Oh dear, this is uh, well, it’s certainly something!
Via Christopher an interesting look at Global Consciousness…
An ongoing study headed up by some nerds at Princeton has been attempting, since 1998, to ascertain whether there is such a thing as global consciousness, and whether or not it can be measured and/or have any affect on the world at large.
The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is an international effort involving researchers from several institutions and countries, designed to explore whether the construct of interconnected consciousness can be scientifically validated through objective measurement. The project builds on excellent experiments conducted over the past 35 years at a number of laboratories, demonstrating that human consciousness interacts with random event generators (REGs), apparently “causing” them to produce non-random patterns.
Uh, yes. English please?
A GLOBAL NETWORK of electronic devices produces continuous random data sequences. Subtle patterns in the data are linked with events that cause shared thoughts and emotions in millions of people. The results challenge common ideas about the world, but independent analyses confirm the unexpected patterns, and also indicate that they cannot be attributed to ordinary physical forces or electromagnetic fields.
The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is an international collaboration created in 1998 to study the subtle reach of human consciousness in the physical world. We maintain a network of random event generators (REGs) with nodes in more than 50 locations, from Alaska to Fiji, on all continents, and in nearly every time zone.
Shorter?
The purpose of this project is to examine subtle correlations that appear to reflect the presence and activity of consciousness in the world. The scientific work is careful, but it is at the margins of our understanding.
Okay, I can dig that. And, I know you’ll be so surprised, I believe there is such a thing as global consciousness. Yup, I know, I’m weird. But hey, we’ve spent billions of dollars going to watch movies with cool fx and bad dialogue because we all instinctively know the concept of “the force” is based in reality. Hey, no touchy my hookah! Mine! *slaps hands*
*ahem* Moving on…
But what makes this all so deliciously fun? A couple of hippies, Donna Sheehan and Paul Reffell, the good folks who brought you nekkid peace activists, have decided that it would be really neato keen if we all put our *ahem* minds together and raised a little energy for the good of the cause.
And thus, on Solstice, they’d like for you all to get busy (heh!) and participate in First Annual Solstice Synchronized Global Orgasm for Peace. Yup, that’s right, one big happy world all having one big happy O.
Hey, now, before you get all weirded out, think of it this way… There’s science behind this, man! Who are you to argue with science? Get busy for the good of the cause! World peace depends on it!