An Introduction to the Zero Point Field

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ZERO

POINTFIELD

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INTRODUCTION

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Tijn Touber


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Te story that youre about to read has createdquite a stir among our editorial sta. Te subjecttouches upon everything, literally everythingthat we humans do in our lives. And this is con-rontational, disturbing and hopeul all at once.But that wasnt the only reason or the commo-

tion. Tere was also a continual discussion about way is pic suld b inrducd Arall, writing about an energy eld that connectsman and matter and continually aects every-ing and vryn is n as qui as simpl asthe average article. ijn ouber, who locked

himsel away or weeks to write this amazingstory, must have come close to desperation. Notonly because o the comments we made and thecontinual discussions we had with one another,but also and especially because o the complex-

ity o the issue. Te words o Niels Bohr, therenowned Danish scientist, should have been awarning us: Anyn w is n sckd byquantum theory has not understood it. Hence,dar radrs, yu ar rwarnd Bu r issome consolation: i at any time you cannot ol-

lw sry, yu ar in gd cmpany Hldn ig (Or br y, l g)


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Te AmazingPromises

o theZero Point Field

by ijn ubr

Sirn Srkr is sanding minlss in middl a largeld, surrounded by 600 people. Te gorgeous landscape under mis pwrul Mun Rainir in uppr nrws United States is invisible to her. Shireen is blindolded, as are all rs in ld Ta mrning y all mad a drawing Thundreds o drawings are now hanging on the ence along the edge ld T assignmn: nd yur wn drawing blindldd

Shireen does a meditation exercise, pictures her drawing and

thinks: I am the creator o the drawing and the spectator, I only

have to become one with the drawing and it will automatically pullme towards it. Ten, without bumping into anyone, she walks

straight across the eld andpicks out her drawing straightaway

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Coincidence? Pure luck? Youd think so. But Shireen was not the

only one to perorm this implausible act that day. Te results o this

exercise involving the students o Ramthas School o Enlightenment

violate the laws o empirical probability theory. Apparently, humansare capable o communicating with matter intangibly. Te cur-

riculum is unusual scl aims prv a pnmna suc

as telepathy and clairvoyance are not wondrous mysteries, but gis

a vry uman bing psssss and can dvlp T unwrin

slogan o the Ramthas schools curriculum could be that there is

mr wrld an ms y

Tere are other schools and movements that have proclaimedis mssag in rcn dcads In ac, Nw im Mvmn

was undd n i Bu xciing ing is a ard scinc

mdrn pysics is saring lnd pr xisnc a ubiq-

uitous energy eld, which could oer an explanation or the miracle

a blindldd wman w nds r drawing amids 600 rs

Te Blueprint for Our Existence

In r bk T Fild (HarprCllins, 2001), invsigaiv jur-nalist Lynne Mcaggart provides an overview o recent scientic

discoveries that demonstrate that there is an all-encompassing energy

eld connecting man and matter. In their search or the heart o

the matter (no pun intended) or the smallest particle scientists

discvrd lds spcial caracrisics and pnial T s-

calld Zr Pin Fild ( nam cms rm ac a vn a

the absolute zero point, energy can still be measured) appears toprvid xplanain r cunlss knwn pnmna and pr-

csss a ad sumpd scinic cmmuniy r gnrains

Gravity, electromagnetism, clairvoyance, telepathy and the sponta-nus aling wunds: rigins s divrs pnmna

can all b racd back is quanum ld

Mcaggar wris: Rsarcrs discvrd a Zr Pin

Field contains the blueprint or our existence. Everything and ev-ryn is cnncd wi n anr rug is ld in wic

all inrmain rm all im is said b srd Ulimaly, vry-

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electric charges that are continually in contact with this endless

sea o energy. Our interaction with this eld determines who we

ar, will bcm and av bn T ld is alpa and mga

ur xisnc

Te Universe as a Machine

A connection between matter and mind runs counter to thescientic oundations upon which modern society is based. Our

