When most people hear about these results, a number of things come to mind. Some find the results to be a natural extension of something they already believed; but many others are skeptical or find their head spinning with questions. These questions vary greatly from person to person, but many of the more technical questions focus on things like, "Well, the brain gives subtle electromagnetic fields, how do you know that these aren't influencing the device?" or "So what if the results have a very low probability of occurring by chance, what does that mean?"

We didn't have enough time to get into all of the details, but the work that has been done in this area actually comprises far more than we could fit on the last few pages. For one thing, the researchers who conducted these experiments tested the devices in all kinds of conditions; in different temperatures, indoors, outdoors, inside and outside of the presence of strong electric or magnetic fields, and built the devices so that they would not respond to any known physical influence. The experiments were designed from the beginning not to be affected by known physical forces, including any known phenomena that would relate to a person and their body.

Future experiments also showed that these effects did not appear to be dependent on distance. In trying to test some obvious hypotheses, the lab began to use a protocol where operators would call in from vacations or other locations, pre-state their intention, and then initiate the REG. These results are not very different from what we see when the operator is in the lab. At Psyleron, we have created protocols that allow for collection of data over the internet; some of our operators log in from distant locations and attempt to influence a device at our office. Here too, distance does not seem to be a limiting factor. It would appear that whatever kind of effect we are working with deals with a new type of force, it is one that we don't yet understand or know very much about.

This does not mean that the effect does not exist or that we cannot learn anything about it given our primitive understanding of its nature. Almost every technological force that we use today once went undetected until we were able to invent equipment or devices that were sensitive enough to measure or observe them; this occurred with electricity, radio waves, as well as the quantum mechanical effects that are so fundamental in allowing our computers to function. In short, most of our technology today is based on things that were entirely invisible or unknown to those who existed a few centuries before us.

So what does it mean for this research and the rest of the world? We see a number of important implications. To begin with, the effect that we are describing here is probably much more fundamental and linked to life than we realize. The experimental conditions that we impose, where an operator attempts to go "high" or "low", are built around the existing scientific method and are meant to correlate an output with the "intention" of an operator. But what is "intention" really? Can an operator really intend / want / desire to influence an REG the same way that they intend and desire to influence things in their own life? If this effect is real, what are the implications for that?

Another interesting thing about these effects is that they tend to share characteristics with anecdotal reports that are often dismissed as coincidence by those who hear about them, but are considered to be profound by those who experience them. For example, some people claim to have become aware of a loved one dying unexpectedly, even though they were separated by great distances. The work of a number of experimenters, in replicating work originally done by Rupert Shelldrake, seems to suggest that humans have a subtle ability to detect when someone is looking at them, even if this occurs through a closed circuit television loop for example. Perhaps these effects are driven by the same mechanism that allows an operator to influence the random event generator; consciousness reaches out into its environment and behaves almost like a physical force.

If you can take one idea away from this page, you should realize that the information that we have discussed thus far only scratches the surface of what is being done in this area. We've talked about the initial experiments that seem to show the connection between the mind and the physical world, but have left out many deeper details.