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Red light facilitates the sensed presence elicited by application of weak, burst-firing magnetic fields over the temporal lobes.
Meli SC, Persinger MA. Meli SC, et al. Int J Neurosci. 2009;119(1):68-75. doi: 10.1080/00207450802507689. Int J Neurosci. 2009. PMID: 19116832
The significant interaction between ambient color and the field treatment was due to the marked increase in experiences of dizziness, sensed presence, "ego-alien" thoughts, and detachment from the body and "being somewhere else" for subjects exposed to the magnetic …
The significant interaction between ambient color and the field treatment was due to the marked increase in experiences of dizziness, sen …
Experimental facilitation of the sensed presence is predicted by the specific patterns of the applied magnetic fields, not by suggestibility: re-analyses of 19 experiments.
St-Pierre LS, Persinger MA. St-Pierre LS, et al. Int J Neurosci. 2006 Sep;116(9):1079-96. doi: 10.1080/00207450600808800. Int J Neurosci. 2006. PMID: 16861170
If all experiences are generated by brain activity, then experiences of God and spirits should also be produced by the appropriate cerebral stimulation. During the last 15 years experiments have shown that the sensed presence of a "Sentient Being" can be reliably ev …
If all experiences are generated by brain activity, then experiences of God and spirits should also be produced by the appropriate cerebral …
Vectorial cerebral hemisphericity as differential sources for the sensed presence, mystical experiences and religious conversions.
Persinger MA. Persinger MA. Percept Mot Skills. 1993 Jun;76(3 Pt 1):915-30. doi: 10.2466/pms.1993.76.3.915. Percept Mot Skills. 1993. PMID: 8321608 Review.
Multiple variants of the sensed presence often precede mystical and religious experiences that are frequently followed by sudden, permanent changes in self-concept. ...Depending upon the relative activity of the two hemispheres, intrusions of the right hemispheric e …
Multiple variants of the sensed presence often precede mystical and religious experiences that are frequently followed by sudd …
Increased feelings of the sensed presence and increased geomagnetic activity at the time of the experience during exposures to transcerebral weak complex magnetic fields.
Booth JN, Koren SA, Persinger MA. Booth JN, et al. Int J Neurosci. 2005 Jul;115(7):1053-79. doi: 10.1080/00207450590901521. Int J Neurosci. 2005. PMID: 16051550
In 2 separate experiments involving 39 subjects the incidence of sensing a presence or Sentient Being while being exposed to weak complex magnetic fields over the right hemisphere was moderately correlated with increased global geomagnetic activity during the 3-h pe …
In 2 separate experiments involving 39 subjects the incidence of sensing a presence or Sentient Being while being exposed to w …
Experimental facilitation of the sensed presence: possible intercalation between the hemispheres induced by complex magnetic fields.
Persinger MA, Healey F. Persinger MA, et al. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2002 Aug;190(8):533-41. doi: 10.1097/00005053-200208000-00006. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2002. PMID: 12193838
This experiment was designed to test the hypothesis that the sensed presence, the feeling of a proximal sentient being, can be evoked within the laboratory. ...The results suggest that the sensed presence is subject to experimental manipulation. This e …
This experiment was designed to test the hypothesis that the sensed presence, the feeling of a proximal sentient being, can be …
Enhanced incidence of "the sensed presence" in people who have learned to meditate: support for the right hemispheric intrusion hypothesis.
Persinger MA. Persinger MA. Percept Mot Skills. 1992 Dec;75(3 Pt 2):1308-10. doi: 10.2466/pms.1992.75.3f.1308. Percept Mot Skills. 1992. PMID: 1484802
If the "sensed presence" is the transient intrusion of the right hemispheric equivalent of the left hemispheric (and highly linguistic) sense of self, then any process that facilitates interhemispheric electrical coherence should enhance these experiences. .. …
If the "sensed presence" is the transient intrusion of the right hemispheric equivalent of the left hemispheric (and highly li …
Experimental induction of the "sensed presence" in normal subjects and an exceptional subject.
Cook CM, Persinger MA. Cook CM, et al. Percept Mot Skills. 1997 Oct;85(2):683-93. doi: 10.2466/pms.1997.85.2.683. Percept Mot Skills. 1997. PMID: 9347559
9 of the 15 volunteers who were exposed to successive 3-min. durations of bursts of different types of weak (1 microT) complex magnetic fields or sham-fields reported the sense of a presence as indicated by a button press at the time of the experience. ...The result …
9 of the 15 volunteers who were exposed to successive 3-min. durations of bursts of different types of weak (1 microT) complex magnetic fiel …
The sensed presence may be facilitated by interhemispheric intercalation: relative efficacy of the Mind's Eye, Hemi-Sync Tape, and bilateral temporal magnetic field stimulation.
Johnson CP, Persinger MA. Johnson CP, et al. Percept Mot Skills. 1994 Aug;79(1 Pt 1):351-4. doi: 10.2466/pms.1994.79.1.351. Percept Mot Skills. 1994. PMID: 7991330
The men who received the binaural stimulation (Hemi-Sync Tape) reported more intense sensed presences and ego-alien intrusions than did the other two groups. In a similar second experiment, 18 university women who received the binaural stimulation also reported thes …
The men who received the binaural stimulation (Hemi-Sync Tape) reported more intense sensed presences and ego-alien intrusions …
Elevated incidence of a sensed presence and sexual arousal during partial sensory deprivation and sensitivity to hypnosis: implications for hemisphericity and gender differences.
Tiller SG, Persinger MA. Tiller SG, et al. Percept Mot Skills. 1994 Dec;79(3 Pt 2):1527-31. doi: 10.2466/pms.1994.79.3f.1527. Percept Mot Skills. 1994. PMID: 7870539
As predicted by the vectorial cerebral hemisphericity hypothesis, 24 normal young women reported significantly more experiences of a "presence" than did 24 normal young men within a setting that emphasized hypnosis and partial sensory deprivation. ...Both sexes exhibited a …
As predicted by the vectorial cerebral hemisphericity hypothesis, 24 normal young women reported significantly more experiences of a "pre …
Potential production of Hughlings Jackson's "parasitic consciousness" by physiologically-patterned weak transcerebral magnetic fields: QEEG and source localization.
Saroka KS, Persinger MA. Saroka KS, et al. Epilepsy Behav. 2013 Sep;28(3):395-407. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2013.05.023. Epub 2013 Jul 17. Epilepsy Behav. 2013. PMID: 23872082 Free article. Review.
Exotic experiences such as the sensing of another consciousness or the detachment of consciousness from the body are occasionally reported by individuals with partial seizures from a temporal lobe focus. ...
Exotic experiences such as the sensing of another consciousness or the detachment of consciousness from the body are occasionally rep …
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