I just received information about a fascinating study carried out by Francesca McCarney, Ph.D., a teacher of professional intuitives at the Academy of Intuitive Studies and Intuition Medicine. She was inspired to create this study in 2000, when one of her students of healing and the American-based mentor, began to encapsulate’ healing intention to the other in emails.
After a time, they discovered that their healing energy was having an effect at the time intended by the sender – regardless of when it was sent and the fact that it was sent from thousands of miles away.
“When the student would read the text message with the information describing the healing action that the mentor had facilitated, she became aware that she began to feel the changes while she read the message, or realized that she had already received the pertinent energy-information previous to reading the actual email message,” writes Francesca.
For Francesca’s own study she asked a professional intuitive to encapsulate three healing energy treatments into a CD-ROM, which held a text email message. In the study, Francesca created four different email treatments, three with healing energy encapsulated into it and one without.
Each of the 88 test participants received one of the three energy emails and one ‘no energy’ email, via a computer program, which randomly transmitted the emails. Their job was to detect and identify those emails with the encapsulated healing energy, and which type, and to discern which emails had no energy embedded in it. The participants were to use one or more intuitive skills (such as telepathy) to intuit the kind of
healing energy in the email.
Overall, the participants correctly identified the emails 31.9 per cent of the time. Since they had a 25 per cent chance of success through pure chance, scientists would consider it highly significant
result.
Your intention Experiment via email
Here’s a fun experiment that you can carry out with your friends or loved ones. Try to embed a simple intention - even word like ‘dog’ — by Powering Up first, meditating on the word and then embedding the thought into your email. Don’t actually write the word in your email.
Send the email to your friend, explaining what you have done, and see if he or she can guess the word. Have them Power Up first, and then try to feel the word.
Please write in with any results here.

I am thrilled to announce that psychologist Dr. Gary Schwartz of the University of Arizona is partnering with us to conduct a new Intention Experiment, which will build on all the experiments that we have done thus far.
In this new experiment, we will be using water to ‘send instructions’ to our barley seeds to grow faster and more healthily than normal.
Building on our Germination Experiment
This new study will build on what we’ve learned about water and about intention and seeds thus far. We’ve now run three water experiments, showing that intention has an effect that appears to change the structure of water and we’ve run six experiments which together decisively show that intention can make seeds sprout earlier and grow faster.
With this new experiment, we will test whether we can charge the water used to water the seeds with the intention and whether this will affect the growth of the seeds.
This experiment builds on the work of Canadian psychologist Bernard Grad, who carried out several studies examining whether the mental state and intentions of someone holding the water would affect the growth of plants. In one study he showed that seeds irrigated with water held by a healer had a faster germination rate and growth than controls and in another that water held by psychotics retarded its growth.
We’ll also be giving a firm scientific footing to the work of Masaru Emoto, who carried out many demonstrations showing that water sent love changes its crystalline structure.
Now we’ll test how that water affects the real world. We’re also planning to look at this work in two stages: how intention in water affects short-term germination and growth; and now it affects the plant over time.
We will be setting the date for our experiment for July, so please keep reading.
Your own Intention Experiment: try holding water before you water your plants and send it a positive intention with a specific outcome. Please report your results here.

Plans are growing for our Peace Intention Experiment, which is fast turning into a ‘Live Aid’ of Intention Experiments, with the potential of hundreds of thousands of participants.
We have now set a date of September 14 for the Peace Intention Experiment, so put it in your diary today and if you haven’t already, please register at www.theintentionexperiment.com.
These will be the start of an ambitious series of scientific studies to determine whether ‘group mind’ has the power to lower violence in areas chosen for high crime and violence levels.
We are working closely with the Association for Global New Thought — an umbrella group of all new thought churches — and we chose September 14 to coincide with the Unity Church’s Eleven Days of Unity.
The plan is for our first target to be in the Middle East, as a fitting antidote to all the negative press that will be focused on the anniversary of 9/11. If we can get the correct violence figures from Iraq, we will make that the target.
