The bond
Subtitle: connecting through the space between us
By: Lynne McTaggart
Edition: 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781439157947
Subjects: Philosophy and science; Whole and parts (Philosophy); Life; Cosmology
Description: For centuries, Western science and many Western cultures have taught us to think of ourselves as individuals. But today, a revolutionary new understanding is emerging from the laboratories of cutting-edge physicists, biologists, and psychologists: What matters is not the isolated entity, but the space between things, the relationship of things--the Bond. This book, the culmination of author Lynne McTaggart's groundbreaking work, offers a new, scientific story of life and the human experience, one that challenges the very way we conceive of ourselves and our world. She shows that the essential impulse of all life is a will to connect rather than a drive to compete. In fact, we are inescapably connected, hardwired to each other at our most elemental level. McTaggart offers detailed recommendations to help foster more holistic thinking, more cooperative relationships, and more unified social groups--a visionary plan for a new way to live in harmony.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-258) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. The superorganism. The hunt for the thing ; The master programmer ; The zeitgeber ; Shared circuitry; title: pt. 2. The pull to wholeness. Born to belong ; Born to agree ; Born to give ; Taking turns; title: pt. 3. Recovering the bond. Seeing the whole ; Surrendering to wholeness; The new neighborhood ; Pay it forward.