The Conscious
Internet:
An Empirical
Study of the Transmission of Healing Energy via E-mail
Francesca
McCartney, PhD
This research studies the intentional encapsulation of healing energies
into an email text message and transmittal via the Internet to an intended
intuitive recipient. This study framed
within the field of energy medicine researches the potential impact on the
learning of distance students; as well as investigates a method for a stronger
link-transference of information between distance educators and students. This study tests information discovery on
non-linear, non-local communication; as well as studies an implied evolution of
the sense of intuition.
Distance education and
intuitive communication are both non-linear, non-local systems of information
exchange. Internet email can hold intentional sensorial resonance; and this
type of email can be used as a provider of energy-information which can be
utilized as part of an energy medicine distance education program. An intuitive
person can open an Internet transmitted email and receive the
emotional/cognitive content of intentionally encapsulated energy/information;
and this occurs both as a non-local and non-linear experience.
The Internet is an evolving ecological system capturing and holding
human thought in digital format transversing time and space in order to deliver
content. The weaving of intuitive and Internet communication is spawning a
World Wide Web, small-world phenomena by shortening energetic time-space
distances between people.
Within this
research is a hypothesis that a student and teacher may be more strongly
connected at a distance with the intentional link of energy/intention included
within the curriculum of a distance education program. This linkage information
gives new significance to distance healing research within the medical,
parapsychological, and noetic sciences. This connection seeks to inspire and
identify fertile areas for cross-disciplinary exploration.
The World Wide
Web— A Collective Consciousness
The Internet is a network which is spawning a quantum leap in human consciousness. The blending of digital reality with human reality blurs the distinction between electric-based and biological-based systems. The World Wide Web of the Internet collapses distance, time and proximity in human communications and creates a unified state of constant connectedness. Casting an invisible net over the globe, the World Wide Web is collecting and shortening the spaces between individuals. The Erdos concept of “link-chains” in social network research which studies short distances between people is popularly called, “six-degrees of separation.” According to physics professor, Albert Laszlo-Barabasi, an Internet distance (clicks) between people is nineteen-degrees of separation; and the present social network distance is three-degrees of separation.
Who is the caster of this net? Are those who are gathered into this web~net conscious of the implications of a global paradigm shift in human evolution? What is occurring on an individual basis within this web~net, and what is being born as a whole entity?
Question: What do you get when you cross these two characters from the movie, Star Trek: The Next Generation-- Data, the Android with Deanna Troy, the Empathic? Answer: A
bio-electric entity, who is the medium and the message. Question: What do you get when you cross an intuitive-person with the web-energy of email? Answer: A medium who transmits the message via the Internet. The first statement is science fiction. The second statement is research based fact.
Statement of Purpose
The project reported here explores how energy medicine and
complimentary inter-disciplinary fields can be woven together in order to
discover and cross-reference the effect of Internet communication, intuition,
and intentionality on the human species. The focus of this research is
limited to one area of experimental investigation – that of intuition-based communication via the
Internet. Millions of people are
sending billions of email messages via the Internet in this new world
communication link which utilizes (or is using) the Internet as a host medium
for non-local conversation. This form
of Internet-based communication
is modeling the natural human sense of intuition-based communication. Using the
Internet in this way-- as a tangible, mental construct-- allows human
psychology an “object” to grasp as a bridge to understanding the already
present state of non-local, no-time,
no-space, intuition-based
communication.
Hypothesis
Healing Energy Can Be Encapsulated into an
Email Text Message and Transmitted Via The Internet To An Intended Recipient.
This hypothesis developed from this researcher’s
observations during the year 2000 of a five-month healing energy email Internet exchange
which occurred organically between two Intuition Medicine® practitioners. From a broad perspective, this research will
investigate the efficacy of non-local, no-time, no-space distance education
programs that utilize intentionality and the Internet. It also identifies fertile ground in the
fields of Internet-based distance education and energy-based medicine that is
worthy of future exploration.
