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In the mood 5

How to merge 7

Loosening the armament of the self 8

The unifying effect of thoughts 10

Capturing your thoughts on film 13

Making a psychic connection 16

The linger effect of intention 18

Everyday manifestations 21

Power in numbers 23

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Does your state of mind affect your ability

to carry out intentions? The latest

evidence suggests that the emotional state

of both sender and receiver is important!

Some intriguing recent studies of healing,c a rried out by Gary Schwartz at theU n i ve rsity of A ri zona and his colleague,

B e ve rly Rubik, a biophysicist and fo u n d i n gd i rector of the Center for Frontier Sciences atTemple Unive rs i t y, P h i l a d e l p h i a , h ave examinedwhether the healer’s own state affects the successof healing. Th ey used as their ‘ p a t i e n t ’ E. colib a c t e ria that had been seve re ly stressed by asudden blast of heat.

The scientists assembled 14 pra c t i t i o n e rs ofR e i k i , a Japanese fo rm of healing, and aske dthem to attempt to ‘ h e a l ’ the bacteria usings t a n d a rd Reiki tre a t m e n t . Each practitioner wa sa s ked to heal three diffe rent samples. To countup the number of bacteria that survive d ,scientists made use of equipment with anautomated counter.

I n i t i a l ly, it ap p e a red that the Reikip ra c t i t i o n e rs made no diffe rence to the ove ra l ls u r v i val of the viable bacteri a . H o we ve r, on closerlook the scientists discove red that they we rem o re successful on certain days than on others .I n d e e d , on some day s , S c h wartz discove re d , t h eb a c t e ria we re actually worse off after the samplehad been exposed to healing. The healersap p e a red to be having a positive effect on somed ays and a deleterious one on others . S c h wa r t zand Rubik wo n d e red whether this spotty tra c kre c o rd might have something to do with theh e a l e rs ’ own states of wellbeing on the days theyc a rried out the healing.

The scientists decided to assess the healers ,using a psychological test called the A ri zo n aI n t eg ra t i ve Outcomes Scale (AIOS). AIOS is an

i n g e n i o u s ly simple visual way to assess a pers o n ’sg l o b a l — s p i ri t u a l , s o c i a l , m e n t a l , e m o t i o n a l , a n dp hy s i c a l — wellbeing during the previous 24h o u rs and the previous month. The test is asimple hori zontal line with the wo rds ‘ wo rst yo uh ave ever been’ on the left and ‘best you havee ver been’ on the ri g h t . The patients are told tore flect on their general sense of we l l b e i n g ,‘taking into account your phy s i c a l , m e n t a l ,e m o t i o n a l , s o c i a l , and spiritual condition’ o ve rthe past 24 hours . Th ey mark a point on the linewith an X that, in their view, re p resents theiro ve rall sense of wellbeing for the past 24 hours ,

Psychologist Iris Bell, one of Schwa r t z ’scolleagues at the Unive rsity of A ri zo n a , c re a t e dAIOS as a simple vehicle for patients to assesstheir own global wellbeing with somethingbesides a report of physical symptoms. In anumber of studies, AIOS was found to be auseful tool for gauging ove rall levels of phy s i c a l ,m e n t a l , and emotional health.

In the next batch of studies, Schwartz andRubik asked the Reiki healers to assess themselveson the AIOS scale before and after they’d carriedout the Reiki. After analyzing the data, thescientists discovered an important trend.The timeswhen the healers felt really well in themselvescorrelated with the sessions in which they had abeneficial effect on the bacteria—the counts inthe healed bacteria were higher than those of theheat-shocked controls. The days when the healersscored lower on the AIOS test were also the dayson which they had a deleterious effect on thebacteria, and killed off more bacteria than died inthe controls. The practitioner’s own wellbeing was anessential aspect of successful healing.

Schwartz and Rubik decided to see if the AIOStest applied to other types of healers as well. Theyrecruited a large group of patients who were to behealed by a number of practitioners of Johrei,

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Arizona Integrative Outcomes ScalePlease reflect on your sense of wellbeing, taking into account your physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritualcondition over the past 24 hours [1-month version: over the past month]. Use an X on the line to mark your answer to thequestion.

Mark the line below with an X at the point that summarizes your overall sense of wellbeing for the past 24 hours[1-month version: for the entire month].

Worst you have ever been Best you have ever been

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another form of Japanese healing. Before and afterthe healing sessions, both patients andpractitioners were asked to fill out both AIOS anda questionnaire to assess the emotional state ofmind before and after the healing.

Schwartz and Brooks compared the AIOS testsof both the healers and those they’d healed, anddiscovered another interesting effect. Althoughthe patients evidenced the greatest change in thetests before and after the test, the healers also feltbetter in every way after they’d performed thehealing. The act of healing, and perhaps thehealing context, was itself healing. Giving was asgood for the sender as the receiver. Healing someonehealed the healer.1

Two prayer studies, one of cardiac patients andthe other of infertile women, have discoveredpositive effects only when those who pray for thepatients have themselves been prayed for.2

Fritz Popp’s wo rk on biophoton emissions showsthat a positive state of health correlates with a highd eg ree of cohere n c e . P e r h aps to send out intentionwe need fi rst to be healed ours e l ves and then to bein the mood.

! Take the Arizona Integrative Outcomes Scalebefore you carry out your intentions (seebelow).

! If your mark on the scale is more than one-quarter of the way to the right, save yourintentions for a day when you feel better.

! Consider asking someone else with a highrating on AIOS to send healing energy to you,before you carry out your intentions.

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According to the scientific evidence# when youare sending intention to another person# it isimportant to .merge with them/! The best wayto do so is by cultivating and sendingc o m p a s s i o n !

Ma ri lyn Schlitz, d i rector of re s e a rch at theInstitute of Noetic Sciences, has re c e n t lyc a rried out a study of ‘ c o m p a s s i o n a t e

i n t e n t i o n ’ sent to cancer patients by their spouses.H e rcolleague Je rome Stone assembled a training pro g ra mfor the study. Stone believed that his senders neededto learn how to generate compassion or empathy fo rtheir partners , with a technique based larg e ly on theTonglen Buddhist idea of ‘giving and re c e i v i n g ’ .

These practices would train the partner to deve l o pa true understanding of the suffe ring of another, t ot a ke on the suffe ring without being bu rdened by itand to tra n s fo rm it through the process of healing.D e veloping true empathy helps dissolve theb o u n d a ries and sense of self between the sender andre c e i ve r. P o s i t i ve and loving thoughts also havep o s i t i ve physiological effe c t s .

Rollin McCra t y, d i rector of HeartMath, has fo u n dthat a steady (or what they called ‘ c o h e rent’) va ri a t i o nin heart beat is more like ly with ‘ p o s i t i ve’—loving ora l t ruistic—thoughts and that this ‘ c o h e re n c e ’ i sq u i c k ly picked up by the bra i n , which soon pulses ins y n c h ro ny. 1

R e s e a rch shows that touch or even focus on theheart or compassionate feelings for the other is ap o werful means of causing bra i n wave entra i n m e n tb e t ween people. When two people touch wh i l efocusing loving thoughts on their hearts, t h e‘ c o h e re n t ’ heart rhythms of one can entrain the bra i nof the other.

B e fo re you set your intention, it may be importantto fo rm an empathetic connection with the object ofyour intention.

