February 17, 2025 • 36 mins
Discover the fascinating world of quantum energy and the power of intention with the remarkable Lynn McTaggart. We promise you'll uncover the secrets behind the zero-point field and how your thoughts can shape your reality. Lynn has conducted 42 intention experiments since 2007, revealing astounding outcomes like reducing violence in specific areas. Through her insights, explores the concept of a psychic internet and how aligning with vibrational integrity can lead to transformative change.
Joya explains the transformative power of group intention with Lynn's groundbreaking concept, the Power of Eight. Lynn shares extraordinary stories of healing and transformation, including miraculous recoveries and renewed relationships during challenging times. The accidental discovery of the Power of Eight shows the profound impact of shared intention, whether in groups of six, eight, or twelve, showcasing the magic of collective energy.
Lynn shares insights into how participating in intention experiments can transform lives and relationships, spreading love and connection across the globe. Join Lynn's masterclass and learn how to harness this power in small groups, becoming an agent of healing and change in the world. For more information and to engage with these transformative initiatives, visit lynnmctaggart.com.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Lynn, thank you so much for joining me on.
We Woke Up Like this today.
I'm so excited to talk to you,not only because of your wisdom
and expertise and work in thefield and the power of intention
, but also how you are nowputting that into really here on
Earth, like you always haveanyway, but in a much bigger way
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, how we can actually make animpact together.
So I would love for you.
First, let's dive into forpeople who don't really know you
or your work or aren't superfamiliar with it, what is the
field and what is the power ofintention.
What is the?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
field, and what is the power of intention?
Okay, well, the field is agiant energy field that unites
us all in its invisible web.
It's a quantum energy field andwe know it's true and real
because physicists have knownabout it for more than 100 years
.
It's called the zero-pointfield and essentially it is a
little energy dance of subatomicparticles.
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All of us, at our absolutenethermost level of being, are
not a collection of tinybilliard balls as we're always
shown in, you know, in biologyclass, in chemistry class, in
physics class, with a littlesolar system of things going
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around a nucleus.
We are packets of vibratingenergy, and those energy packets
trade information and energyback and forth with other
subatomic particles, I shouldsay other subatomic energy
packets, like a tiny microscopicgame of tennis, and that
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carries on with every subatomicparticle in all the things in
all the world.
So one little tennis game isn'tvery much energy, but when you
compound that to all thesubatomic particles in all the
things in all the world, you getthis unfathomable amount of
energy, because what happenswhen they play tennis is a
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little virtual particle iscreated and that helps to create
the zero point field.
And so the two big messages hereare just this Number one waves.
Particles are also waves andthey go on to infinity.
So it's a neat understanding ofhow we can connect to
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information outside ourselves.
You know information thousandsof miles away, how we create,
essentially, a psychic internetbetween people, as I've
experienced with my intentionexperiments.
And secondly, I've experiencedwith my intention experiments.
And secondly, waves have aninfinite capacity to store
information.
If we were to take the Libraryof Congress and put it on
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subatomic waves, we could fitthe whole of the Library of
Congress, which has every bookwritten in English, onto a sugar
cube essentially.
So that's how powerful thatinformation storage is.
So, essentially, it's a libraryof everything that ever was,
and it answers one big questionabout how we can access
information all the time.
That is beyond our senses.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Wonderful.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I love how you said it's a psychic internet field
that's really powerful.
So how do we interact with it?
Through the power of ourintention and delving into their
work.
For my book, the Field, I wasleft with unfinished business,
which was that thoughts are anactual something with the
capacity to change physicalmatter.
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So I wanted to figure out howfar we can take this.
What are we talking about?
Are we talking about just avery, very subtle process like
moving a quantum particle, orare we talking about flying on
top of our roofs or curingcancer?
So that's when I set up theintention experiment back in
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2007 to test this, because I hadloads of readers around the
globe, the field was in 30languages and I also had good
connections with lots ofprestigious scientists working
in consciousness research.
So I thought, if I just putthem together and have the
scientists measure intentionexperiments that I would set up,
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or they would set them up, andI would invite my readers every
so often to come onto my websiteor another platform and hold a
thought, together, we'd have thebiggest global laboratory in
the world.
And that's what we've beendoing, as I say, since 2007.
We've run 42 experiments to date.
Of the 41.
We've measured.
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37 have shown measurablepositive, mostly significant
effects.
The 42nd one I just ran lastSaturday which was an intention
to lower violence in WashingtonDC and we're waiting to analyze
the results.
And we mean actual violencelike violent crime, property
crime, et cetera, becauseWashington's a very, very
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violent place.
In certain neighborhoods it's600 times more violent in terms
of violent crime than thenational average in the US.
So we want to measure whetherviolence can go down.
But we've also measured theaudience.
We had a live audience right infront of me at the Gaius sphere
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, at Gaius headquarters, and wemeasured more than 40 people.
We used special equipment tomeasure things like their immune
systems, their endocrinesystems, to see if they had
changed before and afterward,because we see major changes
with people who haveparticipated in these events.
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We also measured the room withvery, very sensitive equipment
that can pick up any changes inemotional content, in autonomic
nervous system activity, allthose kinds of things.
They read into this device,which is an energetic,
essentially device developed byboth of them, developed by Dr
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Konstantin Korotkov, aworld-renowned Russian physicist
who I've worked with on anumber of the experiments.
So we're very much lookingforward to the results.
Did we heal Washington for allof its implications, Because the
areas we chose are just a tinyriver away from the capital area
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, so we're not only wanting tolower violence in those
neighborhoods, which is what wecan actually measure, but we'd
very much like to lower violencein Washington DC.
And the last time I did aWashington experiment, which was
2012,.
The very next day, the thenformer Speaker of the House,
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Nancy Pelosi, and the currentSpeaker of the House, which was
John Boehner, hugged, and thesewere noted enemies, so I hope
we'll have some of the sameoutcomes.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Influencing miracles through the power of intention,
exactly, exactly.
And you have a new initiativecoming up which I really love,
because I watched the video andI said, oh, this is just so
powerful, because I personallybelieve that when we come into
integrity and alignment withvibrationally, with who we are,
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that we impact the field withmore pure intentions to create.
And you know, people talk aboutmanifestation and we're
creating and I always thinkwe're doing it all the time, but
we're doing it from a lower,lower vibration of consciousness
.
So I would love for you toshare what this initiative is
with the power of Eight and howpeople can get involved in what
you're hoping, what your visionis for this outcome, for this
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project that you're working on.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Okay, well, the project is a masterclass and
it's kicking off on February22nd and I do this every year.
I take a select bunch of peoplewho want to work with me for a
whole year and I put them intothe masterclass and the first
thing that we do is what I callintention boot camp.
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So we meet and I'm talkingabout meeting virtually on Zoom,
live and interactively.
