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  • i got a save the Amazon Rain Forest intentional chocolate video above...enjoy...the one split in 4.

  • First do no harm? How about, first don't rip customers off? This company is charging $15 for six small caramel-filled chocolates -- less than a half-pound. And that's with a $5 off order-online discount. Other chocolates are comparably overpriced. Personally, I'd prefer to buy much cheaper (but excellent) chocolate and do my own praying over it.

  • barbaraelizabeths - sounds like you have some series issues to deal with, this isn't about the chocolate is it? It's about your daddy never buying you that dress. Now you're to fat to fit into it anyway and daddy doesn't look at you the way he used to.

    Some people have deferent beliefs that you. Try accepting other people instead of hating.

  • I'm with him. Nice idea, until the rip off price. But I am a millionaire so I can afford it, yet still I don't want it. And you smell funny sir.

  • LOl! I think you may be comparing it to a $1 Hershey bar;) How did you get to become a millionaire? Buying Park Avenue after landing on it?

    Intentional Chocolate donate minimum 50% of their profits to charities and the chocolate is beautiful.

    BlackoutDOTcom if you have cheep taste

    and want to support the Neocons of this world go with Hershey, you look like a Hershey boy to me.

  • Of course it'll work! Although, those who doubt it will probably kill some of the energy.

    watch?v=hjfN3K_v1uY

    watch?v=HTz-cYk9Wu4

    watch?v=lkbpXRSIUnE

  • Let's get out of our heads and into our hearts.

  • People who discard this as a possibility are bound to live in the old paradigm. Look to quantum physics and meditators alike should you wish to see where we're headed. Or, continue to thnik the world is flat and do yourself a major disservive, up to you.

    On a personal note, where can I get this chocolate?!!

  • Hahahahahaha! oh dear...

  • billcarr178 - Wow you are a dark person, you have some serious issues.

  • It does help to learn the earth and its people better to take a better footing, this idea here is total bolics. Rich dark chocolate without milk, with honey instead of sugar gives you greater plesure (melocortisines) ,crappy white chocolate just makes you want the stuff. you can put as much good throught into the vibes of milk chocolate as you want and you'll still end up with a dumb f at the end with dayarear and the false assumption that Cacao is bad for you health.

  • Regardless of whether or not the chocolate really works, it's nice to think about the importance of leading a purposeful life.

  • It clearly has weed in it.

  • Have you ever had intentional chocolate?

    Have you ever had intentional chocolate.... on weed ;)

  • bravo Dean!

  • There is no scientific evidence implied when the control group is only 17 people. Even if the assertions were true, the "study" is no more scientific than a "love test" in Cosmopolitan magazine.

  • The small sample size of the conditions in the experiment only speaks to the generality of the claimed effect, and not its scientific nature. Based on the journal article the results are perfectly valid from a scientific perspective. The only important question is whether the effect is independently repeatable, and that remains to be seen.

  • Any study that is not independently repeatable by definition supports a false conclusion.

    I'll tell you this though: It IS independently repeatable. I can get 62 of my neighbors, feed them chocolate, and get similar results. (Yes even with a control group.) It might take about three or four "chocolate parties" to get the results I want, but remember, I'm free to publish only the study whose results I like.

  • No one has tried to repeat it yet, so we don't know if the conclusion is verifable or not. Also, other studies cited in the paper suggested that this particular outcome was not all that unique. Your second statement suggests that the outcome was due entirely to selective reporting, but if that were the case, then the second hypothesis tested in the study would require that you conduct this same experiment 10,000 times to get one as significant as reported, not just three or four times.

  • Your 10,000 number is out of thin air. I'll quote the so-called study:

    The POMS Brief Form consists of 30 adjectives describing feeling and mood states, which are answered on a five-point scale ranging from "not at all" to "extremely."

    30 multiple-choice questions with 17 people in the control group, and the results varied no more than 20 points? Yes, random chance can account for that easily, especially with selective reporting.