Establish connectionFi rst try it out on someone with whom you alre a dyh ave a strong bond—a partner, a child, a sibl i n g , adear fri e n d .! With someone you don’t know, exchange an object

or photograp h .! Get to know the pers o n . Go for a walk with him

or meet him fi rs t .! Spent half an hour meditating together fi rs t .! Ask the person to be open to receiving yo u r

intention when you are sending it.If you are sending an intention to something non-

human or inanimate, you can also establish somec o n n e c t i o n . Find out all you can about the object ofyour intentions—whether a plant, an animal or aninanimate object. Place it near you for a peri o db e fo re sending your intention. It goes without say i n gthat you should be nice to it—even if ‘ i t ’ is yo u rcomputer or photocopier.

Be compassionateTo encourage a sense of unive rsal compassion duri n gyour intention session:

! Focus your attention to your heart, as though yo ua re sending light to it. O b s e r ve the light spre a d i n gf rom your heart to the rest of your body. Send aloving thought, i e , ‘ M ay I be well and free fro ms u ffe ri n g .’

! On the out bre a t h , imagine a white light ra d i a t i n go u t wa rd from your heart. As you do, t h i n k : ‘ Iap p reciate the kindnesses and love of all livingc re a t u re s . M ay all others be we l l .’ As Buddhistsre c o m m e n d , fi rst think of all those you love , t h e nyour good fri e n d s . M o ve on to acquaintances andfi n a l ly to those people you active ly dislike . Fo reach stage, t h i n k : ‘ M ay they be well and free fro ms u ffe ri n g .’

! C o n c e n t rate on the kindness and compassion of allliving things and their contri bution to yo u rwe l l b e i n g . Fi n a l ly, send your message ofcompassion to all people and living things one a r t h .

! P ractice switching roles with some of your love do n e s . Imagine what it is like to be your partner ors p o u s e , your pare n t , your child. Get inside theirshoes and feel what it would be like to see thewo rld through their eye s , with their hopes andfe a rs and dre a m s . Think how you would re s p o n d .

Je rome Stone quotes Sogyal Rinpoche, author of T h eTibetan Book of Living and Dying,2 who suggests that weopen our hearts eve ry day to the suffe ring around us,with begg a rs who pass us by, with the poverty andt ra g e dy and grief we see on our television sets:

“ D o n ’t waste the love and grief it aro u s e s ; t h emoment you feel compassion welling up in yo u , d o n ’tb rush it aside, d o n ’t shrug it off and try quickly tore t u rn to ‘ n o rm a l ’ , d o n ’t be afraid of the feeling ore m b a rrassed by it, allow yo u rself to be distra c t e df rom it or let it run aground in ap a t hy. Be vulnera bl e ;use that quick, b right uprush of compassion; focus oni t , go deep into your heart and meditate on it,d e velop it, enhance and deepen it. By doing this yo uwill re a l i ze how blind you have been to suffe ri n g … ”3

D u ring your intention, if you are sending healingto someone, fi rst try to put yo u rself in his situation.Imagine what it is like to be him and to be faced withhis current cri s i s . Try to feel and have empathy fo ryour re c e i ve r ’s suffe ri n g .Ask yo u rself how yo u ’d fe e lif you we re suffe ring in this manner and how yo u ’dmost want to be healed.

N o w, d i rect your loving thoughts to the object ofyour intention. If he or she is pre s e n t , hold his or herh a n d .

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In our earlier Lesson# we discovered that most.masters/ of intention undergo a loosening ofthe ego! But what does a state of surrender doto the brain?

Most people assume that intention is a stro n g‘ o o m p h ’ , or motiva t i o n , t h rough which yo up roject your thoughts to another pers o n

to ensure that your wishes are carried out. Ic o n s i d e red it similar to the intense projected thoughtsI have when witnessing one of my children perfo rmin publ i c.When my sporty youngest plays netball, a l lof my thoughts are ri veted on the ball, p a r t i c u l a rlywhen she gets hold of it, as if I am willing it to flyinside the net. When my eldest daughter onceap p e a red in a camp solo, I found myself mentally atone with her, willing her to hit the tough high noteson key.

To address exactly how intention wo rk s , I re c e n t lystudied the ‘ m a s t e rs ’ of intention: p ra c t i t i o n e rs ofancient disciplines—Buddhism, Q i go n g , s h a m a n i s m ,h e a l i n g — who had been trained to perfo rme x t ra o rd i n a ry acts through their thoughts andwo rked out the common denominators they share d .

I n i t i a l ly, m a ny healers experience a heightening oftheir cognitive pro c e s s e s , but most soon reach a pointwhen inner chatter ceases, and they experience afalling away of all sensation but pure image (Living TheField Lesson Thirty-two) . The focusing seems to dissolvetheir own boundari e s . Th ey suddenly become awa reof the inner wo rkings of the patient’s body andu l t i m a t e ly have a sense of being engulfed by him.

M a ny achieve this state by using the patient as the

object of meditation. D r. Judith Swa c k , m i n d / b o dyhealer who has developed her own holisticp s y c h o t h e rapy system, d e s c ri b e s , “I look dire c t ly atthe client and focus all of my senses fo r wa rd towa rdthe client and enter a re c e p t i ve state wh e re I payi n t e rnal attention to any subtle info rmation andi m p ression coming in like a kind of ra d a r.” M a nyother healers likewise enter an altered state, s i m p ly by‘listening to the patient’—“audibly or otherwise.”“ Just thinking of the need to help someone,”w rote Dr.P i e d i l a t o ,“slows the blood in my ve i n s .”

But was loosening the tight hold of the egoimportant in all types of intention? Inve s t i g a t o rs atthe Behav i o ral Neurology Pro g ram and RotmanR e s e a rch Institute at the Unive rsity of To ro n t oattempted to replicate the wo rk of the Pri n c e t o nPEAR lab using random event genera t o rs , but withone important twist: t h ey ’d enlisted seve ral patientswith frontal-lobe damage. The patients who hads u ffe red right frontal-lobe damage, which like lya ffected their ability to focus and maintain attention,had no effect on the machines. The only person toh ave greater than normal effect was a volunteer witha damaged left frontal lobe but whose right fro n t a llobe was intact. The inve s t i g a t o rs speculated that thevo l u n t e e r ’s particular handicap like ly gave him areduced sense of self, but a normal state of attention.Achieving a state of a reduced self-awa re n e s s — ad i fficult state for an ord i n a ry person to achieve —might allow for greater effects of intention on them a c h i n e s . 1

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Surrendering the outcome

Most studies of meditation# mediumship and healing show that people successful at intention imagine themselves and the healee

as one with the universe!

! Frame your intention# state it clearly and then let go of the outcome!

! If you are trying to heal someone or send an intention to someone else# once you have achieved peak attention# turn your

attention to the subject! Imagine merging with him or her! Try to imagine your mind literally at one with his or her mind and

body!

! Look at your subject 2or a photograph of him or her-!

! Focus all your attention toward your subject!

! Begin to pay internal attention to any senses or impressions coming to you! Remember: they won/t arrive logically or as a

whole# but be fleeting and impressionistic# much like the information you receive through remote viewing 2see Frontier

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! 3Listen4 to your subject with your entire body! Be aware of all sensations you receive relating to the person you wish

to send intention to!

! Be open to information coming from all five senses: some people receive extrasensory information visually# others .hear/ it#

smell it or feel it!

! Allow yourself to gently enter a zone where the intention is taken over by some greater force!

! State your intention clearly and make it specific!

! Close your internal meditation with a request and then move your own ego aside! Remember: this .power/ does not originate

with you5you are its conduit! Think of it as a request you are sending to the universe!

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experts on altered states of consciousness, d i s c o ve re dthat during these altered states, the body natura l ly‘switches off’ certain neural connections, including ana rea near the back of the brain that constantlycalculates a pers o n ’s spatial ori e n t a t i o n , the sense ofwh e re one’s body ends and the external wo rld beg i n s .D u ring a tra n s p e rsonal or transcendent experi e n c e ,this region becomes inactive : the boundary in therelationship between the self and the other bl u r; yo uno longer know wh e re you end and someone elseb eg i n s .