So I'm there live everySaturday for six weeks, from
February 22nd to the lastSaturday in March, and we meet
for two hours and it'sinteractive and experiential too
, and I teach them all kinds ofaspects of intention.
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So first I teach 13 keys tointention mastery, which is the
right words to use, because alot of people talk about
intention and they talk about Iwant I get.
I have found in studying agreat deal of indigenous
practice and also modern science, and I put it together in a
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unique program, because with thetraditional practices, a lot of
times they use intention andthey have very individual things
, but there are also certaincommonalities that all
traditions use, and so I tooksome of those and then married
it with a lot of the latestdiscoveries in modern science
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that have to do with the powerof intention, or, as they call
it, psychokinesis in science.
So the 13 Keys to IntentionMastery encompasses that, and
there are numerous things.
Most people make huge mistakeswhen they use intention.
Their intentions are way toobroad.
You know it's I want to be rich, and they don't really think
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about what they really want.
A lot of people think, well, ifI have enough money, that'll
solve all my problems.
But maybe they just need$20,469 to buy a new car.
So I show them how to be veryspecific in exactly what they
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want.
I also help them to find outexactly what they want, because
most people don't know.
They just think I don't wantthis, whatever this is, I don't
want my current life.
I want something more.
But besides working out howmuch money you need, we focus on
health, we focus onrelationships.
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With this course, we dive verydeeply into intention, using it
for all kinds of areas of yourlife.
We have health, and was LoriMcLeod who was going blue, thank
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you, you sorry, I just I don't.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I guess my I said I intend for her to come back
right now.
Okay, and it dropped off.
You were talking about laurieand her eyesight okay.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Then we had somebody called laurie mcleod who was in
my master class a few years ago,and these are just a few of the
thousands of healings that I'veheard of.
Lori was going blind and thedoctor said there was nothing
they could do for her.
She had retinal damage in botheyes.
So we put people in the masterclass into power of eight groups
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small groups of eight or so andthe assignment is for them to
meet once a week for an hour.
Lori met with her group.
They did an intention for her.
She felt enormous energy behindher eyes and the upshot was she
began to be able to see againand she went to her doctors and
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guess what?
Her vision is now 20-20.
So we've had that.
We had another woman, lisa, withliver damage, due to have a
liver transplant.
Again, doctors couldn't doanything for her.
Her liver was deteriorating,she had been born with a genetic
deficiency of a certain enzymeand the result was her liver was
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scarred, her spleen wasenlarged.
She was only in her 40s.
One power of eight in tensionand they're only 10 minutes and
when she went back to the doctorshe again could feel this
amazing energy going out of herleg, going around her liver area
and a few months later she gota scan and she has letters from
two doctors saying her liver andspleen are now normal.
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So we do healing for all kindsof health conditions and people
come with everything.
We do healings of relationshipsand we hear about people
getting along better with theirchildren, with their partner,
with their not very nice boss.
We also have people find newlove.
I loved my story of Joy.
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So Joy joined us during thelockdown COVID lockdown.
She lives in Australia.
We get people joining fromaround the world and she
intended, with her group, tofind more love in her life.
Within a week or two she gets acall out of nowhere from a
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boyfriend from 35 years ago andhe's in the UK and they start
corresponding, they startcalling, they start connecting
and the upshot is he goes toAustralia, he sits in quarantine
for two weeks in a hotel andthen he goes to be with her and
they're now living together.
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So a beautiful I mean she wasin her 60s.
It was a beautiful, beautifulcase of, you know, old love
getting reignited.
So we have things like that.
We have people finding newcareers or establishing the
thing they've always wanted todo.
I've had about eight people whowrote the book.
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Finally, they always wanted towrite, many of them bestsellers.
We've had people also findtheir life purpose or set up the
alternative clinic.
We've had people also findtheir life purpose, you know, or
set up the alternative clinic.
We've had a number of thosethey've always wanted to do or
find fabulous charity work orget the $200,000 they need to
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complete a project all kinds ofthings like that and find the
thing in their lives, their realsoul's purpose, and that's the
thing that excites me most ofall.
So the reason this works, Ibelieve, is from and I, you know
, always collecting data aboutit and keeping track of people
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to groups in this masterclass.
But I also monitor them overthe year.
I have them fill out things.
How are you doing so?
I can tell what to do in thefollow-up intention clinics.
So I run them quarterlythereafter after our big
intention boot camp and they'remeeting in groups to help them,
to coach them, to hone theirskills.
So that's why it lasts a wholeyear and in my experience, the
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people who carry through, whomeet as much as they can week
after week after week, just thathour a week experience major
transformations.
Plus, they meet a group offriends who start out as
strangers and become theirfamily, become their intention
family, as Jerry, one member ofone group, said.
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He was again during lockdownand he said at the end of the
year I felt more love than Iever have in my life.
And he loved it so much hejoined the masterclass the
following year and I said, jerry, you're going to learn the same
stuff.
And he said, no, I'm going togo deeper and I want more.
And I think that's what happens.
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It's the longevity and theconnection of the course and the
groups.
That's where the real magichappens.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Why do you think it's the power of the group and why
specifically eight?
Why do you think it's the powerof the?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
group and why specifically eight?
Okay, first of all, eight cameabout by accident.
I, after doing the intentionexperiment, I the year later I
thought we're getting goodresults.
I wonder if we could shrinkthis down to a workshop we were
planning the following year andwe had four of them scheduled in
America and we had four of themscheduled in America.
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So I'm kicking it around withmy husband and some of our team
members and my husband's a greatheadline writer so I said, well
, maybe I'll just put them ingroups of eight or so and have
them send healing intention to amember of the group with a
health challenge and my husbandturns and he goes.
I love it.
The power of E.
And that's how the title gotstarted, just like that.
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And we didn't expect to haveany kind of result other than
kind of mild feel good effect.
So we were as shocked as anyonewhen we did it for the first
time in a workshop in Chicago.
We do it at the end of one day.
One person in the group isnominated who has a health
challenge to be the subjecteverybody else is sending the
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next day.
We expect everybody to say,yeah, it felt like getting my
back rubbed and that's not whatit felt like at all to them was
limping badly because she hadbefore, because she had
arthritis of the knee and shewalked in normally.
And then somebody else hadterrible irritable bowel
syndrome and said her gut wasnormal.
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Yet another said I havedepression, it feels like it's
lifted.
And finally this was the mostamazing one A woman with
cataracts said they were 80%better.
A woman with cataracts saidthey were 80% better.
So we were just shocked by this.
You know how did this happen?
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And so I kept studying it, Ikept working with people.
It took me 10 years to publishthat book, the Power of Eight,
because I needed to understandwhy does this work?
You know, this is I'm not ahealer, I'm a journalist.
This is I'm thinking to myself.
I'm a journalist, I write books, I'm an author.
I don't do this stuff.
So I was a little bitfrightened by it.
And, by the way, I should sayit doesn't need eight, it works
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with six, it works with 12.
