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between the thoughts and mental images of an individual and the activities of distant cells. We reported this study previously in Chapter 4, when we described some of the greatest ESP experiments of the century. Braud demonstrated that people were able to significantly affect the rate of hemolysis, or bursting, of red blood cells in a test tube of water, situated in a distant room. The participants were able to mentally protect the cells by directing their attention to them, and by visualizing the cells remaining intact, in spite of the pressure on their membranes to rupture. In blind studies, there was a slight tendency for people to be able to protect their own blood cells better than the cells of another person.
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Braud has discussed the implications of his experiments for the existence of distant healing, and suggests that these same mind-to-cell interactions may take place within one's own body, either some or all of the time. He postulates that similar mind-to-cell interactions may be occurring during the staring and electrodermal experiments he conducts. |
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Physician and author Deepak Chopra has presented the idea that living cells respond to consciousness. In his classic books Quantum Healing and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Chopra addresses many aspects of mind-to-mind connections in healing that are related to Braud's research, as well as to concepts considered in this book.39 |
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Helping Distant People to Focus Their Attention |
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Braud's more recent work investigated telepathic effects on people's emotional, social, and cognitive activities. In research reported in 1995, subjects successfully concentrated their attention on helping isolated participants in a distant room to stay focused on an object.40 In addition, Braud found that the subjects who had the most difficulty in focusing their attention at the beginning of the experiment showed the most significant improvement with telepathic help. He notes that this effect is similar to those discovered by Bernard Grad in his research (which we discussed in Chapter 4), where healing resulted only with stressed plants, not healthy ones.41 Braud's latest experiment involving people psychically helping others from a distance |
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