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

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.

Entrainment is a term in physics which means that two oscillating systems fall into synchrony.

process: intention requires initial focus, but then a type of surrender, a letting go of the self as well as of the outcome.

all ten of the patients in the treatment group were not only alive but far healthier in every regard.

C leve Backster was among the first to propose that plants are affected by human intention, a notion considered so preposterous that it was ridiculed for forty years.

In the second study, those sent healing were again far healthier on every parameter tested: significantly fewer AIDS-defining illnesses, improved T-cell levels, fewer hospitalizations, fewer visits to

Schwartz now had his answer about the nature of conscious thought: healing intention creates waves of light—and indeed these are among the most organized light waves found in nature.

Every organism, from bacteria to human beings, appears to be in perpetual quantum communication.

Backster achieved his notoriety from a series of experiments that purported to demonstrate that living organisms read and respond to a person’s thoughts.