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Over the past thirty years significant scientific research has been conducted on the potential effectiveness and value of distant healing practices. Reports and studies in this section offer the analysis of leading researchers in the field and will be updated as current research projects are completed and their results published.

 
John Astin, et.al.
· The Efficacy of Distant Healing: A systematic review of randomized trials Link

Daniel J. Benor
· Distant Healing 170k pdf

***New*** Herbert Benson and Jeffery Dusek -- (April 2006)
· (STEP) Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer in cardiac bypass patients: A multicenter randomized trial of uncertainty and certainty of receiving intercessory prayer. 600k pdf

Marilyn Schlitz
· Intentionality in Healing: Mapping the integration of body, mind, and spirit 85k pdf
Marilyn Schlitz and William Braud
· Distant Intentionality and Healing: Assessing the evidence 313k pdf
Marilyn Schlitz, et.al.
· Distant Healing Intention: Definitions and evolving guidelines for laboratory studies

Elisabeth Targ
· Research Methodology for Studies of Prayer and Distant Healing

 

These projects range from double-blind studies on patients in clinical settings to research into essential issues such as whether a person's focused intention can have a nonlocal effect on another who is at a distance.