Spindrift Research
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TO: Coast to Coast AM Ian Punnett's Radio Show Listeners of Christmas night 2010 FROM: Bill Sweet
Please send your e-mails again. Due to the kind responses to the show, your e-mails overwhelmed my system and were lost in cyberspace. Art Bell and George Noory interviews about Spindrift are in Coast to Coast AM archives. Great thanks!
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A comic said, "The nice thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing quite respectable." Does prayer do nothing? We often hear that there is so much evil in the world and prayers aren't answered. Failures of prayer are evident, but are successes of prayer evident? Can any sense be made of some spiritual and psychic experiences people have that appear to be nonsense to the modern world? Bruce and John Klingbeil, the founders of Spindrift, explored these questions.
In 1969 outside Chicago, Bruce and John performed experiments on the positive, biased, and negative effects of intention, prayer, and placebo effects. The father and son were Christian Science practitioners. They started Spindrift to support research and education in the fields that studied consciousness, prayer, the placebo effect, and spirituality. The Klingbeils wanted to communicate in scientific language people understand today, so people can peek at what prayer does. Prayer uplifts identity and promotes quality.
Bruce and John thought optimistically that their research would be met with openness from both the religious and scientific communities. After a few years of pursuing their work, it became clear this optimism had been misplaced, and in 1983 their church leaders punished them by removing Bruce as a practitioner. Bruce said, "Spiritual progress is made drip by drip."
Undeterred, the two moved to Salem, Oregon, where they continued their research for ten years. The toll of being expelled from their church, the continual harassment from the spiritual and scientific communities, the loss of income, and potential law suits tied to Spindrift led to dramatic choices by the researchers before their work was recognized as groundbreaking research about the intention of quality prayer. The intention of quality prayer is to nudge disorder toward order.
We present the Klingbeils' work for your consideration so you can judge the work for yourself.
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