The Inspiration
The idea for this
research came from an experience I had as a teacher of professional intuitives
at the Academy of Intuitive Studies and Intuition Medicine® located in Northern
California. I was working with two of my Master of Intuition Medicine (MIM)
program students one was an alumna of the 1993 MIM program and a professor in
the computer arts college of a German university. The other was an owner of a
computer consulting company, and a student in the 2000 MIM program. Part of the
MIM program provides each student with an alumnus mentor who assists in the
course-work, and also gives weekly energy-systems healings. The student had many areas of intuitive
interest that matched well with the alumna’s expertise, given that they both spent
a good deal of time at their computers, and on the Internet, I decided to have
them connect at a distance via email as student and mentor. I assumed that they
would communicate via some live chat system, forgetting that the time
difference between Germany and the USA would not allow for this kind of
communication. They began, quite
organically, to communicate to each other via text email as though they were
speaking to each other in the present moment.
The student would ask for an energy healing with specific requests
regarding energy-systems, and then send the email to the mentor. The mentor would receive the message --
usually eight hours later, and respond by sending both a reply email text
message, and within the text “encapsulate” an energy healing and then send to
the student. They were amused to discover that the sending and receiving of
energy-systems healings was operating as
intended– without the condition of
physical proximity, and in disregard of the time that the email (which was
encapsulated with the healing energy/information) was sent. 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. Communication and exchange of
information and energy was occurring
as a non-local, no-time and no-space occurrence, and being transmitted via
intentionally encapsulated text email messages, consistently with the same
reception results for five months. I theorize this as a force of “space-
conditioning” existing within the Internet.
I observe this as a test of “vital-reality” existing within the World
Wide Web.
Research Overview
This research was a randomized, single-blind study. There were four formal treatments with 88 test subjects. The procedure had a professional intuitive encapsulate a healing energy into a
CD-ROM which held a text email message. A computer program randomly transmitted the encapsulated energy email to the test subjects. Four different email treatments were created; three of them encapsulated with three different healing energies (one energy per email), and the fourth email had no encapsulation of healing energy. The email sending sequence was spaced one week apart. Each test subject received one of the three sample energies and one “no energy” email. The sending sequence of the test subjects emails and the order of the four energy/no energy emails was randomized by a computer program.
Sample Population
The scope of the study was limited to the specific healing energies that are taught within the Master of Intuition Medicine program at the Academy of Intuitive Studies and Intuition Medicine. Thus, the target population includes the following seven types of healing energy: Kundalini; Buddha/Christ Force; Supreme Being Consciousness; Male/Female Creative Force; Earth Energy; Original Essence Energy; and Life Force. Intuitives are taught a specific protocol for accessing, amplifying, directing, and utilizing these seven energies for purposes of: (1) healing body/mind/spirit of self and others; (2) sourcing information (internally and externally); (3) creating energetically grounded spaces (internally and externally); and (4) evolving their mind/body/spirit. In this study, a sample of three of the healing energies was used to test the research hypothesis: Kundalini, Buddha/Christ Force and Supreme Being Consciousness.
Report of
Research Results
A total of 248 responses
were received during all four weeks of the study. Shown in the figure below is
a plot of the Hits percentage, the Total Success percentage, and the respective
success percentage for each of the four treatment groups. For purposes of this study, “success” is
defined as both the correct detection and
identification of the encapsulated healing energy. Thus, the term “success” is strictly associated with the three treatment
groups (A, B and C) that included an encapsulated healing energy. The “Total Success Rate” is calculated using
the responses only from treatment groups A, B and C (total of 185). The “No Energy” treatment group (Group D)
was completely void of any healing energy.
Since there was no healing energy present to “identify” in this group,
the percentage of correct responses is labeled “Accuracy Rate” to distinguish
it from “success rate.” The “No Energy”
treatment group was included in the study largely to assess if the test
subjects could detect both the presence and the absence of healing energy with
similar accuracy. The term “Hits” is a
commonly used term in ESP studies, and is simply defined as the percentage of
ALL total correct responses. Therefore,
“Hits” does include all four treatment groups (A, B, C and D) and calculated
using all 248 received responses. Relative to the 25% chance of success, the
Total Success Rate percentage estimate of 31.9% is significant with a P-value
of 0.021, (n = 185). Therefore this data strongly supports the
research hypothesis that “Healing energy can be encapsulated intentionally into
an email text message and transmitted via the Internet to an intended
recipient.
