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exerts a true psychokinetic influence upon one's own brain through "cognitive caresses" of the synapses of cortical neurons.
27 For all practical purposes, we can view our own nonphysical thoughts as the agency that allows us to extend an arm, by interacting with our own muscles through psychokinesis. What is still surprising, however, is the idea that we can affect or consider healing someone else's body with our thoughts. |
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According to the remote-viewing data, it is clear that people can experience the thoughts and images held by another person in a distant place. So, just as I am able to send you the mental picture of a flying nun, I could send you positive and healing affirmations. I can imagine that these could stimulate in you the same healthful psychoneuroimmunological effect that they have for me. We believe that a doctor's acts of compassion and sending positive loving thoughts to his or her patients is an important part of the healing process. |
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Dr. William Braud, at the Mind Science Foundation in San Antonio, Texas, took great steps toward answering that question. Over a period of almost fifteen years ending in 1992, psychologist Braud carried out dozens of experiments investigating the ability of a person to directly influence the behavior of remote living systems, using mental means alone. These experiments, often in collaboration with Marilyn Schlitz, included efforts to remotely influence a person's state of relaxation, as measured by his galvanic skin response (GSR), and blood pressure. Other studies involved trying to increase the rate of activity of gerbils running on a wheel, and influencing the spontaneous swimming behavior of small knife fish (a kind of carp).28 All of these experiments in mental-influence-at-a-distance were successful, and most important, they were repeatable. |
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Braud's theory is that labile systems living things that already exhibit some level of activity are easier to move or affect than systems at rest.29 This is a kind of psychological statement of Newton's third law, which says that objects in motion tend to stay in motion, and objects at rest tend to remain at rest. In his efforts to demonstrate mental influence, Dr. J.B. Rhine recognized that it is easier to affect the trajectory of falling dice than it is to levitate dice that are resting on the table. |
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