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of the mind-to-mind connection and one's intentions are the important factors in distant mental influence, rather than the energy exerted in the trying and "doing."
Later, while relating our experiences to one another after each day's experimental series, we found that on many occasions, Braud had perceived the very same images and feelings that I had been trying to immerse and surround him with telepathically. When I sent him creepy crawly spiders, he felt them! For that particular experiment, I was asked to try to raise the GSR of the subject, so my intention was to startle, excite, or disturb him. Increasingly, in the past years, Braud has conducted experiments in which the agent tries to be helpful, or tries to promote peaceful experiences or improved mental functioning of the subject.
Knowing You're Being Stared at from a Distance
Additional studies by Braud and Schlitz showed that if a person simply paid full attention to a distant person whose physiological activity was being monitored, he or she could influence that person's autonomic galvanic skin responses. In four separate experiments involving seventy-eight sessions, one person stared intently at a closed-circuit TV monitor image of the distant participant, and influenced the remote person's electrodermal (GSR) responses. No intentional focusing or mental imaging techniques were used by the influencer, other than staring at the "staree's" image on the video screen during randomly interspersed staring and nonstaring control periods. 34
In these studies, Braud and Schlitz discovered something even more interesting than this telepathically induced effect on our unconscious system. They found that the most anxious and introverted people being stared at had the greatest magnitudes of unconscious electrodermal responses. In other words, the shy and introverted people reacted with significantly more stress to being stared at than did the sociable and extroverted people.35 This experiment gives scientific validation to the common human experience of feeling stared at and turning around to find that someone is, indeed, staring at you.

 
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