The Peace Intention Experiment, conducted by Lynne McTaggart in
September, 2008, had been carefully planned in concert with a number of
scientists for sometime. The
idea was to get as many people as possible to participate in sending a
very cohesive and powerful intention of peace and healing to a place
chosen in the world that was in difficulty / conflict.
It and similar experiments to follow had been created to document
scientifically whether collective intentionality, a group of people
thinking / praying with the same focused purpose, can have an
evidential, measurable impact. Participants
did not know, until the first day and time we were to sign on, what the
actual target would be -- which place in the world we would be sending
peace and healing to, together.
In
this first experiment, the target was a location in Sri Lanka, which has
suffered many years of civil war. Because of this conflagration
stemming from religious intolerance, hundreds of thousands of lives have
been lost, as many more continue to suffer the consequences.
The first page after you signed on got you into the frame of mind we
were encouraged to cultivate, quieting our minds into peace in
preparation. I believe she had stated as part of the intention
that we aimed to see at least a 10% decrease in conflict, which a lot of
people found strange, but it was part of "the science," what
the hey. The experiment was
set up to run for several days in a row, at the same time of day,
focused on the same target each time, and which took about 15 minutes.
Once we signed on, the succeeding
pages we saw were timed to automatically transition from one to the
next.
We would sign in, focus ourselves into a quiet meditative state,
then we were shown pictures of many people who had died in one of the
battles and told the story of this region.
We were taken to another page where there was a picture of
children together having a great time and obviously friends who
represented populations from both sides of the fracas – Muslim and
Hindu. They gave us a living example of how this peace could look
and feel in the long run.
Then we were automatically taken to another page with a photo of the
actual target site, a gorgeous valley with a waterfall feeding into a
large pond, surrounded by steep and lush green hills or mountains.
Truly, it looked like a perfect candidate for a holy shrine.
This valley was large, and we could see a small gathering of people at
the edge of the pool of water, as if in a religious ceremony. We
were to look at this photo and send healing, peaceful thoughts, prayers,
energy into this region and these people.
This was the second day I had participated, and Lynne’s very
first global experiment. It
was Tuesday, 9/16/08. Here are my notes from that day [we were
also encouraged to keep a journal of what we experienced]:
While looking into the
picture of that gorgeous waterfall / valley, I suddenly felt this sense
of a palpable Presence of blessing overlighting this whole area, as
discernible as another person -- as one great, pervading entity that
seemed to belong to this specific place. Although this was a ‘static
photograph’ and we were not told when the picture was taken, this
‘Presence’ seemed alive, as if we were looking at a LIVE scene, not
a still picture, totally unique in my experience.
At one point, I felt it come right out of the screen and into
my personal space, like a grateful and loving friend sticking hir
head in the door to say thank you, for the merest second or two, as if
inclusive of each of us in a way that could be experienced individually!
I didn’t see this but then and since, have associated a golden
amorphous coloring and ‘3-D’ impact with this Presence.
What an experience! Needless
to say, I was awe-struck and had to wonder if others had experienced
something like this too, and wrote this up on her forum to see if this
might have been the case. On
that day, and perhaps other days as well, according to later comments by
McTaggart, it turns out "many people" had something on the
order of the same type of astonishing experience. It will be an
adventure to see this continue to develop.
To learn more about Lynne McTaggart's Peace Intention Experiment, go
to: www.peaceintentionexperiment.org .
Also see this Food4Thot: How
May We Together Change the World for the Better?
An
"Inside" Approach
