Fields and Intentions

By Larry Ritchie presented June 22, 2008

Introduction  and History

Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.

Starting in the 1920s there was a serious effort to unravel the mysteries of the very small or what we call today quantum mechanics.

What was discovered was not what scientist such as Einstein , Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger and others wanted to believe in.

In the Quantum world nothing is what we would call concrete.

Electrons occupy multiple orbits around protons everywhere and all at once.

This was a mathematical nightmare as we could not definitely calculate where anything was, but only predict were it might be.

What was very odd and what Einstein call “Spooky” was the ability of instantaneous action at a distance and the observer effect in which by trying to measure Quantum events the observer influenced the particles and caused them to assume either a definite place or momentum in an atom.

After World War 2 with advances in sensitive electronic devices  the idea came to light that there may be the possibility to influence the physical world thru mental effort that was measurable. Early experiments around 1950 were attempts to influence the rate of decay of radioactive materials by sending an intention to slow up or down the rate.

This was a measurable event  and  results showed that there were very small deviations from the norm. In the early 1970s Ed Mitchell the sixth person to walk on the moon engaged in an experiment to test mental communication at a distance. On the return trip which took 3 days during rest periods Ed would write down numbers that represented geometrical symbols, he would then would attempt to transmit his choices to his  friends on earth. The results were significant with a 1 in 3000 chance that this was due to chance alone.

The most documented experiment which is ongoing was started by Robert Jahn an applied physicist at Princeton in 1971. This experiment was started by a gifted undergraduate as a summer project to test the validity of mental effort to influence a random number generator or RNG. This student was assigned to Jahn who was skeptical but proceeded anyway even to the point of going to a meetings of a Para psychological association.

The student finished the project which demonstrated positive results that mental effort could influence something physical in a very small way. She went on to graduate and leave Princeton for the business world. What she left was the results of a project and a Robert Jahn that was hooked on the possibility of other experiments of the consciousness efforts of not only a few gifted people but of anyone.

He teamed up with a developmental psychologist named Brenda Dunne and with the advancement of computers built a Random Event generator that would produce 1’s and 0’s. These would be stored and should over a given time period have a 50% 50% result. Individuals would sit in front of the device press a button and over a brief time period attempt to produce more 1’s than 0’s. They would do this 50 times try for 1’s then 50 attempts for 0’s then 50 times for no influence. Results were between 51 and 54%. Men generally could sway the REG in the right direction. It they sent the intention for 1’s or 0’s there was a correct response. As usual, women could not make up their mind and tended to get the opposite of their intentions but scored higher than men.

With time Jahn and Dunne expanded their efforts and ran tests with couples and groups. Bonded couples tended to score at the top of the list. On Oct. 3. 1995 the Computers at the Princeton Group, University of Amsterdam and three at the University of Nevada were set to run continuously for three hours. The results were a small peak at 9AM Pacific time with a large response one hour later and another 7 minutes later. The first small blip was when most people turned on their TV sets, a large blip at the beginning of the broadcast and a large blip on the reading of the verdict.

With results that pointed toward the existence of a group consciousness the question came up what about sacred places. By now there were Palm Pilots that enabled a pocket size REG. With this in hand Nelson from the Princeton group visited the Devil’s Tower Monument in Wyoming while a ritual healing ceremony was in progress. Then to Wounded Knee in South Dakota the site of the massacre of an entire Sioux Tribe. This data displayed results that was far greater than observed in the lab. Later on a trip to Egypt with data from 26 different sites the largest result was during ritual chanting at a sacred site.

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Plant Communication -Cleve Backster - Lie Detector expert.

In 1966 strictly as a diversion to his other duties Backster connected a finger cuff to a Dracaena a type of cane plant to measure the time it took for water to reach the leaves. A finger cuff measures skin resistance which lowers when telling a lie. After watering the plant what was measured was a response that was the same in a human as would be seen if the subject was bored with the questions. Backster decided what was needed was to stress the plant to illicit a response. He decided to burn a leaf with a match but before he could get a match the plants resistance went off the chart.

The thought of harm caused a response.

Over the next year and a half every type of experiment they could think of was done to the cane plant as well as other plants in the office complex, the result was always the same the plants responded to intended threats no harm was needed. In 1971 Ingo Swann a remote viewer came for a visit, and ask to repeat the Initial experiment with the cane plant. On the first try the plant responded with a increase in resistance when Swann thought about burning a leaf, but subsequent intention did not.

Backster interjected that the plant knew Swann was not serious after the first attempt. Swann then had to send the intention that he would pour boiling water on the plant. This did the trick and the plant responded accordingly. The scientific community turned a cold shoulder to the papers that Backster published and it not until 40 years later that a Russian scientist named Korotkov who used state of the art light detection to measure  photonic response of plants with intention of harm.

You may ask  this may be important as lab experiments but where are we going with it. Intentions can be positive or negative as determined by the makeup of people who are optimistic or pessimistic. What everyone needs to be is a optimistic positive thinking individuals to maximize their efforts. Next time you plant a vegetable or flower the person with the best green thumb will also have a positive compassion for the success of the plant.

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