CONSCIOUSNESS

204 1. Philosophy
held by most physicians, philosophers and psychologists is too restricted for a proper understanding
of this phenomenon. There are good reasons to assume that our consciousness does
not always coincide with the functioning of our brain: enhanced consciousness can sometimes
be experienced separately from the body. I have come to the conclusion that most likely the
brain must have a facilitating and not a producing function to experience consciousness. C21
5.9 Parapsychology
310 Old Dog, New Trick: The Effect of Animal Micro-Psychokinesis on Quantum
Events Mark Boccuzzi, Julie Beischel, PhD (The Windbridge
Institute, Tucson, AZ)
The term psychokinesis (PK) is used to describe the phenomenon of “mind over matter”
or the effects of consciousness on the material world. Macro-PK effects are visible to
the naked eye whereas the more oft-studied micro-PK events, such as changes in the output
of electronic sources of randomness, require statistical analyses to be detectable. Numerous
researchers, perhaps most notably those from the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research
(PEAR) laboratory, have demonstrated the effects of human consciousness on the statistical
distribution of the quantum output from random event generators (REGs; reviewed in Jahn
& Dunne, 2005). The current study examines the possible effects of the consciousness of a
single canine companion animal on a distant REG through the use of the SyncTXT(R) service
by Psyleron, Inc., an outgrowth of the PEAR laboratory. “SyncTXT is a research experiment
and a self-exploration tool that combines modern technology with the concept of synchronicity,
as postulated by the psychologist Carl Jung” (www.synctxt.com). Based on in-house
exploratory data, Psyleron discovered that “the subconscious [of members of the staff] was
capable of shifting the REG output during everyday life.” The SyncTXT service employs the
following steps: (1) a user purchases an on-line SyncTXT account and chooses a selection of
potentially relevant messages, (2) data from a remote REG device is assigned to the user and
runs continually, (3) when the output from the REG contains “certain low-probability events,”
the system selects a message from the user’s message pool and sends it to the user’s mobile
phone or email address. Psyleron indicates that “under normal conditions (e.g., without an
effect due to the operator’s mind) this process would lead to randomly selected messages
with random timing” though users have anecdotally reported meaningfully timed messages.
In this long-term, on-going study, an email account and a SyncTXT account were dedicated
solely to the canine participant. Seven messages were written by the guardian experimenters
to reflect increasing levels of activity on the part of the canine participant (e.g., 1=sleeping,
4=quietly observing, 7=running, playing, or eating) and used as the pool of SyncTXT messages
for that account. The canine participant is video recorded at all times in an unrestricted,
home environment using five infrared video cameras and a time-stamped, multi-feed digital
video recorder. The emails sent from SyncTXT are collected and only the dates and times are
noted. The activity level of the canine participant in the video recording at the time of each
SyncTXT email is coded by two investigators on the 1-7 scale used for the SyncTXT message
pool. The content of the emails (i.e., which of the seven messages was contained in an email)
is not read until the coding data are recorded for a 24 hour period. A Spearman rank-order correlation
analysis is performed to examine the potential correlation between the activity level
of the canine participant and the activity level reported in the messages sent by SyncTXT. The
data collected to date, conclusions drawn, potential implications, study limitations, and value
of the research tool will be discussed. C21
311 Consciousness - Forever Ingrid Fredriksson, Elizabeth A. Rausher And Russel Targ:
Alexander Graur: Goran Grip: Janet McIntyre: Anthony Freeman: James Beichler: Amit
Goswami: Susan Blockmore: Edgar Mitchell And Some More.
(Society for Parapsychological Research, Sweden, Arjang, Sweden)
This is a presentation for a book about consciousness. I had a dream to publish a book
about our consciousness, quantum mechanics, string theory, dimensions, space and time, nonlocal
space, the hologram and what happens with our consciousness when we die. The idea I