perspective on lie is still greatly infuenced by the mechanistic

worldview introduced by Isaac Newton in the 17th century. New-

n saw univrs as a macin wi spara pars a av a

limid infunc n n anr Rn Dscars addd is visin

to the mix, that the human mind is separate rom the lieless matter

we call body. In Newton and Descartes way o thinking the world

simply keeps turning, whether we humans are there or not. We dont

paricularly mar

Darwins evolutionary theory reinorced the image o the lonely,isolated human being. It was all about eating and getting eaten. Hu-

mans appeared to be an evolutionary accident without any particularmaning Bu ug qusins rmaind: w ds li bgin, w

ds ur mind wrk, wy d w g sick, w ds a singl cll d-

vlp in a cmpl uman bing, and s r Many sciniss

lkd r answrs s qusins in rligin, bu a brug

m in cnfic wi mslvs

Endless Possibilites

Te rst indications o a possible bridge between spirituality and

science came interestingly enough rom physics discoveries made

at the beginning o the last century. In 1911 the German physicist

Max Planck dmnsrad a r is an nrgic mpy spac

between atoms. But because he established that this energy eld

is vrywr a all ims, cnsidrd i a cnsan a did n

infunc marial xisnc

Or pinrs in quanum pysics discvrd a ms l-

ementary building blocks o matter couldnt actually even be called

matter. Sometimes these building blocks behaved like particles,


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n lik wavs and smims lik b a nc In 1927, Wrnr

Hisnbrg dubbd is principl uncrainy I appard

a subamic paricls wr n slid bjcs bu vibraing lil

packets o energy that couldnt be quantied or understood as sepa-rate parts. A more signicant break with Newtonian thought was

ardly cncivabl A is lmnary lvl, ning appard

b crain Tr wr nly ndlss pssibiliis

Mrvr, s paricls appard nly ak a spcic sap

i a spectator observed them. I a person noticed a particle, it roze.

Te researchers came to the startling conclusion that consciousness

creates reality and Einstein wondered whether the moon wouldacually xis i w didn lk a i

Te physicists also noted that particles that at one time were

connected to one anotherwithin a molecule or exampleremain

connected always and everywhere, and inuence each other instantly,

a is asr an spd lig and vr gra disancs Tis

so-called non-locale phenomenon indicates that the dimensions o

time and space do not apply at an elementary level. Einstein spoke disan gslik cnncins

Einstein and his contemporaries were unable to reconcile the

new discoveries in quantum physics with the Newtonian reality they

could see and touch around them. Teir solution was a scientic

monster: dierent laws applied to the world o small particles thanor larger matter. At the same time these scientists sought meaning-

ul reuge in spiritual and religious texts. Erwin Schrdinger, or

example, studied Hinduism, Heisenberg looked into Platos theory ancin Grks, Nils Br was drawn a and Wl-

gang Pauli Cabala

Discovering the Field

What didnt work a century ago now appears possible. Te theory

o the all-encompassing Zero Point Field could span a denitive

bridg bwn spiriualiy and scinc Einsin culdn prv i,bu suspcd i, wn said ld is nly raliy T

eld could explain the instantaneous, ghostlike transer o inorma-

tion between quantum particles. Divergent scientic discoveries

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Mmry n a lcal pnmnn

Bilgis Paul Pisc Univrsiy Indiana in Unid

States wanted to know where memories are stored in the brain.

Pisc cnducd xprimns wi salamandrs Firs augthem specic patterns o behaviour. Ten, to destroy their memory,

he removed their brains and milled them in a meat grinder. Finally,he put the remainders o the brains back in the salamanders heads.Te result? Aer awhile the salamanders re-exhibited the learned

baviur Pu anr way, ir brains wr sard, bu ir

mmry livd n Pisc cncludd a mmry was n a lcal

phenomenon, but is somehow linked to something

an energyeld?outside the salamanders where they collect their memory.