This was also demonstrated in a study of Ti b e t a nm o n k s .2 Moments of meditative experience showe dup as more activity in the bra i n ’s frontal lobes withless activity in the parietal lobes. Meditation and

other altered states affected the temporal lobes, wh i c hhouse the amy g d a l a , a cluster of cells re s p o n s i ble fo rthe sense of whether we like or dislike what wep e rc e i ve . Our ‘sense of self’ is housed in the tempora llobe of the left hemisphere . To function norm a l ly,both temporal lobes must wo rk in harm o ny.S t i mulation of the temporal lobes or disorder in themm ay create fa m i l i a rity or stra n g e n e s s — c o m m o nfe a t u res of a transcendent experi e n c e . Intense fo c u swith intention on some other being ap p e a rs to ‘ s w i t c ho ff’ the amydala and so re m o ve the neural sense ofs e l f.

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The latest evidence of direct0mental0influence0on0living0systems research dem0onstrates that when one person is trainedto send intention to another# many of therecipient/s physiological responses willmirror the sender/s!

Psychologists Mari lyn Schlitz and DeanRadin of the Institute of Noetic Scienceswanted to find out what happens in the

b o dy of the re c e i ver when a sender sends outan intention. Th ey decided to seek out couplesin which one partner was suffe ring fro mc a n c e r.

One of their colleagues, Je rome Stone, anu rse and practicing Buddhist, w rote a tra i n i n gm a nual for the couples after having analy zed anumber of healers and distilled their commonp ra c t i c e s .

Radin divided the couples into three gro u p s .The fi rst group (the ‘ t rained group’) was tou n d e rgo Stone’s tra i n i n g , p ra c t i c ecompassionate intention daily for thre emonths and then carry out the test. The secondg roup (called the ‘ wait group’) was to carry outthe test fi rst and then have the tra i n i n g . The 18h e a l t hy couples composing the third gro u p(the control group) we re to have no training ata l l , but we re simply to undergo the test.

With all three gro u p s , the member of thecouple with the cancer (or one of thedesignated partners in the control group) wa sa s ked to sit in a black reclining chair placed ina one-ton, s o l i d - s t e e l , d o u bl e - wa l l e d ,e l e c t ro m a g n e t i c a l ly shielded enclosure . E a c hinhabitant was fitted to an array of medicalg a d g e t ry to measure bra i n wave s , h e a r t b e a t ,b reathing ra t e , skin conductance andp e ri p h e ral blood fl o w. A video camera stoodd i s c re e t ly in the corn e r.

Some 20 meters away, the other partner wa sseated in the dark , attached to the samemedical equipment as his or her partner,s t a ring at a small, blank television scre e n .Wh e n e ver the image of the partner in theshielded room abru p t ly flashed onto the T Vs c re e n , the other member of the couple was tosend a compassionate intention to his or herpartner for 10 seconds.

Radin then compiled all the phy s i o l o g i c a ldata from the three gro u p s , and studied theresults between partners and as gro u pcomposite ave ra g e s . Each phy s i o l o g i c a lresponse offe red fascinating info rmation as tothe effect of intention on the re c e i ve r.

For instance, in the case of measuring bl o o dflow to the extre m i t i e s , in eve ry gro u p , t h e

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Jerome Stone/s compassionate0intention programThe first component of Jerome Stone/s program involved teaching the sender how to focus and concentrate# as in

meditation# to create a high degree of sustained attention! The scientific evidence indicates that meditation establishes

more coherent brainwaves: at least $* studies show that EEG synchronization occurs between the four regions of the

brain during meditation! Other studies of meditation have shown that it creates more coherent biophoton emissions"

and# in general# aids healing!

Stone also believed that his senders needed to learn how to generate compassion or empathy for their partners# and

used a technique based largely on the Tonglen Buddhist idea of .giving and receiving/! This practice would train the

partner in how to develop a true understanding of the suffering of another# to take on the suffering without being

burdened by it# and to transform it through the process of sending healing!

Developing true empathy would also help to dissolve the boundaries and sense of self between the sender and

receiver! Positive# loving thoughts also had positive physiological effects! Rollin McCraty/s research at the Institute of

HeartMath in Boulder Creek# California# showed that a steady 2or# as they called it# .coherent/- variation in heartbeat was

more likely with .positive/5loving or altruistic5thoughts and that this .coherence/ was quickly picked up by the brain#

which soon pulsed in synchrony and was evidenced by improved cognitive performance!$

After Stone instructed the partners in simple techniques of meditation# he also taught them how to be compassionate

when carrying out intention!

The final aspect of Stone/s training involved instilling belief and confidence in both senders and receivers! Stone had

discovered evidence in both the healing and parapsychological literature that believing in the process assists in the

success of psychic processes such as extrasensory perception 2ESP-# which# like intention# involve transferring

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s e n d e r ’s skin conductance increased twoseconds after seeing the partner’s image, a n dthe re c e i ver re c o rded a similar arousal a half-second after the image had fl a s h e d .F u r t h e rm o re , the response persisted for seve nseconds after the stimu l u s .

The re c e i ver clearly ap p e a red to beresponding to intention—indeed, a l m o s ti n s t a n t a n e o u s ly. In fa c t , the re c e i ve r ’s re s p o n s eo c c u rred at least one second faster than wo u l dh ave been possible for the sender to havec o n s c i o u s ly fo rmulated an intention. Radin wa snot sure whether this meant that the re c e i ve rhad had a premonition of the intention. Or itmight simply have re flected the turgid natureof the skin-conductance re s p o n s e ; the re c e i ve rwas like ly responding in his or her extre m i t i e sto info rmation sent by the sender’s centra ln e r vous system, which would have reacted tothe initial stimulation of the image on themonitor far more quickly than the electri c a limpulses sent to the fi n g e r t i p s .

N e ve r t h e l e s s , in Radin’s view, the couples’t wo skin-conductance responses we re tra c k i n geach other, albeit slightly out of phase.

A similar situation was seen with the heartra t e . The sender’s heart rate increased fi veseconds after the stimulus prompt to send thei n t e n t i o n — which was consistent with thep hysical response that occurs in the bodyd u ring the process of making some sort ofmental effo r t . But an identical increase tookplace in the re c e i ve r, which would not hap p e no rd i n a ri ly if he or she we re simply resting in are c l i n e r.

Blood flow fo l l o wed a similar pattern .Wh e n e ver we experience something thats t i mulates us, the vascular netwo rk in oure x t remities constricts slightly to maximizeblood flow to the central core of the body. I nR a d i n ’s study, this phenomenon occurred in

the sender and was soon imitated in the bodyof the re c e i ve r.

As for re s p i ra t i o n , on ave ra g e , wh e n e ver thes t i mulus image ap p e a re d , the senderi m m e d i a t e ly inhaled sharp ly and expelled theair 15 seconds later. This re s p i ra t o ry re s p o n s ere s e m bles that of someone about to steadyt h e m s e l ves for the task at hand.

In this case, Radin witnessed a diffe re n tresponse in the re c e i ve r. D u ring the fi rst fi ves e c o n d s , the re c e i ve r ’s re s p i ration fa l t e re d ,almost as though he or she had stoppedb re a t h i n g , and then resumed with a larg eexhalation in the final fi ve seconds of thei n t e n t i o n . It was as though the re c e i ver hadbeen listening with care , holding his/herb reath and straining to hear something, b e fo resighing with relief as soon as the stimu l a t i o nhad passed.