Report of Intuitive
Skills Tested
Of the 248 total responses received, 190 reported which intuitive skills were used. In 64% of those responses (121 out of 190) the test subjects reported using multiple (two or more) intuitive skills to detect and identify the healing energy. Only one skill was reported being used in the remaining 36% (69 out of 190) of the responses. Only nine test subjects (10% of the 88 total participants) reported using the exact same skill or combination of skills during all weeks of the study in which they participated. Most test subjects used different skills or combinations of skills each week, although the differences were usually slight. Two of the listed skills, Clairaudience and Telepathy, were never used singly by any of the test subjects. If these two skills were used, it was always in combination with other skills. The other five skills were used both singly and in combination with other skills. Following in the figure below is a bar chart of the skills and combination of skills reported used by the test subjects.
Intuitive Skills Defined
The Intuitive
test subjects were asked to detect the presence or absence of a healing energy
using their specifically developed intuitive skills. The subjects were given this list of seven intuitive skills to
choose from which are specific to the method which is taught in the Intuition
Medicine system.
·
Clairvoyance: Chakra-Clear
Seeing
Clairvoyance is a “visual” experience or awareness of subtle energy. The usual visuals that are perceived are colors, symbols, patterns, or images.
· Clairaudience: Chakra-Clear Hearing
Clairaudience is a literal hearing of words, sounds, songs, or tones. This skill is an outer audio sound vs. inner mental thought. This intuition is also described as a human sonar sense.
· Clairsentience: Chakra- Clear Feeling
Clairsentience is an acutely developed sense of empathy. This skill utilizes the nervous system to feel energy. Clairsentience is also referred to as emotional body-radar.
· Telepathy: Telepathic Chakras-Mental Communication
Telepathic ability is communication without verbal/auditory speaking. This skill has a two-way path of sending and receiving.
· Precognition: Broad Band Intuition-Future Perception
Precognition is a future time perceptual skill. Precognitive information can be perceived by means of knowing, clairaudience, clairvoyance, telepathy, dreams, visions and clairsentience.
· Psychometry: Hand Chakras-Dowsing Perception
Psychometry is a feeling perception located specifically
in the hands. Psychometry is similar to dowsing; the difference is
that hand-psychometry is used without any attending objects— i.e. a water
witching stick or pendulum.
·
Knowing: Chakra-Abstract
Perception
Intuitive Knowing
presents answers and information often in no logical manner. Knowing may be experienced as a certain
feeling, awareness or trust-based perception.
Digital Collective Unconscious
Millions of people are sending
billions of email messages via the Internet in this new world communication
link which utilizes (or is using) the Internet as a host medium for non-local
conversation. This form of Internet-based communication is modeling
the natural human sense of intuition-based communication. Using the Internet in
this way-- as a tangible, mental construct-- allows human psychology an
“object” to grasp as a bridge to understanding the already present state
of non-local, no-time, no-space,
intuition-based communication. Psychologist Carl Jung’s work— the collective unconscious is another concept of an intuitive storage
matrix of human information. Jung’s realm of the collective unconscious
holds mental forms of psychological structure which he calls archetypes: the
Self, the Anima/Animus, the Shadow are a few. Lesser known is Jung’s view of
small integer numbers (1, 2, and 3) as archetypes. Numbers, he suggested, are
the basic abstract structures from which all archetypes are built. Jung may
have been a futurist espousing a psychological-digital-reality of cyberspace.
Global Mind and
Global Spirit: Is Gaia Evolving?
There are many observers from diverse fields of research with singular, holistic or complementary perspectives on the Internet as a global-mind and global spirit-phenomenon.
The Internet is an integrated entity with pathways of development which are in a constant state of adaptation. The actively supported websites are kept alive by repeated “hits’ or “visits” and those websites which receive limited visits cease to function or remain in a static state. A map of the World Wide Web has pattern similarities to a neuronal map of the brain.
a) PET scan image of the human
brain. b) MRI image of the human brain.
