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Click on the Download Sign to Download the Book Click on the download sign to download the book. 1 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 beautiful, and far more powerful than we could imagine in our wildest dreams. There are far more such messengers than you’d think… © 2017 Joachim Claes 2 Table of Contents Foreword: It’s a kind of magic Part 1: The Field Paradigm at a glance - 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 - The Field Paradigm, rediscovered in physics - Everyday examples of connectedness in nature - The science of miracles: how paranormal experiences make sense - Eternal life: the ultimate challenge to the Machine Paradigm - The law of action and reaction from a Field Paradigm perspective Part 3: Using the Field Paradigm - 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? Appendix: Fifteen more experiments that will change the world 3 Foreword: 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. 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, and it happened. - Thinking about a friend you haven’t spoken with in years and he/she calls you shortly after. - Having a strong feeling you have to do something, even if you can’t explain why, and it later turns out to be the perfect decision. And the ultimate one: - Desiring something from the bottom of your heart and then watching 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. 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 there must be some kind of invisible field connecting our inner thoughts with outside events. Not only that, but this field must somehow cause both our inner thoughts and the outside events, otherwise they couldn’t be connected. 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. And 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?” 4 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 rollercoaster of ups and downs in 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 it 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 our inner desire for more can’t be silenced so easily. So begins the fight between our feelings and our intellect, a fight that can lead even extremely wealthy people into severe depression. 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. In Part 1 of this book I’ll present a simple hypothesis that will allow us to understand how our mind (or our consciousness, to be more exact) can be both connected to our bodies and, at the same time, be much larger than our bodies and be connected to everything else through a field of consciousness. We’ll then see in Part 2 of this book that there is actually far more scientific evidence to confirm this hypothesis than you’d think. We’ll also see that any kind of magical experiences we have are just a glimpse of this connection between us. For some, such experiences are more obvious than for others, but most of us have them. A survey found that 67% of the population has had clear experiences of a connection between their inner thoughts and something outside of them (usually described as “psychic experiences”). If two out of three people have had these experiences, do you really still believe they’re all just coincidences? One of the most beautiful ways to describe this universal field of consciousness comes from the 1980 Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back, where Yoda describes the “Force” (before he did his own little magic trick, moving a spaceship with just a gesture of his hand) : For my ally…is the Force And a powerful ally it is 5 Life creates it…makes it grow Its energy surrounds us…and Binds us Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter You must feel the Force, around you Between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere Even though this is obviously science fiction (we won’t be moving spaceships anytime soon), you’ll see that as a description of what we’ll discuss in this book, it’s actually surprisingly accurate. This brings us to the next question: If this “Force” is real, does that mean it is also possible to “feel the Force”? Is it possible to experience this connection to everyone and everything? And here’s an even more important question: What if the real reason the mind is always looking for more is because the mind is looking for the experience of feeling connected to everything? What if the mind won’t ever be fully satisfied until it has this experience (no matter how much “stuff” we have)? In ancient times, people actually had techniques to experience this connection but over time, these techniques have been forgotten. This loss has been the biggest tragedy that has ever happened to mankind. Bold statement, I know, but wait until you see what happens when people remember. This is what this book is essentially all about. You’ll be surprised. About 60 years ago, the technique to bring the mind to experience this field was rediscovered and was again taught around the world. Very likely you’ve already heard about it - it’s now one of the most widely practiced mental techniques in the world. Very likely you also have no idea what it’s really all about because it’s also the most misunderstood technique in the world. Let’s test this. What comes to your mind when you read: “Transcendental Meditation”? If you’re like most others, you’ll think it’s a meditation technique. It’s not. In fact, in almost every respect it’s exactly the opposite what most people assume meditation is all about. When people think about “meditation” today, they think about controlling the mind, usually through some form of concentration (on the breath, a sound, or “monitoring your thoughts”). It’s because of this misunderstanding about meditation that the technique to experience the Force got lost. Concentration, or any kind of control, suppresses the natural tendency of the mind for more (by forcefully keeping it on one point of attention), whereas true meditation will use this tendency. If meditation is practiced correctly (which means learning to properly direct the mind, but with no concentration and no control), the mind will go to this experience of the Force by itself. 6 The Force, as we’ll see, is an invisible field of universal consciousness that Einstein once described (and physics is now confirming) as the Unified Field.
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