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A Small Miracle

This is Terry talking about himself back in early February.

terry_wong001 said:
Hello My name is Terry
I am a first time user to this forum. I believe in remote viewing, telepathy, telekinetic activity, aliens, orbs, distant healing, etc. Look forward to a constructive discussion on these topics. Not everything is magic like some people would like us to believe.
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Still waiting for that 'constructive discussion on these topics'.

The OP in this thread was his first (and last) since his opening posts which all were made in about 2.5 hours.
 
Oh my god, it was on the 24th? I was just sitting at home when my head started glowing brightly!

Those fools! They missed the leaf!
 
The next one will take place on 14 April 2007 at 5 pm GMT.
On March 24 at 5 pm, after thousands of visitors and hundreds of thousands of hits on the site, the site went down. We rebooted it many times, but it couldn’t handle the incredible level of traffic we experienced.
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Source http://theintentionexperiment.com/index.php

They could stop new traffic and just take the visitors they had. No this sounds like an excuse to have another experiment a few weeks later and then there will be another excuse to hold another experiment a few weeks after that.

The results are so sensational that we are going to publish them in a scientific journal, which do not allow us publish all the data (such as pictures) anywhere else first.
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Source http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/index.php/the_experiments/the_little_leaf_that_glowed
But which scientific journal? One that will publish anything submitted?
 
I think Terry Wong's purpose was to induce a feeding frenzy of skeptics.

Note his absence following his ridiculous posting.

I'm surprized he didn't also claim that they all bent spoons that were located in Hong Kong.
 
LongFuzzy said:
the intention experiment web site:

"Our first Intention Experiment has been designed by
psychologist Dr. Gary Schwartz and his colleagues
at the University of Arizona."

nuff said

-LF
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That guy is really annoying.
 
From the Intention Experiment Website:

HISTORIC INTENTION EXPERIMENT WORKED

At 5 pm GMT on April 14, after weeks of planning by a special web technical team, we overcame the technical challenges and held our first mass intention experiment. Our earliest reports are that more than 6000 people all over the world participated in the experiment, and only a handful had problems logging on - with our team on hand to sort them out.
Our experiment was to affect the biophoton emissions of stringbean seeds.
We sent instructions to have the seeds 'glow and glow'. We are using such a simple target just to establish that we can have an effect. Once we do that, we will move on to more sophisticated targets.
Dr. Gary Schwartz and his team from the University of Arizona have employed sophisticated CCD cameras - the kinds used to photograph faint light from outer space - to record and photograph the light emissions from the seeds.
They'll then compare them to those from set of control seeds. In several weeks, we will inform you all whether or not the target seeds did indeed have higher light emissions than the controls. [emphasis mine]
Remember: we can't guarantee a positive result, but only to report the truth. If we do produce positive results, the implications about human possibility are staggering.
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Misleading headline no? By "Worked", they mean their web servers didn't crash like the previous time. We have to wait "several weeks" to find out if the target did better than the control. I wonder why, weren't the results visibly different during the pilot study?
 
And now the results have changed from the Pilot study:
A pilot experiment, testing the idea and detailed in The Intention Experiment was successful. McTaggart asked a group of 16 meditators based in London to direct their thoughts to four remote targets in Dr. Popp’s laboratory in Germany: two types of algae, a plant and a human volunteer. The meditators were asked to attempt to lower certain measurable biodynamic processes.
Popp and his team discovered significant changes in all four targets while the intentions were being sent, compared to times the meditators were ‘resting’.
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That's quite different from what I copied from their site in this post. Back then they claimed "the results of the glowing intention were so strong that they could readily seen in the digital biophoton images; in addition, the increased biophoton effect was highly statistically significant".

I don't recall any previous claims about algae or human targets. And I thought the leaf was in Tucson, AZ, not in Germany.

The numbers are different as well. From Terry Wong's post (the 1st in this thread):
ast weekend, 400 people sat for two days in a hall in central London and listened intently to some of the world’s leading physicists and teachers. They were all attending ‘The Intention Experiment’ conference, which was the official launch of a series of web-based experiments that promise to be the largest mind-over-matter studies ever undertaken.
They also made history at 5pm on the Sunday, March 11, because they were all invited to take part in the world’s first transatlantic intention experiment. With the aid of a web link-up, they were able to see two leaves that had been positioned in a laboratory at the University of Arizona, 5,000 miles away.
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Terry's post seems to indicate that 400 people were involved in that pilot experiment, but the web site currently claims only 16 people.


And the next (at least now they're calling it 'next' instead of 'first') experiment is 21 April 2007.
 
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Contradictory information on the website.

I'm cut&pasting more info, so we can see how the story changes over time. It's a bit difficult to follow, because so far they've had three "first" experiments. The first-first is also referred to as the pilot study. The second-first was the one where the web server crashed, and the third-first was last Saturday.

