J. B. Rhine studied ESP and psychokinesis or P.K., the ability of some gifted individuals to affect objects using only the power of the mind. In Rhine's lab this was acomplished gathering satistical data on a subject's ability to affect the roll of dice. Later, parapsychologists used Random Number Generators (RNGs) to generated targets for ESP and PK studies. Parapsychology labs such as the PEAR lab at Princeton gathered statistical evidence that the concentration of some experimental subjects could affect the output of the random number generators. The theory is that this is done by the generation of a consciousness field. Now the PK experiments at Princeton University are being conducted on large groups of people.

    The graph shown above shows the behavior of the Global Consciousness Project's network of 38 RNG devices called "eggs" placed around the world as they responded during various periods of time surrounding September 11. These eggs generate random data continuously and send it for archiving and analysis to a central computer at Princeton University.

    It seems that the new, integrated mind is just beginning to be active, paying attention only to events that inspire strong coherence of attention and feeling. Perhaps the best image is an infant slowly developing awareness, but already capable of strong emotions in response to the comfort of cuddling or to the discomfort of pain.

    The hypothesis the Global Consciousness Project set out to test is that the Random Number Generator devices they use may respond to the concerted effect of large numbers of people turning their attention in one direction, becoming absorbed in the same focus. The terrible events of September 11 were a powerful magnet for our shared attention, and more than any event in the recent memory of the world they evoked the extraordinary emotions of horror and fear and comiseration and dismay.

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