Ways to Test IM

[epicmoo]

I find the theory of IM interesting. It makes sense in many ways.

I decided the best way to develop my faith, thus growing my ability to drawl power from it, is to manifest something common, like a quarter. Then I'd manifest something a bit less common, like a cigarette lighter. My hope was that I'd build faith this way.

The quarter ended up being right next to where I "asked" for it, even though it took me 15 minutes to notice it. I was blown away. The cigarette lighter has yet to appear (been 5 days).

Here's my big question. Is it possible to devise a true test to prove or disprove IM? At first I thought it would be easy. Then I thought it would be challenging, and require a dynamic test. Now I wonder if it's impossible, or if I'm over-thinking it and there's a more simple way.

A few days ago I tested IM:

1. I found 10 pieces of paper
2. I labeled each numerically, from 1 to 10
3. I folded them so the numbers cannot be seen
4. I told an unsuspecting friend that I wrote the number 1 on each paper (a lie)
5. I told the friend that some are written small, some are written big
6. I told the friend to simply pick one

It is unlikely the friend will pick the 1 paper. There's a 10% chance. Assuming the friend doesn't pick 1, let's review a possible arguments against the result.

"It doesn't matter what your friend thinks. It matters what you think. You knew the odds were 1/10 despite your lie, so the results reflected that."

There are two possible extensions of this argument.

1) Because you "knew" with confidence the odds of picking 1, your energy over-rid your friends energy based, which was based on their belief (perhaps laced with a hint of doubt because it was such an odd request).

or

2) Your friend drew a 1 in their reality. But in your reality they didn't. There are infinite realms. You only experience the results of what you believe to be true.

Is there a way to test IM actively like this? Or must we request small, likely things, slowly increasing the degree of unlikeliness with each new request?

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I'll end this with a story:

A friend of mine has an interesting story. He's a single entrepreneur with no family and only a few distant friends. He subscribes to no religion, but has had a number of supernatural experiences.

He befriended and eventually dated a girl who's ex-boyfriend was in jail. It was my friend's understanding that the ex-boyfriend still felt entitled to the girl, despite the girl moving on. When the boyfriend was being released from jail, my friend was a fearful. He decided to take an "extended vacation" in Puerto Rico. No one back in the states knew he was there.

Once there, he met people. They invited him to travel to a small island just to enjoy the nature and hang out. My friend went there, and upon arriving, a "friend of a friend" who my friend was only partially familiar with was there. How ironic! As it turns out, through the course of their discussion, the man was in fact the ex-boyfriend. My friend was overcome with fear and disbelief. He couldn't help but feel like he was in a dream.

[pokilty]

This is a well phrased post in which I'd be interesting in hearing comments on as well

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by epicmoo

Is it possible to devise a true test to prove or disprove IM?

Sure. For example, you could deceive a bunch of teachers into believing their students are much smarter or much stupider than their students really are (based on IQ scores). Eight months later, you could measure the students' IQ scores again, and see if the teachers' beliefs had any effect on their IQ. This is the experiment done by Harvard professor Robert Rosenthal. Go google.

Also, you could use a machine known as a random effect generator. Think of it as an electronic coin tosser. You then get people to try to use their thoughts to see if they can somehow influence the results of the machine. After many tries, you check the results and do a statistical analysis to see if the thoughts had any significant statistical influence. Google "Robert Jahn" and "Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research" and see.

Also you could ask people to think different types of thoughts about water samples. You could, for example, ask them to pray over the water, or think angry thoughts about the water, and so on. You then analyse the water samples using some freezing techniques in the lab, and you check whether the thoughts have produced any changes in the molecular structure of the water. Google "Masaru Emoto", "Dean Radin" and "water" and see.

Next you could do an experiment at the hospital. You get patients with quick similar kinds of injury (for example, they have similar kinds of flesh wounds on the breast, following breast cancer surgery, or they have broken the same kind of bone, eg the ankle). You divide the patients into two groups. Both groups receive the same kind of medical treatment, except that one group is also given hypnotic treatments, during which they think positive thoughts like, "I am healing really fast", "I am getting better and better so quickly". You then compare the recovery rates of the patients. To find out the results. google "Harvard Medical School", "Carol Ginades", "broken bones" and "hypnosis".

There are many others ......

[pokilty]

Those are amazing Godot, thanks!

I have to head out right now but here's a quick article I found on the person that interested me the most - Robert Jahn

Princeton researchers: Thoughts come true