A Journey into Prayer: Pioneers of Prayer in the Laboratory Agents of Science of Satan?

by Sweet, Bill

• ISBN13: 9781401091491
• ISBN10: 1401091490
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Table of Contents

Foreword	11	(4)
Acknowledgements	15	(2)
Introduction	17	(4)
Chapter One: The Awakening	21	(16)
Personal experiences of the Spindrift founders pave the way to research prayer. The research on prayer in clinical and laboratory environments approaches the mainstream, which sets the stage to explain Spindrift's historic role.
Chapter Two: Spindrift Explained	37	(32)
How the word spindrift is metaphorically applied is explained followed by the main theories and concepts behind the experiments.
Chapter Three: Like Minds Meeting	69	(33)
The author learned about consciousness and prayer research from meeting the Klingbeil family.
Chapter Four: Politics and Prayer	102	(8)
In 1990, national news coverage publicized Spindrift when a member of the Board of Directors of Spindrift ran as the Republican candidate for governor of Colorado.
Chapter Five: Bible Experiments	110	(10)
This chapter examines the experiments in the Bible.
Interlude: Tidbits Learned	120	(12)
Chapter Six: The Skeptics	132	(12)
Communication with the scientific skeptics about their scientifically testing the Klingbeils while they prayed resulted in barbs back and forth.
Chapter Seven: Agents of Science or Satan?	144	(29)
Incidents are described of individuals and groups who opposed Spindrift's experiments with prayer.
Chapter Eight: Mind over Mood	173	(11)
The way the experiments were approached is explained which included sorting out the changing mood effects of the human mind's expectations from the organizing effects of the ordering Mind.
Chapter Nine: The Paradigm Shift	184	(12)
A positive shift begins toward the Klingbeils' research.
Chapter Ten: All Alone by the Telephone	196	(28)
The experiments were beginning to get recognition, but the experiments still clashed with the mind-set that experimenting with holy prayer was heretical.
Chapter Eleven: Science or Fringe Science	224	(11)
This chapter addresses scientific concerns about the tests.
Epilogue	235	(4)
Since the Spindrift experiments, prayer and consciousness have begun to be recognized as legitimate subjects of scientific inquiry.
APPENDIX EXAMPLES OF EXPERIMENTS
Appendix: The Botanical Experiments	239	(58)
Descriptions are given of several prayer experiments on plants done by the Spindrifters.
Chapter Footnotes	297	(22)
What Others Say	319	(2)
About the Author	321