Exploring Global Mind

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Exploring Global Mind
Dean Radin, Ph.D.
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Speculations

• What if Einstein was right? God does not play
  dice with the universe
• What if mind and matter are deeply interrelated?
• What if there are hidden causes for apparent
  randomness?

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mind
information
matter
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Testing Mind-Matter Interaction
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100 subjects 12 years 5 investigators 800K
samples 1 laboratory
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What do the skeptics say?

• Carl Sagan (1987)
• ESP the Loch Ness monster flying saucers an
  elephant that talks fluent Russian.
• Carl Sagan (1995)
• There are three claims in the ESP field which
  deserve serious study
• 1) that by thought alone humans can affect random
  number generators

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RNG meta-analysis

• 216 publications, 1959 2000
• journals, abstracts, unpublished reports, in all
  languages
• 85 investigators
• 20 laboratories
• 515 experiments

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RNG average Z
1959- 1987
1988-2000
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Summary Evidence for Mind-Matter Interaction
with RNGs

• RNG results are in alignment with quantum
  measurement speculations
• Results are not chance, poor quality, selective
  reporting, or non-repeatable
• Effects are weak in magnitude
• Effects are not force-like at the bit level, or
  simple causal mechanisms

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Prediction
If mind and matter are related
then fluctuations in mass mind might be
reflected as fluctuations in mass matter
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October 1995 - OJ Simpson Verdict
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OJ Simpson Verdict
odds against chance for behavior of 5 random
number generators located in US (4) and Europe (1)
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An internet-based experiment
0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 ...
well-behaved noise
used to measure entropy
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Devices and Controls

• High quality, EM-shielded, hardware RNGs
• Randomness is based on quantum noise
• Pass standard randomness tests
• Analyses checked with pseudorandom database
• Analyses checked by independent analysts

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Distribution of 1000 200-bit trials, compared to
theoretical normal distribution
expected
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Global Consciousness Project
50 truly random RNGs around the
world Synchronized to net-time
200 bits / second / RNG ? 864 M bits /
day http//noosphere.princeton.edu
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Events studied

• Predictable events of mass interest
• New Years celebrations, sports events
• Unpredictable events of mass interest
• Earthquakes, terrorist attacks
• Formal predictions
• Exploratory analyses

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Example formal events

• Disaster Western Indian Earthquake
• Disaster Volcanic Eruption, Congo
• Meditation WorldPuja Webcast
• Meditation Ramadan Muslim Prayer
• Violence Terrorist Disaster, Sept 11
• Sports World Series, Yankee Stadium
• Sports Winter Olympic Opening
• Funeral George Harrison Tribute
• Celebration Earth Day, 2001
• Celebration Beijing Gets 2008 Olympics
• Celebration Buddhist Stupa Ceremony
• Celebration New Year 2001-2002

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Full formal database105 global events over 3
years 9 months
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z score by event types
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September 11, 2001
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June 30,2001 September 20,2001
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Formal predictions
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Sept 8 Sept 14
signal
signal
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September 1
September 31
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Sept 11 detail
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Daily variance 1998 - 2002
September 11, 2001
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September 11, 2001 36 RNGs
Average Daily RNG Intercorrelation metric RIC
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RIC Asymmetry
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RIC distribution and coherence
positive coherence
negative coherence
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RIC Year 2001
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Effects of EM interference
night
day
night
All RNGs for the month of September 2001
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Towards generalization News analysis
Date Length Events Description 12/1/2000 129
1 Mexico President Inaugurated
12/2/2000 0 0 - 12/3/2000 0 0 - 12/4/2000 463
2 Chilean Judge Orders Pinochet's Arrest,
Europe Acts to Curb Mad Cow Disease
www.infoplease.com
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RIC vs. News
Year 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
1998-2002 p 0.10 0.02 0.38 0.01
0.56 0.002
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Outlier analysis
How robust is this correlation? Does it depend
on extreme values of news or RIC?
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Is the observed correlation meaningful? Cross
correlation test
May 2002
August 1998
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RIC vs. News cross correlation
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RIC vs. News cross-correlation odds
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RIC Cross Correlation Europe (12) vs. North
America (27)
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Europe vs. USA odds
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News Spectral Analysis
ln(1.95) 7 days
News events have a 7 day period
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News by day of the week
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News x RIC Cross Spectral Analysis
News RIC both have 7 day cycles. Are they in
phase?
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RIC vs. news by weekday
r 0.63 t 1.80 N 7 p 0.07
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Speculations

• Mind Matter are complementary aspects of a more
  fundamental, self-reflective reality

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Conclusions

• Laboratory MMI-RNG scales up
• Support for Einsteins ObjectionGod does not
  play dice with the universe
• Future research
• Role of the analyst?
• Improved global coherence (news) measures
• Independent sources of random data
• New types of detectors
• Theoretical model development