In part one of this article I talked about people with multiple personality disorder or MPD. We looked at the research that showed that people with MPD had extreme physiological changes when switching from one personality to another. Everything from allergic rashes coming and going to changes in eye physiology depending on which personality was in charge at the time. This of course, illustrates that a person's unique perspective and thought patterns or personality has a distinct influence on what their body is doing.
In part two I looked at something called stigmata, where people that have deep religious beliefs can manifest the wounds of a religious figure, mostly that of Jesus Christ on the cross as depicted in religious paintings. This also illustrates that deeply held beliefs can have a profound affects on the body. To such an extent that the body self develops wounds that will bleed but not become infected or inflamed. The really odd part was that even external reality seemed to be affected by some stigmatist deep religious beliefs. Therese Neumann's feet supposedly bled upward towards her toes when she was lying down in bed, imitating the way Christ bled on the cross. Hard to validate, but still very interesting, since Therese Neumann's stigmata was witnessed by many people.
So, what does MPD and stigmata teach us? It would seem that personality and deeply held beliefs combined with the emotion of those beliefs can have a profound affect on some people's bodies. If thoughts can have such an extreme affect on these people's bodies then it stands to reason that our own thoughts are affecting our bodies to a certain extent. The next question is how do we improve our thoughts so that we can improve how our body functions?
There are two things I am going to suggest. - Of course, this is general advice and not to be construed as a specific treatment for any kind of health problem you might have. - The first thing I think would help anyone is meditation. I know that M.D. Anderson cancer center in Houston and New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center promotes meditation for it's patients. So meditation is even accepted by the mainstream medical community, even if they believe it is only for stress relief. The other thing I am going to suggest I call "catch yourself". In other words catch yourself thinking negative thoughts and then switch to a positive thought. -- Simple, but not always easy since most of us have habituated negative thinking as a protective mechanism. You know running through all the possible negative scenarios, or reviewing something that upset us over and over afgain, or worrying about the future, etc. Most of the time negative thoughts are doing more harm than good. So catch yourself and switch to a positive thought. Your body will thank you. Two things you can begin doing today, 1) Start meditating if you're not already and 2) Catch and switch, catch yourself having negative thoughts and switch to a positive thought. Try these out and see how you feel. Until next time, please share, subscribe and/or follow by e-mail this blog.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Thought Affecting the Body (part 2)
In the first segment of this article I talked about how people with multiple personality disorder can experience extreme physiological or body function changes when switching from one personality to another. Now I'm going to talk about stigmata.
Stigmata is a condition where people that have deep religious beliefs develop physical conditions that generally mimic the wounds of religious pictures like Jesus Christ portrayed on the cross in the Christian gospels. The hands and feet of stigmatist develop deep wounds on them that are not caused by any external insult to the tissue.
One of the most famous stigmatist was St. Francis of Assisi. His biographer, Thomas of Celano, noted "His hands and feet seemed pierced in the midst by nails."
Another more modern stigmatist named Therese Neumann, who died in 1962 had similar wounds in her hands and feet with nail like protruberances that were apparently formed of hardened skin. She was examined by several doctors which found that the nail like structures passed completely through her hands and feet.
Some other famous stigmatist with wounds passing completely through their hands and feet are: Padre Pio who died in 1968 and Giovanna Maria Solimani from the 18th century that supposedly had holes in her hands big enough to stick a key through. Padre Pio was examined several times by different physicians who validated his wounds were real, but could not explain how they came about. Several of the doctors commented on the smoothness of the edges of his Padre Pio's wounds and the lack of edema related to the wounds.
The really strange part about all these stigmatist is that their wounds never decayed, became infected or inflamed. But wait, it gets even stranger. Therese Neumann's wounds would sometimes bleed, but the blood flow would always mimic the way blood would have flowed out of Jesus Christ while he was on the cross. For example: When she was lying in bed with her feet pointing upward the blood would flow upward towards her toes defying gravity. This was witnessed by many U.S. service men who were stationed in Germany after WWII, who went to see her. You can read more about Therese Neumann in A.P. Schimberg's book The Story of Therese Neumann.
