Living The New Science with Lynne McTaggart Episode 61: Praying for yesterday
Sep 5, 2025
Dive into the intriguing link between time and prayer, as research suggests that intentions might even influence past events. Explore retroactive healing and its implications, revealing how human consciousness may reshape reality. The discussion weaves through quantum mechanics, highlighting the non-linear relationship between consciousness and time. Discover how this interconnectedness can guide individuals in emotional healing and breaking free from limiting patterns.
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Levavici's Retroactive Prayer Study
- Leonard Levavici ran a randomized, blinded prayer study on nearly 400 sepsis patients whose hospitalizations occurred 4–10 years earlier.
- The prayed-for group recovered faster and had shorter fevers and stays despite the prayers occurring after the events.
Cause May Not Always Precede Effect
- Our everyday belief that cause must precede effect underpins the arrow-of-time assumption in daily life.
- McTaggart argues experimental evidence shows intention can produce effects that appear to violate that sequence.
Time-Displaced Intention Amplifies Effects
- Princeton REG experiments showed human intention can bias random generators and that time-displaced intention gave even larger effects.
- Effects were stronger when intention targeted outcomes after the machine had already produced data.
