September 12, 2004: Intent and The Field - Lynne McTaggart
Podcast:The Art Bell Archive Published On: Wed Sep 17 2025 Description: Art Bell opens with updates on Hurricane Ivan, now at Category 5 strength with 160-mile-per-hour winds bearing down on the Cayman Islands. He covers the mysterious North Korean explosion that left a satellite-visible crater, insurgent attacks in central Baghdad, and a SETI signal detected from a thousand light years away that scientists cannot yet explain. A Florida businessman announces plans to dump thousands of pounds of absorbent powder from a 747 into Ivan to weaken the storm.Lynne McTaggart, author of The Field, joins from London to discuss the zero point field, an enormous energy present in the space between all matter that physicists have historically subtracted from their equations. She explains how quantum non-locality and the observer effect suggest that human consciousness acts as an ordering force on indeterminate matter, essentially setting reality like unset jello. McTaggart cites Elmer Green's copper wall experiments, where healers' voltage output increased 100,000 times during intentional healing, emanating primarily from the abdomen.The conversation explores the practical implications of intention science. McTaggart references Elizabeth Targ's studies showing that diverse healers, from Christian practitioners to Native American shamans, produced measurable healing effects on terminal patients regardless of religious framework. She discusses Princeton's Global Consciousness Project, the evidence for precognitive dreams before 9/11, and her plans to conduct large-scale intention experiments with noted scientists.