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How many of you have read His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman yet? Anybody? No? I mentioned the books a while ago?

Well, if you have got around to reading the trilogy you’ll understand what powerful stuff “dust” is. An amazing elementary particle that is all around us, particles that know what is going on, that react to being observed, particles which are believed to be the embodiment of “original sin”…

A while ago I was really excited to hear about the Global Consciousness Project “designed to explore whether the construct of interconnected consciousness can be scientifically validated through objective measurement.” The hypothesis is that when a huge amount of the world’s population is thinking of the same thing, randomly generated numbers collected from “EGGs” will be more likely to demonstrate non-random patterns.

Data which has appeared to be more non-random appeared around the time of global events such as the September 11 attacks, “the funeral ceremonies of Princess Diana, the first hour of NATO bombing in Yugoslavia, a few minutes around midnight on any New Years Eve and public events such as Live 8.”

Could it be something like dust that transmits global consiousness? The EGG’s used to collect data aren’t that different from the apparatus Mary Malone uses to connect to the shadow particles in the third book of the Dark Materials trilogy, The Amber Spyglass.

So, it’s been possible to observe deviations away from standard random number probability after the occurrence of an unplanned global event. However, how about planning to influence the global consciousness at a specific time?

One such event planned in the next month or so is the world’s first Global Orgasm “coming” up on December 22nd, 2006, the winter solstice.

The mission of the Global Orgasm is to effect change in the energy field of the Earth through input of the largest possible surge of human energy. Now that there are two more US fleets heading for the Persian Gulf with anti- submarine equipment that can only be for use against Iran, the time to change Earth’s energy is NOW!

The intent is that the participants concentrate any thoughts during and after orgasm on peace. The combination of high-energy orgasmic energy combined with mindful intention may have a much greater effect than previous mass meditations and prayers.

The goal is to add so much concentrated and high-energy positive input into the energy field of the Earth that it will reduce the current dangerous levels of aggression and violence throughout the world.

from the Global Orgasm organisation’s Mission Statement.

Call me a hippy if you want, but I really love this concept as it involves the movement towards world peace, mathematical analysis, positive thinking and of course good sex whether it’s with someone else or by yourself.

So, I know how I’m planning on celebrating the shortest day of the year… How about you? What and who are you going to be doing?

There is of course, a blog associated with Global Orgasm day.  And to keep you up to date with the countdown there’s a Dashboard widget for Macintosh users.  Here’s a wikipedia entry on the Global Consciousness Project which does offer some scientific criticism of the data analysis techniques. And here are two books looking at the science behind His Dark Materials.