The Mobius Society - “Concerning Infra-red Spectrophotometry of Water Samples, Personality Factor Analyses, and Therapeutic Touch”: Double-Blind Correlation Pilot Study-Protocol and Hypotheses, 1986

“His avocational experiments were in the field of subtle human energies with investigation into the efficacy of prayer and healing, particularly. After hearing of an experiment conducted at Hartwick College about the effect of prayer on water which was then used to feed plants, he was challenged to discern whether there was a scientifically analytical way to discern the effect of prayer and healing energies applied to water. He began his work on the project and later included Dr. William Tiller, Head of the Material Sciences Division of Stanford University. Together they worked primarily on surface tension measurements of the samples. In 1986, he was commissioned by the Mobius Society to extend his experiments in live situations where the water was again involved.

Briefly, the results obtained, as recounted by his wife, were that the water, in comparison with control samples, gained measurable energy during the experiments, and after several months of storage did not lose the energy it had gained. It did not return to its former state as steam does when it is cooled. The experiments with the Mobius Society indicated that when some measure of healing occurred in an individual, the process took only about five minutes. A longer time in prayer and the laying on of hands appeared to make no difference.

Also fascinating in this work was the conclusion that the phases of the moon seemed to make an appreciable difference. For instance, water placed at the altars of churches on an Easter Sunday when there were large crowds and communion was less affected than water in the same position on the Sunday following.” Note by Grace Adolphsen Brame.