An accidental “Live Aid”
I began thinking about running a Peace Intention Experiment more than a year ago. The plan was to have my readers send intention to a series of 'hot spots' around the world and to measure violence levels before and after. These experiments would build upon the original Transcendental Meditation studies, which showed that when a critical mass of people in a city meditate, the crime rate goes down.
When I mentioned this idea to Deepak Chopra, he said: ‘I’d l like our Alliance for New Humanity to be involved.' The same occurred when I told Ananda Giri of the Oneness Foundation about the experiments. Then Barbara Fields of the AGNT got excited and offered her group’s support, and after that the Unity churches, the Spiritual Cinema Circle, plus dozens of radio shows like the World Puja Network followed suit.
Before I knew it, I was faced with the possibility of hundreds of thousands of 'intenders' participating in this experiment. My one little thought about a Peace experiment had grown overnight into Live Aid.
Server challenges
This 'big idea' of course has a number of challenges — and here’s where I need your help.
The biggest challenge of all is finding an internet system sophisticated enough to allow thousands of people around the world to open and stare at the same web page at exactly the same moment. Allowing in such sizeable simultaneous traffic requires a vast amount of extra web capacity – as Oprah Winfrey recently discovered when her web transmission of Eckhart Tolle’s seminar repeatedly crashed.
The current Intention Experiment studies run on Ning, a social network offering individual organizations instant facilities for a community-based website. This enables The Intention Experiment website to have access to some 500 linked servers.
Nevertheless, we need a better protocol and more server power to ensure that the system holds up during these giant experiments.
Two important elements of our Intention Experiments include: 1) tracking each and every participant and 2) allowing everyone to experience the feeling of ‘joining together’ at a central meeting place on the internet. Thousands of readers have remarked on the special, palpable feeling of oneness that is generated by the sense that others are there ‘on the page’ at the same time.
So we still need to be able to allow all those hundreds of thousands of people to come onto our web page at the same moment.
Web gurus: a special forum for you
That’s why I’m enlisting all you web gurus out there – to help solve the server issues or to donate server power.
I’d like to create a special Intention Experiment web forum this week for all of you to correspond with me and any other web experts who’d like to help out. Thus far, we’ve had some 10 people come forward, recommending load-balancing servers, or static pages, or even clones of the software and database.
If you have some good ideas or good connections with vast server power, and you’re interested in becoming part of a discussion group of web experts discussing ingenious ways to run this experiment, please write in to cs@livingthefield.com. We'll be in touch shortly.
Wise elder scientists signing up
I’m also busily recruiting other gurus for the scientific arm of the experiment. Roger Nelson of the Global Consciousness Project, and Brenda Dunne (with Robert Jahn), formerly of the PEAR laboratory at Princeton University are joining Dr. Gary Schwartz and Dr. Rustum Roy as a panel of ‘wise elders’ to advise me in the design of the scientific experiments. The plan is to have such a panel with expert statisticians select both the targets and design the exact way in which the scientific experiments will run.
Besides their decades of experience in running scientific investigations into human consciousness, Nelson, Jahn and Dunne all are sticklers for detail and so will be wonderful help in devising an air-tight protocol.

I’ve been hearing about some fascinating involvement in Intention Experiments by some of our readers and participants in Intention Experiments that I like to share with you.
The first is from the School of Metaphysics, in Windyville, Missouri (www.som.org).
Barbara Condron, one of its founders and a teacher of metaphysics for 31 years, kindly wrote to inform me that she discovered our work just hours before our Water Intention Experiment, which participated in carried out as part of our first Water Intention Experiment on November 30 with Konstantin Korotkov (remember – that was the one in which we sent love to water and found that we could change its light emissions).
Barbara says she mobilized 10 of her students to participate and recorded their responses. I’d like to share their experiences of ‘becoming one’ with the water. Their experiences are particularly interesting because all have been studying for a minimum of two years and some as long as 30 years, and all are experienced meditators, with long experience of advanced breathing, visualization and focus techniques. As we’ve discovered, experience counts.
Some of their ideas about focusing may prove helpful to all of us in future experiments.
