Tulsi Prajna 2000 04

SR No.: 524603
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 152
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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his awareness only to the symbol on the card or applied guess work and whether he is satisfied about his efforts to apply consciousness and felt physically and mentally healthy during the process of this test. This was just a psychological effort to minimise interference of guess work.
Experiments
In this pioneering and preliminary study to evaluate the predictions made on the ESP test, a series of four experiments (A, B, C and D) were conducted in six months. Three exploratory experiments were conducted with individual meditators and the final one with a group of non-meditators (30 young students).
In order to understand various features of the properties of consciousness first two experiments were conducted on the first author himself. He is a Jain monk and practising Preksha Meditation* regularly for 18 years. He took training of a special technique of Preksha Meditation (Animesh Preksha)** for 3 month and 25 days in 160 sessions each consisting of 10 to 20 minutes to ensure the steadyness of awareness. During this training period Experiment A and Experiment B were conducted. ESP tests were conducted without applying the properties of consciousness (baseline/pre-test) in contrast to applying the properties of consciousness (intervention/post-test). Experiment - A
This experiment was designed to find out the feasibility and to standardise the procedure for applying the properties of consciousness. The above subject was subjected to the ESP test with the baseline and the intervention comprising a single session without any lapse of time. It was repeated for 20 times with 20 runs in each session as under :
Baseline-Intervention – Baseline-Intervention ...... (20 times)
It was revealed that testing in this manner did not provide consistent data. It appeared that the effect of application of properties of consciousness were not only discernible during intervention test but this effect continues in the test also. Similarly the period in which baseline was tested (without applying the properties of consciousness) its effect overlapped in intervention test as that followed without lapse of time. Therefore, this procedure of conducting the experiment was not found correct, hence it was modified in the experiment B.
* Preksha Meditation is a science and an art of purifying and steadying consciousness. ** Focusing awareness and maintaining steadyness on a object without blinking eyes.
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