Secret_History

Introduction 5
One recent work that attempts to provide a scientific explanation for this ability
to influence the world, Conscious Acts of Creation, tells us:
This book marks a sharp dividing line between old ways of scientific thought and
old experimental protocols, wherein human qualities of consciousness, intention,
emotion, mind and spirit cannot significantly affect physical reality, and a new
paradigm wherein they can robustly do so! 5
The book, written by three mainstream scientists, goes on to tell us that:
…utilizing a unique experimental protocol on both inanimate and animate systems,
that the human quality of focused intention can be made to act as a true
thermodynamic potential and strongly influence experimental measurements for a
variety of specific target experiments.
After almost 400 pages of math and speculation and descriptions of experiments
we are told:
Under some conditions, it is indeed possible to attach an aspect of human
consciousness, a specific intention, to a simple electrical device and have that
device, when activated, robustly influence an experiment conducted in its vicinity in
complete accord with the attached intention. Thus, if they do it right, humans can
influence their environment via specific, sustained intentions. […] Some new field
appears to be involved in the information passage that occurs between conditioned
locales that are widely separated from each other in physical space. Even with
transmitters and receivers located inside electrically grounded Faraday cages, highly
correlated patterns of information appeared in the remotely located locales.[…]
Although we don’t fully understand them, we now have some new tools with which
to probe the deeper structures of the universe and a new adventure is underway for
humanity. 6
It is important to note that the “intenders” of the experiments were long-time
practitioners of Siddha Yoga and could thus be considered metaphysically “in
tune” to some considerable extent. The question is: What did they accomplish?
Based on the descriptions, it sounds pretty earth shaking, right? Well, as noted,
after almost 400 pages we find that the most significant result seems to have been
changing the pH of a small sample of water.
Yup. That’s it.
Nevertheless, this is important for the simple reason that they managed to
scientifically demonstrate a principle, even if the overall result was that it was -
most often - an iffy proposition and there didn’t seem to be a lot of control. Most
results were “statistical” and this has always been a problem with the “create your
own reality” idea. When all the data is examined, what we generally find is that it
5 Tiller, William A., Ph.D., Dibble, Walter E., Ph.D., Kohane, Michael J., Ph.D., Conscious Acts of
Creation (Walnut Creek: Pavior 2001) (www.pavior.com).
6 Tiller et al, op. cit.