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Lynn is the editorial director of 27 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:25,039 Speaker 1: What's Doctors Don't Tell You, and she is also the 28 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:28,760 Speaker 1: architect of the Intention Experiments that we've talked about on 29 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: this program quite a bit. She's a member of both 30 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: the Transformational Leadership Council launched by Jack Canfield and the 31 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 1: Evolutionary leaders launched by Deepak Chopra. Lynn mc taggart, Back 32 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: on Coast to Coast, Lynn, what a great time to 33 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 1: have you on. Welcome back, No thanks, George, it's great 34 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: to be back with you. Great work too, by the way, 35 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: And we're gonna get into the title, which I think 36 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: is very important to all this. But man, isn't this 37 00:01:55,800 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 1: world gone nuts lately? Oh my goodness. I you know, 38 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: it's just shocking to see what's going on everywhere in 39 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: the world. And of course I'm over here in the 40 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: UK and we're having the same kinds of weird breakdowns 41 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 1: in every way. So yeah, it's I mean it's it's 42 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 1: been a feeling of mine, a growing feeling that we 43 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: have to do some things ourselves. Basically, Lenna, is there 44 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 1: concerns in London over what's happening here at the United 45 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 1: States in terms of all this uh what appears to 46 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: be chaos. Oh, there's concern about the political situation. There's 47 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: concern about the environmental situation and all of the you know, 48 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: the giant hurricanes, the floods, all of the things going on, 49 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 1: and you know, the political gridlock and the anger and 50 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 1: the polarization. Absolutely, and there's there's sympathy for the people. Now, 51 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 1: there's no no question. Now you wrote that book, The 52 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 1: intention experiment inspired I think millions of people all around 53 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:06,679 Speaker 1: the planet in worldwide healing projects. Tell me the results 54 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 1: and how you got into that, and then we're going 55 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: to talk about the power of ait. That interesting title 56 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 1: for your new work, Well it really I started it, essentially, 57 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,920 Speaker 1: George as a skeptic. You know, I have a background 58 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: as an investigative reporter. That's where I came from. I mean, 59 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 1: I started out life doing busting baby selling rings, you know, 60 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: that was those are my first types of jobs. And 61 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:34,839 Speaker 1: so when I got into writing about medicine, and then 62 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 1: got writing it about consciousness and why things like spiritual 63 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: healing might work. Um, there was a lot of information 64 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: from scientists that thoughts are a thing that can affect 65 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: other things. And also this was the time of a 66 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: lot of stuff about the law of attraction and the 67 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: secret But the investigative reporter in me said, well, okay, 68 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: well what can you do with this? You know, if 69 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 1: thoughts are so powerful, why are we using this to 70 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: manifest a parking space? You know, why don't we use 71 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: this to start healing things? You know, big things in 72 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: the world, like can we cure cancer with our thoughts? Um? 73 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 1: Can we stop worse with our thoughts? And I also 74 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 1: wondered whether or not having a lot of people thinking 75 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:25,039 Speaker 1: the same thought at the same time would magnify that effect. 76 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,479 Speaker 1: So I've thought, Okay, I'm gonna put this to the test. 77 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: I'm going to create the biggest experiment in the world. 78 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 1: And I knew I have a lot of contacts with 79 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: many prestigious scientists consciousness research. And I also had a 80 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 1: lot of readers because the field was in thirty languages. 81 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:46,719 Speaker 1: So I thought, well, if I just put them together 82 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 1: and have them come on my website every so often 83 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: and do this kind of thought experiment of the biggest 84 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: global laboratory in the world. So that's what I've done 85 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: since two thousand and seven. We've run about thirty of 86 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 1: them so far, everything from you know, very subtle effects 87 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: on a leaf, to trying to make plants grow faster, 88 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 1: to making changing and purifying water, making changing the pH 89 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:16,559 Speaker 1: and other things, to lowering violence and peace creating peace 90 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: and war torn areas, and finally to trying to heal 91 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: somebody with PTSD. And of those thirty experiments, George have 92 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:31,839 Speaker 1: demonstrated positive, mostly significant effects. Now, to put that in perspective, 93 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: there's no prescription there's no prescription drug out there that 94 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 1: that that has that kind of track, right, And this 95 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: is beyond astronomical odds. Oh absolutely, I mean there's gazillion 96 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:49,599 Speaker 1: to one odds that this could be just chance. Just 97 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 1: so when you started doing these intention experiments, did they 98 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,479 Speaker 1: surprise you? Did the results surprise you? Oh? Yeah, I 99 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: mean I was probably less convinced it was going to 100 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: work that my editor did it was, um, I was 101 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 1: not sure. I put a lot of qualifiers in the book, 102 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: but I was willing to give it a go and 103 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 1: really to put my neck on the line with it 104 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 1: because I wanted to find out how far we could 105 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,040 Speaker 1: take it. So I was really shocked by a lot 106 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 1: of things, but one of them was just the fact 107 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: that distance didn't matter. And also we didn't have to 108 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:31,279 Speaker 1: send a thought to the thing, only a representation of 109 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: the thing. For instance, one of my seed experiments, which 110 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: was done with the University of Arizona Dr Gary schwartz Um, 111 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: I ran this six times, and each time the scientists 112 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 1: would create four sets of seeds abc D. We would 113 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:50,919 Speaker 1: randomly choose one set. Scientists wouldn't know which one we chose, 114 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: they will have just sent us the photos of the seeds. 