Researchers have discovered differences in the responses of the sexes to intention. How might this affect the kind of work we do or the way in which we carry out our work?

Princeton Dean of Engineering Robert Jahn and his colleague, psychologist Brenda Dunne, were curious to discover whether there were any gender differences on the effect of mind on their random-event generators. After amassing hundreds of thousands of trials, Dunne analyzed the database to see if the results differed according to gender.

When she separated the findings with men from those with women, she found that men, on the whole, were better at getting the machine to do what they wanted it to do, although their overall effect was weaker than it was with women. Women, on the whole, had a stronger effect on the machine, but not necessarily in the direction they’d intended.

After examining 270 databases produced by 135 operators in nine experiments run between 1979 and 1993, Dunne found that men had equal success in making the machine do what they wanted, whether heads or tails (or HIs and LOs). Women, on the other hand, were successful in influencing the machine to record heads (HIs), but not tails (LOs). In fact, most of their attempts to get the machine to do tails failed. Although the machine would vary from chance, it tended to be in the very opposite direction of what they’d intended.

At times, women produced better results when they weren’t concentrating strictly on the machine, but were doing other things as well, whereas strict concentration was vital for men’s success.

This may provide subatomic evidence that women are better at multitasking than men, while men are better at concentrated focus. It may well be that, in microscopic ways, men have a more direct impact on their world, while women’s effects are more profound. The evidence shows that men and women also have different responses to ‘external’ energies such as the effect of the sun on geomagnetic activity.

Neuroscientist Michael Persinger, of Laurentian University in Canada, discovered this after comparing a database of paranormal experiences with geomagnetic activity and breaking down the data according to gender.

Men tended to have more premonitions on days when the earth’s geomagnetic activity was high (above 20 nanoteslas), whereas women reported more premonitions if the geomagnetic activity was low (below 20 nanoteslas). Men also tended to have more accurate memory with higher geomagnetic activity, and women, with lower geomagnetic activity. The people most susceptible to extrasensory experiences were those with ‘thin boundaries’, particularly those who had already had paranormal encounters.

In the model of consciousness developed by Jahn and Dunne, the original atoms would each surrender their individual entities to a single larger, more complex, entity. On the most basic level, their theory was saying, you and your REG machine develop coherence.

Their evidence suggests that we ‘merge’ with matter on a daily basis, and that men do so slightly differently than women. It suggests that men may be more effective in setting straightforward and direct intentions of any variety, whereas women may have a more profound effect, particularly when they are not actively ‘efforting’ at a task, but carrying out several things at once.

Men may also need a ‘noisier’ energetic environment to pick up psychic information, while women may be better receivers during times of geomagnetic quiet. It may be worth acknowledging and utilizing the differences between male and female ‘antennae’ when creating your goals at work.

Differences in psychic antennae

When setting out your company’s mission statements and intentions, it may be helpful to consider dividing the work according to the sexes.

• Allow for gender differences in the way people send intentions. Men may be most effective when they are singly directed on a goal, and women more effective when they put out an intention and then concentrate on something else (or a number of things at once).
• Also allow for the fact that women may be better multitaskers than men are by assigning them the types of roles that require multiple psychic tools.
• Watch what the sun is doing. Look to the men for intuitive information during high levels of geomagnetic activity and to women during low levels.
• For tasks involving memory, also work with the sun’s geomagnetic activity. A noisy day will assist male memory and a quiet day, female memory.
• Consider that women may have more profound effects on electronic equipment such as computers.

Lynne McTaggart is the author of five books, including the bestselling The Field and The Intention Experiment. To participate in her next Intention experiment in March, please log in to the Intention Experiment website (www.theintentionexperiment.com), register in advance and follow the instructions. In 2008, Lynne is running Living with Intention seminars in Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland and Boston/Cape Cod. Click here for more information or to book your place.