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From the WorldPuja website (www.worldpuja.org):
"WorldPuja uses the power of the Internet to connect tens of thousands of
people worldwide in meditation and prayer to create giant "pulses" of
focused attention and intent."
This is one of an increasing number of organized efforts to influence
the tenor of world consciousness to raise awareness and commitment
to a healthier, peaceful future.
We have looked at other such events in previous formal predictions,
including one for this group. They have generally shown positive
deviations, and an unusual proportion have strong effects.
On March 30, Joanne Karl, the producer for WorldPuja, sent an email to
let me know about the next event:
just letting you know we are doing a live webcast w/
James Twyman from South Africa March 31st at 11:45am
NY time. you can go to www.worldpuja.org for details.
we have also added chat again as we did on the Dec
17th webcast. this certainly does intensify the
feeling among participants and we suspect increase
coherence. it becomes a truly interactive webcast.
Since it only gives a beginning time, this is not enough
information to circumscribe a formal prediction, so I arbitrarily decided to
specify a one hour period, using one-second resolution,
beginning with the appointed time. Thus, the formal prediction was
for deviation during the time from UTC 16:45 to 17:45, 31 March 2001.
The data for an hour before and after the event were also processed to
provide context.
The first figure shows the results for the formal prediction, which has
a positive trend and Chisquare = 3661 on 3600 degrees of freedom, and p
= 0.235. The second figure
shows the three-hour period centered around the hour specified for the
WorldPuja Webcast event.
The three-hour period, meditation marked.
A control comparison,
using corresponding data from a pseudorandom source, has Chisquare
3659.6
on 3600 df and p = 0.240. The following graph
displays the cumulative deviation of the pseudorandom data.
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