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Part I: Background
The PEAR Story
Psyleron’s products and explorations are based on the work
of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory
(the PEAR lab). For nearly 30 years, the laboratory
investigated the effects of consciousness on the physical
world. The PEAR story is fascinating and important, and
because PEAR was the precursor to Psyleron, we have
summarized the story here.
In 1978, Dr. Robert G. Jahn, dean of the school of
engineering and applied science at Princeton University, was
approached by a student with an unusual request. For her
senior thesis project, “Alice” was hoping to study the notion
that the human mind could directly influence the output of
physical devices. However, no one on the faculty of the
engineering school was willing to entertain this topic and
serve as an advisor for the project. Alice approached Dr.
Jahn to voice complaint and to elicit his support.
Although Dr. Jahn was not particularly compelled by Alice’s
idea, he believed the student had a right to explore her topic,
provided she did so while adhering to the appropriate
academic and scientific techniques. Alice had noted the
discoveries of Helmut Schmidt, a scientist working at Boeing
laboratories, who had reportedly found a correlation between
human intention and the output of random devices. After
meeting Schmidt to discuss his findings, Dr. Jahn ultimately
agreed to supervise Alice’s thesis project himself.
In the time that followed, Dr. Jahn found himself perplexed
by the results of the student’s study: the project confirmed
the claims of the Boeing scientist. There did seem to be an
anomalous correlation between the intentions of a human
mind and the behavior of random physical systems.
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