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Distant Healing of Surgical Wounds

An Exploratory Study

by Loren Eskenazi, MD, Harriet Hopf, MD, Dean Radin, PhD, Marilyn Schlitz, PhD, and Cassandra Vieten, PhD

Distant healing intention (DHI) is one of the most common complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) healing modalities, but clinical trials to date have provided ambivalent support for its efficacy. To examine 2 potential variables – expectation and belief – we explored the effects of DHI on objective and psychosocial measures associated with surgical wounds in 72 women undergoing plastic surgery.

• Scholarly Papers
• July 2012
• 7 pages

Consciousness and the Double-slit Interference Pattern

Six Experiments

by Arnaud Delorme, PhD, Karla Galdamez, Leena Michel, Dean Radin, PhD, Robert Rickenbach, and Paul Wendland

A double-slit optical system was used to test the possible role of consciousness in the collapse of the quantum wavefunction. Each test session consisted of 40 counterbalanced attention-toward and attention-away epochs, and data was contributed by 137 people in six experiments, involving a total of 250 test sessions. The results appear to be consistent with a consciousness-related interpretation of the quantum measurement problem.

• Scholarly Papers
• May 2012
• 15 pages

Electrocortical Activity Prior to Unpredictable Stimuli in Meditators and Non-meditators

by Arnaud Delorme, PhD, Leena Michel, Dean Radin, PhD, and Cassandra Vieten, PhD

Advanced meditators occasionally report experiences of timelessness, or states of awareness that seem to transcend the usual boundaries of the subjective present. This study investigates this awareness in eight experienced meditators and eight matched controls by measuring 32 channels of EEG before, during, and after exposure to unpredictable light and sound stimuli.

• Scholarly Papers
• September 2011
• 14 pages

Extrasensory Perception and Quantum Models of Cognition

by Dean Radin, PhD, Lance Storm, and Patrizio E. Tressoldi

Through discussion of one class of homogeneous experiments reported in 108 publications and conducted from 1974 through 2008 by laboratories around the world, this article makes a case that ESP does exist, neuroscience assumptions notwithstanding, and provides unambiguous evidence for an independently repeatable ESP effect.

• Scholarly Papers
• December 2010
• 7 pages

Worldview Transformation and the Development of Social Consciousness

by Elizabeth Miller, Marilyn Schlitz, PhD, and Cassandra Vieten, PhD

In this paper, we examine how increasing understanding and explicit awareness of social consciousness can develop through transformations in worldview. Based on a model that emerged from a series of qualitative and quantitative studies on worldview transformation, we identify five developmental levels of social consciousness.

• Scholarly Papers
• August 1, 2010
• 19 pages

Intuition through Time

What Does the Seer See?

by Ana Borges and Dean Radin, PhD

A great deal of human activity is involved in anticipating the future, from predicting the next influenza strain to the expectations that underlie the placebo effect. Most models of anticipation take for granted that events unfold in a unidirectional flow of time, from past to future. Two experiments were conducted to test this assumption.

• Scholarly Papers
• July 1, 2009
• 12 pages

Compassionate Intention as a Therapeutic Intervention by Partners of Cancer Patients

Effects of Distant Intention on the Patients' Autonomic Nervous System

by S. Eskandarnejad, Gail Hayssen, L. Kozak, E. Levine, D. Mandel, Dean Radin, PhD, Marilyn Schlitz, PhD, and J. Stone

This double-blind study investigated the effects of intention on the autonomic nervous system of a human "sender" and distant "receiver" of those intentions, and it explored the roles that motivation and training might have in modulating these effects.

• Scholarly Papers
• July 1, 2008
• 9 pages

Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention During Pregnancy on Prenatal Stress and Mood

Results of a Pilot Study

by John Astin and Cassandra Vieten, PhD

Stress and negative mood during pregnancy increase risk for poor childbirth outcomes and postnatal mood problems and may interfere with mother-infant attachment and child development. However, relatively little research has focused on the efficacy of psychosocial interventions to reduce stress and negative mood during pregnancy. In this study, we developed and pilot tested an eight-week mindfulness-based intervention directed toward reducing stress and improving mood in pregnancy and early postpartum.

• Scholarly Papers
• February 1, 2008
• 8 pages

Testing nonlocal observation as a source of intuitive knowledge

by Dean Radin, PhD

This study explored the hypothesis that in some cases intuitive knowledge arises from perceptions that are not mediated through the ordinary senses.

• Scholarly Papers
• January 1, 2008
• 11 pages

Negative Affect, Emotional Acceptance, and Smoking Cessation

by John Astin, T. P. Carmody, and Cassandra Vieten, PhD

This article describes recent theoretical developments and empirical findings regarding the role of negative affect (NA) and emotion regulation in nicotine dependence and smoking cessation.

• Scholarly Papers
• December 1, 2007
• 10 pages