There are numerous legends that the Russian theosophist, writer and traveler Elena Blavatskaya (1831-1891) possessed amazing abilities. It seems that she could literally extract all sorts of useful objects from the air: food, dishes, cutlery, jewelry, embroidered handkerchiefs, books, letters and much more.
People who work miracles
The same, they say, knew how to do the Hindu saint Sathya Sai Baba, who lived in his ashram (the abode of sages and hermits). When asked where he gets all these things, Sai Baba replied: from the reality that Europeans call the subtle world. And to another question, why, then, the saint does not eliminate hunger, helping to provide food for the needy people, the hermit threw up his hands - Providence gives us only an example, the rest we must get by our labor.
Indeed, if the fruits that Sai Baba got "out of nowhere" were immediately eaten, then the jewelry that he materialized and easily presented to others after a while evaporated without a trace.
Here one involuntarily recalls the accomplishment of a miracle by Jesus Christ, who fed several thousand people with two loaves of bread and five fish, but the Savior did this only once.
Anyone who has heard about the skills of Blavatsky and Sai Baba immediately thinks that this could be a trick or a clever fraud. However, the experiences of other "miracle workers" refute this opinion.
Say, the 19th century English medium D. D. Hume performed seances in daylight, which almost completely excluded cheating and forgery. Bells rang in Hume's presence, books flew like birds. And one day the medium took off by itself.
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Observers were struck by Hume's influence on a musical instrument - the harmonica. The medium enclosed her in a metal basket so that others would not have the slightest doubt - this is reality, not a focus. At Hume's mental order, the harmonica played various melodies by itself.
The Geller phenomenon and the Schmidt experience
In the 70s of the XX century, scientific experiments were carried out at the Stanford Research Institute with the famous psychic Uri Geller, during which he bent and broke metal objects, erased tape recorders, made things disappear and reappear, and so on. His experiments with radish seeds were especially surprising. During these experiments, Geller forced the seeds to germinate by willpower, and then, using the same efforts, returned the sprouts back under the seed rind. For several years, Uri's parapsychic abilities were tested in various laboratories around the world, until scientists were convinced that this was not hypnosis, not an illusion, not an effect of suggestion, not a fraud and not a clever trick, but real psychophysical phenomena.
And the American physicist Helmut Schmidt in 1971 conducted an original experiment with the so-called random event stimulator - a device that spontaneously produced various signals. The purpose of the experiment was to put an end to the question: does thought affect matter or not. The generation and fixation of random numbers was carried out by the apparatus without human intervention. The operator, according to Schmidt's plan, had to influence with the power of will and thought to increase the number of some signals and decrease others. And he succeeded quite well, although the laws of traditional physics seemed to completely exclude such a possibility. Experimental results have definitely shown that thought influences matter. Random processes here were supplemented by the intervention of an outside observer's consciousness.
Maharishi effect
This materializing principle was established by the Indian guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the second half of the 20th century. In July-August 1979, Maharishi, previously better known for his friendship with the famous The Beatles, who were his students, gathered over two thousand of his supporters in one place (Massachusetts, USA) in order to focus on one thought on command. As a result, the number of road accidents in this state decreased by 6.5%, violent crimes by 3.4%, and plane crashes by 20.8%, compared with the benchmarks. Similar experiments were carried out in the Philippines, Canada, Australia and Great Britain, Israel and other countries, everywhere demonstrating the influence of collective thought on matter.
According to researchers, the Maharishi effect is a phenomenon of collective consciousness that works at the level of a group, society, country, people, the entire population of the world as a whole. The main condition here is that individual consciousnesses act in harmony, in unison. When there is no coordination and, on the contrary, there is a polarization of feelings, moods and opinions, this can lead to adverse social and physical consequences: wars, revolutions, earthquakes, man-made disasters.
There are also a number of reports on the directional influence of collective meditation on the weather.
Placebo method and the "Anthropic principle of participation"
In psychotherapy, the placebo method is widely known, which consists in giving the patient a "dummy" instead of a real drug - a harmless substance that does not have any physiological effect, which looks like a drug and is packaged like a real drug. Placebo is used, for example, when, for one reason or another, it is required to save the patient from the side effects of medications. And here's what it turned out - in many cases, the placebo healed just as well as the original drug. Doctors and psychologists have previously explained this solely by the susceptibility of patients to suggestion, not realizing that there are other reasons. These include the so-called materialization effect triggered by the doctor's thought and words. As a result, a completely inactive drug has the same physiological effect as an active one. A similar effect is widely and not without success used not only in medicine, but also, for example, in psychology, in the media.
So it turns out that thought really affects matter, and not only on a local scale, but also on a global scale. In 1983, American theoretical physicist John Wheeler formulated the "Anthropic Principle of Participation": "Observers are necessary for the Universe to be." This formulation is based on the assumption that the observed laws of nature are not the only ones that actually exist, that is, there must be real Universes with different laws.
Wheeler's "Anthropic Participatory Principle" means that universes without an intelligent observer do not acquire reality status. The reason for this is that only the observer is able to translate the set of possible states into water, real.
Highly authoritative theorists have come to the conclusion that the consciousness of the observer is as much a necessary element of the Universe as it is itself, and it is the mental activity of a person that creates the Universe.
Arkady Vyatkin. Magazine "Secrets of the XX century" No. 20 2011