Christopher Knowles of The Secret Sun has initiated a new project that hits close to a lot of things I've been musing over. He calls it a collective thought experiment though I think magic is a better word:
...what happens when a group of people from all over the planet focus on the same image while trying to solve a problem or resolve an issue? So, I devised a very simple and almost completely unscientific experiment to establish some kind of baseline:1. Pick a longstanding problem or issue that needs to be solved/resolved. It should be relatively simple but persistent -- a problem that you haven't been able to solve through conventional means. Your selection process might take a while.
2. Every time you focus on the problem, picture the apple that you see up top. This requires a small amount of multitasking, in that you need to simultaneously think through the problem while keeping the apple in your mind's eye.
3. Give this process seven days from start to finish. Be careful in selecting your particular issue and make sure you're not contemplating any harm or ill will to any person, animal or inanimate object. It could very likely backfire on you.
4. As always, be very rigorous in your methodology. Document the process, if it helps Don't fudge the results. There's nothing to gain or lose here, it's simply an experiment in the power of the Collective Consciousness. If you like you can run another experiment at the end of the initial seven-day trial. You can share your results or keep them to yourself. But I hope you'll share any extraordinary results, particularly those you can document.
I know I'll be taking part, and I already know what I'll be working on - it is very easily measured... ;-)
2 comments:
……. Fun … Liked your comment @ Knowlesy's abt shopping Baphie into it, thius releasing Apollyon from the Pit. Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck, nyuck, nyuck. Well, you already Gno where I live, don'tcha? There's plenty abt apple lore right here that might prove pertinent. That & Avalon, the mist-enshrouded magical island of the Arthurian mythos, is The Land of Apples. But then, so's the Northeast to us guys. Cheers, Michael. We shall see what we shall see ~ An' the Man ~ (•8-D
Hi Anadae, something weird about the google's comment moderation thing, apparently you're comment is floating around in the ether... sorry about that.
But, yea... you can't get more basic than the Apple (as I tap away on one). Smurfily, Michael (three apples high).
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