Group focus (psychic) kept the grid up.

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Why did the grid stay up? Dr. Dean Radin's book, "The Conscious Universe," may hold the answer. Experiments were done in field consciousness in which random number generators on computer screens produced order simultaneous with focussed group attention on any event, such as SuperBowl touchdown, O.J. Simpson verdict, Olympic event, etc. When the focus of the attention was on a particular orderly outcome, the effect was even more dramatic and computers are particularly sensitive to this psychic field. These are repeatable, verifiable experiments with odds against chance at better than 1000 to one. On Dec. 31, 1999, there was major group focus worldwide, first on the celebration, and second on the particular orderly outcome of keeping the grid working. You see, group prayer and positive thinking are not just feel-good notions, they are real magic. Funny, I am a minister and head a school that actually teaches this stuff, and somehow thought that it wouldn't work this time. Silly me. Praise Gaia and pass the champaigne!

-- Chicken Ma (metaphorum@pon.net), January 03, 2000

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I wonder if the same principle will have any effect on millions of cascading paper cuts?

-- Chicken Ma (metaphorum@pon.net), January 03, 2000.

Could you please do a group focus on my oil options, thanks.

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), January 03, 2000.

Computer are not good random number generators. Any data derived using computer generated random numbers is suspect

-- Roy (bushwacker @ north woods .com), January 03, 2000.

LOL, hence the power of polls?

skeptic

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 03, 2000.


Sounds like as good an explanation as any so far.

-- Dean -- from (almost) Duh Moyn (dtmiller@midiowa.net), January 03, 2000.


Keep on keeping on, we're not out of the woods yet.

Blessed be,

Firemouse

-- Firemouse (firemouse@fcmail.com), January 03, 2000.


Computers sensitive to psychic fields? ? ? I have read about the experiment that you refer to, and it showed no such things. It showed a very small (and disputed) ability of a person to predict a psuedo-random number generated on a PC. The experiment has not been repeated to my knowledge, because research into psychic phenomema has proved so fruitless that there is no benefit in pouring any more dollars into it.

When you don't understand something, you attribute it to psychic phenomena (or God). You are insulting the armies of programmers and systems people who understand computers and put a lot of work and intelligence (not psychic vibrations) into keeping their computers up and running.

-- kermit (colourmegreen@hotmail.com), January 03, 2000.


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