Okay, so, what does all this mean? Apparently, people with profoundly deep beliefs can manifest symbols of their belief on their body. One of the major implications of this is that what you believe is affecting your body. It also raises some questions: Is our physical health being affected by what we believe? Can we give ourselves cancer or diseases, etc. simply by the way we think? Can we prevent cancer and other diseases by thinking in a certain way, and if so what way is that? In part 3 of this article I am going to talk about ways you can change your beliefs and expectations to benefit your health. Until next time, please share, subscribe to, and/or follow by e-mail this blog.
Stigmata is a condition where people that have deep religious beliefs develop physical conditions that generally mimic the wounds of religious pictures like Jesus Christ portrayed on the cross in the Christian gospels. The hands and feet of stigmatist develop deep wounds on them that are not caused by any external insult to the tissue.
One of the most famous stigmatist was St. Francis of Assisi. His biographer, Thomas of Celano, noted "His hands and feet seemed pierced in the midst by nails."
Another more modern stigmatist named Therese Neumann, who died in 1962 had similar wounds in her hands and feet with nail like protruberances that were apparently formed of hardened skin. She was examined by several doctors which found that the nail like structures passed completely through her hands and feet.
Some other famous stigmatist with wounds passing completely through their hands and feet are: Padre Pio who died in 1968 and Giovanna Maria Solimani from the 18th century that supposedly had holes in her hands big enough to stick a key through. Padre Pio was examined several times by different physicians who validated his wounds were real, but could not explain how they came about. Several of the doctors commented on the smoothness of the edges of his Padre Pio's wounds and the lack of edema related to the wounds.
The really strange part about all these stigmatist is that their wounds never decayed, became infected or inflamed. But wait, it gets even stranger. Therese Neumann's wounds would sometimes bleed, but the blood flow would always mimic the way blood would have flowed out of Jesus Christ while he was on the cross. For example: When she was lying in bed with her feet pointing upward the blood would flow upward towards her toes defying gravity. This was witnessed by many U.S. service men who were stationed in Germany after WWII, who went to see her. You can read more about Therese Neumann in A.P. Schimberg's book The Story of Therese Neumann.
Okay, so, what does all this mean? Apparently, people with profoundly deep beliefs can manifest symbols of their belief on their body. One of the major implications of this is that what you believe is affecting your body. It also raises some questions: Is our physical health being affected by what we believe? Can we give ourselves cancer or diseases, etc. simply by the way we think? Can we prevent cancer and other diseases by thinking in a certain way, and if so what way is that? In part 3 of this article I am going to talk about ways you can change your beliefs and expectations to benefit your health. Until next time, please share, subscribe to, and/or follow by e-mail this blog.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Thought Affecting the Body (part 1)
What you think affects your body. This is pretty obvious when you are crying at a sad movie or laughing at a comedy. But, what may not be so obvious is that many, if not all, of your bodies physiologic processes are influenced by your thoughts.
There are a couple of rare psychological conditions that help to illustrate that what you are thinking affects your body. One of these conditions is called Dissociative Identity Disorder, it's also known as Multiple Personality Disorder. I'm going to call it MPD for short. This psychological problem was made famous by a 1976 movie called Sybil starring Sally Fields. This movie was actually based on a real life story of a person with MPD. It showed how people with MPD can switch personalities very quickly.
Physiological or body changes are found when a person with MPD switches from one personality to another. It is purported that people with MPD can have allergies in one personality that they don't have in another personality. Or, A person with MPD can switch from being drunk to sober or have rashes coming and going as they switch from one personality to another.
Let's look at some of the research that shows that people with MPD can experience extreme physiological changes by simply switching personalities. Dr. Bennet Braun of the International Society for the Study of Multiple Personality, in Chicago, actually documented a case where a man that drank orange juice when one of his allergic personalities was in control would break out in a rash. But if he switched to his nonallergic personality, the rash would instantly start to fade and he could drink orange juice with no allergic reaction. Unfortunately, Dr. Braun had his license suspended for several years over allegations he used drugs and hypnosis to convince a patient she had killed many people in Satanic rituals. So that kind of hurts the credibility of Dr. Braun's clinical observations. Fortunately, there are other scientist who have studied MPD.
