Research in Conscious Intention
Robert Jahn, Dean of the school of Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University and his associate, Brenda Dunne, conducted consciousness research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory (PEAR).
Utilizing a tightly controlled protocol they studied the effects of conscious intention on the output of random event generators, REGs, devices that generate random events, most often of an electronic nature. After twenty- five years of research they unequivocally demonstrated that ordinary human “operators” could significantly influence the devices either locally, at distances of thousands of miles, and/or off-time, that is the effect could be deliberately demonstrated up to several weeks after initiating the experiment.
Simultaneously Jahn and Dunne studied remote perception between humans, that is, the ability of a person at the laboratory to know where someone else was at a secret remote location. Indeed, they found that the percipient knew the nature of the location, selected at random and foreign to both of them, before the remote individual knew where he was to go. Again, a temporal anomaly. These results, all statistically significant to a very high degree, indicated not only that humans could be in “touch” with each other through unknown processes of communication and that they could influence machines by thought alone, but because of the spatial and especially the temporal anomalies, the linkage could not be electromagnetic in nature.
Other experiments demonstrated that intention, per se, was not necessary to produce an anomalous output by the REG. When operators were quiescent or focused on an alternative task, the REG would still react, but in a form that was quite different from when intention was being used. And each operator had their own “signature” or pattern of REG output, that held true no which of several kinds of REGs were employed in an experiment. In group meetings the REG would react anomalously whenever the members of the group would become particularly excited and remain “normal” when members were unexcited.
Our own experiments in this genre of research involved studying the effects of expressed emotions by women in therapy on an REG. We found a statistically significant elevation in REG output when patients were expressing anger, and a significant depression in REG output when expressing anxiety or sadness, both compared to no significant output when patients were simply talking without apparent emotion. (graph). These results demonstrated that emotion whatever it is, is not confined to the corpus of the human body, but can extend beyond the body to activate, in some way, non-living (and probably, living) objects at a distance.
Given the results of their work Jahn & Dunne postulate that the connection between conscious intention (C) and the REG, which operates in the tangible physical world (T), is not direct. Rather, all the evidence points toward intention acting as initiating an excitation in the “core” of the individual that simultaneously affects consciousness via the unconscious mind (U) and, through a permeable interface with an “intangible physical domain” (I) manifests in the tangible physical domain. This is represented in the following figure:
(From Jahn & Dunne, 2001)
We find this model extremely useful in understanding psychosomatic phenomena and the relationship between living things and their environment. If Jahn & Dunne are right there is a much greater intimacy and intercourse between ourselves and our surroundings than we currently appreciate or would be able to predict based upon conventional scientific theory. Using this model we tentatively assume that Reich’s mass-free orgone energy (and/or Levashov’s “primary matters”) functions within the intangible realm. The process of creation involves manifestation of formal and energetic qualities from (I) into (T). We conceive of the borderline across which this transformation takes place as the realm where quantum mechanics has predictive power. It would also be the place where the energy of the vacuum, the so-called “zero-point” energy manifests.
Relevant Literature
Margins of Reality - Jahn, Robert & Dunne, Brenda. 1988, Harper, Brace, Jovanovich, N.Y. Jahn, R. & Dunne, B. 2001,
A Modular Model of Mind/Brain Manifestations (M5): The Journal of Scientific Exploration. Various Articles from the PEAR laboratory on line at www. Princeton.edu/~pear.