You just need a group and acommon intention.
And with six it works with 12.
You just need a group and acommon intention and it is the
fast track to the miraculous.
So I started looking at it, whydoes this work?
And studying it and analyzingit and studying science,
studying the literature to seehow come this works.
And there are a number ofanswers.
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I wrote a whole book called theIntention Experiment and it was
a book about all of the sciencearound intention.
And there's enormous scienceNow.
That was published in 2007.
There's probably even more now,but there's a ton of science.
There's no question intentionworks.
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Of a ton of science, there's noquestion intention works.
Then there are group effects.
When we get into a small groupof any, you know, any size,
really it lifts us.
Psychologists call itcollective effervescence.
You know we feel our mood islifted, we're connected, we're
with other people and thescience shows us too we need to
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belong, basically more than weneed to breathe.
You know people need communitymore than anything else.
It is the single biggest thingthat keeps us alive.
Isolation has been found to beworse than smoking, worse than
stroke, than smoking.
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Worse than stroke, you know.
Worse than pretty mucheverything.
You know worse thanultra-processed foods.
It's the thing we need morethan anything else.
Community People die withoutcommunity of heart attacks and
only the people who die of heartattacks only 50% have high
cholesterol and all of thoserisk factors.
The other half are lonely.
So we need community andconnection more than anything.
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And connection protects usagainst not only heart disease
but stroke, even the common cold.
It even overrides bad timesLike if you lose your job.
But you have a connectedcommunity.
You're less likely to bedepressed far less likely than
if you're by yourself.
And if you have a geneticpropensity to something like,
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say, depression, you're far lesslikely to express it if you
connect with other people.
So it is community, it is theconnection, group effects.
Then there's another piece to it, which is altruism, and this is
probably what is differentabout my work, because a lot of
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people talk about, you know,manifestation I want I get.
Then I have studied altruismbecause seven-eighths of the
time, if it's a group of eightpeople, are intending for
someone else, and I wondered ifthat was part of it.
And there's no question,altruism is a bulletproof vest.
People who do things for otherpeople live longer, healthier,
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happier lives.
You are going to livetwo-thirds longer if you do
things for other people than ifyou just focus on yourself.
And a big study that convincedme was a study of two groups of
people.
One group were what they calledthe pleasure seekers.
These were studied by a team ofscientists.
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Those people had loads of money, went on plenty of holidays,
were living what we'd call thedream.
Right, they were living thegood life.
Then they assumed their immunesystem markers were going to be
really good, but when theylooked they found that they were
terrible.
These were people who wereperfect candidates for a whole
host of degenerative diseases,from heart attacks and stroke to
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Alzheimer's and diabetes.
These guys were going to droplike flies, whereas the other
group, a group of people whowere not as affluent but were
living a life of servicealtruism these people had robust
immune systems.
They were going to live forever.
We need to do things for otherpeople.
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We don't just need to connect,we need to give, and so the
giving part of it.
I see people just as manypeople heal from giving and
intending for someone else as Ido for them being the receiver.
And many times when people arestuck, I will say get off of
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yourself, intend for someoneelse and watch what happens to
you.
So that seems to be a potentmix, another reason why the
group works you get to give, youget to receive, you get to
connect with that group, theybecome your intention family.
All of this is hugely healing.
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But there is one more piece thatI think is the ultimate reason
why this all works, and that isoneness.
You know, we don't experienceoneness too often, even when
we're meditating, we'remeditating alone.
But oneness is, I think, thesecret sauce, because we talk
about the field, how we're allconnected, how we're all one,
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but we don't experience lifelike that.
We experience life in anisolated separateness.
We experience life as lonely,little people on a lonely planet
, in a lonely universe, and sowe don't get to feel that
oneness until we do this kind ofintending in a group.
So, for instance, last week,when I did this giant intention
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experiment, we were asking I hada live audience, as I said, at
the Gaia Sphere, at Gaia'sheadquarters, and also a live
stream audience from people,thousands of people around the
world.
So I asked them afterward howdid that feel?
And people said remember, ourintention experiments, as well
as the intentions for Power ofEight groups, are only 10
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minutes long.
That's all you need.
They said I have gone moredeeply than I ever have in any
meditative practice.
I have connected more deeply tosource than I ever have.
We had extraordinary comments.
We always get extraordinarycomments.
I felt like I was part of ahigher network.
I was shaking and cryinguncontrollably.
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This is somebody who saidthey're watching on their
computer screen alone in theirlive stream, wherever they are
live streaming.
Yet they felt connected thepsychic internet and they also
felt transformed.
So I was lucky enough to workwith Life University Dr
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Stephanie Sullivan, who is thehead of research at Life
University, the largest and mostprestigious chiropractic
university in the world.
They decided to study power ofeight groups, so they put an EEG
cap on one member of sevengroups each one of those members
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of seven groups and they alsomeasured any effects from the
recipient's sent intention, andthey found extraordinary things.
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The portions of the brain, theparietal lobes that sit back
here, the temporal lobes herethese are parts of the brain
that help us to navigate throughspace, but they also make us
feel separate.
They were dialed way down, andso was the parts of the right
frontal lobe involved in worry,doubt, negativity.
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That was also dialed way down.
These were people in a statethat was nothing like meditation
, nothing Very, very differentbrainwave signatures.
Meditation creates an increasein slower brainwaves.
Our brainwaves were turning offand not turning off permanently
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, of course, but just duringthis they were turning down.
But the brainwave signatureswere almost identical to those
carried out by the University ofPennsylvania's then
neuroscientist, dr AndrewNewberg, who studied Sufi
masters during whirling dancingand Buddhist monks during
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ecstatic prayer, and the Brailleway signatures were virtually
identical.
So these were people in a stateof ecstatic oneness.
But here's the interesting pieceof it it takes years to become
a Buddhist monk.
Yes, it takes hours of primingto get into those worldly
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dervish things with Sufi masters.
Our students never had evenmeditated.
They had a short piece from meexplaining how to do it, how to
do the power of eight groups,and yet they, within a minute or
two, got into thisextraordinary altered state.
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Don't need hours of priming,you need to learn how intention
works and you need structure andstudy and tools for that.
But mainly you need a group anda common intention and it is
your fast track to themiraculous.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
That is so powerful.
Wow, thank you for your workthat you've done around this and
being able to explain it withscience, and I love marrying
that bridge between thespiritual experiences, which is
really what I always talk aboutthe mystical and those mystical
experiences and how they happeninside of us.
So it's about these embodimentpractices.
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So it's about these embodimentpractices and so I want to ask
you, in all of the work andresearch you do and you just
touched on it a little bit inthis psychic internet, and I've
read some books that answer thisquestion, but I want to hear it
from you is is the whole field,everything consciousness?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Oh, that's a $54,000 question.
I believe it is.
I believe it is.
