1. Extraordinary Knowing. Presenter: Tom G. Nielsen. Week 5. 2. Today's Agenda
. □ Imprinting Intention. □ The Intention Experiment. □. Prayer & Healing.
Today’s Agenda
Extraordinary Knowing
Imprinting Intention The Intention Experiment
Prayer & Healing -- Break – Prayer & Healing (continued) Treat or Treatment? Discussion
Presenter: Tom G. Nielsen
Week 5 2
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Intention
The Intention Experiment
Imprinting Intention [VIDEO CLIP 2:00] Intro
Lynne McTaggart
Changing the pH of Water Conditioning Experimental Spaces
Journalist Author
The Field The Intention Experiment
The Website http://theintentionexperiment.com
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The Intention Experiments
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1st Intention Experiment
Web-based series of experiments Scientifically designed & controlled Testing the power of group intention Involve thousands of participants
In London, 15 experienced meditaters In Germany, a jade plant, algae, & a human volunteer Intention: Alter biophoton emission
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Sent intentions over several hours 10 minute periods of intentions, ‘on’/’off’
Results: light emission was profoundly altered during ‘on’ periods 6
2nd Intention Experiment
3rd Intention Experiment
400 conference attendees in London Target & Control: 2 geranium leaves in Arizona Intention: Increase light emissions of the target geranium leaf in Arizona Target & control blind to scientists Highly significant difference Glow visible in CCD system images
Attempted to replicate 2nd experiment 10,000 participants on the internet Website crashed
Too many people accessing the website at same time
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4th Intention Experiment
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5th Intention Experiment
Nearly 7,000 internet participants from 30 countries Target: 24 string bean seeds: 12 target, 12 control Intent: to make target beans ‘glow’ NSD, though in predicted direction Sample/effect size – SD if sample size had been doubled
Attempt to replicate leaf experiment, on the internet Technical problems, again Consequently, only 500 people participated NSD
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Conclusions So Far
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Prayer & Distant Healing
Intention sent non-locally by a group of at least 400 appears to have a significant effect on distant targets A group of more than 6,000 people sending an intention from remote sites creates a significant effect For intention to work with a scattered group, a critical mass of 1,000 or more may be needed 11
Preliminary Questions:
Is there scientific evidence for the efficacy of distant healing intention? How does prayer help a patient to heal? How does a healer’s intention affect the healing of a person at a distance?
Psychiatrist, daughter of Russell Targ Intuitive, skilled remote viewer 12
Harvard STEP
Harvard STEP
Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer "The primary goal of STEP was to evaluate whether intercessory prayer or the knowledge of receiving it would influence recovery after bypass surgery“
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1,802 bypass surgery patients 6 hospitals Three patient groups: Prayers/informed they would receive prayers Prayers/informed they may or may not receive prayers No Prayers/informed they may or may not receive prayers Three prayer groups: Two Catholic, One Protestant
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Harvard STEP
Patients Informed They Might Receive Prayers
Received Prayers: 52% Received No Prayers: 51%
Patients Informed They Would Receive Prayers
Harvard STEP Problems
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Post Op Complications
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Received Prayers:
59%
Major Complications & 30-day Mortality: NSD
http://web.med.harvard.edu/sites/releases/html/3_31step.html
Doesn’t replicate prayer as it occurs in real life Forced study of prayer into constraints of experimental design Effects of other sources of prayer were uncontrolled Medical interventions uncontrolled Gross and confounded outcome measures
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Elizabeth Targ’s Studies
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Targ’s Follow-up Study
Six-month pilot study 20 AIDS patients All received standard care 10 received prayers from psychic healers 1500 miles away 4 patients died All who died were in control group
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40 AIDS patients, matched One of each pair randomly assigned to treatment (prayed for) group, other to control group All received standard care
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Targ’s Follow-up Study
Targ Study Results
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40 distant healers received photos of treatment patients Healers were rabbis, Native American medicine men, bioenergetic psychics One-hour prayer rituals, 6 days a week Each week for 10 weeks patients rotated among 10 practitioners Practitioners were not paid, never met patients
Patients not prayed for (in control group)
Patients in the control group
Spent 68 days in the hospital Had 35 AIDS-related illnesses
Patients in the treatment group
Spent 600% more days in the hospital Had 300% as many AIDS-related illnesses
Spent 10 days in the hospital Had 13 AIDS-related illnesses
Results statistically significant
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Elizabeth died before her study was completed.
The Targ Tragedy
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In her pilot study, one AIDS patient developed brain cancer, but survived She pursued and received a NIH grant for two 150-patient trials Purpose was to study distant healing for patients with brain cancer Then Elizabeth, 40, developed that ‘gnarly’ brain cancer--Glioblastoma multiforme--the most malignant of all cancers http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/prayer.html?pg=1 22
IONS Distant Healing Project
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Treat or Treatment?
http://www.noetic.org/research/dh/main.html
Intentional Chocolate
VIDEO CLIP [1:00] [Internet]
The Experiment AUDIO CLIP [21:17] Extraordinary Knowing
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Chapter 9
Personal Experiences & Comments 25
Discussion
Extraordinary Knowing
Chapter 9
Personal Experiences & Comments
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