The Neuron Strategy

Mar 17, 2010

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A number of years ago in a Cairo taxi, the legendary scientist and inventor Harold Edgerton of MIT, in answer to my question as to how he had been so successful and had accomplished so much said, “Look for the leverage points; everything else is just friction.” His words in the close hot space of that dusty summer afternoon changed my point of view. I saw in them a statement of social acupuncture, expressed with an engineer’s clarity. A guide to an economy of intention, like a martial arts movement or a ballerina’s gesture. When we think about how poverty might really be ameliorated, independent of ideology, political affiliation, or bias, where are such leverage points to be found? There are so many options. Any day’s mail brings several. How does one select something that will make one’s intention a reality?
One clearly successful leverage point is the microloan—the development of personal loan programs, such as the Grameen Bank—for sums that, in America, are often no more than a golf round or a family’s weekly church donation. Larry Dossey, MD, in the “Explorations” section of this issue, eloquently describes the bank, whose founder, Professor Muhammad Yunus, has just won the Nobel Peace Prize for his microlending effort. But his is only one such program.

Publication History: Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
September 2007 (Vol. 3, Issue 5, Pages 453-455)

By the Numbers

Mar 16, 2010

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He was a small black boy. About nine years of age. I was the same age give or take a year, and we had both been brought to the train station. I can no longer remember where, but somewhere in the Deep South. It could have been Florida, or maybe Georgia. Nor do I know, if I ever knew, what part of the year it was, although it was very hot, and the caged metal fans that stood sweeping the room moved air so hot it hurt to have it blow on my skin. I was with the black woman who took care of me, a doctor’s son. Her name is lost to me now, and no one living can tell it to me. He was with his grandmother. I watched him walk across the tiles of the station as I sat in one of the worn wooden pews that lined the vaulted waiting room.
There were two drinking fountains jutting from the wall. One sign read “Whites Only.” I was a compulsive reader of signs, proud of my ability to do so. Like many signs, though, I am not sure I understood what it meant.

Publication History: Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
November 2007 (Vol. 3, Issue 6, Pages 558-560)

The Beingness Doctrine

Mar 16, 2010

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Naomi Klein has written a book, Shock Doctrine, whose premise is that a formal strategy for forcing social change began evolving on the right as long ago as the 1950s, based on an extremist view of conservative free market capitalism.

As Eric Klinenberg wrote in his Book Forum review, “Why do so many nations have economic policies more laissezfaire and social programs less generous than their citizens prefer? Naomi Klein argues that the answer lies in a simple two-step strategy, honed over three decades by an international cabal of freemarket fundamentalists: First, exploit crises—whether due to economics, politics, or natural disasters—to advance an agenda that would never survive the democratic process during ordinary times. Next, create a ‘corporatocracy,’ in which multinationals and political leaders align to promote their interests at the public’s expense.”1

In her extraordinarily well-documented work, Naomi Klein describes how the tactics of this strategy have now reached a level of sophistication such that in settings as disparate as Iraq and Katrina, it has forced change that would otherwise have been unacceptable through normal democratic processes. A change wrought under the guise of responding to some kind of social catastrophe, whether natural, like a hurricane, or man-made such as the early policies under Paul Bremmer in the first days of the occupation of Iraq. Klein points out that often this occurs with disastrous consequences, as anyone familiar with Katrina’s aftermath, or today’s headline on Iraq can see. If you have not read this book, I urge you to do so. It will give you a perspective through which much that seems chaotic and disconnected will be revealed as not only connected, but deliberate. The book is so disturbing that it forced me to consider if an alternative life-affirming strategy existed that had proven it could work. A kind of counter–Shock Doctrine.

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
January 2008 (Vol. 4, Issue 1, Pages 15-17)

Opening to the Infinite

Mar 16, 2010

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In this edited excerpt from his book, renowned researcher and author Stephan Schwartz discusses the subtle and transformative impacts of “remote viewing” and accessing nonlocal mind.

Three of the most mysterious things a person can experience are spiritual ecstasy, the ah–ha! moment of creative genius, and a verifiable “nonlocal awareness” event—what is often called a psychic event. Let me propose what I think a growing body of interdisciplinary research and a millennia of ethnohistory both suggest: These three enigmatic occurrences are, in fact, different manifestations of the same process, sometimes seen as spiritual, sometimes as brilliance, and sometimes as merely strange. Each is
modulated by the intent of the practitioner and the context in which the experience is placed.

A transcendentalist, for example, seeks spiritual experience and has one appropriate to their personal
psychology. A scientist seeks, and sometimes discovers, a fundamental insight into how the world works. A person practicing a psychic discipline such as remote viewing seeks to describe a person, place, or event from which they are separated by reason of time or space. They get sense impressions and have a sense of knowingness just as if they were physically present. Sometimes these experiences come unbidden—and you yourself have probably had one at some point in your life.

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The Blind Protocol and Its Place in Consciousness Research

