Intuition, Telepathy, and Interspecies Communication: a Multidisciplinary Perspective
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NeuroQuantology | March 2011 | Vol 9 | Issue 1 | Page 145‐152 145 Erickson DL., Intuition, telepathy, and interspecies communication Article Intuition, Telepathy, and Interspecies Communication: A Multidisciplinary Perspective Deborah L. Erickson Abstract For over one hundred years parapsychological and intuition research has supported the existence of cognitive “knowing” beyond the physical senses. Additional quantum physics research over the past decades has indicated a quantum field at the sub‐ atomic level of connectedness that Schrödinger described as “entanglement.” Electrophysiological evidence of intuition has shown that the heart’s and the whole body’s perceptions are constantly receiving, processing, and decoding intuitive information. Perhaps the heart, or the heart’s electromagnetic field, may be a source of intuition. Telepathic interspecies communication may be facilitated by utilizing specific meditation techniques to quiet the mind, slow the brain waves, and shift consciousness to a level outside of time and space. Key Words: Intuition, telepathy, heart coherence, animal communication NeuroQuantology 2011; 1: 145‐152 Introduction1 significantly above chance expectation For many years telepathy and intuition have (Radin, 1997). In 1985, a meta-analysis been dismissed by mainstream science covering 28 parapsychological studies because they do not fit the mainstream showed a hit rate of 37 percent. A leading scientific model of having data that are member of the Committee for Scientific repeatable. Yet, for about 125 years a small Inquiry, a “skeptical” organization group of other scientists have been performed a meta-analysis of the same data investigating telepathy with significant and also found that the odds against chance results. From the 1880s to the 1940s, 142 were astronomical (Hyman, 1985). published articles described 3.6 million trials Additional quantum physics research with positive hit rates that were statistically during the last 20 years has discovered that significant, even though the effect was small physical objects are not as separate as we (Pratt et al., 1966). During the 1960s and once thought they are. At the quantum 1970s, controlled dream research results particle level, all separateness disappears were published in 25 studies, covering 450 and everything is connected. Schrödinger trials, and again the overall hit rate was described this process as “entanglement.” Einstein more descriptively called it Corresponding author: Deborah L. Erickson, MBA “spukhafte Fernwirkung" or “spooky action Address and about author: Deborah L. Erickson, MBA, is a student at a distance.” He believed that quantum at Saybrook University, completing her Ph.D. in Psychology with a entanglement would someday be seen as a concentration in consciousness and spirituality. For over 25 years mathematical error in calculation. she has specialized in technology management and she has worked as a Technology Director and as an Internet professional. She is Instead, scientists continue to be also a Reiki Master and a Healing Touch for Animals practitioner. baffled by repeated discoveries at the sub- Erickson’s doctoral thesis research will be a quintruple‐blinded study of professional telepathic interspecies communicators. atomic level that simply do not subscribe to e‐mail: [email protected] the previously-known laws of physics. Received Jan 2, 2011. Revised Jan 25, 2011. Accepted Feb 22, 2011. ISSN 1303 5150 www.neuroquantology.com NeuroQuantology | March 2011 | Vol 9 | Issue 1 | Page 145‐152 146 Erickson DL., Intuition, telepathy, and interspecies communication “Reality is woven from strange, ‘holistic’ people keep each other in mind, “their threads that aren’t located precisely in space brainwaves become more intercorrelated or time. Tug on a dangling loose end from than one would predict based on this fabric of reality, and the whole cloth conventional theories of brain-mind twitches, instantly, throughout all space and interaction” (p.38). time” (Radin, 2006; p.3). Animal Psi Research Intuition and Telepathy: How do we Animal telepathy was first written about by know what we know? William J. Long (1919) who was a minister Intuition is a term that has been used by and well-known naturalist of the early many different disciplines. It’s generally twentieth century. He accepted animal known as an apprehension or cognition of telepathy as “a natural gift of faculty of the knowledge without the direct involvement of animal mind, which is largely unconscious, the known physical senses; it may be and it is from the animal mind that we described as knowing something without inherit it… that the animals inherit this knowing how one knows. “Converging power of silent communication over great insights and methodologies from psi distances is occasionally manifest even research, the testimony of spiritual among our half-natural domestic creatures” experience, and the broad field of intuition (p.29). suggest... that we have the potential to use A small group of scientists conducted intuitive consensus in a disciplined fashion psi (telepathy, clairvoyance, etc.) animal as a tool for exploring realms of research beginning in the 1950s and consciousness that have previous been continuing through the focused period of relegated to philosophy, mythology and experimental parapsychology research in the theology” (Mishlove, 1998; p.4). 