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On September 11, 2004 an organization called Hello from the Heart
organized and promoted a global meditation. The groups cooperating in
this project included World Puja and Healing Sounds.
This was the invitation:
Please join us on Saturday, September 11th from 1:19 PM to 3:19 PM, for
a free World Puja internet broadcast on www.worldpuja.org .
The event is: "HELLO, FROM MY HEART" - DAY OF AWAKENING AND MERGING OF
OUR COLLECTIVE HEARTS. This worldwide gathering has the intention to
expand the spirit of love and true cooperation in order to manifest a
better world for all of humanity.
On this day, a genuine "Hello, from my Heart", is connecting a multitude
of people around the world establishing a unified field which advances
mankind's desire for peace.
Although we did not make a formal prediction, I agreed to do an
exploratory analysis since we have looked at a number of these events in the
past, and it is valuable to examine a series of replications.
The data do not show a significant trend. This is of course no
indication of the success of the day or the intent of the people
involved. The following figure shows the period specified by the
organizers. The Z-score is 0.076, which corresponds to a probability of
0.470.
The organizers of Hello, From My Heart Day describe it as
an "all-day-event with millions of
participants in 22 countries including 36 United States. The web-cast
[above] was only for two hours and reached only a very small (100 person)
audience. Inferences from past experience indicate the energy builds to
a climax in the evening hours."
Given this description, we looked at the full day (GMT) as shown below.
Although there are some periods with substantial excursions, it is
indistingushable from an ordinary random walk.
Sometimes we do see strong correlations of
GCP data with web-based, large scale meditations, but it may be that
direct the experience of the participants is a better measure of the
event's presence in the world.
Upon request, I looked at the Hello from my heart event in 2002, August
1st. The result is a fairly strong persisting trend in the downward
direction. While this is not guaranteed to be a result of the organized
meditation, the trace does have similar character to other meditation events.
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