Lynne McTaggart who is an award winning journalist, bestselling author and well known researcher in the subject of consciousness and intention, has organized a global intention experiment where participants have achieved healing from long standing health issues, mended relationships and found and pursued their life’s purpose, even leaving their prior less-fulfilling jobs behind.  McTaggart’s award-winning books The Field, and The Power of Eight--among others…explain the existence of an interconnected web of everyone’s thoughts and feelings. She speaks about the “science of spirituality” and how we can put our heartfelt focused intentions to work with just our imagination and achieve positive outcomes for ourselves and for the planet. 

Read more details:

Considered an expert for her cutting-edge work with consciousness and power of intention, McTaggart has developed what she calls a “global laboratory” of scientists, well-known universities and a vast online community of volunteers who are called on periodically to focus their intentions, together, towards a particular outcome. Many of McTaggart’s global online scientific lab experiments have produced positive results, validating the idea that our focused intentions are indeed a powerful creative force. 

To date, the Intention Experiment has shown the use of focused intention to help bring peace to areas of the world that truly need it, as well as to the personal relationships of participants. 

The Geranium Experiment:

One example of McTaggart’s ‘intention experiments’ was her first in 2007 which was conducted with Dr. Gary Schwartz, a psychologist and Director at the Center for Advances in Consciousness and Health at the University of Arizona. Dr. Schwartz was experienced in research with energy healing and was the first scientist to photograph light (biophoton) emissions from living things using his super cooled charge-coupled device (CCD) camera system. 

The experiment set out to see if the focused intentions of McTaggart’s worldwide participants could have a quantifiable effect on a healthy geranium leaf. A second healthy geranium leaf served as the control. More than thirty data points of comparison were established and a 50-step protocol was followed. Dr. Schwartz also punctured both geranium leaves sixteen times each so they would have enough comparison points. A coin toss was used to select the leaf to which the group would be asked to send their intentions for a period of ten minutes, and the other served as the control. The participants viewed the leaf online with the intention for the leaf to ‘glow and glow.’  Dr. Schwartz was unaware which leaf was the control until after the experiment and photos had been taken, and data compiled. Photos from his specialized camera revealed that all the punctures in the experimental leaf were filled with light while all the holes in the control leaf were dark. These results were remarkably and statistically significant.

Additionally, to the surprise of all, researchers have found a remarkable byproduct of this process. Individuals who have intended healing to others or plants or water have found those intentions “reflected back” in the form of better relationships with their loved ones and with everyone they encounter along their life’s path. In short, participants had more good feelings towards everyone, and felt more love for anyone with whom they came into contact, including people outside their circle, after participating in the ‘global laboratory’ experiment. 

With this outcome as an example, McTaggart and others believe that  our focused intentions could likewise create a more peaceful world! 

Note: Another outcome that was corroborated in this experiment was the idea that when large scale or world events occur, the feelings of the masses are synchronized and this is reflected in increased order in random number generators (RNGs), suggesting a unifying field of consciousness. See another Good Info Gem: Random Number Generators become more Ordered during Events of Worldwide or Large Scale Attention)

Video:  Lynne McTaggart and Dr. Gary Schwartz recap details of this Intention Experiment