PET and MRI Image of the Human Brain
Source: http://www.lbl.gov/abc/wallchart/chapters/13/2.htm
Dr. Ben Goertzel summarizes a theory presented in Neural Darwinism by biologist Gerald Edelman which theorizes brain mapping with the following hypothesis:
The large scale dynamics of the brain is dominated by the natural selection of maps. Those maps which are active when good results are obtained are strengthened, those maps which are active when bad results are obtained are weakened. And maps are continually mutated by the natural chaos of neural dynamics, thus providing new fodder for the selection process. By use of computer simulations we have shown that formal neural networks obeying this rule can carry routinely fairly complicated acts of perception.
(Goertzel, 1988, pg. 104)
In Creating Internet Intelligence mathematician Dr. Goertzel whose current focus is on the development of a web based artificial intelligence (AI) comments on the Internet versus brain:
It’s simple enough to see that the net, as a whole has the very same network structure that modern AI theorists, with their neural nets and semantic networks, have simulated within individual serial computers for the purpose of modeling brain and mind processes. The Internet’s nodes are more complex than individual neurons, having more of the computational power of neuronal modules. And, the packets sent around the net are more complex than the jolts of charge sent around the brain – they are more similar, perhaps, to coherent nonlinear spatially distributed electromagnetic waves passing through the brain. But, in essence, they are quite similar systems: they’re self organizing networks, in which information is carried and computation is carried out both locally and in the global, distributed fashion.
And, continuing with his thought that the network is a computer is the mind:
We see, then, that there is a harmony between the brain and the Internet on a fairly deep philosophical level. In both cases, we have a fixed underlying substrate consisting of nodes and links – neurons and synapses on the one hand, computers and cable on the other. In both cases, one has two kinds of dynamics constituting the process level of being – dynamics within the individual neuron or neuronal module, together with electrical and chemical flow between neurons; and computation within the individual computer, together with flow of sound and light along cables between computers. (Goertzel, 2002, pgs. 119-121)
Intelligent
Systems: Brain Neurons and Computer Cards
The following
diagrams illustrate a striking resemblance in design. The first illustration is
a computer card which is programmed to serve a specific function in the computer
communication system. The second illustration is a map plan drawing of the
neurons in the brain which function as the olfactory communication pathway.
Computer Card
Scource: http://www.computex.com.tw/kouwell/detail_productmain_virtual.asp?index=00509&id=18683&pcode=GW060&show=oneproduct
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Plan of Olfactory Neurons
Source: Grays
Anatomy
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/gray/196.htm/#i772
Internet Evolution: Digital Nervous System
Is Internet email communication the micro-pathways which when accumulated into a whole organism emerge as a macro-evolved entity? In Evolution without Selection, biologist Lima de Faria observes that the development of organisms is controlled by universal organizing processes. In Linked: The New Science of Networks physics professor, Albert-Laszlo Barbarsi using a simple mathematical transformation, substituted “fitness” for “energy” assigning an individual energy level to each World Wide Web node in the fitness model. The unexpected result was a precise mathematical correspondence between the networks of the web and the quantum mechanics world of Bose-Einstein Condensation. A simple definition of quantum mechanics is the study of light as little discrete packets of quanta or photons. A Bose-Einstein Condensation is an odd phenomenon in which the little discreet packets stop behaving as individuals and begin to flow together as if they are all one. A similar process occurs as a laser produces coherent light. These subatomic photon laws are encountered in the microscopic world of subatomic physics not in the macroscopic world of the Internets nodes and links which are macro objects—routers, cables and hardware. This discovery illuminates the science of complex evolving networks as being analogous to the realm of physics.
In The Evolving Mind, Goertzel uses mathematical theory, “… to present some new ideas about the nature of the evolving systems.” And, continues with his theory on biological patterns which sounds akin to the evolving pattern of the Internet.
The important concept of emergent pattern is defined: a pattern emerges between two entities if it is present in the combination of the two entities, but not in either of the entities separately. And the structural complexity of an entity is defined as the “total amount” of pattern in it. If the Metapattern is accepted, then these two concepts become essential to any of analysis of biological reality. The new forms which are generated by structural instability must interact with one another in a structured, systematic way, to form a cohesive evolutionary system. (Goertzel, 1993, xvii)
World Wide Web as
an Ecosystem
A working postulate is that the pattern of Internet based communication within the World Wide Web combines two “entities” which interact as a complex reality to form a structured cohesive system. This is analogous to the evolutionary pattern observed in many natural and social systems. Might this definition also be applied to the Internet as an emerging social intelligence?
