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Toward Understanding the Placebo Effect
Investigating a Possible Retrocausal Factor
Conventional models of placebo effects assume that all mind-body responses associated with expectation can be explained by ordinary causal processes. This experiment tested whether some placebo effects may also involve retrocausal, or time-reversed, influences.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- September1, 2007
- 7 pages
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Peering into Our Potential
How Neuroscience is Mapping New Paths to Healthy Living
From the placebo effect and meditating monks to the adolescent brain and food cravings, the tools of neuroscience keep penetrating the nature of being human. And as they do, new ...
- Publications Articles
- September - November 2007
- 5 pages
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Effects of Intentionally Enhanced Chocolate on Mood
A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled experiment investigated whether chocolate exposed to "good intentions" would enhance mood more than unexposed chocolate.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- September 1, 2007
- 8 pages
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"Psychosomatic Wellness" with Candace Pert (teleseminar)
Pert explores the history of her turn towards a noetic worldview, the current frontiers of mindbody science, and an innovative new AIDS treatment she has developed that involves peptides, the informational substances that link body-mind and spirit.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2005-08-24
- 01:00:58
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Intuition through Time
What Does the Seer See?
A great deal of human activity is involved in anticipating the future, from predicting the next influenza strain to the expectations that underlie the placebo effect. Most models of anticipation take for granted that events unfold in a unidirectional flow of time, from past to future. Two experiments were conducted to test this assumption.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- July 1, 2009
- 12 pages
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"Unexplained Mystery of Spontaneous Remission" with Brendan O'Regan (part 1 of 2)
Since the 1970s, Brendan O’Regan was fascinated with spontaneous remission from normally fatal diseases, and committed to learning all he can of its occurrence. In this two-part audio presentation, Brendan provides an overview of the research findings he has uncovered and the results of his own data collection.
- Audio Lectures
- 1987-12-02
- 00:45:47
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"Unexplained Mystery of Spontaneous Remission" with Brendan O'Regan (part 2 of 2)
Since the 1970s, Brendan O’Regan was fascinated with spontaneous remission from normally fatal diseases, and committed to learning all he can of its occurrence. In this two-part audio presentation, Brendan provides an overview of the research findings he has uncovered and the results of his own data collection.
- Audio Lectures
- 1987-12-02
- 00:44:39
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Intention Downloads Interview: Dean Radin
Can chocolate and ice crystals provide clues about the mystery of intention? Find out in this engaging interview with IONS Senior Scientist Dean Radin, as he describes a double-blind study with Dr. Emoto (of What the Bleep!? fame) as well as "intentional chocolate."
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:35:16
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The Spiritual Brain
A Neuroscientists’s Case for the Existence of the Soul
Do religious experiences come from God, or are they merely the random firing of neurons in the brain? Drawing on his own research with Carmelite nuns, neuroscientist Mario Beauregard shows that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented.
- Publications Books
- September 4, 2007
- 384 pages
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Shift Issue 16
BRAVE_NEURO_WORLD?
NEUROSCIENCE, NEW ANSWERS, NEW QUESTIONSTHE ENCHANTED LOOM
by Diane AckermanPEERING INTO OUR POTENTIAL
by Matthew SolanNEUROTECHNOLOGY'S SHADOW
by Byron BelitsosOUR EVOLVING GLOBAL BRAIN
by Steven VedroCONSCIOUSNESS: STILL A MYSTERY
by John HickFrontiers of Research
The Transformative Experience: A Choice Point (Excerpted from Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation)
by Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, Cassandra Vieten, and Tina A. Amorok- September - November 2007
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Intention Downloads Interview: Larry Dossey
In this discussion with Marilyn Schlitz, Dr. Dossey cautions us about the current popularity of books and movies that promote intention setting for purely self-centered reasons.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:26:33
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"Natural Mindfulness" with John Astin
John Astin, co-director of the Mind-Body Medicine Research Group, talks with host Marilyn Schlitz about bringing attention to attention.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-02-20
- 01:07:07
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Why do some people get well with a placebo?
Hidden in the placebo is proof of the highest of human potential to self heal... and that there is no separation between mind and body. We know there are significant ...
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Noetic science and parapsychology are just the tapping the understanding of the true source behind it all.
Hello I’m I am the author to the book “The Primordial Language”. I believe I have discovered revolutionary new information that opens the door to both Noetic science and ... -
Chocolate and Mood
Effects of Intentionally Enhanced Chocolate on Mood
- Principal Investigator
- Dean Radin, PhD
- Co-Investigators
- James Walsh, Gail Hayssen
Experimental test of the role of intention on food (chocolate).
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stamina and healing
I have held back on writing about my latest discovery because it is not directly related to consciousness, but it has helped to make my meditations more profound, and I ... -
Seeing the Future
Exploring Presentiment with Eye Gaze and Pupillary and Eye Dilation
- Principal Investigator
- Dean Radin, PhD
- Co-Investigator
- Ana Borges
Presentiment study using pupil dilation and eye-gaze.
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Margaret E. Kemeny, PhD
Margaret E. Kemeny, PhD, is Professor of Psychiatry and the Director of the Graduate Academic Program in Psychology at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Kemeny's research has focused on identifying the links between psychological factors, the immune system and health and illness. She has made important contributions to our understanding of the ways in which the mind -- one's thoughts and feelings -- shapes biological responses to stress and trauma.