The Intention Experiment has been assembled from multiple interviews or correspondence with most of the scientists or medical doctors described in its pages, plus a close reading of their major scientific papers. These scientists include: Harald Atmanspacher, Cleve Backster, Dick Bierman, Caslav Brukner, Melinda Connor, Eric David, Richard Davidson, John Diamond, Walter Dibble, Thomas Durt, Sayantani Ghosh, Stuart Hameroff, Valerie Hunt, Mitch Krucoff, Konstantin Korotkov, Stanley Krippner, Sarah Lazar, Leonard Leibovici, Todd Murphy, Roger Nelson, Michael Persinger, Fritz-Albert Popp, Dean Radin, Benni Resnick, Thomas Rosenbaum, Metod Saniga, Marilyn Schlitz, Gary Schwartz, Jerome Stone, Ingo Swann, William Tiller, Eduard van Wijk, and Fred Alan Wolf.
I also interviewed a number of people trained or gifted in the art of intention: gifted clairvoyants such as Ingo Swann, Qigong experts such as Bruce Kumar Frantzis, healers such as Eric Pearl, plus a number of other gifted healers who filled out an extensive questionnaire.
I am especially grateful to Vlatko Vedral, who schooled me in the latest quantum theory; Gary Schwartz, for his many inventive ideas and help on many fronts; William Tiller, who has explained his theories painstakingly; Stanley Krippner, who has provided many leads and much research; and Dean Radin, for his extra help on the science of retro-intention. I owe a great debt to Cleve Backster, Dick Bierman, Caslav Brukner, Richard Davidson, Sai Ghosh, Konstantin Korotkov, Stanley Krippner, Sarah Lazar, Michael Persinger, Fritz-Albert Popp, Dean Radin, Thomas Rosenbaum, Gary Schwartz, Jerome Stone, William Tiller, Eduard van Wijk, and Vlatko Vedral, all of whom read the portions of this manuscript that describe their work and corrected any errors. Among books, I am indebted to Larry Dossey’s Be Careful What You Pray For and Healing Words; Marilyn Schlitz’s excellent compilation, Consciousness and Healing; Daniel Benor’s several books and excellent website; the books of William Tiller; Dean Radin’s Entangled Minds; and Primary Perception by Cleve Backster. Various bibliographies published on the Internet were particularly helpful, including Radin’s bibliography from Entangled Minds, Michael Murphy’s bibliography from The Science of Meditation, and the bibliographies of Stephan Schwartz and the Retro-PK project.
Particular thanks are due to Suzanne Donahue, Heidi Metcalfe, Shannon Gallagher, and Andrew Paulson at Free Press; and Wanda Whiteley, Liz Dawson, and Belinda Budge at HarperCollins in the United Kingdom for raising the bar on this project and supporting it at every stage. My editors Leslie Meredith and Katy Carrington, and my copyeditors, the eagle-eyed Andrew Coleman in the UK and “Violent” Viola and Bryan Cholfin in the United States, improved this manuscript in countless ways.
Special mention should be made of Will Arntz, Betsy Chasse, and Mark Vicente, all involved with What the Bleep Do We Know!?, and their ongoing support of The Field and my other projects. And thanks to my entire team at my company Conatus, particularly Tony Edwards, Joanna Evans, Nicolette Vuvan, and Pavel Mikoloski, who have been most involved with Living The Field.
My agents Russell Galen and Daniel Baror once more demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to this project from the start and worked tirelessly around the world to find it a good home.
I am grateful for what I learn every day from my children, Caitlin and Anya, about the extraordinary power of intention.
The contributions of Robert Jahn, Brenda Dunne and Fritz-Albert Popp, Eduard van Wijk, Sophie Cohen, “Annemarie,” and all the staff at the International Institute for Biophysics in Germany who set up the first intention experiment, have been incalculable. This book truly would not exist without them.
And finally, this book owes its greatest debt, as always, to my husband, Bryan Hubbard, for both planting the first seed and then carefully nurturing it as it grew.