Principal Investigators: C. Seiter, Dipl. Psych. *; H. Walach, PhD *, J. Wackermann, PhD **

Affiliations: * University Hospital Freiburg, Department of Environmental Medicine and Hospital Epidemiology, Germany; ** Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychhygiene Freiburg, Germany

Background: One premise of distant healing is that depends upon the capacity of individuals to interact non-locally either through mental information transfer or through continuous, ongoing connectivity. Measurement of such connectivity in the brain has been reported in the past by measuring event related potentials (ERPs). ERPs occur when a stimulus (such as a flashing light through the eye) are measured in the electro-encephalogram (EEG) of the brain, In experiments where ERPs of one person are recorded, their non-stimulated partners are said to show similar and simultaneous EEG patterns.

Objective of the study: To determine of correlations will occur in the EEG of subject pairs who are shielded and physically distant.

Method: Seven pairs of experimental and seven pairs of control subjects were recruited. Experimental subjects knowing each other well were invited as pairs, and housed in two electromagnetically shielded and sound proof chambers. While both subjects had their EEG taken, one of them was visually stimulated interspersed with rest periods of varying length, while the other subject relaxed. In control subjects, the same procedures were used, except that controls did not know each other.

Result: Four out of seven subjects in the experimental and two out of seven subjects in the control group showed significant changes in their EEG variance in at least two channels. A Kolmogorov-Smirnov goodness-of-fit test shows that the distribution of the test-statistics for the whole group is significantly different from expectancy at p = 0.01 for the experimental and non-significant for the control group.

Conclusion: Subjects measured simultaneously with shielded stimulated subjects show traces of unexpected variations in their EEG. This could be indicative of non-local correlation of their EEGs.

Relationship to SIIB Mission and Healing: Distant healing is predicated on an information exchange or ongoing connectivity between healer and healee. A simple and logical way to possibly measure this connectivity is through the correlation of brain wave activity. Research in which subjects are physically separated can rule out other mechanisms of information transfer. This would indicate that continuous and ongoing connectivity (entanglement) exists and can be measured. Proof of such correlation or connectivity is an important basis for Information Biology™.

Published Results: Correlations between brain electrical activities of two spatially separated human subjects. Jiri Wackermann, Christian Seiter, Holger Keibel, Harald Walach. Neuroscience Letters 2003;336:60-64.