The Power of Intention
Sir Isaac Newton was known for his theories regarding gravity and laws of motion on earth, in which all matter was self contained, existing in three-
dimensional space of geometry and time. Influence required something physical to act upon it in the form of either a force or a collision. To change
something essentially required
heating it, freezing it, burning it, dropping it, or hitting it.
This view of the universe has been proven incorrect, and yet sadly this is what's still being taught in most
schools. Nothing in this universe is physical, it is
all energy and humans are energy beings. Our bodies, words,
thoughts and
emotions are all energy that is constantly being projected out into the
cosmic ocean of energy and affecting everything in existence.
Everything we perceive is a river of energy, and scientists have discovered that our very intentions
can influence
people, plants, and machines, even at remote distances. Many studies and experiments have been performed
regarding the power of human intention with great success.
The following studies are only a few of the many
successful intention-based experiments:
Human Intentions and Dice Rolling
Experiment Details: To date, 73 studies have examined
efforts of 2,500 people to influence more than 2.5 million
dice throws with great success.
Results: Through combined analysis of the studies, the
odds against these results occuring by chance were 1076
(1 followed by 76 zeros) to 1.
Source: Psychologist Dean Radin conducted a meta-analysis in 1989 at Princeton
University of all known dice experiments (73) published between 1930 and 1989.
They are recounted in his book Entangled Minds (New York: Pocket Paraview, 2006),
148-51.
Human Intentions and Plant Consciousness
Performed By: Cleve Backster - Founder of the Backster School of Lie
Detection and considered to be America's leading lie-detector expert.
Experiment Details: By putting a long, curved leaf of a Dracaena plant
between two sensor electrodes of a lie detector, Cleve Backster was the
first to demonstrate that plants respond and react to human thoughts.
Backster wanted to think of a test to threaten the plant's well-being.
And then an idea arrived: he would get a match and burn the leaf.
Results: At the very moment he had the thought to burn the leaf, the
polygraph showed that the plant perceived the thought as a threat and
the recording pen swung to the top of the polygraph chart.
Source: P. Tompkins, and C. Bird. The Secret Life of Plants (New York: Harper & Row, 1973).
Human Intentions and Random Event Generators
Performed By: Brenda J. Dunne
of Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research
Laboratories (PEAR)
Experiment Details: Jahn and Dunne performed
an experiment using Random Event Generators
(REG), the computerized equivalent of heads or
tails, to test whether intention could have an
effect on machines. The most common
configuration was asking people to influence the
appearance of two, randomly-generated images
on a
screen.
Results: After 2.5 million trials, Jahn and Dunne
proved that intention can influence these
devices, an outcome successfully replicated by
68 independent investigators. They also found
that two involved people created six times the
order on a random machine.
Source: R.G. Jahn et al., "Correlations of random binary sequences with prestated operator intention: a review of a 12-year program," Journal of Scientific Exploration,
1997; 11: 345-67; Dean Radin and Roger Nelson, "Evidence for consciousness-related anomalies in random physical systems," Foundations of Physics, 1989;
19(12):1499-1514; McTaggart, The Field, 116-7.
Human Intentions and Muscle Building
Performed by: Guang Yue
Exercise Psychologist at Cleveland Clinic
Foundation in Ohio
Experiment Details: Subjects between the ages of 20 and 35
imagined flexing their
biceps as hard as they could during daily
sessions
completed 5 times a week.
Results: Without ever physically flexing their biceps during these
sessions, a 13.5% increase in muscle size and strength was
recorded after just a few weeks.
Sources: G.H. Yue and K.J. Cole, "Strength increases from the motor program; Comparison of
training with maximal voluntary and imagined muscle contractions," Journal of Neurophysiology, 1992;
67: 114-23; V.K. Ranganthan, et al., "Level of mental effort determines training-induced strength
increases," Society of Neuroscience Abstracts, 2002; 32: 768; P. Cohen, "Mental Gymnastics," New
Scientist, November 24, 2001; 172(2318): 17.
Human Intentions and Remote Healing
Performed by: Dr. Elizabeth Targ, Stanford University.
Experiment Details: Over 150 studies regarding remote
healing have been performed with varying degrees of
success. Elizabeth Targ devised a pair of highly controlled
studies, in which 40 remote healers across USA were
shown to improve the health of terminal AIDS patients,
without ever meeting or being in contact with the patients.
Source: F. Sicher, E. Targ et al., "A randomized double-blind study of the effect of
distant healing in a populations with advanced AIDS: report of a small scale study,"
Western Journal of Medicine, 1998; 168(6): 356-63. For a full description of the studies,
see The Field, 181-96.
 Intention that Heals Disease
Performed by: Cecil B. Kidd
Experiment Details: One significant example of the power of intention dealt
with a group of people with a rare illness called Ichthyosiform Erythroderma,
most widely known as fish-skin disease, because it causes fish-like scales all
over the body. Five of these patients were hypnotized and told to visualize the
skin on their body returning to normal.
Results: After only a few weeks, 80% of the skin of each patient's body had
healed.
Source: C.B. Kidd, "Congenital Ichthyosiform Erythroderma Treated by Hypnosis," British Journal of Dermatology, 1966; 78:
101-5.
Human Intention and Survival
Performed by: Herbert Benson - Cardiologist at Harvard Medical School
Experiment Details: In 1985, a group of Tibetan monks were put into a
room with temperatures approaching freezing, while a fellow monk
draped them in cold, wet sheets. These severe conditions would
normally send the body into shock, the core temperature plummeting,
and result in a loss of consciousness and vital signs after only a 12
degree drop in body temperature.
Instead of trembling from the cold, the monks began to sweat, causing
steam to rise from the sheets. In an hour they were dry, and two other
ice-cold, wet sheets were placed on the monks, one after another - both
were quickly dried by the heat generated by the monks.
Results: Herbert Benson and his team of scientists found that these
monks had raised their temperatures by up to 17°F and lowered their
metabolism by more than 60%.
They had done all of this with the power of their thoughts and intentions.
Source: H. Benson et al., "Body temperature changes during the practise of g tum-mo (heat) yoga," Nature
1982; 295: 234-6; H. Benson, "Body temperature changes during the practise of g tum-mo yoga (Matters
Arising)," Nature, 1982; 298: 402.
Special thanks to Lynne McTaggart for all of her great work in The Intention Experiment.
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