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The Selection Effect explores a personal training process that allows one's consciousness to influence real-world physical events in ways that cannot be attributed to brain activity alone. Backed by rigorous data, it describes findings that challenge our current thinking about consciousness, the mind, and the nature of reality. The more we come to understand ourselves, the more we can change our fundamental relationship to the world in ways beneficial to our species.

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Mertz is a courageous researcher whose findings will leave you scratching your head, wondering about the dividing line between the psychological and the physical, and whether a dividing line even exists. The Selection Effect is high-test science. --Larry Dossey, Bestselling Author of What is Consciousness? and One Mind I could not stop reading it. This work is unique and a very valuable addition to existing research within the PK [psychokinesis] field. The investigation of the experimenter's mental states during more than ten years of study is unparalleled in its depth. --Hartmut Grote, Physicist, member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) collaboration I did not expect to get so entirely hijacked by this book; it really did light up my brain. The way Mertz keeps peeling back layer after layer of his mind is thrilling and I lost count of how many times I thought, 'Yes, that's exactly how my mind works!' --Jay Kirk, Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania's Department of English in Nonfiction Writing, and award-winning author of Kingdom Under Glass Bravo! This has got to be the most comprehensive examination of the experiential side of this area of research ever published. As a contribution to those who are really serious about developing their intention (or purpose, as Mertz puts it), it could become the research bible. --Dean Radin, Chief scientist of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and author of The Conscious Universe and Entangled Minds

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Herb Mertz studied mechanical engineering at Princeton University under Dean Robert J. Jahn, who shortly thereafter formed the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory. The lab studied the possibility that the human mind can affect the functioning of sensitive electronic equipment. Mertz was an early consultant to the lab, helping with some of the instrumentation and was a subject in experiments at various times throughout the course of the lab's 27-year history. In 2004, three years before the PEAR lab closed, Mertz and colleague John Valentino started Psyleron Inc. to develop newer versions of some of the PEAR lab's most successful equipment. The first product was a random event generator (REG) also called a random number generator (RNG). This device gives the equivalent of perfect coin tosses based on quantum processes, meaning that it reliably produces the same number of heads as tails overall. REG research shows that more subjects than chance would predict are able to significantly shift the output of the REG by consciously intending to produce more heads or more tails. This finding suggests that consciousness can shape reality by bending the course of events toward a desired outcome. The Psyleron device is now used in laboratories around the world, as well as for anyone else interested in exploring the nature of consciousness. Mertz trained himself on the device for over a decade in order to discover and explore the states of mind that achieve this mind-over-matter impact. The Selection Effect (2020) is a personal narrative that chronicles what he learned in the process. Mertz has lectured on his work in the U.S. and Canada and is a featured speaker of a popular course taught at Columbia University Graduate School of Education in New York. Mertz hosts a blog on consciousness research at the site mindmattermeaning.com.

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