William A. Tiller
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William A. Tiller, Ph.D. is professor emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University
. Tiller appears in the film What the Bleep Do We Know!?
. His seminal book is the 1997 Science and Human Transformation, which postulates the existence of subtle energies, beyond the four fundamental forces, which act in concert with human consciousness.
for 1979.
. Tiller defines the term psychoenergetics as the study of these energies in relation to the application of human consciousness. He sees a connection between both physical and nonphysical consciousness and the natural phenomena. His findings are not supported by robust scientific evidence and is considered to be pseudo-science, thus not accepted by the scientific community.
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. Tiller appears in the film What the Bleep Do We Know!?
What the Bleep Do We Know!?
What the Bleep Do We Know!? is a 2004 film that combines documentary-style interviews, computer-animated graphics, and a narrative that describes the spiritual connection between quantum physics and consciousness...
. His seminal book is the 1997 Science and Human Transformation, which postulates the existence of subtle energies, beyond the four fundamental forces, which act in concert with human consciousness.
Pigasus Award Winner
In his 1982 book, renowned skeptic, magician, and author James Randi identified Tiller as the 1979 "scientist who had said the silliest thing" relating to parapsychology in that year; for this Tiller was awarded the Pigasus AwardPigasus Award
The Pigasus Award is the name of an annual tongue-in-cheek honor recognized by noted skeptic James Randi. The awards seek to expose parapsychological, paranormal or psychic frauds that Randi has noted over the previous year...
for 1979.
Psychoenergetics and subtle energies
Tiller claims to have discovered a new class of natural phenomena generated via what he calls "subtle energies", which allegedly manifest themselves in the practices of "healers" and other practitioners of the paranormalParanormal
Paranormal is a general term that designates experiences that lie outside "the range of normal experience or scientific explanation" or that indicates phenomena understood to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure...
. Tiller defines the term psychoenergetics as the study of these energies in relation to the application of human consciousness. He sees a connection between both physical and nonphysical consciousness and the natural phenomena. His findings are not supported by robust scientific evidence and is considered to be pseudo-science, thus not accepted by the scientific community.
Tiller foundation
He is currently Chairman and Chief Scientist of the William A. Tiller Foundation, an organization devoted to his research on psychoenergetic science and subtle energies and is a retailer of his books and DVDs.Published papers (incomplete listing)
- The effects of emotions on short-term power spectrum analysis of heart rate variability (McCraty R, Atkinson M, Tiller WA, Rein G, Watkins AD. - American Journal of Cardiology, 1996 Feb)
- Laplace-transform technique for deriving thermodynamic equations from the classical microcanonical ensemble (Eric M. Pearson, Timur Halicioglu, and William A. Tiller - Physical Review, 1985 Nov)
- Corona discharge photography (DG Boyers, WA Tiller - Journal of Applied Physics, 1973)
- What are subtle energies? (WA Tiller - Journal of Scientific ExplorationJournal of Scientific ExplorationThe Journal of Scientific Exploration is a quarterly scientific journal of fringe science published by the Society for Scientific Exploration that was established in 1987...
, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1993) - Electronic device-mediated pH changes in water (WE Dibble Jr, WA Tiller - Journal of Scientific ExplorationJournal of Scientific ExplorationThe Journal of Scientific Exploration is a quarterly scientific journal of fringe science published by the Society for Scientific Exploration that was established in 1987...
, Vol. 13, No. 2, 1999)
External links
- www.tillerfoundation.com - the Tiller Foundation
- Stanford University's Bio page on Tiller