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wounds for healing research understandably makes us uncomfortable, but it is very hard to get informed consent from a mouse.) The mice were divided into three groups of equal size. Estebany was asked to hold the cages of one group for fifteen minutes, twice a day, for fourteen days. One group was warmed up with heating tapes to simulate the heat from being held, and the control group was simply transferred from one cage to another. |
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The results were remarkable. The incisions were photographed each day, and by the seventh day, there was a clear and striking difference between the size of the wounds in the two noncontrol groups. By day fourteen, most of the mice in the held cages were entirely healed, and none of the untreated mice were healed. Eventually, when the research was finished, all the mice in the control group received healing treatments and became healed as well. We hope that they will agree with us that it was all for a good cause. |
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The work with animals is very important in the study of psychic healing because we believe that there is no placebo effect with animals. That is, they have no expectation that any particular thing that is done to them is going to make them heal more quickly. The difficulty in doing healing research with humans is that researchers must obtain their informed consent, without creating expectations that could easily lead to the placebo effect. In Chapter 9, we discuss the significant experiments that have been done with humans that indicate mind-to-mind interactions can affect human physiological functioning from a distance. |
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An important recent book by researcher Dean Radin, Ph.D., called The Conscious Universe, evaluates the statistical significance of hundreds of ESP experiments of the type we have discussed in this chapter. Radin discusses his own pioneering work showing that peoples' galvanic skin response changes in the seconds before they are shown alarming or shocking pictures. We discuss such precognitive perception of the future, which Radin terms "presentiment," in the next chapter.
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