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

2. The Global Consciousness Project Also known as the EGG Project A serious scientific adventure In a decidedly poetic quest We are seeking signs of the Noosphere, A sheath of intelligence for the Earth Imagined by Teilhard de Chardin as The next evolutionary stage for Humanity This 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 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 1.Quantum noise source, e.g. Diode 2.Sample electron tunneling voltage 3.Convert high and low to 1 and 0 4.Count these ‘bits’ vs 50/50 probability NoiseBits

8. Display 1000 trials from A physical random source Each 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 LO BL Expectation level trend 5 Years, 87 Experiments

12. Moving out of the laboratory 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 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 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

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

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

17. The next step: A truly global event Colleagues in Europe and the US Collected 12 independent data streams Expectation is level trend

18. GCP Inception Psychophysiologists 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”

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

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

23. Average cumulative deviation shown by the black dotted line We can see better what’s happening by Plotting cumulative deviations (  2 - 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 can look for effects of engaging events Natural disasters Terrible accidents Beginnings of war Grand celebrations Political excitement Religious pilgrimage Astrological hot spots World-wide meditations

26. Major disasters that engage us powerfully Often correlate with big deviations This 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 trend In 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 Towers A 50-hour trend followed the attacks Two days

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

36. The Pope’s 6-day pilgrimage to the middle east An 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 events Odds: Million to 1 against chance

40. Distribution of Event Z-scores in 2004 Roughly 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 network Significant 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 events Have larger effects than neutral events (But differences are not significant)

46. COMPASSION: Events that evoke or Comprise compassion or love Have 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? 9/11 Trend is significant 9/11 Analysis by Peter Bancel

48. 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

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

51. GCP Homepage Status Day Sum Results Extract Special Link Buttons Presentation Split into two Complementary Perspectives http://noosphere.princeton.edu Frame-based Web Design Rick Berger

52. Active Information: Virtual Field, Actualized at Need Theory? David Bohm, The Implicate Order Active Information: Virtual Field, Actualized at Need e.g. Disease: Chaos, “need” for structure Remote healing, prayer e.g. GCP Eggs: Random, open for structure Engaged attention, compassion

53. GCP/EGG Project The people who make it go International collaboration of about 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 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

54. Realtime Display of Data By Dick Bierman, Jaroen Ruuward, Nishith Singh, Taylor Jackson Click Bell Gong

55. Can the flap of a butterfly’s wings …

56. 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

57. 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

58. 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

59. Creative source is an effortless state of being. Desiring and resisting are efforts. Accepting and appreciating are effortless. - - Harry Palmer, Living Deliberately

60. 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

61. 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

62. Grouping into reasonable categories Shows a substantial differentiation (2007) Statistically Significant Effect > 1 Std Dev Undistinguished

63. All Earthquakes, Richter 6 or More Cumulative Deviation of Covariance Controls Ocean Quakes +/- 30 hours Quakes on Land +/- 30 hours This constitutes convergent evidence against experimenter effect

64. New Years Eve  37 time zones  8 years Use epoch averaging (signal averaging) to reveal structure in low S/N ratio events

65. A very recent Global Event Hurricane and flooding in Bangledesh Persistent non-random trends

66. FieldREG Experiments: Group resonance, charismatic engagement “ The presence of mind in the physical world” Robert Jahn Talk

67. The next step: Multi-REG data recording: A formal test of “Anomalous influence from a ‘Consciousness Field’ during a Global Event” January 23, 1997

68. 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

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

70. Questions outnumber answers Great numbers contribute Deep engagement is powerful but 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?