This book by Dr. Roger Nelson, past Director of the Princeton University Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory explains the profound formulation of the GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS PROJECT with discovered Mind Body healing events like the Int'l Day of Yoga and World Tai Chi & Qigong Day "created greater coherence in global consciousness."

If the energy of consciousness permeating out to affect other human minds seems world altering, it is truly earth-shaking to learn of research indicating that human consciousness actually affects not just other minds, but the physical world. This is what the Global Consciousness Project discovered in their research on how the mind affects technology, when they found that when global human consciousness was focused en masse their computer equipment all over the planet showed simultaneous fluctuations—indicating consciousness affects physical reality.  

The Global Consciousness Project (GCP)  evolved out of early research at Princeton University on how states of human consciousness might affect electronic equipment’s function. The GCP placed computers known as random event generators around the planet, which were like electronic binary coin-flippers, flipping an electronic “1” or “0” computer coin 200 times per second. They should ultimately come out 50/50 on average, half the time ending up on “1” and half the time ending up on “0.” However, what the GCP found was that in times of great human stress when the whole of humanity was focused on some event, the random event generators went way off course all over the world. Princess Diana’s death ...

Meditators quickly learn that the world and their lives just seem ‘less chaotic and more elegant’ when they meditate—more congruent with the world around us. Is this more than “just feelings”?    

Bryan Williams’ analysis for the Global Consciousness Project … I went back through the accumulated formal database of GCP events from 1998 to 2012 to identify the individual events that seem to be in line with the concept of global harmony, on the basis of two criteria: https://global-mind.org/papers/pdf/global.harmony.html 

1.) the event listing made reference to prayer, meditation, ceremony, ritual, healing, humanity, Earth/nature, and any other synonyms of a similar context. 

2.) the description of the event was detailed enough that it seemed reasonably apparent that the intended theme, focus, or goal of the event was in line with the concept of global harmony (i.e., it had to have a positive message for the future of humanity, promote peace or healing to the Earth/nature or some aspect of human society), and that it encouraged the shared participation of a large group of people. 

For this analysis, I extended the event inclusion criteria a bit to include a small number of mass social activation events (e.g., public demonstrations for peace, anti-war rallies, etc.) because although these events tend to be quite different in activity from organized meditation and prayer events, both seem to have the same goal of promoting global harmony in mind. 

When we put together a large number of individual events, in this case more than 100, the statistics become more reliable and interpretable. It looks like these ephemeral moments when we are "just wishing" or "merely praying" are effective in the world.  

I [Bryan Williams] identified 110 events in total … Collectively, these 110 events have a Stouffer's Z = 3.283 (p = .00051).  

Z Scores can be confusing. Many people understand probabilities in terms of an "odds ratio" and in this case the “P = .00051” [on previous page’s “GCP Global Harmony Events Composite 1998 – 2012] means roughly 2000 to 1 odds against a chance explanation of the result.*   Note: the 3.283 Z Score in this GCP analysis of “110 Global Harmony Events effect on ‘coherence of global consciousness’” is a significantly high Z Score. Therefore, this GCP analysis scored Z = 3.283, indicating that the data is very solid that these “global harmonizing events” CREATED COHERENCE IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ENTIRE PLANET—and further larger analysis of 500 events leaves virtually no doubt at all. 

In the GCP’s larger analysis of 500 global events the Z score was over 7, and in the case of this data also a "7 Sigma" score as well. To put this in perspective—if you are a lay reader of research statistics like myself, who may have spent more time at a Black Jack table than in a laboratory—regarding this data, this 7 Sigma deviation corresponds to only a "1 in 1-trillion” odds, of it happening only by pure chance. 

Again, Keep in mind that only a 5 Sigma result was able to give CERN the Nobel Prize for finding the Higgs particle. [For clarity, CERN Sigma score results were based on a single, massive experiment—GCP’s overall results on a series of independent tests.] 

EXCERPT: "NEW 2ND EDITION; THE GOSPEL OF SCIENCE ..." [Pages 375 - 376]

OKAY, WE KNOW GROUPS OF PEOPLE SHARING "COHERENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS" INCREASES THE "COHERENCE OF GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS."

