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I wanted to post this email I received from Lynn McTaggert auther of The Intention Experiment. A few months ago I participated in a mass meditation aimed at bringing peace to the fighting in Sri Lanka. Interesting results: The fighting and killing increased during the 10 days of the experiment and then abruptly decreased and is still decreased. In this email McTaggert posts the results from the Random Event Generator Machines:
Evidence of a 'Field' effect during
peace intention experiment
Lynne McTaggart
Dear readers,
While we're all absorbing the enormity of the implications of this historic American election, I thought I would share with you another bit of history in the making - the first extraordinary scientific results of the Peace Intention Experiment.
Roger Nelson, architect of Global Consciousness Project and a member of our scientific team, has been busy analyzing the effect of our Peace Intention Experiment on the random event generators he continuously runs all over the world.
Several analyses reveal that the REG machines were affected within
a 40-minute window of meditations during the eight days of our
Peace Intention Experiment, and that these changes were similar to
those that occurred during moments of mass meditation in areas
attempting to lower violence.
When analyzed over the entire week, Nelson and his colleagues found
a consistent daily pattern. Increases in order of the REG output
were similar to the changes we specified in our protocol, during
the 20 minutes of preparation, or 'Powering Up', of viewing the Sri
Lanka target and then of the 10 minutes of actually sending
intention.. Although the machines demonstrated a change during the
Powering Up stage, when our participants were getting ready to
participate, the effect was most striking during the actual 10
minutes of our experiment.
"In particular, the steep negative slope of the data during the
10-min meditation looks like that seen in our examination of data
during Transcendental Meditation gatherings of advanced
meditators,' writes Dr. Nelson. 'These 'social calming' experiments
served as one of the models for the peace intention experiment."
If you recall, the Peace Intention Experiment was sparked by the
numerous TM studies showing that when a critical mass of meditators
regularly meditate in an area, the crime rate or armed conflict
goes down.
But the TM studies simply examine the effect of 'attention' and
calming practices like meditation. Our experiment took their work
one step further by examining what happens when a large group sends
a highly specific intention to make a change.
For the full report, complete with graphs, please follow this link.
How the GCP works
An REG, built to examine the effect of mind on machine, performs
the electronic, twenty-first century equivalent of a toss of a coin.
The output of these machines (the computerized equivalent of heads
or tails) is controlled by a randomly alternating frequency of
positive and negative pulses. Because their activity is utterly
random, they produce 'heads' and 'tails' each roughly 50 per cent
of the time, according to the laws of probability.
Nelson has organized a centralized computer program, so that REGs
located in 50 places around the globe and running continuously pour
their continuous stream of random bits of data into one vast
central hub through the Internet.
Periodically, Nelson and his colleagues study these outpourings and
compare them with the biggest breaking news stories, attempting to
rout out any sort of statistical connection. Standardized methods
and analysis revealed any demonstration of order - a moment when
the machine output displayed less randomness than usual - and
whether the time that it had been generated corresponded with that
of a major world event.
To date, they have compared this output with hundreds of top news
events, including the death of the Princess of Wales, the 9/11
tragedy, the reactions to the war in Iraq and President Bush.
Whenever people reacted with great joy or horror to a major event,
the machines seem to react as well. Furthermore, the degree of
'order' in the machine's output seemed to match the emotional
intensity of the event, particularly those that had been tragic:
the greater the horror, the greater the order.
Why this result is so important
Dr Nelson cautions us that a single study like this only produces a
tiny statistical effect, and so we'll only really know if we have
scientific 'proof' of an effect if we repeat this kind of study
numerous times more. Nevertheless, the fact that we showed an
effect every day of the study and demonstrated a surge of change
just during the 10- minute window of the actual experiment, he
says, shows 'an important demonstration of the effect of
consciousness and sensitivity of the GCP network at an unexpected
level of detail'.
Join our Peace Intention Experiment survey
Now that enough time has passed for us to analyze the true effect
of our intentions and gather our final scientific evidence, we need
your input, too.
We need to know how you participated, whether you had any trouble,
and what exactly happened during and after the experiment to you
personally.
For instance, did you experience peace in your own life?
We've assembled a simple on-line survey for you. This questionnaire
will not ask for individual details, like your full name or
address, but will ask for details about your experience of the
Peace Experiment and its aftermath. Any information you give us
will only be used in scientific papers or as part of my own reports
on the experiment on this e-news and elsewhere. Nothing will be
used that could identify you personally.
Please take the five minutes to participate. Your help will provide
us with invaluable data about this experiment and offer suggestions
about how to improve our system for future Intention Experiments.
Thanks so much in advance for taking a moment to fill out the
survey by following this link.
This clever bit of on-line software will automatically collate your
answers for us, and I'll report back to you soon.