The random
inter-self organization and the chaotic intra-self organization of the
Internet, follows the “systems-theory” approach to evolution of systems
presented by ecological scientist, Howard Odum. The operational nature of the self structuring system of
Internet communication aligned with this systems-theory leads to the assumption
of an existence of an underlying working intelligence.
Dr. Goertzel states
his definition of “self-structuring” systems:
I conjecture that brains, minds, ecosystems and societies fall into this
category. They are not chaotic, and yet
they are not orderly in the classical sense either – they are systems of
unpredictably fluctuating, self-organizing structure.
This definition forms a link between intelligence and system
complexity: it suggests the hypothesis that intelligence is possible only in a
self-structuring environment. And this
meshes very nicely with the idea, implicit in my theory of mind—that
intelligent systems are necessarily self-structuring.
(Goertzel, 1993, pg. 95)
Is the Medium the Message?
Cultural theorist Jean Gebser in his work on Integral Consciousness spoke of a fifth stage where intelligent network computer technology will catapult humanity into a new phase of consciousness; computer networks will be a higher state of consciousness and induce humans to move into a higher state of consciousness as well. Goertzel’s thoughts are, “The leverage of globally distributed nonlinear interactions between human minds and digital minds, will in itself lead to forms of knowledge that are hitherto unprecedented.” And, maybe those precedents already exist.
Parallel thought is emerging in research fields of spirituality, physics and computer science. Reading books from these multidisciplinary sciences one can easily transpose words to find that the hypothesis and conclusions sound the same. Theoretical physicist David Bohm’s thoughts bridge science and spirit in his view that everything has a physical and mental aspect. He sees the fundamental activity of existence as a process of “projection and injection” in the creation of a form. Projection is the action of the mind to birth an unmanifest concept (implicate) into the manifest world (explicate). Injection is the feedback loop of the explicate reality mirroring back to the mental realm of the implicate for evaluation and refinement of objective/subjective coherence and resonance. The fundamental activity of the world is creating form through the dance of this circulating process.
This passage on spirituality from Bridging
Science and Spirit, if one transposes words, can be read as a descriptor of
the operating order of the Internet.
In Bohm’s view we are defining the structure
or pattern of the universe, the shape and organization of a system, as
distinguished from matter itself. Since influencing [matter] does not take
place through the explicate order, it is nonlocal and takes place in the
implicate order. Since the implicate
order is not local, similar forms resonate and are connected regardless of
their location in time and space. Through the process of resonance, particular
forms are reinforced and appear in the manifest world as one stable form. The
stable form can appear anywhere, and all similar forms influence each other in
the implicate order (or the unmanifest). (Freidman, 1990, pgs. 87-88)
The Power-Law of Life
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says
something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far
is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
~Stephen
Hawking
Life is defined by Webster’s dictionary as, “—the condition which
distinguishes organic from inorganic objects, being manifest by growth through reproduction
and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating
internally.” The Internet, like the living cell shares a common core process of
growth, self-reproduction and adaptation—activities which take place
internally. In Linked: The New Science of
Networks, physics professor Albert-Laszlo Barabasi notes that, “While
entirely of human design, the Internet now lives a life of its own. It has all
the characteristics of a complex evolving system, making it more similar to a
cell than a computer chip.”
(Barbabasi, 2002, pg. 149)
Most complex networks in nature have
power-law degree distribution—with many nodes and only a few links; or a few
hubs with a large number of links. The degree distribution of a “random”
network follows a bell-curve with most nodes having the same number of links.
Physicists Romualdo Pastor-Satorras and
Alessandro Vespignani have identified computer networks as a class of
“scale-free” networks in which there is no characteristic, average number of
connections to the many nodes of the network. In a regular grid-like network,
like a street map, each node is joined to the same number of neighboring nodes
-- four, in a square grid. In a random network, where all the nodes are
connected at random, there is a well-defined average number of connections
among the nodes, and the number that have many more connections than average is
insignificantly small.
Recent computer network research has come to the surprising discovery
that the Web, like most complex networks of nature follows a power-law degree
distribution of a
scale-free network—a description given to emergent ecosystems.
