The Source Field Investigations (15 page)

The answer may well change everything we think we know about the way the Universe really works. These people got together and meditated—with thoughts of love and peace. Bear in mind that this was a scientific study, published and accepted in the
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation.
They ruled out cycles, trends, weather, weekends, holidays and all other variables—the 72 percent reduction in terrorism had to be caused by them meditating, and nothing else.
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In another example, violent crime in Washington, D.C., was decreased by up to 23.6 percent over a two-month period in the summer of 1993, as the number of participants rose from eight hundred to four thousand—despite the fact that violent crime had been increasing before they met. As soon as their meetings ended, the crime level started going back up again.
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The likelihood that this effect could have been caused by a “chance variation in crime levels” was less than two parts per billion, and all other factors—including temperature, precipitation, weekends, and police and community anticrime activities—were ruled out.
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As of 1993, fifty different scientific studies had rigorously proven that this effect really works—over the preceding thirty years. They were published in mainstream peer-reviewed journals and showed the meditators had created improvements in health and quality of life, as well as decreases in accidents, crime, war and other such factors.
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I propose that this effect works because we’re all sharing the same mind, to some degree. There appears to be a balance between private thoughts and information we acquire directly from the Source Field. Let’s not forget the Institute of HeartMath’s experiments, in which those people with the greatest coherence affected the brain wave patterns and biorhythms of others who were close to them. If seven thousand people can reduce worldwide terrorism by 72 percent, this suggests the Source Field is significantly biased in favor of positive emotions rather than negative ones.

Therefore, any time someone tries to tell you it’s hopeless, that “we’re all going to die,” that some dream or prophecy said we have no ability to control the outcome of our future here on earth, I highly recommend you don’t fall into the trap of indulging in such faceless fear. We can scientifically prove that by simply focusing on a positive attitude in your own life, you are helping to reduce war, terrorism, suffering and death. There is also compelling evidence from Russia that severe weather, earthquakes, volcanic activity and the like can also be reduced by the effects of consciousness, as we will see.

Dr. LaBerge thought the ogre attacking him in his dream was really someone else: the villain, the enemy, the other. However, once he became lucid, he realized the ogre was just a mirror of himself—and love was the key to solving the problem. Now we know that simple meditations on love and peace can actually change the behavior of people out in the world—ordinary folks living their lives, apparently making free will decisions. These are people we will never see, never meet, never know. When even a small number of us move into a state the meditators called “Pure Consciousness,” there is less death, less terrorism and less warfare. According to Saint John of the Cross, from sixteenth-century Spain, “a little of this pure love is more precious to God and the soul and more beneficial to the Church, even though it seems one is doing nothing, than all these other works put together.”
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By “works” he means anything we normally would do in our attempts to help the world. In a book called
The Cloud of Unknowing
, a revered English priest in the fourteenth century referred to this same state as “Pure Contemplation,” and said, “The whole of mankind is wonderfully helped by what you are doing, in ways you do not understand. . . . It is more profitable to your friends, natural and spiritual, dead or alive . . . [and] without it all the rest is virtually worthless.”
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Now that we see how strongly a small group of people can affect everyone’s behavior on a mass scale, the idea that the real world is like a lucid dream or a hologram doesn’t seem so crazy-sounding after all. What if the rules of the dream world actually do apply to the physical world? If so, then all these global disasters may actually be symbolic reflections of our own inner distress: our fear, pain, sorrow and anger. After years of my own meditation, I finally concluded on a deep level that our sadness comes from a very convincing illusion: the seemingly inescapable truth that we feel alone.

The evidence I have already presented here suggests that we all have a soul—constantly watching over us, while also enjoying its own experiences, thoughts and travels. I believe any one of us can reach out to this greater aspect of our own being, and develop the ability to gain reliable spiritual guidance—to understand the greater plan and Purpose we may have chosen to fulfill before we ever came here. We might also avoid a great deal of needless suffering in the process. However, when we resist our Purpose, we only encounter more and more pain, difficulty and seemingly random bad luck. According to Edgar Cayce, the noteworthy psychic reader who practiced in the early twentieth century, ignorance does not grant us an exemption from the great spiritual laws—and this includes the Law of Karma
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—in which whatever we measure out to others will be measured back to us. If we sufficiently violate someone’s free will, we may require another lifetime to balance ourselves out—by enduring similar hardships. Cayce also said we can eliminate this entire cycle of karma by practicing true forgiveness and acceptance—both of ourselves and of others. That, ultimately, appears to be the core Purpose we are all here to achieve. And if it were easy, we wouldn’t require multiple incarnations to figure it out.