But it was the bra i n wave results that pro ve dto be the most intere s t i n g . Wh e n e ver there c e i ve r ’s image flashed on the scre e n , t h es e n d e rs re c o rded a little up-turn in bra i n wave s ,l i ke a ‘ flinch re s p o n s e ’ , and then a huge spikefor about a third of a second befo re dro p p i n gs h a rp ly ; it then took about one second to ri s eback up to baseline.

In the sender, this tiny initial upturnre p resents a ‘P300 wave’—a we l l - k n o w nphenomenon that re c o rds the time the bra i nt a kes to process the switching on of a light. Th ed rop re p resents the time it takes for intern a lattention to modulate the stimulus into are s p o n s e .

In this instance, the re c e i ve rs had no P300wave , but their bra i n waves neve r t h e l e s sm i m i c ked the virtually vertical plunge of theb ra i n wave that shortly fo l l o wed in thes e n d e r — e ven though, u n l i ke the sender, t h ere c e i ver had had no stimu l u s . The brain of there c e i ver was reacting just as it does wh e n

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Thinking makes it soRadin/s study has a number of implications! The first is that the thoughts you send out to your partner are felt in every

pore of his body# so it/s important to choose your thoughts with care!

! Catch yourself whenever you find yourself thinking negative thoughts about your partner

! Be honest with yourself about your thoughts! If you are bothered by particular issues# discuss them! If you don/t#

you/re likely to be .shooting/ your partner with poisonous thought forms

! When you want to send out positive intentions# remember to do so with compassion! Exchange something mean0

ingful# or give a hug first

! Notify your partner of your intentions

! Believe in your intentions with all your heart

! Send intentions involving areas that most motivate you! Radin/s study chose couples that included a cancer sufferer

so that the other partner would have an enormous investment in seeing the sufferer get well!

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asleep and dre a m i n g . The re c e i ve rs hadreg i s t e red an emotional reaction even thought h e re was no tangible stimu l u s .

R a d i n ’s results we re all the more re m a rk a bl ebecause the re c e i ve rs had not been told howlong the stimulus period would be, and neithers e n d e rs nor re c e i ve rs knew in advance howlong the sender would have to wait befo re thep a r t n e r ’s image flashed on the scre e n . Acomputer pro g ram ra n d o m ly selected thes t u dy ’s time fra m e , which ranged from fi ve to40 seconds. This meant that any expectationon the part of either member of the couplescould not explain the re s u l t s .1

Radin then compared the responses from all

t h ree gro u p s . All had shown an effe c t . In eve ryi n s t a n c e , each physiological response of there c e i ve rs had tra c ked those of the senders .H o we ve r, the most prolonged patterns we renoted among the cancer patients wh o s ep a r t n e rs had been trained in compassionatei n t e n t i o n . The re c e i ve rs in the training gro u pnot only responded to the stimu l u s , but alsokept responding over eight of the 10 secondsof the intention.

In quantum term s , the couples had becomeas one.

Lynne McTaggart

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One fascinating example of directedintention is the ability of energies5yours orenergy in open space5to be capturedforever on film!

William Ti l l e r, S t a n fo rd Unive rs i t yprofessor emeritus of materials science,became particularly intrigued by the

power of thought when he was approached by aYugoslav named Stanislav Ojack, who claimed tohave a strange effect on photographic film.

Ojack showed Tiller a batch of pictures he’dt a ken with his Ko d a k , using ord i n a ry fi l m .Although the camera had been mounted on atripod and the pictures had been taken by a two-foot-long shutter-release gadget, in every example,the photos had portions in sharp focus. In otheri n s t a n c e s , objects we re bl u rred and eve ntransparent, so that you could see objects behindthem that should have been obscured from view.The camera and the film had been examined byKodak specialists, but had been found to be insound working order.

The same effects occurred with other people'scameras, so long as Ojack carried the camera nextto his body for several days before he beganshooting. He claimed that whenever he took apicture while experiencing certain feelings in hisupper back and back of the neck—around thefourth thoracic and seventh cervical vertebrae—some weird anomalous image would appear in thephotograph, usually by making people in thefo reg round tra n s p a re n t . The most noticeabl eimages occurred during a spiritual or meaningfulevent such as at a sacred shrine or a particularlyinvolving lecture on metaphysics.

Ojack was of the Baha’i faith and carried outdaily prayer. In his earlier examples, the photoshad seemed to change whenever he’d sent anintention to ‘reveal God’s universe’.

Tiller had been intrigued enough to set up anexperiment. He used Stan’s Kodak camera and anequivalent Minolta, filled them both with identicalKodak film, mounted them on a tripod speciallybuilt to hold them both and employed the sameshutter release with the same color film in bothinstances. The single difference was allowing Stanproximity to the Kodak.

Although Stan was never allowed to touch thefilm, Tiller asked him to ‘sensitize’ his Kodakcamera by keeping it close to his body for severaldays. The Minolta, which was to be the control,

would be kept apart from Stan at all times. Hethen asked Stan to hold an intention to ‘revealGod’s universe’ while Tiller snapped photos ofseveral locales. Afterward, he asked the Kodakorganization to develop both sets of film, andthen compared the two.

The film that came back was quiteextraordinary.The ‘sensitized’ photos had the samestrange images as the ones Stan had initiallybrought to him. In many of the photos taken withthe ‘sensitized’ camera, the images of people in thep i c t u re ap p e a red partially tra n s p a rent ortranslucent. In one, for instance, a picture of agroup on a stage, a man standing in front of ablackboard was so completely transparent that theblackboard was entirely visible ‘through’ him. Lightappeared to emanate from a woman and toconnect with the others on the stage.

The photos of the same people taken with theu n s e n s i t i zed camera ap p e a red as you wo u l dexpect, with the blackboard obscured by theirbodies, as would occur by normal vision. Evenmore extraordinary, the sensitized camera was ableto take clear and distinguishable photos of theinside of the Stanford church with its lens cap stillon.1

Tiller had puzzled about the physics of howthis might be possible. He was beginning to thinkthat some kinds of radiation exist in nature thatcan travel through materials that are opaque tov i s i ble light.He began referring to them as ‘subtle’ energy.

Whatever unknown quality was inherent inStan’s energy field, his emanations could somehowbe detected and imprinted by the film in thesensitized camera. It seemed to Tiller that, in someway, Stan’s intention was so powerful that it couldbe captured on film.

The more Tiller investigated Stan, the more he’db egun to believe that something in humanthought had the power to alter the ve rymolecular bonds of matter he thought he so wellu n d e rs t o o d . Tiller suspected that Ojack wa s‘tuning’ in to the Zero Point Field or, moreprecisely, what he called the ‘vacuum’—exactly theterritory he believed these subtle energies mightoccupy.

Photographing fairy lights

One woman named Pat Fok of London, atravelling photographer, discovered that, after

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meeting a healer named Cui Xin Zhi in southernChina and learning from him a form of Qigongmovements, which she practiced religiously fort wo hours twice a day, she was having apsychokinetic effect around her house. “Afterabout a month, astonishing events happened:metal objects around the house wo u l dspontaneously be displaced, the screen of mymobile phone would turn blank, my automaticwatch would function erratically, a tape recorderwould turn itself on, t ransmitting garbl e dmessages of unknown origin, and lights wouldswitch on and off by themselves.”

When she contacted her Qigong master, hecongratulated her and said that her Qigongpractice was having an effect. When the mastercame to visit her, she was astonished by some ofthe photographs she took of him, which showed“unexplainable phenomena”. In one series ofphotos of Cui kneeling in front of a Buddha, he’dbecome almost entirely transparent in the last offour photos.

