Cell samples were placed in front of a healer named Leonard Laskow, and the other was placed near a non-healer who was asked to read a book to minimize his attention on the cells. There were five different intentions that Laskow held during his meditations. Utilizing a technique that allowed him to enter into an focused, coherent state, he describes the intentions for his meditations as follows:

1. Returning to the natural order and harmony of the cell’s normal rate of growth, i.e., before they were transformed to tumor cells; 
2. Circulating the microcosmic orbit; 
3. Letting God’s will flow through his hands, i.e., a transpersonal intention; 
4. Unconditional love, i.e., no specific direction to the energy was given; 
5. Dematerialization into the light and/or dematerialization into the void. 

The samples were labeled blindly and brought back to the lab, where they were analyzed after 24 hours to see how the DNA growth would compare. The cultures were then chemically treated with a radioactive substance. Using a scintillation counter, DNA synthesis was measured to count the amount of radioactive thymidine that had been incorporated into the DNA during synthesis. The cultures all yielded different results.

Some of these intentions proved to be more biologically active than others. Three of the intentions inhibited the growth of the tumor cells – the most effective of which was the intention for the cells to return to their natural state, which it did by a full 39%! The meditation on God’s will yielded a 21% inhibition rate. The microcosmic orbit meditation led to a 18% decrease in tumor growth rate.

What is more surprising, is that in further experiments, Laskow would change the image he held in his mind while meditating. In one meditation, he imagined only 3 cells were remaining in the dish. The result came back as an 18% inhibition rate over the control group. Using the same meditation technique, he imagined increased growth of tumor cells, and the results showed a 15% increase in growth rate.