Consciousness Field Project: Intention Host Device-mediated Distant Intentionality

NCT03403764 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 001
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 230
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study evaluates the potential for a new kind of wellness improvement intervention, utilizing the cutting edge model of William Tiller, PhD, material scientist and Stanford Professor Emeritus. The Tiller model suggests that through the use of focused human intentionality, the investigators can impact many things, one of which is the wellness of a population. Prof. Tiller's research found that intention in the form of information can be imprinted on a simple electric device, called an Intention-Host Device, or IHD. This device then energetically broadcasts (or transmits) this information to the study participants. This present study examines what effect an intention broadcasted from an IHD has on well defined outcome variables in adult subjects, namely self-compassion, wellness, and awakening in adults.

Conditions

Wellness

Keywords

Intention; Distant Healing; Wellness; Distant Intentionality; Distant Healing Intention

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Neff Self-Compassion Scale - Short Form

  The Neff Short Form consists of 12 questions cover Self-Kindness (2, 6), Self-Judgment (11, 12), Common Humanity (5, 10), Isolation (4, 8), Mindfulness (3, 7), Over-Identification (1, 9) and they are rated on a Likert scale from 1 (almost never) to 5 (almost always) with the total score derived by adding the means of each subscale together. The 6 subscales measure an individual's level of self-kindness, self-judgment, common humanity, isolation, mindfulness and over-identification. Sub scale scores are calculated as the mean of the sub scale items. The total self-compassion score reverses the negative sub scale items of self-judgment, isolation, over-identification (i.e. 1=5, 2=4, 3=3, 4=2, 1=5) to compute a total mean. Change from baseline for total and subscales are tracked. Higher scores indicate higher self-compassion

  18 months

• NIH PROMIS Global Health Short Form

  PROMIS® Global Health Short Form (10 items). The 10 global health items include ratings of the five core PROMIS domains. It includes the most widely used self-rated health item (global01). PROMIS® includes a single item that provides a pure rating of physical health (global03) and another item for mental health (global04). Also included is an overall quality of life item (global02). The remaining items provide global ratings of physical function (global06), fatigue (global08), pain (global07), emotional distress (global10), and social health (global05 and global09). The 10 PROMIS® Global Health items each have 5 response choices, with the exception of the common 11-point pain intensity item ("How would you rate your pain on average" with 0=No pain and 10=Worst imaginable pain). Global 1-5, 9 range from 5 (Excellent) to 1 (Poor), with higher numbers meaning greater health. Certain items are restored (Global 7 such that 5=0 no pain, and 1=10 worst pain), Global8 (5=None, 1=Very Severe),

  18 months

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• The text analysis Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (2007)

  18 months

• Barrett Values Inventory

  18 months

Study Arms (2)

Wellness Intention Transmission Groups

EXPERIMENTAL

Aim of this part of the study is to examine whether intention broadcasted from an Intention Host Device (a device which stores and transmits an intention) will affect self-compassion, general wellness, and awakening. 300 trial participants will be randomly allocated to 1/3 in control and 2/3 in the experimental IHD group, respectively. Differences in outcomes between control and experimental groups are expected. To address potential bias, those who enter the study but drop out are compared to those who complete the study to gauge potential differences between the two groups, and will report on this potential bias in the published manuscript.

Other: Wellness Intention

Independent Control Group

NO INTERVENTION

Due to the "global, emergent entanglement" phenomenon, the investigators are curious if the investigators can test this idea within the context of the proposed study. The investigators added an additional but smaller control group which will complete the same three questionnaires for the first 6 months only and will be unaware of the larger study being conducted. These 50 subjects will be told they are completing the questionnaires in the context of a distinct, separate study and will be unaware of the Consciousness Field Project.

Interventions

Wellness Intention OTHER

Also known as: Distant Intentionality

Wellness Intention Transmission Groups

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• volunteers over age 18 speaking English

You may not qualify if:

• Subjects who cannot read, anybody with a legally authorized representative (LAR), site/sponsor employees directly involved with the study and their family members, site/sponsor employees NOT directly involved with the study and their family members, statutory minors

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Merraki Institute: lead
• University of California, San Diego: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Merraki Institute

Palo Alto, California, 94303, United States

Location

Related Publications (5)

• Radin D, Hayssen G, Walsh J. Effects of intentionally enhanced chocolate on mood. Explore (NY). 2007 Sep-Oct;3(5):485-92. doi: 10.1016/j.explore.2007.06.004.

  PMID: 17905358 BACKGROUND

• Radin D, Schlitz M, Baur C. Distant Healing Intention Therapies: An Overview of the Scientific Evidence. Glob Adv Health Med. 2015 Nov;4(Suppl):67-71. doi: 10.7453/gahmj.2015.012.suppl. Epub 2015 Nov 1.

  PMID: 26665044 BACKGROUND

• Targ E. Evaluating distant healing: a research review. Altern Ther Health Med. 1997 Nov;3(6):74-8.

  PMID: 9375432 BACKGROUND

• Nisha Manek, William Tiller. Feasibility of Information Medicine as Delivered by Intention Host Devices: A Case Report Glob Adv Health Med. 2013 Nov; 2(Suppl): S152. Published online 2013 Nov 1. doi: 10.7453/gahmj.2013.097CP.P05.09 PMCID: PMC3875095

  BACKGROUND

• Hyland ME. Does a form of 'entanglement' between people explain healing? An examination of hypotheses and methodology. Complement Ther Med. 2004 Dec;12(4):198-208. doi: 10.1016/j.ctim.2004.10.002.

  PMID: 15649833 BACKGROUND

Related Links

• Whitepapers: #1 and # XVI and # XXIV and # XXX and # XXI

Study Officials

• Paul Mills, Ph.D.

  Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health, UC San Diego

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: TRIPLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: The investigator and participants involved in this clinical trial are prevented from having knowledge which intervention is assigned to individual participants. A second control group has no knowledge of the parallel conducted Consciousness Field Project.
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Model Details: Participants receive one of two alternative interventions during the initial phase of the study and receive the other intervention during the second phase of the study and are evaluated in parallel against a control group

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 19, 2017
• First Posted: January 19, 2018
• Study Start: April 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: November 1, 2019
• Study Completion: November 1, 2019
• Last Updated: January 2, 2020

Record last verified: 2019-12

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)