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...PEAR??s hallmark studies, Jahn sought to see if human consciousness could affect the behavior of a device that randomly dropped 9,000 billiard balls into a series of 19 cartons. When the balls were dropped without any human interaction with the experiment, there was a consistent cascading effect in which the center carton received the most balls while those to its left and right received progressively fewer. After a human participant was asked to concentrate intently on psychically altering the experiment’s outcome, however, the bulk of the ball distribution shifted to the right...
While human-machine interactions formed the basis of PEAR??s studies, the PEAR lab also pursues research in other less-explored scientific fields. Another branch of PEAR??s studies, for instance, focuses on the human capacity for remote perception—what a layman might call extra sensory perception...
...much of the criticism of PEAR disregards the lab’s sound scientific practices and procedures, according to Michael E. Yank ’02, who assessed the integrity of PEAR??s scientific articles as part of his history and science senior thesis. “The PEAR articles follow a very textbook methodology,” Yank says. “This is very pristine science...
Regardless of how legitimate PEAR??s methodology and findings may or may not be, one wonders what will ever amount from research that tracks the “small but significant” effects of human consciousness on highly specified engineering experiments...
Lettieri stresses that PEAR??s work, at least for the moment, is centered more on theoretical study and less on practical applications. Nonetheless, Lettieri foresees everyday uses of PEAR??s research emerging in the future. “[PEAR??s research] may one day lead to substantial changes in medical education and practice, as well as breakthroughs in distant healing, intuitive diagnosis, therapeutic touch, intercessory prayer and the clinical applications of subtle energies such as biophoton emissions,” he says...
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