  • The Figure 6 caption says: Compared with the control condition, mood substantially improved in the intention condition on day four (p = .004) and day five (p = .0001). The latter was a planned comparison, equivalent to odds of 10,000 to 1. I.e., the stats are appropriately based on a comparison with the placebo-controlled baseline values. And by that comparison, the intentional condition was better by a long shot.

  • You didn't appear to hear me. The control group was MORE DEPRESSED than the intention group was IMPROVED. The word "baseline" is misleading because something affected that group negatively more strongly than anything affected the other groups positively.

    Oh, go ahead and buy the overpriced chocolate. It won't hurt anything but your wallet. I'm done.

  • I hear you. But your comment "something affected that group" is an inference which is just as interesting as the possibility that something affected the intentional group! This sort of study is based on differential measures (just like drug studies are), so if the double-blind was conducted properly, then the statistical conclusion is sound.

  • No, on days 4 and 5, the negative mood of the control group was MORE pronounced than the positive mood of the intention groups.

    I know this is ridiculous, but if this study implies anything, it is this: "When people get 'un-blessed' chocolate in a study where a others are getting 'blessed' chocolate, 'karmic jealousy' sets in, even if they don't know which group they are in."

    I can't believe I'm putting time into this. Seriously, buy the chocolate.

  • Precisely: As the video says, the intentional group's mood was more positive than the control group. All that aside, I agree that eating chocolate is more pleasant than discussing the design or implications of experiments.

  • Check out figure 6 in the "study", which clearly indicates that the control group (eating "non-infused" chocolate) actually became more DEPRESSED in the study than the intention group had boosted mood.  Compared to that, the intention groups had relatively no change.

  • Dr. Radin has maintained strict scientific standards in his experiments. How would you suggest researching the effects of thoughts and intentions on the material world?

    There was a specific reason chocolate was chosen for this experiment...it already makes people feel good, the point of the experiment was to see if infusing it with intention increased its inherent properties.

    The results of many successful experiments are taken to the marketplace in some form, does that reduce credibility?

  • I used to be interested in some of the things that Radin had published a few years back. In the past few years, however, this guy has really lost credibility. Chocolate and intentions? He also claims to have bent a spoon with his mind at one of those metal bending parties. I just wish that paranormal researchers like him would stick to publishing in reputable journals and stop trying to become famous. The field has so little credibility and stuff like this just blows what's left out the window.

  • In this line of work one is damned if you do (study interesting things that might be useful, and then let people know about it) and damned if you don't (make it oh-so-scientific and boring that no one cares).

  • You know, this goes well beyond my boggle threshold. I can't personally bring myself to believe that "intentionally enhanced" chocolate can help the mood any better than normal chocolate, but the studies ARE there and they seem to be pretty sound. It may seem ridiculous and there could possibly be other factors, but it HAS been shown that it works to an extent, at least so far. I'd like to see it repeated, though.

  • No, it hasn't. The "studies" (you use the plural for no reason) include one study, done by people intending to market a product, with a control group of 17 people.

    Good intentions? How about the intent to market?

  • By this reasoning, no applied research should ever be developed into products and allowed to reach the market. That would instantly eliminate virtually all pharmaceutical drugs.

  • Oh stop. This product doesn't require research to be marketed. The presence of such studies (or lack of it) doesn't affect liability in the least. It is not marketed as a drug and it is already known that it will not cause harm.

    So why is the "study" done? Because the "study" is ITSELF a marketing tool.

  • As for the spoon, he didn't bend one of those crummy thin spoons in the neck, but he bent one of those very sturdy spoons in the BOWL with almost no effort whatsoever. While a "mental" interpretation may not be correct, the way the spoon was bent was not consistent with excess force and it was bent in a spot that most people cannot bend with their bare hands.

  • lol that was funnyyyyyyy :P

  • A link to the research paper is in the video description box!

  • The scientific tests that were done on this WERE sound tests, but it doesn't make it any harder to take seriously. :/

  • And by harder I mean easier, obviously.

