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A slide show describing scientific process,A slide show describing scientific process,primary findings, and preliminary interpretationsprimary findings, and preliminary interpretations
Roger Nelson, DirectorRoger Nelson, Director
Global Consciousness ProjectGlobal Consciousness Projecthttp://noosphere.princeton.eduhttp://noosphere.princeton.edu
Global Global ConsciousnessConsciousness
One Mind One Mind One EmotionOne Emotion
Sharing One WorldSharing One World
The Global Consciousness ProjectThe Global Consciousness ProjectAlso known as the EGG ProjectAlso known as the EGG Project
A serious scientific adventure A serious scientific adventure In a decidedly poetic questIn a decidedly poetic quest
We areWe are seeking signs of the Noosphere,seeking signs of the Noosphere,A sheath of intelligence for the Earth A sheath of intelligence for the Earth Imagined by Teilhard de Chardin as Imagined by Teilhard de Chardin as
The next evolutionary stage for HumanityThe next evolutionary stage for Humanity
This is an introduction to the projectThis is an introduction to the project
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
What is Global Consciousness?What is Global Consciousness?We all have the immediate experience of Personal Consciousness
Sometimes, a Group Consciousness isexperienced during rituals, concerts, etc.We lose individuality to become a group
Rarely, great events focus our attentionand engage our emotions so powerfully that we share a Global Consciousness
We all have the immediate experience of Personal Consciousness
Sometimes, a Group Consciousness isexperienced during rituals, concerts, etc.We lose individuality to become a group
Rarely, great events focus our attentionand engage our emotions so powerfully that we share a Global Consciousness
Stepwise development of the
Global Consciousness Project Laboratory
REG and PK Experiments, Intention Field Studies
Group Consciousness, Resonance Global Scope
Major Events, Shared Engagement
PEAR Laboratory, Princeton University Experiments in Mind Matter Interactions
INTENTION to change behavior of an REG
Basics of a Physical REG1. Quantum noise source, e.g. Diode2. Sample electron tunneling voltage3. Convert high and low to 1 and 04. Count these ‘bits’ vs 50/50 probability
Noise Bits
Display 1000 trials from A physical random source
Each trial is the sum of 200 bits
120
100
80
The binomial distribution of 1000 200-bit trials, compared with
Theoretical normal distribution
100 is expected
What happens in such data over time?Plot cumulative deviation from expectation
Should be a random walk (a “drunkard’s walk”)Chance expectation isLevel, horizontal trend But significant departures
From expectation may beCorrelated with consciousness
Laboratory Experiments, PEAR:Intention to Change the REG Behavior
High and Low Both Depart From Expectation
HI
LO
BL
Expectation level trend
5 Years, 87 Experiments
Moving out of the laboratory Field REG
ExperimentsTake REG technology into the Field
Look for evidence of a Consciousness Field
Situations with Resonance or Coherence
Concerts, Operas
Churches, Cathedrals
Rituals, Ceremonies
Sacred Spaces, …
Comparison with Mundane situations
Shopping center, train station, busy street corner
Physical Random Event Generators REG or RNG -- Miniaturized for field use
Mindsong REG
Orion RNG
FieldREG Experiments: Deep engagement, Coherent group consciousness and emotion
Group chanting: Sacred spaceGreat Pyramid, inner chambers
Numinous event: Shamanic Healing ritual for Devils Tower
Expectation for the data is a level trend, But the real data show striking slopes
Departures From Expectation Correlate With Coherent or Resonant Group Consciousness
Deeply Engaging Ideas and Emotions
The extension to global dimensionsA prototype global event, November 1995
Assassination of Yitzhak RabinMurder
The next step: A truly global eventColleagues in Europe and the US
Collected 12 independent data streamsExpectation is level trend
GCP InceptionPsychophysiologists meet Parapsychologists
A hallway discussion of technologies
19-channel EEG &
12-channel REG Led to the concept of a
Multi-channel ElectroGaiaGram (EGG*)
The EGG project began collecting data Aug 1998
*Greg Nelson’s name and acronym for Dean Radin’s “World EEG”
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
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
Global Consciousness Global Consciousness ProjectProject
(aka the (aka the EGGEGG Project) Project)The people: International collaboration, 100+ people
Network of over 60 host sites world wide
The tools: REG technology, Field application
A world EEG – an ElectroGaiaGram or EGG
The method: Identify deeply engaging global events
The question: Can we capture a glimmering of
Global Consciousness?
