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PubMed2000

A randomized trial of distant healing for skin warts.

PURPOSE: Distant healing, a treatment that is transmitted by a healer to a patient at another location, is widely used, although good scientific evidence of its efficacy is sparse. This trial was aimed at assessing the efficacy of one form of distant healing on common skin warts. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: A total of 84 patients with warts were randomly assigned either to a group that received 6 weeks of distant healing by one of 10 experienced healers or to a control group that received a similar preliminary assessment but no distant healing. The primary outcomes were the number of warts and their mean size at the end of the treatment period. Secondary outcomes were the change in Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and patients' subjective experiences. Both the patients and the evaluator were blinded to group assignment. RESULTS: The baseline characteristics of the patients were similar in the distant healing (n = 41) and control groups (n = 43). The mean number and size of warts per person did not change significantly during the study. The number of warts increased by 0.2 in the healing group and decreased by 1.1 in the control group (difference [healing to control] = -1.3; 95% confidence interval = -1.0 to 3.6, P = 0.25). Six patients in the distant healing group and 8 in the control group reported a subjective improvement (P = 0.63). There were no significant between-group differences in the depression and anxiety scores. CONCLUSION: Distant healing from experienced healers had no effect on the number or size of patients' warts.

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PubMed1980

The human twin.

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PubMed2003

Mind-reading accuracy in intimate relationships: assessing the roles of the relationship, the target, and the judge.

Using a video-review procedure, multiple perceivers carried out mind-reading tasks of multiple targets at different levels of acquaintanceship (50 dating couples, friends of the dating partners, and strangers). As predicted, the authors found that mind-reading accuracy was (a). higher as a function of increased acquaintanceship, (b). relatively unaffected by target effects, (c). influenced by individual differences in perceivers' ability, and (d). higher for female than male perceivers. In addition, superior mind-reading accuracy (for dating couples and friends) was related to higher relationship satisfaction, closeness, and more prior disclosure about the problems discussed, but only under moderating conditions related to sex and relationship length. The authors conclude that the nature of the relationship between the perceiver and the target occupies a pivotal role in determining mind-reading accuracy.

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PubMed1999

A possible approach for researching purported spirit communication: an empirical-anecdotal investigation.

Can a digital clock that behaves erratically function as a flexible, open (random event generator-like) timing system to investigate purported communication with deceased individuals? If such theophysical effects exist, what implications do they have for mind-body and integrative medicine? Stimulated by research into spirit communication by Schwartz, Russek et al. (1999), Elayne Russek (ER) hypothesized that her deceased husband, noted cardiologist Henry I. Russek (HIR), might be influencing a digital clock that had become erratic. A repeated measures-within-subject experiment was designed such that daytime baseline data could be compared with the results of requests to slow or speed up the erratic clock during the night. Unfortunately, the AM-PM light was no longer functional, which meant that AM-PM information had to be inferred by applying an inference rule to the complete set of data. When this was done, a statistically significant effect was obtained. ER communicated to HIR that the experiment was inadequate because of the AM-PM defect and asked him for a "sign" that he was involved. She unexpectedly awoke in the middle of the night to find the AM-PM light flashing. The light became functional the following day, and subsequent data collection confirmed the inference rule. The combined empirical plus anecdotal nature of research in this area are considered, along with implications of the hypothesis for mind-body and integrative medicine.

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PubMed2005

Evidence for correlations between distant intentionality and brain function in recipients: a functional magnetic resonance imaging analysis.

This study, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology, demonstrated that distant intentionality (DI), defined as sending thoughts at a distance, is correlated with an activation of certain brain functions in the recipients. Eleven healers who espoused some form for connecting or healing at a distance were recruited from the island of Hawaii. Each healer selected a person with whom they felt a special connection as a recipient for DI. The recipient was placed in the MRI scanner and isolated from all forms of sensory contact from the healer. The healers sent forms of DI that related to their own healing practices at random 2-minute intervals that were unknown to the recipient. Significant differences between experimental (send) and control (no send) procedures were found (p = 0.000127). Areas activated during the experimental procedures included the anterior and middle cingulate area, precuneus, and frontal area. It was concluded that instructions to a healer to make an intentional connection with a sensory isolated person can be correlated to changes in brain function of that individual.

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PubMed2005

Toward general experimentation and discovery in conditioned laboratory spaces: part IV. Macroscopic information entanglement between sites approximately 6000 miles apart.

OBJECTIVES: To demonstrate information entanglement between separated sites of a single experimental system over distances of 5,000-6,000 miles and (2) to provide experimental DeltapH(t)-data, for these various sites that illustrates the information entanglement characteristic of this particular type of measurement. Such information entanglement has profound implications for distant healing. DESIGN: The same as Part I but with two additional experimental sites, 5000-6000 miles distant from any other measurement site. SETTING/LOCATION: One pH-measurement site with no IIED present for 3 months and now using IIEDs in the UK plus one pH-measurement control site in Italy (no IIED used). SUBJECTS: One above ground IIED site plus one underground control site. INTERVENTIONS: None. RESULTS: Large DeltapH-data variations with time, over a long time duration, for the two new sites. CONCLUSIONS: Using pH-measurements, major information entanglement can be demonstrated between U.S. sites and European sites, even at separation distances >6000 miles. Possible enhanced entanglement occurs in remote sites located underground. These discoveries warrant further investigation since a mechanism similar to that occurring during remote healing may be involved.

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PubMed1975

Cerebral localization and the psi syndrome.

On trying to correlate the psi syndrome with a neural substrate, it is necessary to distinguish between spontaneous, "macropsychological" and experimenta, "micropsychological" incidents of the card-calling type. On comparing telepathic drawings with drawings made by brain-injured patients suffering from optical agnosia, the identical tendency to distortion and disorganization of the target materials can be discerned. It suggests that the telepathic subject is "agnostic" in relation to psi impressions, and that his central processing takes place in the right rather than the left hemisphere. The capricious nature of extrasensory perception (ESP) responses of the card-calling type points to fluctuations in the reticular and limbic midbrain system in warding off the intrusion into awareness are subliminal or irrelevant perceptions from the outside world.

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PubMed1985

'Psychic sensitivity', mystical experience, head injury and brain pathology.

The 'psychic' experiences of 17 students (sensitives) from the College of Psychic Studies were compared with those of 17 church-going control subjects, who were matched for age, sex, and approximate intellectual level. At interview, 67 items of information relating to the medical history, family history, 'psychic gifts', head injuries, and mystical experiences were obtained. The shortened WAIS, the Benton Visual Retention Test, with tests of both dominant (Wechsler Logical Memory) and non-dominant temporal lobe function (the Rey-Osterreith Test) were given. The results showed that the sensitive population contained more single or divorced people, and people who had sometime consulted a psychiatrist. They had experienced more head injuries and serious illnesses than the controls. Sixty-six per cent showed evidence of right hemisphere and right temporal lobe dysfunction and, of these, 35 per cent had poor visual memories. There was evidence to suggest that some 'psychic' experiences were associated with brain dysfunction. Despite an increased occurrence of head injury, no clear correlation with the onset of 'psychic' sensitivity was found. Mystical experiences showed a trend towards being related to non-dominant hemisphere dysfunction. Vagueness about the position of the sensitive's 'psychic helper' in physical space was also associated with non-dominant hemisphere dysfunction.

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