Extra ordinary human potential is something that has been studied for decades; and although a number of studies have been conducted which have yielded statistically significant results, there is still a harsh resistance by mainstream scientists to look at these topics.
On the other hand, many distinguished scientists are also recognizing and accepting the importance and relevance of this type of phenomena. Material science is great, but it's time to usher in the reality of non-material science, something Nikola Tesla said would advance humanity immensely, with progress increasing at an exponential rate.
Quantum mechanics has questioned what we perceive to be the 'material' foundations of the world by showing that subatomic particles and atoms are not really solid objects, and has brought human consciousness into the equation.
Many scientists, including a large majority of our pioneering scientists, have been emphasizing the importance of factors associated with consciousness (like measurement and observation) and the influence it has on our physical material world."I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness." - Max Planck, theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918
These abilities have been demonstrated before under controlled conditions. One of the best known examples involves Ingo Swann who has his 'remote viewing' abilities put under study. This effort began, supposedly, because the CIA had concerns about Soviet investigations into psychic phenomenon, as the United States had gathered intelligence showing that the Soviets were engaged in "psychotronic" research. You can read the publication as the results were published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration. (Puthoff, Harold E. 1996. CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing Program at Stanford Research Institute. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 10(1), 63-76.
This is important to mention because human ability that defies the current known laws of physics has been an interest to various governments, especially western intelligence agencies.
But, it's not just western intelligence agencies who's interests are piqued by this topic. China is also very active when it comes to identifying individuals with certain extended human capacities. For example, a paper published in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) in September 1981, in the journal Ziran Zazhi (Nature Journal) tilted "Some Experiments on the Transfer of Objects Performed by Unusual Abilities of the Human Body" (Shuhuang et al., 1981) reported that 'gifted children' were able to cause the teleportation of small physical objects from one place to another.
There are also some extraordinary claims from a publication titled "Exceptional Functions of the Human Body." This study reports of highly accurate parapsychological effects, including clairvoyance, psychokinetic effects, and more. (source)
In a report published in 2010, by retired research chemist Dong Shen, an experiment is described involving mental teleportation of bits of paper out of a sealed plastic film container. What's even more fascinating is that these methods were taught to others and the success rate was 40 percent.
It's also important to mention that what Dean Radin, the Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, states:
Despite this fact, hundreds of elite, specially trained researchers from a number of scientific disciplines within China's universities have studied unexplainable phenomena cultivated by this supposed unique group of people with 'Exceptional Human Functions.'Evaluating the details and credibility of these studies have been difficult because many of the papers appear only in Chinese. The techniques have not yet been reported outside of China, and the experimental methods employed in conducting such tests do not appear to be as rigorously controlled as compared to typical Western methods...
"The results of the Chinese Teleportation experiments can simply be explained as a human consciousness phenomenon that somehow acts to move or rotate test specimens through a 4th spacial dimension, so that specimens are able to penetrate the solid walls/barriers of their containers without physically breaching them." - Eric Davis, Ph.D, FBIS (source)
The Effects Of 'QI Energy' On Plant DNA & Cellular Growth
A study published in the American Journal of Chinese Medicine, as seen in the the US National Library of Medicine, demonstrated that a women with special abilities was and is able to accelerate the germination of specific seeds for the purposes of developing a more robust seed stock. As the study states:
Pretty remarkable isn't it? How does Sun do it? Apparently, she enters into a deep trance-like state, and from this place, she is able to advance the time required for sprouting dry seeds from their usual 3 to 4 days, to 20 minutes, generating a sprout growth of 3-4 inches. After a genetic analysis, scientists confirmed this to be the case, hence, the using of the word "rapid" in the title.Chulin Sun is a woman with exceptional powers (Shen and Sun, 1996, 1998; Sun, 1998). A member of the Chinese Somatic Science Research Institute, she is a practitioner of Waiqi. Waiqi is a type of qigong that teaches the practitioner to bring the qi energy of traditional Chinese medicine under the control of the mind. Chulin Sun can induce plant seeds to grow shoots and roots several cm long within 20 min using mentally projected qi energy (Fig. 1). This has been demonstrated on more than 180 different occasions at universities as well as science and research institutions in China (including Taiwan and Hong Kong) as well as other countries (e.g., Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, etc.) (Ge et al., 1998; Qin et al., 1998; Lee et al., 1999). We took part in and repeated the qi germination experiments seven times, and five of them succeeded (Ge et al., 1998). This remarkable effect on seed development has drawn widespread attention (Tompkins and Bird, 1973; Lee, 1998), but the biological mechanisms that underlie this phenomenon are unknown.(source)
The abstract of the study also states,
This was preliminary thought because video tapes from the recording of this experiment showed time distortion. It was also reported that near-by-clocks will show the full time of the experiment as it passes, despite the fact that, in some cases, the camera only showed 1 minute of film time. It's funny, because these time disturbances are also commonly reported with these types of practices in Chinese folklore.It was thought preliminarily that qi energy changed the structure of a germination-correlated gene site speeding up expression and advancing it in time.
According to Danielle Graham, a founding editor and current Editor in-Chief of SuperConsciousness Magazine (also an American Institute of Physics experimental researchers) states that,
The study of phenomena like this have been happening for years and will hopefully continue into the years to come. The mainstream opens up more and more when it comes to these topics and it's only a matter of time before, like many previously unbelieved phenomena, will become much better understood and self evident.Those who study the physical effects of the EHF's mind-matter interface often collaborate on their findings. The researchers agree they are observing repeatable, hyper-time-space-non-linear macro phenomena that violate the classical and relativistic models in which the nature of physical matter is currently understood...
