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Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8 LN734-85 could also have resulted in different amounts of sunshine, warmth or water. Experimental conditions must be more strictly controlled than what Vasse's were before a judgement can be made. J. B. Lion suggested that Vasse be tested for psychic ability to see if she had PK abilities. Vasse accepted this suggestion, and the results were the same as with the barley. Vasse clearly had a good deal of PK abilities, but her husband was borderline, possibly only coincidentally greater than chance. This experinent indirectly verifies the result of the barley experiment. About the same time as Vasse, in England, N. Richmond, selected paramecium as the subject in an experiment of the effects of will power on living organisms. He placed a drop of water on a glass slide. He used the cross hairs on the microscope to zero in on a paramecium. Then he used his will power to "wish" the paramecium would move in a certain direction. A large number of experiments showed that the reactions of the parameciun clearly demonstrated the effects of his thoughts in their movements. An English middle school teacher, J. Randall, repeated Richmond's experiments, and like many other people, was unable to achieve results any better than chance. He designed a new experiment using lice. He took lice which were accustomed to living in a dark damp place and put them on a dish. He put the dishes in five equal parts in the center of a pan shaped piece of cardboard. He hung a light directly above the dishes.. When the light was turned on, the lice would try their best to climb out of the dish. On the cardboard he drew five ESP card diagrams. He would then take five corresponding ESP cards, shuffle them, and draw one card. He would use his will power to "wish" the lice to run to the picture of the card he had drawn. He continued until all the cards had been drawn. The results were that the lice ran toward the corresponding section of the cardboard imore than they ran to any other section. This demonstrates that man can use his will power to affect the actions of animals. : In 1968, French internist J. Barry, with the suport of an agricultural university, carried out several experiments using standard biological techniques. He attempted to detrmine if the growth of certain pathogenic bacteria could be slowed down by human will. In each dish Barry placed equal amounts of nitrogen culture medium. Then he placed the bacteria cultures in an incubator, giving each dish an equal amount of heat. (It was the lack of this kind of equipment that caused the problems with Vasse's experiments.) Ten subjects were readied. Each subject. had ten dishes, five being for the experiment, five for control. Each subject was to strive to use his will for 15 minutes to retard the growth of the pathogenic bacteria in his five experimental dishes. Then a comparison was made with the experimental dishes and the control dishes. If the average growth j;rate of the experimental group was slower than that of the control group, then the subjects ’ were awarded one point. According to chance, the plus points and the minus points should come out half and half. However, in the 39 cases in the experiment, there were only 3 minus points. There were 33 plus points and three ties. It seems that the subjects! will was controlling the -84- Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000300330001-8