Sunday, July 22, 2007

Spike at GCP from Grid meditation

Quite the roaring debate leading up to the Grid meditation on July l7th
that has yet to subside. Perhaps because the message was delivered to One woman. Maybe it's because of the woman- a former atheist who now has a tatooed snake on her arm. Maybe it's the messenger itself- a being that gave it's name and that Ms. Yates deemed to be an angelic being or beings as sometimes there are a group of messengers. The ones that saved her son.

Some Christians joined the prayer event. Some said "Don't do it, it's a hoax" Some New Agers joined the meditation event. Some said "Don't do it- it's a plot by the Dark or Reptilians!" And then some basic cynics just said "She just wants your money" I think a healthy dose of skepticism is always a good thing. And even if the call to help heal Mother Earth did resonate with you, and you participated in the event praying for Her, for humanity as a whole and for loved ones as I did, does not mean you need to drop everything to join the Church of Shelley. Nor do I think she is asking us to do that. Keep in mind that where there is a SEA of LIGHT in Service, there will also be a wave of Fear. Hopefully, she can stay on
task to Serve, call on others to Serve, and remain free of distractions from Ego.
And moreover, hopefully by joining together at a SET time, we countered some of the negativity on the Planet and did some good. -jill

Fire The Grid --From the Princeton Global Consciousness Project website http://noosphere.princeton.edu/:

The "Fire The Grid" event set for July 17 2007 brought a huge number, perhaps 10 times as many as for similar events, of notes from around the world, interested in notifying me of it and asking whether we would look at it as a GCP event. We decided early that it would be included in the formal series, and specified exactly the time defined by Shelley Yates in her presentation and descriptions. Here is an example email, which has the necessary information and some interpretations that help explain how the event is of importance:

Some of you may have heard of this, some may not. But it is simply this:
On July 17, at 11:11 Greenwich mean time (7:11 EST) there will be thousands, perhaps millions of people who will attempt to heal the planet by raising their own energy vibrations and sending them out to connect with those of others.
To join, you don't have to pray or meditate (although if that's what makes you happy, bring it on...:-) Simply engage in anything that brings you joy: listen to your favourite music, hug your children, walk your dogs and let the joy of life fill you up. Thank the universe for this special moment and imagine yourself spilling over with a brilliant light that you send out to connect with that of others.
The idea is this: Everything in the universe has a vibration. When you feel down and depressed, your vibrations are low. With all the problems that are facing us, humanity and our environment, we have all become preoccupied with our difficulties and their associated fears. Slowly, our own and our planet's vibrations have become depleted.
If we can all raise our vibrations at the same time, we can raise those of the Earth and start the healing process. Give it a shot! You've got nothing to lose and everything to gain.
To raise your vibrations on a daily basis do this:
- Be in the moment For instance, we all have put food in our mouths while being distracted. Taste it, feel it filling you up and savour the sensation. Do this with all things as often as possible.
- Give thanks to the universe, even if it's just for a great parking spot
- Love and forgive yourself.
- Live your life to enrich that of others
To learn more about Fire the Grid, you can watch here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqUAluDvuU4
Or visit:
http://www.firethegrid.com/eng/home-fr-eng.htm

The formal event was defined as the one hour period from 11:11 to 12:11 GMT on July 17. The Chisquare is 3731.7 on 3600 df, for p=0.062 and Z=1.542. This is in accord with the prediction, and is marginally significant.
Below, we provide exploratory analyses that give some context for the formal analysis, since so many people are interested. It is important, however to understand that single events are not expected to answer the subtle questions we ask in the GCP. Because the average effect size is small (Z ~ 0.3) we cannot generally interpret single events with reliability; we need repeated tests of the same type of hypothesis. That having been said, we see that the Fire the Grid event has a positive outcome, consistent with the prediction, and indeed shows a larger deviation than the average.
I encourage people interested in this and other occasions that bring us together to meditate or pray for a better future to trust your/our feelings and direct perceptions of the effects. The GCP analyses are a very interesting adjunct, but they should not be seen as a test of the intent or success of the gathering of minds for good purpose.

The full day of July 17 (UTC) is shown in the next graph, with the hour-long Fire the Grid (FTG) event marked. While the cautions about interpretation of single analyses apply here also, it is interesting to note that the FTG presents a notable "spike" of positive trend on a rather consistent day-long background trend that is negative. For a larger context it is instructive to look at a long term trend analysis that shows some suggestive correlation with polling data that in turn may reflect our communal state of mind. Here too we see a general trend that if regarded as the "true" expectation would make positive deviations more impressive.

Again, we do not believe it is appropriate to interpret single events even though it is tempting to do so when the "picture" looks good. The signal to noise ratio is way too small, and to make claims based on any single experiment in this domain is potentially misleading. It happens in this case that the FTG event is one in a decent size collection we have assembled over the years, and it is consistent with the general outcome. Good stuff, but just the beginning of learning about the stuff.

* see the GCP web site for GrAPH illustrations

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