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The External Influence of Consciousness
Consider the idea that your thoughts can affect the outside world directly. That your consciousness can influence other organisms, other objects, machines.
Is this demonstrable? Absolutely! For 27 years there has been a scientific study of the principles of consciousness interacting with its environment.
(PRWEB) February 19, 2006 -- These studies have been rigorously performed under laboratory conditions, using volunteers and detection equipment.
PEAR (Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research) undertook this research, and has painstakingly documented its progression. In addition they have experimented and cross referenced earlier experimentation to see if factors such as ’intent’ or the gender of a person has any influence on the results
This kind of information isn’t known to many; in fact the general public consensus seems to be that consciousness exists independently of its surroundings and there are no connections, just an awareness through processed brain function.
The good news is that this research is available to everyone to read, and is utterly compelling reading, and excellent background for those interested in mind-based phenomena and anomalies. Here at The Book of THoTH we’ve added (thanks to ReverendChaos) a sample of the studies made as downloadable PDF files.
The Book Of THoTH - ESP / PSI Library section:
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/sections-listarticles-18.html
The rest of the articles, and many others, can be found at the PEAR site. http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/
If their conclusions are true, and I’ve no reason whatsoever to doubt them, then it puts our view of our consciousness in a new light and could mean that consciousness can be somehow projected out of ourselves. To another destination in space and potentially time.
Remote perception/viewing was another area of study for PEAR, the ability to project the consciousness elsewhere in the world, viewing geographical scenes where another person, or agent, is situated, without any form of sensory input. PEAR did groundbreaking work in finding techniques to actually measure how much information was actually acquired in this way. Not only did people accurately describe places they’d never been, in a high amount of detail, but they did so before the agents even knew where they would be.. Opening up all manner of possibilities.
These abilities make perfect sense in terms of our evolution, yet as a society we dismiss such fanciful notions, preferring to listen and believe those who would claim consciousness is solely neurophysiological, in other words there is no consciousness per se, just a series of brain related actions that determine our perception of reality.
Sir John Eccles in 1964 and some of those who followed him, attempted to dismiss consciousness as superfluous, claiming it was unnecessary.
"As neurophysiologists we simply have no use for consciousness in our attempts to explain how the nervous system works"
The respectability of the topic has come a long way since then, but consciousness is still far from being totally understood,. Despite leaps in the techniques of brain mapping, ie what part handles which level of thought or ability, what’s still not understood is the overall control mechanism, the part that is self aware.
In their seminal paper, “A Modular Model of Mind/Matter Manifestations,” The PEAR folks have proposed a model that suggests that mind and matter merge with and influence each other at the deepest levels of the unconscious mind and the sub-atomic physical world and in another theoretical paper, “Sensors, Filters, and the Source of Reality,” they describe how we can alter our consciousness, and thereby our reality, by changing the filters we use to interpret our experience of the physical world, albeit in a small way.. Perhaps with a better understanding and training it could be to a greater degree, and the evidence of consciousness studies indicates that it does.
If you’d like to know more about PEAR and their groundbreaking work, visit their website at www.princeton.edu/~pear and buy their DVD/CD set, entitled "The PEAR Proposition," which I can thoroughly recommend. This comprehensive educational multi-DVD/CD set is one element of a major archiving agenda that PEAR has undertaken, and gives a excellent overview of their work.
Two DVDs offer the viewer a synopsis of the program’s history; a virtual tour of the PEAR laboratory; four lectures by Prof. Robert Jahn to an undergraduate class in Human/Machine Interactions; informal commentaries by staff members, interns, operators, and friends; an assortment of downloadable PEAR publications; and sundry interstitial material that attempts to capture the spirit and substance of the PEAR enterprise.
An accompanying CD records a conversation between Prof Jahn and PEAR Laboratory Manager Brenda Dunne in which they discuss the interpersonal dynamics that have characterized the program, and share their perspectives on the interpretations and implications of its research results.
This project was sponsored by PEAR’s sister organization, the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL), and produced by Aaron Michels of Strip Mind Media. It can be ordered on-line from ICRL’s web site at < http://www.icrl.org/contributions.php> For further information, contact Brenda Dunne at http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/
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