our ears, but with our hearts. a system sophisticated enough to carry
“I should tell you that I want to the electronic membrane, or “brain,” of
give you my hand, not to betray you, a global self-awareness.
but to say you are welcome in my Radin’s Global Consciousness
home. I shall like to visit you at your Project has tested the relationship
between mind and matter to determine
whether collective human attention
corresponds to a change in the physi-
cal environment. Intriguingly, it does.
(More at http://globalonenessproject.
org/videos/deanradinclip8.)
“We have six billion or so
people in the world… and there is
already some experimental evidence
angel Kyodo williams
suggesting that there is something like
a global mind reaction to large-scale
impossible, I can’t give that up. Well,
world events,” remarks Radin. The
we’ve had changes in society that said,
Global Consciousness Project has
you will have to find another way. We
empirical markers for 200 major events
Ibtisam Mahameed
have to make the structures of society
[including the televised courtroom
unwilling to bear separation as a way of
verdict of the O.J. Simpson murder trial
approaching things, individualism as a
home, to hear more from you and to and 9-11 attacks] that have attracted
way of approaching things.”
hear more about the world. This is what attention around the world. “We find
That united commitment
I call the ‘language of mutual love in changes in the physical environment as
is crucial. “We are participants in a
the world.’” a result of that attention—changes that,
process that will always be larger than
by any conventional theory, shouldn’t
our imagination or our best sciences
One Mind, or Electronic
be there,” says Radin. “And yet, they
can fully explain,” advises Mary Evelyn
Membrane
are there.”
Tucker, a senior lecturer and senior
At this point, scientists haven’t
This universal language already speaks
scholar at Yale University. “‘Can we
concluded that a global mind exists,
intuitively to thousands, though skeptics
evolve fast enough?’ is a critical ques-
but if evidence is suggesting that some-
may dismiss the concept as a gossamer
tion.”
thing strange is going on—“then maybe
New Age theory. If, indeed, such global
the mind of Gaia is waking up,” Radin
connectivity exists, can it be scientifi-
reasons. “Or, maybe… there has always
Summoning Spirituality
cally proven?
been a giant mind, but we weren’t
Tucker, who is active in Yale’s School
quite clever enough, until just now, to
of Forestry and Environmental Stud-
begin to get an inkling that maybe that
ies, as well as its Divinity School and
was what was going on.”
department of religious studies, has au-
thored many books, including Worldly
Shifting Societal Structures
Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecologi-
cal Phase. She focuses on the vital role
American spiritual teacher, activist and
of spirituality in her Global Oneness
artist angel Kyodo williams believes a
interview and is prominently featured
shared collective consciousness—and
conscience—can benefit all of human-
ity. This founder of the new Center
for Urban Peace and author of Being
Black: Zen and the Art of Living with
Fearlessness and Grace, reminds us
Dean Radin, Ph.D.
that societies can change on a massive
scale.
The research of Dean Radin, Ph.D., a
She speaks of how we can replace
laboratory scientist and author in the
the view of separation: “That view can
field of parapsychology, may provide
be shifted [exchanged] as no longer the
some preliminary answers. Radin dis-
acceptable way in which we do things,
cusses the possibility of a global mind
in the same way that we no longer
and whether that global mind could
accept slavery. That was an economic
“wake up.” He suggests that, with the
choice—how will I get my cotton
Internet, humans may be approaching
picked if I don’t have slaves, that’s just
Mary Evelyn Tucker
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