Although Pat’s Qigong master had neve rencountered this phenomenon before, he believedthat through her practice of Qigong, she wasaccessing innate, hitherto unrealized abilities. Bypracticing Qigong, he told her, she energized theflow of qi in her body. As focused intention is thesecret to accessing the power, something in theintention to take a photograph imprinted themind’s will on the photo.

That same year, when Cui came to visit Pat’sfamily in Southern Italy, she photographed himshowing her how to ‘collect energy’ from the seaand moonlight. When she developed the film,“extraordinary sparks of light” appeared in thepictures taken that evening. She also discovered

that the flash of her camera had stopped working.Pat believed that her teacher had wh a t

appeared to be a powerful magnetic field, whichaffected electronic equipment. “I learned to carrylots of batteries when I was around Cui, andexpected my tape-recorders and CD players to alsomalfunction.”

Pat also photographed Cui in the act of doinga healing and passing his leg over an injured legof a friend of theirs. The photos showed electricalenergy passing between them.

“These photos suggest that there is some truthto the idea that healing wo rks withelectromagnetic energy. The healer acts as achannel for a much higher, limitless source of thisenergy and transfers it via his hands to thepatient,” says Pat. After the healing, the patient’sknee pain was gone.

Another time, when Pat was visiting Lebanon,she witnessed some ancient ruins from downtownBeirut, discovered during a civil war lasting 17years between the Christians and Muslims. As themoon was full, she pulled out her camera top h o t o g raph the scene over the ru i n s . Th edeveloped photographs showed light in thread-likefilaments of red and gold, pouring out of themoon.

The images brought to mind a visit to the Indians p i ritual master Mother Meera a decade ago , wh e nshe told Pat that our purposes is to re veal our light,which is “in us like a bu d ” . In Pat’s view, the imagewas an example of “ n a t u re speaking back to me”,a n s we ring me in a “ u n i q u e , p e rs o n a l ” way. S h eb e l i e ves that her meeting with spiritual masters , a n dvisits to holy sites and other energ e t i c a l ly charg e dplaces re m o ved the usual fi l t e rs so that this hiddene n e rgy ap p e a rs in the photograp h s .

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Capturing your energy on film! Carry out your .powering0up/ exercises# and get into a state of concentrated focus

! Try taking a photo while you are sending strong intentions

! Send an intention to reveal .The Field/

! If you record any anomalous images# keep the prints! Note down in a journal anything that occurred around

the time you took the photos! Check the geomagnetic activity at the time on the National Oceanic &

Atmospheric Administration/s website 2www!noaa! gov; see also Living The Field Lesson Two-

! Take photos when you are in the same state and under roughly the same conditions! See if you have a similar

effect on the photographic prints

! Make sure you set your digital camera to take the highest0quality photos and the largest0sized photos it can

take! For instance# if your camera usually shoots %!) megapixels# but you can shoot as fine

as * megapixels# set it for the higher setting! If you find anything anomalous# you will want to be able to

enlarge the photo to examine it and still maintain good picture quality

! If you find orbs or any anomalous images# record in your diary the conditions under which they appeared! Was

it a particularly intense solitary moment of yours# or was it intensely focused group energy?

! If it recurs# what are the common conditions at the time?

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Besides Ojack, a number of individuals claim tobe able to capture ‘orbs’ on film. Many students ofR a m t h a ’s School of Enlightenment in Ye l m ,Washington, claim to regularly photograph orbswhen in the presence of Ramtha, the discarnateentity channeled by J.Z. Knight.

These anomalous images captured in photosappear as balls, flashes or trails of light. In many,if not most, instances, orbs have a perfectly logicalexplanation as a photographic artifact: they arecaused by flash reflection, or dust or droplets ofmoisture in front of the lens of the camera.Because the speck or drop is lying just out of focalrange, the light reflected from the dust or dropletcauses what is known as a ‘circle of confusion’ onthe chip inside the digital camera that records thepictures.As the spec or drop is too close to be infocus, the object spreads out across the chip andshows up as a big blob of light on the film.

Usually, these artifacts appear to be white orgrey, although some are rainbow hued, usuallybecause of refraction or a problem with thecamera lens.

Throwing flour around or spraying dropletsclose to the lens of a digital camera while focusing

on an object in the distance and snapping flashpictures will generally produce a good orb (seebox, above).

Many such orbs appear transparent becausewhat is being photographed is not the droplets orparticles themselves, only the light source. Usually,says the Association for the Scientific Study ofAnomalous Phenomena (ASSAP), faint orbs arethe most transparent.

Nevertheless, a growing body of people, such asthe students of Ramtha’s school, maintain that aminority of orbs are evidence of paranormal orspirit energies—some sort of unacknowledged lifefo rc e .2 M a ny others believe that orbs aredisembodied spirits somewhat analogous to fairiesand appear as protectors, particularly of children.

I had my own experience of the power of aperson’s energy field when I tried to photographimages at Ramtha’s ranch in Yelm. My cameraimmediately stopped working and has neverworked since.

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Orbs produced on cueThe Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena 2ASSAP-# a British .ghostbuster/ organization#

offers a step0by0step guide to producing .non0authentic/ orbs:

! Stage your photo so that you can take it in front of a dark background

! Protect all surfaces so that they won/t be damaged by the scattergun effect of spraying

! For the best orbs# use water# which causes refraction effects that are particularly stunning! Otherwise# opt for

powdery substances like cinnamon or flour

! Use a digital camera

! Focus on an object near your dark wall and take flash photographs as you drop or spray small particles close

to the camera lens

! On processing the film# you should find orbs!

While carrying out the above experiment# take care to avoid letting any moisture or particles get inside your

camera! Also# be aware that the further away the subject of your photos# the brighter and larger your orbs will

appear# as the duration of the flash is increased according to the distance it has to travel!

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New evidence suggests that directedintention works better once you haveestablished a bond with the object of your intentions and have a shared beliefs y s t e m !

How important is a strong interp e rs o n a lconnection and a shared belief systemin success when you are sending

intention? N e u ro p hysiologist Jacobo Gri n b e rg -

Z y l b e r b a u m , of the National Au t o n o m o u sU n i ve rsity of Mexico in Mexico City, s t u d i e dthis question by using a classical pro t o c o lapplied to all ‘ d i rect mental interactions withliving systems’—in other wo rd s , the ability ofhuman thought to influence the living wo rl da round it.

In his study, t wo people wired up to ava riety of physiological monitori n ge q u i p m e n t , such as EEG machines, we reisolated from each other in diffe rent ro o m s .One would be stimulated with something—ap i c t u re , a light or a mild electric shock. Th ere s e a rc h e rs would then examine the two EEGsto determine if the re c e i ve r ’s bra i n wave sm i rro red those of the sender when he or shewas being stimu l a t e d .

G ri n b e rg-Zylberbaum employed lightflashes to magnify the sender’s effects andm a x i m i ze the response in the re c e i ve r. F l a s h e sof light tri gger pre d i c t a bl e , h i g h - a m p l i t u d ee l e c t rical bra i n waves in viewe rs . In this case,

the particular neuronal patterns in the bra i nof the sender evo ked by the light turned outto be mirro red in the brain of the re c e i ve r, wh owas sitting in an electri c a l ly shielded room 14.5m e t e rs away.

H o we ve r, G ri n b e rg-Zylberbaum discove re dthat one important condition determ i n e ds u c c e s s : the synchro ny only occurred amongp a i rs of participants who had pre v i o u s ly metand established a connection by spending 20m i nutes with each other in meditative silence.1

G ri n b e rg-Zylberbaum believed that a‘ t ra n s fe rred potential’, as he termed this fo rmof entra i n m e n t , o c c u rred only among thosewho had undergone some meditative reg i m e n ,and then only after some sort of psychicconnection between sender and re c e i ver hadbeen establ i s h e d .

