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or visualization, prayer or effortless intentionality, and evocation of strong positive emotions.
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The autonomic activity of the recipient was monitored (via electrodes connected to a computer system) when the influencer was using these techniques. The person being influenced did not know anything about the timing of the randomly interspersed influence or noninfluence periods.33 |
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In fact, I (Jane) was an influencer in one of Braud's experimental series to see if one person could mentally affect another isolated person's electrodermal activity (GSR) from a distance. William Braud himself was the subject to be influenced. We had both realized that we had good rapport with one another during my initial intake interview. I had volunteered for the study, because I had been doing healing work off and on for ten years by that time, and had often experienced psychically merging my consciousness with another person. |
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Braud had asked me during the interview, "What does it feel like when you are doing healing?" I closed my eyes as I answered him, so that I could more precisely describe the vibrating light, heat, and colors that I experience during a healing interaction. I created an image of colored light in my mind's eye that was similar to what I would experience during what seemed like "a good connection" with a patient. Just as I started to describe the indigo and rose colors in the blue-centered target configuration that I was imagining, he asked me, "Are you seeing a target-like image, with dark blue in the bull's eye?" I was impressed, and answered yes. He asked again, "Is there pink around the perimeter?'' "Uh-huh," I agreed. |
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I was shocked, but then I gathered my composure, and thought to myself, "Of course, he knows all about this, he has hundreds of subjects in his research, it's entirely routine for him. . . ." So I said, "I guess this is all old hat for you. You probably do this with lots of people, all the time." And he surprised me by answering, "Oh, no. This is a first for me!" I was amazed. Then he told me that he would be the subject to be influenced in my experimental trials. |
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During the research sessions, Braud relaxed in a comfortable, overstuffed chair in a dimly lit room on the other side of the building from |
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