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Double-Blind Test of the Effects of Distant Intention on Water Crystal Formation
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.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- September 1, 2006
- 4 pages
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Intention Downloads Interview: Dean Radin
Can chocolate and ice crystals provide clues about the mystery of intention? Find out in this engaging interview with IONS Senior Scientist Dean Radin, as he describes a double-blind study with Dr. Emoto (of What the Bleep!? fame) as well as "intentional chocolate."
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:35:16
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Effects of Intentionally Enhanced Chocolate on Mood
A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled experiment investigated whether chocolate exposed to "good intentions" would enhance mood more than unexposed chocolate.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- September 1, 2007
- 8 pages
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Compassionate Intention as a Therapeutic Intervention by Partners of Cancer Patients
Effects of Distant Intention on the Patients' Autonomic Nervous System
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.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- July 1, 2008
- 9 pages
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Do You See What I See?
Memoirs of a Blind Biker
Do You See What I See? is the remarkable story of a visually impaired physicist who sees beyond perception to help readers find meaning and joy.
- Publications Books
- May 23, 2008
- 296 pages
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"Ecopsychology" with Carl Anthony
Environmental justice activist Carl Anthony talks about the way in which our understanding of nature can provide a new vision of the struggle for racial and social justice.
- Audio Lectures
- 1996
- 01:12:46
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"Brain Functioning" with Fred Travis
This presentation centers around two points: 1) The brain processes in-group and out-group experiences differently. Different styles of brain functioning are also seen when considering facts about other paradigms and ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-03-16
- 00:59:02
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The End of Materialism
How Evidence of the Paranormal is Bringing Science and Spirit Together
Charles Tart reconciles the scientific and spiritual worlds by looking at empirical evidence for the existence of paranormal phenomena that point toward our spiritual nature, including telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, and psychic healing.
- Publications Books
- April 2, 2009
- 416 pages
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The End of Faith
Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behavior and sometimes-heinous crimes.
- Publications Books
- August 2004
- 336 pages
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"Psilocybin and quantum change in attitude and behavior" with Roland Griffiths
The overall finding that psilocybin can occasion, in most people studied, mystical-type experiences having sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance, indicates that such experiences and the changes they produce are now amenable to rigorous prospective scientific study. Several ongoing studies are discussed, including a study of psilocybin on meditation and spiritual practice in healthy volunteers, a study of psilocybin in psychologically distressed cancer patients, and a study of psilocybin-facilitated treatment of drug cigarette smoking cessation.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-02-09
- 00:57:12
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"Frontiers of the Heart" with Mitchell Krucoff
Dr. Mitchell Krucoff and host Marilyn Schlitz engage a thought-provoking discussion of noetic health care. After Dr. Krucoff's visit to a hospital in India, he was inspired to research the intangible. Why were the pediatric cardiology patients in India smiling? When children with severe heart problems didn't cry, he and his team wanted to know why.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-10-18
- 01:03:58
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Intention Downloads Interview: Rupert Sheldrake
Biologist and author Rupert Sheldrake discusses intention as it relates to all living organisms in this discussion with IONS' Senior Scientist Dean Radin. Rupert's morphogenesis theory implies that intention is not a unique trait of human consciousness, but an essential part of the nature of life in all biological systems.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:22:22
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Intention Downloads Interview: Charles Tart
Join the distinguished academic psychologist Charles Tart for an insightful and humorous exploration of intention and its relationship with mindfulness, will, and enlightenment.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:35:21
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"Building True Wealth" with Catherine Austin Fitts
IONS Editorial Director Matthew Gilbert and guest Catherine Austin Fitts engage in a thought provoking conversation which includes the analogy of big business as a tape worm. Catherine describes what we need to be aware of in our investments to insure that we are not unintentionally feeding the 'tape worm.'
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-01-03
- 01:01:01
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Effects of Distant Intention on Water Crystal Formation
A Triple-Blind Replication
- Principal Investigator
- Dean Radin, PhD
- Co-Investigators
- Masaru Emoto, Takashige Kizu, Nancy Lund
Experimental test of the role of intention on water structure.