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Future Intention Experiments
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The first worldwide double-blind experiments to test the power of intention have actually proved that the physical properties of plants can be changed just by using the power of 'group mind' over matter.
Studies involving thousands of “intenders” have been taking place around the world, with people sending 'intention' to targets under strictly scientifically controlled conditions through the Intention Experiment website and during individual gatherings. Lynne McTaggart, architect of the experiments, is working with leading physicists and psychologists from the University of Arizona, Princeton University, the International Institute of Biophysics, Cambridge University and the Institute of Noetic Sciences. These experiments are being run at McTaggart’s seminars and conferences and on the web, and have produced extraordinary results.
The Field
Lynne McTaggart, spokesperson on the science of spirituality as the author of the classic bestseller The Field
Travel
Lynne travelled all over the world in the summer of 2007, so she had plenty of chances to test herexperiment in a variety of settings. Amazingly, she somehow managed to carry out a study on the internet too, inviting people across the globe to send intention to one of the chosen set of seeds.
In the pilot experiment, McTaggart asked a group of 16 meditators based in London to direct their thoughts to four remote targets in Dr. Popp’s laboratory in Germany: two types of algae, a plant and a human volunteer. The meditators were asked to attempt to lower certain measurable biodynamic processes. Popp and his team discovered significant changes in all four targets while the intentions were being sent, compared to times the meditators were ‘resting’.
Growing seeds
All through the summer of 2007, the study took place in fornt of audiences in Sydney, Australia, Rhinebeck, New York, and Hilton, Head, South Carolina, who were instructed, in each instance, to direct their thoughts to target seeds in the Tucson, Arizona lab. In one experiment, the intention of a group as small as 100 was powerful enough to affect the growth seeds nearly 3000 miles away. The most impressive results were from the final study, conducted among a group of experienced Healing Touch healers. In this case, the seeds sent intention grew nearly twice as large as the controls.
Most recently, McTaggart, partnered with noted Russian physicist Konstantin Korotkov, carried out a successful Intention Experiment involving thousands of people from 80 countries around the globe, who were instructed to send love to a little vial of water in St. Petersburg, Russia. Sophisticated equipment later showed that this experiment changed its essential properties, specifically its light emissions. Imagine the implications about the power of thought to clean up the world’s polluted water supply.
Global warming
McTaggart’s ‘global laboratory’ is now moving on to a ‘mini-Gaia’ which will involve constructing a little terrarium and asking readers to attempt to lower its temperature.
“If we find we have a significant effect, the implications of it — that our collective thoughts could tackle global warming — will be extraordinary,” she says.
She is also working with top scientists to design experiments to see if group intention can lower violence in certain hotspots in the world, raise the educational results in the US’s poorest districts and increase the availability of certain biofuels.
“Although the first experiments have ‘worked,’ it’s important to understand that all we have at the moment is an intriguing demonstration of possibility, and not one single definitive statement,” says Lynne. “Each scientific experiment must be replicated many times to be accepted as fact.
“But here is the first evidence that one good thought is all it takes to change the world.”
Join the next experiment on April 26 at TheIntentionExperiment.com!
Lynne McTaggart is the award-winning author of five books, including The Intention Experiment and The Field