I think that when you delveright down into that, a number
of the scientists I interviewedway back for the field, so
that's in the late 1990s weresaying perhaps there's only one
thing, it's consciousness.
And yes, consciousness is firstof not locked inside our heads,
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it's out there, it's in thefield.
We're much more like an antennareceiver where we tune in and
then we receive as well andwe're broadcasting all the time.
Going back to your initial ideathat you asked me about, people
are doing I want I get asmanifestation and they don't
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realize the 80,000 thoughts theyhave every day are also being
broadcast.
Everything we think is beingbroadcast and probably 80% to
90% of that is negativitybeaming out all the time.
So I always tell people thefirst thing I do with my
masterclass is get people tobecome much more conscious of
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what they're beaming out all thetime, because it's not pretty.
And then we learn how to bemuch more conscious about what
you're thinking about.
When you think somebody'slistening in, the universe is
listening in, then it doesbecome much more conscious.
But yes, going back to yourquestion, I think essentially
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everything is consciousness.
I think we are participatorycreators.
I think we are.
The science shows us thateverything is essentially a bit
like unset jello andconsciousness gets the jello to
set.
We know this from many, manystudies of quantum physics.
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When we see things likesuperposition, that subatomic
particles aren't an anything.
Yet To try to understand that,imagine that you've got an
auditorium full of seats andevery single seat is we think
it's a different quantumparticle, but actually it's only
one because it's in a state ofsuperposition, so it's every
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possible cell all at the sametime.
But as scientists and studies,many, many studies, in fact,
they just got a Nobel Prize forit a couple of years ago.
Thank you.
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Don't know why this ishappening, sorry julia.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
So I'd always said something's interfering with
this conversation.
That's interesting oh, I knowthey don't want us to hear they
don't want us, they don't wanteverybody to know.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
So let me just pick up from somewhere.
So consciousness is the thingthat turns this unset jelly into
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something real.
It gets the unset jelly to set.
It turns the potential ofsomething into an actuality.
So consciousness is veryimportant.
As the creator, we understandthat.
Now it may well be thateverything is consciousness and
we are creating that.
I can't tell you for sure, butI can certainly say that we are
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co-creators.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Yeah, and from what you described and I've
experienced that feeling too ofthat I love how you worded it
ecstatic oneness, that's sobeautiful.
And when you reach that stateand even, yes, it's a brainwave
state yes, it's happening insideof your body, but we are
clearly tuning into somethingthat's other than our normal,
default mode of operation and werealize how powerful we are
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creating in our lives and in thefield, absolutely, and that is
really the core of my work.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Thank you for saying that, because my work is about
showing people how powerful theyare.
Once they amplify, once theysupersize their intentions in a
group, they are extraordinarilypowerful.
We can heal a city.
We'll demonstrate that.
We can heal ourselves, we canheal each other, we can heal the
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world.
And the one big thing I talkedabout of Nicholas Christakis,
who is a sociologist now at YaleUniversity he was, I think,
(35:30):
formerly of Harvard.
He looks at social networks andhe has found and he maps them
too.
He's found that happy peopleare more likely to have happy
friends, not because theyself-select people to be happy
with, but because of the naturalspread of happiness.
But the same occurs withnegative things like loneliness.
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You're more likely to havelonely people if you're lonely
because of that spread thecontagion of loneliness.
But also if you do a good deed,if you are altruistic.
But also if you do a good deed,if you are altruistic, that
also spreads down a socialnetwork.
So if Peter is kind to Paul,paul's more likely to be kind to
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Jane, jane's more likely to bekind to Sam and Sam's more
likely to be kind to Kirsten,and so far.
On and on and on.
But Sam and Paul and Peter andall of them continue to be
altruistic too.
So you can see how thiscontinues to spread
exponentially.
For instance, let's take 30,000people who were approximately
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on my intention experiment lastSaturday.
If they have 50 friends thenthey will start spreading it out
.
That's the most conservative.
Or 150 friends.
If they have 150 friends, thatwill get to spreading out like
that.
4.5 million people.
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That is half the population ofsomeplace like Israel.
But imagine they have 600friends on their social network
and that's pretty possible withall of the social media we have
now, all of the connections wehave in the emails and all kinds
of ways.
That's the latest estimate ofhow many people we have contact
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with by Columbia University.
That explodes to 18 million.
Now imagine those 18 millionhave 600 friends each.
That totally explodes to 7billion.
That's the population of theworld.
Totally explodes to 7 billion.
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That's the population of theworld.
So what I'm really interestedin is the ripple effect, the
huge ripple effect of doinggroup intention and how that
ripples out to the world andwhat we get.
We survey people after everyintention experiment and I will
in a few weeks.
Now I have to give people timeto notice what's changed.
We find that about 40% saytheir relationships are
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transformed Suddenly.
They're connecting withestranged partners, estranged
parents, estranged children,people, just, you know, people
they have hated or beenestranged from, suddenly call
them up and connect, or theyreach out and connect.
They're getting along betterwith people not like them,
people they've been polarizedfrom, people with a different
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political party, and also about50% feel more love for everyone
they come in contact with.
That's the amazing one.
Then there's another thing about40% 35% to 40% of people taking
part in these experimentsreport healings of some sort.
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We had a woman who we did threeintentions for Gaza and Israel,
and there was somebody withtype 1 diabetes whose blood
sugar was completely notcontrolled and suddenly was.
We had people in pain withterrible hip issues, suddenly
out of pain.
Last Saturday we had a guy whohad to leave for a while because
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he had panic attack when heparticipated in the experiment.
He said it was gone and thatnever happens.
Somebody else who couldn't lifthis arm his arm was suddenly
over his head.
You know we have so manyhealings.
We've had people even throwaway crutches.
So there's an extraordinarything that happens when we come
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together in a group, we magnifyour effect on the target, but we
also magnify this altruistic,this sense of oneness in
ourselves and it createsmiracles.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
So beautiful.
We're not meant to.
We are wired to awaken, butwe're not wired to do it for
ourselves.
It's not all to stay in theselfish me, me, me.
So I just love your work, Ilove what you're doing and I
deeply appreciate how much workand research and data, because
you can say this is what'shappening and here's the data to
back it up, and I reallyappreciate that.
(40:10):
Lynn, thank you so much fortaking your time.
I know how busy you are to joinme and everybody.
Down below will be the links towhere you can find Lynn, join
her masterclass and take part injoining in this small group
because, as Lynn said on thevideo that I watched, it is a
small group that changes theworld.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Absolutely.
All it needs is one goodthought to heal yourself, heal
each other, heal the world.
Thank you so much, joy.
It's been a real joy to be withyou, and anybody want to find
out more about any of this, justcome to lynnmctaggartcom and
we'll also give informationabout a documentary that Gaia
(40:52):
has done about me and my work,and it'll really fill you in on
all of what we've done with thePower of Eight and the Intention
Experiment.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Absolutely fabulous.
