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Lynn McTaggart has been running intention experiments online for a while now.  She's had meditators sign on at a specific site at a specific time and send a prescribed intention.  You can read about the experiments at her site (click above).  She (as well as others) has shown that this can, in fact, have measurable effects.  The targets have been philanthropic: helping kids with ADD, helping people with Alzheimer's disease, countering pollution.  She's worked with leading scientists from Princeton University and Cambridge University, among others.

On September 14, 2008, a very exciting experiment of this type will take place.  It's being hyped as the "Live Aid" of intention experiments.  What might be hundreds of thousands of people will gather online to send intentions of peace to a specific area of the earth.  The location will probably be somewhere in the Middle East.  The reason for the secrecy, is along with positively affecting the targeted area, the purpose is to study the effect.  Therefore, if the meditators involved knew the location involved any change in status for the region might be due to an unmeasurable effect of people getting a jump start on sending the intention.

So, I know where I will be on September 14 at the designated time: sitting in front of my computer, meditating for peace.  If you're a meditator, I invite you to join us.  If not, I invite you to follow the experiment.

BTW, I heard the best explanation of why intention doesn't work for all of us who've asked to win the lottery, get a new car, etc.  It's a simple explanation and I think it makes perfect sense.  The universe doesn't care about you winning the lottery, etc.  The universe does care with the evolution of your soul. You get what you need (whether you like it or want it or not).  And if you happen to ask for something that you can use to advance your evolution, or make the world a better place - then you'll have the full attention and support of the universe.  

But, remember: be careful what you ask for because you just may get it.  Richard from Texas (from Elizabeth Gilbert's "Eat, Pray, Love") asked God to open his heart and ended up with open heart surgery. This evening I heard Ragani (a spiritual singer) tell a story about asking Swami Rama, after he was already dead to send her a sign on whether or not she should record a c.d.  It was winter in Minnesota.  She asked him to send a snake as a sign if she should do so (let me go on record here as saying I'd never, ever ask for a snake as a sign for anything).  Wouldn't you know it, a snake was what she found later that evening in the middle of the kitchen floor! That said, I don't think you can ever go wrong asking for peace. Asking for peace with thousands of other people: always a good thing.  Quantifiable or not.

Lastly, the TM people have been doing similar work for years.  Check it out.  It's called the Maharishi Effect.