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Toward Understanding the Placebo Effect
Investigating a Possible Retrocausal Factor
by E. Lobach and Dean Radin, PhD
Conventional models of placebo effects assume that all mind-body responses associated with expectation can be explained by ordinary causal processes. This experiment tested whether some placebo effects may also involve retrocausal, or time-reversed, influences.
- Scholarly Papers
- September1, 2007
- 7 pages
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Effects of Intentionally Enhanced Chocolate on Mood
by Gail Hayssen, Dean Radin, PhD, and James Walsh
A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled experiment investigated whether chocolate exposed to "good intentions" would enhance mood more than unexposed chocolate.
- Scholarly Papers
- September 1, 2007
- 8 pages
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Double-Blind Test of the Effects of Distant Intention on Water Crystal Formation
by Masaru Emoto, Gail Hayssen, Takashige Kizu, and Dean Radin, PhD
The hypothesis that water "treated" with intention can affect ice crystals formed from that water was pilot tested under double-blind conditions. A group of approximately 2,000 people in Tokyo focused positive intentions toward water samples located inside an electromagnetically shielded room in California.
- Scholarly Papers
- September 1, 2006
- 4 pages
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Of two minds
Sceptic-proponent collaboration within parapsychology
by Dean Radin, PhD, Marilyn Schlitz, PhD, C. Watt, and R. Wiseman
The first author, a proponent of evidence for psychic ability, and the second, a sceptic, have been conducting a systematic programme of collaborative sceptic-proponent research in parapsychology. This has involved carrying out joint experiments in which each investigator individually attempted to mentally influence the electrodermal activity of participants at a distant location.
- Scholarly Papers
- August 1, 2006
- 10 pages
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I to We
The Role of Consciousness Transformation in Compassion and Altruism
by Tina Amorok, PsyD, Marilyn Schlitz, PhD, and Cassandra Vieten, PhD
It is clear that human consciousness can be transformed through spiritual experiences and practices. Little is known, however, about what the predictors, mediators, and outcomes are of such transformations in consciousness. In-depth structured interviews were conducted with forty-seven teachers and scholars from religious and spiritual traditions and modern transformative movements to identify factors common to the transformative process across traditions.
- Scholarly Papers
- 2006
- 17 pages
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Experiments Testing Models of Mind-Matter Interaction
by Dean Radin, PhD
Three models of mind-matter interaction (MMI) in random number generators (RNGs) were tested. One model assumes that MMI is a forward-time causal influence, a second assumes that MMI is due to present-time exploitation of precognitive information, and a third assumes that MMI is a retrocausal influence.
- Scholarly Papers
- 2006
- 27
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Gut Feelings, Intuition, and Emotions
An Exploratory Study
by Dean Radin, PhD and Marilyn Schlitz, PhD
Investigate whether the gut feelings of one person, as measured with an electrogastrogram (EGG), respond to the emotions of a distant person.
- Scholarly Papers
- February 1, 2005
- 7 pages
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The Role of Transformation, Spirit, and Psychospiritual Approaches on Human Brain Activity and Immunity
by Cassandra Vieten, PhD
The word transcendent conjures images of seeking a mountain top experience, of catapulting above the mundane physical world into a realm where one is unaffected by day-to-day complaints. One definition of the term transcendent is "separate from" or "beyond." But the root of the word transcend is "to climb over or across," which may more accurately describe the lived experience of one facing an illness or other challenging experience. In the real world, transcending life's events has less to do with finding a way to avoid or remove them and more to do with developing ways to live with them on a daily basis.
- Scholarly Papers
- 2004
- 4 pages
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Electrodermal Presentiments of Future Emotions
by Dean Radin, PhD
Many people have experienced intuitive hunches or forebodings about future events that later turned out to be correct. Most such hunches can be attributed to unconscious inferences, others are undoubtedly coincidences, instances of selective memory, or due to forgotten expertise. However, sometimes a hunch seems so intrinsically unlikely and yet turns out to be valid, that one wonders whether such experiences, often on the edge of conscious awareness, might involve perception of future information.
- Scholarly Papers
- 2004
- 21 pages
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Event-Related Electroencephalographic Correlations Between Isolated Human Subjects
by Dean Radin, PhD
To examine electroencephalograms (EEG) in pairs of people to see if event-related potentials evoked in one person's brain are correlated with concurrent responses in the brain of a distant, isolated person.
- Scholarly Papers
- April 1, 2004
- 9 pages