About her own experience, Barbara wrote: “I focus my gaze on the image (the photograph of our water sample) until I can see its aura, which signifies to me that I have successfully moved my attention into mind. My attention is totally devoted to the water, symbolized by the image before my physical eyes. I align my mind with the vibration of the waters. I invite it to enter into my space and I am drawn into its space. I and the water are one. I breathe and move with the water. Using my will, I project love into the water with each exhale.”
The photo and the water sample
Daniel, her husband, both sent love to the water picture, and then love to the water the photo symbolized (an excellent distinction). He then merged his consciousness with the consciousness of the water, until he perceived the molecules of the water re-arranging, aligning its structure with that of love.
Among the students, Teresa saw movement of green and red spheres, which she interpreted as meaning both the molecules themselves but also influence of the thoughts of all our thousands of participants upon the water. ‘The movement changed several times, speeding up, at which time green spheres began aligning. I believe I was clairvoyantly perceiving the movement of molecules, which were responding to our collective thought.’
The pulse of life
Kimberlee worked on having her mind attune to the vibration of the water. At first it felt cold and she heard a high-pitched sound vibration, but then experienced a sensation of all the love being sent to the water also flowing through her, at first like ‘tidal waves’, and then quietly, like a river. The high-pitched sound transformed into a low hum, like a ‘universal pulse’, she says.
‘It was amazing to experience so many people’s intentions of love flow through me. It is divine ecstasy.’
Matt also began to merge with the water, but then felt a deep connection to all the people around the world participating.
Barbara believes that our experiment represents the ‘largest organized biofeedback experiment conducted on the planet to date’.
‘ . . .we come to realize the science of praying over our food, our loved ones, our ill. The same thought action intention of nourishment, compassion or wellness reverberates in the water in the bodies we inhabit.’
She appreciates the implications of this experiment: if thousands of minds around the globe can influence a tiny vial of water after 10 minutes, then we can ‘accelerate learning how to live in harmony with the planet we populate’:
Sending love into water
In the spirit of our experiment as well as the work of Dr. Masaru Emoto, the College of Metaphysics has been conducting an ongoing exploration on the power of thought in growing food. The college has an organic farm with 50-gallon barrels of water, on which are written words such as ‘love’, ‘gratitude’ and ‘health’. As students fill watering cans from the water barrels to water crops, they are asked to see and say the word written on the barrel and visualize what it means.
In the three years in which they’ve been carrying out this experiment, they’ve found that the garden has increasingly flourished, producing a larger crop and enjoying a longer growing season with each year. ‘Brussel sprouts have grown in the snow, watermelon has been harvested with pumpkins and winter squash in late fall.
‘Students learn the influence they have on the quality of the food they produce and consume. When the attending students love the garden, it produces beyond all reasonable weather conditions. Should the attending students tire of tending the garden and their nurturing become begrudging, the plants die.’
Please try to take some of our experiments into your life this week. If you have plants, please send love into the water you water them with. Or send them intention to grow faster. Let us all know what happens.

We’re now busy organizing the last details for our Water Purification Experiment on November 30 at 5pm on GMT.
If you don’t know how to “Power Up”, please sign up for your free "Intention Exercises". You'll also get full information on how to participate in the experiment.
On the day, we’ll have you click on early so you can review the procedure. It’s very simple. We’ll be sending positive intention to some
water, and the scientists -
Dr. Konstantin Korotkov, professor of physics at the St. Petersburg State Technical University in St. Petersburg Russia, and his team will have his equipment running constantly to monitor pH and light emissions.
They won’t even know what day we are sending intention. Only after he’s tallied his data will I break the code and tell him when we sent intention. He will examine whether our intention managed to change the pH of the polluted water sample
REMEMBER: for this to work, we need participants. Please tell all your friends to mark their calendars and join in on the Water Intention Experiment on November 30 at the following time zones:
Time zones for The Water Experiment
5 pm Greenwich Mean Time
12 noon US/Eastern
11 am US/Central
10 am Canada/Mountain
9 am US/Pacific
7 am US/Hawaii
6 pm Western Europe
4 am Sunday Australia/Sydney