You are now invited to participate in a massive group intention experiment with many, if not most, of the other readers of this book. If you’d like to take part in the largest mind-over-matter experiment in history, read on.
In these group intentions, you will become involved in important new research to further the world’s knowledge about the power of intention. There will be blogs and interactive elements on our website, so that you can correspond with other like-minded individuals around the world about our results and the results of individual experiments (chapter 14).
Naturally, it’s not compulsory and certainly not a condition of reading this book. In fact, I would prefer you not to get involved unless you are passionate about participating. I need committed participants, willing to take the intention experiment seriously. Each experiment might take a few minutes to an hour of your time, although in the future we might try experiments that take a little longer.
First, log on to the website (www.theintentionexperiment.com). There you will find information about the dates and objectives of future intention experiments. We will plan those dates to coincide with times of a fair degree of geomagnetic activity. Mark those dates in your diary now, and if you intend to participate, it is vital that you don’t forget. We have a number of experiments planned, but as scientific experiments are expensive to carry out and require lengthy analysis, there will be sizable intervals between experiments. If you miss an intention experiment, you will have to wait a few months for another one.
Several days before the experiment, read through the preliminary instructions to familiarize yourself with what to do. The instructions will explain that you’ll need to carry out many of the “powering up” exercises in chapter 13 just before you send your intention. You will find information about the time of the experiment in your own time zone. The website has a running clock (set to U.S. Eastern Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time), and a countdown to each new experiment and will specify the equivalent times in different time zones. As readers around the world will be participating, it is vital that all the readers send intentions at the right time.
As this is a scientific experiment, we need to have committed and knowledgeable participants who have read and understood the ideas in this book. Consequently, we will try to weed out potential spoilers or the uncommitted by asking every potential participant to supply a password, which will be taken from phrases or ideas in the book and will vary every few months. We will ask you to supply, for example, the fourth word of the third paragraph of the U.S. hardback edition (of the paperback). We will make sure we specify passwords for every edition published in every country, so your password will work no matter which version of the book you have read. Just follow instructions. The only way to be part of the experiment is to have read the book and to log on with the correct password, after which you will be supplied with a private password for future experiments.
Because this is a scientific experiment, we need to know some details about participants, such as their average age, their gender, their health—or possibly their degree of psychic ability. On the day of the experiment, you will be asked to supply some information about yourself. Several of our scientists have designed short questionnaires for you to fill in. Of course, this information will be kept confidential, under international and national laws of data protection. Once you’ve filled in our questionnaires, you won’t have to rekey any information you have already supplied for any future experiments.
On the day of the intention experiment, at the particular time specified on the website, you will be asked to send a carefully worded, detailed intention, depending on the target site. The website will walk you through the steps. You will be asked to “power up” into your meditative state, to enter a state of compassion, and to send a carefully worded, detailed intention that will be specified on the website.
For instance, let’s say that we’re trying to send an intention to have a spider plant grow faster at Fritz-Albert Popp’s lab in Neuss, Germany, on Friday, March 20, at 8 P.M. Eastern Standard Time. We will have a photograph or webcam image of the spider plant on the website, so you can train your intention on the right subject. The website will instruct you to think or say the following sentence on March 20 at 8 P.M.:
Our intention is to have our spider plant in Neuss grow 10 percent faster than a control plant.
Or, let’s say that we have a patient with a wound. Our intention might be:
Our intention is to for Lisa’s wound to heal 10 percent faster than normal.
Because this is a scientific experiment, we will structure our experiment to test a precise, carefully quantified result: 10 percent faster or slower, say, or 10°F cooler than normal or than a control.
Once the experiment is finished, the results will be analyzed by our scientific team—ideally by a neutral statistician as well—and then published on the website.
I must reiterate that I cannot guarantee that the experiments will work—at first or ever. As scientists and objective researchers, we will be duty-bound to faithfully report the data we have. Whether or not our first experiments are successful, we will continue to refine the design with each new experiment as we learn more about group intention. If the first or second or fifth experiment doesn’t work, we’ll keep trying and keep learning more with every result. The nature of frontier science requires that you stumble along blindly, feeling your way along the right path.
Do consult the website frequently for announcements of experiments, postings of the individual experiments (chapter 14), and announcements for the date of every future experiment. If you have enjoyed the written portion of this book, the website will continue the experience for you as an open-ended sequel.
www.theintentionexperiment.com