Life-Changing Event

"I went on in my 20s to become a journalist. I was going to put bad guys in jail. I started putting bad guys in jail, and I broke baby selling rings and had hidden cameras and tape recorders. Then I moved over to writing about health and looking at the scientific evidence. That is when I started thinking about the power of the mind and the power of intention, because I saw very good studies of spiritual healing. I kept wondering what does that mean, and how far can we take this. If you can have a thought and send it to someone else and make them better, then that undermines everything we think about how the world works. So I set off to find out why, and that resulted in my book The Field, where I'd interviewed lots of frontier physicists, biologists and other scientists, but recognized that scientists speak in math. They also don't want to move beyond their experimental data to say what does this all mean. I realized with some alarm I was going to have to put this all together. So I did, with The Field, and it described a new science, the coming of a completely new understanding of who we are and how we should live. It also changed the messenger, that really became my purpose."