Glimpses Of Global Mind

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Glimpses Of Global Mind
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Glimpses of Global Mind
A Slide Show Of GCP Graphics

• Roger Nelson
• Global Consciousness Project
• http//noosphere.princeton.edu

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In becoming planetized humanity is acquiring new
physical powers that will enable it to
super-organize matter. Even more important, is
it not possible that by the direct converging of
its members it will be able, as though by
resonance, to release psychic powers whose
existence is still unsuspected? Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin, The Future of Man
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Global Consciousness Project (aka the EGG
Project)

• International collaboration
• 100 Scientists, Artists, Friends,
• Network of host sites world wide
• The tools REG technology, Field application
• A world EEG an ElectroGaiaGram or EGG
• We identify deeply engaging global events
• The question Can we capture a
• Glimmering of Global Consciousness?

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Stepwise development of the Global Consciousness
Project

• Laboratory
• REG and PK Experiments, Intention
• Field Studies
• Group Consciousness, Resonance
• Global Scope
• Major Events, Shared Engagement

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INTENTION
Mind Matter and Machines Tools for Anomalies
Research PEAR Laboratory, Princeton University
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We have used many machines All based on Random
Sources
Random Drumbeat
Dual Thermistor
Electronic REG/RNG
Chaotic Fountain
Linear Pendulum
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Physical Random Event Generators REG or RNG --
Miniaturized for field use
Mindsong REG
Orion RNG
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How it works Heres 1000 trials from A physical
random sourceEach trial is the sum of 200 bits
120 100 80
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The binomial distribution of 1000 200-bit
trials, compared with Theoretical normal
distribution
100 is expected
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What happens in such data over time?Plot
cumulative deviation from expectation
Should be a random walk (a drunkards walk)
Chance expectation is Level, horizontal trend
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Creative source is an effortless state of being.
Desiring and resisting are efforts. Accepting
and appreciating are effortless. - - Harry
Palmer, Living Deliberately
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PEAR REG Intention ExperimentThe data are not
random, but show slope or trend Deviations are
correlated with participants intentions
5 Years, 33 Operators, 87 Series
Expectation is level trend
12 Years, 522 Series, 91 Ops
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Moving out of the laboratory Field REG
Experiments

• Take REG technology into the Field
• Look for evidence of a Consciousness Field
• Concerts, Operas
• Churches, Cathedrals
• Rituals, Ceremonies
• Sacred Spaces,
• Situations with Resonance or Coherence
• And Mundane situations, for comparison

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FieldREG Experiments Deep engagement, Coherent
group consciousness and emotion
Expectation for the data is a level trend, But
the real data show striking slopes
Group chanting Sacred space Great Pyramid, inner
chambers
Numinous event Shamanic Healing ritual for
Devils Tower
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FieldREG extended to global dimensions
A prototype global event, November 1995
Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Murder
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Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts
to improve the lot of others, or strikes out
against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple
of hope, and crossing each other from a million
different centers of energy and daring, those
ripples build a current that can sweep down the
mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. -
- Robert Kennedy, Capetown, 1966
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The next step Multi-REG data recordingColleagues
in Europe and the US Collected 12 independent
data streams
Expectation is level trend
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Creative InceptionParapsychologists and
Psychophysiologists19-channel EEG measures in
psi experiments 12-channel FieldREG Princess
Dianas funeral The concepts coalesced as a
World EEGThe EGG project began collecting
data Aug 1998
Dean Radins creative formulation Greg
Nelsons acronym for ElectroGaiaGram
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When you put a thing in order, and give it a
name, and you are all in accord, it becomes.
- - From the Navajo, Masked Gods, Waters, 1950

