Testing Nonlocal Observation as a Source of Intuitive Knowledge

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-35

  Radin, Dean ^a  

^a Institute of Noetic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; EYELID CLOSURE; HELIUM NEON LASER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; ILLUMINATION; IMAGINATION; INTERFEROMETER; INTUITION; KNOWLEDGE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHOTON; PILOT STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SCORING SYSTEM;

CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; INTERFEROMETRY; INTUITION; LASERS; LIGHTING; MIND-BODY RELATIONS (METAPHYSICS); PARAPSYCHOLOGY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PILOT PROJECTS; TELEPATHY;

EID: 37849034590     PISSN: 15508307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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