  • choc alwayz puts me in a better mood

  • choc alwayz puts me in a better mood

  • You can also buy a ring that makes you immortal if you would like...

  • this is a satire, right?!

  • Absolute bull.

  • Chocolate buttons will change the world ? Hmmm

  • choc alwayz puts me in a better mood

  • intentional or n ot...i'm going to eat that choclate

  • why? the cheapest really small bag is 10 or 15 dollars (for one week) you can get better tasting chocolate in any other supermarket for 1/10 that price.

  • choc alwayz puts me in a better mood

  • this is crap. the only thing different about that chocolate is that some shit-glazed hands touched em before they pack it. this is bull. they are just biasing your mind to make you buy this shit

  • choc alwayz puts me in a better mood

  • choc alwayz puts me in a better mood

  • This is retarded. Anybody who believes this is too. Publish that "research" in a peer reviewed scientific journal and I'll change my mind.

  • what a load of bollocks lol

  • it is my intention to eat some chocolate

  • getting hungry from watching this.. :P

  • y the fuck did i watch dat loooool!!!!!!!!!!

  • oh hooooo!!!yeah..I LOVE CHOCOLATE

  • i love chocolate, good idea! INTERNATIONAL CHOCOLATE!

  • I saw another video about intentional chocolate.

    It involved 2 girls.

    And a large cup.

    At least, I think it was chocolate.

    Actually, I hope it was chocolate.

    Then again...

  • nasty

  • awesome

  • wtf am i watching here?

  • I LOOOVE CHOCOLATE !!!

  • Riiight. I wonder how much of this is BS.

  • its TRUE!! mind and matter co-exist. its being proven in physics and science

  • ahhh... love to see that research (I'm midst developing my senior psych experiment - I think I'd get a lot of volunteers, ya think?)

  • yea, and its called the placebo effect. still means its fake.

  • Admittedly the paper should have been mentioned in this video, the tests were done doublebind. Search for:

    Effects of intentionally enhanced chocolate on mood

    Dean Radin, Gail Hayssen & James Walsh

    Objective: A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled experiment investigated whether chocolate exposed to "good intentions" would enhance mood more than unexposed chocolate.

  • I want one. :D

  • intentional bullshit

  • MMMM MM choclate

  • Cool :)

  • Mmmmm....Chocolate!!

  • this is an advertisement!

  • how the hell can Chocolate change the world, what a stupid man (this is said at 45 sec's) i thought there is more to life then chocolate!!!

  • This is preety neat.

  • boooooooooooooooooooo

  • I really like this!

  • this would be a great scam

  • wow, are u kidding me, u want me to buy some chocolate from u guys just because it says intentional on it..

  • Check out this video about 9 sec street fighter beating!!! unbelievable!!!! Search it!

  • what a massive steaming pile of shite!

  • UFO FOOTAGE!

  • choclate is the shizzle

  • Thats just setting the eater in a state of mind before they even eat it

  • chocolate, the new cocain! aheahe

    "I want what's coming to me! The WORLD, Chico, with chocolate on it"

  • can you say gay

  • Are you kidding me with this? I kept waiting for the punchline.

  • cool. nice video :D

  • I love it. Thank you for doing research as important as this. This is wonderful. Thank you.

  • Lying Hippies!

  • i'll buy chocolate just not 'intentional chocolate'

  • beautiful!!!!!

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  • bullshit!

  • i didnt get a word of that speak english...... not gobbledygoop .......

  • lol

  • WTF?

  • lol il never eat chocolate the same again!

  • How do you quantify 'mood' into 67%?

  • mmm

  • god I wish I wans on a diet

  • Anyone else smell something?

    It smells like bull to me.

  • stupid!

  • wtf?

    didn't heard such a dumb shit in a long time.

  • Kosher foods are blessed... why not chocolate? Sounds like a good idea to me!

  • yet again more of our tax dollars at work, and another mindless false servey. congratz hope ya enjoy wasting our time again.

  • That is so good!!!!!

