Groundbreaking Results in Consciousness, Quantum Brain & Nonlocality Research Have Been Achieved by Michael Persinger's Group

JCER News: First installment of JCER 4(1) "Groundbreaking Results in Consciousness, Quantum Brain & Nonlocality Research by Michael Persinger's Group" is published on Feb. 4, 2013. This is a Special Issue of JCER featuring the latest research of Michael Persinger's Group. The articles in this issue will be published in installments within the next several days. Please check back at JCER website for additional articles.

The above photograph shows most people in Professor Michael Persinger's Neuroscience Research Group involved with consciousness research on site at Laurentian University: Top row (left to right): Joey Caswell, Brendan Lehaman, David Vares, Blake Dotta, Andrew Lapointe; Second row (left to right): Nirosha Murugan, Lukasz Karbowski, Kevin Saroka, Mandy Scott; Bottom row (left to right): Lucas Tessaro, Michael Persinger, Paula Corradini, Constance Reed, Lyndon Juden-Kelly; Absent: Ryan Burke, Mark Collins, Linda St-Pierre, Stanley Koren, Rob Lafrenie, Trevor Carniello.

The first article in the Special Issue is "Congruence of Energies for Cerebral Photon Emissions, Quantitative EEG Activities and ~5 nT Changes in the Proximal Geomagnetic Field Support Spin-based Hypothesis of Consciousness authored by Michael A. Persinger, Blake T. Dotta, Kevin S. Saroka, Mandy A. Scott:

Summary:The hypothesis by Hu & Wu that networks of nuclear spins in neural membranes could be modulated by action potentials was explored by measurements of the quantitative changes in photon emissions, electroencephalographic activity, and alterations in the proximal geomagnetic field during successive periods when a subject sitting in the dark imagined white light or did not. During brief periods of imagining white light the power density of photon emissions from the right hemisphere was about 10-11 W∙m-2 that was congruent with magnetic energy within the volume associated with a diminishment of ~7 nT as predicted by the dipole-dipole coupling relation across the neuronal cell membrane. Spectral analyses showed maxima in power from electroencephalographic activity within the parahippocampal region and photon emissions from the right hemisphere with shared phase modulations equivalent to about 20 ms. Beat frequencies (6 Hz) between peak power in photon (17 Hz) and brain (11 Hz) amplitude fluctuations during imagining light were equivalent to energy differences within the visible wavelength that were identical to the intrinsic 8 Hz rhythmic variations of neurons within the parahippocampal gyrus. Several quantitative solutions strongly suggested that spin energies can accommodate the interactions between protons, electrons, and photons and the action potentials associated with intention, consciousness, and entanglement.