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Distant Healing Research |
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Distant mental influence of rate of hemolysis.
Braud
WG. In: Henkel L.A. & Berger, R.E., eds. Research in
Parapsychology 1988. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow; 1989. |
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Synopsis:
In a novel approach to studying the possible mechanisms
of psychic healing, 32 unselected subjects participated in a
laboratory experiment in which attempts were made to
psychically influence the hemolysis of blood in a test-tube at
a distance. Half of the subjects were randomly assigned to a
condition where the blood that they attempted to influence
belonged to another person while half were assigned a
condition in which the target blood was their own.
All subjects attempted to slow down (protect) the rate
of hemolysis (i.e., the breakdown of the blood) in a
test-tube. Control periods were interspersed with attempted
healing conditions using subsamples of the blood.
Nine of the 32 subjects in this experiment showed a
significant effect (where 1.6 was expected by chance). The
probability of this many significant subjects was less than 2
in 10,000. |
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