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

All the studies had been combined into a review that was published in a major psychology journal. The review concluded that the effects had been small but significant.5

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

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

Braud and his colleagues demonstrated that human thoughts can affect the direction in which fish swim,

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

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

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

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.