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A Cultural History of Art Bell

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June 5, 2005: Experiments with Intention - William A. Tiller

Jun 5, 2005
2h 30m
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Art Bell interviews Professor Emeritus William A. Tiller of Stanford University, a materials scientist who spent 34 years in academia studying psychoenergetics, the relationship between consciousness and physical reality. Tiller describes experiments using simple electronic devices imprinted with specific intentions by experienced meditators, then shipped to remote laboratories to influence target experiments.

The results proved striking. Imprinted devices raised or lowered the pH of purified water by a full unit, increased the thermodynamic activity of a liver enzyme by 25 percent, and reduced fruit fly larval development time by 25 percent, all with statistical significance better than one in a thousand. Tiller explains that the devices appear to condition the surrounding space itself, accessing what he calls the coarse physical vacuum level of reality, a domain where magnetic monopoles function and communication occurs at speeds far exceeding light.

Tiller proposes that this vacuum level, containing energy trillions of times greater than all visible matter in the universe, represents the frontier of human scientific development. He discusses information entanglement between laboratories 6,000 miles apart and argues that consciousness is a byproduct of spirit entering dense matter, suggesting humanity's evolutionary path lies in developing intentionality as a creative force.

Key Moments

  1. The hidden assumption Tiller set out to break: Tiller frames why his work matters: mainstream physics quietly assumes consciousness, intention, emotion, and spirit cannot affect a well-designed physical experiment. He set out to test that assumption directly.

  2. Imprinting intention into a black box: Four trained meditators sit around a low-power electronic device, cleanse the tabletop mentally, hold a specific intention for 15 minutes, then 'seal' the imprint. The device, Tiller says, then carries that intention into experiments.

  3. Moving the pH of water by a full unit, on demand: Tiller's first targets: shift the pH of pure water up by a full unit, then down by a full unit - a hundredfold change in hydrogen-ion concentration with measurement accuracy of one one-hundredth of a unit. He calls it asking for a signal 100 times the noise.

  4. Speeding up fruit fly larvae by 25% with intention: Tiller reports that intention-imprinted devices increased the ATP-to-ADP ratio in fruit fly larvae by 15-20% and reduced the time to adult fly stage by 25%, replicated across four side-by-side treatments including Faraday-cage controls.

  5. Conditioned space and information entanglement across 6,000 miles: Tiller says the device 'conditions' the room itself over months, accessing another level of physical reality. Two such conditioned labs become information-entangled, even at 6,000 miles, with macroscopic oscillations and a DC magnetic-polarity effect that shouldn't exist.