Space Is Not Empty
How Hidden Fields Are Shaping Your Life and Our World
“Everything is Particles. Everything is Fields. Everything is Information.”
Physicist John Wheeler
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By Alan Briskin and Mary Gelinas
We use field to describe a space or territory in which a network of interactive forces—both visible and invisible—are radiating from sources inside and around us. Fields influence how we feel, think, and behave. We, and everyone around us, are participating in living fields of energy and information each and every moment—whether we are conscious of them or not.
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Understanding and working with fields—particularly engendering conditions that nurture life-giving fields—is an important way to collaborate more effectively with others to create a world that includes and works for everyone.
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Space Is Not Empty will help you understand and recognize the way fields operate and influence fundamentally everything. We want to move from unconsciously behaving as if we were siloed parts to consciously operating from the reality that we live in dynamic networks of relationships—how all of us and everything around us are interconnected and inter-influential.
Five Things to Know About Fields
Fields are:
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Ever-present. They exist inside and around us.
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Unnoticed. They affect us outside of conscious awareness.
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Dynamic: They are constantly changing, progressing, and dissipating.
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Multi-directional: Fields affect us and we affect them. Multiple overlapping fields generate unlimited variations.
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Discernable: They can be known through body sensations, subjective experience, intuition, and trial and error observations.
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We live in one interconnected reality of living fields from subatomic, atomic, to cosmic.
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We spill over into the world and the world spills over into us. — Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Testimonials
“This book will make a groundbreaking and vital contribution to the theory and practice of social transformation.”
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Adam Kahane, director of Reos Partners and author of Collaborating with the Enemy
“Standing in the lineage of great books on consciousness and global change, this book will be a breakout work for anyone in the fields of transformational change—coaching, organization development, leadership and living systems.”
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Marilee Adams, CEO of the Inquiry Institute and best selling author of Change Your Questions, Change Your Life
“This book draws insights from many fields to provide a new
perspective on our polarized era and could not be more timely.”
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Pete Peterson, Dean, School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University
“This is an important book for both personal and planetary healing.”
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Lauren Artress, Founder, Veriditas
“Space Is Not Empty will fill a crucial need helping us to bridge higher levels of consciousness with much-needed action.”
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Jayne Warrilow, Founder, Sacred Changemakers
“Consciously and unconsciously we shape, share and are shaped by fields. Space Is Not Empty shows us how to work with these subtle fields, creating new agency for our lives, relationships, and the world.”
Tom Eddington, President, Conscious Leadership Guild, and CEO, Eddington Advisory Services
Space Is Not Empty is an essential read for anyone involved in transformational change.
Field awareness, the discipline behind the book’s teachings, elevates and deepens any conversation about a new and better future.
Myron Rogers, Chair (retired) and Trustee, Lankelly Chase Foundation
Co-author, A Simpler Way, Consultant, large scale systemic change