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Global Consciousness One Mind One Emotion Sharing One World

Global Consciousness One Mind One Emotion Sharing One World. A slide show describing scientific process, primary findings, and preliminary interpretations Roger Nelson, Director Global Consciousness Project http://noosphere.princeton.edu.

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Global Consciousness One Mind One Emotion Sharing One World

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  1. Global ConsciousnessOne Mind One EmotionSharing One World A slide show describing scientific process, primary findings, and preliminary interpretations Roger Nelson, Director Global Consciousness Project http://noosphere.princeton.edu

  2. The Global Consciousness ProjectAlso known as the EGG ProjectA serious scientific adventure In a decidedly poetic questWe areseeking signs of the Noosphere,A sheath of intelligence for the Earth Imagined by Teilhard de Chardin as The next evolutionary stage for HumanityThis is an introduction to the project

  3. 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

  4. What is Global Consciousness? We all have the immediate experience of Personal Consciousness Sometimes, a Group Consciousness is experienced during rituals, concerts, etc. We lose individuality to become a group Rarely, great events focus our attention and engage our emotions so powerfully that we share a Global Consciousness

  5. Stepwise development of the Global Consciousness Project • Laboratory REG and PK Experiments, Intention • Field Studies Group Consciousness, Resonance • Global Scope Major Events, Shared Engagement

  6. PEAR Laboratory, Princeton University Experiments in Mind Matter Interactions INTENTION to change behavior of an REG

  7. Basics of a Physical REG • Quantum noise source, e.g. Diode • Sample electron tunneling voltage • Convert high and low to 1 and 0 • Count these ‘bits’ vs 50/50 probability Noise Bits

  8. Display 1000 trials from A physical random sourceEach trial is the sum of 200 bits 120 100 80

  9. The binomial distribution of 1000 200-bit trials, compared with Theoretical normal distribution 100 is expected

  10. What happens in such data over time?Plot cumulative deviation from expectation Should be a random walk (a “drunkard’s walk”) Chance expectation is Level, horizontal trend But significant departures From expectation may be Correlated with consciousness

  11. Laboratory Experiments, PEAR:Intention to Change the REG Behavior High and Low Both Depart From Expectation HI Expectation level trend BL LO 5 Years, 87 Experiments

  12. Moving out of the laboratoryField REG Experiments Take 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 Mundanesituations Shopping center, train station, busy street corner

  13. Physical Random Event Generators REG or RNG -- Miniaturized for field use Mindsong REG Orion RNG

  14. FieldREG Experiments: Deep engagement,Coherent group consciousness and emotion Expectation for the data is a level trend, But the real data show striking slopes Numinous event: Shamanic Healing ritual for Devils Tower Group chanting: Sacred space Great Pyramid, inner chambers

  15. Departures From Expectation Correlate With Coherent or Resonant Group ConsciousnessDeeply Engaging Ideas and Emotions

  16. The extension to global dimensions A prototype global event, November 1995 Assassination of YitzhakRabin Murder

  17. The next step: A truly global eventColleagues in Europe and the USCollected 12 independent data streams Expectation is level trend

  18. GCP InceptionPsychophysiologists meet ParapsychologistsA hallway discussion of technologies19-channel EEG & 12-channel REGLed to the concept of aMulti-channel ElectroGaiaGram (EGG*)The EGG project began collecting data Aug 1998 *Greg Nelson’s name and acronym for Dean Radin’s “World EEG”

  19. 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

  20. Global Consciousness Project(aka the EGG 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?

  21. A World Spanning Network A Google Map http://noosphere.princeton.edu/egghosts/

  22. Internet transfer of data to Princeton It looks random: Combined dataFor a whole day, from 48 eggs

  23. Average cumulative deviationshown by the black dotted line We can see better what’s happening by Plotting cumulative deviations(c2 - df)Correlation tilts … variance spreads

  24. When we make a composite across eggs, the cumulative deviation may show a trend expected

  25. With this global network we canlook for effects of engaging eventsNatural disastersTerrible accidentsBeginnings of warGrand celebrations Political excitementReligious pilgrimageAstrological hot spotsWorld-wide meditations

  26. Major disasters that engage us powerfullyOften correlate with big deviationsThis is the first GCP Event Why? ... It shredded the social contract of diplomacy

  27. We first identify major events Then ask if there is a trendIn the cumulative deviation this is chance expectation

  28. Blacksburg, VA: Shock and tragedy Close to home feels deeply meaningful.Does the EGG network respond? Perhaps.

  29. New Years Eve 1999-2008 (10 years 37 time zones)Average Variance Decrease

  30. The World Trade Center September 11 2001 Tamara Beckwith

  31. September 11 2001 Destruction of the World Trade TowersA 50-hour trend followed the attacks Twodays

  32. 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 04:00 The autocorrelation says this event was extraordinary

  33. "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

  34. Consciousness Fields? Compassion may be a primary source

  35. Major organized gatherings For Meditation and Prayer Four million people bathe in Ganges A million or more via the Internet

  36. The Pope’s 6-day pilgrimage to the middle eastAn occasion of hope for resolution of differences

  37. After terrorist bombings in Madrid all of Spain came out in commiseration

  38. 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

  39. Current result: formal database, 9+ years 244 rigorously defined global eventsOdds: Million to 1 against chance

  40. Distribution of Event Z-scores in 2004Roughly normal, shifted by 0.37 std dev

  41. Effects by GCP event categories 2007 update generally similar to 2004 (More categories are significant – N is greater)

  42. NUMBER of people paying attention has a substantial effect on the networkSignificant but may be confounded

  43. William James’ Four Basic Emotions Derived from “Bodily Involvement”

  44. LEVEL of emotion relatively easy To assign -- a highly significant factor

  45. VALENCE: Both positive and negative eventsHave larger effects than neutral events(But differences are not significant)

  46. COMPASSION: Events that evoke or Comprise compassion or loveHave larger effects (Hypothesis proposed by Jaan Suurkula)

  47. Emotion on a grand, global scale?Long-term negative trend in primary measure Are we meditative, or depressed? Trend is significant Analysis by Peter Bancel 9/11 9/11

  48. What might explain the long-term trend? Correlation with a sociological measurePresidential Approval Rating vs NetVar Model Fit & Update to 2007 GCP Data: Brown Polling Data: Blue 9/11 We see similar spikes and trends Analysis by Peter Bancel

  49. 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.

  50. 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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