7 B. Grad, ‘Healing by the laying on of hands: review of experiments and implications’, Pastoral Psychology, 1970; 21: 19 – 26.
8 F. W. J. Snel and P. R. Hol, ‘Psychokinesis experiments in casein induced amyloidosis of the hamster’, Journal of Parapsychology, 1983; 5(1): 51 – 76; Grad, ‘Some biological effects of laying on of hands’; F. W. J. Snel and P. C. Van der Sijde, ‘The effect of paranormal healing on tumor growth’, Journal of Scientific Exploration, 1995; 9(2): 209 – 21. See also E. Targ, ‘Evaluating distant healing: a research review, Alternative therapies, 1997; 3:748.
9 J. Barry, ‘General and comparative study of the psychokinetic effect on a fungus culture’, Journal of Parapsychology, 1968; 32: 237 – 43; E. Haraldsson and T. Thorsteinsson, ‘Psychokinetic effects on yeast: an exploratory experiment’, in W. G. Roll, R. L. Morris and J. D. Morris (eds), Research in Parapsychology (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1972): 20 – 1; F. W. J. Snel, ‘Influence on malignant cell growth research’, Letters of the University of Utrecht, 1980; 10: 19 – 27.
10 C. B. Nash, ‘Psychokinetic control of bacterial growth’, Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1982; 51: 217 – 21.
11 G. F. Solfvin, ‘Psi expectancy effects in psychic healing studies with malarial mice’, European Journal of Parapsychology, 1982; 4(2): 160 – 97.
12 R. Stanford, ‘“Associative activation of the unconscious” and “visualization” as methods for influencing the PK target’, Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1969; 63: 338 – 51.
13 R. N. Miller, ‘Study on the effectiveness of remote mental healing’, Medical Hypotheses, 1982; 8: 481 – 90.
14 R. C. Byrd, ‘Positive therapeutic effects of intercessory prayer in a coronary care unit population’, Southern Medical Journal, 1988; 81(7): 826 – 9.
15 B. Greyson, ‘Distance healing of patients with major depression’, Journal of Scientific Exploration, 1996; 10(4): 447 – 65.
16 F. Sicher and E. Targ et al., ‘A randomized double-blind study of the effect of distant healing in a population with advanced AIDS: report of a small scale study’, Western Journal of Medicine, 1998; 168(6): 356 – 63.
17 W. Harris et al., ‘A randomized, controlled trial of the effects of remote, intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients admitted to the coronary care unit’, Archives of Internal Medicine, 1999; 159 (19): 2273 – 8.
18 Interviews with E. Targ in California and on the telephone, October 28, 1999, and March 6, 2001.
19 Harris et al., ‘A randomized, controlled trial of the effects of remote, intercessory prayer’.
20 J. Barrett, ‘Going the distance’, Intuition, 1999; June/July: 30 – 1.
21 E. E. Green, ‘Copper Wall research psychology and psychophysics: subtle energies and energy medicine: emerging theory and practice’, Proceedings, First Annual Conference, International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM), Boulder, Colorado, June 21 – 25, 1991.
22 Summaries of studies of Qigong healing energy and information about the Qigong Database, a computerized resource center of published research on Qigong healing, in L. Dossey, Be Careful What You Pray For: 175 – 7.
23 R. D. Nelson, ‘The physical basis of intentional healing systems’, PEAR Technical Note, 99001, January 1999.
24 G. A. Kaplan, et al., ‘Social connections and morality from all causes and from cardiovascular disease: perspective evidence from Eastern Finland’, American Journal of Epidemiology, 1988; 128: 370 – 80.
25 D. Reed, et al., ‘Social networks and coronary heart disease among Japanese men in Hawaii’, American Journal of Epidemiology, 1983; 117: 384 – 96; M. A. Pascucci and G. L. Loving, ‘Ingredients of an old and healthy life: centenarian perspective’, Journal of Holistic Nursing, 1997; 15: 199 – 213.
26 G. Schwarz, et al., ‘Accuracy and replicability of anomalous after-death communication across highly skilled mediums’, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 2001; 65: 1 – 25.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: TELEGRAM FROM GAIA
1 For all material about the O.J. Simpson trial: London Sunday Times archives. Trial transcripts for the verdict day: the Associated Press’s statistics of the O.J. Simpson trial.
2 Interview with Brenda Dunne at Princeton, June 28, 1998.
3 R. D. Nelson et al., ‘FieldREG anomalies in group situations’, Journal of Scientific Exploration, 1996; 10(1): 111 – 41.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid; also correspondence with R. Nelson, July 26, 2001.
7 R. D. Nelson and E. L. Mayer, ‘A FieldREG application at the San Francisco Bay Revels, 1996’, as reported in D. Radin, The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena (New York: HarperEdge, 1997): 171.
8 Nelson, ‘FieldREG anomalies’: 136.
9 R. D. Nelson et al., ‘FieldREGII: consciousness field effects: replications and explorations’, Journal of Scientific Exploration, 1998; 12(3): 425 – 54.