See you on Las Ramblas
This weekend I will be in Barcelona speaking at Deepak Chopra's
Alliance for New Humanity forum and running a workshop on
intention. For any of you planning to attend, do be sure to come
by and say hi.
Warm wishes,
Lynne McTaggart
Evidence of a 'Field' effect during
peace intention experiment
Lynne McTaggart
Dear readers,
While we're all absorbing the enormity of the implications of this historic American election, I thought I would share with you another bit of history in the making - the first extraordinary scientific results of the Peace Intention Experiment.
Roger Nelson, architect of Global Consciousness Project and a member of our scientific team, has been busy analyzing the effect of our Peace Intention Experiment on the random event generators he continuously runs all over the world.
Several analyses reveal that the REG machines were affected within
a 40-minute window of meditations during the eight days of our
Peace Intention Experiment, and that these changes were similar to
those that occurred during moments of mass meditation in areas
attempting to lower violence.
When analyzed over the entire week, Nelson and his colleagues found
a consistent daily pattern. Increases in order of the REG output
were similar to the changes we specified in our protocol, during
the 20 minutes of preparation, or 'Powering Up', of viewing the Sri
Lanka target and then of the 10 minutes of actually sending
intention.. Although the machines demonstrated a change during the
Powering Up stage, when our participants were getting ready to
participate, the effect was most striking during the actual 10
minutes of our experiment.
"In particular, the steep negative slope of the data during the
10-min meditation looks like that seen in our examination of data
during Transcendental Meditation gatherings of advanced
meditators,' writes Dr. Nelson. 'These 'social calming' experiments
served as one of the models for the peace intention experiment."
If you recall, the Peace Intention Experiment was sparked by the
numerous TM studies showing that when a critical mass of meditators
regularly meditate in an area, the crime rate or armed conflict
goes down.
But the TM studies simply examine the effect of 'attention' and
calming practices like meditation. Our experiment took their work
one step further by examining what happens when a large group sends
a highly specific intention to make a change.
For the full report, complete with graphs, please follow this link.
How the GCP works
An REG, built to examine the effect of mind on machine, performs
the electronic, twenty-first century equivalent of a toss of a coin.
The output of these machines (the computerized equivalent of heads
or tails) is controlled by a randomly alternating frequency of
positive and negative pulses. Because their activity is utterly
random, they produce 'heads' and 'tails' each roughly 50 per cent
of the time, according to the laws of probability.
Nelson has organized a centralized computer program, so that REGs
located in 50 places around the globe and running continuously pour
their continuous stream of random bits of data into one vast
central hub through the Internet.
Periodically, Nelson and his colleagues study these outpourings and
compare them with the biggest breaking news stories, attempting to
rout out any sort of statistical connection. Standardized methods
and analysis revealed any demonstration of order - a moment when
the machine output displayed less randomness than usual - and
whether the time that it had been generated corresponded with that
of a major world event.
To date, they have compared this output with hundreds of top news
events, including the death of the Princess of Wales, the 9/11
tragedy, the reactions to the war in Iraq and President Bush.
Whenever people reacted with great joy or horror to a major event,
the machines seem to react as well. Furthermore, the degree of
'order' in the machine's output seemed to match the emotional
intensity of the event, particularly those that had been tragic:
the greater the horror, the greater the order.
Why this result is so important
Dr Nelson cautions us that a single study like this only produces a
tiny statistical effect, and so we'll only really know if we have
scientific 'proof' of an effect if we repeat this kind of study
numerous times more. Nevertheless, the fact that we showed an
effect every day of the study and demonstrated a surge of change
just during the 10- minute window of the actual experiment, he
says, shows 'an important demonstration of the effect of
consciousness and sensitivity of the GCP network at an unexpected
level of detail'.
Join our Peace Intention Experiment survey
Now that enough time has passed for us to analyze the true effect
of our intentions and gather our final scientific evidence, we need
your input, too.
We need to know how you participated, whether you had any trouble,
and what exactly happened during and after the experiment to you
personally.
For instance, did you experience peace in your own life?
We've assembled a simple on-line survey for you. This questionnaire
will not ask for individual details, like your full name or
address, but will ask for details about your experience of the
Peace Experiment and its aftermath. Any information you give us
will only be used in scientific papers or as part of my own reports
on the experiment on this e-news and elsewhere. Nothing will be
used that could identify you personally.
Please take the five minutes to participate. Your help will provide
us with invaluable data about this experiment and offer suggestions
about how to improve our system for future Intention Experiments.
Thanks so much in advance for taking a moment to fill out the
survey by following this link.
This clever bit of on-line software will automatically collate your
answers for us, and I'll report back to you soon.
See you on Las Ramblas
This weekend I will be in Barcelona speaking at Deepak Chopra's
Alliance for New Humanity forum and running a workshop on
intention. For any of you planning to attend, do be sure to come
by and say hi.
Warm wishes,
Lynne McTaggart
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