I recommend Lynne McTaggart's Speakers Summit on The Bond

The link above is for the dialog between Lynne McTaggart and Katherine Woodward.

Each talk is only posted for 48 hours.

All of them are interesting though and I highly recommend them.

The Bond is about how important it is to bring Fairness back into all our relationships. That existence and the Universe have to do with trades of energy, and not with things. Relationship is therefore the primordial experience of humanness, and not the pursuit of objects, or defining life in terms of the objects we have or don't have, or want to achieve.

Here are notes I took of Lynne's first talk, hope you like them.

THE BOND

There is a new narrative from science that demonstrates that we are not separate. There is a bond, a connection between all of us, between subatomic particles, between our bodies and the environment, and it’s impossible to say where one thing ends and another begins.

The old narrative of separation, fear, competition was strengthened by the Darwinian model of natural selection.

When we share and care, we succeed and thrive.

When we live as we do now, we are weak.

Assumptions of Separation (Living against nature, the attitude of: “That’s life!”)

1. The Universe is made of Things
2. I’m an individual
3. My thoughts are my own
4. I am the master of my fate

1. The Universe is made of Things

Science has been looking for the smallest piece of everything, breaking things up. The atom was broken down into a nucleus and electrons spinning around it. Atoms were broken down into subatomic particles. Smaller than subatomic particles were quarks, and today scientists have discovered neutrinos, Higgs Bosuns, etc.

The more they look, the more they find nothing – just vibratory nothingnesses. Matter is a trade of energy. Particles pass energy back and forth. They interact energies with a background quantum field called “zero point energy”. We are all trades of energy, so that the basic thing of the Universe isn’t a thing at all – it’s a relationship between trades of energy.

This idea of the Bond is mimicked throughout nature.

2. I’m an individual

This belief comes from our biology – DNA is in our cells and is the architect that predetermines us and everything we do, the architect of our cells, tissue, organs.
Randy Jirtle, an expert in oncology and genetics, has found something that upsets this idea. He studied mice and whether outside influences affect DNA. Agouti mice have a genetic defect that makes them obese and peach or yellow colored. They’re also short lived. Jirtle wanted to know if the genetic defect was permanent, hereditary. He fed pregnant Agouti mice B vitamins. They can’t process B vitamins very well – this is why they’re obese and have a short life span. What happened was the Agouti mice mothers gave birth to normal, brown, slender offspring.

This study showed that DNA is not the master of our fate, but outside influences affect the expression of DNA. Research followed and discoveries that our food, water, relationships, how we live our lives, affect a quartet of atoms that sit above our DNA and they determine whether this DNA is expressed or not. DNA is like piano keys and outside influences determine if they will be played or not.
We get constructed because of our bond with the environment, not just from the inside going out.

Harvard geneticist John Kearns did a study on bacteria. He put bacteria that couldn’t process lactose in a lactose-rich medium. The bacteria went through a mutation. Instead of dying or starving to death, the bacteria gene responsible for being unable to process lactose began hypermutating. It created copies of copies of copies of itself like a crazy photocopier and ended up producing a mutation that could process lactose. Then the bacteria snipped out the old gene and replaced it with the new one.

This study showed that our environment not only determines what genes will be expressed – it can also change our genes.

3. My thoughts are my own

The University of Minnesota and other studies discovered that the sun is our metronome. The sun is a giant ball of hydrogen crossed with unstable magnetic fields. This causes periodic explosions and the sun hurls stuff toward Earth through solar flares. Gases explode toward Earth at millions of miles per hour. These gases hit our geomagnetic field which surrounds Earth like a doughnut. This profoundly affects electrical systems on Earth: satellites are blown off course, airplanes as well, power systems crash. It also affects the biggest electrical systems in the body: the heart and the brain. When there’s a lot of solar activity, heart attacks increase, psychiatric admissions rise, epileptic fits. Destabilization occurs in the heart and the brain. Physically, it affects us. But what about our motivation, our behavior?

The Sun operates according to a predictable cycle. Solar flares start increasing in frequency over a time period, then start decreasing, in 11-year cycles. Scientist have done interesting studies on the stock market. The stock market is governed by human behavior: we buy when we’re confident and sell when we’re nervous.
Scientists made studies of 11-year periods of stock market cycles and overlaid, compared them to, solar activity and they tracked perfectly. The same was found for terrorist activity. Even Jehovah’s Witness activity. They have to look for new members, make solicitation efforts. The level of intensity of their solicitations of new members matched the waxing and waning of solar activity perfectly.

This suggests that our master metronome is a star 18 million miles away.

We’re part of an intergalactic super organism. We cannot say that our behavior is exclusively ours, but that we are being influenced, not only by the sun, but by geomagnetic activity coming from the moon and all of the planets. They affect each other.

Giacomo Rizzolatti studied monkeys and which of their neurons fired when they reached out and grasped.

He had them reach out and grasp while connected to gadgets that lit up when their neurons fired. He found that when the monkey grasped, its neurons fired, but that they also did when it was observing a researcher move in the same way.

He was witnessing how we understand things. He found human beings acted in the same way. When we see someone act, we respond as if we are the ones doing what they are doing. The same goes for the emotions. The same neurons fire in us when we witness someone experiencing an emotion – joy, sorrow – as if we’re feeling that emotion ourselves.

We merge with others temporarily, connecting with others in thought.