Dan Brown Channels Beyond Words!
I’m a big fan of Dan Brown—you know, of The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons fame. I have been powering through his latest book, The Lost Symbol. I got up to chapter 15, and I was stunned. The entire chapter seemed to speak of our books, DVDs, and the messages our publishing company, Beyond Words, has help spread throughout the years. This is a mainstream book folks, talking about IONS (The Institute of Noetic Science) with whom we’ve done author events before. This institute appears in the documentary The Living Matrix. Chapter 15 discusses the field of Noetic Science—”the untapped potential of the human mind”—leading into many themes contained within the pages of our books and the images in our films.
This mention has the president of IONS receiving an overwhelming shower of media calls, and the filmmaker of The Living Matrix extremely pleased. Lynne McTaggart is mentioned, who also appears in The Living Matrix, and I’m sure she is finding herself rather busy too. On page 56, they talk about the consciousness project which is documented in our soon-to-be-released film Something Unknown, which shows that “the coalescing of millions of minds…effected the randomizing function of [Random Event Generators], organizing their outputs and bringing order from chaos.” As Dan Brown puts it, this concentrated human intention “[fuels] the claim that human consciousness, as Noetic author Lynne McTaggart described it, was a substance outside the confines of the body….a highly ordered energy capable of changing the physical world.”
The next paragraph mentions the ice crystal work of our own Dr. Masaru Emoto, concluding that “Human thought can literally transform the physical world.” The rest of the chapter speaks of how the discoveries of physics today have links to ancient texts and figures across the religious spectrum.
I found myself so pleased to see that the ideas and messages of many of our authors—new and not so new—and filmmakers have made it into the pages of a mainstream title. It makes the soul feel good to have been a small part in getting that out into the world. I hope Dan sparks more interest in these topics, leading people to look into these areas to decide on their own what resonates with them, and what doesn’t. The journey is absolutely divine.
You are forgetting one very important fact, Dan Brown’s books are works of FICTION, which means only the mindless masses who believe everything they read will actually give any thought to any of these “ideas” you are so excited to see in this book.
Ouch! Love your comment, Victoria, but keep in mind that we do believe in the “ideas” presented here. And we are certainly not mindless. Perhaps “mindful” is what you meant?
Hmm, interesting findings, Rachel! Thanks for this.
I’m not exactly a fan of Brown’s writing style, but I do appreciate new ideas getting out there to a mainstream audience. And here I was laboring under the misapprehension that ‘mindless masses’ was really comprised of John and Kate fans and people who bought a Snuggie. But to each their own, I say! I guess I’d rather have the noetics research, even if Brown’s writing is not astonishing in and of itself.
And Danielle – are you sure you’re not really a Dan Brown plant? Because everybody knows his first foray into writing was as Danielle Brown: ’187 Men to Avoid.’
It’s a conspiracy, I tell you!
Thanks for your thoughts Rachel, I’m looking forward to reading this soon myself!
I know that this is fiction, and I echo Marie in that I’m not a big fan of his writing style, but sometimes you just have to give your brain a little imaginative fun. The fact he sites IONS and some of the projects and ideas that have been surfacing in our DVDs lately, well, there is some truth in there even if it is only within two pages! And if the president of IONS is getting overwhelmed with calls, I would have to say that we just indirectly received some free mainstream marketing/PR
Rachel, I think you are awesome.
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Many works of fiction use non-fiction as context or foundation for a story; this has been true since before Shakespeare, so why wouldn’t it be true for Brown or any novelist? The fiction shouldn’t compromise curiosity into legitimate exporation of human potential at IONS or anywhere. IONS is worth checking out.