4. Physiological Changes by Remote Influence

Hideyuki Kokubo, Mikio Yamamoto, Kimiko Kawano* and Nobuo Fukuda (*Nippon Medical School, Tokyo)

Keywords: electrodermal activity (EDA), skin conductance change, fluctuation, direct mental influence for living system (DMILS), anomalous cognition, telepathy

In the present expertment, two qigong practitioners were put in separate rooms with communtca tional deprivation, while the authors measured physiological changes of one of the two, acting as a Receiver, when the other, acting as a Sender, at tempted to give "remote influence" to the Recenver at a distance. These subjects had shown statistical significant coincidences of the time of their apparent motions in previous similar experiments by we had carried out^2-3

The Receiver was seated in an electromagnette shielding cage and the Sender performed only one "sending" motion per 80-second trial on double blinded and randomized conditions. The Recetver's skin conductances were sampled at a rate of 2OOHz using an exosomatic method (DC O.5V constant) When the Sender or Receiver pushed a switch as the event marker, output signals were produced. The signals were recorded as the sending time or the response time, along with EEG and other physiological data, by a recorder. Video cameras were set in each experimental room, and the whole process of the experiment was watched and recorded audiovisually at the central control room.

In the results of 35 trials, Receiver's EDA changes [S] were analyzed in the range of 5 seconds before or after the initial (or end) time of sending. While the average of EDA changes declined with fluctuation before the initial time, it declined linearly after that. The average of EDA changes also seemed to decline linearly both before and after the end of sending. Thus, for quantitative evaluation of fluctuations, the F-test was done on variances of the averages of EDA differences [S/s]. At first, the average of EDA differences was computed at every 0.05 second. Next, the 5-second frequency distribution of the average was obtained before or after the initial (or end) time of sending. The variance of the average of EDA differences after the initial time of sending was smaller than the one before. And the variance after the end time was larger than the one before (Table l). In the present experiment, there were no obvious changes in EEG, respiration and PPG.

In conclusion, fluctuation of the Receiver's skin conductance during "sending" was smaller than before and after. It was considered that these FIDA changes were caused by remote influences and corresponded to the coincidence of the subject's motion times in the prevuous expertments.

Table 1. F-test on 5-second Frequency Distribution of Average of EDA Difference [S/s]

Publications:
1)Kokubo, H., Yamamoto, M., Hirasawa, M. Kawano K. Kokado, T., Taniguchi, J. and Fukuda, N.: J. Intl. Soc. Lifelnfo. Sci., 18, 127-133, 1998.
2)Yamamoto, M., Flirasawa, M., Kawano, K. Yasuda, N. and Furukawa, A.: J. Intl. Soc. Life Info. Sci., 14, 97-101, 1996.
3)Yamamoto, M., Hirasawa, M., Kawano, K. Kokubo, H., Kokado, T., Hirata, T., Yasuda, N Furukawa, A. and Fukuda, N.: J. Intl. Soc. Life Info. Sci., 14, 228-248, 1996.