Abstract

Enduring philosophical convictions about the proactive capacity of human consciousness to insert information into its physical environ­ment and thereby to influence its reality are confirmed by a large experi­mental program and its complementary theoretical model. A 16-year empirical assessment of anomalous human/machine interactions pro­vides incontrovertible evidence that consciousness, via its own pre-stated volition, can add information to otherwise random digital strings. A parallel program of remote perception studies establishes the inverse process: the anomalous acquisition of information from physical targets. Remarkably, both of these extraordinary capacities of consciousness show no dependence on either the distance or the time separating the participant from the target. These features, along with many other indi­cators established in the experiments, guide formulation of a theoretical model wherein consciousness/environment interactions are repre­sented by a generalized form of quantum wave mechanics that confirms the role of resonance, or bonding, in anomalous information exchange. Application of these consciousness abilities to human health follows directly from recognition that physiology employs a myriad of subtle information processes, all of which involve some degree of randomicity in their normal functions, and that these may be similarly influenced by conscious volition. In this context, as in fact in all others, the requisite resonance is clearly a focused form of "love, in a very general sense."