The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World

If plants could register the death of an organism three doors away, it must mean that all life-forms were exquisitely in tune with each other.

Another fascinating early study had been carried out with identical twins. As soon as one twin closed his eyes and his brain electrical rhythms slowed to alpha waves, the other twin’s brain also slowed, even though his eyes were opened wide.9

It implies that reality is not fixed, but fluid, or mutable, and hence possibly open to influence.

Swann, a plant lover who was already convinced that plants were sentient, was nevertheless shocked at the thought that plants could learn to differentiate between true and artificial human intent:

When Targ examined those patients whose illness had most improved, and analyzed which healers they had been exposed to, those healers who were the most successful were the “channelers”—the ones who had moved aside to allow the greater force in.

During the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, she devised an ingenious, highly controlled pair of studies, in which some 40 remote healers across America were shown to improve the health of terminal AIDS patients,

Over the course of more than 2.5 million trials Jahn and Dunne decisively demonstrated that human intention can influence these electronic devices in the specified direction,10 and their results were replicated independently by 68 investigators.11

Schwartz and Connor had their proof that directed intention manifests itself as both electrostatic and magnetic energy.

A number of diverse researchers demonstrated that human intention can affect an enormous variety of living systems: bacteria, yeast, algae, lice, chicks, mice, gerbils, rats, cats, and dogs.12