Lynne McTaggart

"There's an audacious side to me, probably from a mentor of mine, from my early journalistic days, who said, I haven't said no till they kick you down the stairs. That really stayed with me. I guess there's always been a certain audacity, a certain idea that yeah, I could do it, and I hold on to that all the time."

"I have a really strong need to change things, to rip down old paradigms and to create new ones, and I have a really strong need to help other people. I think that went through with our work with What Doctors Don't Tell You. We have covered just about every kind of illness and tried to offer people healthy solutions that don't harm. We are very aware of the state of modern medicine and the fact that it is just an extraordinarily greedy business now, with nothing to do with healing. That has been a really important factor for me."

"One of the struggles that I encountered was working sometimes with editors whose work I didn't agree with. The words are really important to me, the rhythms are really important to me, so I think it was that struggle of maintaining my own integrity that was difficult sometimes. Also trying to put together what are some big ideas, I must have worn out a carpet upstairs just walking back and forth on it, trying to figure out what does this all mean, how does this all fit together, and trying to also turn that into language that ordinary folks can understand, including me."

"I guess I think of my purpose now as changing paradigm, the I win you lose paradigm, and trying to do something different, and trying to be more loving in groups, large and small, and to create grids, and to show how these extraordinary mirror effects happen. The final thing that I feel has morphed out of all of the work that I've done is some thinking recently about thinking, well, those people in charge, they really don't know what they're doing, we need an army of change makers. I suddenly thought, well, I guess I have an army of change makers. I've got tens of thousands of power of eight groups around the world. What if I brought them together and gave them some free tools and had them join together, groups and other groups, we could affect change from the bottom up. So that's what I've been doing now in what I call the Eight Revolution. My purpose is to change the way things are, and I guess I do it one word at a time."

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"If you're creating and talking about a new paradigm, the scientific community, the standard scientific community, is not going to hug you back. They are going to say critical things without really understanding. My field has been said to be nothing more than Star Wars. It's got 400 plus scientific references, it's just in a paradigm that the old paradigm doesn't yet understand but is coming into understanding now. I wrote that book 25 years ago. We have a magazine called What Doctors Don't Tell You, and we write about what works and what doesn't work in conventional and alternative medicine. Occasionally we get skeptic organizations trying to shut us down and try to take us out of newsstands and all sorts of things like that. We've learned these people are not going to hug back, and you have to stand up and fight for yourself sometimes, which we have, and we've prevailed."

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"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."

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"We need community more than anything else, more than we need to breathe, we need to belong. Creating these small groups have been a really important part of my life in big intention experiments because I've seen massive healings with people, people who have healed medical conditions, stage four cancer, three people getting up out of their wheelchairs, untold people with stage four cancer reversing it. I had a woman who was going blind, doctors could do nothing for her, one power of eight group and she's completely healed, she has 20/20 vision now. We've had so many situations like that where people have been healed as a result of just coming together in this group and doing these techniques that I teach them. Then with the big groups, we found extraordinary rebound effects, where half of the people taking part in our intention experiments, focusing on lowering violence somewhere, feel more love for everyone they come in contact with. Somebody said to me, you're doing more than research, you're cracking open people's hearts."

"For me, it's really simple. When I want to get something done, I actually set many goals and many intentions and I work at it. If I'm writing a book, I won't leave my desk until I've written at least 1,000 words a day. Then I know my other goal is I've got to have 5,000 done by the end of the week, and then I've got to have something else done by the end of that week. By the end of the month, I've got a very clean chapter, and by the end of the year, I have my book. I literally do that. I'm at my desk at 9:30 every day. The real key elements for me are setting myself intentions, large and small. There's always been a certain audacity, a certain idea that yeah, I could do it, and I hold on to that all the time. I always try to aim as high as I can. I think those things are really important in understanding how to find your purpose. Never ever play small, always play the big."