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then ask readers, or an audience if I was speaking
somewhere, to participate by sending an intention
to specific target. " To date, she has run 30
experiments, everything from trying to affect very
subtle elements of a leaf to trying to make plants
grow faster, then purifying water, lowering violence
in war-torn areas and healing a war veteran of
PTSD.
data over more than two years showed that
violence levels, which were increasing, definitely
bucked the trend after the experiment.
But then something even more interesting
happened. It turned out that that very week Lynne?s
group sent intention appeared to be pivotal week
in the whole twenty-five year course of the war.
The Sri Lanka government won some very decisive
battles which enabled them to then recapture the
north, which had been held by rebel forces. Within
five months, the 25-year war which ended in a
bloody finish, was over. Jessica Utts, the University
of California professor of statistics who had
analyzed the data, remarked upon the fact that
those precise eight days appeared to have been
pivotal to the entire course of the war!
Lynne began to realize that that was not the real
point of her experiments. As a matter of fact it took
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Out of those 30 experiments, 26 had shown
measurable significant results. By way of
comparison there is no pharmaceutical drug that
can claim that had that kind of consistent track
record, so now they had the proof that sending
intentions was real phenomenon.
In 2008, Lynne wanted to see bigger experiments
that could change humanity, such as setting
intentions for war-torn areas in order to gauge the
effects on a larger scale. This led to a major
experiment where about 15,000 participants from
around the world spent eight days sending
intentions to Sri Lanka, which was in the middle of a
25-year civil war, during a 10-minute window every
day.
She chose eight days of intention because her
scientific team examined the protocol often used
by the Transcendental Meditation organization,
which examined whether violence would lower in a
specific city if a critical mass of meditators were
regularly meditating.
Lynne chose Sri Lanka because one peace-keeping
organization was carefully compiling statistics of
casualties.
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her 10 years to fully grasp the real story, which was
what was happening to the participants themselves
and how they were transforming right in front of
her.
She began to surveyed the participants because she
simply wanted to find out how the experience was
for them. The little survey came back with
thousands of answers such as,
After the experiment, Lynne?s scientific team
?I felt as though I were attached to a higher
discovered that the violence levels fell sharply
network.?
after the Intention Experiment. Interestingly, a
statistical time analysis examining weekly
violence
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