Experiments on the Power of Thought

Experiments on the Power of ThoughtrnBuryl Payne, Ph. D. Introduction Psycho kinesis, or the power of thought to move objects has been demonstrated for years under controlled laboratory conditions. Everyone uses this power which moves thousands of ions and electrons around in the brain and body when thinking or moving. rnOver thirty years ago some friends and I wondered if there would be a synergetic effect in psycho kinesis; that is would many people thinking together, manifest a clear psychokinetic effect on a larger scale? We thought millions of people, uniting thought power, might be able to move a space station, which was slowly falling, into a higher orbit. rnThe space station, called Skylab, was slowly descending due to high atmospheric drag. Weighting 83 tons, the space station could cause some deaths and destruction if it were to come down in a populated area. So there was some fear about this, exaggerated by the media. To possibly prevent this people were invited to visualize, or direct by thought, the space station to move to a higher orbit. On a radio program networked with 80 other radio stations, I asked people to ask the Sun to take care of it; a purely intuitive guess on my part, without any foundation for this. (I refrained from saying it was an experiment.)rnBecause the experiment was novel and the crash of the space station was imminent, the project was widely mentioned in many newspapers, on radio shows, and even one British TV station. This was in 1979, before PCs were available.rnThere was no way to tell how many people participated.rnThe space station remained in orbit two weeks longer than predicted. The Sun’s activity unexpectedly decreased resulting in reduced solar activity and therefore reduced atmospheric drag. It crashed harmlessly into an ocean. Data on solar activity and solar flux were sent to me by a man at NASA (see Figure 1), but at that time I did not know anything about solar activity and considered the experiment was a flop, since the space station crashed! rnFigure 1. Solar activity during Skylab meditation, May-June 1979. Several years later, a series of global meditations again were organized to help reduce tension between the Soviet Union and the United States. Solar activity was markedly reduced at the times of these meditations. This was an unplanned and unforeseen result. People were asked to do global peace meditations. No reference to the Sun was made. Averaged solar activity at the time of some of these meditations is shown in Figure 2. Solar activity dropped from about 20 to 10. The experiment is described in more detail in “The Spin Book”1.rnBy then I had learned more about solar activity and received weekly reports from NOAA in Boulder. A graph of averaged solar activity for most of these times of the meditations is shown in Figure 2. rnFigure 2. Average graph of solar activity during meditations in 1984-1988. The solar activity at the time of the final meditation is shown in Figure 3. rnFigure 3. Final meditation. June 12, 1988. All possible controls and data checking was done. Solar activity consistently showed a decline starting one or two days before the day of meditation and reaching a minimum a day after. Ed Chernofsky, a solar-terrestrial physicist, at Hanford Air Force base, Mass., helped me write the report and check the data. A more complete description of the experiment is given in Chapter 8 of the “Planetary Influences” book2.rnThese experiments are important because several other researchers uncovered connections with solar activity and the start of international battles, and I had confirmed and expanded that discovery. I found the most likely time when international battle started was when the solar activity was rapidly changing either on the ascent or descent of the eleven year cycle; never at the peak. I also uncovered the physiological mechanisms which triggered warring behavior, mostly in males. See the article: “Are Wars a Form of Disease?”3. Recent ResearchrnNow, twenty two years after the conclusion of these experiments in 1988, when, coincidentally, the cold war ended, I chose to see if there was a solar activity decrease during full moon meditations which are popular around the planet. Figures 4 through 6 show a reduction in solar activity with a pattern similar to those obtained in the earlier experiments. Figures 4. Graphs of solar activity during meditations in September-October 2010. Figures 5. Graph of solar activity during meditation in November 2010. rnFigures 6. Graph of solar activity during meditation in December 2010. rnAll this is public data, freely provided by NOAA, now available daily on the internet. DiscussionrnParticipants in the earlier experiments were not usually asked to focus on reducing solar activity. I don’t know specifically what they did do, although I presume it was some kind of meditation. The earlier global peace meditations were not done on Full Moons, so there is not a full moon connection with solar activity. No connection would be expected anyway with the Moon, only with planetary positions (see the “Planetary Influences” e-book.)rnHow meditations could have any connection with solar activity is a puzzle. My unique observations of the rotational movement of a frame suspended around the human body show a clear connection between solar activity and the amplitude and direction. This effect, reported elsewhere in an e-book (“The Spin Force”1), could be related. Edgar Cayce4, well known American psychic of 60 years ago, said human thoughts affect solar activity and that global meditations would help reduce stress on Earth. When I first read this years ago I ignored it, considering it unverifiable speculation, and now I have verified it! The current laws of physics can not account for these results. It’s an intriguing and important subject for further research. Referencesrn1. Payne, B. The Spin Force.rn2. Payne, B. PLANETARY INFLUENCESrn3. Payne, B. Are Wars a Form of Disease, Explore, Volume 17, Number 4, 2008rn4. Sugrue, T. There is a River. (About Edgar Cayce)