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blood pressure, heart rate, and skin resistance will change. This fight-or-flight reaction is called an "orienting response." Researcher Dean Radin has recently shown, at the University of Nevada, that this orienting response is also observed in a person's physiology, a few seconds before they see the scary picture. 9 In balanced, double-blind experiments, Radin has shown that if you are about to see scenes of violence and mayhem, your body will steel itself against the insult, but if you are about to see a picture of a flower garden, then there is no such strong anticipatory reaction. Fear is much easier to measure physiologically than bliss. We would say that this is a case in which your direct physical perception of the picture, when it occurs, causes you to have a unique physical response at an earlier time. Your future is affecting your past.
Experiments with a similar interpretation were carried out by Helmut Schmidt at the Mind Science Foundation in San Antonio, Texas. Schmidt was examining the behavior of electronic random number generators that produce long haphazard strings of Is and Os.10 He had already shown, through a lifetime of work, that a person could mentally interact with the machine from a distance, to obtain more Is or Os just by paying attention to the desired outcome. This effort to affect the output of digits takes place at randomly selected times while the tape is being recorded. In his latest and most remarkable experiments, he has shown that even after the machine is run, and has generated a tape recording of its output of Is and Os, a person can still affect the outcome by paying attention to the tape, as long as no one has seen the data beforehand. The observable fact is that the tape in hand is found to have a statistically significant nonrandom distribution of Is and Os, where the control tapes all have balanced distributions. We do not believe that the person is actually changing the tape, which may be a punched-hole paper tape, but rather, Schmidt and others believe that the person with the tape in his hand is reaching back in time to affect the machine at the time of its operation.
Schmidt has even demonstrated that the prerecorded, but unobserved, breathing rate of a person in the past can be affected by the mental activity of a person at a later time!11 Both of these experiments suggest that a healer

 
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