Schlitz M, Braud W
Institute for Noetic Sciences, Sausalito, Calif., USA.
Altern Ther Health Med. 1997 Nov;3(6):62-73.
Since the 1950s, researchers have attempted to understand reports of distant or "psychic" healing, developing experimental protocols that test the distant healing hypothesis by measuring biological changes in a target system while ruling out suggestion or self-regulation as counterexplanations. This article provides a brief overview of these "healing analog" experiments. It also provides a summary and meta-analysis of 30 formal experiments in which self-reported healers, "psychics," and other self-selected volunteers attempted to influence autonomic nervous system activity in a distant person. Results across the experiments showed a significant and characteristic variation during distant intentionality periods, compared with randomly interspersed control periods. Possible alternative explanations for the reported effects are considered. Finally the implications of distant intentionality are discussed for an understanding of the possible mechanisms of distant healing, the nature of the mind-body relationship, and the role of consciousness in the physical world.
自20世纪50年代以来，研究人员一直试图了解关于远距离或“心灵感应”治愈的报告，他们制定了实验方案，通过测量目标系统中的生物变化来检验远距离治愈假说，同时排除暗示或自我调节等其他解释。本文简要概述了这些“治愈模拟”实验。它还对30项正式实验进行了总结和荟萃分析，在这些实验中，自称治疗师的人、“灵媒”以及其他自行挑选的志愿者试图影响远距离他人的自主神经系统活动。与随机穿插的对照期相比，各实验结果显示在远距离意念期存在显著且独特的变化。文中考虑了对所报告效应的可能替代解释。最后，讨论了远距离意念对于理解远距离治愈的可能机制、身心关系的本质以及意识在物质世界中的作用的意义。
