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The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) program, which flourished for nearly three decades under the aegis of Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, has completed its experimental agenda of studying the interaction of human consciousness with sensitive physical devices, systems, and processes, and developing complementary theoretical models to enable better understanding of the role of consciousness in the establishment of physical reality.
The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) program closed its physical facilities at the end of February 2007.
Work continues here:
International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL), a non-profit organization established in 1996 to promote quality research, educational initiatives, and practical applications of consciousness-related anomalies www.icrl.org.
The PEAR Proposition
- By The Administrator
- Published 03/14/2008
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For more than a quarter century, the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory has engaged in a broad range of experiments on consciousness-related physical anomalies and has proposed a corresponding selection of theoretical models that have combined to illuminate the fundamental nature of the provocative phenomena that emerge. Productive pursuit of this topic has inescapably involved a spectrum of political, cultural, personal, and interpersonal factors that are normally not encountered in more conventional scientific scholarship, but have both enriched and complicated the enterprise in many ways.
Some of the insights gleaned from the work are objectively specifiable, such as the scale and structural character of the anomalous effects; their relative insensitivity to objective physical correlates, including distance and time; the oscillating sequential patterns of performance they display; the major discrepancies between male and female achievements; and their irregular replicability at all levels of experience. But many others relate to subjective issues, such as the responsiveness of the effects to conscious and unconscious intention and to individual and collective resonance
CONSCIOUSNESS, INFORMATION, AND LIVING SYSTEMS
- By The Administrator
- Published 03/14/2008
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- Unrated
The possibility of a proactive role for consciousness in the establishment of physical reality has been addressed via an extensive
26-year program investigating physical anomalies in human/machine interactions and non-sensory acquisition of information about
remote geographical locations. Empirical databases comprising many hundreds of millions of random events confirm that information
can be introduced into, or extracted from, otherwise random physical processes solely through the agencies of human intention and
subjective resonance. Much of the evidence mitigates the likelihood that the anomalies are manifestations of neo-cortical cognitive activity.
Rather, they may be expressions of a deeper information organizing capacity of biological origin that emerges from the uncertainty
inherent in the complexity of all living systems.
