The Field (47 page)

10
Broughton,
Parapsychology
: 177.

11
For the description of Helmut Schmidt’s machine, correspondence with Schmidt, March 20, 1999; see also, Broughton,
Parapsychology
: 125 – 7; and D. Radin,
The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena
(New York: HarperEdge, 1997): 138 – 40.

12
Schmidt, ‘Quantum processes’.

13
Schmidt, ‘Mental influence’.

14
Ibid.

15
Telephone interview with Helmut Schmidt, May 14, 2001.

16
For the history of the PEAR program, interviews with Brenda Dunne, Princeton, June 23, 1998, and Robert Jahn and Brenda Dunne, Amsterdam, October 19, 2000.

17
Dunne and Jahn,
Margins of Reality
: 96 – 8.

18
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.

19
Interview with Brenda Dunne, Amsterdam, October 19, 2000.

20
Jahn, ‘Correlations’: 350.

21
Ibid.

22
Radin and Nelson, ‘Evidence for consciousness-related anomalies’; see also R. D. Nelson and D. I. Radin, ‘When immovable objections meet irresistible evidence’,
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
, 1987; 10: 600 – 1; ‘Statistically robust anomalous effects: replication in random event generator experiments’, in L. Henchle and R. E. Berger (eds),
RIP
1988 (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1988): 23 – 6.

23
D. Radin and D. C. Ferrari, ‘Effect of consciousness on the fall of dice: a meta-analysis’,
Journal of Scientific Exploration
, 1991; 5: 61 – 84.

24
Broughton,
Parapsychology
: 177.

25
Radin,
Conscious Universe
: 140.

26
Radin and Nelson, ‘Evidence for consciousness-related anomalies’.

27
D. Radin and R. Nelson, ‘Meta-analysis of mind – matter interaction experiments, 1959 – 2000’, unpublished, www.boundaryinstitute.org.

28
Radin and Nelson, ‘Evidence for consciousness-related anomalies’.

29
R. D. Nelson, ‘Effect size per hour: a natural unit for interpreting anomalous experiments’,
PEAR Technical Note
94003, September 1994.

30
W. Braud, ‘Wellness implications of retroactive intentional influence: exploring an outrageous hypothesis’,
Alternative Therapies
, 2000; 6(1): 37 – 48.

31
For the explanation and analogy of effect size, see Radin,
Conscious Universe
: 154 – 5; also W. Braud, ‘Wellness implications’.

32
René Peoc’h, ‘Psychokinetic action of young chicks on the path of an ‘illuminated source’,
Journal of Scientific Exploration
, 1995; 9(2): 223.

33
R. Jahn and B. Dunne,
Margins of Reality
: 242 – 59.

34
B. J. Dunne, ‘Co-operator experiments with an REG device’,
PEAR Technical Note
91005, December 1991.

35
Interview with Brenda Dunne, Princeton, June 23, 1998.

36
Jahn and Dunne,
Margins
: 257.

37
Jahn
et al
., Correlations: 356; also interview with Brenda Dunne, Princeton, June 23, 1998.

38
B. J. Dunne, ‘Gender differences in human/machine anomalies’,
Journal of Scientific Exploration
, 1998; 12(1): 3 – 55.

39
Interview with Brenda Dunne, Princeton, June 23, 1998.

40
Interview with Robert Jahn and Brenda Dunne, Amsterdam, October 19, 2000.

41
R. G. Jahn and B. J. Dunne, ‘ArtREG: a random event experiment utilizing picture preference feedback’,
Journal of Scientific Exploration
, 2000: 14(3): 383 – 409.

42
Interview with Robert Jahn and Brenda Dunne, Amsterdam, October 19, 2000.

43
R. Jahn, ‘A modular model of mind/matter manifestations’,
PEAR Technical Note
2001.01, May 2001.

44
Ideas in this paragraph: discussion with Robert Jahn and Brenda Dunne, Amsterdam, October 19, 2000; also R. Jahn, ‘Modular Model’.

45
Jahn and Dunne, ‘Science of the subjective’.

CHAPTER SEVEN: SHARING DREAMS

1
Description of the Amazon indians from a study being conducted by The Institute of Noetic Sciences, which appeared in M. Schlitz, ‘On consciousness, causation and evolution’,
Alternative Therapies
, July 1998; 4(4): 82 – 90.

2
R. S. Broughton,
Parapsychology: The Controversial Science
(New York: Ballantine, 1991): 91 – 2.

3
Interview with William Braud, California, October 25, 1999.

4
Interview with William Braud, California, October 25, 1999.

5
D. Radin
, The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena
(HarperEdge: New York, 1997); also D. J. Bierman (ed.),
Proceedings of Presented Papers
, 37th Annual Parapsychological Association Convention, Amsterdam (Fairhaven, Mass.: Parapsychological Association, 1994): 71.

6
Broughton,
Parapsychology
: 98.

7
C. Tart, ‘Physiological correlates of psi cognition’,
International Journal of Parapsychology
, 1963: 5; 375 – 86; also interview with Charles Tart, California, October 29, 1999.

8
D. Delanoy, now of the University of Edinburgh, has carried out similar studies, e.g. D. Delanoy and S. Sah, ‘Cognitive and psychological psi responses in remote positive and neutral emotional states’, in Bierman (ed.),
Proceedings of Presented Papers
.

.),
9
C. Tart, ‘Psychedelic experiences associated with a novel hypnotic procedure: mutual hypnosis’, in C. T. Tart (ed
Altered States of Consciousness
(New York: John Wiley, 1969): 291 – 308.

