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>>> AUSTIN VICKERS: You really learn some amazing things. During the filming of the movie,
‘People v. The State of Illusion’, I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Robert Jahn,
who was the founder of the laboratory at Princeton University called Princeton Engineering Anomalies
Research (PEAR).
And Dr. Jahn was initially commissioned by the US Government to help put men on the moon.
He was really responsible for many of the discoveries in jet propulsion, and one of
the things that they wanted to know at the time that they were developing this technology
is what effect, if any, would the astronaut’s intentions or perceptions actually have on
the high sensitive equipment that was being put in these rocket ships.
So Dr. Jahn started a laboratory at Princeton
called ‘PEAR’ that was designed to test whether or not people could have an effect
from their thoughts and perceptions alone on inanimate objects like computers and machines,
and he conducted experiments designed to see if people could in fact affect the outcome
of the random movements of these computers or equipments, and after a 25-year period
of time Dr. Jahn ended up closing the laboratory because they established beyond a scientific
doubt that in fact people’s intentions and perceptions could affect inanimate objects
like computers.
But during our interviews, one of the interesting things that Dr. Jahn talked about was how
when they first put somebody into conductor test and see whether they could influence
a computer flipping out random coin or another experiment like that, they found that the
impact that the person had on the machine was super profound, and he told me that if
they could have reported just those initial results, it really would have blown away the
entire scientific world.
But he said they observed an interesting phenomenon – on the second time that the person came
into conducting experiment, they had almost no effect on the machines, and then on the
third thru the 20th trial they would have an effect greater than statistically insignificant,
in other words, they had an effect greater than chance, but never an effect as great
as the first time they came in or as bad as the second time they came in to conduct the
trial.
I asked Dr. Jahn the question, “Why do you think that is?” And he said, “An interesting
thing…Is when people came in the first time it was almost as if they had no idea and no
process to control. They came in completely open-minded and the machines would respond
to their intentions and the experiment brilliantly, but then the second time they came in, people
would try to harness their “power” and control the outcome and it’s as if the machines
knew that and all of a sudden shut off being sensitive to the intentions of the test subjects”.
“And then of course by the third thru the
20th trial people would come in and they’d never be as open-minded as the first time
but they would certainly be humbled by the outcome of the second experiment and so they
would have an effect but never as significant as that of first instance”.
So as we discussed this phenomenon what we
really realized and what certainly Dr. Jahn has realized for some time is that when we
try to control this creative power we run into trouble and I think the secret is actually
to dance with it, to really pay attention through awareness and almost a listening to
that voice of innovation, that voice of creativity within us, and then our job is to align our
actions and our thoughts with that innovation but it comes from a deep source within us
and the more that we can become in alignment with it, the more we can dance with it, not
trying to control it but simply aligning our actions with it, the more powerful we become
and the more that innovation and creativity takes us to places we could never have imagined
we would be.