Christy Ludlow, PhD, a speech pathologist, found that the voice pattern actually changes with the different personalities of an MPD person. This is significant since it is claimed that a physiological change is recquired before voice pattern can be altered.
Birnbaum and Thomann's research published in the Journal of American Optometry Association, did an existing literature review and found - differences in dominant handedness (i.e., one personality is right-handed while another is left-handed), different response to the same medication, different allergic sensitivities, differences in autonomic and endocrine function, EEG, and regional cerebral blood flow, etc. Of course, they also noted differences in eye function. This finding is reinforced by other studies showing that eye physiology can change in people with MPD.
So we have speech pattern changes, eye changes, hand dexterity changes, responses to medication changes, allergy changes all depending on what personality is in control of the MPD person's body. It is significant that someone's physiology changes depending on their personality. Whether this is caused by hypnotic suggestion of the therapist or by extreme childhood trauma is debatable. However, the physiological changes noted are real and significant. What all this means is that what you believe and your perspective on life, all aspects of your personality, has a major determining factor on how your body functions and thus your health.
In the next article I will discuss Stigmata. Meanwhile, please share, subscribe and/or follow by e-mail this blog.
There are a couple of rare psychological conditions that help to illustrate that what you are thinking affects your body. One of these conditions is called Dissociative Identity Disorder, it's also known as Multiple Personality Disorder. I'm going to call it MPD for short. This psychological problem was made famous by a 1976 movie called Sybil starring Sally Fields. This movie was actually based on a real life story of a person with MPD. It showed how people with MPD can switch personalities very quickly.
Physiological or body changes are found when a person with MPD switches from one personality to another. It is purported that people with MPD can have allergies in one personality that they don't have in another personality. Or, A person with MPD can switch from being drunk to sober or have rashes coming and going as they switch from one personality to another.
Let's look at some of the research that shows that people with MPD can experience extreme physiological changes by simply switching personalities. Dr. Bennet Braun of the International Society for the Study of Multiple Personality, in Chicago, actually documented a case where a man that drank orange juice when one of his allergic personalities was in control would break out in a rash. But if he switched to his nonallergic personality, the rash would instantly start to fade and he could drink orange juice with no allergic reaction. Unfortunately, Dr. Braun had his license suspended for several years over allegations he used drugs and hypnosis to convince a patient she had killed many people in Satanic rituals. So that kind of hurts the credibility of Dr. Braun's clinical observations. Fortunately, there are other scientist who have studied MPD.
Christy Ludlow, PhD, a speech pathologist, found that the voice pattern actually changes with the different personalities of an MPD person. This is significant since it is claimed that a physiological change is recquired before voice pattern can be altered.
Birnbaum and Thomann's research published in the Journal of American Optometry Association, did an existing literature review and found - differences in dominant handedness (i.e., one personality is right-handed while another is left-handed), different response to the same medication, different allergic sensitivities, differences in autonomic and endocrine function, EEG, and regional cerebral blood flow, etc. Of course, they also noted differences in eye function. This finding is reinforced by other studies showing that eye physiology can change in people with MPD.
So we have speech pattern changes, eye changes, hand dexterity changes, responses to medication changes, allergy changes all depending on what personality is in control of the MPD person's body. It is significant that someone's physiology changes depending on their personality. Whether this is caused by hypnotic suggestion of the therapist or by extreme childhood trauma is debatable. However, the physiological changes noted are real and significant. What all this means is that what you believe and your perspective on life, all aspects of your personality, has a major determining factor on how your body functions and thus your health.
In the next article I will discuss Stigmata. Meanwhile, please share, subscribe and/or follow by e-mail this blog.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Thought Influencing Water (part 3)
In part 1 and part 2 of this article I looked at many different research experiments showing that thought can affect water. In fact, in part 2 I reviewed at least 6 different experiments that were positive for thought affecting water. Several of these experiments showed that water imprinted with positive intentions helped seeds germinate. And, in one experiment actually grow better. Those experiments inspired me to do my own little seed growing experiment, not really that scientific since I can't control my environment like a high dollar lab can. However, I can control most of the major factors.