N e ve r t h e l e s s , in a similar study carried outin Germ a ny, m a ny of the pairs had never meteach other and had not had a chance toe s t a blish a bond.2 The German re s e a rc h e rsconcluded that ‘ c o n n e c t e d n e s s ’ and mentalp re p a ration may play a ro l e , but we re notc ru c i a l .

A final extra o rd i n a ry study examined thee ffect of powerful emotional invo l vement onremote infl u e n c e . R e s e a rc h e rs at the Unive rs i t yof Edinbu rgh studied and compared the EEGsof bonded couples, matched pairs of stra n g e rs ,and seve ral individuals who in actuality had nop a r t n e r, but thought they we re being paired off

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Strengthening your sense of empathy

! Practice switching roles with some of your loved ones# and imagine what it is like to be your partner or spouse#

your parent# your child! Get inside their shoes and imagine what it would be like to see the world through their

eyes# with their hopes and fears# and dreams! Think how you would respond!

! Jerome Stone# who designed a program to train partners to send compassionate intention# quotes Sogyal

Rinpoche# author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying 2San Francisco: Harper# "11+-# who suggests that we

open our hearts every day to the suffering around us5of the beggars whom we pass by# of the poverty# tragedy

and grief we see on our television sets!

Sogyal Rinpoche urges us not to waste the love and grief it arouses; 3The moment you feel compassion

welling up in you# don/t brush it aside; don/t shrug it off and immediately try to return to .normal/; don/t be

afraid of the feeling# or feel embarrassed by it# or allow yourself to be distracted from it or let it run aground

in apathy! Be vulnerable5use that quick# bright up0rush of compassion: focus on it# go deep into your heart and

meditate on it; develop it# enhance and deepen it! By doing this# you will realize how blind you have been to

s u f f e r i n g ! 4

! If you are sending healing to someone# during your intention# first try to put yourself in his situation! Imagine

what it is like to be him faced with his current crises! Try to feel and have empathy for your receiver/s suffering!

Ask yourself how you would feel if you were suffering in this manner# and how you would most want to be

h e a l e d !

! If he or she is present# hold his or her hand!

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and having their bra i n waves compare d .E ve ryone who had been paired off, wh e t h e r

he knew his partner or not, d i s p l ayed incre a s e dnu m b e rs of bra i n waves in synchro ny. The onlyparticipants who did not demonstrate thise ffect we re those who had no partner.3

Noted parapsychologist Dean Radin carri e dout a va riation of this experi m e n t , c o n n e c t i n gp a i rs who had close bonds—couples, f ri e n d s ,p a rents and their childre n . In a signifi c a n tnumber of instances, the EEGs of the sendersand re c e i ve rs ap p e a red to synchro n i ze .4

In the view of Mari lyn Schlitz, vice pre s i d e n tfor re s e a rch and education at the Institute ofNoetic Sciences in Califo rn i a , m o t i vation is akey component of success. The more urgent thes i t u a t i o n , such as would occur with a partners u ffe ring from cancer, the more motivated hisor her partner would be in attempting to sendintention to help the patient get we l l .

As for shared belief, psychologist GaryS c h wartz and his fellow re s e a rc h e rs at theU n i ve rsity of A ri zona carried out a study ofdistant Jo h r e i healing on cardiac patients sothat no one but the statistician knew who wa sreceiving the healing.5

When Schwartz and his colleagues tabu l a t e d

the re s u l t s , a fascinating picture emerg e d . Th ebest outcomes we re among those who hadre c e i ved Johrei and believed they had re c e i ve di t . The wo rse outcomes we re those who had notre c e i ved Jo h r e i and we re also convinced theyhad not re c e i ved it.

S c h wa r t z ’s studies uncove red somethingfundamental about healing: both the energ yand intention of the healing itself, and thep a t i e n t ’s belief that he or she had re c e i ve dhealing promoted the actual healing. Belief inthe efficacy of the particular healing tre a t m e n twas undoubtedly another fa c t o r. Schlitz hass t ressed the importance of a shared beliefsystem in the success of remote infl u e n c e , a n dS c h wa r t z ’s results bear this out.

Lynne McTaggart

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To know him is to heal himPsychologist and mind(body researcher Jeanne Achterberg of the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology# also inCalifornia# examined the effect of having a bond with the healee on the success of healing! She designed aningenious study at a hospital in Hawaii involving highly experienced distant healers# who selected as their.patient/ a person with whom they had a special connection! Each healer was isolated from his patient# who wasthen placed in an MRI scanner! Randomly and at two0minute intervals# the healers sent healing intentions totheir patients# using their own traditional healing practices!

Achterberg discovered significant brain activation in the same portions of the brains5mainly in the frontallobes5of all the patients during times when healing energy was being .sent/! When the same regime was triedout on people the healers did not know# there were no effects on the patients/ brain activity!"

Some sort of emotional bond or empathetic connection may be crucial to the success of both prayer andhealing intention!

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How important is it to set aside aparticular place to carry out intentions?New scientific evidence suggests thatintentions create a 6linger6 effect which6conditions6 the space to aid futurei n t e n t i o n s !

William Ti l l e r, S t a n fo rd pro fessor emeri t u sof materials science, put intention tothe supreme test through his series of

‘ bl a c k - b ox experi m e n t s ’ , which attempted to‘ c h a rg e ’ this simple, low-tech machine with ahuman intention and used it to affect a chemicalp rocess (see Living The Field Lesson One) .

His experiment rested on the unthinkabl eassumption that thoughts could be imprisoned ina bit of electronic memory and, l a t e r, ‘ re l e a s e d ’ t oa ffect the physical wo rl d . This fanciful idea wo u l dlead to a bizarre experimental re s u l t , o ffe ri n gc o nvincing evidence that there is such a thing asthe right place for carrying out intentions.

Tiller tried out black boxes on a great nu m b e rof subjects, choosing experimental targets thatwould show a genu i n e , m e a s u ra ble change—changing the pH of wa t e r, i n c reasing the activity ofa liver enzyme called alkaline phosphatase (ALP)or speeding up the developmental processes of thef ruit fly.All three experiments we re extra o rd i n a ri lys u c c e s s f u l .1

After three months, the results of Ti l l e r ’s studiesb egan to impro ve ; the more he repeated thee x p e ri m e n t , the stronger and quicker the effe c t s .

Tiller took readings of the air tempera t u re andd i s c o ve red that the tempera t u re ap p e a red to begoing up and down according to a regular rhy t h mor oscillation, dipping and climbing at reg u l a ri n t e r va l s . When he plotted it, he saw that thet e m p e ra t u re change was oscillating at a pre c i s er hy t h m : e ve ry 45 minutes or so, it va ried by some 4 °C. When Tiller then measured the water pH inthe lab,he observed the same phenomenon as with thet e m p e ra t u re : t h e re we re periodic oscillations of atleast one-quarter of a unit on the pH scale, a n dregular dips and peaks in the wa t e r ’s ability toconduct electri c i t y. S o m e h o w, his lab was beg i n n i n gto manifest diffe rent material pro p e r t i e s , almost as if it we re a specially charged env i ro n m e n t .

The effects also continu a l ly incre a s e d . N omatter which experiment he carried out, t h elonger the imprinted devices we re in the ro o m , t h el a rger the rhythmic fluctuations of tempera t u re

and pH. These va riations remained unaffected bythe opening of doors or windows, the operation ofa i r- c o n d i t i o n e rs or heaters , and even the pre s e n c eor movement of humans or objects around theirimmediate vicinity. When he compared graphs ofair and water tempera t u re re a d i n g s , t h ey we reagain moving in perfect harm o ny. E ve ry corner of the room that was measured reg i s t e red the samere s u l t . Each aspect of the physical space ap p e a re dto be in some sort of rhy t h m i c, e n e rgetic harm o ny.

