Yellow dots are nodes in the network

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Gathering Global Awareness Are we seeing a
Consciousness Field?
Yellow dots are nodes in the network
http//noosphere.princeton.eduRoger Nelson
rdnelson_at_princeton.edu
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The EGG Project(aka the Global Consciousness
Project)

• International collaboration
• 75 Scientists, Artists, Friends,
• Network of host sites world wide
• The tools REG technology, Field application
• Make an EEG for the earth, an ElectroGaiaGram
• Identify engaging moments of global events
• The question Can we capture a
• Glimmering of Global Consciousness?

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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

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The technology is only now availableElectronics,
Computers, Networking

• REG/RNG devices run continuously
• Synchronized computers and software
• Internet transfer of data to central server
• Automatic archiving, public access
• Formal analyses and explorations
• Background, methods, poetic history

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A Random Event Generator (REG or RNG)
Mindsong REG
Orion RNG
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How it works Heres 1000 Trials Each trial is
the sum of 200 bitsLike flipping 200 coins and
counting heads
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The binomial distribution of 1000 200-bit
trials, compared with Theoretical normal
distribution
100 is expected
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What happens in such data over time?Plot
cumulative deviation from expectation
Should be a Random Walk (a Drunkards Walk)
A General Case
GCP Standard Analysis
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Laboratory Experiments, PEARIntention to change
the REG behavior High and Low both depart from
expectation
HI
BL
LO
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Field REG Experiments No Intentions We simply
collect data in the situationWe find departures
from expectation
Queens Chamber
Grand Gallery
Kings Chamber
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Departures from expectation correlate with
Coherent or Resonant group consciousnessDeeply
engaging ideas and emotions
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The next step A prototype collaborationColleague
s in Europe and the US Collected 12 independent
data streams
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How About a Global Network?Might we see Effects
of Engaging Events?Natural disastersTerrible
accidentsThe beginning of warThe Popes
pilgrimageGrand celebrations Political
excitementAstrological hot spotsWorld-wide
meditations
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A network of eggs around the world A
computer, special software, an REG/RNG
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Internet transfer of data to Princeton Here we
see the combined dataFor a whole day, from 48
eggs
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We can see better whats happening by Plotting
the cumulative deviations (c2 - df) Correlation
Tilts Variance Spreads
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Combine all eggs and plot cumulative deviation
May show a trend if there is a common Influence
or correlation among the eggs
(c2 - df)
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When we make a composite across eggs, the
cumulative deviation may show a trend
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Maybe a trend in the cumulative Deviation is
Meaningful?
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So far, sporting events seem Not to produce big
deviations
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The Popes 6-day pilgrimage to the middle eastAn
occasion of hope for resolution of differences
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Political events, even big ones, are not
necessarily of interest to the EGG
Clinton Impeachment Acquittal
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Well try anything once. Significant
correlations with astrologically determined hot
times
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Tearing the Social Fabric Terrorists Attack
Civilians and Diplomats Nato Bombs Kosovo to
End Ethnic CleansingTaliban Destroy Ancient
Buddhist TreasureSeptember 11 Enters History of
the Earth
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Major disasters that engage us powerfullyOften
correlate with big deviations
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Context explorations Six hours of dataAround
the beginning of bombing in KosovoCumulative
deviation of Zs2 or c2
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The Buddhas of Bamiyan
After
Before March 12 2001
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The destruction of a world treasureApproximate
time, noon in Afghanistan
noon
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The World Trade Center Fall, 2001
Carol M. Highsmith
Al Dove
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The World Trade Center September 11 2001
Tamara Beckwith
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The destruction of the World Trade TowersSept 11
2001 A 50-hour trend followed the attacks
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Sept 11 prediction Inter-egg Variance will
fluctuate Red is real data, Green is Pseudorandom
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Autocorrelation on Sept 11Structure where there
should be none
Calculations Peter Bancel
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What is there to say?
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Repairing, Restoring The Social
FabricHealingMeditationsPrayer
VigilsCeremoniesHolidays
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Chicago, Moment of Silence September 14 2001
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Three Minutes of Silence September 14 2001
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Focused Siddhi Meditations September 23 to 27,
2001
Peak Day, Maximum Numbers
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Synchronized Johrei Ceremonies Around the World,
April 1 2001
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Four Million People Pilgrimage For Ritual and
Prayer
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A Substantial Agreement on Getting Our Ecological
Act Together
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Natural Disasters And Accidents Earthquakes,
Floods Planes, Trains, Ships
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The Great Earthquake in Turkey August 17 1999
Standard Analysis
US vs Europe, Bierman
Variance Analysis, Bierman
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Volcano in Nairobi January 17 2002
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Typhoon in Orissa, India October 29 1999
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The Concorde Crash July 25 2000
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The Kursk Submarine Disaster August 12 2000
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Train Crash in India August 2 2001
All Eggs, 4 hrs
Nearby Eggs, 1.5 hrs
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The Lighter Side Celebrations What better
example than New Years?
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And again for last year. The pattern is
replicated for the third time.
Global Attention Sharing New Years Eve All
over the world, people celebrate the change to a
New Year. Since 1998, we have recorded data from
a network of physical random event generators
(called eggs). Here we look at what happens at
midnight around the world. The scientific
prediction is that there will be a pattern of
increased correlation among the eggs. We test for
trends away from the expected random walk. We
have learned to expect reductions in the
variation across the eggs. The figures on this
page almost speak for themselves. They are
pictures of our engagement with each other.
We predicted the same pattern for the following
year.
Then, for the infamous Y2K transition, we looked
at a measure of the variability among the eggs
and predicted it would decrease as we all focused
on midnight.
Variance Drop, Midnight, 1999-2000
In the first year, 1998-1999, we looked for a
change in the average deviation, and compared
Maxi- and Mini-celebration time zones.
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An obvious prediction New Years celebrations
Concatenation across all (24) time
zonesCumulative excess deviation of means
Model Prediction
Weak Replication
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Taking the Electrogaiagram metaphor to
heartMaxi-celebrating time zones, Signal
averaging
Figure by Richard Broughton
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Evoked Response in the ElectrogaiagramSignal
averaging Mini-Celebrating time zones
Figure by Richard Broughton
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Y2K New Year 1999-2000 Coherent engagement?
Radin makes an independent prediction Reduction
of Variance across eggs
Odds, GMT
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New Years 2000-2001 Variance Reduction Signal
Average over 37 time zones Normalized, Squared,
Smoothed
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New Years 2001-2002 Variance Reduction Signal
Average over 37 time zones Normalized as
Z-scores, Smoothed
5-Min Smoothing Window
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New Years 2002-2003 Variance ReductionShows
ambiguous response, But Meanshift is significant
again
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Questions outnumber answersGreat numbers
contributeDeep engagement is powerfulbutDoes
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?
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Columbia Explodes Seven astronauts lost But the
eggs apparently do not respond
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Why do we sometimes see no effect?
Perhaps we do, But not in the form we expect
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The Columbia ExplosionViewing through a
different instrument
Note, however, about 1/3 of permutations Have
such an extreme deviation sometime in 24 hours
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Categories What seems to touch The Global
Consciousness?
Calculations, Dean Radin
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Does the distance of the eggsFrom the event make
a difference?
Calculations, Dean Radin
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Does the distance of the eggsFrom the event make
a difference?
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Current Result Formal Database132 global
events over 4.5 yearsOdds about 100,000 to 1
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What do we have in hand?Where do we want to go
with it?