I took some alfalfa seeds that I ordered online and I measured equal amounts into some plastic cups. After that, I filled 3 mason jars with distilled water. I took one jar and held it for 15 minutes while putting the positive intention of grow on it. Another jar of water I held for 15 minutes and had negative thoughts of don't grow. The third jar of water I left alone, we'll call it the control jar of water. After that I watered the seeds with the same amount of water from their respective jars - except I cheated a little I actually put one tablespoon more of water on the bad seeds than the others just to help compensate for any slight spillage etc. - After 6 days the results were: The seeds watered with good or positive intentions of "grow", seem to do a little better than the control group. The big difference, which can be seen in my youtube video (7-3 Water) http://www.youtube.com/user/DrBruceKing?feature=mhum , is that the seeds watered with negative intention water did the worst of all. So, similar to the watered seed experiments from the professional researchers, my experiment showed that seeds that had water with positive intentions placed on it did much better than those seeds having negative intention water placed on it. Even though this experiment is not very precise, it sure indicates that I affected water with my thoughts.
You can do this same type of experiment at home with dried beans or any seed that will germinate, or you can water some plants you already have to do this experiment. Just make some jars of water and go for it. Let me know what your results are. You can put up a text comment or a video comment (YouTube) of your results.
Now, let's talk about the implications of all this. The fact that water can be influenced by thought means material reality (at least when it comes to water) can be affected simply by thought. ----- I think it is important to note that 2/3rds of the Earth is covered with water, and our bodies are about 80 percent water. I wonder what the results would be if someone placed the intention of love and health on the water they drank, would it add extra years and vitality? Personally, whenever I pour myself a glass of water, I put the intention of love on it. The research shows that this is probably benefiting me in some positive ways. It sure doesn't cost me anything and it reminds me to emanate love.
Until next time, please share, subscribe and/or follow by e-mail this blog.
I took some alfalfa seeds that I ordered online and I measured equal amounts into some plastic cups. After that, I filled 3 mason jars with distilled water. I took one jar and held it for 15 minutes while putting the positive intention of grow on it. Another jar of water I held for 15 minutes and had negative thoughts of don't grow. The third jar of water I left alone, we'll call it the control jar of water. After that I watered the seeds with the same amount of water from their respective jars - except I cheated a little I actually put one tablespoon more of water on the bad seeds than the others just to help compensate for any slight spillage etc. - After 6 days the results were: The seeds watered with good or positive intentions of "grow", seem to do a little better than the control group. The big difference, which can be seen in my youtube video (7-3 Water) http://www.youtube.com/user/DrBruceKing?feature=mhum , is that the seeds watered with negative intention water did the worst of all. So, similar to the watered seed experiments from the professional researchers, my experiment showed that seeds that had water with positive intentions placed on it did much better than those seeds having negative intention water placed on it. Even though this experiment is not very precise, it sure indicates that I affected water with my thoughts.
You can do this same type of experiment at home with dried beans or any seed that will germinate, or you can water some plants you already have to do this experiment. Just make some jars of water and go for it. Let me know what your results are. You can put up a text comment or a video comment (YouTube) of your results.
Now, let's talk about the implications of all this. The fact that water can be influenced by thought means material reality (at least when it comes to water) can be affected simply by thought. ----- I think it is important to note that 2/3rds of the Earth is covered with water, and our bodies are about 80 percent water. I wonder what the results would be if someone placed the intention of love and health on the water they drank, would it add extra years and vitality? Personally, whenever I pour myself a glass of water, I put the intention of love on it. The research shows that this is probably benefiting me in some positive ways. It sure doesn't cost me anything and it reminds me to emanate love.
Until next time, please share, subscribe and/or follow by e-mail this blog.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Thought Influencing Water (part 2)
In the last article I left off with the name of Lynne McTaggart who has recently worked with several different university professors in her own research on thought affecting water. In this section I'm going to look a little closer at McTaggart's studies and review other research showing that thought can affect water.
