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already be under way. For near on 100 years now, quantum physics has been dissolving our solid world into one of ghostly insubstantial fields. Seemingly nihilistic from one point of view, the hope lies in the thought that, unlike solid objects, fields mingle and interpenetrate. They are intrinsically holistic. This much is readily understood from our common experience of fields such as magnetism and light, but a much harder concept is forcing its way onto the scientific scene: the concept of non-locality. The familiar fields, such as magnetism, are local in the sense of being firmly rooted to a particular locality in space, and their influence needs to travel through space at the speed of light. But there is clear evidence for a =: subtle intercon- i nectedness which behaves as if space does not exist. It has now been proved in- controvertibly that two particles can remain in instant communication whatever the distance between them. LR B2% spectra, with the short (beta) waves at the top and slow (delta) waves at the bottom. The percentage figures for L-R refer to the degree of synchrony between the two hemispheres of the individual, while L-L and R-R refer to the degree of synchrony between the left and right brain hemispheres of the two individuals respectively. Because these meditators were in the same room, it might be said that they were responding to the electromagnetic fields of each other's brains. However, a German group has rejected this hypothesis by finding that synchrony still occurred between two individuals in distant rooms and screened inside Faraday cages.’ If so, then the individuals’ brain waves must have become correlated by way of the zero-point field—as indeed is likely in the other examples. Considerable synchrony may also occur between brain waves and_ other physiological rhythms, such as heartbeat and a SSS ———_ breathing. This L-RIT% becomes much more marked during aL -2%; R-R 0% meditation—as if this z + L-R 64% LR Ts Interconnected Minds Working tagether | Can such instant 4 communication be true E: for two human beings? While the thousands of anecdotes concerning telepathy would say yes, the objective evidence demanded by the church of science has been hard to obtain. Recently, though, two very convincing lines of SS = presented. “the first C90 concerns brain waves. Meditating together The technology now available for the study of the electro-encephalogram (EEG) enables one to quantify the degree to which two wave-trains are "in synch"; i.e., how much the wave-peaks coincide with each other. Working on this, at least three groups of scientists have shown first (and as expected) that there is usually a degree of synchrony between the two halves of a single person's brain. But what is new, and exciting, is the finding of synchrony between separate individuals. This occurs principally where there is a close relationship, as with lovers or mother and child. However, some beautiful results from a researcher in Italy have shown high degrees of synchrony between people meditating together.’ Figure | shows EEG Figt Can 2). + activity serves to He i harmonise bodily functions. In deep meditation also, the a synchrony between left and right brains rises to 13) very high levels. It is worth mentioning = the work—although very much a preliminary = study, unpublished in 8 SaaS any scientific journal— LR 90% of electronics engineer L-L B4%- RARE 78% poe Beck, who looked or synchrony between people's brain waves and the Schumann resonance, the natural electromagnetic resonance of the Earth. He found this to occur at times, particularly with “sensitives” such as psychics, healers and shamans. The second line of evidence concerns a much more general phenomenon whereby the minds of millions of people all over the world can be seen to be linked together. This work began some 30 years ago at Princeton University, with the finding that people could, with their minds, influence (albeit to a very small degree) the behaviour of a simple electronic device called a random event generator (REG).’ Unavoidably, all electronic components generate noise. This noise is generally thought to be completely random, but tre | Figure | NEXUS ° 41 Working together L-L -2%; R-R 0% Meditating together L-L 84%; R-R 78s DECEMBER 2010 - JANUARY 20II www.nexusmagazine.com