The effects of distant healing performed by a spiritual healer on chronic pain: a randomized controlled trial.

CONTEXT: Many individuals suffer from various kinds of chronic pain. Some controlled studies on distant healing for chronic pain exist, but no definitive conclusion has been established. OBJECTIVE: To study the effects of distant healing performed by a professional Japanese healer on chronic pain. DESIGN: A double-blind randomized controlled study. SETTING: Holos University, Fair Grove, Missouri. SUBJECTS: People suffering from chronic pain (not caused by clear organic diseases or that persists long after a reasonable period of healing following injuries or surgery) were recruited through local radio and newspaper advertising. Subjects were randomly assigned to a treatment group or control group using a double-blind procedure. INTERVENTIONS: All subjects met the healer at the initial session at Holos University. At the session, a 20-minute group meditation was performed. The healer went back to Japan after the session and started distant healing only to the treatment group for a 2-month period. All participants were asked to meditate for 20 minutes every day during this 2-month period. OUTCOME MEASURES: The visual analog scale and McGill Pain Questionnaire. RESULTS: A total of 17 subjects were recruited, and 16 subjects completed the study. Comparison of pretreatment and posttreatment visual analog scale indicated a slightly significant effect of distant healing (P=.056). The Present Pain Intensity Scale showed significant improvement in the treatment group compared to the control group (P=.0016). The Pain Rating Index showed improvement in the treatment group, but the difference between both groups was not statistically significant (P=.12).

Toward general experimentation and discovery in conditioned laboratory spaces: Part II. pH-change experience at four remote sites, 1 year later.

OBJECTIVES: (1) To demonstrate information entanglement between separated sites of a single experimental system over distances of 1500-2000 miles and (2) to provide experimental DeltapH(t)-data, above the theoretical value for conditioned spaces, over a long time period for these various sites. DESIGN: The same as Part I of this series but with two additional control sites, 1500-2000 miles distant from any intention imprinted electrical device (IIED) site. SETTING/LOCATION: The same as Part I but scientific laboratories for the two additional control sites. SUBJECTS: Three IIED sites plus five control sites. INTERVENTIONS: None. RESULTS: DeltapH(t)-data variations with time, over a long time duration, for all sites. CONCLUSIONS: Major information entanglement exists between IIED sites and non-IIED sites, even at separation distances in excess of 2000 miles.

Toward general experimentation and discovery in conditioned laboratory spaces: Part I. Experimental pH change findings at some remote sites.

OBJECTIVES: To fulfill the general scientific method requirement for one of our earlier Minnesota experiments, namely that laboratory spaces operated by other investigators at different sites in the United States can be conditioned to a higher electromagnetic gauge symmetry state than our normal background state and such a space can be specifically tuned so that the pH of purified water in equilibrium with air will be increased by approximately 1.0 pH unit with no chemical additions. DESIGN: Insertion of a specific intention imprinted electrical device (IIED) into the space for a period of at least 3 months while continuously monitoring the pH of purified water wherein the water was replaced and the pH-electrode recalibrated on a 2-week cycle. Control sites were associated with each IIED site. SETTING/LOCATION: Offices in homes and clinics. SUBJECTS: Three IIED sites plus three control sites. INTERVENTIONS: None. OUTCOME MEASURES: Continuously recorded pH and temperature. RESULTS: (1) Linear and exponential pH(t) variations with time at IIED sites, with the Delta pH-values increasing with each 2-week cycle up to a value of approximately 0.8-1.0 pH units, (2) control sites, 2-20 miles distant from the IIED sites exhibited similar behavior but with smaller Delta pH-values, and (3) a new information transfer mechanism in nature has been demonstrated. CONCLUSIONS: Human consciousness, at least under some conditions, can strongly influence well-designed target experiments in physical reality and the primary data are reproducible in other laboratories provided the specific protocol is followed.