Lig lds surrund living rganisms

Neuroanatomist Harold Burr o Yale University discovered the

eld in a dierent way. During the 1940s he researched energy elds

around living organisms and discovered that young salamanders have

a lig ld arund m in sap an adul salamandr Tis

blueprint appears to be already present around the unertilised egg.

Burr als saw lig lds arund plan sds a k sap

maur plans Ts lds culd xplain wy yu can ampua a

salamandrs lg, jaw r vn lns ir y, nly s

bdy par grw back

Salamandrs may av an unusually srng cnncin wi

energy eld around them, but this phenomenon can also be seen

in humans. Amputees can sometimes eel (phantom) pain in theamputated body part. Burrs work also demonstrates that bod-ismarar cnncd an nvlping nrgy ld

Rm viwing

And where do clairvoyants get their visions? Physicist Hall Putho

Sanrd Univrsiy in Unid Sas askd imsl a vry

question. He conducted various experiments with two clairvoyantsin which he gave them the coordinates o a place on earth they hadnvr bn Indpndn rm n anr, clairvyans wr

able to describe these places in detail. o measure the extent o their


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clairvyanc Pu askd m dscrib Jupir br Nasas

Pioneer 10 spacecra had charted the planet. Somewhat embar-

rassed, clairvoyant Ingo Swann said he saw a ring around the planet.

Praps, ld Pu, I may av accidnally dircd my a-tention to Saturn. No one took the drawing seriously until some

im lar wn Nasa rlasd imags rm spaccra swing

a, indd, Jupir ad a ring

T CIA as sinc swn inrs in xrardinary rsuls

Pus rsarc, wic culd pnially b usd r spinag

As an xprimn, CIA agn Crispr Grn was sn up in an

aeroplane with a piece o paper in his pocket on which three numberswr wrin Tis was n prblm r clairvyan Pa Pric, w

was able to recite the numbers accurately, and in the right order.

However, he said he elt a little nauseated. It later appeared that

Grns fig ad run in avy urbulnc

Putho then conducted experiments in which he sent people to

random coordinates and asked them to photograph the location in

15 minus and ll in a lis qusins gav m In narly allcases, the clairvoyants were able to clearly describe the locations

basd n crdinas y wr givn

Putho went a step urther. He asked the clairvoyants to describe

the location beore the test subjects arrived. And they did. Te clair-

vyans appard capabl dscribing dsinain a al-ur

to ve days beore the travellers arrived. Putho concluded that

time and space do not exist on the level o the Zero Point Field. Te

inormation is apparently already available beore the actual events

occur. Putho conducted a total o 336 comparable experiments

proving it made very little dierence to the clairvoyants whether

r n subjcs wr a lcain in qusin

Infuncing macins

Physicist Helmut Schmidt conducted another remarkable experi-

ment that points to the timelessness o the energy eld. He had hiss subjcs pu n adpns and lisn blps prducd by

a macin T sunds wr randm and qually disribud vr

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g in n ars Narly all subjcs wr succssul Inother words, people were capable o inuencing the machine without

dircly ucing i Scmid cncludd r mus b a ld a

cnncs man and macinHis next experiment reinorced this once more in a rather bizarre

way. He gave a test subject a tape with bleeps to take home and asked

im infunc ap s a mr blps wuld b sn

l ar Scmid mad a cpy ap r imsl T nx day

blps ad indd sid, wi mr ging l ar

his amazement Schmidt discovered that his copy had also changed,

alug as ar as knw macin

as usual

ad vnly dis-ribud blps vr b ars

T nly pssibl cnclusin r Scmid was a uur in-

tention o the test subjects inuenced the tape when it was actually

recorded. Just as the little salamander knows that he must grow up b a big salamandr, Scmids s subjcs knw a y will

infunc rcrding blps br acually asks m

to do so. Past, present and uture apparently fow together in thenrgy ld

T illusin im

In another type o experiment, Harvard University psychologistEllen Langer demonstrated that time is a relative notion. A group o