Thank you, Lynn.
Thank you, Thank you forlistening to.
We Woke Up Like this.
Your likes, comments, sharesand subscribes help this content
reach new listeners, and I soappreciate you.
And remember, Luminous One,that your radiant and magnetic
presence changes the world.
Lynn, thank you so much for joining me on.
We Woke Up Like this today.
I'm so excited to talk to you,not only because of your wisdom
and expertise and work in thefield and the power of intention
, but also how you are nowputting that into really here on
Earth, like you always haveanyway, but in a much bigger way
(00:28):
, how we can actually make animpact together.
So I would love for you.
First, let's dive into forpeople who don't really know you
or your work or aren't superfamiliar with it, what is the
field and what is the power ofintention.
What is the?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
field, and what is the power of intention?
Okay, well, the field is agiant energy field that unites
us all in its invisible web.
It's a quantum energy field andwe know it's true and real
because physicists have knownabout it for more than 100 years
.
It's called the zero-pointfield and essentially it is a
little energy dance of subatomicparticles.
(01:07):
All of us, at our absolutenethermost level of being, are
not a collection of tinybilliard balls as we're always
shown in, you know, in biologyclass, in chemistry class, in
physics class, with a littlesolar system of things going
(01:28):
around a nucleus.
We are packets of vibratingenergy, and those energy packets
trade information and energyback and forth with other
subatomic particles, I shouldsay other subatomic energy
packets, like a tiny microscopicgame of tennis, and that
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carries on with every subatomicparticle in all the things in
all the world.
So one little tennis game isn'tvery much energy, but when you
compound that to all thesubatomic particles in all the
things in all the world, you getthis unfathomable amount of
energy, because what happenswhen they play tennis is a
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little virtual particle iscreated and that helps to create
the zero point field.
And so the two big messages hereare just this Number one waves.
Particles are also waves andthey go on to infinity.
So it's a neat understanding ofhow we can connect to
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information outside ourselves.
You know information thousandsof miles away, how we create,
essentially, a psychic internetbetween people, as I've
experienced with my intentionexperiments.
And secondly, I've experiencedwith my intention experiments.
And secondly, waves have aninfinite capacity to store
information.
If we were to take the Libraryof Congress and put it on
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subatomic waves, we could fitthe whole of the Library of
Congress, which has every bookwritten in English, onto a sugar
cube essentially.
So that's how powerful thatinformation storage is.
So, essentially, it's a libraryof everything that ever was,
and it answers one big questionabout how we can access
information all the time.
That is beyond our senses.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Wonderful.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I love how you said it's a psychic internet field
that's really powerful.
So how do we interact with it?
Through the power of ourintention and delving into their
work.
For my book, the Field, I wasleft with unfinished business,
which was that thoughts are anactual something with the
capacity to change physicalmatter.
(03:51):
So I wanted to figure out howfar we can take this.
What are we talking about?
Are we talking about just avery, very subtle process like
moving a quantum particle, orare we talking about flying on
top of our roofs or curingcancer?
So that's when I set up theintention experiment back in
(04:13):
2007 to test this, because I hadloads of readers around the
globe, the field was in 30languages and I also had good
connections with lots ofprestigious scientists working
in consciousness research.
So I thought, if I just putthem together and have the
scientists measure intentionexperiments that I would set up,
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or they would set them up, andI would invite my readers every
so often to come onto my websiteor another platform and hold a
thought, together, we'd have thebiggest global laboratory in
the world.
And that's what we've beendoing, as I say, since 2007.
We've run 42 experiments to date.
Of the 41.
We've measured.
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37 have shown measurablepositive, mostly significant
effects.
The 42nd one I just ran lastSaturday which was an intention
to lower violence in WashingtonDC and we're waiting to analyze
the results.
And we mean actual violencelike violent crime, property
crime, et cetera, becauseWashington's a very, very
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violent place.
In certain neighborhoods it's600 times more violent in terms
of violent crime than thenational average in the US.
So we want to measure whetherviolence can go down.
But we've also measured theaudience.
We had a live audience right infront of me at the Gaius sphere
(05:43):
, at Gaius headquarters, and wemeasured more than 40 people.
We used special equipment tomeasure things like their immune
systems, their endocrinesystems, to see if they had
changed before and afterward,because we see major changes
with people who haveparticipated in these events.
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We also measured the room withvery, very sensitive equipment
that can pick up any changes inemotional content, in autonomic
nervous system activity, allthose kinds of things.
They read into this device,which is an energetic,
essentially device developed byboth of them, developed by Dr
(06:29):
Konstantin Korotkov, aworld-renowned Russian physicist
who I've worked with on anumber of the experiments.
So we're very much lookingforward to the results.
Did we heal Washington for allof its implications, Because the
areas we chose are just a tinyriver away from the capital area
(06:51):
, so we're not only wanting tolower violence in those
neighborhoods, which is what wecan actually measure, but we'd
very much like to lower violencein Washington DC.
And the last time I did aWashington experiment, which was
2012,.
The very next day, the thenformer Speaker of the House,
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Nancy Pelosi, and the currentSpeaker of the House, which was
John Boehner, hugged, and thesewere noted enemies, so I hope
we'll have some of the sameoutcomes.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Influencing miracles through the power of intention,
exactly, exactly.
And you have a new initiativecoming up which I really love,
because I watched the video andI said, oh, this is just so
powerful, because I personallybelieve that when we come into
integrity and alignment withvibrationally, with who we are,
(07:45):
that we impact the field withmore pure intentions to create.
And you know, people talk aboutmanifestation and we're
creating and I always thinkwe're doing it all the time, but
we're doing it from a lower,lower vibration of consciousness
.
So I would love for you toshare what this initiative is
with the power of Eight and howpeople can get involved in what
you're hoping, what your visionis for this outcome, for this
(08:09):
project that you're working on.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Okay, well, the project is a masterclass and
it's kicking off on February22nd and I do this every year.
I take a select bunch of peoplewho want to work with me for a
whole year and I put them intothe masterclass and the first
thing that we do is what I callintention boot camp.
(08:33):
So we meet and I'm talkingabout meeting virtually on Zoom,
live and interactively.
So I'm there live everySaturday for six weeks, from
February 22nd to the lastSaturday in March, and we meet
for two hours and it'sinteractive and experiential too
, and I teach them all kinds ofaspects of intention.
(08:55):
So first I teach 13 keys tointention mastery, which is the
right words to use, because alot of people talk about
intention and they talk about Iwant I get.
I have found in studying agreat deal of indigenous
practice and also modern science, and I put it together in a
(09:17):
unique program, because with thetraditional practices, a lot of
times they use intention andthey have very individual things
, but there are also certaincommonalities that all
traditions use, and so I tooksome of those and then married
it with a lot of the latestdiscoveries in modern science
(09:40):
that have to do with the powerof intention, or, as they call
it, psychokinesis in science.
