Sheldrake has proposed an experiment to test whether phantom limb fields can be detected by Reiki healers or practitioners of subtle energy medicine: amputees push their phantom arms through one of six randomly selected panels in a barrier, and healers blind to the setup attempt to identify which panel has the phantom arm, with results so far significantly above chance.
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Rupert SheldrakeEvidence Quote
“they push their Phantom arm through one of six possessions in a barrier a door for example and on the other side that's done in a randomized sequence on the other side I have people who do subtle Energy Medicine Reiki healers and so on and one at a time I lead them in I say one of those panels has a phantom arm sticking through it um and the others don't which has got the Phantom and they're right more than chance so far substantially more than chance”
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