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Physiological Coherence

McCraty, R., & Childre, D. (2010). Coherence: Bridging personal, social and global health. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, 16(4), 10-24.

McCraty, R., Atkinson, M., Tomasino, D., & Bradley, R. T. (2012). The coherent heart: Heart-brain interactions, psychophysiological coherence, and the emergence of system-wide order. Integral Review, 5(2), 10-115.

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Neural Entrainment and Synchronization

Orme-Johnson, D. W., Cavanaugh, K. L., Dillbeck, M. C., & Goodman, R. S. (2022). Field effects of consciousness: A seventeen-year study of the effects of group practice of Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs on reducing national stress in the United States. World Journal of Social Science, 9(2), 1-38

Travis, F., & Orme-Johnson, D. W. (1989). Field model of consciousness: EEG coherence changes as indicators of field effects. International Journal of Neuroscience, 49(3-4), 203-211.

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Collective Behavior Effects

Hagelin, J. S., et al. (1999). Effects of group practice of the Transcendental Meditation program on preventing violent crime in Washington, D.C.: Results of the National Demonstration Project, June-July 1993. Social Indicators Research, 47(2), 153-201.

Dillbeck, M. C., & Cavanaugh, K. L. (2016). Societal violence and collective consciousness: Reduction of U.S. homicide and urban violent crime rates. SAGE Open, 6(2), 1-16.

Davies, J. L. (1989). Alleviating political violence through enhancing coherence in collective consciousness: Impact assessment analysis of the Lebanon war [Doctoral dissertation]. Maharishi University of Management.

Orme-Johnson, D. W., Alexander, C. N., Davies, J. L., Chandler, H. M., & Larimore, W. E. (1988). International peace project in the Middle East: Effects of the Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 32(4), 776-812.

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Mind-Matter Interaction

Mason, L. I., Patterson, R. P., & Radin, D. I. (2007). Exploratory study: The random number generator and group meditation. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 21(2), 295-317.

Nelson, R. D., Radin, D. I., Shoup, R., & Bancel, P. A. (2002). Correlations of continuous random data with major world events. Foundations of Physics Letters, 15(6), 537-550.

Bancel, P., & Nelson, R. (2008). The GCP event experiment: Design, analytical methods, results. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 22, 309-333.

Nelson, R. (2011). Detecting mass consciousness: Effects of globally shared attention and emotion. In Behind and beyond the brain (pp. 365-383). Fundação Bial.

Nelson, R. D. (2001). Correlation of global events with REG data: An Internet-based, nonlocal anomalies experiment. Journal of Parapsychology, 65, 247-271. (no paper)

Schmidt, H. (2009). A puzzling aspect of the "Global Consciousness Project." Journal of Scientific Exploration, 23(4), 507-509.

Radin, D. I., & Nelson, R. D. (1989). Evidence for consciousness-related anomalies in random physical systems. Foundations of Physics, 19(12), 1499-1514.

Radin, D. I., & Nelson, R. D. (2003). Meta-analysis of mind-matter interaction experiments: 1959 to 2000. In W. B. Jonas & C. C. Crawford (Eds.), Healing, intention and energy medicine (pp. 39-48). Churchill Livingstone.

Tressoldi, P. E., Pederzoli, L., Caini, P., Ferrini, A., Melloni, S., Prati, E., ... & Trabucco, A. (2014). Mind-matter interaction at a distance of 190 km: Effects on a random event generator using a cutoff method. NeuroQuantology, 12(3), 337-343.

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Biofield Phenomenon

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Jain, S., Hammerschlag, R., Mills, P., et al. (2015). Clinical studies of biofield therapies: Summary, methodological challenges, and recommendations. Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 4(Suppl), 58-66.

Schwartz, S. A., De Mattei, R. J., Brame, E. G., & Spottiswoode, S. J. P. (2015). Infrared spectra alteration in water proximate to the palms of therapeutic practitioners.

Astin, J. A., Harkness, E., & Ernst, E. (2000). The efficacy of "distant healing": A systematic review of randomized trials. Annals of Internal Medicine, 132(11), 903-910.

Schlitz, M. (2005). Meditation, prayer and spiritual healing: The evidence. Permanente Journal, 9(3), 63-66.

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Global Field Dynamics

McCraty, R., & Deyhle, A. (2010). The Global Coherence Initiative. Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 1(1), 64-77.

Persinger, M. A. (1995). On the possibility of directly accessing every human brain by electromagnetic induction of fundamental algorithms. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 80(3), 791-799.

Nelson, R. D., Bradish, G. J., Dobyns, Y. H., Dunne, B. J., & Jahn, R. G. (1996). FieldREG anomalies in group situations. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 10(1), 111-141.

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