people over age 70 was taken to an isolated area where a scene rom

1959 was exactly replicated. Te urniture dated to that year, they

were shown lms rom 1959 and even the newspapers and magazinesy wr givn cam rm a prid Wiin a wk grups

acual sympms aging ad rvrsd T jins in ir ngrs

were more exible and their eyesight improved. Langer concludeda bcaus paricipans wr givn sam mnal inrma-

tion as in 1959, their bodies began to adapt to the physical situation

a a im On pssibl xplanains is a s ppl

in ir 70s mad cnac wi ir wn nrgic bluprin rm1959, and ir bdis llwd sui

Te American doctor and author Deepak Chopra puts it this

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ever proven the existence o the continual movement o linearim and cncp as nvr bn xprssd in a mamaical

rmula T xprinc cninual mvmn linar im

is a pnmnn a was crad by ur nrvus sysm In ac,the past, present and uture exist simultaneously, side by side, in

a ld ndlss pssibiliis T xprinc linar im is

way in which nature protects us rom experiencing everything at

the same time. But that is what actually happens. Einstein put it

more concisely: Space and time are modes in which we think, notcndiins in wic w liv

In ld r is n dirnc bwn a mmry and a nwexperience. Te brain retrieves old and new inormation the same

way. Tis explains the salamanders remarkable recovery. Teir brains

wr largly dsryd, bu mmry ad n bn ls; i was

stored in the eld. Just as intuition, clairvoyance, premonitions,

telepathy and other inexplicable phenomena can be understood

i Zr Pin Fild is sn as a srag plac r inrmain

which anyone can tune in at any time. Is that what Nostradamus was

ding wn saw uur?

T brain as ransducr

On rs sciniss rcgnis a Zr Pin Fild

could be the missing link or our understanding o the universe was

Hungarian sysms xpr Ervin Laszl In is bk T Cr-

aiv Csms wrin in 1993 wris a ld is mr an

a mass o shimmering energy in the background o our existence.Accrding Laszl, Zr Pin Fild is an inrmain carrir

Tis quantum vacuum is the origin o mind and mattera blue-

print o the universe. Even our own memories are not stored in our

brains, bu ar sckpild lik lgrapic inrmain in ld

Our brains ar mainly rcivrs and prcssrs is inrmain

When they resonate with certain requencies they gain access to

spcic inrmainAre you still there?

You have just read that time doesnt exist and that human beings

can infunc macins All is in a wrld a says cmpurs ar


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always rig bcaus y ar indispuably lgical Y w ar sill

talking about veriable physical and scientic experiments. All these

experiments and phenomena point to the act that the ghostlike

discoveries in the area o quantum physics have substantially moreinfuence on our daily reality than the pioneers o a century ago

riginally ug Ds univrs accrding Nwns laws

still exist? Or is the world proving to be a dynamic web in which

vrying and vryn ar cnncd? Ds a imply a my

li mans sming radically dirn an I ug?

Say a Prayer for Us

Does the concept o individuality still have meaning i everything

is connected and even our own memories are accessible to everyone?

An vn mr xciing ug: ams a ar in cnac wi

one another and with the universe in a myriad o ways temporarily

and inrminly sap ur bdy Evry svn yars all clls

in ur bdy ar rgnrad; n am is sam again And w

knows what kind o inormation those new atoms are carrying when

y nsl in ur bdis? Individualiy, I and min bcmvery limited concepts when viewed this way. Our separate existence,

which we believe to be the basis o our daily experiences, is no longer

the central issue. It is replaced by the all-encompassing connection.

Tese scientic discoveries can also explain the peculiar phe-

nomenon that people in hospitals heal more quickly when randomppl in randm lcains arund wrld pray r m daily,

as research has proven. And the connection with the Zero PointField also appears to be clear thanks to the similarly bizarre act

a ppl w av undrgn rgan ransplans ak n crain

mmris rm rgan dnr

When I pray or people, they get better. Surely, the reverse is

als ru I raliz a i is in my wn inrs ra my nvirn-

mn wi car and rspc On way r anr, w all carry

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Creating Reality

For my lie, the second implication o the Zero Point Field is

jus as radical as insig a sparain acually ds n xis:

I cra my wn raliy

Jus as I can apparnly infunc a macin, I can infunc all

matter around me. More to the point: I do it all the time, including

infuncing mar in my wn bdy I I cra raliy, n world is not as it is, but as I perceive it. My thoughts determine reality.

