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Even some of the most rudimentary mind-over-matter experiments have had tantalizing results. One of the first such studies involved attempts to influence a throw of dice. To date, 73 studies have examined the efforts of 2,500 people to influence more than 2.5 million throws of dice, with extraordinary success. When all the studies were analyzed together, and allowances made for quality or selective reporting, the odds against the results occurring by chance alone were 10(to the 76th power- 1 followed by 76 zero’s) to one.

There was also some provocative material about spoon bending, that perennial party trick made popular by psychic Uri Geller. John Hasted, a professor at Birkbeck College University of London, had tested this with an ingenious experiment involving children. Hasted suspended latchkeys from the ceiling and placed the children 3 to 10 feet away from their target key, so that they could have no physical contact. Attached to each key was a strain gauge, which would detect and register on a strip chart recorder any change in the key. Hasted then asked the children to try to bend the suspended metal. During the sessions, he observed not only they keys swaying and sometimes fracturing, but also abrupt and enormous spikes of voltage pulses up to 10 volts-the very limits of the chart recorder.

Even more compelling, when the children had been asked to send their intention to several keys hung separately, the individual strain recorders noted simultaneous signals, as though the keys were being affected in concert.

Most intriguing, in much of the research on psychokinesis, mental influence of any variety had produced measurable effects, no matter how far the distance between the sender and the object or at what point in time he generated his intention. According to the experimental evidence, the power of thought transcended time and space.

By the time these revisionists were finished, they had torn up the rule book and scattered it to the four winds. Mind in some way appeared to be inextricably connected to matter and, indeed, was capable of altering it. Physical matter could be influenced, even irrevocably altered, not simply by force, but through the simple act of formulating a thought.

The Intention Experiment -Lynne McTaggert