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Media Watch for Fenruary 2008 (Issue 75)
See www.theintentionexperiment.com for more details and the date of the next online demonstration. From: Shift, Institute of Noetic Sciences, June –August 2007
Psychiatrist’s Religious Affiliations: Dr. Farr Curlin led a university of Chicago study of the religion of 1,144 U.S. doctors from many specialties, including 100 psychiatrists. The study showed that psychiatrists were less likely to be Protestant or Roman Catholic compared to other types of doctors. Psychiatrists were also less likely to attend church services, believe in God or the afterlife, or cope by looking to God for strength support and guidance, than their counterparts. Dr. Curlin says that Anti-religious views expressed by early figures in the field like Sigmund Freud may play a role in religious medical students not choosing psychiatry.
The survey asked the doctors to whom they would refer a patient with continued deep grieving after a loved one’s death. Religious doctors were less likely to send patients to a psychiatrist and more likely to send them to a member of the clergy or a religious counselor. From: "Faithless Shrinks," Reuters News
Different Views: We found an article on After Death Communication (ADC) in the American Chronicle interesting and for the most part very positive. But it also reminded us how some other religions frown on communicating with the so called dead.
The author wondered if she would be excommunicated from the Catholic Church if she went to a medium, so she spoke to a local Catholic priest. He told her that it was absolutely possible to communicate with loved ones who had passed on. She was told that countless saints throughout history had had ADC experiences. She was also told that if one seeks it out and goes to a medium, it is a sin against the Catholic Church, but if God initiates it, it is not a sin. The Father is quoted as saying, “Going to a psychic opens the door to other entities such as evil spirits.”
The author ends the article on a positive note saying, “One thing I took with me as I ended this story was it is a God-given gift to receive a message from a loved one who has passed away; it can heal us spiritually and help us move forward with our lives until we meet again. We can continue to try and communicate with our loved ones as a means of dealing with our grief, as long as we do not forget about the living around us.” From: American Chronicle, “Until We Meet Again,” by Jennie Nicassio, 10/17/2007 www.americanchronicle.com
Ghost’s in the White House: According to first daughter Jenna Bush, the White House is haunted. Jenna lives in a room formerly occupied by John F. Kennedy, Jr. and by Chelsea Clinton and says that she has heard ghosts and sometimes gets scared. One night she heard opera noises coming out of the fireplace in her room. Her sister did not believe her but the next week the two were up late in Jenna’s room and both heard 1950s piano music. Lyndon Johnson’s daughter Lynda reported paranormal phenomena in this same room. From: The Dallas News www.dallasnews.com
The notebooks show that after attending a séance he wrote of witnessing “a new revelation” to the human race in which religion had become a “real thing” and not merely “a matter of faith.” Mr. Lycett says that the experience of séances freed Conan Doyle from his doubts. “He regarded Spiritualism as a science or, at least, a natural extension of science.” From: Timesonline, “The spirited beginning of Sherlock Holmes,” by Dalya Alberge http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
Phone Call from Across the Veil? British psychic James Byrne returned from a summer vacation to find a strange message on his phone. It was a man saying, “Is this switched on?” and it had been left on August 7. James phone had the ability to dial the number back, so he did. To his surprise the woman who answered knew who he was and said that he had given her a reading fourteen years earlier but she also said that she had not made the phone call.
Byrne played the phone call for the woman and was even more mystified when she said that she recognized the voice. It was the voice of her partner who had died in June. Telephone records confirmed that the call to Byrne’s phone had not come from her home. From: This is Cheshire, “Message from beyond the grave?” by Jeremy Craddock, Sept. 27, 2007
Literary Award: Late last year we learned that the National Spiritualist Association of Churches awarded us the 2007 Literary Award. We feel honored and sincerely appreciate this acknowledgement. Thanks to the members who nominated us.
Online EVP Listening Experiment Report: The draft report for the two online EVP listening experiments conducted by the AA-EVP has been posted on the internet so that people with experience in research, linguistics and psychology can provide constructive criticism and suggestions about how the report is written. After the report has had reasonable review by the informed public, it will be submitted to an appropriate journal for publication. If you are interested or know qualified people who are, please go to atransc.org/research.htm
By the way, the overall average percent of recognized words by average (untrained) listeners was 25.2%. This result indicates that the voices are not imaginary. Combined with other studies, it also indicates that hearing EVP is a learned ability.
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The
Intention Experiment: In March of 2007, Lynne McTaggart author of
the bestseller, The Field, set up an experiment with several
hundred people at the Imperial College in London. Using two target
geranium leaves located 5,300 miles away at the University of Arizona,
the group sent the intention to one leaf “to glow.” This is a term used
to describe a state of increased biophoton emissions. The leaf receiving
the intention was selected at random and the 2nd leaf was
used as a control. With the leaf on a big screen in front of the room,
the group was led by McTaggart in an exercise to amplify a state of
“peak focus.” She asked the group to remain detached from the outcome—to
intend and let go. The intention was sent for approximately ten minutes.
Both the leaves were then placed in a special imaging system. Dr. Gary
Schwartz reported that “results of the glowing intention could readily
be seen … and that the increased biophoton effect was highly
statistically significant. 
Arthur
Conan Doyle’s Private Papers: A new biography, Conan Doyle: The
Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes, by Andrew Lycett, shows Doyle was
interested in mediums, séances and psychic phenomena much earlier than
previously thought. The biography contains information from private
papers that were kept confidential by his family until they were sold at
auction at Christie’s in 2004. Mr. Lycett said, “These notes helped me
understand what I consider the central enigma of his life … how a
trained doctor, who created such an epitome of the rational detective,
was obsessed by the supernatural … to the point where, after the First
World War, he became a leading proponent of spiritualism.”