So the 13 Keys to IntentionMastery encompasses that, and
there are numerous things.
Most people make huge mistakeswhen they use intention.
Their intentions are way toobroad.
You know it's I want to be rich, and they don't really think
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about what they really want.
A lot of people think, well, ifI have enough money, that'll
solve all my problems.
But maybe they just need$20,469 to buy a new car.
So I show them how to be veryspecific in exactly what they
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want.
I also help them to find outexactly what they want, because
most people don't know.
They just think I don't wantthis, whatever this is, I don't
want my current life.
I want something more.
But besides working out howmuch money you need, we focus on
health, we focus onrelationships.
(10:47):
With this course, we dive verydeeply into intention, using it
for all kinds of areas of yourlife.
We have health, and was LoriMcLeod who was going blue, thank
(11:15):
you, you sorry, I just I don't.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I guess my I said I intend for her to come back
right now.
Okay, and it dropped off.
You were talking about laurieand her eyesight okay.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Then we had somebody called laurie mcleod who was in
my master class a few years ago,and these are just a few of the
thousands of healings that I'veheard of.
Lori was going blind and thedoctor said there was nothing
they could do for her.
She had retinal damage in botheyes.
So we put people in the masterclass into power of eight groups
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small groups of eight or so andthe assignment is for them to
meet once a week for an hour.
Lori met with her group.
They did an intention for her.
She felt enormous energy behindher eyes and the upshot was she
began to be able to see againand she went to her doctors and
(13:00):
guess what?
Her vision is now 20-20.
So we've had that.
We had another woman, lisa, withliver damage, due to have a
liver transplant.
Again, doctors couldn't doanything for her.
Her liver was deteriorating,she had been born with a genetic
deficiency of a certain enzymeand the result was her liver was
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scarred, her spleen wasenlarged.
She was only in her 40s.
One power of eight in tensionand they're only 10 minutes and
when she went back to the doctorshe again could feel this
amazing energy going out of herleg, going around her liver area
and a few months later she gota scan and she has letters from
two doctors saying her liver andspleen are now normal.
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So we do healing for all kindsof health conditions and people
come with everything.
We do healings of relationshipsand we hear about people
getting along better with theirchildren, with their partner,
with their not very nice boss.
We also have people find newlove.
I loved my story of Joy.
(14:11):
So Joy joined us during thelockdown COVID lockdown.
She lives in Australia.
We get people joining fromaround the world and she
intended, with her group, tofind more love in her life.
Within a week or two she gets acall out of nowhere from a
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boyfriend from 35 years ago andhe's in the UK and they start
corresponding, they startcalling, they start connecting
and the upshot is he goes toAustralia, he sits in quarantine
for two weeks in a hotel andthen he goes to be with her and
they're now living together.
(14:52):
So a beautiful I mean she wasin her 60s.
It was a beautiful, beautifulcase of, you know, old love
getting reignited.
So we have things like that.
We have people finding newcareers or establishing the
thing they've always wanted todo.
I've had about eight people whowrote the book.
(15:15):
Finally, they always wanted towrite, many of them bestsellers.
We've had people also findtheir life purpose or set up the
alternative clinic.
We've had people also findtheir life purpose, you know, or
set up the alternative clinic.
We've had a number of thosethey've always wanted to do or
find fabulous charity work orget the $200,000 they need to
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complete a project all kinds ofthings like that and find the
thing in their lives, their realsoul's purpose, and that's the
thing that excites me most ofall.
So the reason this works, Ibelieve, is from and I, you know
, always collecting data aboutit and keeping track of people
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to groups in this masterclass.
But I also monitor them overthe year.
I have them fill out things.
How are you doing so?
I can tell what to do in thefollow-up intention clinics.
So I run them quarterlythereafter after our big
intention boot camp and they'remeeting in groups to help them,
to coach them, to hone theirskills.
So that's why it lasts a wholeyear and in my experience, the
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people who carry through, whomeet as much as they can week
after week after week, just thathour a week experience major
transformations.
Plus, they meet a group offriends who start out as
strangers and become theirfamily, become their intention
family, as Jerry, one member ofone group, said.
(16:48):
He was again during lockdownand he said at the end of the
year I felt more love than Iever have in my life.
And he loved it so much hejoined the masterclass the
following year and I said, jerry, you're going to learn the same
stuff.
And he said, no, I'm going togo deeper and I want more.
And I think that's what happens.
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It's the longevity and theconnection of the course and the
groups.
That's where the real magichappens.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Why do you think it's the power of the group and why
specifically eight?
Why do you think it's the powerof the?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
group and why specifically eight?
Okay, first of all, eight cameabout by accident.
I, after doing the intentionexperiment, I the year later I
thought we're getting goodresults.
I wonder if we could shrinkthis down to a workshop we were
planning the following year andwe had four of them scheduled in
America and we had four of themscheduled in America.
(17:44):
So I'm kicking it around withmy husband and some of our team
members and my husband's a greatheadline writer so I said, well
, maybe I'll just put them ingroups of eight or so and have
them send healing intention to amember of the group with a
health challenge and my husbandturns and he goes.
I love it.
The power of E.
And that's how the title gotstarted, just like that.
(18:05):
And we didn't expect to haveany kind of result other than
kind of mild feel good effect.
So we were as shocked as anyonewhen we did it for the first
time in a workshop in Chicago.
We do it at the end of one day.
One person in the group isnominated who has a health
challenge to be the subjecteverybody else is sending the
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next day.
We expect everybody to say,yeah, it felt like getting my
back rubbed and that's not whatit felt like at all to them was
limping badly because she hadbefore, because she had
arthritis of the knee and shewalked in normally.
And then somebody else hadterrible irritable bowel
syndrome and said her gut wasnormal.
(18:50):
Yet another said I havedepression, it feels like it's
lifted.
And finally this was the mostamazing one A woman with
cataracts said they were 80%better.
A woman with cataracts saidthey were 80% better.
So we were just shocked by this.
You know how did this happen?
(19:14):
And so I kept studying it, Ikept working with people.
It took me 10 years to publishthat book, the Power of Eight,
because I needed to understandwhy does this work?
You know, this is I'm not ahealer, I'm a journalist.
This is I'm thinking to myself.
I'm a journalist, I write books, I'm an author.
I don't do this stuff.
So I was a little bitfrightened by it.
And, by the way, I should sayit doesn't need eight, it works
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with six, it works with 12.
You just need a group and acommon intention.
And with six it works with 12.
You just need a group and acommon intention and it is the
fast track to the miraculous.
So I started looking at it, whydoes this work?
And studying it and analyzingit and studying science,
studying the literature to seehow come this works.
And there are a number ofanswers.
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I wrote a whole book called theIntention Experiment and it was
a book about all of the sciencearound intention.
And there's enormous scienceNow.
That was published in 2007.
There's probably even more now,but there's a ton of science.
