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Volume 10: Number 1: Article 7
Anomalous Organization of Random Events by Group Consciousness: Two Exploratory Experiments
Dean I. Radin, Jannine M. Rebman, and Maikwe P. Cross, Consciousness
Research Laboratory, Harry Reid Center University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
NV
Two experiments explored the hypothesis that when a group of people
focus their attention on a common object of interest, order will arise
in the environment. An electronic random number generator was used to
detect these changes in order. Events judged to be interesting to the
group were called periods of high coherence and were predicted to cause
corresponding moments of order in the random samples collected during
those events; uninteresting events were predicted to cause chance levels
of order in the random samples.
The first experiment was conducted during an all-day Holotropic Breathwork
workshop. The predictions were confirmed, with a significant degree
of order observed in the random samples during high group coherence
periods (p = 0.002), and chance order observed during low group
coherence periods (p = 0.43).
The second experiment was conducted during the live television broadcast
of the 67th Annual Academy Awards. Two random binary generators, located
12 miles apart, were used to independently measure order. The predictions
were confirmed for about half of the broadcast period, but the terminal
cumulative probabilities were not significant. A post-hoc analysis showed
that the strength of the correlation between the output of the two random
generators was significantly related (r = 0.94) to the decline
in the television viewing audience.
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