McTaggart's first experiment on intention affecting water was done with Konstantin Korotkov of St. Petersburg University. Korotkov actually invented a way to more easily detect the photons or light that living things emit. He used this detector to measure the level of light being emited by water that had the intention of LOVE sent to it by about 1,500 people. Korotkov discovered large differences in light emissions related to the intentions, but unfortunately the experiment's results were inconclusive. However, he did another experiment on thought affecting light emmission from water in 2008. This time about 700 participants were asked to make the water "glow" instead of just sending love intention to it. This time Korotkov noticed significant differences in the light emmisions. So, the results were positive that time for thought affecting water.
McTaggart then did some studies with Rustom Roy a Professor of Material Sciences at Pennsylvania State University. Roy is supposedly one of the worlds leading experts on water. This time the test was designed to look for structeral changes in the molecules of water. Apparently Water molecules can form clusters of H2O units. In Roy's experiments Raman spectroscopy was used to measure changes in the way water molecules cluster in response to thought. This test was... inconclusive because the water started changing 1 hour before the intention was supposed to be sent. This illustrates a major problem with intention or thought experiments. It is hard to control people's thoughts to precisely the time you want to do the experiment. Now, why the water started changing an hour before the experiment started is hard to figure out, but it might have to do with the intenders anticipating that they would be putting intention on water in an hours time. Fortunately, McTaggart has done other experiments with water that got positive results.
With Dr. Gary Schwartz at the University of Arizona McTaggert did an experiment to see if water with the intention of "grow" placed on it would make seeds germinate and grow faster and better. The results of this experiment was that the seeds watered with the intention water all germinated as opposed to only 90% of those watered with plain water. So, there was a positive result there.
Now, to review, we have the first McTaggart/Koratkov experiment being inconclusive, the second McTaggart Koratkov experiment showed positive results, the third experiment with McTaggart and Roy being inconclusive and the fourth McTaggart and Gary Schwartz experiment showing positive. So, half of McTaggarts experiments showed that thought affects water. Not bad since it is hard to do consciousness experiments because thought is hard to control. If we combine the results of the experiments from part 1 of this article we get at least 6 experiments that give empirical evidence that thought affects water. Let's go back through these so if your friends say there is no scientific evidence that thought affects water you can say, "Wait a minute, take a look at Dr. Bruce King's article on The Power of Thought and Water."
Here's the list of scientific experiments with positive results . I don't include some of Emoto's experiments because I don't personally believe that they were scientific enough. However I will put Emoto's experiment done with Dean Radin as the first proof that thought affects water because it was a double blind study which is more scientific.
The second study I will list as giving positive results is the Bernard Grad study done in 1959. Even though it is an old experiment, as far as I know it was done scientifically and Grad did get positive results.
The third experiment is one of the more amazing experiments done by William Tiller. His test showed that circuits imprinted with intent from 4 expert meditators changed the pH of water. His test was pretty scientific and even accounted for external factors that might have affected the pH like water temperature etc. So a big thumbs up for Tillers experiment.
Fourth, we have the Russians Pyatninsky and Fonki who managed to get their experiment published in a peer reviewed scientific journal called Journal of Scientific Exploration which adds some credibility to their findings that water can be affected by thought.
Fifth on the list is Lynne McTaggart's second experiment with Konstantin Korotkov that showed thought affected light emmission from water. Number Six is McTagart's experiment with Gary Schwartz from the University of Arizona that showed that seeds germinated with intention water had a 100% sprouting rate as compared to the normal 90% rate.
So there you have it. There are at least 6 reasonably sound scientific experiments showing that thought can affect water.
Maybe we should all be putting positive intentions on the water we drink or bath in. Just for fun I did a little seed germination experiment of my own. You can read about my results in part 3 of this article. Meanwhile, please share, subscribe and/or follow by e-mail this blog.
McTaggart's first experiment on intention affecting water was done with Konstantin Korotkov of St. Petersburg University. Korotkov actually invented a way to more easily detect the photons or light that living things emit. He used this detector to measure the level of light being emited by water that had the intention of LOVE sent to it by about 1,500 people. Korotkov discovered large differences in light emissions related to the intentions, but unfortunately the experiment's results were inconclusive. However, he did another experiment on thought affecting light emmission from water in 2008. This time about 700 participants were asked to make the water "glow" instead of just sending love intention to it. This time Korotkov noticed significant differences in the light emmisions. So, the results were positive that time for thought affecting water.