By this time,Tiller and his colleagues had set upfour labs, each separated from the others byb e t ween 35 and 280 meters (114 and 919 fe e t ) .Once enough experiments had been carried out,e ve ry other site also began to evidence theser hythmic fl u c t u a t i o n s .

Tiller placed an ord i n a ry bar magnet under ajar of water for three day s , with the north pole ofthe magnet pointing upwa rd s , and measured thewa t e r ’s pH. He then turned the magnet over sothat the south pole faced upwa rds under the jarfor the same peri o d . Under normal circ u m s t a n c e s ,when ord i n a ry water is exposed to this kind ofweak magnet, which has a field strength of lessthan 500 gauss, the pH remains the same, n omatter which side of the magnet is exposed to thewa t e r.

The wo rld as we know it is magneticallys y m m e t ri c a l . Quantum physicists speak in terms ofgauge theory and symmetry to explain therelationships between fo rces and particles, wh i c hinclude electrical and magnetic charg e s . We areb e l i e ved to exist in a state of electromagnetic U1-gauge symmetry—a rather complicated scenari oin which magnetic fo rce is proportional to theg radient of the square of the magnetic fi e l d . Th i sboils down to a simple tru i s m : no matter wh e re ina given field you measure the electro m a g n e t i cp ro p e r t y, you will obtain the same re a d i n g . Th ee l e c t romagnetic laws of nature are the samewh e re ver you look.

If you raise the electromagnetic pull in onea re a , you will find you have changed thee l e c t romagnetic pull by the same deg re ee ve ry wh e re else. In The Cosmic Code, Heinz Pagelsl i kens the unive rse to an infinite piece of pap e r,painted grey. If you change the color to a diffe re n tshade of grey—or ‘change the gauge’—you stilld o n ’t change the gauge symmetry, because the re s tof the paper will be changed to the exact sameshade of grey, making it impossible to eve n

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distinguish wh e re exactly you are on the pap e r.1 Astate of symmetrical magnetism is re fe rred to as amagnetic ‘ d i p o l e ’ .

But the pH of the water in Ti l l e r ’s lab wa ss i g n i fi c a n t ly diffe rent in one polarity compare dwith the other, with huge diffe rences of 1–1.5 pHu n i t s . Exposing the water to the south pole sent thepH soaring upwa rd , while turning the magnet ove rto the north pole would cause the pH to decre a s e .At two of his experimental sites, the pH of thewa t e r, when exposed to south-pole magnetism,c o n t i nued to change with the passage of time,peaking after about six day s . When the water wa sexposed to the north pole of the magnet, h o we ve r,the rhythmic changes in pH that he had beenre c o rding dwindled away.

O r t h o d ox science maintains that monopoleso n ly exist in electricity (as either a positive orn eg a t i ve charg e ) , and not in magnetism, wh i c hc reates only dipoles from spinning or orbitinge l e c t rical charg e s . G o ve rnments around the wo rl dh ave spent billions of dollars looking for magneticmonopoles eve ry wh e re on earth, without success.

N e ve r t h e l e s s , Tiller had somehow managed toaccess a magnetic monopole in his crude lab. Th i sphenomenon ap p e a red to be a systemwide effe c t .In any lab of his exposed to the intention-i m p rinted black boxe s , i n s t ruments re c o rded amagnetic-monopole type of behav i o r.

It dawned on Tiller that he was witnessing themost astonishing result of all: human intentionc ap t u red in his little black boxes was ‘ c o n d i t i o n i n g ’the spaces wh e re the experiments we re beingc a rried out.

After the imprinted boxes had been turned onfor a wh i l e , the effect became re l a t i ve ly‘ p e rm a n e n t ’ ; the targ e t — whether water pH, A L P

or fruit fl i e s — would continue to be affected eve nwhen the device was no longer in the lab. Ti l l e rdecided to see what would happen when here m o ved all the elements of the experi m e n t . H edismantled the Fa ra d ay cage and the water ve s s e l s ,and re m o ved them from his lab, then re c o rded theair tempera t u re of the places wh e re the cages hadb e e n . E ven though the experimental vessel was nolonger there , his therm o m e t e rs continued to re c o rdp e riodic oscillations in tempera t u re of 2–3 ºC.Although this influence slowly disap p e a red ove rt i m e ,Ti l l e r ’s labs ap p e a red to have undergone somekind of long-term therm o dynamic tra n s fo rm a t i o n .The energy from intention ap p e a red to have‘ c h a rg e d ’ the env i ronment and created a dominoe ffect of ord e r.

Tiller suspected that he had been witnessing aquantum effe c t . The constant re p l aying of ord e re dthoughts seemed to be changing the phy s i c a lreality of the ro o m , making the quantum virtualparticles of empty space more ‘ o rd e re d ’ .And then,as in the domino effe c t , the ‘ o rd e r ’ of the spaceap p e a red to assist the outcome of the experi m e n t s .C a rrying out the intentions in one particular spaceap p e a red to enhance their effects over time.

In these charged spaces, he and his colleagueshad managed to create an S U2-gauge space—wh e ree l e c t rical and magnetic monopoles coexist—similarto the reality supposedly present in thes u p e rs y m m e t ry states of exotic phy s i c s . In theseconditioned spaces, the ve ry law as to thep roportion of magnetic fo rces had been altere d .Abasic property of physics was completely changed.The only way to arri ve at such a polarity effect wa sto produce some element of S U2-gauge symmetry.

This change in the gauge symmetry of the spacemeant that pro found changes had occurred in the

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Conditioning your intention space! Choose a place to carry out your intentions that feels comfortable! Clear away any extraneous items and make

it personal or appealing# with cushions or comfortable furniture# so that whenever you spend time there# you

will find it an enjoyable refuge# a place where you can sit quietly and meditate! Use candles# soft lights and incense#

if you prefer!

! Some people find it helpful to create an .altar/ of sorts as a focal point# with objects or photographs that you find

inspirational or particularly meaningful! Even if you are not at home# you may find that you will naturally .enter/ your

intention space by visualizing it whenever you want to send an intention!

! The objective is to .condition/ the space so# whenever possible# use the same place5even the same spot in the room5

to send your intentions!

! Unless you live in the mountains and can open your windows to clean mountain air# you may also wish to install an

ionizer in your space to increase the number of negative ions in your environment 2see Living The Field Lesson

Fourteen-# which enhances psychic .reception/!

Placing plants and some source of water# like an indoor desk fountain# will help to improve ion levels in intention

spaces! If possible# keep your space free of electrical gadgets and computers!

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ambient Zero Point Fi e l d . In U1-gauge symmetry,the random fluctuations of The Field have no effe c ton the physical unive rs e . H o we ve r, in S U2-g a u g es y m m e t ry states, The Field has become moreo rd e red and can produce changes in the tiniestelements of matter—which all add up to ap ro found alteration in the ve ry fa b ric of phy s i c a lre a l i t y.

Ti l l e r ’s studies need to be replicated by other,independent labora t o ri e s . But if his body of wo rkstands up over time, it will demonstrate the extentto which the energy of human thought can alter

its env i ro n m e n t . The ord e ring process of intentionap p e a rs to carry on, p e rp e t u a t i n g , p o s s i bly eve ni n t e n s i f y i n g , its charg e .

These findings suggest that setting aside aparticular room for carrying out intention mightbe an important considera t i o n . P e r h aps we eachneed our own ‘ t e m p l e ’ to which we re t u rn , if onlyin our mind’s eye , e ve ry time we send a dire c t e dt h o u g h t .

