W. Braud’s scientific contributions

... B. Rhine, 1934;cited in Rock, et al., 2013). Although most PK research has focused on mentally influencing objects, such as dice and random number generators (e.g., Iqbal, 2013), other studies involve biological targets (e.g., Alvarado, 2018;Braud & Schlitz, 1983;Schmidt, 2015). The effects are small but consistent and not owing to statistical error (Radin, et al., 2006). ...

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Defense Strategies in Early Human Evolution

... Furthermore, nearly all of them showed an efficacy of distant healing intentions when there was a strong and empathic connection between the healer and a distant individual who had received the healer's efforts (recipient), even when the recipient was unaware about the sending condition. 11,12 These studies suggested that compassionate healing intentions could exert measurable physical effects on a distant recipient; they also observed that a bonded connection between the healer and the recipient might be the core part of the healing process, because most of these nonlocal phenomena are based on empathy, a feature of close and compassionate relationships. 13,14 A recent review of noncontact healing studies showed that subjects in the active condition exhibit a significant improvement in well-being relative to control subjects under circumstances that do not seem to be susceptible to placebo and expectancy effects. ...

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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Tong Len Meditation Practice in Cancer Patients: Evaluation of a Distant Psychological Healing Effect

... Is it possible that an artist's intention to connect with an audience is similarly correlated with a measurable physiological response in the audience? Braud and Schlitz (1989) studied the ability of individuals to influence, from a distance, the physiological state of others through the use of transpersonal imagery. The research found that the effect of transpersonal imagery, from a distance, had a similar effect, with similar strength, to how a person's own thoughts and emotions affect the person's body. ...

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Art Audience as Shamanic Community: How Art Meets Psychological, Social, and Spiritual Needs

... In our own laboratory research (Braud et al., 1993a,b), we began studying staring detection because of our curiosity about whether remote attention alone might be accompanied by distinctive physiological reactions of the remote object of such attention. We had been conducting studies in which we had found that specific, directional intentions of one person -e.g., intentions or wishes to calm or activate -were accompanied by those intended reactions in remotely situated other persons (Braud & Schlitz, 1989;1991;Radin et al., 1995;. We recognized that in these experiments, the influencer's intention (for a specific physiological and subjective change) was mixed with her or his attention (i.e., paying attention to the person whom one wished to remotely influence). ...

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The sense of being stared at: A preliminary meta-analysis