tinian woman, I know there,” says Radin. “And yet, they are there.”
my principles. But I don’t At this point, scientists haven’t concluded that a global
know yours. In order for mind exists, but if evidence is suggesting that something
me to understand your strange is going on—“then maybe the mind of Gaia is
principles, I should ask waking up,” Radin reasons. “Or, maybe… there has always
you about them, and un- been a giant mind, but we weren’t quite clever enough,
derstand what they are.” until just now, to begin to get an inkling that maybe that
Next, we need to was what was going on.”
learn mutual respect from
each other, urges Maha-
meed. We need to know
“As a species, for the last 35,000 years,
how to listen, not with
our ears, but with our
we’ve been pulling back from nature.
hearts.
Ibtisam Mahameed
We’ve been differentiating ourselves and
“I should tell you
that I want to give you my hand, not to betray you, but to say
cultivating our capacity to stand apart from
you are welcome in my home. I shall like to visit you at your
nature, to know or empower our unique-
home, to hear more from you and to hear more about the
world. This is what I call the ‘language of mutual love in the
ness as hunter-gatherers, as farmers, as
world.’”
industrialists. But now… we’re beginning
One Mind, or Electronic Membrane
to see that the world is a living, integrated
This universal language already speaks intuitively to thou-
system. We need to turn from separatism
sands, though skeptics may dismiss the concept as a gos-
to communion [in] an extraordinary transi-
samer New Age theory. If, indeed, such global connectivity
exists, can it be scientifically proven?
tion in the life of our planet.”
The research of Dean Radin, Ph.D., a laboratory scien-
tist and author in the field of parapsychology, may provide
~ Duane Elgin, activist
some preliminary answers. Radin discusses the possibility
of a global mind and whether that global mind could “wake
up.” He suggests that, with the Internet, humans may be Shifting Societal Structures
approaching a system sophisticated enough to carry the elec- American spiritual teacher, activist and artist angel Kyodo
tronic membrane, or “brain,” of a global self-awareness. williams believes a shared collective consciousness—and
Radin’s Global Consciousness Project has tested the conscience—can benefit all of humanity. This founder of the
relationship between mind and matter to determine whether new Center for Urban Peace and author of Being Black: Zen
collective human attention corresponds to a change in the and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace, reminds us
physical environ- that societies can change on a massive scale.
ment. Intriguingly, it She speaks of how we can replace the view of separa-
does. (More at http:// tion: “That view can be shifted [exchanged] as no longer the
globalonenessproject. acceptable way in which we do things, in the same way that
org/videos/deanradin- we no longer accept slavery. That was an economic choice—
clip8.) how will I get my cotton picked if I don’t have slaves, that’s
“We have six just impossible, I can’t give that up. Well, we’ve had changes
billion or so people in society that said,
in the world… and you will have to find
there is already some another way. We have
experimental evidence to make the structures
suggesting that there of society unwilling
is something like a to bear separation as
global mind reaction a way of approaching
Dean Radin, Ph.D. to large-scale world things, individualism
events,” remarks Ra- as a way of approach-
din. The Global Consciousness Project has empirical markers ing things.”
for 200 major events [including the televised courtroom ver- That united com-
dict of the O.J. Simpson murder trial and 9-11 attacks] that mitment is crucial.
have attracted attention around the world. “We find changes “We are participants
in the physical environment as a result of that attention— in a process that
changes that, by any conventional theory, shouldn’t be
angel Kyodo williams
will always be larger
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