t let go. There is a magical flow to your thoughts and words; it felt exceptionally familiar instilling in me a pleasant feeling of connectedness. I believe you have skilfully succeeded with a touch of humour and lightness to provide quite strong, persuasive answers and arguments to a great deal of frequently asked questions. Sophia Bitar (sidha from Lebanon) Everybody (and I mean Everybody) should read this book…Well written, accessible, funny, intelligent. I’m convinced this is going to make a big Im- pact. Eva De Roovere (famous pop-star in Belgium) " I have to admit I was never really open to the whole theory [of the Mahari- shi Effect]. For me TM was a technique that finally allowed me to meditate, but for the rest I didn't want anything too pie-in-the-sky. Your book changed my mind, in the sense that I now realize it's not pie-in- the-sky at all. Thomas [a friend who also just read the book] and I decided to start learn- ing the advanced techniques and TM sidhi program as soon as possible, and I told my wife she should also absolutely learn TM." Wannes Kappelle (another famous Belgian pop-star) “One of the most inspiring books I’ve ever read…now that I know what the Global Country of World Peace stands for I’ll do anything I can to help” Joost Berghman (Owner/CEO of financial services company with 180 retail stores) v Table of Contents Prologue: It’s a kind of magic 1 Part 1: The Field Paradigm at a glance 9 - Meeting the president - The Field Paradigm: how it works, how it was forgotten, and how it was rediscovered - Rediscovering our true Selves - The Field Effect Part 2: The Field Paradigm as a new scientific reality 31 - The Field Paradigm, rediscovered in physics - Everyday examples of unity in nature - The science of miracles: how paranormal experiences make sense - The law of action and reaction from a Field Paradigm perspective Part 3: Using the Field Paradigm 97 - The power of silence - The too-good-to-be-true problem - Changing lives - Twenty experiments that will change the world - Five ways to make it happen – at virtually no cost - Why we have good reason to hope Part 4: Will you keep this a secret? 273 vii Prologue: It’s a Kind of Magic Have you ever experienced magic? This may be a strange sentence to open what is essentially a story about a scientific revolution, but bear with me. You’ll see how this simple question will eventually lead us to a wide range of practical solutions, from learning to heal ourselves, or developing our full brain potential, to stopping terrorism and corruption on a global scale… even solve global warming. It’s all interconnected. So…have you ever had magic in your life? Not the David Copperfield stuff – I mean the real thing. Here are some examples of what I’d define as “magic”: - Dreaming that something has happened to a loved one, only to find out it really happened. - Thinking about a friend you haven’t spoken with in years and he/she calls you shortly after. - Having a strong intuitive feeling you have to do something, even if you can’t explain why, and it later turns out to be the perfect deci- sion. And the ultimate one: - Desiring something from the bottom of your heart and then watch- ing events unfold around you as if being "organized" for the desire to be fulfilled. I define such experiences as “magic" because they would indicate some kind of connection between our inner thoughts and outside events... …Unless it was a coincidence. We learned in school that there is no connection between our inner mind and the outer world. We are clearly isolated objects walking around in a world full of other isolated objects. As such, any experience of a connection is impossible. 1 So… Coincidence: the one word that kills all magic. It would have to be a coincidence, right? Otherwise, what is the alternative? That everything we’ve ever learned about the nature of our universe is wrong? If it wasn’t a coincidence, then this means there must not only be some kind of invisible connection between our thoughts and events, but through this connection outside events could cause inner thoughts or, even more weird, our thoughts can cause outside events. That sounds like a pretty deep rabbit hole – something so complicated that it’s easier to call it a coincidence and stop thinking about it. That’s pretty much what we’ve been doing for thousands of years. Better not to ask too many questions that bring us out of our comfort zone, right? Well, that depends on how comfortable our comfort zone really is. Let’s ask another question: “Is your life completely devoid of magic?” You live life the way you're supposed to. You don't believe in all this magic mumbo-jumbo, and just focus on getting a good job, buying a nice house and a nice car, and getting the kids through college. Well done. And are you satisfied? And I mean fully satisfied – full of joy every minute of the day? I bet you don’t even believe that’s possible. I bet you believe that the emo- tional rollercoaster of ups and downs we call life is “normal”. I can assure you, most people do not feel fully satisfied. Even if they live life the way they are supposed to, and have all the material things they want, they still feel that something is missing. They feel there must be something more, but don’t know what that ‘something’ is. So we start looking for “more” in many different ways. Some want more money, more power, more fame, others want more meaning, more love, more happiness, more spirituality...No matter how much we have, we all seem to want more. Meanwhile our intellect tells us we’re being foolish. We should be happy with what we have. After all, so many others have much less than we do. But 2 our inner desire for more can’t be silenced so easily….And so the fight be- tween our feelings and our intellect begins, a fight that can lead even ex- tremely wealthy people into severe depressions. This book will hopefully help you end this fight, because you’ll realize that the feeling is right, and the intellect is wrong. It’s our nature to desire more, it’s our education that has been leading us in the wrong direction by making us believe we are far more limited than we really are. We have been educated to see ourselves as material objects, limited to our bodies, all separated from each other. In reality, we are far bigger, far more beautiful, and far more powerful than we could ever imagine in our wildest dreams.