Roy Martina, a doctor and karate champion, was at a party once

wn a rind aackd im rm bind as a jk His naural rac-

tion was to put the man in a hold, whereby he broke his riendsngr Undr m yu brak i, yu x i y dcidd

conduct an experiment. Tey had heard that Aboriginals were able

to heal broken bones nearly instantaneously. Martina: We thought,

i they can do it, we can too. We tuned into the Aboriginal eld and

sent that energy to the broken hand. A couple o days later my riend

was back playing vllyball X-rays swd n rac a racur

In his amous book Tink and Grow Rich written in 1937, Napo-leon Hill explains that those who make it big mainly succeed because,

a vry dps lvl, y ar cnvincd y will Succssul

people, Hill concludes, solemnly believe in their aim and simply

knw y will aciv i Bcaus y cus all ir anin n

the aim, it materialises just as in physics experiments all particles

a ar givn anin bcm visibl

Everything is Potentially Possible

Te third lie lesson rom the eld is that in principle, everything

is pssibl

All inrmain is availabl in Zr Pin Fild I is my cal-

lengeand that o us all to glean the best rom it. As Michelangelo

once said about sculpture: Te image is already in the marble, all Ido is cut away everything that is not the image. I sometimes experi-

ence the same thing when Im writing a story and I see words appearn scrn a Im barly cnscius inking Jus lik a, I

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ld? Is calld inspirain Bu in ac inspirain is n lngr aninexplicable circumstance, but a demonstrable physical phenomenon.

During his visit to the Sistine Chapel in Rome, Mozart heard

Allgris amus Misrr Ta pic music is nly ard nc ayar, during Hly Wk, ar wic i disappars bind lck and

key or another year. Aer hearing it only once, Mozart was able to

register it in his mind and thus able to break the secret spell around

wrk Ervin Laszl cmmns: Mzar and r cmpsrs

is calibr wr n aln Ty ad accss ld and us

wr in cnac wi masrpics

Artists are interpreters and translators rather than creators. Teirtalent is not a miracle, but something that in principle everyone can

larn I is a qusin uning in ld

On a Grk island, Sirn Srkr is siing wi r usband

Bram Vermeulen at a table at an outdoor cae in the sun. In the

middle o the table a briecase blocks their view o one another.

Bram is looking at a piece o paper in ront o him and slowly counts:

One, two, three, our On every count Shireen writes down a plusor a minus aer the number on her sheet. She tries to ignore the

surprised glances rom onlookers so she can ully concentrate on

what Bram is sending her: a plus or a minus. When the sheet is

ull, y swic Ty ar b rying g a plus r minus ar

sam numbr

Ta day y play gam a al 11 ims Accrding laws o probability, Bram and Shireen should have the same plus-

ses and minuses 50% o the time. But that day their score is 70%.

Ty knw is n cincidnc Tyv ad similar rsuls br

Bram and Sirn knw a yu can rac ac r i yu un

in crrcly

uning In and Drinking Deeply

But we oen get in the way o our ability to tune in. Shireen:

Tr is a clar dirnc bwn cncnraing and uning in II concentrate, I try with all my might to achieve something with my

thoughts. Usually you achieve just the opposite. What we call think-

ing, is acually mainly abu dubing Yu wind up in all kinds


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emotionsI cant do this, what am I doing here?and you dont

achieve your aim. uning in means not thinking and making contact

with the inormation thats already there. You become one with the

inrmain and rsna wi iShireen describes an exercise she did with an overweight man.

