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it's also got subtraction but if you if

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black spots and white spots the black

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rays would that happen to have occurred

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white spots which other the cosmic rays

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that were then detected in the in

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whatever they quote intention trial or

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its control trial was and this is just

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simply an amplification of that the tiny

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little spots in the corner are slight

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imperfections in the chip which I'm

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which were essentially constant the what

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we limited is by the way we we use image

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J software how many of you up by the way

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of familiar with the software anyone in

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this room it is available free from NIH

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specks of the cosmic rays and what I've

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those with a sharpening technique so you

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actually see what the pattern is it

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looks like patterns of stars it looks

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like a little pencil stars and the they

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structure of those patterns and the way

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patterns is to do fast Fourier

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transforms of the images

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which this software does very

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conveniently and so you just take this

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this could be all automated now this is

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spectral arrays averaged and then you

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meditation trial where the the subject

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the thinking you'll notice that it's a

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different pattern and you'll notice it

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does it's not so striking in that in the

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spiritual energy healing trials you'll

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see that averaged peak increase and

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meditation which is that dashed line is

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respective comparing the original into

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meditation of mind controls so what are

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replicable phenomena of causing an

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alteration in the in the structural

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frequency higher power effect in order

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if you would have proof in principle

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kind of experiment of course the scale

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paper in an explorer looking at the

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effects of skilled meditated versus

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interference pattern in an

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interferometer we by the way now have

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individual is and then there's the whole

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intriguing possibility which we bar by

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traditions such as John of God we're

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percent of healers report that when they

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are quote in the flow they are receiving

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some sort of assistance from what they

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the divine but we have never brought

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that into the laboratory we the

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from bill war L that happens to be

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called I reached two forces unseen bill

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healing experiments book I often end

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with this poem I'm not of course not

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but I do want to raise the polym

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master physics now being pointed inward

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a quote artifact of the technology but

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we can quantify it if it turns out to be

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the case that we can measure document

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high frequency light that's associated

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time we may be able to get a handle on

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quantifying something that's associated