by Lynne McTaggart

On March 10-11, the 400 attendees of the first Intention Experiment conference in central London experienced a little bit of magic. For the finale of the conference, we decided to involve them in a pilot Intention Experiment: the first-ever long-distance double-blinded group intention experiment in history.

Before that day, a great deal of behind-the-scenes preparation had gone on between me and noted psychologist and consciousness researcher Dr. Gary Schwartz and his team at the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health at the University of Arizona in Tucson. We wanted to replicate and expand the pilot experiment that I’d carried out with Dr. Fritz-Albert Popp at the International Institute for Biophysics, as detailed in chapter 12 of my latest book The Intention Experiment. In that experiment 16 experienced meditators and I had experimented with the power of distant group intention by sending healing intention to four targets at Popp’s lab in Neuss, Germany : two kinds of algae, a jade plant and a person. Biophoton measurements of all the targets showed we’d had a strong effect during the times we’d sent healing intention.