Examples of Experiments
Unfinished tests: The Klingbeils
did some tests of thought on bacteria. They also designed a test
of a DNA molecule to see if prayer
could affect it. John did some biofeedback tests to see how different
states of thought could affect a healing outcome. Remote viewing
was tested on unseen seeds in containers at a distance. Like several
other experiments, remote viewing held promise,
but was a division of too much time
from doing thorough and repeated experiments of prayer on other organisms.
(Remote viewing may become the choice area of consciousness research as
it requires less repetitions of a test and has produced some startling
findings. It's interesting that another name for healing at a distance
is remote healing.)
"...imagine how someone a hundred years ago would have reacted to a description of many of the things we take for granted today. Think of telling someone in the 1890's about a flying cylinder that would routinely transport several hundred people at a time...from coast to coast. Explain the storage of a small library's worth of information on a silicone chip smaller than your fingernail.
We live in an age of once-unimaginable miracles, so it would take equal measures of courage and hubris to dismiss as impossible the notion that some people may have certain psychic powers. This may reassure you, it may alarm you, but in fact, for some years now, the U.S. intelligence community has wagered a modest amount of money on the possibility that such powers do exist." *
* From the transcript of the ABC television show Nightline with Ted Koppel of November 28, 1995.
In the Twenty-first Century a frontier of science to be experimentally investigated will be the "nonlocality actions of human consciousness." The supporters of Spindrift hope this research of nonlocality will include the nonlocal healing effects of prayer which suggest man's and woman's spiritual potential to heal.
To those who cherish the Judaic-Christian
tradition or any other spiritual tradition and the power contained therein,
the experimental method offers an opportunity to test, scientifically,
prayer
applied to healing. Accumulated
test results will constitute a body of knowledge, never before available,
applicable to the solving of problems including disease.