Please watch this clip. It is just over 8 minutes, but powerful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGRluepFwdg
Here is a modern replication of this experiment, done some 40 years after the original experiments, but with a Stoelting 22600, the same model Backster used. It is just over five minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fStmk7e9lJo
In this Mythbusters episode, you will note that they start not just as skeptics, but believing that the very idea is farcical. In the end, though, as they say, “it’s hard to dispute the ink.”
Watch their reactions, though: having found something potentially very profound, they more or less shake it off and move on. This has been the history of reactions to Backsters work, which is a shame. People have a hard time seeing the large. As Churchill put it, “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
Please do me, yourself, and your children a favor: share this post with absolutely everyone you know who may benefit from it, but PARTICULARLY with anyone you may know in the life sciences. My goal is that some brave soul somewhere, ideally with tenure, will replicate this experiment in a formal academic setting and get it published in a journal of the sort that will make this work hard to ignore.
PLEASE do what you can to make this happen. Thanks!!!!