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Now that you have practiced .poweringup/# what can you use intention for in yourown everyday life? To find out# why not trya series of informal# personal experiments?

The following ‘ e x p e ri m e n t s ’ a re intendedto be read in two way s : as a spri n g b o a rdinto ways to incorp o rate intention into

your life , and also as a piece of anecdotalre s e a rc h . Wh e n - e ver you carry out an intentione x p e ri m e n t , I would like you to report it on ourIntention Experiment website atw w w. t h e i n t e n t i o n e x p e ri m e n t . c o m . You will havethe opportunity to post your results on ourwebsite and share them with other re a d e rs .

To carry out these experi m e n t s , all you willneed in the way of equipment is a notebook anda calendar. When you are fi rst starting, note thedate and times of your intentions. E a c hintention experiment should be carried outafter ‘ p o we ring up’ in your intention space,using eve rything yo u ’ve been learning aboutD i rected Intention. Needless to say, if you suffe rf rom a serious illness and are trying to thinkyo u rself better, you should augment your ownhealing intentions with the help of a tra i n e dp ro fessional healer, whether conventional ora l t e rn a t i ve .

M a ke a daily note of any change in theobject of your intention, and be specifi c. If yo ua re trying to heal a condition in yo u rself orsomeone else, t a ke a daily ‘ t e m p e ra t u re ’ o fc h a n g e . What does the person feel like ,in general? What symptoms have impro ve d ?H ave any got wo rse? Have any new ones turn e dup? (If any situations seri o u s ly wo rs e n ,i m m e d i a t e ly consult a pro fessional pra c t i t i o n e r;you may also wish to examine any subconscious

i n t e n t i o n s . )If you are trying to change your re l a t i o n s h i p

with someone who is ord i n a ri ly ve rya n t a gonistic to one that is more positive , m a kea daily note of his or her interactions with yo u ,to determine if anything has changed.

Manifesting in your life

Select a goal that has never hap p e n e d , but yo uwould like to have hap p e n . Choose somethingthat seldom occurs or is particularly unlike ly sot h a t , if it does come to pass, it is more like ly tobe the result of your intention. H e re are somep o s s i b i l i t i e s :! receiving fl o we rs from your husband (if he

has never bought them for yo u )! h aving your wife sit down and watch a

football match with you (if she usuallyrefuses to do so)

! h aving the boorish neighbor who never give syou the time of day start a cheeryc o nve rsation with yo u

! h aving your child help with the dishes! h aving your child wa ke up on his/her own in

the morning and get re a dy for schoolwithout pro m p t i n g

! i m p roving the weather (30 per cent more orless ra i n , s ay )

! h aving your child make his/her bed! h aving your dog stop barking at night! stopping your cat from scratching the sofa! h aving your husband or wife come home

f rom wo rk one hour earlier than usual! h aving your child watch television two hours

l e s s! h aving someone who can’t stand you at wo rk

s ay hello and start up a conve rs a t i o n

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Powering up: putting it all togetherHere/s the Powering Up program we/ve described in Living The Field Lessons Thirty0eight to Forty0three! We know for

certain that these techniques have generated success under controlled experimental laboratory conditions# but there/s

no guarantee they will work in your life! By using them# you will# in effect# engage in an ongoing personal experiment!

! Enter your intention space

! Power up through meditation

! Move into peak focus through mindful awareness of the present

! Get onto the same wavelength by focusing on compassion and making a meaningful connection

! State your intention and make it specific

! Mentally rehearse every moment of it with all your senses

! Visualize# in vivid detail# your intention as a fact

! Time it right5check what the sun is doing# and choose days when you feel happy and well 2see Lesson Thirty0six-

! Move aside5surrender to the power of the Universe and let go of the outcome!

Everyday manifestations

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! achieving 10 per cent higher pro fits at wo rk! g rowing your plants or crops 10 per cent

faster than usual.As you begin to manife s t , you can try morecomplicated thoughts. But re m e m b e r, start with

just one single event that you want to change,wh e re change can be easily quantified and canbe pro b a bly attri buted to your thoughts.

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Thus far# we/ve been working on intention as

used by individuals! Now it/s time to bring some

of these ideas into your community!

Assemble a group of your friends who areinterested in trying out some group-intention exercises. Create an intention

space where you will meet each time.As with yourindividual experiments, each member of yourgroup should have a notebook and a calendar.

When you are first starting, note the date andtimes of your intentions. Each intentionexperiment should be carried out after you have‘powered up’ together in your intention space,using the program outlined in Living The FieldLessons Thirty-two to Forty-four.

Depending on the nature of your intention,make one member of the group responsible forresearching figures involving your local accident,weather or crime statistics. For these types ofstatistics, it’s a good idea to get hold of reports forthe last five years in your area and surroundingcommunities so you can make comparisons.

When you meet, decide on a group-intentionstatement. When you are ‘powering up’, visualizeyourselves as a single entity (say, within a giantbubble or any other unifying image). Once youare all in a collective meditative state, have onemember of the group read out the statement.

Meet regularly to send the same intentions.Keep a careful reading of the statistics for onemonth before and several months after you havesent the intentions, and note any changes. Sendthe results to The Intention Experiment website:www.theintentionexperiment.com.

You can even use this program to send healingintentions as a group to one of your members.

During a course of mine at Esalen, one of ourmembers, Ruth, fell and bruised her ribs. She wasdazed and so shaken by the experience that shewas worried about driving home that day. We allsent her healing intentions, and she immediatelyre v i ve d , and felt calm and confident aboutstepping into her car.

This type of approach has even been triedremotely by our Intention Experiment virtualcommunity (www. theintentionexperiment.com).Don Berry, a disabled vet, has an incurable diseasethat has totally fused his spine, from head tosacroiliac. He says he has no spaces between hisspine and so has no movement. “I cannot bend, Icannot turn my head—I am as solid as a rock.”

He asked if a group of people would send anintention at the same time, focusing on allowinghis neck to turn just as a normal person’s would.

Says Don, “It has been documented for years[over a decade] that I have absolutely no neckmovement. Even a few centimeters would beproof; anything in the inches would be a ‘miracle’.As it has been so well documented throughmedical records, there is no cure . . . any improve-ment would have to be attributed to intention ora sudden intervention of God as no one has EVERhad any bone growth decrease.”

Spontaneously, a bunch of readers decided tobegin sending intentions to Don’s neck twice aweek (Thursday and Sundays). Don says he’sstarted to feel better and has begun to keep adiary of his progress.

Needless to say, if one of your group memberssuffers from a serious illness and is trying to thinkhim/herself better, these healing intentions shouldbe augmented with the help of a tra i n e d

Intention targetsSelect a group target in your community! Here are a few possibilities of what that could be:

" improving the weather

" reducing violent crime by * per cent

" reducing pollution by * per cent

" reducing litter on a particular street in your neighborhood

" getting your mail delivered one hour earlier

" achieving some form of community activism 2such as preventing a cell0phone mast from being built

in your area-

" decreasing the incidence of local road accidents involving children by )% per cent

" improving the collective grade point average of the local school by one grade

" decreasing the abuse of children in your community by )% per cent

" reducing inappropriate hand0gun possession by )% per cent

" increasing 2or decreasing- local rainfall by "% per cent

" decreasing the number of alcoholics in your area by $* per cent!

Power in numbers

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p ro fessional healer, whether conventional oralternative.

Remember, we have extrapolated this programfrom the scientific evidence describing thosecircumstances that have created the most positiveresults in psychokinetic laboratory experiments.We know for certain that these techniques have

generated success under controlled laboratoryconditions, but there’s no guarantee they willwork in your life. However, by making use ofthem, you will, in effect, be engaging in anongoing group experiment.

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