The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) takes this possibility as a starting point for a speculation that such fields generated by individual consciousness would interact and combine, and ultimately have a global presence. Usually, because we are busy with individual lives, there is little to produce structure in the field, so it is random and not detectable. But occasionally there are global-scale events that bring great numbers of us to a common focus and an unusual coherence of thought and feeling. To study the effects of a possible global consciousness, we have created a world-spanning network of devices sensitive to coherence and resonance in the mental domain. Continuous streams of data are sent over the internet to be archived and correlated with events that may evoke a world-wide consciousness. Examples that appear to have done so include both peaceful gatherings and disasters: a few minutes around midnight on any New Years Eve, the first hour of NATO bombing in Yugoslavia, the Papal visit to Israel, a variety of global meditations, several major earthquakes, and September 11 2001.

The GCP began recording data in August, 1998. It has grown to more than 50 sites around the world, each generating and reporting second-by-second data. Here we describe all aspects of the project, and we provide public access to the data. The top banner buttons or the links below connect you to main sections of the site:

About presents the project's background, development, and links
Procedures describes experimental methods and the prediction registry
Data Access explains tools for analysis and gives direct access to the data
NetStatus provides live or momentary activity reports and network information
Participate gives information for people who are interested in helping the GCP

Here are some other useful links, and there are more at the bottom of the page.
Current Results summarizes the formal analyses and includes links to explorations
Prediction Registry lists the formally specified events and links to detailed analyses
Information and Media links to basic information and expectations about the project.
Poetic History touches on our philosophy with quotes from famous folks and just folks
Publications in technical journals and in popular forums describe the project succinctly.
Links to sites with purposes like ours, to honor the earth and to foster conscious evolution.
A brief summary is available in English and French. A Spanish translation of the homepage
is available, but we are not fluent. You can try using Babel Fish to translate a page at a time.

Please accept references to "global consciousness" as a convenient metaphor. It is a label for a possible source for effects and correlations that remain essentially mysterious. All this is subtle, and we can at this point only report the data, hoping to understand its meaning better as we go along.