10
W. Braud and M. J. Schlitz, ‘Consciousness interactions with remote biological systems: anomalous intentionality effects’,
Subtle Energies
, 1991; 2(1): 1 – 46.

11
M. Schlitz and S. LaBerge, ‘Autonomic detection of remote observation: two conceptual replications’, in Bierman (ed.),
Proceedings of Presented Papers:
465 – 78.

12
W. Braud
et al
., ‘Further studies of autonomic detection of remote staring: replication, new control procedures and personality correlates’,
Journal of Parapsychology
, 1993; 57: 391 – 409. These studies were replicated by Schlitz and LaBerge, ‘Autonomic detection’.

13
W. Braud and M. Schlitz, ‘Psychokinetic influence on electrodermal activity’,
Journal of Parapsychology
, 1983; 47(2): 95 – 119.

14
W. Braud
et al
., ‘Attention focusing facilitated through remote mental interaction’,
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
, 1995; 89(2): 103 – 15.

15
M. Schlitz and W. Braud, ‘Distant intentionality and healing: assessing the evidence’,
Alternative Therapies
, 1997: 3(6): 62 – 73.

16
W. Braud and M. Schlitz, Psychokinetic influence on electrodermal activity’,
Journal of Parapsychology
, 1983; 47: 95 – 119. Braud’s studies were also independently replicated at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Nevada. D. Delanoy, ‘Cognitive and physiological psi responses to remote positive and neutral emotional states’, in Bierman (ed.),
Proceedings of Presented Papers
: 1298 – 38; also R. Wezelman
et al
., ‘An experimental test of magic: healing rituals’, in E. C. May (ed.),
Proceedings of Presented Papers
, 39th Annual Parapsychological Association Convention, San Diego, Calif. (Fairhaven, Mass.: Parapsychological Association, 1996): 1 – 12.

17
W. Braud and M. Schlitz, ‘A methodology for the objective study of transpersonal imagery’,
Journal of Scientific Exploration
, 1989; 3(1): 43 – 63.

18
W. G. Braud, ‘Psi-conducive states’,
Journal of Communication
, 1975; 25(1): 142 – 52.

19
Broughton,
Parapsychology
: 103.

20
Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Physiological and Biochemical Basis of Brain Activity
, St Petersburg, Russia, June 22 – 4, 1992; see also
Second Russian – Swedish Symposium on New Research in Neurobiology
, Moscow, Russia, May 19 – 21, 1992.

21
R. Rosenthal, ‘Combining results of independent studies’,
Psychological Bulletin
, 1978; 85: 185 – 93.

22
Radin,
Conscious Universe
: 79.

23
W. G. Braud, ‘Honoring our natural experiences’,
The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
, 1994; 88(3): 293 – 308.

24
Years later, this very idea became the subject of a book. L. Dossey’s
Be Careful What you Pray For … You Just Might Get It
(HarperSanFrancisco, 1997) provides exhaustive examples of the power of negative thoughts to harm and also how to protect yourself from them.

25
W. G. Braud, ‘Blocking/shielding psychic functioning through psychological and psychic techniques: a report of three preliminary studies’, in R. White and I. Solfvin (eds),
Research in Parapsychology
, 1984 (Metuchen, NY: Scarecrow Press, 1985): 42 – 4.

26
W. G. Braud, ‘Implications and applications of laboratory psi findings’,
European Journal of Parapsychology
, 1990 – 91; 8: 57 – 65.

27
W. Braud
et al
., ‘Further studies of the bio-PK effect: feedback, blocking, generality/ specificity’, in White and Solfvin (eds),
Research in Parapsychology
: 45 – 8.

28
D. Bohm,
Wholeness and the Implicate Order
(London: Routledge, 1980).

29
E. Laszlo,
The Interconnected Universe: Conceptual Foundations of Transdisciplinary Unified Theory
(Singapore: World Scientific, 1995): 101.

30
J. Grinberg-Zylberbaum and J. Ramos, ‘Patterns of interhemisphere correlations during human communication’,
International Journal of Neuroscience
, 1987; 36: 41 – 53; J. Grinberg-Zylberbaum
et al
., ‘Human communication and the electrophysiological activity of the brain’,
Subtle Energies
, 1992; 3(3): 25 – 43.

31
These have been explored in detail by Ian Stevenson; see I. Stevenson,
Children Who Remember Previous Lives
(Charlottesville, Va: University Press of Virginia, 1987).

32
Laszlo,
Interconnected Universe
: 102 – 3.

33
Braud,
Honoring Our Natural Experiences
.

34
Indeed, Marilyn Schlitz and Charles Honorton carried out an experiment showing that artistically gifted individuals were better at ESP than the ordinary population. See M. J. Schlitz and C. Honorton, ‘Ganzfeld psi performance within an artistically gifted population’,
The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
, 1992; 86(2): 83 – 98.

35
L. F. Berkman and S. L. Syme, ‘Social networks, host resistance and mortality: a nine-year follow-up study of Alameda County residents,’
American Journal of Epidemiology
, 1979; 109(2): 186 – 204.

36
L. Galland,
The Four Pillars of Healing
(New York: Random House, 1997): 103 – 5.

CHAPTER EIGHT: THE EXTENDED EYE

1
C. Backster, ‘Evidence of a primary perception in plant life’,
International Journal of Parapsychology
, 1967; X: 141. Hal’s paper ‘Toward a quantum theory of life process’, written in 1972, was never published. ‘With 30 years’ hindsight, and the lack of un-ambiguous verification of either the Backster effect or tachyons – the two lynchpins of this proposal – it seems somewhat naïve. But it got me started,’ wrote Puthoff to the author on March 15, 2000. He also notes: ‘By the way, I never did get to do the proposed experiment.’