Princeton Firm Explores Mind Over Matter
October 28th, 2010Via: Central Jersey:
Ever get that feeling that someone is staring at you? Ever wonder how you got that feeling?
Psyleron provides products for the public and researchers to explore mind-matter effects, such as the sense of knowing someone is staring at you.
”That kind of sense, where does it come from?” said Herb Mentz, chairman of the board and co-founder of Psyleron. “It’s a mechanism we don’t understand and has to do with the mind’s influence on things.”
The Princeton-based company’s main product is the $189 mind lamp, an electric lamp with a random-event generator built in. When plugged in, the lamp throws off a white light before it cycles through eight colors. The theory behind the lamp is that users can influence what color the lamp turns by thinking about one of the eight colors.
”We produce devices that people use to explore the idea that the mind can influence the physical world,” said John Valentino, CEO and co-founder of Psyleron. “Our goal is to put this stuff out there and let people play with it themselves, rather than taking our word for it.”
Quantum-level probabilistic events drive the lamp to change color. “We are taking something that science says should be totally random, and we have evidence that suggests it’s not actually random, that people’s thoughts influence it,” Mr. Valentino said.
”You can think of this lamp as a person that’s being stared at and it’s reacting to someone staring at it by doing something,” added Mr. Mentz. “If you’ve had the experience of being stared at you can imagine what it’s like to be that lamp and having someone intend it to be a certain color.”