It seems this is yet another example of Scientists believing they have the whole picture of what's going on in the vast realm of 'science' when in fact their own knowledge is limited. Here's a review of the research in Brown's book compiled by intention researcher/writer Lynne Mctaggart with examples of the real life research projects it reflects.
* Katherine's lab uses random event generators. These machines, first developed by former Boeing physicist Helmut Schmidt, work like the space-age electronic equivalent of the toss of a coin. Most famously, REGs formed the basis of 25 years of consciousness research by Robert Jahn and psychologist Brenda Dunne at Princeton's PEAR lab. They developed sophisticated studies examining whether human minds could affect highly sensitive equipment governed by a random process.
*Her lab also uses CCD cameras that have photographed a faith healer's energy pouring from his hands. I use a Gas Discharge Visualisation Camera developed by Konstantin Korotokov which can measure and photograph the bio-photon emissions emitting from any living thing. It can be used to measure the emissions from subjects before and after Energy Clearing sessions.
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What else?....
* Katherine has a lab called the 'Cube', which is electromagnetically sealed so that human thought can't penetrate it. Within the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California, there is a lab with a one-ton solid steel, double-walled, electromagnetically shielded enclosure, which blocks out all electromagnetic energy.
Katherine says her work was particularly inspired by:
* REG machines dotted all over the world, which recorded an effect on September 11, 2001, when the twin towers collapsed. Former Princeton PEAR researcher, psychologist Roger Nelson, runs the Global Consciousness Project, which has more than 50 REG machines running continuously all over the world. He compares changes in their random output during times of major catastrophic global events. He and his colleagues have studied hundreds of events and found that when people react with great joy or horror to breaking news, the machines seem to react as well. One of the biggest effects was seen during the events of 9/11.
* prayer groups that have healed people and also have affected REG machines. At least 150 studies of prayer and healing have shown positive results. Dr. Nelson's Global Consciousness Project has tracked measurable changes in REG machines after many global prayer events.
* the CIA, which ran remote viewing programs that bordered on ancient magic. These programs, run by CIA partnering with Stanford Research Institute's then directors, physicists Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ, conclusively demonstrated that even novices could see things beyond the reach of visual sense.
Katherine's mind-over-matter experiments have affected:
* the growth rate of plants. University of Arizona psychologist Gary Schwartz working with web-based intention experiments, ran six such successful experiments, and presented the results before the Society for Scientific Exploration in June 2008.
* the direction fish swim. Psychologist William Braud, then of the Mind Science Institute in Texas, ran such experiments in the 1970s.
* chemical reactions in one's own body. Hundreds of studies on biofeedback and the effects of intention on living systems carried out by scientists such as Braud or Marilyn Schlitz, president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, show that intention can affect just about every system of the body, including the autonomic nervous system, biochemistry and even brain waves. The evidence also shows that when people send intention to others, elements of their biological processes, such as heart activity, breathing rate, blood flow and brain waves, begin operating in synch.
* Katherine carries out thought experiments on water, showing that she can change the design of the crystals, depending on whether she uses a positive or negative thought. These refer to the work of Dr. Masaru Emoto, author of The Hidden Messages in Water, who proposes that sending thoughts into water changes their crystalline patterns. Dean Radin of IONS successfully replicated Emoto's work under controlled conditions.
It seems to me it's very easy for 'Scientists' to use their status to debunk totally valid research because people tend to think they know what they are talking about. I know I've had many conversations with people who are either scientists or consider themselves scientifically knowledgeable and they find it very hard to accept that their knowledge may be limited to that which supports their existing paradigm. That is they really don't want to know about this new research. Whatever their reasons this research does exist and it is beginning to paint a VERY different picture of the who and what we are and what we are capable of.
