Entangled Minds by DEAN RADIN

Author:DEAN RADIN
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 2006-06-15T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 11-3. Deviations from chance in each RNG with increasing distance from the IONS laboratory. The effects of healing intention seems to decline with increasing distance, resembling a radiation-like effect.

Seeking to obtain further detail on this distance dependence, we decided to examine the combined deviations from chance in five of the RNGs located in the San Francisco Bay Area, all within 100 miles of the IONS laboratory, then to do the same for six RNGs located 6,000 miles away or farther. We were amazed to find that the group of five Northern California RNGs collectively peaked significantly above chance at the same time as the three RNGs in the laboratory. By comparison, the six distant RNGs hovered around chance. The combined effect for the five nearby RNGs and three RNGs in the lab was associated with odds against chance of 5 million to 1. This suggests that healing intention (at least as observed in this study) can act at a distance, but perhaps not at arbitrarily long distances.

One characteristic of psi, as revealed by both spontaneous reports and in lab tests, is that psi is not tightly bound to “now,” in either space or time. But there is also evidence, like the results of this experiment, that psi may not be completely independent of distance. For example, in philosopher Fiona Steinkamp’s analysis of the ESP card-guessing tests of J. B. Rhine and his colleagues, she examined the study outcomes according to distance between the person guessing the cards and the location of the cards themselves. She found a decline with increasing distance (Figure 11-4). Is this decline due to an inherent property of psi, or to the participant’s knowledge that the target was at a distance? This remains an open question.

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