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/egghosts/
A World Spanning Network
A Google Map
Internet transfer of data to Princeton It looks random: Combined dataFor a whole day, from 48 eggs
Average cumulative deviationshown by the black dotted line
We can see better what’s happening byPlotting cumulative deviations (2 - df)
Correlation tilts … variance spreads
When we make a composite across eggs, the cumulative deviation may show a trend
expected
With this global network we canlook for effects of engaging events
Natural disastersTerrible accidentsBeginnings of war
Grand celebrations Political excitementReligious pilgrimage
Astrological hot spotsWorld-wide meditations
Major disasters that engage us powerfullyOften correlate with big deviations
This is the first GCP Event
Why? ... Itshreddedthe socialcontract ofdiplomacy
We first identify major events Then ask if there is a trend In the cumulative deviation
this ischance
expectation
Blacksburg, VA: Shock and tragedy Close to home feels deeply meaningful.
Does the EGG network respond? Perhaps.
New Years Eve 1999-2008 (10 years 37 time zones)
Average Variance Decrease
The World Trade Center
September 11 2001
Tamara Beckwith
September 11 2001 Destruction of the World Trade Towers
A 50-hour trend followed the attacks
Two days
Other Views of September 11 2001These are pictures of the variability among the eggs
They should look like a “random walk” on 9/11, but …
9/11 was uniquein 3 years of data
Variance began changing at 04:00
The autocorrelation says this event was extraordinary
"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
Consciousness Fields?
Compassion maybe a primary
source
Four million people bathe in Ganges
Major organized gatheringsFor Meditation and Prayer
A million or morevia the Internet
The Pope’s 6-day pilgrimage to the middle eastAn occasion of hope for resolution of differences
After terrorist bombings in Madrid all of Spain came out in commiseration
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
Current result: formal database, 9+ years 244 rigorously defined global events
Odds: Million to 1 against chance
Distribution of Event Z-scores in 2004Roughly normal, shifted by 0.37 std dev
z-Test: Two Sample for Means
Variable 1 Variable 2Mean -0.01163904 0.372648Known Variance 1.001459 1.080784Observations 10000 159Hypothesized Mean Difference 0z -4.62710645P(Z<=z) one-tail 1.856E-06
Effects by GCP event categories2007 update generally similar to 2004
(More categories are significant – N is greater)
NUMBER of people paying attention has a substantial effect on the network
Significant but may be confounded
William James’ Four Basic EmotionsDerived from “Bodily Involvement”
LEVEL of emotion relatively easyTo assign -- a highly significant factor
VALENCE: Both positive and negative eventsHave larger effects than neutral events
(But differences are not significant)
COMPASSION: Events that evoke or Comprise compassion or love
Have larger effects
(Hypothesis proposed by Jaan Suurkula)
Emotion on a grand, global scale?Long-term negative trend in primary measure
Are we meditative, or depressed?
9/11
Trend issignificant
9/11
Analysis by Peter Bancel
What might explain the long-term trend? Correlation with a sociological measurePresidential Approval Rating vs NetVar
9/11
Model Fit & Update to 2007
GCP Data: BrownPolling Data: Blue
We see similar spikes and trends
Analysis by Peter Bancel
How could these trend Correlations come about?
Might the EGGs reflect our long-term Emotional state? We’re conscious it Could be a better time in the world.
At some level we know We have much to do.
Perhaps we begin.
We think the world apart. What would it be like to think the world together?
-- Parker Palmer, educator
http://noosphere.princeton.edu
GCP Homepage
StatusDay Sum ResultsExtract
Special Link Buttons
Presentation Split into two
Complementary Perspectives
http://noosphere.princeton.edu
Frame-based Web DesignRick Berger
Theory?
