That is what Lynne McTaggart says in her exciting book, "The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe," which presents a highly understandable explanation of life as an energy field that connects and supports all of us. McTaggart's book draws upon quantum physics, evolutionary biology and cybernetics and other "new" sciences as a basis for making her case.
McTaggart is far from the first to argue this explanation of the life force, but she does a better job than most before her who've tried. Her illustrations of how the life energy field works in everyday life get her an A+ from this student.
Her thinking fits with Fritjof Capra's "Web of Life," Gary Zukav's "Seat of the Soul," Meg Wheatley's "Leadership and the New Sciences," and my Arizona friend Derk Janssen's concept of the "innate energy matrix," or IEM as he calls it. The thinking also coincides with my Cleveland friend Jack Ricchiuto's idea that space is not empty, instead it is filled with the questions that comprise and shape our lives. Many of her ideas mesh well with Aristotle and other philosophers.
There is much to fathom here. These ideas require us to plumb bob the inner depths for signs and understanding. Call us "New Agers," if you like, but more and more people are arriving, by different paths, at the view that everything and everyone in life is connected by a supporting and guiding life force or energy that sustains us. This thinking is causing us to rethink our lives as networks, or webs of life as Capra says. It is helping us to understand our need to become better stewards of the Earth and all associated with it. It is helping us to see that matter and energy originate from the same "life stuff." Yes, this thinking has huge consequences for communities, economies, and organizations of all sorts.
So, let's think about this stuff, and try to apply these ideas to our everyday life. Let's launch some amazing experiments in interconnectedness.
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