EEG Alpha Waves of a Receiver in a Remote Action Experiment

EEGs of a qi-receiver during To-ate (remote action; an ancient Japanese martial art) were analyzed. Two practitioners were placed in separate rooms which had an electromagnetic shield room for the receiver. At a time set randomly within 80 seconds (1 trial), one practitioner (sender) emitted qi. The other one (receiver) made a sign with a switch when he sensed the qi. One run consisted of three trials and in total 15 runs (45 trials) were done with short intermissions between each run. The receiver's EEGs were analyzed in each 5.12 seconds of 4 periods; those were, before sending qi, during sending, after sending and before sensing qi was being received. At the time of actually receiveing qi (during sending), alpha waves appeared diffusely toward the frontal area and those alpha waves were synchronized with the occipital ones in this phase more than those while the receiver sensed qi was being received.