There's no question intentionworks.
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Of a ton of science, there's noquestion intention works.
Then there are group effects.
When we get into a small groupof any, you know, any size,
really it lifts us.
Psychologists call itcollective effervescence.
You know we feel our mood islifted, we're connected, we're
with other people and thescience shows us too we need to
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belong, basically more than weneed to breathe.
You know people need communitymore than anything else.
It is the single biggest thingthat keeps us alive.
Isolation has been found to beworse than smoking, worse than
stroke, than smoking.
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Worse than stroke, you know.
Worse than pretty mucheverything.
You know worse thanultra-processed foods.
It's the thing we need morethan anything else.
Community People die withoutcommunity of heart attacks and
only the people who die of heartattacks only 50% have high
cholesterol and all of thoserisk factors.
The other half are lonely.
So we need community andconnection more than anything.
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And connection protects usagainst not only heart disease
but stroke, even the common cold.
It even overrides bad timesLike if you lose your job.
But you have a connectedcommunity.
You're less likely to bedepressed far less likely than
if you're by yourself.
And if you have a geneticpropensity to something like,
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say, depression, you're far lesslikely to express it if you
connect with other people.
So it is community, it is theconnection, group effects.
Then there's another piece to it, which is altruism, and this is
probably what is differentabout my work, because a lot of
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people talk about, you know,manifestation I want I get.
Then I have studied altruismbecause seven-eighths of the
time, if it's a group of eightpeople, are intending for
someone else, and I wondered ifthat was part of it.
And there's no question,altruism is a bulletproof vest.
People who do things for otherpeople live longer, healthier,
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happier lives.
You are going to livetwo-thirds longer if you do
things for other people than ifyou just focus on yourself.
And a big study that convincedme was a study of two groups of
people.
One group were what they calledthe pleasure seekers.
These were studied by a team ofscientists.
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Those people had loads of money, went on plenty of holidays,
were living what we'd call thedream.
Right, they were living thegood life.
Then they assumed their immunesystem markers were going to be
really good, but when theylooked they found that they were
terrible.
These were people who wereperfect candidates for a whole
host of degenerative diseases,from heart attacks and stroke to
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Alzheimer's and diabetes.
These guys were going to droplike flies, whereas the other
group, a group of people whowere not as affluent but were
living a life of servicealtruism these people had robust
immune systems.
They were going to live forever.
We need to do things for otherpeople.
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We don't just need to connect,we need to give, and so the
giving part of it.
I see people just as manypeople heal from giving and
intending for someone else as Ido for them being the receiver.
And many times when people arestuck, I will say get off of
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yourself, intend for someoneelse and watch what happens to
you.
So that seems to be a potentmix, another reason why the
group works you get to give, youget to receive, you get to
connect with that group, theybecome your intention family.
All of this is hugely healing.
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But there is one more piece thatI think is the ultimate reason
why this all works, and that isoneness.
You know, we don't experienceoneness too often, even when
we're meditating, we'remeditating alone.
But oneness is, I think, thesecret sauce, because we talk
about the field, how we're allconnected, how we're all one,
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but we don't experience lifelike that.
We experience life in anisolated separateness.
We experience life as lonely,little people on a lonely planet
, in a lonely universe, and sowe don't get to feel that
oneness until we do this kind ofintending in a group.
So, for instance, last week,when I did this giant intention
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experiment, we were asking I hada live audience, as I said, at
the Gaia Sphere, at Gaia'sheadquarters, and also a live
stream audience from people,thousands of people around the
world.
So I asked them afterward howdid that feel?
And people said remember, ourintention experiments, as well
as the intentions for Power ofEight groups, are only 10
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minutes long.
That's all you need.
They said I have gone moredeeply than I ever have in any
meditative practice.
I have connected more deeply tosource than I ever have.
We had extraordinary comments.
We always get extraordinarycomments.
I felt like I was part of ahigher network.
I was shaking and cryinguncontrollably.
(25:56):
This is somebody who saidthey're watching on their
computer screen alone in theirlive stream, wherever they are
live streaming.
Yet they felt connected thepsychic internet and they also
felt transformed.
So I was lucky enough to workwith Life University Dr
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Stephanie Sullivan, who is thehead of research at Life
University, the largest and mostprestigious chiropractic
university in the world.
They decided to study power ofeight groups, so they put an EEG
cap on one member of sevengroups each one of those members
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of seven groups and they alsomeasured any effects from the
recipient's sent intention, andthey found extraordinary things.
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The portions of the brain, theparietal lobes that sit back
here, the temporal lobes herethese are parts of the brain
that help us to navigate throughspace, but they also make us
feel separate.
They were dialed way down, andso was the parts of the right
frontal lobe involved in worry,doubt, negativity.
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That was also dialed way down.
These were people in a statethat was nothing like meditation
, nothing Very, very differentbrainwave signatures.
Meditation creates an increasein slower brainwaves.
Our brainwaves were turning offand not turning off permanently
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, of course, but just duringthis they were turning down.
But the brainwave signatureswere almost identical to those
carried out by the University ofPennsylvania's then
neuroscientist, dr AndrewNewberg, who studied Sufi
masters during whirling dancingand Buddhist monks during
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ecstatic prayer, and the Brailleway signatures were virtually
identical.
So these were people in a stateof ecstatic oneness.
But here's the interesting pieceof it it takes years to become
a Buddhist monk.
Yes, it takes hours of primingto get into those worldly
(28:33):
dervish things with Sufi masters.
Our students never had evenmeditated.
They had a short piece from meexplaining how to do it, how to
do the power of eight groups,and yet they, within a minute or
two, got into thisextraordinary altered state.
(28:56):
Don't need hours of priming,you need to learn how intention
works and you need structure andstudy and tools for that.
But mainly you need a group anda common intention and it is
your fast track to themiraculous.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
That is so powerful.
Wow, thank you for your workthat you've done around this and
being able to explain it withscience, and I love marrying
that bridge between thespiritual experiences, which is
really what I always talk aboutthe mystical and those mystical
experiences and how they happeninside of us.
So it's about these embodimentpractices.
(29:40):
So it's about these embodimentpractices and so I want to ask
you, in all of the work andresearch you do and you just
touched on it a little bit inthis psychic internet, and I've
read some books that answer thisquestion, but I want to hear it
from you is is the whole field,everything consciousness?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Oh, that's a $54,000 question.
I believe it is.
I believe it is.
I think that when you delveright down into that, a number
of the scientists I interviewedway back for the field, so
that's in the late 1990s weresaying perhaps there's only one
thing, it's consciousness.
And yes, consciousness is firstof not locked inside our heads,
(30:24):
it's out there, it's in thefield.
We're much more like an antennareceiver where we tune in and
then we receive as well andwe're broadcasting all the time.
Going back to your initial ideathat you asked me about, people
are doing I want I get asmanifestation and they don't
(30:44):
realize the 80,000 thoughts theyhave every day are also being
broadcast.
