In this Part 2 of our dialogue, fellow visionary Lynne McTaggart and I give examples of various contemporary scientists and scientific experiments that have been and are demonstrating how the so-called “quantum reality” of interconnectedness, non-locality and the “observer effect” extend to the “big world” of everyday reality as we all experience it (see, for example Programs 6 and 8 on this site with world-renowned biologist Rupert Sheldrake). These examples are explained in easily understandable and accessible terms revealing their relevance to our lives. One of the major implications of these experimental findings which emerges is that we all influence the world that we experience through our perceptions and intentions, whether we do so consciously or unconsciously.

At the end of the description of our previous dialogue (Program 43), I made reference to Richard Tarnas (Programs 31 and 32) and his phrase “participatory epistemology”. This phrase is an elegant etymological way of saying that what we know (or think we know), and how we know things, is dependent on our “participation”, at whatever level of consciousness we bring to the moment of awareness. In this dialogue Lynne and I describe how this phenomenon is called the “observer effect” by scientists who now understand that there is no such thing as a “passive neutral” or “objective” observer or observation of a separate reality independent of subjective perception. A corollary of this is that everything in our alive universe is interconnected and the future is open to be influenced and shaped by the power of our conscious intention.

To connect to this understanding we must, like the scientists we dialogue about, be willing to open to this paradoxical new and ancient worldview beyond the modern superstitions of mainstream industrial culture that take the Newtonian classical laws of physics to be immutable and all-encompassing -- limiting our reality to a world of matter and mind separate from one another in which our best intentions seem to matter little in the face of larger, impersonal forces fueled by the competitive desire to dominate.

How we can understand the difference between conscious, inclusive, intention for the larger good and mere self-referential desire, and how we can bring this awareness to our own “participation” in shaping our world, individually and collectively, is the subject of this dialogue and of Lynne’s new book The Intention Experiment. The worldwide experiments being designed and conducted by Lynne and her team of world scientists are directly relevant to our planetary evolution, involving how each of us can together impact global warming, the proliferating conflicts and violence in different areas of the world, etc.

And what is particularly useful and innovative in this is that Lynne is structuring pioneering worldwide experiments in conscious intention that any of us can participate in at this time by simply: (1) listening to this dialogue to first learn the basics of the nature and power of intention in the way described in this dialogue (and in her book), and then (2) going to the websites referenced by clicking on the Episode Detail orange box above at the left of this dialogue description.

If you are interested and have not already done so, you can begin this process by reading the description of dialogue Program 43 below – Part 1 of my dialogue with Lynne McTaggart, referencing her earlier ground-breaking book, The Field – and listening to that Program.

And stay tune next week and after for my two-part dialogue with Eckhart Tolle (Programs 45 and 46), whose series of 10 web programs with Oprah on his book A New Earth have involved over 2 million participants each week. My dialogues with Eckhart on his and our collective awakening to the Power of Now and the centrality of this to the evolutionary unfolding of our planet are directly complementary to the series with Oprah.

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