• Four years of data
• 55 eggs around the world
• More than 130 formal studies
• About 65 positive outcome
• About 18 individually significant
• Many analyses remain to be done

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Bigger Picture What is our aspiration?

• Sharpen and focus our questions
• Aim for theoretical understanding
• Capture insight about creative mind
• Consider evidence that we are one
• Contribute to better future for culture

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We think the world apart. What would it be like
to think the world together? -- Parker
Palmer, educator
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Homepage
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Berger Web Design
Magic Buttons
Status Day Sum Results Extract
Primary Links Menu at Bottom
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Barry Fenn 1950 2000 A memorial assessmentof
GCP data Perhaps the eggs Respond to their
hosts
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A respectful, exploratory look at the death of
egg host Barry FennAll 28 eggs
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Same time period, Barrys egg only.After he
passes, a 20 hour falling trend
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Symmetry in the data, maybe even meaning Barrys
egg and that of his friend, Sze Tan
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A total solar eclipse was of Special interest to
people in the path
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For most of the formal predictionsWe specify a
Standard Analysis

• Normalized signed deviation of mean, zi
  (mi-m)/s
• Composite across eggs Stouffer Zs
  (Szi)/N1/2
• Composite Z is squared for c2 distributed
  statistic
• Large cumulative sum of Zs2 1 or c2 df
• Reflects inter-egg correlation, or
• Consistent large deviations, or both

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Global Emotion Transfixed by
Tragedy On September 11 2001, early in the
morning, a network of physical random event
generators (called eggs) took on a striking
trend. By 845 the non-random behavior was
unmistakable. It peaked at about 1030 with odds
against chance of a thousand to one. See the
red trace below. Other measures also deviated
from expectation on that day, creating an
unmistakable pattern where there should be none.
The eggs became linked across distance and time
in some subtle way that we do not yet know how to
explain. This is not a physical or
electromagnetic effect. Its not due to
extraordinary mobile phone use, or saturation
TV. It appears to be related to our profound
engagement.
On 9/11 the data showed extraordinary moments
On 9/11 the data contained unique sequential
structure
On 9/11 deviations began that persisted for 2 days
The jagged red line shows three days of a measure
(squared cumulative deviation of variance) that
represents the composite randomness of 37
eggs. On September 11, the data show clear
structure where there should be none.
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Squared Cumulative Variance, Sept 10 - 12The
departure begins nearly 4 hours before the first
attack
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Bottom Line ComparisonFormal outcome sequence
versus Random draws from distribution