The Global Consciousness Project

The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is an international collaboration of scientists, artists, and business people. It was created in 1998 by a group of researchers working in the boundary areas of physics and psychology, and has grown to include some 75 individuals around the world. Our purpose is to gather evidence and study indications of the subtle reach of human consciousness in the physical world on a global scale. We maintain a network of special instruments designed to produce random data that apparently are affected by human consciousness under special conditions. The hypothesis of the GCP is that the continuous streams of data from these instruments will show anomalous deviations associated with "Global Events". We predict an effect when there is a large-scale coherence and resonance of feeling generated by deep reactions to major news events.

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