Changing the laws of reality, e.g. ‘say it and it’s so’
The Philip experiment: collectively ‘creating’ a ghost
📜 On record
Toronto Society for Psychical Research, Iris Owen · Canada, Toronto · 1972–1974
8 people invented the biography of a 17th-century nobleman ‘Philip’; after months of séances a table began rapping and moving to ‘answer’ questions about him.
VerdictThe researchers admitted it was group-unconscious muscle action.
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Consciousness & double-slit interference
🎓 Academic research
IONS, Dean Radin (Physics Essays 2012, 6 experiments) · USA · 2012
When meditators watched a double-slit apparatus, fringe contrast dropped slightly.
VerdictMainstream physicists attribute it to equipment thermal drift and systematic error.
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Open-label placebo
🎓 Academic research
Harvard / Beth Israel, Kaptchuk (PLOS ONE 2010) · USA · 2010
Told explicitly ‘this is a placebo’, IBS patients still improved significantly.
VerdictBelief changing the body is real — it just doesn’t change physical law.
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The ‘Mandela effect’ & false-memory research
🎓 Academic research
UC Irvine, Elizabeth Loftus · USA · 1974–
Many ‘remember’ Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s; Loftus’s decades of experiments show memory is easily rewritten by suggestion.
VerdictWhat changes is memory, not reality.
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The tulpa (thought-form)
📜 On record
Explorer Alexandra David-Néel’s ‘Magic and Mystery in Tibet’ · Tibet · 1929
She said she ‘created’ a monk figure by visualisation that later went out of control and took months to ‘dissolve’.
VerdictA personal account.
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