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.

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[edit] 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 paranormal. [1] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Skeptical reception

In his 1982 book, skeptic, magician and author James Randi identified Tiller as the 1979 "scientist who had said the silliest thing" relating to parapsychology that year; for this Tiller was awarded the Pigasus Award for 1979.

[edit] Bibliography (incomplete)

[edit] 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 Exploration, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1993)
  • Electronic device-mediated pH changes in water (WE Dibble Jr, WA Tiller - Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 13, No. 2, 1999)

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