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Distant Healing of Surgical Wounds
An Exploratory Study
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.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- July 2012
- 7 pages
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"Research in Prayer and Distant Healing" with Elisabeth Targ
From the IONS lecture series Exploring the Frontiers of Consciousness.
- Audio Lectures
- 2002
- 01:14:20
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Gut Feelings, Intuition, and Emotions
An Exploratory Study
Investigate whether the gut feelings of one person, as measured with an electrogastrogram (EGG), respond to the emotions of a distant person.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- February 1, 2005
- 7 pages
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Event-Related Electroencephalographic Correlations Between Isolated Human Subjects
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.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- April 1, 2004
- 9 pages
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"The Spiritual Implications of Psychic Ability" with Russell Targ
Targ discusses the commonalities among the healer, the mystic, the psychic, and the spy, and speaks of data for distant healing and nonlocal mind from the framework of information flow.
- Audio Lectures
- 2002
- 01:18:30
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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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Distant Healing Intention
Definitions and Evolving Guidelines for Laboratory Studies
This paper provides definitions and a discussion of evolving guidelines for conducting research on the effects of distant healing intention (DHI) on living systems in the laboratory. We consider the relevance of DHI laboratory research to applied healing, special theoretical challenges, and other considerations that distinguish DHI research from other domains of laboratory science.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- May 1, 2003
- 13 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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Compassionate Intention, Prayer, and Distant Healing
In this innovative three-DVD self-paced learning program, you will meet scientists, healers, and health professionals who are exploring the frontiers of consciousness and healing by addressing the widespread practice of distant healing. [CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE]
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The Unsolved Mystery of Healing
Distant Healing: Healing Mediated by Nonlocal Mind
Are fields adequate for explaining every kind of healing? Larry Dossey poses this intriguing question as he brings the concept of nonlocality into our discussion about fields.
- Publications Articles
- December 2004 - February 2005
- 2 pages
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Of two minds
Sceptic-proponent collaboration within parapsychology
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.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- August 1, 2006
- 10 pages
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The Frontier of Noetic Sciences (Volume 2)
Extended Human Capacities
This series of articles, written by members of the research team at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and contributors from other fields of study, represents a variety of perspectives and topic areas in the program area that IONS calls "extended human capacities," which include such little-understood phenomena as ESP, distant healing, near-death experiences (NDEs), mind-matter interactions, and subtle energies.
- Publications Books
- 2010
- 48 pages
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"Entangled Minds" with Dean Radin (2009)
Dr. Dean Radin has explored the further reaches of consciousness perhaps more than any scientist alive. As the Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Dean has investigated subjects ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2009-03-03
- 00:43:30
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Testing nonlocal observation as a source of intuitive knowledge
This study explored the hypothesis that in some cases intuitive knowledge arises from perceptions that are not mediated through the ordinary senses.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- January 1, 2008
- 11 pages
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"The Power of Relationship in Medicine" with Tom Janisse
Tom Janisse, MD, recently completed nine years as Associate Medical Director of Northwest Permanente Medical Group in Portland, Oregon where he conducted relationship research on physicians with the highest patient satisfaction.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-03-29
- 01:02:54
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Shift Issue 5
THE SCIENCE OF FIELDS
ENTANGLED MINDS
by Dean RadinTHE RESONANT HEART
by Rollin McCraty, Raymond Trevor Bradley, Dana TomasinoTHE FLAME OF LIFE
by Beverly RubikTHE UNSOLVED MYSTERY OF HEALING
by Larry DosseyFIELDS OF FORM
by Rupert SheldrakeSENSING FIELDS
by Betsy MacGregor, Chris Bache, Robert GassFrontiers of Research
Stories of Hope
by Marilyn SchlitzSerendipity and Paradox
by Dean Radin- December 2004 - February 2005
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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