McTaggart then did some studies with Rustom Roy a Professor of Material Sciences at Pennsylvania State University. Roy is supposedly one of the worlds leading experts on water. This time the test was designed to look for structeral changes in the molecules of water. Apparently Water molecules can form clusters of H2O units. In Roy's experiments Raman spectroscopy was used to measure changes in the way water molecules cluster in response to thought. This test was... inconclusive because the water started changing 1 hour before the intention was supposed to be sent. This illustrates a major problem with intention or thought experiments. It is hard to control people's thoughts to precisely the time you want to do the experiment. Now, why the water started changing an hour before the experiment started is hard to figure out, but it might have to do with the intenders anticipating that they would be putting intention on water in an hours time. Fortunately, McTaggart has done other experiments with water that got positive results.
With Dr. Gary Schwartz at the University of Arizona McTaggert did an experiment to see if water with the intention of "grow" placed on it would make seeds germinate and grow faster and better. The results of this experiment was that the seeds watered with the intention water all germinated as opposed to only 90% of those watered with plain water. So, there was a positive result there.
Now, to review, we have the first McTaggart/Koratkov experiment being inconclusive, the second McTaggart Koratkov experiment showed positive results, the third experiment with McTaggart and Roy being inconclusive and the fourth McTaggart and Gary Schwartz experiment showing positive. So, half of McTaggarts experiments showed that thought affects water. Not bad since it is hard to do consciousness experiments because thought is hard to control. If we combine the results of the experiments from part 1 of this article we get at least 6 experiments that give empirical evidence that thought affects water. Let's go back through these so if your friends say there is no scientific evidence that thought affects water you can say, "Wait a minute, take a look at Dr. Bruce King's article on The Power of Thought and Water."
Here's the list of scientific experiments with positive results . I don't include some of Emoto's experiments because I don't personally believe that they were scientific enough. However I will put Emoto's experiment done with Dean Radin as the first proof that thought affects water because it was a double blind study which is more scientific.
The second study I will list as giving positive results is the Bernard Grad study done in 1959. Even though it is an old experiment, as far as I know it was done scientifically and Grad did get positive results.
The third experiment is one of the more amazing experiments done by William Tiller. His test showed that circuits imprinted with intent from 4 expert meditators changed the pH of water. His test was pretty scientific and even accounted for external factors that might have affected the pH like water temperature etc. So a big thumbs up for Tillers experiment.
Fourth, we have the Russians Pyatninsky and Fonki who managed to get their experiment published in a peer reviewed scientific journal called Journal of Scientific Exploration which adds some credibility to their findings that water can be affected by thought.
Fifth on the list is Lynne McTaggart's second experiment with Konstantin Korotkov that showed thought affected light emmission from water. Number Six is McTagart's experiment with Gary Schwartz from the University of Arizona that showed that seeds germinated with intention water had a 100% sprouting rate as compared to the normal 90% rate.
So there you have it. There are at least 6 reasonably sound scientific experiments showing that thought can affect water.
Maybe we should all be putting positive intentions on the water we drink or bath in. Just for fun I did a little seed germination experiment of my own. You can read about my results in part 3 of this article. Meanwhile, please share, subscribe and/or follow by e-mail this blog.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Thought Influencing Water (part 1)
Water, it's everywhere. Two thirds of the earth is covered with it. We drink it, bath in it, and a large part of our body is made of it. We even like to look at and listen to water. What most people don't realize is that water can be influenced by thought.
Early research on how water can be affected by thought was done in 1959 by Dr. Bernard Grad of McGill University. Dr. Grad had an energy healer place his intention on a vial of sterile water solution and then watered barley seeds with it. The results of the test showed that the seeds that got the water influenced by the energy healer sprouted and grew better than the seeds not influenced by the healer. But, that was over 50 years ago, what modern research do we have showing water can be influenced by thought?
One of the more famous scientist in water research is a guy by the name of Masaru Emoto. He has written several books about how water can be affected by thought and his studies showed that water with good intentions placed on it made nice looking ice crystals while water with bad intentions placed on it or polluted water made ugly ice crystals. This was illustrated in the movie What The Bleep Do We Know. Emoto's research is interesting but his methodology is not really that scientific. To his credit though, a double blind research study done with Dean Radin actually showed positive results and helped to reinforce his claims.
