http://noosphere.princeton.edu/tm.resonance.html
On Dec 4, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Patrick Gillam wrote: > > > > "A couple of recent events in the formal > series are noteworthy: We decided to > assess the "Super Radiance Yogic Flying" > program organized by the Transcentental > Meditation organization in August and > September as a formal event and found > a -2.5 sigma effect. The result is consistent > with the claim that mass meditations produce > a "calming" effect on the environment." > > I couldn't find the newsletter from which this excerpt is taken, but > maybe you can: > > http://noosphere.princeton.edu/ > > The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is an international effort > involving researchers from several institutions and countries, > designed to explore whether the construct of interconnected > consciousness can be scientifically validated through objective > measurement. The project builds on excellent experiments conducted > over the past 35 years at a number of laboratories, demonstrating that > human consciousness interacts with random event generators (REGs), > apparently "causing" them to produce non-random patterns. A > description of the technical implementation is given under procedures. > > The experimental results clearly show that a broader examination of > this phenomenon is warranted. In recent work, prior to the Global > Consciousness Project, an array of REG devices in Europe and the US > showed non-random activity during widely shared experiences of deeply > engaging events. For example, the funeral ceremonies for Princess > Diana, and the international Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, created > shared emotions and a coherence of consciousness that appeared to be > correlated with structure in the otherwise random data. In the fully > developed project, a world-spanning array of labile REG detectors is > connected to computers running software to collect data and send it to > a central server via the Internet. This network is designed to > document and display any subtle, but direct effects of our collective > consciousness reacting to global events. The research hypothesis > predicts the appearance of coherence and structure in the globally > distributed data collected during major events that engage the world > population. >
