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Exploring the Effects of Human Intention and Thought Energy

By William Tiller, Ph.D.
Author of Science and Human Transformation
Professor Emeritus
Stanford University

When Drs. Lambrou and Pratt asked me to comment on this excellent and timely book, I pondered on what I might contribute that would be meaningful and helpful to the general public about this topic. My own psycho-energetic work is dedicated to building a reliable scientific bridge of understanding that seamlessly connects our present-day physics of the physical realm to the more subtle areas of emotion, mind, and spirit.

 

As a physicist, my general approach on the theoretical side has been fairly technical and somewhat mathematical while the findings of my research on the experimental side have been robust and somewhat mind-boggling. Additionally, both aspects underpin and support the clinical findings reported in this book by Drs. Lambrou and Pratt. I believe this is a book that everyone should read and apply to their own lives. It will be one of the most valuable investments of time that anyone could choose to make. Thus, I have decided to except the challenge and try to write a valid perspective in language that is both acceptable and communicates (perhaps with a little "stretch") to the general public.

 

Let me begin painting the necessary background by a very brief discussion of quantum mechanics (QM), which is the most powerful and successful theory in the arsenal of today's physics. However, its mathematical expression was confined to a distance-time spatial description in the 1920s by its originators and this led to many dichotomies that have plagued our understanding of the physical world for the past 75 years. We have had to live with the concepts of wave-particle duality, non-local forces (those which occur in divergent places without traveling in-between), and a wide variety of other perplexing ideas that have challenged our imagination.

 

Scientists have been forced to accept QM as a type of "black box" where the important, key processes going on inside the box are completely hidden from view, so very little insight into the physics of reality is gained by utilizing the QM -- black box procedure. In an attempt to see into the inner workings of the QM -- black box, I have gone back to perhaps the key cornerstone of quantum mechanics and re-interpreted the data.

 

In the early 1920s, French physicist, Louis Victor de Broglie proposed that every particle had associated with it a pilot wave, or wave envelope that traveled with it and guided the particle. This was fully confirmed by later experiments, which led to a Nobel Prize for de Broglie. Later, relativity considerations showed that although the particle must always travel at speeds less than the velocity of light, the waves that superimpose to construct the pilot wave must always travel at velocities greater than that of light. Such waves were labeled "information waves" so as not to create problems with relativity theory.

 

Depending upon the design of specific experiments, one primarily detected either particle behavior or wave behavior and this was eventually concretized in QM as wave/particle duality. It is my belief that this is the point at which QM science went astray. I propose that nature always expresses itself simultaneously with both its particle aspect and its wave aspect.

 

To ideally describe particle behavior requires the use of four independent variables (three distance variables plus one time variable). To optimally describe wave behavior also requires the use of four independent variables (four wave numbers). To allow effective coupling between these particles (traveling at velocities less than the speed of light) and waves (traveling at velocities greater than the speed of light) requires at least one more variable. This yields a nine dimensional structure operating inside this QM black box. To complete the picture and allow human consciousness to have some influence on the overall process we need to add one more variable which brings us up to at least a ten -- dimensional description of the important structure operating inside the QM black box. Let me now utilize a metaphor to express this inner black box structure.

 

Consider that we are all spirits having a physical experience as we ride the "river of life" together. Our spiritual parents dressed us in our bio-body suits and put us in this playpen that we call the universe in order to grow in coherence, to develop our gifts of intentionality, and to become what we were originally intended to be -- co-creators with our spiritual parents!

 

To carry the metaphor further, these bio-body suits come in a fairly wide variety of colors and in two basic morphological forms that we choose to call genders, and they are fabricated with four unique layers. The outermost layer is fashioned from electric monopole substances and is the particulate substance layer (which needs a four -- dimensional description). The first inner layer is fashioned from magnetic monopole substances and this is the wave substance layer (needing another four -- dimensional description). The second inner layer is fashioned from emotion domain substances (a nine-dimensional structure) while the third inner layer is fashioned from mind domain substances (a ten-dimensional structure). These three inner layers are all substructures of the physical vacuum. And inside this bio-body suit is a portion of our spirit self (an eleven-dimensional structure) that drives the vehicle -- the bio-body suit. Thus, this metaphor resembles a diving bell, with the human inside, that is used for deep-sea exploration. In our case, the bio-body suit is well designed for sensing and expressing mobility in the strange earth environment.

