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Distant Mental Influence Via TV?
Marilyn Schlitz and Stephen LaBerge, at the U.S. government-funded laboratory of Science Applications International Corporation in Menlo Park, California, successfully replicated Braud and colleagues' experiments, making some interesting changes in the protocol. In 1993, they measured the extent to which people unconsciously sense the telepathic influence of a distant person who is looking at their video image. 36 Again, the two participants were only briefly acquainted. In these studies, however, the observer was instructed to attempt to excite, arouse, or startle the person whose video image they were staring at. Schlitz's and Laberge's work differed from the previous work by Braud and Schlitz, because in the earlier studies, the influencer simply stared at the video image, without trying to influence the staree directly. Also, in the Schlitz and LaBerge experiment, the influencer was specifically trying to increase the arousal response of the recipient.
Parapsychologist Larissa Vilenskaya was one of the starers in the successful Schlitz and LaBerge experiment. She describes her experience in the video staring experiment to the authors in the following paragraphs:
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When there was someone whom I met only briefly before the test, I always asked the person's first name  somehow, it seemed important to me. During the "staring" periods, I called the person silently by his or her name and tried to draw their attention by mentally communicating some urgency. I imagined that the person turned his or her head to look at me, while I silently projected the message, "Look at me! I need to talk to you!" This was done mostly in images, rather than words.
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Other urgent messages I sent with the intent to elicit the attention of the person were, "I'm very cold! Please help me and bring a blanket!" or "I'm in danger! Help!" I sometimes also imagined that he was the one in danger needing my help. I tried to get his attention, so I could help him.
This body of mental influence research carried out primarily by Braud and Schlitz used to be called biological psychokinesis, or Bio-PK. Today it

 
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