Roger Nelson Princeton University and Global Consciousness Project Emotions in Global Consciousness A study of basic emotions evoked or embodied In events correlated with GCP/EGG data Bial Foundation 7th Symposium Behind and Beyond the Brain: Emotions

And a heartfelt thank you to the people who make the GCP go International collaboration of more than 100 Scientists, Artists, Friends, … Richard Adams, USA, general support Brad Anderson, USA, widget programming Peter Bancel, Paris, professional analysis, collaboration Paul Bethke, USA, windows programming, network Dick Bierman, Netherlands, design and realtime display Taylor Jackson, Canada, realtime display maintenance Greg Nelson, USA, program architecture, general support Dean Radin, USA, design and independent analysis Fernando Rodríguez, Spain, egghosts google map Leane Roffey, USA, music, outreach, general support Jaroen Ruuward, Netherlands, realtime programming Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, USA, logistical support Dick Shoup, USA, independent analysis Nishith Singh, India, realtime programming Mahadeva Srinivasan, India, general support William Treurniet, Canada, egganalysis programming John Walker, Switzerland, programming, general support … And all the EGG hosts around the world First, a thank you to the Bial Foundation for including me in this gathering, and for inviting my wife and me to visit this beautiful country … First, a thank you to the Bial Foundation for including me in this gathering, and for inviting my wife and me to visit this beautiful country …

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 Note that this is an Operational Definition, not a theory

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

A physical REG: the basics ….. Quantum level Electronic noise

In practice we make “trials” Which are the sum of 200 bits We collect one trial per second

Binomial distribution, 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 is Level, horizontal trend Cumdev is sequential sum of Differences from the expected Value, in this case, zero deviation Expected value = zero

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

Field 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 Mundane situations Shopping centers, train stations Busy street corners

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 space Great 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 dimensions Prototype Global Event November 1995 Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin Murder

Multi-REG data, 12 independent sources During Princess Diana’s Funeral Sadness, Compassion, Love Expectation is level trend Red trace During the Funeral P ~ 0.01 Green lines Random Control Data

The natural next step Create a permanent network We made a plan and gathered resources, Built hardware and software In August 1998 The GCP began collecting data

A World Spanning Network of About 60 Eggs A Google Map

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

Average cumulative deviation shown by the black dotted line We can see better what’s happening by Plotting cumulative deviations (  2 - df)

If we average across REGs we can see trends In the cumulative deviation from expectation Recall that the Expected picture is a Level random walk Cumulative deviation is a Graphical tool to detect change (process control engineering) Did something Happen here?

Natural disasters often are Global Events Hurricane and Flooding in Bangledesh Persistent, Nonrandom Trends

The Concorde crash July : We feel surprise and a sense of loss

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

Sometimes the trend is very clearly not random A “control” data set From one year later September Cumulative deviation, netvar Non-random trend for over 2 days On this day there was globally shared fear and compassion An undeniably “global” event Major human-caused disaster Shredding the social fabric

Other Views of September 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 starts big change at 04:00 First plane hits tower at 08:46

Current result: formal database, 9+ years 247 rigorously defined global events Odds: Million to 1 against chance

Evidence for an effect of Operationally defined Global Consciousness Is strong, with Million to one odds that it is Just chance fluctuation We are ready for deeper analysis

NUMBER of people paying attention has A substantial effect on the network Significant but may be confounded overall

How about Emotions? Exploratory, proof of principle Subjective categorizations Reasonable reliability Striking differences

The World Trade Center September The GCP network Then had 37 REGs Around the world Tamara Beckwith

LEVEL of emotion relatively easy To assign -- highly significant factor overall

SURPRISE is listed by some researchers As an emotion, but it does not have A big effect in GCP formal events (note possible confounds with other emotions)

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

COMPASSION: Events that evoke or embody Compassion or love have larger effects overall

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

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

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

Take away 1) It appears that our operationally defined global consciousness has real effects in the material world 2) This “global consciousness” responds to events emotionally in ways familiar to us as individuals Take away 1) It appears that our operationally defined global consciousness has real effects in the material world 2) This “global consciousness” responds to events emotionally in ways familiar to us as individuals

"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 Perhaps knowing this can help us get our act together

Can the flap of a butterfly’s wing …

Thank You

Changing Emotions A reversal of trend After the defined event Analysis by Peter Bancel Post Event Period Concatenated data of Formal events Vs Equal duration Post event segments Event Period Post Event

The recent turmoil in Tibet Arouses compassion – The “religion” of Buddhism

Consciousness Fields? Compassion may be a primary source

September : Fear and Compassion Destruction of the World Trade Towers A 50-hour trend followed the attacks Two days

“Someday after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love, and then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will discover fire.” - - Père Teilhard de Chardin Perhaps knowing this can help us get our act together

Distribution of Event Z-scores: Roughly normal, shifted by ~ 0.3 std dev

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

Positive intent and compassion An organizing field of consciousness? 2004 analysis based on Jaan Suurkula hypothesis