Mind Over Matter -- in miniature by Mario Varvoglis, Ph.D.

The Random Number Generator [RNG] as a PsiFeedback device

At a second level comes your own experience: it’s important to be able to ‘try out’ psi conducive mental states. Research suggests that deeply relaxed states, coupled with mental imagery and positive suggestions work best for intentional psi (as well as for intuition and creativity training!) Thus, in one of the virtual spaces of the Psi Explorer CD-ROM (The Sphere) you get to explore these deep mental spaces, and get in touch with intuitive potentials.

Finally, of course, there’s the psi-feedback setup itself: tests which allow you to try out different mental techniques and which give you instantaneous feedback about how well you’re doing. You try out your psychic skills in two of the CD-ROM’s virtual spaces (the Test Room and The Gate) using both the immediate scores and the more long-term, cumulative scores to tease out the best approaches. All the tests have a game-like quality to them -- some are mysterious and Myst-like, others more bright and noisy; research shows that dry numbers and graphs are not the ideal way for training psychic capacities. Nevertheless, though dressed up as games, and meant to be fun, these are also true laboratory psi tests.

We’re just beginning to scratch the surface in the domain of our psychic potentials. But I’m convinced that some of the most interesting insights will come not so much from the specialists and the laboratories, but from the many, many individuals who explore their mental potentials on their own -- using their personal psi labs.

So, call your friends over -- psychic and otherwise -- and put them to the test!