Entangled Minds is available
Entangled Minds is available now via online bookstores and can be ordered by brick and mortar stores. It will show up in Borders, Barnes & Noble etc. over the next month or so. I plan to use this blog to respond to questions that may arise by people who are reading the book, and to respond to valid critiques and questions that may arise in published reviews.
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I intended for this book to be cross-listed in general science and in parapsychology, because that's what it's all about.
Keep up the good work,
Tracy
I've just finished reading your new book. I'm most gratefull to people like you who do this kind of research. Having just finished a master in physics, and in addition having a strong interest in these phenomena, I know from experience that the topic is extremely taboo amongst scientists (and I'm sorry to say, also amongst students). I find it very strange that physicists can believe in a theoretical idea about multiple universes and 11 dimmensions, but at the same time consider the idea that our minds can influence the world around us as absolute rubbish.
I'm especially facinated by the Johrei-study you co-authored. To me it parallels the many studies done on Qi Gong (external qi) in China that now are starting to be replicated in the west. They show that we indeed have underestimated capabilities, and that we probably are much more than we have been led to think we are (allthough if you want to develope yourself, it requires hard training using some real and proven method)
Are you planning on doing more studies like the Johrei study?
Micro-PK tests were developed partially because it was thought that if there was a "mental power" then it would be quite weak in most people (otherwise we'd all be flying around by now). So the target system would have to be very sensitive to influence. It also came about because of theoretical reasons associated with the act of observation in quantum mechanics.
Because of the evidence for micro-PK, I believe the possibility of some forms of macro-PK is more plausible, but as I point out in the book sometimes when metal is bent in ways where ordinary force can be ruled out and intention seems to play a role, that this does not necessarily mean a large force was used to create the bend. Sometimes a huge outcome can be effected by a tiny influence at just the right time and place. I think that's a more likely explanation for macro-PK effects than "force-beams" emanating from the head.
When I was a child, I used to do an experiment with my sister. We would sit with closed eyes, and one of us (designated beforehand) would mentally hum a note. So, for instance, I would sit there 'humming' a note in my head, and when my sister thought she had it, she would hum the note aloud. The notes were more often than not identical. I would say the success rate was about seven times out of ten. Well over 50%, at any rate. Has anything like this been done in a lab? It shouldn't be hard to construct a more scientific version of this. And sound of this basic sort is so instinctive, it might work better than some visually based experiments. At any rate, I'd be very curious to know the results of an experiment like this.
I can imagine that some people might be very good at clairaudience (from the French, literally clear-hearing), but it hasn't been as thoroughly examined as clairvoyance (clear-seeing).