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volume to be an example of mind-to-mind interaction.
An interesting note about Dean is that his success with plethysmographic telepathy led him to examine the ESP of business executives. His remarkable finding was that in precognition tests, the managers from companies that were having major growth showed statistically significant ESP, while those from failing companies had significant negative ESP, or ''psimissing." 30 That is, they may well use their psychic ability to determine the right answer, but then do something different.
Calmness or Arousal Influence from a Distance
For over two decades, Dr. William Braud has conducted more than 30 experiments, involving over 650 testing sessions, examining the "direct mental influence of living systems." Braud has demonstrated that it is possible for one person's mental processes to telepathically affect those of another person, both directly and from a distance. With surprising reliability, his research, along with that of his associate Marilyn Schlitz, has shown that a subject in the laboratory can influence the physiological reactions of distant people by using methods of focused mental attention.31
Many of these studies were done by Braud, or by Braud and Schlitz, at the Mind Science Foundation in San Antonio, Texas. They measured people's attempts to affect other distant persons' autonomic nervous system processes, as measured by changes in their galvanic skin response (GSR), blood pressure, or slight, unconscious muscle movements. The influencer did not need to know whether or not his or her attempts to interact with the other person's system were successful for the galvanic skin responses of the distant people to be affected.
In all of these studies, two participants who had met each other briefly were situated in separate rooms for twenty-minute research sessions. During randomly determined periods, the influencer used mental techniques that had been found by Braud to be successful in previous experiments to affect a distant person's mental or physical reactions. Some of these strategies that he had studied include relaxation, centering or focusing attention, imagery

 
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