FieldREG II: Consciousness Field Effects: Replications and Explorations
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This follow-up put the original FieldREG idea to a proper test with a clear prediction: emotionally resonant settings (think sacred rituals and live music) should rattle random number generators more than boring ones (like business meetings). Twenty-one confirmatory trials delivered impressively — resonant venues hit a probability of about two in a million against chance, while mundane venues showed essentially nothing. The team explored forty more contexts, from sporting events to sacred sites, finding promising patterns everywhere people felt deeply connected. One quirky twist: mundane settings actually showed less randomness than expected. These results became the strongest pre-Global Consciousness Project evidence that collective mental states might genuinely influence physical systems.
Abstract
Based on formal analysis of 18 exploratory applications, 12 of which have been reported previously, a testable general hypothesis for FieldREG experiments has been postulated, namely that data taken in environments fostering relatively intense or profound subjective resonance will show larger deviations of the mean relative to chance expectation than those generated in more pragmatic assemblies. The 61 subsequent FieldREG applications reported here comprise 21 hypothesis-based formal replications, along with 40 further explorations designed to learn more about the circumstances that favor anomalous deviations. The results of the formal replications strongly confirm the general hypothesis, yielding a composite probability against chance for the resonant subset of 2.2 ´ 10- 6 compared to 0.91 for the mundane subset. The exploratory work suggests other venues in which anomalous effects of group consciousness can be expected, and also identifies a number of situations that do not appear to be conducive to such responses.
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Nelson, Roger D, Jahn, Robert G, Dunne, Brenda J, Dobyns, York H, Bradish, G. Johnston (1998). FieldREG II: Consciousness Field Effects: Replications and Explorations. Journal of Scientific Exploration.
@article{nelson_1998_fieldreg2,
title = {FieldREG II: Consciousness Field Effects: Replications and Explorations},
author = {Nelson, Roger D and Jahn, Robert G and Dunne, Brenda J and Dobyns, York H and Bradish, G. Johnston},
year = {1998},
journal = {Journal of Scientific Exploration},
}