Power of Thought and the Princeton Eggs

There's been a very interesting experiment going on at Princeton University since 1998. A collection of random number generators all over the world have been continuously linked up to a computer that tracks deviations from randomness. Essentially, there now exists a record of nearly a decade of the power of the human mind, not only registering common emotions but also, doing so just a little bit outside time, with the help of the EGG network.

Roger D. Nelson, a PhD in Cognitive Psychology, began this experiment in 1997, after nearly 20 years background in the study of human consciousness. Dr. Nelson began his professional career at Princeton in 1980 when he began working as the Coordinator of Research with the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research or PEAR project. Also having a background in physics and mathematics, Dr. Nelson is uniquely suited to propose a theory that encompases the mind and the physical universe with a real theory of operation.

PEAR was begun in 1979 by Robert G. Jahn, an emeritus professor of Aerospace Engineering, studied the interaction of human consciousness on electronic and mechanical devices. It was determined through a large series of experiments that there is a small but predictable effect on truly random numbers. The project finally shut down in early 2007 after nearly 30 years of unique data and funding from a wide variety of well-respected foundations.

The Global Consciousness Project is a continuation of that work that specifically focuses on shared group experiences and the power they have. EGG is an acronym that stands for a play on words: EncepheloGaiaGram. This takes the PEAR experiments one step further in that they track the whole planet through global network, rather than undergraduates. So far, the result has been the same in that human consciousness, whether singly or in groups, can affect the operation of electromechanical devices, somehow.

Some of the math that may allow a mental effect on the outside world that operates independently of space and time was produced by Richard Feynman of CalTech in the 1960's. Having made a life's work of probing the mysteries of quantum electrodynamics (among a great many other things), Feynman was among a few prominent 20th century physicists who devised math to support the idea of retrocausality, or that under some circumstances effect can precede cause. He described the wave aspect of something with those properties as, "advanced waves."

In published papers, Dr. Nelson has reported on the experiment set-up and results of September of 2001. There clearly was a significant spike in what is called "coherence" or non-randomness as reported by the eggs on the 11th. In fact, like a tidal wave, there was a strong streak of what is called "anti-coherence" beforehand. What was interesting is that no matter where they were in the world, all the eggs registered the deviation. In addition to that, there was a definite ramping up of coherence, starting hours before the hijackers even took off.

Experimenters working with the Global Consciousness Project have asserted that the influence is a sub-conscious mass precognition, perhaps made possible by an exotic property of the waves generated by a lot of people thinking about the same thing. Research that has followed the progression of New Years Eve across the globe shows that the effect isn't always global, with individual EGGs in various time zones reacting most intensely in the midnight timezone. On the other hand, sometimes something as seemingly mundane as a TV broadcast with wide appeal can register worldwide.

Even though physics makes some very interesting predictions about the nature of time, experiments to cover them are hard to receive funding for and difficult to publish. Among the community of physicists, great pains are made to separate themselves from metaphysics, or the study of the observable physical universe, though many who identify themselves as purveyors of metaphysical information in recent years have no scientific training or discipline whatsoever.

As such, research scientists have had to proceed carefully in order to investigate these theories. Current investigations into retrocausality by the University of Washington team lead by Dr. John Cramer are building upon the entangled photon experiments by the University of Innsbruck, Austria, often referred to as "quantum teleportation" by the media.

By connecting disparate disciplines of psychology, arts, physics and medicine together perhaps the mechanism by which the mind interacts with the physical world, we can begin to influence realms we once thought uncontrollable.