But what does this mean for the world?

What would be the multi-dimensional positive impacts of adding 100s of millions of new Mind Body practitioners to the planet?  This is very exciting ...

EXCERPT "NEW 2nd EDITION; The Gospel of Science: Mind Blowing New Science on Ancient Truths to Heal Our Stress, Lives, and Planet"  [pages 343 - 345]

... a famous meditation study in Washington D.C. by J.S. Hagelin, M.V. Rainforth, D.W. Orme-Johnson, K.L. Cavanaugh, C.N. Alexander, S.F. Shatkin, J.L. Davies, A.O. Hughes, and E. Ross, published at the Institute of Science, Technology & Public Policy site in 1999, 154 and in Social Indicators Research journal. It is worth mentioning the esteemed credentials of the lead researcher on this historic project: John Hagelin, Ph.D., a renowned quantum physicist, science and public policy expert. Dr. Hagelin conducted pioneering research at CERN (the European Center for Particle Physics) and at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center—and was responsible for the development of a highly successful grand unified field theory based on the superstring—a theory that was featured in a cover story of Discover magazine. 

This historic study on meditators affecting society, conducted from June to July in 1993, found that when a certain small percentage of the city’s population included trained meditators, the HRA (homicides, rapes, and assaults) crime rates decreased significantly by 23% at the highest point of infusion of meditators. What was interesting was that there was a correlation in line charts showing that as the number of meditators being brought into the city increased, the crime rates correspondingly dropped. Weather and other factors were taken into account, and the statistical odds of this happening by chance were calculated to be less than 2 in 1 billion. 

Other meditation research entitled “Transcendental Meditation Program and Crime Rate Change in a Sample of Forty-Eight Cities” by M.C. Dillbeck, G. Landrith, and D.W. Orme-Johnson, cited at NCJRS (National Crime and Justice Reference Service) from the 154 Hagelin, J.S.; Rainforth, M.V.; Orme-Johnson, D.W.; Cavanaugh, K. L.; Alexander, C.N.; Shatkin, S.F.; Davies, J.L; Hughes, A.O.; and Ross, E.; Effects of Group Practice of the Transcendental Meditation Program on Preventing Violent Crime in Washington, DC: Results of the National Demonstration Project –June-July 1993, Institute of Science, Technology & Public Policy, 1999 http://istpp.org/crime_prevention/  

… Journal of Crime and Justice 4: 25–45, 1981, 155 stated that in cities where 1% of the population were instructed and trained in meditation programs, crime rates decreased the following year, in contrast to matched control cities, and the trend remained in the subsequent 5 years. 

A February 2019 article by Arjun Walia, titled “Scientists Show How Gratitude Literally Alters the Human Heart & Molecular Structure of the Brain,” published on Collective-Evolution.com156, cited a study by 2 Harvard University professors. They found that violence decreased between 40 and 80% during the 1980s Israel-Lebanon war when they organized experienced meditators in the U.S., Yugoslavia, and Israel to focus on the conflict area during meditation. 

If the energy of consciousness permeating out to affect other human minds seems world altering, it is truly earth-shaking to learn of research indicating that human consciousness actually affects not just other minds, but the physical world. This is what the Global Consciousness Project discovered in their research on how the mind affects technology, when they found that when global human consciousness was focused en masse their computer equipment all over the planet showed simultaneous fluctuations—indicating consciousness affects physical reality. 

155 Dillbeck, M C; Landrith, G; Orme-Johnson, D W; Transcendental Meditation Program and Crime Rate Change in a Sample of Forty-Eight Cities (From Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume 4, P 25-45, 1981, Sloan T Letman, ed.), National Criminal Justice Reference Service, 1981, https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=85219 

156 Walia, Arjun; Scientists Show How Gratitude Literally Alters The Human Heart & Molecular Structure Of The Brain, Collective-Evolution.com, February 14, 2019 https://www.collective-evolution.com/2019/02/14/scientists-show-how-gratitude-literally-alters-the-human-heart-molecular-structure-of-the-brain/