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I have often wondered whether the 'psi effect' is a result of some form of macro-psyche symbolic projection. It appears to act in ways which suggest this is indeed happening. given the evidence we already have of mind-matter relationships, it is not unreasonable to explore the possibility that mind also functions on a collective / macro scale:
Extract from For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Question of Global Consciousness
DEAN RADIN
from IONS NOETIC SCIENCES REVIEW MARCH - MAY 2003
"If the GCP is detecting genuine, large-scale mind-matter interactions, then it raises the possibility that some coincidences may be more than just dumb luck. For example, consider these two cases associated with the 2002 memorial anniversary of 9-11.
On the evening of September 11. 2002, the New York Lottery drew the sequence 9-1-1 . The chance probability of any given three-number sequence is 1 in 1 ,000. And indeed, in the previous 5,000 drawings of this lottery the sequence 9-1-1 had come up exactly five times. This confirms that the New York Lottery's method of selecting numbers is not biased. However, is it a coincidence that this number appeared on this date, in this city, and not in any of the other state lotteries? Given that this lottery event was not predicted, there is no definitive answer to this question. But given the massive attention placed on the sequence 9-1-1 on that day, and in that city, It does makes one wonder. The second coincidence was reported on September 12, 2002 by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel with the headline, "A Sudden Breeze and Loved Ones Seemed Near.' Minutes before a commemoration service was about to take place near "ground zero" in New York City, a strong wind suddenly picked up and filled the air with dust, causing many to recall the chaotic skies over Manhattan of exactly one year before. What makes this event unusual is that the skies that day were clear and blue, the weather was calm, and no storms were predicted. The following month, Windsurfer magazine published an article written by a windsurfer who attended the ceremony. After witnessing the strong wind that came "out of nowhere," the windsurfer checked the wind records for September 11 and for the previous few days. The results were striking. For a week before September 11, 2002, the winds near New York City were calm, averaging about five miles per hour. On September 11 around 9 AM, the winds in the bay near Long Island suddenly shot up to over 45 miles per hour.
To examine this report in more detail, I obtained weather data from the National Weather Services station in Central Park in New York City and also from Dulles Airport near Washington, DC. Sure enough, both locations experienced a sharp change in both barometric pressure and wind speed, starting around 9 AM on September 11, 2002. Then I obtained weather data for each day in September 2002 at these two locations for comparison with similar data from the same locations and same month over the previous five years. This comparison sharply highlighted the extraordinary nature of the "out of nowhere" coincidence. Storm fronts are typically characterized by a drop in barometric pressure, a rise in wind speed, and a rise in precipitation. But this didn't hap- pen on September 11, 2002. There was no rain that day: just a clear blue sky and a wind that came out of nowhere.
Tentative Conclusions
This ongoing experiment suggests that as mass mind moves, so does matter. The effect is modest in terms of its absolute magnitude, but it appears to be a real, persistent effect. The arrow of causation seems to go from mind to matter, but at this early stage we need to remain open to other possible explanations. Perhaps there is a third, as yet unidentified common cause, or even no cause at all, as in acausal synchronicities.
For most of the twentieth century, physicists were reluctantly forced to seriously reconsider common sense assumptions about the apparent gulf between observer and observed, in the latter half of the twentieth century, investigators developed increasingly rigorous methods for explicitly testing mind-matter interactions. As the twenty-first century dawns, when we ask, "For whom does the bell toll?," the response appears to resonate with John Donne's poetic reply in the seventeenth century "No man is an island.The bell tolls for thee." "
http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/currentresearch/Radin_belltolls.htm
Extract from For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Question of Global Consciousness
DEAN RADIN
from IONS NOETIC SCIENCES REVIEW MARCH - MAY 2003
"If the GCP is detecting genuine, large-scale mind-matter interactions, then it raises the possibility that some coincidences may be more than just dumb luck. For example, consider these two cases associated with the 2002 memorial anniversary of 9-11.
On the evening of September 11. 2002, the New York Lottery drew the sequence 9-1-1 . The chance probability of any given three-number sequence is 1 in 1 ,000. And indeed, in the previous 5,000 drawings of this lottery the sequence 9-1-1 had come up exactly five times. This confirms that the New York Lottery's method of selecting numbers is not biased. However, is it a coincidence that this number appeared on this date, in this city, and not in any of the other state lotteries? Given that this lottery event was not predicted, there is no definitive answer to this question. But given the massive attention placed on the sequence 9-1-1 on that day, and in that city, It does makes one wonder. The second coincidence was reported on September 12, 2002 by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel with the headline, "A Sudden Breeze and Loved Ones Seemed Near.' Minutes before a commemoration service was about to take place near "ground zero" in New York City, a strong wind suddenly picked up and filled the air with dust, causing many to recall the chaotic skies over Manhattan of exactly one year before. What makes this event unusual is that the skies that day were clear and blue, the weather was calm, and no storms were predicted. The following month, Windsurfer magazine published an article written by a windsurfer who attended the ceremony. After witnessing the strong wind that came "out of nowhere," the windsurfer checked the wind records for September 11 and for the previous few days. The results were striking. For a week before September 11, 2002, the winds near New York City were calm, averaging about five miles per hour. On September 11 around 9 AM, the winds in the bay near Long Island suddenly shot up to over 45 miles per hour.
To examine this report in more detail, I obtained weather data from the National Weather Services station in Central Park in New York City and also from Dulles Airport near Washington, DC. Sure enough, both locations experienced a sharp change in both barometric pressure and wind speed, starting around 9 AM on September 11, 2002. Then I obtained weather data for each day in September 2002 at these two locations for comparison with similar data from the same locations and same month over the previous five years. This comparison sharply highlighted the extraordinary nature of the "out of nowhere" coincidence. Storm fronts are typically characterized by a drop in barometric pressure, a rise in wind speed, and a rise in precipitation. But this didn't hap- pen on September 11, 2002. There was no rain that day: just a clear blue sky and a wind that came out of nowhere.
Tentative Conclusions
This ongoing experiment suggests that as mass mind moves, so does matter. The effect is modest in terms of its absolute magnitude, but it appears to be a real, persistent effect. The arrow of causation seems to go from mind to matter, but at this early stage we need to remain open to other possible explanations. Perhaps there is a third, as yet unidentified common cause, or even no cause at all, as in acausal synchronicities.
For most of the twentieth century, physicists were reluctantly forced to seriously reconsider common sense assumptions about the apparent gulf between observer and observed, in the latter half of the twentieth century, investigators developed increasingly rigorous methods for explicitly testing mind-matter interactions. As the twenty-first century dawns, when we ask, "For whom does the bell toll?," the response appears to resonate with John Donne's poetic reply in the seventeenth century "No man is an island.The bell tolls for thee." "
http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/currentresearch/Radin_belltolls.htm