Mar 16, 2010

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This paper describes the development of the blind protocol, and its place in this history of consciousness research. It was first devised by Croesus, King of the Lydians (BCE 560–547) and reported by Herodotus (~ BCE 484 – ~ 424), and was created to protect against fraud in assessing an Anomalous Perception (AP) event; a Remote Viewing (RV) experiment little different from those conducted today. Its next use in the 17th century was to study a peasant farmer, Jacques Aymar, who solved crimes with Anomalous Perception, using dowsing. Not only was a blind protocol employed, but the rudiments of controls were introduced to assess Aymar. The next documented use of a blind protocol in consciousness research occurred in 1784, when it was explicitly employed in the interest of science, and its history as a research technique can be said to have formally begun. King Louis the XVIth created a commission to evaluate Franz Anton Mesmer’s claims concerning healing through “animal magnetism,” administered while people were in a trance, and asked Benjamin Franklin to be the commission’s head. The paper proposes that Franklin be considered the first parapsychologist. He created the blind protocol to answer the king’s question as to whether “animal magnetism” was real, and he not only introduced demographic variables and controls, but literally blindfolded people, which is why today we call it the blind protocol. Franklin’s observations also present the first recorded Western description of psychosomatic illness. An unintended consequence of Franklin’s Mesmer study was the loss of the idea of psychophysical self-regulation (PPSR) as a research vector, although the English surgeon John Eliotson (1791–1868) apparently saw through the failure of Mesmer’s explanatory model to the deeper insight in the form of hypnosis that was Mesmer’s real discovery. He seems to have avoided all attempts at explaining how it worked but conducted a considerable number of surgeries using hypnosis as the anesthetic, anticipating its usage in this capacity a century later. So great was the disapproval of Mesmer, however, that no one seems to have gotten Eliotson’s point. Franklin’s protocol, though, rapidly became the gold standard of science. Rupert Sheldrake, however, carried out a survey of the leading scientific journals and discovered that the main use of the blind protocol is not in medicine per se, but parapsychology and consciousness research, in which it is used for the same purposes it was originally conceived: to winnow out fraud in anomalous consciousness events and to avoid introducing experimenter effects. Ultimately, though, the protocol may be based on a false assumption, because increasingly research in areas such as therapeutic intent/healing and remote viewing suggest that all consciousness from single-celled organisms to human beings may be interlinked through a nonlocal aspect of awareness they all share.

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
July 2005 (Vol. 1, Issue 4, Pages 284-289)

The Mobius Psi-Q Test:Report on a Mass Precogition Experiment with Correlates

Mar 16, 2010

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by Stephan A. Schwartz & Randall J. De Mattei

ABSTRACT

A mass self-reporting experiment involving 15,470 men and women, published in a national circulation American popular science magazine. The experiment consisted of a six section instrument: 1) A precognition task in which participants were asked to predict an outcome couched in the form of a science fantasy story; 2) A psychological evaluation of brain hemisphere dominance measured by the well-established Torrance Style of Learning and Thinking instrument (SOLAT); 3) Job categorization as measured by the Holland Job Scale; 4) a physiological self-reporting Handedness and Writing Posture study; 5) A time per­ception profile defined by the Time Metaphor Test of Knapp and Garbor; 6) Gender and Age. Each participant received a custom printed four page feedback document providing their unique results. There were three hypotheses: 1) That there would be a significant number of significantly scor­ing precognitive individuals; 2) That there would be signifi­cant sub-populations and that those individuals defined as Dynamic, in accordance with the Time Metaphor Test would score significantly higher than individuals defined as Non-dynamics; and, 3) That the group of individuals iden­tified as Extreme Right, in terms of the SOLAT, would contain a significantly higher number of significantly scoring indi­viduals on the precognitive part of the test than the Extreme Left group. The results showed: Overall non-significance at the p ? .05 level, but a trend towards significance with odds of 16 to 1, z = 1.54; the dynamics did not attain higher scores than the Non-dynam­ics and, Neutrals scored higher than Dynamics; and, that Extreme Rights did not score significantly higher than Extreme Lefts, although they did score higher.

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This paper was presented to a joint meeting of The Parapsychology Association (USA), and the Society for Psychical Research (UK), Trinity College, Cambridge University on 20 August 1982.

Death on the Wing

Mar 16, 2010

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I was 45 years old before I really grasped the Spanish flu. My entire family is medical, and medicine has been a family profession for generations. I mention this because one would expect that, in such a family, the occurrence of major medical events and trends would be discussed. Yet I have no memory from when I was a child of hearing anyone speak of the pandemic of 1918. They talked about the medical impact of the First World War, the Depression, the Second War, and Korea, often in what nonmedical friends called “clinical detail.” They talked about polio and smallpox and measles. As I grew older, the conversations around me shifted to “Civil Rights,” the “60s,” “the War”—Viet Nam—the pill, women’s rights, gay rights, and abortion.
But nowhere in this mix, across what for me is now four generations, was there much about an event that killed an estimated 675,000 Americans, and as many as 30-50 million people worldwide, all in the course of a single year, 1918 and 1919.1, 2 Nor, as far as I can tell, have there been many such conversations on this subject in the lives of my friends and their families. I had to learn about the Spanish flu in a book bought at a jumble sale early one Sunday morning.

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
November 2005 (Vol. 1, Issue 6, Pages 433-436)

Therapeutic Intent and the Art of Observation

Mar 16, 2010

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Therapeutic Intent. The idea that consciousness can have a direct effect on a living organism is an ancient and culturally universal belief. The shamanic cave art of Altimira, Tres Freres, and Lascaux presents compelling testimony that our genetic forbearers had a complex view of spiritual and physical renewal, one that has survived to the present unchanged in at least one fundamental respect. The intent to heal, either oneself or another, whether expressed as God, a force, an energy, or one of many gods, has consistently been believed to be capable of producing a therapeutic result. Why?
The answer must surely be that regardless of ideology or religion, culture, or race, the manifested result of Therapeutic Intent has compelled belief. It has survived and been used for thousands of years because people get better and the various practices seem worth preserving from generation to generation. This can be said, while still acknowledging that many people get well simply because of the self-correcting nature of Nature; or, to a more limited degree, from psychophysical self-regulation. And, from at least the third millennium BCE on, many more have regained their health because of the intervention of their civilization’s health system. The high civilizations of the past, like those of the present, possessed a very sophisticated armamentarium. How they got it may still hold lessons worth learning today.

Publication History: A slightly different version appeared in the Journal of Subtle Energies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1998 pp. ii-viii.

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