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the healer was verb

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verbally instructed with cues to start

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and stop the distance intentionality

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in a random pattern

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so they they were told to start and stop

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now the scanner was a 1.5 tesla

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this is a very strong magnetic field

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i might mention that there are some

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people that told us

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that they lose their psychic abilities

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when they go on an mri scanner because

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the magnetic field is too strong and

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they lose their psychic abilities so

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i've heard that before

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but anyway with um 1.5 mr imaging system

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we can get very nice images

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and uh

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for those of you involved in brain

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imaging these these will make sense to

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you if you're involved in brain imaging

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these parameters are important to get

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good contrast in the brain

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related to the blood oxygen level

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so then we did fmri analysis of the on

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off patterns dictated to the healer

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we used fsl from oxford the uk to

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analyze the the signal

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we have single subject analysis and

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the results show that in the group

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analysis we had two very significant

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now let me tell you again what this

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this is a group analysis

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of the receivers who are inside the

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who are receiving signals from the

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so all of the signal comes from the the

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receivers not not the senders

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and so the the receivers again are are

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able to receive the signal from the

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healers and we're able to measure the

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signal in their brain and we get these

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two significant clusters

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with a probability of false positive 8.5

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times 10 to the minus ninth

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that's 10 to the minus ninth is a

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significant significance and we got

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another cluster of a little less uh

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significance

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uh and so so we can test the probability

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using these techniques now this this is

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i have better images than these but

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we this is one of the clusters in the

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uh that they again this is the group

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analysis cluster

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and again this is a part of the brain

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involved in visual processing and in

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so this is a part of the brain involved

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in image processing

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even though they got no stimulus except

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the healer was the only person giving

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stimulus so so that's one of the parts

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so we we get a lot of higher order um

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involved in language

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clusters these are all the different

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regions that we get

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complementary medicine

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reports so the last

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details that i showed you involved 11

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pairs of subjects whereas this was only

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brain signal as a function of time

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as they're being as the

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was this it was just a sender

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sclerosis so i like alpha waves and i

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correlating signals between the senders

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but now the the group again in the group

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more of a weak correlation

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research on distance healing suggesting

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that human intentions may direct may

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directly affect others in ways that are

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but with a functional imaging and with

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eeg we can we can study these effects

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you mentioned at the beginning of your

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talk that uh you when you had us raise

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our right hand that would have left

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brain stimulation right

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kind of a healing demonstration some

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years ago with donna eden and she chose

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people in the audience to demonstrate a

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principle and she said they had

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means your right brain is working with

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your right hand