From 1998 through 2015, the Global Consciousness Project investigated the role of collective consciousness on the behavior of the physical world. The physical part of the experiment was a worldwide network of electronic devices that produce data every second. The mental part consisted of events that attracted the attention of millions to billions of people through live media broadcasts. The idea was to see if such events, when collective mental awareness can be said to become “coherent,” are related to similar changes that arise in the physical world. The experiment resulted in strong evidence that there is indeed a relationship, and more recent analyses have found that stock market indices and daily news metrics also correlate to changes in these physical devices. The implication is that mind-matter interactions occur at a global scale, suggesting that group meditations for peace and other large-scale intentional efforts affect the physical world in subtle ways.
Dean Radin, Ph.D., is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Before joining the IONS research staff in 2001, Radin worked at AT&T Bell Labs, Princeton University, the University of Edinburgh, and SRI International. He has given more than 600 talks and interviews worldwide and is the author or co-author of more than 300 scientific and popular articles, four dozen book chapters and Forewords, two technical books, and four popular books translated into 15 languages: The Conscious Universe (1997), Entangled Minds (2006), Supernormal (2013), and Real Magic (2018).
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