1960s and 1970s. One of the earliest studies As mentioned previously, there have was conducted by Osis (1952) who explored been hundreds of telepathy trials yielding human ability to influence the actions of a positive results. One study was conducted by cat. Two cups of food were available, with the Bastyr University/ University of scent and other sensory clues minimized. A Washington Consciousness Science human experimenter selected a target cup, Laboratory. The experiment investigated and then six domestic kittens were tested for correspondences in brain activity between their accuracy of choosing the target cup. people at a distance who had practiced a Variations in the trials included the human meditation technique called Primordial identifying the target cup by choosing a card Sound Meditation, which had been from a random pack; the human isolated in a developed by Deepak Chopra (Radin, 2005). cubicle attempting to influence the kittens Sixteen people participated in pairs on three while another experimenter watched and different occasions at the lab. They first recorded results; and negative stimuli such meditated together for 30 minutes, then as an electric shock when the kitten chose were separated into distant rooms and were the incorrect cup. Exploratory trial results each connected to an electroencephalograph showed above-chance scoring, but only for (EEG) monitor to record brainwaves. One some of the kittens; one of the best-scoring partner (Jack) was exposed to a flashing kittens had a close relationship to Osis and stimuli that created a recordable response in his family. Another series of trials using an the brain while the other person (Jill) sat independent experimenter showed no quietly. Then their roles were reversed. The positive deviation from chance, and the hypothesis was that Jill’s brain should electric shock trials showed a significant psi- become physiologically activated when Jack missing condition. was viewing the stimuli, and vice versa. The In a follow-up study, Osis and Foster findings confirmed this prediction and (1953) attempted to control for experimenter repeated findings were reported from other psi and whether differences in animal studies in Germany, Scotland, and at the handling affected results. Food was placed Institute of Noetic Sciences in California, in only one cup and the kitten was to discern supporting the theory that when pairs of the correct cup using psi without any ISSN 1303 5150 www.neuroquantology.com NeuroQuantology | March 2011 | Vol 9 | Issue 1 | Page 145‐152 147 Erickson DL., Intuition, telepathy, and interspecies communication influence from the human experimenter. Video-taped trials were conducted in Kittens that were handled roughly or food 2003. Morgana and N’kisi were separated in was withheld scored significantly below different rooms, on different floors, while a chance, while kittens that were handled with video camera filmed each of them separately. affection scored significantly above chance, Morgana would open an envelope with a which appears to suggest that animal photo in it, and study it for about 20 performance may be influenced by the seconds. N’kisi was to pick up her thoughts human/animal social interaction. and state out loud appropriate keywords Additional studies and publications and/or sentences to describe the picture. A by Morris (1967; 1970; 1977) continued variety of scoring methods and statistical testing and discussing the influence of analyses were used. According to them all, experimenter psi with goldfish and rats. N’kisi scored very significantly more hits Duval and Montredon (1968a; 1968b) than would have been expected by conducted shock-avoidance research, where chance. But even though our procedures a random-number generator determined probably underestimated N’kisi’s which side of the cage would be subjected to performance, the results were highly significant statistically and imply that shocks, and mice were tested as to whether N’kisi was influenced by Morgana’s they could anticipate which side of a light- mental activity while she was looking at and sound-shielded cage the shock was going particular