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Field notes from an honest experiment

Plain-language writing on what we measure and why: the methods, the modalities, and the contested claims we put under blinded, pre-registered test. No hype, no mechanisms asserted, and the null results published alongside everything else.

How we measure

How do you measure real change from inner work or a psychedelic experience?

The instrument panel: phone-camera HRV, voice biomarkers and tracked goals inside a cluster of eight. Every reading is treated as an imperfect proxy, and the cases where nothing changed are published too. Read →

Why we pre-register

What is pre-registered research, and why publish null results?

Locking the hypothesis and analysis on a public registry before the data, and publishing the nulls, because hiding them is how a field fools itself. Read →

Extended-state research

What is extended-state DMT (DMTx)?

The Imperial College continuous-infusion method, what it is and isn't, and why Ashta studies it as a research state rather than a cure. Read →

Safety first

Is ibogaine safe? What the evidence actually shows

The real cardiac risk, the screening responsible work requires, and an honest read of the early evidence. Read →

How we test

Can a group's shared read beat chance? How Ashta tests it

The sealed-box, forced-choice design: pre-registered, blinded, scored only after unblinding, null expected. Read →

Global coherence

What is the Global Consciousness Project? Princeton's random number experiment, honestly assessed

Two decades of hardware RNGs listening for moments of shared global attention: the striking headline number, the serious critiques, and what an honest replication would need. Read →

Telephone telepathy

Does telephone telepathy actually work? What Sheldrake's experiments show

The 40%-versus-25% claim, the strongest critiques, the mixed replications, and how Ashta would test it under blinded, pre-registered conditions. Read →

Morphic resonance

Rupert Sheldrake: morphic resonance, the sense of being stared at, and dogs that know

The Cambridge biochemist who became science's most credentialed heretic: his books, his experiments, the critiques, and how you'd actually test his claims. Read →

Muscle testing

Muscle testing (applied kinesiology): does it diagnose anything?

Why the evidence is largely negative (including Schwartz's own double-blind null) and why Ashta tests it anyway and publishes either way. Read →

Intention research

Who is Lynne McTaggart? The Power of Eight and the Intention Experiments, examined

The journalist behind the Power of Eight claim: what her groups actually do, what was measured versus reported, and why the number eight exists at all. Read →

The 8 Laws

The 8 Laws of Change: Stephan Schwartz's field guide for change-makers, examined

Eight traits shared by every successful nonviolent movement: the methodological problem with how they were derived, the study that would actually test them, and why our three eights are a coincidence. Read →

Power of Eight

Why clusters of eight? The 'Power of Eight' question, put to the test

Why eight is a test unit, not a proven mechanism: the mixed distant-intention literature, the missing replication, and how Ashta would measure it. Read →

Natural philosophy

What 'natural philosophy' means, and why Ashta tests the contested edge

The honest case for testing contested claims (the ether, radionics, structured water) as hypotheses: measure the effect, never endorse the mechanism. Read →

The full per-claim protocols are live: read the Schrödinger's Crystal Skull experiment and telephone telepathy & the Spanda app in full. Still in build: applied kinesiology (awaiting the muscle-testing instrument), the clusters-of-eight design, and the natural-philosophy traditions we put under test.