10 For the entire study in Egypt: R. Nelson, ‘FieldREG measurements in Egypt: resonant consciousness at sacred sites’, Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research, School of Engineering/ Applied Science, PEAR Technical Note 97002, July 1997; telephone interview with Roger Nelson, February 2, 2001; also Nelson et al., ‘Field-REGII’.
11 For all descriptions of Dean Radin’s experiments in this chapter, I am indebted to his excellent account of his own work in The Conscious Universe: 157 – 74. See also D. I. Radin, J. M. Rebman and M. P. Cross, ‘Anomalous organization of random events by group consciousness: two exploratory experiments’, Journal of Scientific Exploration, 1996; 10: 143 – 68.
12 D. Vaitl, ‘Anomalous effects during Richard Wagner’s operas’, paper presented at the Fourth Biennial European Meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration, Valencia, Spain, October 9 – 11, 1998.
13 Ibid.
14 D. Bierman, ‘Exploring correlations between local emotional and global emotional events and the behavior of a random number generator’, Journal of Scientific Exploration, 1996; 10: 363 – 74.
15 R. Nelson, ‘Wishing for good weather: a natural experiment in group consciousness’, Journal of Scientific Exploration, 1997; 11(1): 47 – 58.
16 J. S. Hagel, et al., ‘Effects of group practice of the Transcendental Meditation Program on preventing violent crime in Washington DC: results of the National Demonstration Project, June – July, 1993,’ Social Indicators Research, 1994; 47: 153 – 201.
17 M. C. Dillbeck et al., ‘The Transcendental Meditation program and crime rate change in a sample of 48 cities’, Journal of Crime and Justice, 1981; 4: 25 – 45.
18 D. W. Orme-Johnson et al., ‘International peace project in the Middle East: the effects of the Maharishi technology of the unified field’, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1988; 32: 776 – 812.
19 J. Lovelock, Gaia: a New Look at Life on Earth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979).
20 R. Nelson et al., ‘Global resonance of consciousness: Princess Diana and Mother Teresa’, Electronic Journal of Parapsychology, 1998.
21 Telephone interview with R. Nelson, February 2, 2001.
22 ‘Terrorist Disaster, September 11, 2001,’ Global Consciousness Project website: http://noosphere.princeton.edu.
23 N. A. Klebanoff and P. K. Keyser, ‘Menstrual synchronization: a qualitative study’, Journal of Holistic Nursing, 1996; 14(2): 98 – 114.
24 In a speech in 1999 in Liège, Belgium, Mitchell would cite a little known report recording the experiences of Russian cosmonauts living aboard the Mir spacecraft for six months. Like Mitchell, they also experienced extraordinary perceptions in their waking and dream states, including precognition. It may well be that a long-duration space voyage provides some extraordinary means of tapping into The Field. S. V. Krichevskii, ‘Extraordinary fantastic states/dreams of the astronauts in near-earth orbit: a new cosmic phenomenon’, Sozn Fiz Real, 1996; 1(4): 60-9.
CHAPTER TWELVE: THE ZERO POINT AGE
1 Intervie
w with Richard Obousy, Brighton, January 20, 2001.
2 Confirmed by Graham Ennis at Propulsion Workshop, Brighton, January 20, 2001.
3 C. Sagan, Contact (London: Orbit, 1997).
4 R. Forward, ‘Extracting electrical energy from the vacuum by cohesion of charged foliated conductors’, Physical Review B, 1984: 30: 1700.
5 H. Puthoff, ‘Space propulsion: can empty space itself provide a solution?’ Ad Astra, 1997; 9(1): 42 – 6.
6 R. Matthews, ‘Nothing like a vacuum’, New Scientist, February 25, 1995: 33.
7 Ibid.
8 H. Puthoff, quoted in The Observer, January 7, 2001: 13.
9 Telephone and in-person interviews with Hal Puthoff, January 2001.
10 Hal Puthoff, ‘SETI: the velocity of light limitation and the Alcubierre warp drive: an integrating overview’, Physics Essays, 1996; 9(1): 156 – 8.
11 H. Puthoff, ‘Everything for nothing’, New Scientist, July 28, 1990: 52 – 5.
12 H. Puthoff, interview, Brighton, January 20, 2001.
13 Quoted on the Propulsion Workshop website: www.workshop.cwc.net.
14 J. Benveniste, ‘Specific remote detection for bacteria using an electromagnetic/digital procedure’, FASEB Journal, 1999; 13: A852.
15 E. Mitchell, ‘Nature’s mind’, keynote address, CASYS 1999, Liège, Belgium, August 8, 2000.
16 H. Puthoff, ‘Far out ideas grounded in real physics’, Jane’s Defence Weekly, July 26, 2000; 34(4): 42 – 6.
17 Ibid.
18 P. W. Milonni, ‘Semi-classical and quantum electrodynamical approaches in nonrel ativistic radiation theory’, Physics Reports, 1976; 25: 1 – 8.
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