Sunday, December 21, 2008

PRECOGNITIONS CAN AFFECT PERCEPTIONS

Knowing the future, even though we don't know we know, can affect how we respond now. Or is the future affecting the present?

In several experiments conducted by Dean Radin, senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, persons show a precognitive emotional reaction detectable by the electrodes. A person watches a computer. Electrodes attached to the person's hand measure infinitesimal changes in sweating, like a lie detector does. When the person indicates "ready" by pressing a button, the computer randomly chooses a picture to display for three seconds. Unknown to the person, the picture is either emotionally upsetting or rather neutral in content. They sweat slightly more just before the computer shows an upsetting picture than when they show a neutral picture.

Reporting in "Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness," Radin describes similar experiments by others who have obtained similar results. In one study, disturbing sounds were the stimuli precognitively reacted to by the participants. In another study Radin described, published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, researcher monitored not only skin sweat, but also brain waves and heart activity. All three dimensions showed precognitive ability to predict the person's viewing the upsetting photo. In this experiment the heart responded first, followed by the brain.

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