The Intention Experiment
With thanks to The Intention Experiment and Lynne McTaggart
On Friday November 30, while my team and I were busy moving offices in London, something remarkable happened. Thousands of people from virtually every area of the globe sent love to a little vial of water in St Petersburg and, in the process, changed its essential properties.
I’ve just heard back from Russian physicist, Dr. Konstantin Korotkov, who ran the experiment. He has produced charts showing a large shift in the water’s light signals after our participants sent love via our Intention Experiment internet site.Worldwide participation
This is our most comprehensive global experiment yet. Nearly 3000 people signed up to participate from eighty countries around the globe. Although two-thirds were from the US, Canada, the UK and the Netherlands and other English speaking countries like New Zealand and Australia, we also had a large showing from every country in Europe and then many far flung places: Indonesia, Bangledesh, Uruguay, Zambia and other countries in Africa, Malaysia, Japan, Croatia, Costa Rica and other countries in central America, Columbia, and China. We had representatives from every continent other than Antartica.
Sixty two per cent —nearly two-thirds — were regular meditators, and nearly half had read The Intention Experiment. Nearly 80 per cent were participating for the first time.
Measuring light from water
Remember, when any conductive object (like living tissue) is placed on a plate made of an insulating material, such as glass, and exposed to high-voltage, high-frequency electricity, a low current results that creates a corona discharge, a halo of coloured light around the object that can be captured on film. This is how Kirlian photography works, and it’s used to examine the so-called ‘aura’.
Korotkov invented the Gas Discharge Visualization (GDV) technique, which makes use of state-of-the-art optics, digitized television matrices and a powerful computer. Ordinarily, a living thing will dribble out the faintest pulse of photons, perceptible only to the most sensitive equipment in conditions of utter pitch black.
Korotkov captures the tiny pulse of photons emitted by all living things by stirring them up — ‘evoking’, or stimulating them into an excited state so that they shine millions of times more intensely than normal.
Korotkov’s equipment blends several techniques: photography, measurements of light intensity and computerized pattern recognition. When used on humans, his camera takes pictures of the field around each of the 10 fingers, one finger at a time.
A computer program then extrapolates from this a real-time image of the ‘biofield’ surrounding the person and deduces from it the state of health in the case of a person.
Like people, liquids – water included – glows.
In the case of liquids, the GDV machine examines differences in its ‘structure’, in the case of water – the emission activity on the surface of the liquid — that is, its ability to retain important information from other molecules.
Here’s a picture of the glow from the test tube of water, taken before we sent intention. As you can see, a little ring around the test tube glows with light.
Tests on liquids
Korotkov and his team have carried out a great deal of pilot research on a great variety of biological liquids, showing that the GDV equipment is highly sensitive to changes in the chemical and physical contents of liquids — subtle changes that don’t show up in ordinary chemical analyses.
For instance, Korotkov discovered statistically significant differences between the blood samples of healthy people and those patients suffering from cancer or heart disease. He has also found statistically significant changes in water after it was irradiated — even when when homeopathic remedies diluted 30 times were added to it (Consciousness and Physical Reality (in Russian) 1998; 3 (1): 51-8; J of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2003; 9 (1): 25-37; J of Applied Physics, 2004; 95 (7): 3334-8).
His equipment is so sensitive that it can detect tiny differences in between the glow of natural and synthetic essential oils with the identical chemical composition — differences that, again, don’t show up through other means of chemical analysis.
GDV equipment has been able to accurately detect differences between oils that are organic, compared with those produced by ordinary means; between oils obtained in different climatic conditions or extracted by means of different methods; between those that are fresh compared with those that have been oxidized.
The emission activity of the surface of these liquids depends upon the presence of clusters of hydrogen atoms with a special ability to bond. It is this special property, Korotkov believes, that gives water its unique capacity to record and retain information.
How our Water Experiment was run
On November 30, Dr. Korotkov filled a test tube to the top with distilled water from a pharmacy in St. Petersburg. He then inserted an electrode into the test tube, so that water began to run down its sides, to ensure there was no air in the test tube. The electrode was then secured with tape, as shown below.
This electrode was then connected to a cylinder and standard GDV equipment.
Glowing from intention
Ordinarily, when a bottle of ordinary water is first opened, its ‘glow’ is highly variable before it settles down after two minutes. Korotkov chose distilled water for our experiment because its glow doesn’t have this kind of initial variation but should remain relatively stable over time.
At 7: 38 pm St. Petersburg time (4:38 GMT) Korotkov turned on his GDV instruments, and kept them on for roughly an hour. Only a single experimenter was in the room. During the experiment, Rachmaninov played on a CD. (Jonathan Goldman’s beautiful Choko Rei played as usual on our website during the 10 minutes our readers sent intention.)
Korotkov chose three intervals to study and compare emissions: 10 minutes before intention was sent, 10 minutes after and four minutes in the midst of the intention. He then compared the size and intensity of emissions and their state of ‘order’ by looking at such measurements as the total area and average intensity of light emissions.
He discovered large differences in a number of parameters, including the intensity of light. Here’s a chart showing the effect of intention and and also the variation in the emissions of the water.
For instance, during and after intention, the light gained in intensity:
In the graph below, which shows a time line of the experiment, you can see that after the instrument was turned on, contrary to Korotkov’s expectations, we had a strong variations in the light emissions. These variations came halt six minutes before the planned intention time and only started again once we were finished.
After analyzing all the figures, Korotkov says that we had a significant effect in changing the area emissions of the water.
Again, why is this important?
Korotkov hypothesizes three things about water whose structure has been ‘charged’ with love. First, the ‘structurized water’ affects the space where the water sample is – as William Tiller discovered, in his Black Box experiments (see The Intention Experiment, chapter 8). It makes it like a sacred space.
Korotkov also theorizes that this structurized water could change the state of the person who drinks it.
Just imagine the possibilities.
If know we can change and ‘improve’ water by sending love to it, we could have a healing effect on everything that contains water: food, drinking water – indeed every living thing. Remember that all animals (us included) are 80 per cent water and all plants almost 100 per cent water.
Nevertheless, this is only a demonstration of a possible effect. We need to repeat the experiment several times to show without a doubt that our intention changed this structure bonding ability. We can also test the water with homeopathy or other tests to see if it is changed.
Experience matters
Robust as our effect was, it was not as strong as that of an experienced healer. In this graph, you can see what happened when a Russian healer named V. Sochevano sent healing to a vial of water. The influence time is between A and B.
What does this mean? Although we won’t know until we repeat this experiment several times, it suggests that experience in intention counts: the more experienced the intender, the greater his effects.
We will repeat this experiment several times, but next time, we’ll send intention for a longer period than 10 minutes. We’d also like more people to participate, particularly those who are highly experienced. In The Intention Experiment, we offer a complete program for how to ‘power up’ to increase the effect of intentions – a program I distilled after interviewing many intention ‘masters’.
Please read and practice this program for next time.
We’ll announce the next experiment on our website and in e-news, so please keep reading and please tell everyone you know to join us.
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