Ty sd ppsi n anr and sard ard in ac rseyes. Ten they both walked to opposite ends o the room and

Sirn ad pick up n mans avuri d Hr rs imag

was a chocolate bar. Butgiven the mans size she began to doubt.

I mus b a amburgr, s ug S drw a amburgr and

walked back to the man. Wrong, it was a chocolate bar. Shireen:Tas wa I man by inking

Cildrn ar naurals a uning in I is amazing w succssul

small cildrn ar a Sirns drawing gam wi wic is sry

bgan I als rmmbr playing id and sk wi my lil sisr

She counted to 10 outside the living room, came back in and walked

dircly wr I was iding, rgardlss wic curain r cair

I was crucd bindNr ar animals amprd by ugs T Briis bicmis

Rupert Sheldrake describes numerous extraordinary phenomena.

A ca a a answrs pn, bu nly wn r wnr calls

All other calls are ignored. Or horses that reuse to take another step

over a path that will shortly be buried under an avalanche. Dogs that

try to no avail to get their owners to leave the house beore they

ar invlvd in a srius accidn Tr ar als sris invlving

animals a manag lav wn br an arquak is

Conscious Creation

Wn a n pin I ndd mv, I crad an imag

house I wanted. I visualised a house by the ocean with woods nearby,high up, lots o light and aordable. For a ew weeks I paid a mo-

ments attention to that visualisation every day, which anchored the

energetic image in the Zero Point Field. It was just a matter o timebeore it would materialise. Tat happened two months later. NowI liv in m a I nc nvisind Using my visualisain I

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image, that imagemy house could become reality, exactly as

physicists small particles maniest themselves when given attention.

Dreamers used to be laughed at by people who considered them-

selves sensible, who had both eet planted rmly on the ground.Nw s dramrs av scinc n ir sid Drams ar wr

reality begins. Te uture is created by seeing that uture, by tuning

in i In principl, anying is pssibl

Science is presenting a reality that my rational mind can scarcely

comprehend. How can a person inuence a machine? How can time

not exist? How can I make something intangible, tangible? But I am

living in my house and Shireen ound her drawing. My doubts mustav d wi quanum lap a my rainal mind mus nw

make. Teres a good reason why physicist Niels Bohr said that Any-

n w is n sckd by quanum ry as n undrsd i

On vning Sirn arrivs m nd a yllwing nvlp

rom her mother containing copies o the Gospel o St. Tomas

discovered in 1947. In this gospel Jesus tells Tomas: I am not your

Master, but you have drunk. You have become intoxicated rom thebubbling spring, which I have measured out. For Shireen it is cleara Jsus drw rm sam wll sam ldas s is nw

larning drink

Enlightened learned people like Jesus see through the story o

creation. Tey didnt need science or their knowledge o the Zero

Point Field. Tousands o years later science and spirituality are on

the point o converging. Te consequences and possibilities are

immns T miracl Jsus and r nlignd inkrs was

their ability to see and help shape a better world. Tey understood:

i I wan anr wrld, I av larn ink dirnly Or, as

Gandi pu i: B cang yu wis s in wrld

Anyone who thinks that only the Mahatma or the Saviour can do

a, nw as scinic vidnc cnrary Eac n us is

capabl Eac n us is a crar Eac n us can cang

world. And that doesnt have to be an endless, difcult process

justthink o the Aboriginals ability to heal broken bones. It can happen

day I can appn nw Ar all, wa is im?

Tijn Touber . Od Magazin, Nvmbr 2003


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ijn ubr (1960) undd Duc pp grup Lis Lan and wrsome o their greatest hits. At the height o the bands success he withdrewrom the pop scene and chose a celibate, drug-ree lie or ourteen years

in search o enlightenment. Nowadays he gives meditation lessons andconsciousness trainings together with his wie Kris. For more than tenyars as bn wriing r inrnainal magazin Od and mrrecently also or Salt and Happinez. ouber is the author o two books,Spdcursus Vrlicing and Living Enlignmn

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