I realize the label “God” for some people is emotionally charged—although you may now be thinking differently about such a “foolish notion” after reading these last few chapters. Either way, the Cayce Readings used this word to discuss the universal intelligence that we have been investigating in this book. Cayce’s Readings, which allegedly came from a greater part of his own being that spoke while he was under hypnosis, said all the disturbances in the world today—wars, terrorism, government corruption, natural disasters, earthquakes—were all part of a big Story that we are being told. It’s a story about our Selves, and our relationship to the Universe.

The Cayce Readings spoke of God as a universal loving intelligence that does not discriminate against anyone—nor should we: “More wars, more bloodshed have been shed over the racial and religious differences than over any other problem. These, too, must go the way of all others; and man must learn . . . whether they be called of this or that sect or schism or ism or cult, the Lord is ONE.”
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According to the Cayce Readings, you don’t need to get a group of seven thousand people together in order to be effective. The reality of our greater shared mind is powerful enough that even ten souls can do an amazing amount of good for the planet.

Dr. Hew Len, a Hawaiian psychiatrist,
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discovered a similar technique that could substantially increase health and happiness in the psychiatric ward he managed. It didn’t start out very well: “That ward where they kept the criminally insane was dangerous. Psychologists quit on a monthly basis. The staff called in sick a lot or simply quit. People would walk through that ward with their backs against the wall, afraid of being attacked by patients.”
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Dr. Len’s job allowed him to be completely isolated from the ward—he reviewed patients’ case files to prescribe medication and/or treatment plans with the staff. Nonetheless, by simply holding each patient’s file in his hand and practicing the “Ho’oponopono” technique we are about to discover, he got results.

What exactly was Dr. Len doing while he reviewed each patient’s file? He simply took on their pains and problems as if they were his own, and worked on healing those issues within himself: “I just kept saying ‘I’m sorry’ and ‘I love you’ over and over again.”
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Dr. Len was practicing his own variation of a Hawaiian spiritual practice called Ho’oponopono.
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Dr. Len recommends going inside, to wherever you feel hurt by a particular person or issue, and then saying each of these four statements with as much feeling as possible—thinking through the real reasons why you genuinely feel this way: “I love you. I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.”
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That’s all it takes. You heal the other person by healing yourself—and this apparently works because in the greater sense, you are both sharing the same Mind.

I’ve encountered some very sarcastic people in my life. They don’t want to hear about spirituality. They don’t care about religion. They see a Higher Purpose as nothing more than ignorant nonsense. They use Science as a weapon against anyone who believes there is a loving Purpose to the universe—that we are more than just “meat computers” who struggle for a while on the earth before our Awareness fades into a black nothingness.

At the other extreme, I have met religious fundamentalists—including Christians and occultists—who can be just as aggressive, and just as certain that they must be right. As soon as they hear the word
god
, or any of a number of other words, they feel like they automatically know exactly what that means—and there’s no point in arguing with them. It’s as if everybody were in a big horse race, and we all want our lucky number to take home the big prize. Religious folks may even try to use the scientific breakthroughs in this book as proof that their small group of chosen or elect will soar up into the heavens—while the rest of us burn in eternal hellfire. Dr. David B. Barrett spent forty years, and enlisted the help of 444 specialists, to discover that there are over ten thousand different religions in the world—of which 150 have at least one million followers. Dr. Barrett went and visited most of these 238 nations and territories in person. He found that within Christianity alone, there are an incredible 38,830 denominations.
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So, with almost fifty thousand groups in competition—38,830 splinters of Christianity, combined with ten thousand other world religions—how many of them honestly believe that unless you see things their way, you might as well kiss your butt good-bye?

Imagine how quickly Christianity would have failed if Bible scholars could quote Jesus as saying, “Love thy neighbor as thyself . . . as long as he’s a Christian. Otherwise, go ahead and kill him. You’ll be doing us both a favor, believe me.”

I have a strong feeling that as the Source Field investigations become increasingly mainstream—no longer suppressed by ignorance, threats or worse—the positive effects will rapidly increase. We don’t have to wish that our leaders and politicians will obey the campaign promises we voted for in the first place. We don’t need to sit by and wait for a Messiah, or Divine Intervention, in the hopes that we will be rescued from some terrible fate that is outside our control. Cayce’s interpretation of the Book of Revelation confirmed that the Earth Changes are not merely random events—they are a “real world” story of our struggle to love and respect each other. In reading 281-16, Cayce’s source said, “The visions, the experiences, the names, the churches, the places, the dragons, the cities [in the Book of Revelation] all are but emblems of those forces that may war within the individual in its journey through the material.”
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And what about the dreaded anti-Christ that so many Christians and conspiracy theorists shout from the rooftops about?

The Cayce Readings also gave dramatic new insight into the devastating events of the Tribulation that many people—Christians or otherwise—are expecting. The existing catastrophes we are already experiencing now—the earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes—are said to be a collective mirror of what each of us is going through. This again demonstrates the principle of a shared consciousness.