Is a new monitoring station in Coral Bay really able to read the global consciousness?
CYPRUS has recently become part of a global scientific experiment operating out of Princeton University in the US, which monitors people’s reaction to major events – including the tsunami that hit south Asia two weeks ago.
As bizarre as it sounds, the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), set up by Dr Roger Nelson, a retired Princeton University, gathers data from 65 “listening posts” worldwide, including one at Coral Bay in Paphos, which was set up last May.
According to Paphos-based Psychognosia, which hosts the Cyprus EGG (Electro Gaia-Gram), the network of “global listening posts” comprises a number of physical (not algorithmic) computerised random event generators. The modern equivalent of tossing dice, it is a basic experiment to study mind-matter effects.
The project builds on scientific experiments conducted over the past 35 years at a number of laboratories, that demonstrate how human consciousness interacts with random event generators, apparently causing them to produce non-random patterns.
According to Psychognosia, the system is designed to document and display any subtle, but direct effects of our collective consciousness as it reacts to global events. The research hypothesis predicts the appearance of coherence and structure in globally distributed data that are collected during major events that engage the attention of the world population.
“The Random Number Generators’ (RNGs) outputs are examined to determine if they deviate from chance expectation from a time just before an event of widespread interest to a time a few hours afterwards.
“Significant deviations have been noted around times of major events in the world, such as natural disasters, terrible accidents, beginnings of war, World Cup games, celebrations such as New Year’s Eve and worldwide meditations.”
Put simply the data seems to show that when people around the world all focus on the same event, the graphs spike or trough, probably much like a seismograph.
Earlier in the week the GCP published its findings from the Asian tsunami disaster. It shows that a sharp deviation began about 30 minutes before the quake, almost exactly 24 hours before the Sumatra shock, the GCP data show a huge and unlikely spike, a sharp drop showed just before the powerful tremor, changing to a sharp rise for several hours following the quake.
Also it showed that during the first day of the tragedy, a wavelike oscillation dominated the data, and early on Monday, a strong trend began, which continued for the next 24 hours.
“When we look in detail at the moment of the main temblor of the Richter 9.0 earthquake, the picture is of a sharp deviation beginning about 30 minutes before the quake and continuing with the same steady slope for some time after the shock. This is similar to the picture around the huge and deadly earthquake that killed 20,000 people in Turkey a few years ago,” the GCP report said.
In a second graph it writes: “Almost exactly 24 hours before the Sumatra shock, the GCP data show a huge and unlikely spike. Then during the first day of the developing tragedy, a wavelike oscillation dominates the data. Early on Monday, a strong trend begins, which continues for the next 24 hours”.
As in the case of the Asian catastrophe, the GCP also spiked on September 11, 2001, and again significantly before the first plane actually hit the twin towers.
Some theories on how the EGG works include the possibility that everything is interconnected, including human consciousness. It is speculated that individual consciousness can interact and combine during a global- event that would bring great numbers to a common focus and an unusual coherence of thought and feeling whether it be shock, despair or euphoria.
“While many questions remain unanswered, with such robust evidence of an effect, the experimental results of GCP provide strong confirmation that mind-matter interaction does exist,” Psychognosia’s Linda Leblanc told the Sunday Mail.
“All we know is that in over 35 years we’ve seen a correlation between what happens to the random event generators when there is some sort of an event of world-wide interest. On New Year’s Eve they always get stuff…the Academy Awards. Sometimes goes up and sometimes down. What happens is that it deviates from random expected behaviour.”
Leblanc said that the Cyprus computer runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and generates random numbers. The data from Cyprus is sent to Princeton every 15 minutes.
“What we are looking at is that these things become no longer random when something in the world catches a lot of people’s attention and often of course these are things like disasters because they are in the news,” she said.
She said that so far GCP has not been able to account for how spikes appear on the graphs before certain events happen, such as in the case of the earthquake that preceded the tsunami, and the September 11 attacks.
“We don’t really know what we are monitoring here. All we know is that we’ve got very good statistical solid evidence that something is going on,” said Leblanc.
“New Year’s Eve is predictable but sometimes it goes up and sometimes it goes down. But the important thing is that there is a deviation from the expected. It means something is behaving in a different way and it’s really beyond the judgment of what is good or bad or positive or negative, which is also interesting. All we know is that these things are being affected when a lot of people focus on the same event”
