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Physical Measurement of Episodes of Focused Group Energy
William D. Rowe, 726 Battery Place, Alexandria, VA 22314
Episodes of Focused Group Energy (FGE) occur when two or more people
are focused on some objective and become coherently attuned to that
focus. Most people have experienced this phenomenon at one time or another
when everybody was "on the same wavelength." Anecdotal episodes of this
phenomenon have been reported in business meetings, in sporting events,
in concerts and in prayer and healing. Many people are quite sensitive
to this phenomenon; and when people are informed about it, they become
more sensitive to it.
Focused Group Energy episodes cannot be scheduled. However, they are
more likely to occur in situations where intense group focus is required.
We have conducted a series of experiments to measure FGE episodes physically
(objective measurements) as well as having sensitive participants simultaneously
recording the episodes (subjective measurements). The meetings were
chosen because of previous reports of intense FGE activities by sensitive
participants. A field deployable Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research
(PEAR) Random Number Generator (FieldRNG) was used to monitor the space
in which these meetings took place before, during, and after the episodes.
The FieldRNG is used to detect if the random number sequence is entrained
by the FGE episode to behave non-randomly.
We have conducted eleven such experiments to date with consistent, repeatable
results. After FGE episodes have been reported and recorded by sensitive
participants, the FieldRNG results were compared after the fact and
consistently were greater than two and sometimes three standard deviations
from the mean for the whole time period of the episode (some lasted
for hours). Other time periods where no FGE occurs are also examined
to determine if there are false positive excursions in the data. A true
positive case is counted only if the FieldRNG results are over the two
sigma level for the duration of the episode for both the objective measurement
and simultaneous subjective reports.
Keywords: consciouness, entrainment, episode, focused group energy
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