"The nice thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing quite respectable," said comic Paul Dean.

Spindrift asks, "Are you praying attention?" Many people say that prayer is doing nothing.

People often say, "Because there is so much evil in the world proves that prayers don't work." Yes, failures of prayer to heal evil are evident, but are any successes of prayer evident? Have any subsets of evil been healed? Can any prayer or psychic effect make sense to a modern world? The founders of Spindrift explored these questions.

In 1969 outside Chicago, Bruce and John Klingbeil began the research of the "positive, biased, and negative effects of prayer." Their controversial research was considered on the fringe of science, but it was also recognized as groundbreaking. The father and son founded Spindrift Inc. to support research and education in the fields that studied consciousness, prayer, the placebo effect, and spirituality.

Both Klingbeils were Christian Science practitioners. They communicated about prayer in scientific language.

What did the Klingbeils discover? Bruce and John were able to isolate two intentions inside prayer. They also showed why the subconscious mind edits our psychic and spiritual experiences.

Before 9/11, Spindrift tried to get people to listen to the negative words that terrorists prayed toward Jews and Americans.

Bruce and John thought optimistically that their research would be met with openness from both the religious and scientific communities. After a few years of pursuing their work, it became clear this optimism had been misplaced, and in 1983 their church leaders punished them by removing Bruce as a practitioner.

Undeterred, Bruce and John moved to Salem, Oregon, where they continued their research for ten years. The toll of being expelled from their church, the harassment from the spiritual and scientific communities, the loss of income, and potential law suits tied to Spindrift led to dramatic choices by the researchers.

Spindrift presumes that the purpose of quality prayer is to nudge disorder toward order. We present the Spindrift findings for your consideration. For example, see the FAQ page.