The Power of Eight: Harnessing the Miraculous Energies of a Small Group to Heal Others, Your Life and the World by McTaggart Lynne

Author:McTaggart, Lynne [McTaggart, Lynne]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Hay House UK Ltd
Published: 2017-09-25T16:00:00+00:00

When we started to plan our 9/11 Peace Intention Experiment, I was careful to use a design that was identical to that of the 2008 Peace Intention Experiment. We would repeat our intention every day for eight days, as we had in 2008, and keep the main members of our original scientific team: Gary, Roger, and Jessica Utts.

Salah and I were of one mind about the target: it had to be Afghanistan. By the time of our experiment, the war had been raging on for almost 10 years. The Helmand and Kandahar provinces of Afghanistan, the two large provinces in the south and the major strongholds of the Taliban, had incurred the highest number of war- and terrorist-related injuries and deaths among both military and civilians of any province in the country. Both areas had been the sites of recent car bombings and suicide bombers, and, as the largest opium market in the world, this area of Afghanistan, which borders on Pakistan, was also the target of terrorist attacks from outsiders. Those involved in fighting the NATO forces’ ‘War on Terror’ were a mix of Taliban fighters and warring tribal groups involved in the opium trade. After the 2010 peace initiative attempted by the then-Afghan government with the Taliban broke down, and after NATO had initiated new offensives as a consequence, the violence had intensified.

Copperstrings designed a web platform that was virtually identical to the one we’d used for our Peace Intention Experiment in 2008, but with two differences: we’d have two sets of the same web pages, one in English and the other in Arabic, and we’d rent even larger server power, as a double insurance against our site crashing. Since One: the Event intended to broadcast the entire three-day event over the internet, Tadzik put us in touch with a woman who had just started up an internet TV station and who offered to do a daily livestream of Salah and me after each day’s experiment by hooking our broadcast into the webcast of the event.

For the broadcast, Salah started out with an unabashed apology on behalf of all Arabs for not being more vigilant, and for allowing the attacks to happen, and I returned the apology for the West’s ‘aggressive and violent response to 9/11’ and offered a pledge ‘to work to avoid violence and political and economic exploitation by offering an alternative to war and to Western economic and political supremacy at any cost’. Both of us also promised to ‘work for greater tolerance of differences of all faiths and creeds’.

When it was time for the intention to begin, the web pages flipped over again, this time to reveal an image of an Afghan boy surrounded by white doves and an image of Caucasian and Arabic hands clasped – a symbol of the East and West coming together.

This time our 9/11 Peace Intention Experiment attracted participants from 75 countries, from Iceland to Brazil and California to Indonesia, and also every Arab country on the planet. People

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