Connected: The Emergence of Global Consciousness

by Roger D. Nelson, Dean Radin (Foreword)

Is There an Earth Mind? This is the story of the Global Consciousness Project, a unique 20-year scientific collaboration of researchers recording the effects of mass consciousness in response to major global events.  Its findings are consistent with the wisdom traditions of many cultures and speak of humanity’s unity and deep connections through love, compassion, and the creative impulse.
ROGER NELSON runs the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), an international collaboration studying mass consciousness. He conducted psi research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory from 1980 to 2002 and, while at Princeton, created the GCP in 1997. Interests in psychology, physics, philosophy, and the arts facilitate his research at the edges of what we know. His focus is the subtle interconnections that define an emerging humanity. Nelson is the author with Georg Kindel of Der Welt wie wir alle miteinander verbunden sind , published in 2018.

394 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 1, 2019

Reviews

[Sadman Sakib · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book. The author pursues a brilliant and original line of thought in his creation of the Global Consciousness Project and experiments spanning two decades. In my opinion, this book will prove to be a seminal work as it brings forth an undeniable effect of mind over matter

[William Kramer · Rating 1 out of 5]

It's an account of an ongoing experiment in universal consciousness, and I am not at all challenging that there is some valid correlation between events and humans' ability to tap into a shared consciousness. However, I gave this book a "1" rating (and I very seldom do that; maybe 1% of the time?) because it is so incredibly boring. Endless pages of data plus extremely repetitive and plodding. It needed serious editing and would have been much more effective if it had been reduced to 30 pages rather than 300.

[Roger Nelson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full disclosure: I wrote the book. It is an effort to describe the project as a scientific experiment, and as a signpost for our development of human potentials. It shows that we are at the beginning of the next stage of our evolution -- to become a noosphere, a layer of intelligence responsible for the planet.

[X Li · Rating 5 out of 5]

p1-the egg story
c1 starting points
c2 interconnections
c3 seeing the path
c4 develop ment
c5 design by coincidence
c6 hatching the egg
c7 encouraging results

p2-the instrument
c8 intention affects rngs
c9 random event generator
c10 the fieldreg experiment
c11 the egg network
only collective moral force can unite the world
c12 bringing it all together
c13 suitable measures
c14 the art of science
science without religion is blind, religion without science is lame

p3-the results
c15 event categories and results
c16 the bottom line
c17 deeper analysis
c18 independent subsets
c19 characterizing event categories
religion and celebration are most potent
compassion and fear are most potent
c20 structural analysis
c21 modeling and theory
correlation is something, or meaning

p4-interpretation and meaning
C has presence in the world/ C is extended and nonlocal/ humans are connected at a deep level/ mind can have effects we have not imagined/ cooperative intention has consequences/ when we are coherent we create noosphere/ it is time to accept oneness as modern wisdom
c22 extracting meaning
consciousness finds a place to touch down
c23 and then
c24 implications of the evidence
c25 reflections
until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it fate
to change somehting build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete
c26 what we can do
c27 poetic history
c28 love to the earth
we think the world apart what would it be like to think the world together

[Donald · Rating 1 out of 5]

Was interested in this project, but a) a very poorly written / edited presentation and b)I don’t buy the interpretation of the results. Too many logical leaps.

[Elaina Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nelson’s research with the Global Consciousness Project is compelling. It uses data to suggest connections that are usually invisible. To me, it provided scientific backing. It suggested that my internal state might actually matter to the collective. I am glad for that. As I persistently chip away at the old cement walls that kept me stuck, I am not just freeing myself. I get to share my shine, my light with the collective.

[Joshua Friesen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very interesting analysis but written poorly, dry.