Startling New Healing Intention Studies

By Randall Fitzgerald
Phenomena Magazine Senior Editor
www.doctorluck.com

Two recent scientific studies provide persuasive new evidence for the belief that
healing intentions--channeled through Reiki, gigong, Johrei, and similar bioenergetic
practices--can have an impact on the growth and rejuvenation of living cells and can
even alter streams of data from computer chips.

These remarkable experiments demonstrate how human hands, when focused by

mind intention, and infused with compassion directed by an ancient healing modality,
stimulate both specific changes in the target cells and more general, or ‘nonlocal,’
alterations in the surrounding environment.

In the first study, conducted by two Ph.D.’s at the University of Arizona’s

Department of Medicine, two types of seeds, okra and black zucchini squash, were
placed inside of petri dish growth chambers. One set of seeds acted as the control
group, while the other set received healing energy treatments for 15-20 minutes,
twice a day, from a practitioner of a healing modality that traces its roots back more
than 5,000 years to India.

Each treatment consisted of the practitioner consciously putting his attention on the
seeds and then following this sequence of steps: focusing an intention for the seeds
to germinate faster than the controls; mentally summoning energetic structures from
the healing modality to facilitate this act; requesting help from divine consciousness;
and finally, becoming an open channel to conduct the healing energy.

Every 12 hours the two scientists counted the number of seeds--out of groups of 25
seeds--that had sprouted. These results were later compared to the control group,
which, of course, received no healing or other special attention.

Seeds receiving the healing treatments sprouted in greater numbers by almost 20

percent over the control group, a statistical difference so far beyond chance
expectation that chance had to be ruled out as a factor.

“The difference in germination rates between different conditions cannot be

explained by mean temperature, temperature differences between chambers, petri
dish position, or persons scoring the seeds,” wrote the study authors, Katherine
Creath and Gary Schwartz. “The healing energy effect incorporates potential
bioelectromagnetic effects from the hands.”

Living And Nonliving Effects

Newly published study number two goes well beyond these results and their
implications into a realm where theories are impotent and only speculation will
suffice.

Three scientists at the California Pacific Medical Center and the Institute of Noetic
Sciences tested the effects of healing intention on the growth of cultured human
brain cells. This experiment took place over three days inside an electromagnetically
and acoustically shielded chamber and involved four experienced Johrei practitioners.

Johrei is a bioenergy transmission practice founded in Japan by Mokichi Okada

(1882-1955), and much like other healing traditions, it holds that repeated
treatments can improve health. But this particular practice also teaches that
treatments can affect and alter the physical surroundings.

During each healing session the Johrei practitioner sat in front of the target cells
contained in a plastic box inside the shielded room, and spent 25 minutes directing
healing energy through their hands. These actions were observed by the scientists
through a closed-circuit video camera. In between the sessions, all four practitioners
chanted and gave each other Johrei treatments for 75 minutes.

On the third and final day of the experiment, two significant anomalous effects were
documented. Brain cells treated during the healing sessions underwent a sharp
increase in growth compared to the control group of cells. This increase seemed to
reflect a cumulative impact of repeated healing applications.

The second observed effect was even more intriguing. During the three days of
treatments, three separate random number generators (rng’s) had been operating
continuously, hidden behind a curtain inside the shielded room. Two of the rng’s
were randomly producing 0’s and 1’s, while the third was a computer-monitored
geiger counter recording background ionizing radiation.

All three rng’s deviated sharply from chance expectation between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m.
on the the third day of testing, and remained at this deviation level through the
morning until the last healing session ended. Simply put, the data streams in the
three rng’s became more orderly and no longer seemed determined by chance, in
defiance of their programming. No other deviations from chance expectation were
observed in the rng’s either before the experiment, or in the days after the healing
sessions ended.

“Similar effects, apparently linked to group attention and intention, have been
reported by a growing number of independent groups,” observe the three scientists,
Dean Radin, Ryan Taft, Garret Yount, writing in the paper they published about this
experiment, titled “Effects Of Healing Intention On Cultured Cells And Truly Random
Events.”

“Both the treated cell cultures and the rng’s showed significant deviations from
chance expectation within hours of each other. The coincidence of such deviations
arising in both a living and a nonliving system supports the likelihood of a genuine
physical phenomenon associated with intention.”

As readers of Phenomena may recall from previous columns on this website, I have
described instances where I and others seemingly have been able to intuit jackpots
in slot machines after having set an intention to do so. Within every slot machine
found in casinos today is a random number generator, conceptually no different than
the rng’s used in this experiment. The slot machine rng’s spew out number
combinations every second corresponding to symbols on the ‘face’ of the slot
machine.
Randall Fitzgerald is the author of Lucky You!, about paranormal luck, and maintains
his own website on this subject, www.doctorluck.com.

Source: Phenomena Magazine