Research collaboration
The Lovefield Project investigates the relationship between consciousness and the physical world through practical exploration and scientific inquiry.
I’m Denis Pingin, a software engineer and energy-work practitioner. In my practice, I encounter unusual phenomena daily: responses in other people and changes in nature that seem connected with my attention and inner state. The changes are usually visible to the unaided eye. Their variety and magnitude challenged my understanding of reality. That challenge and the benefits I have experienced and witnessed in others motivated me to start the project.
I have not found an adequate explanation for these experiences within current scientific understanding. In my reading, research on related questions has produced mixed findings and does not yet address the full range or magnitude of what I encounter. Relatively few people seem able to work with these phenomena intentionally.
The project brings practice, education, research and community together to investigate these phenomena rigorously, develop useful applications and make their benefits more widely accessible. It aims to provide a forum for practitioners, educators and researchers to exchange and develop the work together.
I believe discoveries in this field could open possibilities we cannot yet anticipate.
Reported experiences and observations
My experiences and observations, together with people’s reports of their responses to my practice, span several areas:
- Bodily experience: warmth and changes in pain, inflammation, breathing, sleep, arousal and physical sensations.
- Emotional and social experience: changes in mood and affect in individuals and groups.
- Perception: visual forms, perceived flows, bodily awareness and spatial sensations.
- Concealed and distant settings: sensing people outside direct view and apparent responses observed through live video.
- Animal behavior: changes in movement, stillness, approach and avoidance.
- The physical environment: wind, water patterns, vegetation movement, clouds and smoke.
The research opportunity
These accounts raise questions about how people experience and interpret the practice, how attention and interaction relate to bodily responses, and which reported changes can be measured reliably under controlled conditions. Each question calls for its own methods.
Studies of attempts to influence another person at a distance offer one related point of comparison. A 2012 meta-analysis reported a small statistically significant pooled effect, while a 2019 experiment did not detect an effect in its prespecified analyses.
The scale of the changes I observe motivates a direct investigation of whether controlled studies can establish a substantial, repeatable response. Measuring its size relative to ordinary variation would show whether that impression holds up. A robust finding could open a more direct route to testing competing explanations, publishing original work and seeking support for further research.
Studies developed together
I’m looking for researchers who would like to develop and carry out studies together with practitioners. I bring access to my practice, documented observations and preparation recordings, together with experience of the conditions in which responses seem to occur. Collaborators can help turn those observations into questions, choose comparisons and measurements, and develop the analysis. We would shape the methods together, with freedom to question my interpretation and report the findings openly, whatever they show.
Alongside my practice, I can take responsibility for developing the software an agreed study needs, from running experimental procedures and collecting data to implementing analyses that others can inspect and rerun. The recording and analysis tools already in use for our preparations provide a working starting point. As the methods develop, I can adapt the tools with them.
Where we are starting
Our current experimental preparations focus on wind and vegetation movement. In the Targeted Vegetation Movement study, an app gives randomized instructions to direct my practice toward one of two marked parts of a tree. Video records both throughout. The question is whether the balance of movement between them follows the assigned target. A separate wind study uses sensor measurements to compare practice conditions and randomized instructions.
We are launching the Lovefield Lab with the vegetation study’s protocol for review and its first public software release. Prospective collaborators will be able to examine the methods and working tools, contribute feedback and help refine the study.
After preparation and independent review, we will publish and fix the protocol, settings and analysis for a fresh study series. Its data will remain separate from the recordings used to develop the methods. The Lab will let anyone follow the results as they accumulate, inspect recordings and data, and rerun the published analysis. Every attempt in the series will remain in the record, including those without the expected response. New data may strengthen or weaken the evidence, or leave the question unresolved. Publishing the full methods and materials will also give other teams a basis for independent replication.
Explore a research collaboration
I can show you the practice and share preparation recordings, working software and the draft protocol for the vegetation study, as well as demonstrations of the observed phenomena. We could begin by reviewing one proposed test that fits your research interests: what it would measure, which comparisons it needs, and whether it offers a useful basis for a pilot. From there, we would agree our contributions, the resources needed, data access and publication arrangements.
If one of these questions connects with your work, I would welcome a conversation.
Email: message@sourceof.love