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

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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?