  • this looks amazing

  • Can you imagine what the production process must look like? You have this shitload of chocolate sitting in a vat, and some random guy sitting in front of or over it, thinking. Better yet, they have Bill the truck triver meditate about his cargo as it's being delivered. Quality product.

  • i love you for that

  • im loving the videos you are gr8 lol check my page out and maby subscribe cheers mail back

  • Thank you very much :)

  • wrong wrong wrong

  • Only the americans would believe this shite.

  • is this a joke?? This must be the stupidest commercial since "cozy kitten"...

  • Complete bullshit. Why did they not do a double blind test?

  • mmmm... when's dinner???

  • balls to this being under science and technology its just a rigged advert

  • amen!

  • What a load of wank.. 'buy our chocolate'!!

  • This has to be sarcasm.

  • it looks good

  • no just the more love you put in cookies the more you pay attention in making them GOOD jesus christ aint dat hard ppl

  • Intentinal Weed 100% mood increasing.

  • This is ridiculous! So they're testing on chocolate/peoples moods but not on making the cars more efficient. What the hell is this world coming to????

  • you said it

  • thank you

  • these people are such vultures. what are you going to do? create an assembly line and hire buddhist monks to bless the food as it comes down? RIDICULUS. scientific reasoning completely counters spiritual ideals. the very attempt to reason spirtiuality with science is an oxymoron. scientists have no fucking respect!

  • I understand you completely. There was this on special series on the history channel that tried to prove that it was impossible to bring two of every animal into an arc. From the story Noah's Arc. I just can't believe that science would go THAT far to try to prove THE BIBLE of all books wrong!!!!

  • Because there have been WARS over religions derived from these times... the fighting in Middle East... guess what? Religion... The Crusades of countless conquerors... Religion.

    That's why! People grew a radicalism for a document, that, in blatant honesty, is actually written by a mortal man... with the same "Free Will" as us no? So who's to say it's completely pure? You can't... there's proof that the Bible you read is filtered... why would God's word be filtered, THAT'S BLASPHEMY. Religion.

  • This is fantastic to have people actually studying something that has long just been an intuition about the power of putting love or blessing into food!

  • Are you being sarcastic?

  • lol another money making scam

    why do so many people fall for shit like this ?

  • Bull Sugar

    i hate these corporations

    just emotionally manipulating people

  • I find snake oil works too

  • If my 30 dollars was going to tibetan monks as a tithe of sorts, I might actually buy a bag. As far as I can see this is a for-profit enterprise.

    Damn you L.A. Once again, yer making California look bad!

  • that would make me sick.

  • really scientific...... NOT!!!!! chocolate is chocolate doesn't matter how long u stare at it ...

  • THANK YOU!!!

  • Holy Sh*T! they sell this crap on their website for 30 dollars per small bag :S

  • bollocks!

  • why don't they just mass intentionalize chocolate, and sell it? This is so stupid. If it were this easy, you could make meditators intentionalize everything and the world would be better.

  • please dont tell me this is serious.  please........

  • :/ thats it, make fatties feel good about what theyre eating. thatll stop obesity.

  • so delicious just watching it

  • This r serious? LULz, do they makes tampons too?

  • omg haha i love you. basically because i say lulz too + youve made me chuckle abit

  • One minute shift?

    More like one minute shit.

  • I am a Buddhist, I can safely say that this product is a scam.

    How can you put intention into chocolate? It's impossible.

    Don't buy it, unless you're really gullible.

  • could we buy it if it tastes good?

  • buddhist my ass lol

  • Please stop with this lies and read about placebo effect.

  • well could they try doing another experiment, where they give one is intentional chocolate, but really isn't, and test to see if its just a placebo effect that makes these people feel better?

  • cool idea!

  • wha?????

  • placebo?

  • DO THE MONSK EAT THE COCOLATE TOO

  • Funny Shit.

  • OMG IT LOX YUMMAY!!

  • Id like to bless everyone reading this comment.

  • Mister Misanthrope..I love you! UNintentional chocolate. LOL. :D

  • wow