Dr. Colin Ross - Research Examines the Power of a Human Stare

Hmmmm . . . either it's more voodoo science, or this could explain a lot about intersubjective fields operate. I'm willing to bet there is something to this and that maybe we don't have the right tools available to measure the full depth of human stares.

Research Examines the Power of a Human Stare

Paper by Dr. Colin A. Ross explains how to measure the eyes electromagnetic energy

DALLAS, April 5, 2010 Noted psychiatrist and author Colin A. Ross, M.D., has published experimental data that supports his scientific hypothesis that the eyes emit energy that can be captured and measured. Dr. Ross paper, The Electrophysiological Basis of Evil Eye Belief, is published in the current issue of Anthropology of Consciousness, a journal of the American Anthropological Association. (The abstract is available here.) Another paper on this topic is also online, available in full.

Although nearly everyone has experienced the sense of being stared at only to find that a person or animal really was looking, Western science has long rejected that the human eye can emit any form of energy. Dr. Ross says his findings move human ocular extramission, which he also refers to as an eyebeam, from the realm of superstition to science.

We used our patent pending Electromagnetic Beam Detection System, which includes modified EEG neurofeedback equipment, to prove that the human eye emits an electromagnetic signal that can be measured scientifically, said Dr. Ross. I hope that future experiments will determine why energy emitted from the eye is so strong and whether it can be harnessed through focused attention.

Dr. Ross has been researching a new science and medicine focused on the human bodys electromagnetic field, which he detailed in his 2009 book, Human Energy Fields (ISBN-13: 978-0-9821851-0-0).

Dr. Ross previously made headlines by applying to the $1 Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge administered by the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) (www.randi.org). Although Dr. Ross can prove that his eyebeam can make a tone sound out of a computer, JREF insists that no energy can be emitted from the eyes and mocked Dr. Ross with its Pigasus Award. JREF has not responded to Dr. Ross test protocol.

Dr. Ross is the author of 140 papers in professional journals and 23 books. He has lectured widely in North America, Europe, China, New Zealand and Australia, has reviewed for many different psychiatry journals, and received a number of research grants. His writing also includes short stories, poems, aphorisms, plays and essays on a wide range of topics. For more information about Dr. Ross and the Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma, visit www.rossinst.com.

 

All in the Mind - The eyes have it! Deep time and future vision

Interesting stuff.

The eyes have it! Deep time and future vision

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Some call the eyes the window on the soul. Trevor Lamb has been gazing into the eyes of living fossil 'fishy' beings, and deep into evolutionary time to unravel the beginnings of our incredible seeing organ. And what about its future? A myopia explosion in East Asian cities has folk worried, and there's good evidence for a surprising cause.

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Guests

Professor Trevor Lamb
Research director,
ARC Federation Fellow
ARC Centre for Excellence in Vision Science
Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
http://www.vision.edu.au/people/lambt.htm

Professor Ian Morgan
Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science
Senior Fellow, Visual Sciences Group
The Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
http://www.vision.edu.au/people/morgani.htm

Dr Krisztina Valter
Chief Investigator, ARC Centre for Excellence in Vision Science
Research Fellow, Research School of Biological Sciences
Australian National University
http://neuroscience.anu.edu.au/EIN_CIs/KrisztinaValter.html

Further Information

All in the Mind blog - Add your comments and contribute to the discussion about the show
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Indoors, and short-sighted
Peter Lavelle, ABC Health and Wellbeing online, February 2009

Myopia on the rise
Peter Lavelle, ABC Health and Wellbeing Online, 2005

Cambrian Explosion Explained
Zoologist Andrew Parker's book, In the Blink of an Eye, presents his theory that the proliferation of life that defined the Cambrian Explosion was triggered by the development of the eye.

More articles about the eye, from ABC Health and Wellbeing online

Evolution of the eye (PBS TV, USA)

Blast from the Past! Richard Dawkins in 1987 on the evolution of the eye
From Youtube

Wikipedia page on the Hagfish
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Wikipedia page on the Lamprey
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The Blind Brain - Part 1 of 2 (All in the Mind, 2007)

The Blind Brain: Part 2 of 2 - The bionic eye

Publications

Title: How genetic is school myopia?
Author: Ian Morgan, Kathryn Rose
Publisher: Progress in Retinal and Eye Research 24, 2005 1-38
URL: http://w3.csmu.edu.tw/~pcl/handout/optometrynews/How%20genetic%20is%20school%20myopia.pdf

Title: In the Blink of an Eye
Author: Andrew Parker
Publisher: Basic Books, 2003

Title: Outdoor Activity Reduces the Prevalence of Myopia in Children
Author: Kathryn A. Rose, Ian G. Morgan, Jenny Ip, Annette Kifley, Son Huynh, Wayne Smith, Paul Mitchell
Publisher: Opthamology, Volume 115, Issue 8, Pages 1279-1285 (August 2008)
URL: http://www.ophsource.org/periodicals/ophtha/article/S0161-6420(07)01364-4/abstract

Title: Evolution of the vertebrate eye: opsins, photoreceptors, retina and eye cup
Author: Trevor D. Lamb, Shaun P. Collin & Edward N. Pugh, Jr
Publisher: Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 960-976 (December 2007)
URL: http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v8/n12/abs/nrn2283.html

Title: Evolution of Vertebrate Retinal Photoreception
Author: Trevor D Lamb
Publisher: Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B (2009), 364, 2911-2924
URL: http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/364/1531/2911.abstract

Title: The Origin of the Vertebrate Eye
Author: Trevor D. Lamb, Edward N. Pugh Jr, Shaun P Collin
Publisher: Evolution: Education and Outreach, Volume 1, Number 4 / October, 2008
URL: http://www.springerlink.com/content/n4t036300571k8j4/

Presenter

Natasha Mitchell

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