Global Consciousness Project
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.
The difference is very small, but statistical analysis demonstrates that this correlation of the REG behavior with something about consciousness is real. It is as if our wishes could change the 50/50 odds of a coin flip ever so slightly.
In a majority of cases, the data [does] show a deviation from the chance expectation for random numbers, in accord with our predictions, and the overall accumulation over dozens of individual tests is highly significant. It is good evidence for an anomalous effect that is correlated with events in the world, and it may be evidence for an evanescent global consciousness.
summary raw dataThe reason why this is significant is because it is statistically improbably to be merely a coincidence. Modern processors can produce truly random results. Adding to the improbability, modern processors can produce thousands or millions of results per second.
Aside from global consciousness, the same setup has been used in isolation where normal people concentrate and can significantly change results for about a second.
Red Orbit reported (summarized):The [black box] apparently sensed the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre four hours before they happened - but in the fevered mood of conspiracy theories of the time, the claims were swiftly knocked back by sceptics. But last December, it also appeared to forewarn of the Asian tsunami just before the deep sea earthquake that precipitated the epic tragedy.
The Eggs also regularly detect huge global celebrations, such as New Year's Eve.
But the project threw up its greatest enigma on September 11, 2001. As the world stood still and watched the horror of the terrorist attacks unfold across New York, something strange was happening to the Eggs. Not only had they registered the attacks as they actually happened, but the characteristic shift in the pattern of numbers had begun four hours before the two planes even hit the Twin Towers.
During the late 1970s, Prof Jahn decided to investigate whether the power of human thought alone could interfere in some way with the machine's usual readings. He hauled strangers off the street and asked them to concentrate their minds on his number generator. In effect, he was asking them to try to make it flip more heads than tails. It was a preposterous idea at the time. The results, however, were stunning and have never been satisfactorily explained. Again and again, entirely ordinary people proved that their minds could influence the machine and produce significant fluctuations on the graph, 'forcing it' to produce unequal numbers of 'heads' or 'tails'. According to all of the known laws of science, this should not have happened - but it did. And it kept on happening.
Dr John Hartwell, working at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, was the first to uncover evidence that people could sense the future. In the mid-1970s he hooked people up to hospital scanning machines so that he could study their brainwave patterns. He began by showing them a sequence of provocative cartoon drawings. When the pictures were shown, the machines registered the subject's brainwaves as they reacted strongly to the images before them. This was to be expected.
Far less easy to explain was the fact that in many cases, these dramatic patterns began to register a few seconds before each of the pictures were even flashed up. It was as though Dr Hartwell's case studies were somehow seeing into the future, and detecting when the next shocking image would be shown next. It was extraordinary - and seemingly inexplicable. Radin repeated Dr Hartwell's 'image response' experiments while measuring skin resistance. Again, people began reacting a few seconds before they were shown the provocative pictures. This was clearly impossible, or so he thought, so he kept on repeating the experiments. And he kept getting the same results. 'I didn't believe it either,' says Prof Bierman. 'So I also repeated the experiment myself and got the same results. I was shocked. After this I started to think more deeply about the nature of time.' To make matters even more intriguing, Prof Bierman says that other mainstream labs have now produced similar results but are yet to go public. 'They don't want to be ridiculed so they won't release their findings,' he says. 'So I'm trying to persuade all of them to release their results at the same time. That would at least spread the ridicule a little more thinly!' If Prof Bierman is right, though, then the experiments are no laughing matter. They might help provide a solid scientific grounding for such strange phenomena as 'deja vu', intuition and a host of other curiosities that we have all experienced from time to time.
For Dr Nelson, talk of such psychic machines - with the potential to detect global catastrophes or terrorist outrages - is of far less importance than the implications of his work in terms of the human race. For what his experiments appear to demonstrate is that while we may all operate as individuals, we also appear to share something far, far greater - a global consciousness. Some might call it the mind of God.
We may be connected together far more intimately than we realize.
Posted on: Friday, 11 February 2005, 00:00 CST
Further proof that there is something that we cannot see which could possibly connect us all, proof of a sixth sense, proof of maybe even god. What if the reason why we can't find "god" is because "he" is just the collection of human minds. We hardly use 10% of our brains. What if the rest of our brains were constantly analyzing our surroundings and willing us to trigger minor events. Our collaberative minds speak with the rest of our mind using our "subconcious", our sixth sense, our instincts. When we follow these instincts, we set in motion a chain of events, which help people in mysterious ways. After all, god works mysterious ways. Maybe the idea of heaven and hell was just a collaborative idea to create law and order on an uncivilized planet.
In a related event, I saw The Davinchi Code yesterday. I personally think it was an amazing movie. The French probably just reviewed it bad because in the movie they actually said "you can't trust the French!". Couldn't agree more. The other people who say that they thought the movie was to long must have been either stupid and couldn't understand whats going on, or have a very small bladder and uncomfortable with staying longer than an hour and thirty minutes. The movie could have even been longer in my opinion. They kept on hinting to a love story but it kinda just didn't happen. I don't care that they call Jesus a normal man. Promoting good for the world is still not a bad thing. I fail to see how its an insult. He can still be great without being divine. So can anyone. If you ask me, it might be even more uplifting to believe in him as a person. If you know that someone can make that big of an impact on the world, you'll always remember that you can do the same. Instead of making it acceptable not to be perfect, make it a goal to be as good as you can.
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