Here is one type of (what is called) an intention experiment that makes a leaf 'glow' using thoughts, or rather intentions:
1. Take two healthy geranium leaves that are identical in their biophoton emissions in size and number. With a super-cooled digital CCD camera system, you can check if the leaves are identical as stipulated.
2. Punch sixteen holes in each leaf, so they can serve as 'data points' on which to compare the leaves after the intention experiment.
3. Invite a batch of 'disparate' people to participate in a video conference. Show the two leaves to the participants and let them choose one by the flip of a coin.
4. Ask the participants to hold an 'intention' to make the 'leaf glow' for 10 minutes.
5. After the session is over, check the 'intended leaf' and voilà!--all its 'data points' are filled with light, while the other, 'unintended' leaf has only black holes.
By this and similar experiments, the researches at the Website The Intention Experiment - The Largest Mind-Over Matter Experiment in History conclude that human 'intentions' can have effects--visible physical effects.
While there is no doubt that human thoughts are powerful and can influence the three worlds, is this experiment really a valid, empirical, scientific one?
• It might be valid because the results were as predicted: humans thoughts did have physical effects.
• It might be empirical inasmuch as it employed a physical experiment and based its conclusions on the results, rather than the theory of it.
• In what way is this experiment 'scientific'? I can understand calling it a 'spiritual experiment', a 'meditation experience' but how can it be called a 'scientific experiment'?
For this experiment to be called 'scientific', IMHO, there should be a clear explanation as to how the human intentions achieved their physical effects.
• Did a combined and superimposed thought wave transmit from the source to the target to acheive the effect?
• If so, what is the nature of that thought wave, is it physical, cerebral or mental?
• Since the 'data points' of the 'intended leaf' were 'filled with light' after the experiment, biophotons were generated in them. How did the thought wave generate the photons?
• Would it be possible to 'receive' the thought wave, digitally record it and play back so we can 'see/hear/read' the thoughts of the participants?
Similar other questions have to be answered to call the above experiment a scientific experiment.
Dan Brown, in his latest novel 'The Lost Symbol' adored such experiments so much that his latest book figures prominently in some of the Websites speaking about Noetic Sciences. He speaks a lot about the practice and experiments of this new branch of science in his book. We shall discuss a few of them in other posts later.
Here is how the Website IONS - About: What is "Noetic"? defines the Noetic Sciences:
"Noetic sciences are explorations into the nature and potentials of consciousness using multiple ways of knowing—including intuition, feeling, reason, and the senses. Noetic sciences explore the "inner cosmos" of the mind (consciousness, soul, spirit) and how it relates to the "outer cosmos" of the physical world."
Any thoughts about this new kid of science round the corner and about the above mentioned experiment?
1. Take two healthy geranium leaves that are identical in their biophoton emissions in size and number. With a super-cooled digital CCD camera system, you can check if the leaves are identical as stipulated.
2. Punch sixteen holes in each leaf, so they can serve as 'data points' on which to compare the leaves after the intention experiment.
3. Invite a batch of 'disparate' people to participate in a video conference. Show the two leaves to the participants and let them choose one by the flip of a coin.
4. Ask the participants to hold an 'intention' to make the 'leaf glow' for 10 minutes.
5. After the session is over, check the 'intended leaf' and voilà!--all its 'data points' are filled with light, while the other, 'unintended' leaf has only black holes.
By this and similar experiments, the researches at the Website The Intention Experiment - The Largest Mind-Over Matter Experiment in History conclude that human 'intentions' can have effects--visible physical effects.
While there is no doubt that human thoughts are powerful and can influence the three worlds, is this experiment really a valid, empirical, scientific one?
• It might be valid because the results were as predicted: humans thoughts did have physical effects.
• It might be empirical inasmuch as it employed a physical experiment and based its conclusions on the results, rather than the theory of it.
• In what way is this experiment 'scientific'? I can understand calling it a 'spiritual experiment', a 'meditation experience' but how can it be called a 'scientific experiment'?
For this experiment to be called 'scientific', IMHO, there should be a clear explanation as to how the human intentions achieved their physical effects.
• Did a combined and superimposed thought wave transmit from the source to the target to acheive the effect?
• If so, what is the nature of that thought wave, is it physical, cerebral or mental?
• Since the 'data points' of the 'intended leaf' were 'filled with light' after the experiment, biophotons were generated in them. How did the thought wave generate the photons?
• Would it be possible to 'receive' the thought wave, digitally record it and play back so we can 'see/hear/read' the thoughts of the participants?
Similar other questions have to be answered to call the above experiment a scientific experiment.
Dan Brown, in his latest novel 'The Lost Symbol' adored such experiments so much that his latest book figures prominently in some of the Websites speaking about Noetic Sciences. He speaks a lot about the practice and experiments of this new branch of science in his book. We shall discuss a few of them in other posts later.
Here is how the Website IONS - About: What is "Noetic"? defines the Noetic Sciences:
"Noetic sciences are explorations into the nature and potentials of consciousness using multiple ways of knowing—including intuition, feeling, reason, and the senses. Noetic sciences explore the "inner cosmos" of the mind (consciousness, soul, spirit) and how it relates to the "outer cosmos" of the physical world."
Any thoughts about this new kid of science round the corner and about the above mentioned experiment?