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A World Spanning Network (Google map of host
sites by Fernando Lucas Rodríguez)
http//noosphere.princeton.edu/egghosts/
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All the features of Google maps are available
http//noosphere.princeton.edu/egghosts/
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Real Time Data DisplayEach block one egg,
changing each secondBright colors (bells, gongs)
show larger deviations
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Internet transfer of data to Princeton It looks
random Combined dataFor a whole day, from 48
eggs
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We can see better whats happening by Plotting
cumulative deviations (c2 - df) Correlation
tilts variance spreads
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Average cumulative deviationis shown by the
black dotted line
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When we make a composite across eggs, the
cumulative deviation may show a trend
expected
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With this global network we canlook for effects
of engaging eventsNatural disastersTerrible
accidentsBeginnings of warGrand celebrations
Political excitementReligious
pilgrimageAstrological hot spotsWorld-wide
meditations
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Maybe a trend in the cumulative deviation is
meaningful?
this is chance expectation
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If we knew what we were doing, it wouldnt be
called research.
-- Albert Einstein
The way to do research is to attack the facts at
the point of greatest astonishment.
-- Celia Green
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Major disasters that engage us powerfullyOften
correlate with big deviationsThis is the first
GCP Event
Why? ... It shredded the social contract
of diplomacy
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Six hours of data around the beginning of
bombing in Kosovo
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The Concorde crash July 25 2000 We feel
surprise and a sense of loss
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Blacksburg Shock and tragedy close to home
feels deeply meaningful.Does the EGG network
respond? Perhaps.
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When a butterfly
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September 11 2001 Destruction of the World Trade
TowersA 50-hour trend followed the attacks
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Other Views of September 11 2001 These are
pictures of the variability among the eggs They
should look like a random walk on 9/11, but
9/11 was unique in 3 years of data
Variance began changing at 0400
The autocorrelation says this event was
extraordinary
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"The Age of Nations is past. The task before us
now, if we would not perish, is to build the
Earth." - - Père Teilhard de Chardin
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Consciousness Fields?
Compassion may be a primary source
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Compassion seems inherent in efforts to build or
restore the social fabricMeditationsPrayer
VigilsCeremoniesHolidays
Compassion implies interaction, interdependence,
respect, love It is the substrate of shared
consciousness
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Four million people pilgrimage for ritual and
prayer
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A substantial agreement on getting our ecological
act together
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The Popes 6-day pilgrimage to the middle eastAn
occasion of hope for resolution of differences
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Johrei Healing Society Synchronized induction
ceremonies around the world, April 1 2001
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Positive intent and compassion An organizing
field of consciousness?
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In contrast, sporting events seem Not to produce
big deviations
Excitement, but not compassion
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Political events, even big ones, are not
necessarily of interest to the EGG
Competition, no coherence
Clinton Impeachment Acquittal
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After terrorist bombings in Madrid all of Spain
came out in commiseration
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Chicago, Moment of Silence September 14 2001
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Focused Siddhi Meditations
Peak Day, Maximum Numbers
September 23 to 27, 2001
The most impressive result is in sustained
practice over months. 500 to 1 odds against
chance, and correlation with N of meditators.
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New Years Eve ? 37 time zones ? 8 years Use
epoch averaging (signal averaging)to reveal
structure in low S/N ratio events
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Happy New Year! Variance reduction, composite
for 8 New Years Signal averaged across 37 time
zones
8-year p-value 0.039
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Current result formal database, 8 years 227
rigorously defined global eventsOdds about 1
part in a million
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Questions outnumber answersGreat numbers
contributeDeep engagement is powerfulbutDoes
distance from the focus matter?How about
relevance to local people?Is human consciousness
necessary? Are experimenter effects the
source? What kinds of events are strongest?Is
the effect repeatable and reliable?
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Scientists are responsible for their research,
not only intellectually, but morally.
The outcome of any serious research can only be
to make two questions grow where only one grew
before.
-- Thorsten Veblen
-- Fritjof Capra
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A major part of our deeper analysis Involves
making the GCP database Error-free, Normalized,
Reliable, Flexible
For example, this graph shows the long-term
stability of a subset of the REG devices.
Arrow identifies a failure, where data must be
removed from the database.
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Proceeding with analysis Distribution of event
Z-scoresRoughly normal, shifted by 0.37 std dev
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There is a slight decline in the Z-score over
time, but it is not significant
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What about other statistical parameters?Calculate
all moments of NetVar distributionMean and
Variance significant, others are not
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What happens to the score if we slide The event
away from the original time?NetvarCovar
Dispersion statistic (Z4.2)
Effect decreases in proportion to shift
Detail /- 30 hours
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Grouping into reasonable categoriesshows a
substantial differentiation
Statistically Significant
Effect gt 1 Std Dev
Undistinguished
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What about the effect of distanceIs this an
objective matter?

