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Terrorist Attacks Context, Sept 7-13, 2001 Camplainve Deviaivon of Chisqeare Anacks Moerked «uth Sqoare Days are GMT (BDT+4) would be likely to focus the emotions of millions of people. The procedure now is, whenever a major world event takes place, to make a “formal prediction" that it will significantly affect the REGs. (There are now around 65 of these operating in various parts of the world.) Then, whether the result is or is not significant, it is still included in the calculation of overall significance. These results are available for anyone to see on the GCP’s inspiring website.‘ Sept LL Two examples are seen in figures 2 and 3. The behaviour of the REG 4 7 varies randomly most of the time about the horizontal line. Any prolonged departure from this becomes significant according to how far it goes towards and beyond the blue curve. A wide variety of events have been charted: e.g., the moment of the new year (within local time zones, of course), the Pope's visit to Jerusalem, a billion-person meditation, and especially some disasters such as the events of 9/11. The combined statistical significance of all the results accumulated over several years is now extremely high. Have these subtle connections among human beings been increasing in recent years, perhaps with the help of the rapidly increasing network of communications by radio, telephone and the Internet? It is too early to say. However, the scientists running the Global Consciousness Project suggest that they have led and are leading us towards the "Omega Point", as foreseen by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, when the human race becomes in effect a single organism lov 4 2008 further discussed below). In this case, it might be suggested, a high proportion of people's brain waves AW N yor would be in synch with the PN L Schumann resonance much of the ime and lead them to identify with aT Gaia and the natural world. These lines of work are only among he latest and most striking exemplars of a strand of thinking eading from ancient teachings to recent theoretical work by L philosophical scientists such as David Bohm. All lead to the conclusion that human beings, and I everything in the Universe, are 1 5 connected at some deep level and participate in one indivisible process of interdependent origination—just as the Buddha taught. § Figure 2 obviously a mental influence means a departure from randomness. Later experiments led the researchers to believe that conscious intention was not necessary, since the REG was responding to large groups of people who did not even know the device was in the room with them. Working with situations such as theatres or religious meetings, observers were sent in to record the times when there was simultaneous focus of emotion, such as when the audience laughed together or held their breath at some dramatic scene. When these records were later compared with the record of noise from the REG, significant correlations were often found. Thinking already that this effect might be non-local, the researchers set up the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), whose objective is to look for correlations between REG behaviour and major world events which Polls Close, Obama Wins, Speech Nov 4 2008 g| 21:00 ET + 5 Hours power 60 Epes {M Figure 3 42 * NEXUS Trays (Resohation Seconds) Bours (Resolution, | ech DECEMBER 2010 - JANUARY 2011 www.nexusmagazine.com