David Bohm, The Implicate Order
Active Information: Active Information: Virtual Field, Actualized at NeedVirtual Field, Actualized at Need e.g. Disease: Chaos, “need” for structure
Remote healing, prayer
e.g. GCP Eggs: Random, open for structureEngaged attention, compassion
GCP/EGG ProjectGCP/EGG ProjectThe people who make it goThe people who make it go
International collaboration of about 100 Scientists, Artists, Friends, …
Richard Adams, USA, general supportBrad Anderson, USA, widget programmingPeter Bancel, Paris, professional analysis, collaborationPaul Bethke, USA, windows programming, networkDick Bierman, Netherlands, design and realtime displayTaylor Jackson, Canada, realtime display maintenanceGreg Nelson, USA, program architecture, general supportDean Radin, USA, design and independent analysisFernando Rodríguez, Spain, egghosts google mapLeane Roffey, USA, music, outreach, general supportJaroen Ruuward, Netherlands, realtime programmingDick Shoup, USA, independent analysisNishith Singh, India, realtime programmingMahadeva Srinivasan, India, general supportWilliam Treurniet, Canada, egganalysis programmingJohn Walker, Switzerland, programming, general support… And all the EGG hosts around the world
Realtime Display of DataRealtime Display of DataBy Dick Bierman, Jaroen Ruuward, Nishith Singh, Taylor Jackson By Dick Bierman, Jaroen Ruuward, Nishith Singh, Taylor Jackson
Click
Bell
Gong
Can the flap of a butterfly’s wings …
Now, if the cooperation of some thousands of millions of cells in our brain can produce our consciousness, a true singularity, the idea becomes vastly more plausible that the cooperation of humanity, or some sections of it, may determine what Comte calls a Great Being.
- - J.B.S. Haldane
Through technology and sheer numbers, people have become a geological force, shaping the planet's future just as rivers and earthquakes shaped its past.
Eventually, global society, guided by science, may soften the human environmental impact, and earth will become a "noosphere," a planet of the mind.
- - Vladimir I. Vernadsky, 1926
Consciousness is creative …
We take meaning from music, we know our loved ones from afar, and we leap in thought to the stars.
Sometimes we dissolve ourselves into a group and become a larger whole.
And we always have prayed as if it could make a difference.
- - Roger Nelson, noosphere.princeton.edu
Creative source is an effortless state of being.
Desiring and resisting are efforts. Accepting and appreciating are effortless.
- - Harry Palmer, Living Deliberately
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
And what about the Experimenter Effect?Is this all a result of our wishful thinking?
Error bars show the levels don’t differ significantly
Overall
The answer is no …It is one of several sources
Grouping into reasonable categoriesShows a substantial differentiation (2007)
Effects as a Function of Event Type
y = -0.0841x + 1.0846
R2 = 0.9713
-1
0
1
Categories
Eff
ect S
ize
Statistically Significant
Effect > 1 Std Dev
Undistinguished
All Earthquakes, Richter 6 or More Cumulative Deviation of Covariance
ControlsOcean Quakes +/- 30 hours
Quakes on Land +/- 30 hours
This constitutes convergent evidence against experimenter effect
New Years Eve 37 time zones 8 years Use epoch averaging (signal averaging)
to reveal structure in low S/N ratio events
A very recent Global EventHurricane and flooding in Bangledesh
Persistent non-random trends
FieldREG Experiments:
Group resonance, charismatic engagement“The presence of mind in the physical world”
Robert Jahn Talk
The next step: Multi-REG data recording:A formal test of “Anomalous influence from a ‘Consciousness Field’ during a Global Event”
January 23, 1997
Compassion seems inherent in efforts to build or restore
the social fabric
Meditations, Prayer Vigils, Ceremonies
Compassion seems inherent in efforts to build or restore
the social fabric
Meditations, Prayer Vigils, Ceremonies
Compassion implies Interaction, Interdependence, Respect, Love
It is the substrate of shared consciousness
Compassion implies Interaction, Interdependence, Respect, Love
It is the substrate of shared consciousness
Positive intent and compassionAn organizing field of consciousness?
2004 analysis based onJaan Suurkula hypothesis
Questions outnumber answersGreat numbers contribute
Deep engagement is powerfulbut
Does 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?
What does direction of deviation mean?