Lynne McTaggart

Lynne McTaggart (born 1951) is an American journalist, author, publisher, lecturer, and spokesperson. According to her author profile, she is a spokesperson "on consciousness, the new physics, and the practices of conventional and alternative medicine". McTaggart is co-executive director of Conatus and is the author of six books, including The Intention Experiment and The Field.

Career

In her autobiography, McTaggart reports that she had an illness and identified "a toxic yeast" as the cause. Then, in conjunction with a homeopathic doctor, she developed a special diet that she says cured it. As a result, her husband, Bryan Hubbard, suggested that McTaggart write a newsletter on the risks of some medical practices and he devised the title: "What Doctors Don't Tell You". In 1996, McTaggart published a book using the same name. She also published a "What Doctors Don't Tell You" handbook on the potential dangers of child vaccinations in 1992 and a cancer handbook, which was updated in 2000. She and her husband run a company, Conatus, which publishes newsletters and magazines related to health and spirituality including, What Doctors Don't Tell You, PROOF!, and Living the Field.

McTaggart says about the relationship of the medical industry and the public: "the roles are the reverse of what many people think: we debate with fact against an establishment which argues with emotion."

In her book, The Field, McTaggart discusses scientific discoveries that she says support the theory that the universe is unified by an interactive field. The book has been translated into fourteen languages.

In her book, The Intention Experiment, she discusses research in the field of human consciousness which she says supports the theory that "the universe is connected by a vast quantum energy field" and can be influenced by thought. This book has been translated into eighteen languages.

The Colorado Daily reports that McTaggart has organized several "mind-over-matter experiments" including an effort to improve the quality of the water in Lake Biwa, Japan. These "experiments" involve having people focus their thoughts to create a physical change. The Daily writes that McTaggart says she has scientific evidence that the method works.

McTaggart has a personal development program called "Living The Field", which is based on an interpretation of the zero point field as applied to quantum mechanics.

McTaggart appears in the extended version of the movie What the Bleep Do We Know!?, as well as the movie, The Living Matrix - The Science of Healing.

McTaggart was listed in Watkins' Mind Body Spirit magazine as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in 2012.

Criticism

What Doctors Don't Tell You has been cited for factual errors in their attacks on medicine, such as confusing the antiviral drug Tamiflu for a vaccine and attributing deaths to a nonexistent avian influenza vaccine.

The Field has been characterized by Mark Henderson of The Times as pseudoscience, focusing on her personal understanding of quantum physics as a misconception.

McTaggart has responded to these criticisms. For Ben Goldacre's article, she stated, "Quackbuster Ben Goldacre had centered an entire column around the fact that a casual e-news blast written by another WDDTY journalist... — incorrectly referred to Tamiflu as a vaccine, not a drug. That’s it. It should be noted that that incorrect label (for that is all it is) never appeared in the WDDTY publication. Furthermore, we corrected that detail in a subsequent e-blast." Responding to Mark Henderson's criticisms, she stated "Each of the 80 or so scientists who were depicted in the book carefully checked the facts relating to their own work, and two noted physicists and one astrophysicist read the entire manuscript to make sure that the facts and my interpretation of the facts were all correct."

Personal

McTaggart is married to publisher Bryan Hubbard and lives in London with her two daughters.

Books

• Kathleen Kennedy: Her Life and Times (1983) ISBN 0-385-27415-7
• What Doctors Don't Tell You: The Truth About The Dangers Of Modern Medicine (1999) ISBN 0-380-80761-0
• The Cancer Handbook: What's Really Working (2000) ISBN 1-890612-18-9
• The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (2003) ISBN 0-06-093117-5
• The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (2007) ISBN 0007194587
• The Bond: Connecting through the Space Between Us (2011)ISBN-10: 1439157944; ISBN-13: 978-1439157947

External links

• Lynne McTaggart's umbrella website
• The Intention Experiment community Website
• SYNCD.org Lynne McTaggart on quantum physics, consciousness, time and intention
• What Doctors Don't Tell You
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