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

At the very moment he had that thought, the recording pen swung to the top of the polygraph chart and nearly jumped off. He had not burned the plant; he had only thought about doing so.

A thought is not only a thing; a thought is a thing that influences other things.

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.

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,

This suggested that the most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observes it.

Perhaps, I thought, intention was also like a star. Once constructed, a thought radiated out like starlight, affecting everything in its path.

Both like to ski; in fact when one falls down and breaks his right leg at Vail, his twin breaks his right leg at precisely that moment, even though he is 4,000 miles away, sipping a latte at Starbucks.4

healing may generate an initial surge of electricity, but the real transfer mechanism may be magnetic.

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