It is commonly understood by these scientists that an EHF's personal and individual evolution is directly linked to their individual skills; the greater their capacity to manipulate matter; the more spiritually evolved the EHF is considered to be...
While westerners who openly demonstrate mind/matter interface are publicly reviled and discredited, the known EHF's in China are honored as heroes and celebrities; national treasures that are sought after as teachers, advisors and consultants. (source)
Comment: See also: The psychic powers of Nina Kulagina (Telekinesis)
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This experiment with sprouting the seeds is not so unusual, I imagine that many healers or those that practice asian martial arts could do the same. I give my plants Chi quite often for I can see that it makes them grow faster and better. I have never tried with a seed, but, I will give it a go and see what happens. I do send Chi to my seeds when I plant them for I know it helps with germination. Chi is the Universal Life Force...it helps with everything,,,I use it like a household tool many times every day....I´ve used it to repair my TV, I´ve used it to fix a hole in a metal pot, and I´ve used it to repair the bones of a puppy....anything..
In every good school, there is a laboratory. You are never asked to swallow something simply because Planck said so. Experiments must be performed infront of the students and not brewed in some dark temple such as CERN. The students must exermine them and make their own conclusions.
With this, if our psi guys realy want to school the puplic on the reality of psi, then the easiest way is to simply stage them in puplic for everyone with eyes to see and not only for some few priests (scientists) to bless them and the force it down the throats of people by apealing to their authority. Those who see it should arive at their own conclusion as to whether the demonstration is definitive.
While I need a lab and lots of competence to perform such subtle experiments as finding out Biot-Sarvat Law, I need non for a simple yes or no demonstration that a magnet can affect a conductor carrying electric current. Likewise telekinesis is a simple yes or no question that requires no much skills to perform and/or judge experimental out come.
Lovejoy realy neaded not to convince the gang of mainstream, posibly sturbon scientists the reality of comet lovejoy. He could do that to any layperson with a telescope. It need no skills. It only need EYES. More and more laymen would see it and the egg head sceptic priests in the establishment will just have to suck eggs as facts demonstrate their incompetence to puplic. The mainstream scientist is aware of this and they just cannot blatantly deny unambiguous facts otherwise their carears are in danger!
"Quantum mechanics has questioned what we perceive as material, showing that subatomic particles are not realy solid objects and has brought consciousness into the equation"
This statement suverely squeezes tones of erors that no one knows where to begine debunking it! Quantum mechanics have never said what the subatomic particles are or are not. It just stoped at saying 'the probability of locating a point-like particle'. In other words, QM equations donnot say WHAT an electron etc is. It just says WHERE it is!
Nowhere do quantum mechanics claim that consciousness play any role in determination of the eigenvalues of operators. This is a disaster in understanding! Earlier on, physicists could not explain the origin of classic world since the 'collupse of wavefunction' apparently neaded the classic world and the classic world and the classic world in turn was thought to be made from the subatomic particle. This created an egg-chicken paradox as to where the classic world came from. So meanwhile, physicists engaged in a 'tree in the forest' fare tale of a world created in the consciousness. However, this egg-chicken paradox was solved by QUANTUM DECOHERENCE. You cannot keep quoting out dated scientists as Planck, Einstein, Heisenberg etc any more than you can keep quoting Ptolemy and his geocentrism. To understand how QM relates to classic world, you must study quantum decoherence, an explanation that wasn't there at the times of Bohr etc.
The key to such misunderstanding is such eroneous claims as:
"...factors asociated with consciousness such as measurement and observation"
This is very funny!! What makes you think that physic's use of 'measurement' and 'observation' has anything to do with consciousness??? You must use words bearing in mind the CONTEXT in which they are used. But it gotta be simple, subatomic particles are gazilions of time smaller that what any microscope can revealed. One must be a nincompoop to beleive that anyone has observed subatomic particles.
In physics, 'measurement' has nothing to do with conscious registration of the measured values in the mind. If a blind person puts a ruler against penis, he is measuring the length of the penis whether or not he is seeing it!
You claim that such consciousness acting on objects defy known laws of physics and then claim that quantum mechanics have brough consciousness to the equations. Then you say that these aleged experiments are acurately measured by scientists and also claim that scientists are rejecting them!
The key to such mis-mash lies exactly at the first premise: we have been all along studying 'material science' and it is now time to study 'non-material science'. There is no such a dichotomy. There is only science, which means 'objective knowledge'. Saying 'non-material' is not saying anything. It is saying 'not material' In science, we must POSITIVELY say what it is that we are studying and not what it is that we are not studying. It is totaly unacceptable to say, behold, a phenomena that we can't explain, therefore it is psi, qi, paranormal or 'non-material'. This is called ARGUMENT FROM IGNORANCE. It rely on a lack of explanation and/or understanding to make a breath taking conclusion. A lack of explanation per-se does not constitute a paranormal explanation. Rather it mean we search for explanation. There are myriads of phenomena that lacks explanation, from ball lightning to dark matter.
The material/non-material is false! It presumes that we fully understand what we term it as 'material'. This is just a LABLE. We donnot know a priori what matter can or cannot do. Just because a stone looks inert does not mean that it cannot perform psi! This mean that even if telekinesis, telepathy etc happens, it does not mean that we need any other entity that is of different ontology from matter. It most probably simply mean that the a priori ideas we project onto matter are false. Infact, gravity and magnetism can as well be understood as telekinesis! Yes telekinesis performed by 'material'!
Right time to practice as I/we should all be able to do the same