The book you hold in your hands is revolutionary, a groundbreaking exploration of the science of intention. It is also the first book to invite you, the reader, to take an active part in its original research. Drawing on the findings of leading scientists on human consciousness from around the world, The Intention Experiment demonstrates that thought is a thing that affects other things. Thought generates its own palpable energy that you can use to improve your life, to help others around you, and to change the world.

In The Intention Experiment, internationally bestselling author Lynne McTaggart, an award-winning science journalist and leading figure in the human consciousness studies community, presents a gripping scientific detective story and takes you on a mind-blowing journey to the farthest reaches of consciousness. She profiles the colorful pioneers in intention science and works with a team of renowned scientists from around the world, including physicist Fritz-Albert Popp of the International Institute of Biophysics and Dr. Gary Schwartz, professor of psychology, medicine, and neurology at the University of Arizona, to determine the effects of focused group intention on scientifically quantifiable targets — animal, plant, and human.

The Intention Experiment builds on the discoveries of McTaggart's first book, international bestseller The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe, which documented discoveries that point to the existence of a quantum energy field. The Field created a picture of an interconnected universe and a scientific explanation for many of the most profound human mysteries, from alternative medicine and spiritual healing to extrasensory perception and the collective unconscious. The Intention Experiment shows you myriad ways that all this information can be incorporated into your life.

After narrating the exciting developments in the science of intention, McTaggart offers a practical program to get in touch with your own thoughts, to increase the activity and strength of your intentions, and to begin achieving real change in your life. After you've begun to realize the amazing potential of focused intention, and the times when it is most powerful, McTaggart invites you to participate in an unprecedented experiment: Using The Intention Experiment website to coordinate your involvement and track results, you and other participants around the world will focus your power of intention on specific targets, giving you the opportunity to become a part of scientific history.

The Intention Experiment redefines what a book does. It is the first "living" book in three dimensions. The book's text and website are inextricably linked, forming the hub of an entirely self-funded research program, the ultimate aim of which is philanthropic. An original piece of scientific investigation that involves the reader in its quest, The Intention Experiment explores human thought and intention as a tangible energy — an inexhaustible but simple resource with an awesome potential to focus our lives, heal our illnesses, clean up our communities, and improve the planet.

The Intention Experiment also forces you to rethink what it is to be human. As it proves, we're connected to everyone and everything, and that discovery demands that we pay better attention to our thoughts, intentions, and actions. Here's how you can.

"Lynne McTaggart has zeroed in on a wonderful collection of experiments and events that shatters our normal materialistic assumptions of time, space, and everything in between (if there is an in-between). It's as mind-bending as it's meant to be." — William Arntz, producer, writer, and director of "What the BLEEP Do We Know!?" and author of What the BLEEP Do We Know!? - Discovering the Endless Possibilities For Altering Your Everyday Reality

"I absolutely agree with Lynne McTaggart that your thoughts radiate out like a shining star, affecting everyone in your path. Become a positive, beautiful, glimmering, blissful being of light. Read this book. You'll be gratefully happy." — Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., Associate Fellow, The Center For Spirituality and The Mind, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, www.drdharma.com

"Lynne is my twin soul...We are strongly connected on some resonance field." — Masaru Emoto, author of Messages from Water

"Very few books are able to transform information into inspiration--concepts into action--word into deed. The Intention Experiment does exactly that. In a style that is highly entertaining and accessible, McTaggart reminds us of an eternal truth too often overlooked: Each of us possesses the power of the Universe WITHIN. Now that is a transformational read!" — Ward M. Powers, Filmmaker and Director, "ONE: The Movie"

"The Intention Experiment is an extraordinary advance in our understanding of consciousness as a field of all possibilities where intention orchestrates it own fulfillment. If you want to empower yourself and usethe laws of intention to manifest your material reality, read this book." — Deepak Chopra, author of Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment

"The Intention Experiment contains the leading evidence for really understanding the true potential that lies with each one of us. If you are truly interested in manifesting abundance and learning the true power you possess, read it now." — John Assaraf, Entrepreneur and Author of The Street Kid's Guide to Having It All

"Civilization is on the verge of a massive transformation in consciousness, one so profound that it will change life on this planet. Though we are currently bound by habit and tradition to an outmoded view of the universe and life, Lynne McTaggart's eminently readable synthesis is pregnant with new, exciting and optimistic insights that can assist us in realizing our rebirth." — Bruce H. Lipton, PhD, cell biologist and author of The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles

"In The Intention Experiment, McTaggart has accomplished the remarkable task of explaining the science of intention with clarity and precision. This book is a must for everyone interested in advancing the creative abilities of their own consciousness." — Caroline Myss, author of Entering the Castle and Invisible Acts of Power

Lynne McTaggart is an internationally recognized spokesperson on the science of spirituality and the award-winning author of five books, including The Field, which has been published in fourteen languages. She is also co-executive director of Conatus, which publishes some of the world's most respected health and spiritual newsletters, including What Doctors Don't Tell You and Living the Field. She lives in London.

Preface

Introduction

PART I

THE SCIENCE OF INTENTION

Chapter 1: Mutable Matter

Chapter 2: The Human Antenna

Chapter 3: The Two-Way Street

Chapter 4: Hearts That Beat as One

PART II

POWERING UP

Chapter 5: Entering Hyperspace

Chapter 6: In the Mood

Chapter 7: The Right Time

Chapter 8: The Right Place

PART III

THE POWER OF YOUR THOUGHTS

Chapter 9: Mental Blueprints

Chapter 10: The Voodoo Effect

Chapter 11: Praying for Yesterday

Chapter 12: The Intention Experiment

PART IV

THE EXPERIMENTS

Chapter 13: The Intention Exercises

Chapter 14: Your Personal Intention Experiments

Chapter 15: The Group Intention Experiments

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author