We have been brought up to believe that the mind is located inside the head.
But there are good reasons for thinking that this view is too limited.
Recent experimental results show that people can influence others at a distance just by looking at them,
even if they look from behind and if all sensory clues are eliminated.
And people's intentions can be detected by animals from miles away.
The commonest kind of non-local interaction mental influence occurs in connection with telephone calls, where most people have had the experience of thinking of someone shortly before they ring.
Controlled, randomized tests on telephone telepathy have given highly significant positive results.
Research techniques have now been automated and experiments on telepathy are now being conducted through the internet and cell phones,
enabling widespread participation.
Speaker: Rupert Sheldrake
Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D. is a biologist and author of more than 75 technical papers and ten books, the most recent being The Sense of Being Stared At. He studied at Cambridge and Harvard Universities, was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. He is currently Director of the Perrott-Warrick project, funded from Trinity College Cambridge.
Larry Dossey at Brother, Can You Spare a Paradigm?
Originally conceived under a TEDx West Hollywood license as inspiration to change our fundamental value system to where mutual concern, as one humanity becomes our new worldview, a daylong program ultimately was presented under the auspice of Suzanne Taylor's Mighty Companions non-profit foundation. If you like what you see, please give it a shout- out and tell
Chris@TED.com so there is some public outcry about TED's last minute license cancellation for her uplifting program.
Larry Dossey, MD, is an internal medicine physician, former Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital, and former co-chairman of the Panel on Mind/Body Interventions, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health.
He is executive editor of the peer-reviewed journal, Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing.
He is the author of twelve books, which have been translated into twenty languages, on the role of consciousness and spirituality in health.
His forthcoming book is "One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters.”
He lectures around the world. Website:
www.dosseydossey.com/larry/default.html
This is the statement issued by Dr. Dossey after TED raised eyebrows about his science legitimacy:
I can add my name to those of Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock as speakers who find themselves in TEDx's crosshairs.
I was scheduled to speak at the West Hollywood event.
But my scientific credibility was questioned by TED's science advisory board in their decision to withdraw support and revoke the license of TEDxWestHollywood.
I've lectured at dozens of top-tier medical schools and hospitals all over the U.S. for two decades.
Although my colleagues don't always agree with my points of view, this is the first time my scientific credibility has ever been questioned.
My TEDx talk would have dealt with the correlations between spirituality, health, and longevity, for which there is immense evidence; and recent experimental findings that point toward a nonlocal view of consciousness for which, again, there is strong and abundant support.
In view of our lack of understanding of the origins and destiny of consciousness, and considering the demographics of the TEDx followers, I thought this information would have been of considerable interest.
As a board-certified physician of internal medicine, former chief of staff of a major hospital, author of twelve books and scores of papers on these subjects published in peer-reviewed journals, a recipient of many awards, a frequent lecturer at medical schools and hospitals, and executive editor of the peer-reviewed journal, Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, I'd be interested in knowing from TED where I came up short.
"A clash of doctrines is not a disaster, it is an opportunity," Whitehead said. It should not be a reason for censorship.
Rupert Sheldrake: the Evolution of Telepathy
The Perrott-Warrick Lecture by Dr. Rupert Sheldrake (February 9th. 2011),
in which were described phenomena indicative of the existence of telepathy in both animals and human beings.
Abstract:
Field observations have suggested that wolves and other wild animals may communicate telepathically over many miles, and surveys have shown that about 50% of dog owners and about 30% of cat owners believe that their pets may respond to their thoughts or silent commands.
Among humans, apparent telepathy is most commonly reported between members of families and between close friends and colleagues.
Experimental investigations of telepathy in animals and people suggest that telepathy may be a natural means of communication between members of animal and human groups.
Human telepathy is still evolving in the context of modern technologies, including the internet, emails, SMS messages and telephones.
Dr. Sheldrake will show how anyone can explore their own abilities in automated telepathy tests using mobile phones.
Don't give your power away.
I'll have a look and share my thoughts.
