While we're on the topic of wild and crazy discoveries, lets touch on some other profound scientific experiments which once again go beyond our range of common sense into what some would call more fringe "pseudoscience" but are indeed natural phenomenon, explainable when viewed through a quantum paradigm shift. With the new idea in hand, that the mind is separate from the brain, scientific evidence that seems mysterious at first, begins to make a lot of sense. It's time to examine what's "under the rug."
Let's start by setting up a base understanding about why it is critically important to question dogmas with the help of Rupert Sheldrake. Entitled "The Science Delusion", this video is under 20 minutes and from a TED talk in 2013. Believing in things without questioning them is a mistake oft with grave consequences.
Let's start by setting up a base understanding about why it is critically important to question dogmas with the help of Rupert Sheldrake. Entitled "The Science Delusion", this video is under 20 minutes and from a TED talk in 2013. Believing in things without questioning them is a mistake oft with grave consequences.
Everyone has heard of the placebo effect. But most people aren't aware of how deep the effect goes, and the rest are simply sweeping evidence under the rug as you'll notice in this article on "How Stuff Works," They mention that the placebo effect only works on 30% of patients, but new experiments have increased the efficiency of placebo's up to 70-80%. That's a big increase. They also say that "susceptibility to the placebo effect might be genetic." As well will learn 'genetics' would have no real bearing on the placebo effect in that traditional sense.
To also illustrate how intellectual honesty is needed inside the main stream, on page 2 they state "some critics of the placebo-controlled trial state that they aren't really demonstrating a placebo effect, because many illnesses and diseases can resolve without any kind of treatment." which is true, but fails to acknowledge what is "under the rug" and considered "pseudo" type science. Mainly the mounting examples of incurable diseases and chronic conditions that have been affected, as we shall see.
This documentary centers on the Harvard Placebo Study Group and covers all of these new findings. To paraphrase one of it's members in the doc, the placebo effect has "matured" from it's beginning use in medicine and earlier religious type traditions ages ago. This video is 53 minutes long, and I do not suggest skipping it.
To also illustrate how intellectual honesty is needed inside the main stream, on page 2 they state "some critics of the placebo-controlled trial state that they aren't really demonstrating a placebo effect, because many illnesses and diseases can resolve without any kind of treatment." which is true, but fails to acknowledge what is "under the rug" and considered "pseudo" type science. Mainly the mounting examples of incurable diseases and chronic conditions that have been affected, as we shall see.
This documentary centers on the Harvard Placebo Study Group and covers all of these new findings. To paraphrase one of it's members in the doc, the placebo effect has "matured" from it's beginning use in medicine and earlier religious type traditions ages ago. This video is 53 minutes long, and I do not suggest skipping it.
Placebo Effect Additional Reading:
Another experiment will be one that, if we are intellectually honest with ourselves, could help explain the idea of the "quantum collapse" of a particles wave-function. The idea builds momentum on the idea that fields, like the field around a magnet, or the earths gravitational field, effect and are affected, by our brains. It's not a far stretch to imagine, as we've seen how reality itself, all matter, is made simply of localized quantum field fluctuations. These fields then, should be extending beyond our bodies and are likely interacting and even influencing the fields around them. The traditional view of the mind, being inside and of the brain, rejects the idea of the mind being able to manipulate anything outside of it. A very materialist type view point.
But its logical to wonder if, since the mind can already do so much to alter the body just through thought and belief alone, could the mind use these fields, in some ways, perhaps like an extra arm, and affect the fields around it? The Heart Math Institute has studied some of these field on field changes (Bioelectromagnetics) and it is commonly accepted that the human body does indeed affect the fields, and thus it effects the energy around it. Here's a TED talk by Howard Martin from HeartMath that is under 20 minutes. Entitled "Engaging The Intelligence of the Heart" and I don't suggest skipping it.
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2540535/
- http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.psych.59.113006.095941
- http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=all
Another experiment will be one that, if we are intellectually honest with ourselves, could help explain the idea of the "quantum collapse" of a particles wave-function. The idea builds momentum on the idea that fields, like the field around a magnet, or the earths gravitational field, effect and are affected, by our brains. It's not a far stretch to imagine, as we've seen how reality itself, all matter, is made simply of localized quantum field fluctuations. These fields then, should be extending beyond our bodies and are likely interacting and even influencing the fields around them. The traditional view of the mind, being inside and of the brain, rejects the idea of the mind being able to manipulate anything outside of it. A very materialist type view point.
But its logical to wonder if, since the mind can already do so much to alter the body just through thought and belief alone, could the mind use these fields, in some ways, perhaps like an extra arm, and affect the fields around it? The Heart Math Institute has studied some of these field on field changes (Bioelectromagnetics) and it is commonly accepted that the human body does indeed affect the fields, and thus it effects the energy around it. Here's a TED talk by Howard Martin from HeartMath that is under 20 minutes. Entitled "Engaging The Intelligence of the Heart" and I don't suggest skipping it.
The Human Consciousness Project, out of Princeton University, has also found some very interesting correlations between data collected by "quantum indeterminate electronic random number generators", and major world events, like 9/11; which would suggest that:
"Barring demonstration of a conventional interaction that can affect the random generators on a global scale, we are obliged to confront the possibility that the measured correlations may be directly associated with some aspect of consciousness attendant to global events."
