HEALING RESEARCH: WHAT WE KNOW AND DON'T KNOW

Since the first major clinical trial of prayer at San Francisco General Hospital was published in 1988, numerous follow-up studies have emerged in both humans and nonhumans. Assessments and reviews of this field have varied wildly. Dr. Dossey will offer his view of where this field stands, and will offer guidelines on how best to do healing experiments. Dr. Dossey will survey the history of healing research, describe its accomplishments and shortcomings, and discuss the challenges in this field for the future

A SHORT-TERM LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF ENERGY FIELDS IN INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN

The purpose of this longitudinal observacional study of infant's and children's energy fields was ro explore the nature and development of the human energy field (HEF) during infancy and early childhood. Previous studies of the liEF have focused primarily on adults, with only inferences on the field during early development. Only one study has actually measured liEF during childhood. Therefore, the intention of this study was ro develop an approach ro observation with quantitative and qualitative analysis using repeated observations of subjects over a twOyear period. Initially, the sample (N ~ 19) consisted of three age groups of approximately 6, 30, and 54-month-old children. During the third wave of data, seven more infants were added to the sample ro increase confidence in findings across ages. In the first explorarory study, coding was devised to help extrapolate information, which might lead to a different understanding of developing human energy fields in children. Literature was reviewed of the liEF of adults combined with traditional observational methods used for studying children ro develop this research. Observations were conducted of liEF using three independent coders, a systematic coding form, and video documentation. The observations were conducted approximately one year apart. The first observation primarily was conducted live, and the second and third observations were taken from videotape of the children. For each observation, three observers independently completed the coding form, with the same observers completing forms for the second and third wave of data. These results are based in all three waves where there was agreement between at least two of the three observers. Using all three waves, the coding was entered inro the computer to conduct some basic quantitative comparisons in addition ro the qualitative analysis. Consistently, density of [he field and width of the field were inversely related ro the amount of light or translucency in the field. In addition, it was found that density was strongly correlated to the amount of energy in the field and the velocity, as was the width of the field. Shapes also were correlated wi th other shapes observed in the field, but only the ring and overall quality of the field were correlated with age. These findings are discussed in terms of other work on children and future work needed in this area

Software for Training Anomalous Cognition: A Premliminary Report

The role of intuition in fields as widely divergent as science, business, and the arts has a long anecdotal history. Research into the potential for training this area of human performance, however, is not extensive. This report gives the background of anomalous cognition (AC) training devices, and describes a preliminary study involving a software program designed to enhance successful decision-making by training AC of the future and consciousness interaction with electronic systems (CIES). It was hypothesized that motivated subjects would be able to enhance their awareness of subtle internal signals or "intuitive hunches," as shown by increases in scoring. Pilot experiments by 23 experimenter/subjects yielded four who achieved significant gains in scoring at the .01 level, one who achieved both a significant increase and significant overall scoring, and two who showed significant overall scoring. Of 21 subjects who did one AC experiment, a significant percentage (71 %) showed improvement. Eight of the subjects did 25 additional AC experiments, for a total of 46 AC experiments, which together showed a significant increase in scoring, with overall chance scoring. Three subjects, including two new ones, did six CIES experiments, whose combined data showed overall significant scoring. Of 11 dropout subjects, one attained a significant increase in AC scoring. Of the total of 34 subjects, a significant number (six) achieved significant rises in scoring

REPORT ON ORGONE ACCUMULATOR STIMULATION OF SPROUTING MUNG BEANS

A controlled experiment was undertaken over three summers, from 1998 to 2000, for evaluation of the growth-enhancement effects of the Reich orgone accumulator on sprouting mung beans. An overview of published accounts from both professional journals and a popular magazine indicated this device, which has been subjected to unprecedented hostility since the time of its discovery, has real lifepositive benefits to people, laboratory animals and plants. Early preliminary tests by the author confirmed a clear growth-enhancement effect upon sprouting mung beans. This paper reports on a more systematic and controlled study. Mung bean seedlings were selected for ease of use and ability to control for various environmental factors. The experiment proceeded outdoors, at the author’s high altitude laboratory, in paired orgone accumulator and control enclosures. Mung beans were randomly selected from the same well-mixed batch of seeds, divided into orgone-charge and control groups, placed into their respective enclosures, supplied with fresh water daily, and maintained under nearly identical darkened, confined and sheltered environmental conditions. A 34% increase in growth was observed in the group of seedlings kept inside the orgone accumulator, as compared to the control group (p<0.0001) kept inside a non-accumulating enclosure; the orgone accumulator group also showed increases in germination rate, water consumption, and group weight gain, though sugar content as determined by both taste and measured refractive index of sprout juices (brix readings) was higher in the control group. A separate experiment was undertaken within two control enclosures, to determine how small temperature variations alone might influence the seedling growth. Only a very slight and fully insignificant influence, of around 0.6% growth increase, was observed in seedling groups deliberately kept at a temperature up to 1.5°C higher than the other. This amount of thermal variation was about three times that recorded in the actual orgone-charged versus control experiment indicating the much larger growth-boosting effect from the orgone accumulator could not have been due to observed half-degree residual thermal variations. The results confirm, the orgone accumulator is a special device of importance, able to significantly influence the growth of seedlings