Everything we think is beingbroadcast and probably 80% to
90% of that is negativitybeaming out all the time.
So I always tell people thefirst thing I do with my
masterclass is get people tobecome much more conscious of
(31:07):
what they're beaming out all thetime, because it's not pretty.
And then we learn how to bemuch more conscious about what
you're thinking about.
When you think somebody'slistening in, the universe is
listening in, then it doesbecome much more conscious.
But yes, going back to yourquestion, I think essentially
(31:28):
everything is consciousness.
I think we are participatorycreators.
I think we are.
The science shows us thateverything is essentially a bit
like unset jello andconsciousness gets the jello to
set.
We know this from many, manystudies of quantum physics.
(31:50):
When we see things likesuperposition, that subatomic
particles aren't an anything.
Yet To try to understand that,imagine that you've got an
auditorium full of seats andevery single seat is we think
it's a different quantumparticle, but actually it's only
one because it's in a state ofsuperposition, so it's every
(32:13):
possible cell all at the sametime.
But as scientists and studies,many, many studies, in fact,
they just got a Nobel Prize forit a couple of years ago.
Thank you.
(33:15):
Don't know why this ishappening, sorry julia.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
So I'd always said something's interfering with
this conversation.
That's interesting oh, I knowthey don't want us to hear they
don't want us, they don't wanteverybody to know.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
So let me just pick up from somewhere.
So consciousness is the thingthat turns this unset jelly into
(33:50):
something real.
It gets the unset jelly to set.
It turns the potential ofsomething into an actuality.
So consciousness is veryimportant.
As the creator, we understandthat.
Now it may well be thateverything is consciousness and
we are creating that.
I can't tell you for sure, butI can certainly say that we are
(34:14):
co-creators.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Yeah, and from what you described and I've
experienced that feeling too ofthat I love how you worded it
ecstatic oneness, that's sobeautiful.
And when you reach that stateand even, yes, it's a brainwave
state yes, it's happening insideof your body, but we are
clearly tuning into somethingthat's other than our normal,
default mode of operation and werealize how powerful we are
(34:39):
creating in our lives and in thefield, absolutely, and that is
really the core of my work.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Thank you for saying that, because my work is about
showing people how powerful theyare.
Once they amplify, once theysupersize their intentions in a
group, they are extraordinarilypowerful.
We can heal a city.
We'll demonstrate that.
We can heal ourselves, we canheal each other, we can heal the
(35:09):
world.
And the one big thing I talkedabout of Nicholas Christakis,
who is a sociologist now at YaleUniversity he was, I think,
(35:30):
formerly of Harvard.
He looks at social networks andhe has found and he maps them
too.
He's found that happy peopleare more likely to have happy
friends, not because theyself-select people to be happy
with, but because of the naturalspread of happiness.
But the same occurs withnegative things like loneliness.
(35:50):
You're more likely to havelonely people if you're lonely
because of that spread thecontagion of loneliness.
But also if you do a good deed,if you are altruistic.
But also if you do a good deed,if you are altruistic, that
also spreads down a socialnetwork.
So if Peter is kind to Paul,paul's more likely to be kind to
(36:12):
Jane, jane's more likely to bekind to Sam and Sam's more
likely to be kind to Kirsten,and so far.
On and on and on.
But Sam and Paul and Peter andall of them continue to be
altruistic too.
So you can see how thiscontinues to spread
exponentially.
For instance, let's take 30,000people who were approximately
(36:41):
on my intention experiment lastSaturday.
If they have 50 friends thenthey will start spreading it out
.
That's the most conservative.
Or 150 friends.
If they have 150 friends, thatwill get to spreading out like
that.
4.5 million people.
(37:01):
That is half the population ofsomeplace like Israel.
But imagine they have 600friends on their social network
and that's pretty possible withall of the social media we have
now, all of the connections wehave in the emails and all kinds
of ways.
That's the latest estimate ofhow many people we have contact
(37:25):
with by Columbia University.
That explodes to 18 million.
Now imagine those 18 millionhave 600 friends each.
That totally explodes to 7billion.
That's the population of theworld.
Totally explodes to 7 billion.
(37:46):
That's the population of theworld.
So what I'm really interestedin is the ripple effect, the
huge ripple effect of doinggroup intention and how that
ripples out to the world andwhat we get.
We survey people after everyintention experiment and I will
in a few weeks.
Now I have to give people timeto notice what's changed.
We find that about 40% saytheir relationships are
(38:11):
transformed Suddenly.
They're connecting withestranged partners, estranged
parents, estranged children,people, just, you know, people
they have hated or beenestranged from, suddenly call
them up and connect, or theyreach out and connect.
They're getting along betterwith people not like them,
people they've been polarizedfrom, people with a different
(38:33):
political party, and also about50% feel more love for everyone
they come in contact with.
That's the amazing one.
Then there's another thing about40% 35% to 40% of people taking
part in these experimentsreport healings of some sort.
(38:54):
We had a woman who we did threeintentions for Gaza and Israel,
and there was somebody withtype 1 diabetes whose blood
sugar was completely notcontrolled and suddenly was.
We had people in pain withterrible hip issues, suddenly
out of pain.
Last Saturday we had a guy whohad to leave for a while because
(39:14):
he had panic attack when heparticipated in the experiment.
He said it was gone and thatnever happens.
Somebody else who couldn't lifthis arm his arm was suddenly
over his head.
You know we have so manyhealings.
We've had people even throwaway crutches.
So there's an extraordinarything that happens when we come
(39:35):
together in a group, we magnifyour effect on the target, but we
also magnify this altruistic,this sense of oneness in
ourselves and it createsmiracles.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
So beautiful.
We're not meant to.
We are wired to awaken, butwe're not wired to do it for
ourselves.
It's not all to stay in theselfish me, me, me.
So I just love your work, Ilove what you're doing and I
deeply appreciate how much workand research and data, because
you can say this is what'shappening and here's the data to
back it up, and I reallyappreciate that.
(40:10):
Lynn, thank you so much fortaking your time.
I know how busy you are to joinme and everybody.
Down below will be the links towhere you can find Lynn, join
her masterclass and take part injoining in this small group
because, as Lynn said on thevideo that I watched, it is a
small group that changes theworld.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Absolutely.
All it needs is one goodthought to heal yourself, heal
each other, heal the world.
Thank you so much, joy.
It's been a real joy to be withyou, and anybody want to find
out more about any of this, justcome to lynnmctaggartcom and
we'll also give informationabout a documentary that Gaia
(40:52):
has done about me and my work,and it'll really fill you in on
all of what we've done with thePower of Eight and the Intention
Experiment.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Absolutely fabulous.
Thank you, Lynn.
Thank you, Thank you forlistening to.
We Woke Up Like this.
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And remember, Luminous One,that your radiant and magnetic
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