scholarly journals The Effects of Meditation and Visualization on the Direct Mental Influence of Random Event Generators

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-344
Author(s):  
Imants Baruss ◽  
Tayzia Collesso ◽  
Maria Forrester
Keyword(s):  
Control Experiment ◽  
Event Generator ◽  
Random Event ◽  
Visualization Techniques ◽  
The Mind

Meditation and visualization exercises have been found to alter an individual’s mood and perception, and it is hypothesized that these techniques will enhance one’s ability to anomalously influence the function of a random event generator (REG) with the mind. This study is comprised of a control experiment and a second experiment with the administration of meditation and visualization exercises. There was no support for a significant deviation of the REG in the direction of the participants’ volition in Experiment 1, t(29) = -1.26, p = .22 (two-tailed), but results revealed a significant deviation in the intended direction in Experiment 2, t(29) = 2.66, p = .01 (two-tailed). Moreover, comparisons between cumulative deviations across both samples were found to be statistically significant, indicating that meditation and visualization exercises may promote significant deviations, t(58) = -2.69, p = .009 (two-tailed). These analyses suggest that the use of meditation and visualization techniques in experiments that study direct mental influence may be beneficial for finding anomalous effects.             Keywords:       meditation, visualization, random event generator, direct mental influence

Series Position Effects in Random Event Generator Experiments

EXPLORE ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 273
Author(s):  
B.J. Dunne ◽  
Y.H. Dobyns ◽  
R.G. Jahn ◽  
A. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Event Generator ◽  
Position Effects ◽  
Random Event

Is There Such a Thing as a Psychical Accident?

2019 ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Rottenberg
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Random Event ◽  
Slips Of The Tongue ◽  
The Mind

This chapter addresses the question of psychical determinism in the work of Sigmund Freud. As Freud tells us in The Psychopathology of Everyday Life and The Introductory Lectures, nothing in the mind is arbitrary or undetermined. As Freud demonstrates again and again in hundreds of examples of parapraxes (slips of the tongue, slips of the pen, misreadings, mishearings, bungled actions, etc.), the accident (Unfall) is no accident for the analyst who is able to recognize and interpret an unconscious purpose behind an apparently random event. So how does chance (Zufall, Zufälligkeit) operate in an economy of psychical determinism? How are we to think chance together with analysis’s hermeneutic drive—that is to say, together with its compulsion to make the accident unhappen?

Mind-Matter Interaction at a Distance of 190 km: Effects on a Random Event Generator Using a Cutoff Method

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrizio Tressoldi ◽  
Luciano Pederzoli ◽  
Patrizio Caini ◽  
Alessandro Ferrini ◽  
Simone Melloni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Event Generator ◽  
Random Event ◽  
Matter Interaction

scholarly journals Advances in Medical Hypnosis-Hypnotherapeutic Treatment of Female Sexual Disfunction

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-62
Author(s):  
M. Perat ◽  
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A. Starc ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Somatoform Disorders ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Anxiety Reduction ◽  
Internal Resources ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Visualization Techniques ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Given

Objective: Medical hypnotherapy has been recognized as a valid and successful treatment for a vast variety of physical and psychological disorders. It is well documented and researched, that it adds a significant value to all psychotherapeutic modalities and approaches. Clinical hypnotherapy has significant advantages in treating psychosomatic (somatoform disorders) and related issues, because its interventions bypass the critical factor of the mind. Hypnosis also gives us an advantage of reframing cognitive aspects of those resistant attitudes, which may serve as the secondary gain in the prevention of desired behavioural change. Hypnotic language can be regarded as language of primary thinking. Metaphors and visualization techniques play a major role in hypnotic communication. Design and Method: Qualitative case study. Results: Treatment outcome. Conclusions: The complex and multidimensional nature of female sexual disorder(s), allow us to learn how to tap at different hidden internal resources and at the same time cover the widest possible range of hypnotherapeutic interventions. In the given presentation, we will explain how to establish solid rapport with the patient and how to communicate troubled content. We will also explain the nature of sedation without medication, and how to control the pain, and other psychosomatic dysfunctions with the internal resources of the mind. Most learned intervention will also be applicable to a wide variety of psychological and medical conditions, ranging from anxiety reduction to chronic and acute pain management.

scholarly journals Uncertainty Visualization

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lace Padilla ◽  
Matthew Kay ◽  
Jessica Hullman
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Uncertainty Visualization ◽  
Cognitive Theories ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Novices And Experts ◽  
Visualization Techniques ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Uncertainty Information

While uncertainty is present in most data analysis pipelines, reasoning with uncertainty is challenging for novices and experts alike. Fortunately, researchers are making significant advancements in the communication of uncertainty. In this chapter, we detail new visualization methods and emerging cognitive theories that describe how we reason with visual representations of uncertainty. We describe the best practices in uncertainty visualization and the psychology behind how each approach supports viewers' judgments. This chapter begins with a brief overview of conventional and state-of-the-art uncertainty visualization techniques. Then we take an in-depth look at the pros and cons of each technique using cognitive theories that describe why and how the mind processes different types of uncertainty information.

scholarly journals Machiavelli and the problem of a beginning

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-146
Author(s):  
Ivan Milenkovic
Keyword(s):  
Random Event ◽  
Multiple Meaning ◽  
The Mind

What a state would be like - strong or weak, solid or prone to collapse - depends on the manner in which it begins. Likewise, once a state is constituted, a periodical return to the beginning seems to be a remedy against the deterioration of an order. For Machiavelli, however, beginning not only isn?t a self-explanatory notion, but has multiple meaning and is, moreover, paradoxical. Considering primarily two Machiavelli?s main works, The Prince and Discourses on Livi, this article tends to point out different beginnings in Machiavelli?s opus (beginning in time and beginning out of time, beginning of history and beginning of writing, beginning of monarchy and beginning of republic), as well as the constitutive instability of the beginning (what or who establishes the beginning: the mind, the ruler, a random event, a foundational gesture or an outcome?).

Vachanamrut Visualization

2021 ◽  
pp. 139-157
Author(s):  
Chintan M. Bhatt ◽  
Bhishm Daslaniya ◽  
Ghanshyam Patel ◽  
Divyesh Patel
Keyword(s):  
Data Visualization ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Graphical Interface ◽  
Ancient Text ◽  
Visualization Techniques ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Gujarati Language

The authors discuss their interaction with data using various data visualization techniques, which are a quick, easy way to convey concepts universally. Currently, data has become more and more important; it is also important how one can visualize that data in the mind. This chapter is based on extracting important information from one of the holy Swaminarayan scriptures. The authors explore the content of the Vachanamrut, a unique work of prose in the Gujarati language, which contains discourses of Lord Swaminarayan and his conversation with saints and devotees. They convert the data in graphical interface using some libraries of the R tool. So, one can get the main idea of that data quickly, without a need to explain more about that data. Summing it up, this chapter examines the techniques of describing data of any ancient scripture or ancient text in any language by visualizing that data.

Investigation of random event generator changes in Agnistoma Somayaga rituals: An exploratory study

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Divya BangaloreRaghavendra Prasad ◽  
NagendraR Hongasandra ◽  
Amritanshu Ram
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Event Generator ◽  
Random Event
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