EEG Activity During Mental Influence on a Random Signal Generator

Abstract

This preliminary study is based on 38 experimental sittings in which 22 participants attempted to mentally influence an electronic circuit called RSG (Random Signal Generator), while their cerebral activity was recorded by a 14-channel EEG. 
 Subject to sampling, signal peaks with an absolute value greater than a predetermined threshold were selected from the analogical RSG output by a computer program. Whenever a signal exceeded the threshold, an audible ‘beep’ sounded and the participant was asked to mentally increase the frequency of these beeps as much as possible, because a higher beep rate meant a successful mental influence attempt on the RSG. An important objective was to verify the existence of any relationship between a successful mental influence of the RSG and cerebral activity in the participant attempting the influence. 
 Compared to an equal number of ‘inactive’ sittings made without anyone attempting mental action, the ‘active’ sittings show a small increase in the average number of beeps/minute, but in particular a significant increase in the emitted beeps within 1.5 seconds of the previous beep (P <0.025). 
 The experimental sittings were divided into two groups (around 50% each), of which the first had better results, and only the frontal and fronto-temporal symmetrical EEG locations (AF3, AF4, F7, F8, F3, F4, Fc5, Fc6) were examined. The better group showed a significant reduction in Brain Synchrony (P < 0.03) together with an equally significant increase in Beta and Gamma 15-42 Hz (P < 0.03) activity.
 These differences were interpreted as an effect of greater mental work performed by the better group during mental influence of the RSG. 
 This is the first study to investigate the relationship between EEG activity and mind-matter (PK) interaction at a distance; indeed all studies devoted to PK have only focused attention on the object of attempted mental action, which was predominantly an RNG (Random Number Generator).

Minding the Matter of Psychokinesis: A Review of Proof- and Process-Oriented Experimental Findings Related to Mental Influence on Random Number Generators

“…Compared to control data, EEG data collected from the participants' frontal lobes during the experimental period were found to have higher mean amplitudes in both the alpha and beta range (p < .001). Significantly increased brain wave activity in the alpha and beta bands also was found by Giroldini and Pederzoli (2021) in a conceptually similar PK experiment conducted three decades later using another custom-designed random generator, and this EEG activity was also found to extend into the gamma (30+ Hz) frequency range.…”

JSE 36:4 Winter 2022 Full Issue

“…1. INTRODUCTION Psychophysical phenomena of various scales have been investigated by many laboratories over nearly a century's span using contemporary scientific instruments and statistical methodologies (Pratt, 1949;Rhine 1963;Schmidt, 1973;Tart et al, 1980;Jahn, 1982;Radin, 1982;Utts, 1986;McConnell, 1989;Dunne & Jahn, 1992;Bierman, 1996;Alexander, 2019;Giroldini & Pederzoli, 2021). However, the lack of a plausible physical mechanism to account for the intriguingly exhibited mind-matter interaction has prevented psychophysical research from being well-regarded by the physical science community (Shewmaker & Berender, 1962;Jamali et al, 2019;Tremblay, 2019;Walleczek & von Stillfried, 2019).…”

Impact of Meditation Versus Exercise on Psychological Characteristics, Paranormal Experiences, and Beliefs: Randomized Trial

“…Additionally, we examine the real-time impacts of group meditation on a random number generator as an example of extraordinary psi abilities of the groups. Experiments using truly random number generators (RNGs) have reportedly demonstrated anomalous deviations in various group settings, including group meditations (Radin & Patterson, 2007), but this finding has not been consistent (Williams, 2021). According to research by Nelson et al, 2002, group meditations have a greater possibility of producing deviations or variance in true RNG outputs (Nelson et al, 2002).…”