ONE WORLD MOVEMENT

 

 

http://noonsphere.princeton.edu

Roger Nelson, Director, Global Consciousness Project

Retired Professor, Princeton University


The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is an international effort involving scientists and 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 40 years at a number of laboratories, demonstrating that human consciousness interacts with random event generators (REGs), apparently "causing" them to produce non-random patterns. A full description is given on the GCP website at http://noosphere.princeton.edu/.

The Project looks at global-scale events that bring great numbers of us to a common focus and an unusual coherence of thought and feeling. It is, simply put, an effort to detect signs of a coalescing global consciousness. To do this we have created a world-spanning network of REG devices sensitive to
coherence and resonance in the mental domain. A useful analogy might be to think of it as something like a worldwide EEG, though the measures are informational, not electrical.

Continuous streams of data are sent over the internet to be archived and correlated with events that may evoke a world-wide consciousness.  Examples that appear to have done so include both peaceful gatherings and disasters: a few minutes around midnight on any New Years Eve, the first hour of NATO bombing in Yugoslavia, the Papal visit to Israel, a variety of global meditations, several major earthquakes, and the
attack of September 11, 2001, to name a few.

Teilhard de Chardin proposed that humans were to be the source and substance of a noosphere (a layer of intelligence for the earth). The Global Consciousness Project's research findings suggest that indeed we are able to measure effects that can be interpreted as manifestations of a global consciousness. The unexpected patterns we see in the data appear to be indicators of a relatively coherent response to events, producing something like a shared consciousness field. We speculate that such fields generated by individual consciousness would interact and combine, ultimately having a global presence that affects our instruments.

Consciousness, it appears, produces something that resembles, at least metaphorically, a non-local field of meaningful information. Interpretations of the GCP data can only be speculative at this point, but the results prompt us to be thoughtful about the deep interconnections we have with each other and with the earth.