This page appears to be talking about the pilot study, and it basically agrees with Terry Wong's post that launched this thread, but contradicts the quotes I posted above. So maybe now we're talking about two different pilot studies?
The Little Leaf That Glowed

Here are the results of the first-ever group intention long- distance double-blinded biophoton experiment — at least what we’re allowed to tell you.

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The results are so sensational that we are going to publish them in a scientific journal, which do not allow us publish all the data (such as pictures) anywhere else first. The Intention Experiment pilot study used delegates from our London conference sending intention to a leaf at the University of Arizona.
Mark Boccuzzi, one of the scientific team at Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health at the University of Arizona in Tucson, headed by the noted psychologist and consciousness researcher Dr. Gary E. Schwartz, carried out the lab work. He selected two carefully selected and prepared leaves from the same flourishing geranium plant with similar biophoton emissions.
Mark chose two geranium leaves, matching them for similar biophoton release, then prepared them with 16 holes / injuries in a 4 x 4 grid — a process that can take two or more hours. Both leaves were placed under web cams. Then Mark stood by.
Meanwhile in London, our audience of 400 —who’d come from countries around the world — selected which leaf to send intention to. Our intention was to make the leaf ‘glow and glow’ – that is, to increase its biophoton emissions.
We chose ‘glowing’ because we were just looking for an effect – any effect — and we thought this would be easiest to imagine.
One of our delegates, chosen at random, flipped a coin to determine which leaf would be displayed to the audience and sent intention to (head -leaf 1; tails - leaf 2).
The audience member flipped heads and so instructed our audiovisual technician to display leaf 1. Now, remember, the scientific team did not know which leaf we chose. The one that was not displayed to the audience was to act as the control.
We telephoned Dr. Schwartz, who told Melinda Connor (a member of his scientific team who stood in for him at the conference) to remind the audience that they were making scientific history.
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A giant image of our leaf appeared on the screen. I then instructed the audience to ‘power up’, using some of the methods noted in chapter 13 of The Intention Experiment. Then I asked them to think to themselves an intention for the leaf to ‘glow and glow’ — to produce increased biophoton light. Their task was to keep up this intention for 10 minutes, while meditative music — a lovely Reiki chant — played in the background.
Dr. Schwartz picks up the story here: ‘After the ten minute intention period, the leaves were placed in the light-tight biophoton imaging system (a super-cooled digital CCD camera system) and photographed for two hours. The results of the glowing intention were so strong that they could readily seen in the digital biophoton images; in addition, the increased biophoton effect was highly statistically significant.
‘For a first experiment of this kind,’ he continues, ‘the results could not be more encouraging, and they inspire us to continue this research.’
In fact, he says, ‘the results from this exploratory experiment are currently being prepared for scientific publication. The authors are Gary Schwartz, Mark Boccuzzi, Melinda Connor, and Lynne McTaggart.
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As you look over McTaggart's website, you'll find that the "Intention Experiment" is something you can "buy," complete with intention goods and even some accompaning Reiki Chants to use.

Each "experiment" is a separately marketed event. That's the reason for all the contradiction.

I'm changing my conjecture on why the OP did a seagull on us. It was to market the McTaggert.
 
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Hyparxis said:
...I'm changing my conjecture on why the OP did a seagull on us. It was to market the McTaggert.
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Yes, I expect that's exactly correct. But if so, it's been pretty ineffective: No one here's buying.

Instead, we've been prompted to take a look at a new woocon business. It's always interesting to see how new cons can be manufactured by sewing together bits and pieces of old ones. Kind of reminds me of the way flu viruses undergo reassortment.
 
CynicalSkeptic said:
But why try to market woo to skeptics? Isn't that like selling ice to Eskimos?
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It's mainly an SEO tactic. You spread the URL around as many sites as possible; search engines like to see lots of links pointing to one site; so the linked site gets pushed further up the search results.
Google the link and you'll probably find it's been similarly seagulled on dozens of random forums.
 
Actually, he didn't even post a URL. Just a writeup of the event. I googled some of the keywords and found the site.

Pretty clever stealth google-bombing by proxy.
 
He may not have known the nature of this site. From time to time we get newbloods who thought this was another paranormal club and post thier paranormalized experience.
Poor guys get a rude shock when the responses roll in.
 
CynicalSkeptic said:
It's been nearly 24 hours since the latest experiment.
http://theintentionexperiment.com/index.php

"We shall respond on todays experiment shortly.
Many thanks to you all for participating."

I'm overwhelmed.
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Nostrildumass predicts:

1. Results (The one's she's "allowed" to tell) will be sketchy.
2. There will be the usual plug for the next round of The Intention Experiment.
3. This cash cow will continue to generate income for Lynn for several years.
 
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