Fortunately, there are other researchers out there besides Emoto that have done studies on the affects of thought on water. One of these is Dr. William Tiller - What he did was have four expert meditators programm circuits with thought only, with an intention to change the pH of water. (pH being the level of acidity or alkalinity). The results of the experiment was that the water with the pH lowering circuit immersed in it lowered the pH and the water with the pH increasing circuit in it increased the pH... so the experiment worked. Pretty significant findings that are compelling in and of themselves, but wait there's more. In 1995 Russian researchers L. N. PYATNITSKY AND V. A. FONKI showed that the molecular structure of water could be changed by thought. Now it's important to distinguish that the molecular structure was changed, not the chemical structure. However, this is still a pretty significant finding.
So, what we have seen so far is a Grad's 1959 research showing seeds sprouting better with intention, Emoto's water freezing into pretty ice crystals when good intentions are placed on it, Tiller and his circuits imprinted with intent causing pH changes in water, and the Russians finding that the molecular structure of water can be changed with thought. Not bad evidence, but not entirely convincing since Grad's research is so old and Emoto's research has had some questionable methodology. However, Tiller and the Russians experiments are a little harder to refute which helps lend credence to all the other findings. What other scientific evidence exist is that shows that water can be influenced by thought? Well, there is a lady named Lynn McTaggert who wrote the book The Field who has recently done some very interesting research. She has collaborated with several prestigious university professors in her pursuit of how thought affects water. In part 2 of this article I will look at McTaggert's work and more. Meanwhile, please share, subscribe and/or follow by e-mail this blog.
Early research on how water can be affected by thought was done in 1959 by Dr. Bernard Grad of McGill University. Dr. Grad had an energy healer place his intention on a vial of sterile water solution and then watered barley seeds with it. The results of the test showed that the seeds that got the water influenced by the energy healer sprouted and grew better than the seeds not influenced by the healer. But, that was over 50 years ago, what modern research do we have showing water can be influenced by thought?
One of the more famous scientist in water research is a guy by the name of Masaru Emoto. He has written several books about how water can be affected by thought and his studies showed that water with good intentions placed on it made nice looking ice crystals while water with bad intentions placed on it or polluted water made ugly ice crystals. This was illustrated in the movie What The Bleep Do We Know. Emoto's research is interesting but his methodology is not really that scientific. To his credit though, a double blind research study done with Dean Radin actually showed positive results and helped to reinforce his claims.
Fortunately, there are other researchers out there besides Emoto that have done studies on the affects of thought on water. One of these is Dr. William Tiller - What he did was have four expert meditators programm circuits with thought only, with an intention to change the pH of water. (pH being the level of acidity or alkalinity). The results of the experiment was that the water with the pH lowering circuit immersed in it lowered the pH and the water with the pH increasing circuit in it increased the pH... so the experiment worked. Pretty significant findings that are compelling in and of themselves, but wait there's more. In 1995 Russian researchers L. N. PYATNITSKY AND V. A. FONKI showed that the molecular structure of water could be changed by thought. Now it's important to distinguish that the molecular structure was changed, not the chemical structure. However, this is still a pretty significant finding.
So, what we have seen so far is a Grad's 1959 research showing seeds sprouting better with intention, Emoto's water freezing into pretty ice crystals when good intentions are placed on it, Tiller and his circuits imprinted with intent causing pH changes in water, and the Russians finding that the molecular structure of water can be changed with thought. Not bad evidence, but not entirely convincing since Grad's research is so old and Emoto's research has had some questionable methodology. However, Tiller and the Russians experiments are a little harder to refute which helps lend credence to all the other findings. What other scientific evidence exist is that shows that water can be influenced by thought? Well, there is a lady named Lynn McTaggert who wrote the book The Field who has recently done some very interesting research. She has collaborated with several prestigious university professors in her pursuit of how thought affects water. In part 2 of this article I will look at McTaggert's work and more. Meanwhile, please share, subscribe and/or follow by e-mail this blog.
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