 

Most of the general public holds the idea that the vacuum is not only the absence of matter but is also devoid of anything! However, for quantum mechanics and relativity theory to be internally self-consistent, the vacuum is required to contain an amazingly large inherent energy. This vacuum energy density is so large that the intrinsic energy contained within the volume of a single hydrogen atom is about 1 trillion times larger than that contained in all the physical mass of all the planets plus all the stars in our universe -- out to a radius of 20 billion light-years. This makes the energy stored in physical matter an insignificant whisper compared to that stored in the vacuum. Uncovering the secrets of the vacuum is obviously a very important part of humankind's future.

 

Returning to our picture of the bio-body suit, this in-the-suit aspect of our spirit self produces actions in the infrastructure of the various layers via specific intentions. A specific intention, from the domain of spirit imprints an initial pattern on the mind domain (the innermost layer). The intra-layer connections both transfer the imprint to the magnetic monopole layer plus activate the key coupling substance in the emotion domain layer. This allows the magnetic monopole layer imprint to be transferred to the electric monopole layer (the outermost layer). This coupling agent acts much like "toner" in a standard photocopy machine, which is needed to produce a clear, legible copy. When the original intention imprint reaches the outermost layer of the bio-body suit it activates the built-in mechanisms for action in the surrounding domain -- physical reality.

 

As I see it, this is how the innards of the QM black box are structured and how the processes of nature, including life, operate. Let me now present some support for this hypothesis by describing some of my recent experiments showing the robust effects that human intention can have under special circumstances, on both animate and inanimate materials in the physical world.

 

The experimental studies, carried out over the past three years by me and my colleagues, deal with Intention Imprinted Electrical Devices (I IED's). We start with two physically identical, simple electronic devices housed in plastic cases seven inches by three inches by one inch in size (three oscillators in a 1 to 10 MHz range with output power less than 1 microwatt at about three inches from the device). We take one of these devices and wrap it in aluminum foil and place it in an electrically grounded container called a Faraday cage. This is our control device. The other device is imprinted with a specific intention for a particular target experiment (that I will explain in a moment) and then also wrapped in aluminum foil and placed in a separate Faraday cage until the next stage in the process. The Faraday cages and the aluminum foil are needed to keep the IIED "information transfer" isolated from the control device. The next stage in the process was to ship the wrapped devices on separate days about two thousand miles to a laboratory where others will place them in individual Faraday cages until they are used in the specific target experiments.

 

Four individuals highly skilled at meditation and who exhibit a high level of mental and emotional inner self-management carry out the imprinting. On entering a deep meditative state, they mentally cleanse the area surrounding the device to create a "sacred space" and, when accomplished satisfactorily, they first verbalize and then mentally hold the specific intention for about 10 -- 15 minutes. Then they release the intention and mentally seal the device before returning to their normal state of consciousness.

 

We have carried out three specific target experiments up to now. For the first, the intention was to either increase or decrease the pH of pure water by one full pH unit. The pH is a reflection of the concentration of hydrogen ions and is normally associated with acidity or alkalinity. A pH unit represents a change in hydrogen ions by a factor of 10. We have been completely successful in achieving this goal. Thus, we are not searching for a weak signal in amongst the noise in this case. Our results are about 100 times the measurement accuracy and scientifically this represents a very robust result indeed!

For the second target experiment the intention was to increase a chemical ratio [ATP]/[ADP] in developing fruit fly larva so that they would be more fit and thus have a significantly reduced development time in reaching the adult fly stage. Experimentally we found that both the [ATP]/[ADP] and the amount of time changed significantly within the device that was imparted with the intention for this to occur as compared to the control. And this yielded excellent statistical significance above chance occurrence with a probability factor of p<0.001.

 

For the third target experiment, the intention was to increase the in-vitro thermodynamic activity of the liver enzyme alkaline phosphatase (ALP) by a significant amount. This was achieved with an increase of about 20 percent with the IIED compared to the control device and once again the statistics were excellent with a probability factor of p<0.001.

 

These are very remarkable results that are certain to confound our physics, biology, and medical colleagues; however, the experimental data speaks for itself in spite of the entrenched belief systems held by others. Overall, my purpose in sharing this information with the reader is so that you might more fully appreciate the possibilities and potentials for human transformation expressed by the procedures and techniques of [Instant Emotional Healing].

 

William Tiller, Ph.D.