• It turns out not to be simple.
• Geographic distance and psychological relevance
  are both likely candidates, How shall we
  distinguish their effects?
• We can look at particular events, making an
  effort to find cases where relevance and
  geography differ.

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A total solar eclipse was of Special interest to
people in the path
Only the eggs in the path Responded strongly
(very strongly p 0.0003). Was that because
of Proximity, or Meaning?
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Most questions are more complex than they seem,
and how you ask makes a big difference. Here are
two perspectives on Distance
Calculations, Roger Nelson
Bottom line It looks like there is modest
evidence that closer eggs show bigger effect.
See also Dean Radin, Distance effects of
Johrei Healing
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Positive and Negative Valence EventsHave Larger
Effects Than Neutral Events(For Positive, the
Difference Is Significant)
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Some Events We Examine Are Expected But Many Come
Without Warning(The Differences Are Not
Significant)
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The number of people paying attention has a
substantial effect on the networkSignificant but
confounded with importance
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Events that evoke or comprise Compassion have
larger effects
Hypothesis proposed by Jaan Suurkula
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A joyful attempt at global Ummm,
consciousness? (not, as originally advertised, a
GCP event)
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We can look at collections of repeated events.
Really big earthquakes, Richter 6 or more are
an informative example.There are about 600 of
them during the last 7 years, and about 100 are
on land where they matter to humans
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Earthquakes A GCP network responseMap of
quakes Richter 6 or moreOnly on land with
people and eggs
Detail, The Americas
Quakes in the Americas, Europe, Asia
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Cumulative deviation of covariance measureExact
time of the quake / 30 hours
Detail Quakes on Land /- 12 (16) hours
Quakes on Land /- 30 hours
Ocean Quakes /- 30 hours
Highly Significant Slope
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We can look at the data over many years. There
are some surprising qualities. Our standard
measure used in most hypothesis tests is the
Network Variance It is calculated as Zs2 The
square of the Stouffer Z across eggs.
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Background long-term trendin the network
variance (Zs2) Cumulative deviation, daily
values
Trend is significant
9/11
9/11
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What might explain the long-term trend?
Independent suggestive correlationwith a
sociological measure?
9/11
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Independent Analysis, Hans Wendt
(new, work in progress)
Short events
Correlation of GCP Z-scores Interplanetary Magne
tic Field
Long
Combined
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Independent Analysis, Hans Wendt
(new, work in progress)
Correlation of GCP Z-scores Interplanetary Magne
tic Field
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And what about the Experimenter Effect?Is this
all a result of our wishful thinking?
Overall
Error bars show the levels dont differ
significantly
The answer is no It is one of several sources
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Theory?David Bohm, The Implicate OrderActive
Information Virtual Field, Actualized at Need
e.g. Disease Chaos, need for
structureRemote healing, prayere.g. GCP Eggs
Random, open for structureEngaged attention,
compassion
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Bigger Picture What is our aspiration?

• Sharpen and focus our questions
• Aim for theoretical understanding
• Capture insight about creative mind
• Consider evidence that we are one
• Contribute to better future for culture

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Our task must be to free ourselves from this
prison of separation by widening our circle of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and
the whole of nature in its beauty. - - Albert
Einstein
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We think the world apart. What would it be like
to think the world together? -- Parker
Palmer, educator
http//noosphere.princeton.edu
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