Correlations of Continues Random Data With Major World Events - Oct 2002
Correlations of Continues Random Data With Major World Events - Oct 2002
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Scopaesthesia, also known as Attention Detection or the Psychic Staring Effect is another natural phenomenon which helps to establish this point even further. Can a person feel someone starting at them? Experiments would say yes. Between 1998 and 2002 30,803 trials were conducted. 54.7% of the people studied could accurately guess when they were being stared at. This is what science would call "statistically significant." Simply put, the chances of this happening randomly are 1x10–20:1. That's a lot of zeroes. You've got a much better chance of winning the lottery then you do of coming up with these scores by chance alone. All of these findings were published in the peer-reviewed "Journal of Consciousness Studies."
There is even an unconscious response to being stared at that can be read through electrodermal activity (EDA). When William Braud used these readings in experiments involving Scopaesthesia most people showed significantly greater electrodermal activity when being stared at verses when they were not, 59% against the expected 50%. Awareness is thought to have thus occurred on a deep subliminal level. Tho the mechanism, or how the brain reaches out may not yet be known, it's obvious that it happens when we look at the overall picture.
Additional reading:
Here's a video of Rupert Sheldrake from above, at GoogleTechTalks in 2008 that is entitled "The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence" and is 1 hour and 37 minutes long. I do not suggest skipping it. Another of his videos, "Dispelling Dogmas and Opening New Frontiers" is an hour and 11 minutes long from November 17th, 2012 at Haverford College.
- Youtube Video: A radio talk show about the GCP at Princeton University - 8 minutes
Scopaesthesia, also known as Attention Detection or the Psychic Staring Effect is another natural phenomenon which helps to establish this point even further. Can a person feel someone starting at them? Experiments would say yes. Between 1998 and 2002 30,803 trials were conducted. 54.7% of the people studied could accurately guess when they were being stared at. This is what science would call "statistically significant." Simply put, the chances of this happening randomly are 1x10–20:1. That's a lot of zeroes. You've got a much better chance of winning the lottery then you do of coming up with these scores by chance alone. All of these findings were published in the peer-reviewed "Journal of Consciousness Studies."
There is even an unconscious response to being stared at that can be read through electrodermal activity (EDA). When William Braud used these readings in experiments involving Scopaesthesia most people showed significantly greater electrodermal activity when being stared at verses when they were not, 59% against the expected 50%. Awareness is thought to have thus occurred on a deep subliminal level. Tho the mechanism, or how the brain reaches out may not yet be known, it's obvious that it happens when we look at the overall picture.
Additional reading:
- Is it Real or Illusory?
- Implications for Theories of Vision
- Papers on The Sense of Being Stared At
- Can We Help Just by Good Intentions? A Meta-Analysis of Experiments on Distant Intention Effects
- Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: Going Beyond Even Meta-Analysis of Distant Intention
Here's a video of Rupert Sheldrake from above, at GoogleTechTalks in 2008 that is entitled "The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence" and is 1 hour and 37 minutes long. I do not suggest skipping it. Another of his videos, "Dispelling Dogmas and Opening New Frontiers" is an hour and 11 minutes long from November 17th, 2012 at Haverford College.
This new science that shows the mind can in fact affect things outside of the body goes far beyond just a sense of being stared at, for instance there is scientific evidence to support the idea of psychokinesis (formally known as Telekinesis), telepathy and even remote-viewing.
Robert G. Jahn - Professor of Aerospace sciences and Dean Emeritus of the school of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton. Produced compelling evidence of psychokinesis and gathered more data on it than anyone else in the country. He founded the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Lab in 1979. Which after almost three decades of gathering scientific evidence, is finally closing its door and moving to oversee the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) which were established in 1996.
Robert G. Jahn - Professor of Aerospace sciences and Dean Emeritus of the school of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton. Produced compelling evidence of psychokinesis and gathered more data on it than anyone else in the country. He founded the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Lab in 1979. Which after almost three decades of gathering scientific evidence, is finally closing its door and moving to oversee the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) which were established in 1996.
"At the cutting edge of brain-and consciousness-research a significant body of evidence has surfaced that the brain-functions of discrete individuals can achieve a form of coherence even in the absence of sensory contact among the individuals. Telepathic, remote-viewing, and telesomatic phenomena have been subjected to increasingly rigorous experiments in parapsychology laboratories"
http://www.sociology.org/content/2007/_information_field_laszlo.pdf
http://www.sociology.org/content/2007/_information_field_laszlo.pdf
It then goes on to explain the experiments and their results. Two of these studies were published in the top journals, "Physics Essays" and the "International Journal of Neuroscience." The results of which have also been replicated.
"In 2004, three new independent replications were reported, all successful — one from Standish’s group at Bastyr University, one from the University of Edinburgh, and from researcher Dean Radin and his colleagues at the Institute of Noetic Sciences"
http://www.scientificexploration.org/edgescience/edgescience_12.pdf
http://www.scientificexploration.org/edgescience/edgescience_12.pdf
So in light of all this, is there a process in the brain, or even a theory that could account for all of the scientific findings we've left under the rug?