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I hope to be able soon to put here some useful and reasonable speculative
interpretations of the response of the Global Conscious Project eggs
to the September 11 Attacks. For the moment, this is a repetition of
what is on the main "Terror" page.
One way to think of these startling correlations is to accept the
possibility that the instruments have
captured the reaction of a global consciousness beginning to form. The
network was built to do just that:
to see whether we could gather evidence of a communal, shared mind in
which we are participants even
if we don't know it.
Groups of people, including the group that is the whole world, have a
place in consciousness space,
and under special circumstances they � or we � become a new presence.
Based on evidence that both
individuals and groups manifest something we can tentatively call a
consciousness field, we
hypothesized that there could be a global consciousness capable of the
same thing. Pursuing the
speculation, it would seem 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 discomfort and pain.
The hypothesis we set out to test is that the REG devices we 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.
The EGG network reacted in a powerful confirmation of this hypothesis.
More important than any scientific
question, however, is the question of meaning. What shall we learn, and
what should we do in the face of
compelling evidence that there is such a thing as global consciousness?
In fact this is not a new
question. The results from this scientific study are an apparent
manifestation of the ancient idea that we
are all interconnected, and that what we think and feel has effects on
others, everywhere in the world.
The implication of the GCP/EGG data showing a shriek of dismay is in
some sense quite obvious. It says
that even insensate electronic random generators can see the effects of
hatred born of pain and despair.
It means that the earth cannot support us in comfort as things now are.
It urges a new understanding that
we must learn to accept each other and help and support each other,
everywhere in the world, if we are
to live in peace on this beautiful earth.
Roger
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