Lynne McTaggart: The Power of Eight
Lynne McTaggart: I think it’s very interesting to take The Bond even further, the whole idea that not only are we connected to each other in every way, but that we need to live in a new way. If we aren’t separate, if this is our new story, all of those books are really all about the new story that new science is writing about who we are and the latent powers that we have within ourselves. Then we have to live in a very different way because the way we live now is essentially I win, you lose. It’s all about competitive individualism. And that really needs to change.
Sandie Sedgbeer: The original the newsletter, What Doctors Don’t Tell You, which I said, I first came across back in the ’90s when I was living in England, I mean, that was a very courageous thing to do at that time.
Lynne McTaggart: I think it’s a more courageous thing to do now, because back then, I mean we were lauded as a voice in the silence. Our first issue got put on a big page of The Times and written about, and all the papers called us, wonderful for what we were doing, important work. A lot of publications have had many more ties with government and big pharmacy, big pharma, That kind of independent thinking is gone in a lot of these publications, and they have we’ve been under more attack more recently by skeptic organizations trying to close us down. Happily, we have many more supporters than skeptics, and our supporters, when they’ve taken us out of a store, as they did in 2013, a supermarket caved into some of that pressure because these skeptics were writing to stores and demanding that we are banned, our readers banned the store. They boycotted the store. So, they had to put us back in there.
Sandie Sedgbeer: And it’s interesting how it’s all beginning to merge now, the science, the spirituality. I mean, even in medicine, we know the placebo effect works, we know that people can get better when you, send intentions to them. So, the lines are blurred.
Lynne McTaggart: There’s too much information now about near-death experiences, of people who were completely conscious during comas, all that kind of thing for us to say, yeah, there’s something more here. This reality that we have described is way out of date.
Sandie Sedgbeer: So, do you feel now that you’ve got a kind of mission to continue this work till the results are absolute, conclusive?
Lynne McTaggart: We had two big intention experiments in the autumn that we are just collating now. The first one was a big American piece intention experiment. We sent intention to the most violent street in America in St. Louis, Missouri, and we’re collating those results. They look pretty good. It looks like violent crime went down in that area, and property crime did not. But, we were focusing on violence. So, that’s interesting.
Sandie Sedgbeer: We’ve got this, Cambridge analytical thing going on now, and everybody’s up in arms about, people, being persuaded to do things that maybe they wouldn’t have done otherwise. When here we have a tool, a really, solid tool where we can actually send intention out into the world. We don’t need, bots and computers to influence people. We can offset that with the power of intention for a little bit of sanity and compassion in the world.
Lynne McTaggart: That’s a great idea. I think we might need more of that just judging from the technology we now have and the capability for, for interference that we now have, too.
Sandie Sedgbeer: Are you ever tempted to set an intention experiment to, to have a bit of sanity and compassion in the White House?
Lynne McTaggart: Well, what I’ve tried to do is really focus on the people themselves. I mean, last Saturday was the march of our lives where people in 850 locations around America were marching, and in the UK, were marching for greater gun control following the Florida shooting. And this was organized by, the 17-year-old survivors.
I sent intention, I had a little live Facebook event and wrote about the idea of inclusiveness, that one thing the young people did that I thought was very smart is they didn’t say guns should be banned, they didn’t attack people who had guns. They were saying, let’s focus on the values we may all share, which is we don’t want guns shooting high school kids, do we, and we don’t want mass shootings anymore, so we need greater controls over that.
I think the whole idea of being inclusive and not allowing corrupt politicians or corrupt lobbyists to influence the electorate to make us all understand, we don’t want kids shot in schools. So, let’s all ban together and not allow them to create divisiveness.
Sandie Sedgbeer: That’s a brilliant intention. I heartily endorse that one. Can you tell our readers how they can participate in your experiments, and very briefly, what is the next big experiment you’ve got coming up?
Lynne McTaggart: So, they can participate by coming to my website, lynnemctaggart.com. They can join in with my various workshops, my retreats, my master classes, my year-long master classes. And if they want to set up a Power of Eight group, they can come onto lynnemctaggart.com/forum where they can either put up an announcement that they want to start one or join one of the many hundreds of groups forming around the world. As for my next big experiment, I think we’re going to focus some more on the Middle East and use that kind of technology to bring lots of different people together.
Sandie Sedgbeer: The Power of Eight is published by Atria Books and is available at all good bookstores and online. And for more information about all of Lynne’s work and her workshop seminars, groups, etc., visit lynnemctaggart.com.