115 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:58,280 Speaker 1: And if I was giving a talk somewhere or with 116 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:01,280 Speaker 1: my audience over the internet, I would run this experiment. 117 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 1: So the first time I ran it, I was in Sydney, Australia, 118 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,919 Speaker 1: speaking before a group of about seven people, and we 119 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: sent intention to one of the target seeds that we've chosen, 120 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: and the scientists we told them they were done. They 121 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: planted the seeds and measured them five days later, and 122 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 1: the seeds we sent intention to grew significantly higher than 123 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: the controls. Now just unpacked this for a second, George, 124 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: I'm not sending in my audience, aren't sending intention to 125 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: the thing itself. We're sending intention to a photograph of 126 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 1: the thing. Plus we're in Sydney, Australia, and the seeds 127 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: are in Tucson, Arizona, eight thousand miles away. So that 128 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 1: gave me the idea that when we come together as 129 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 1: a group, we create a kind of psychic internet, and 130 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: that we can travel any kind of distance and we 131 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 1: can send something just to a symbol of the thing 132 00:07:55,640 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: and it will still work. When Hurricane Irma was picking 133 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: up steam, I did one of these intention experiments based 134 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 1: on the things you've taught us, and we used the 135 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: audience and you know, I'm not going to say we 136 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 1: did this, but it dropped from a Category five down 137 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: to a one, or it would have devastated Florida. Well, 138 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: it's very interesting, you know, I think there's something to it. 139 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 1: You know, we've done three experiments, four experiments on lowering 140 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: violence in violent areas or war touring areas, and every 141 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 1: time the results have demonstrated, you know, a significant lowering. Now, 142 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,440 Speaker 1: as you say, it could be coincidence, but if you 143 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 1: keep doing this over and over and over again. This 144 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 1: starts getting very compelling. And there's certainly been many informal 145 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: intention experiments I've run with people on whether and some 146 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 1: of my students have run on their weather, you know, 147 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 1: trying to make it more rain and things like that 148 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: that again make for some sort of compelling story. But 149 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: what we've tried to do is to show it with 150 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:14,680 Speaker 1: working with a scientist at Penn State or University of 151 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:19,839 Speaker 1: California or University of Arizona and actually quantified it with 152 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: controls and all of that in very robust scientific studies. 153 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 1: What is it, Lenn, What is it out there that 154 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 1: makes this happen, makes us work? That's the question. Hey, Um, 155 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 1: A lot of scientists are basically now seeing that consciousness 156 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 1: is a giant sea of energy essentially, you know, it's 157 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: what I called the field, and that we tap into 158 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:51,679 Speaker 1: this as individuals, and that as a collective we tap 159 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:57,839 Speaker 1: in and essentially we amplify the power, and that what 160 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: we're doing really is mooning in rather than projecting out. 161 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: And so think about your brain as not being and 162 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 1: your mind and consciousness is not being locked inside your head, 163 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: but as being something like a television station that beams 164 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: out information to the universe and also pulls in information 165 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 1: like a television set. And so perhaps we are just 166 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: tapping into this giant collective consciousness. You know, it's not 167 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: anything we know for sure, but we also know too 168 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 1: from scientific studies that we're beings of light. We send 169 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 1: out a very subtle current of light emissions called bio 170 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:46,719 Speaker 1: photon emissions, and it could well be that thoughts are 171 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: another element of these little this little current of light. 172 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: We also know other living things are sending this light back, 173 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 1: and so almost synchronicitous lee so as though you're having 174 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 1: a conversation of light and we know we're beaming out 175 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: twenty four seven. I mean, in many experiments, I've demonstrated 176 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 1: that all of our thoughts are beaming out there, and 177 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: so when we focus them on something in particular, it 178 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 1: may magnify the power. Listen to more Coast to Coast 179 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: a M every week night at one a m. Eastern 180 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:21,960 Speaker 1: and go to Coast to Coast a M dot com 181 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: for more