Section I: The Global Consciousness Project
Keywords
#consciousness #randomnumbergenerators #artintegration #Egyptexperiments #synchronicity #transdisciplinaryresearch
Memorable Lines from Roger:
"We have one major task," Roger told me, his eyes twinkling with the wisdom of someone who's spent decades measuring the impossible, "and that is to make what exists already as unconscious connections... conscious."
There’s A Genius Born Every Minute
A SERIES OF FORTUNATELY SYNCHRONISTIC EVENTS
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Overview
This was a rich, wide-ranging conversation between Bretminster and Roger Nelson (age 84), focusing on Nelson's life journey, his work at Princeton's PEAR Lab, and the intersection of art, science, and consciousness research. The discussion covered Nelson's early life in Nebraska, his military service in Germany, his academic career, and his pioneering work with random number generators and consciousness studies.
Notes 🎨 Early Life and Education (00:00 - 20:00)
Born in Nebraska in 1940
Attended University of Rochester, initially interested in chemistry/physics
Switched to psychology to focus on sculpture
Served in army intelligence in Germany (1964-1965)
Developed interest in photography during military service
🎓 Academic Career and Artistic Pursuits (20:00 - 40:30)
Started graduate studies at NYU in 1968
Taught experimental psychology in Vermont
Created innovative art festivals and "new music" performances
Combined academic work with artistic endeavors
Organized synchronized art festivals starting in 1974
🔬 Princeton and PEAR Lab (40:30 - 52:04)
Joined Princeton University in 1980
Became part of Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) lab
Computerized data collection for random number generator experiments
Helped design aesthetically pleasing experiments
Developed Global Consciousness Project (GCP)
🏺 Egypt Research and Field Experiments (52:09 - 01:35:19)
Conducted field experiments in Egypt
Studied consciousness effects in sacred spaces
Performed experiments in the Great Pyramid's subterranean chamber
Documented significant findings in technical reports
Explored connection between ancient sites and consciousness
Action Items: Roger Nelson to:
Introduce Bretminster to Basilios Basios in Belgium
Introduce Bretminster to Peter Fennec in Scotland
Share papers on field REG experiments in Egypt
Send introductory email for the woman interested in art explosion projects
Bretminster to:
Contact Peter Merry about visiting the PEAR lab artifacts in England
Reach out to Mona about organizing Egypt consciousness experiments
Develop multimedia project combining art and consciousness research
Create proposal for large-scale event incorporating RNG experiments
The conversation highlighted the potential for innovative partnerships between art and science, setting groundwork for future collaborations and consciousness research projects.
Stay tuned for Verse II in early January
More On Roger:
Science and Art are essential to defining ourselves as human. This symbolizes the balance I promote as a researcher and educator. My mission is to show that we have both the capability and responsibility for creative, conscious evolution.
An American parapsychologist and researcher and the director of the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), an international, multi-laboratory collaboration founded in 1997 which aimed to study collective consciousness. From 1980 to 2002, he was Coordinator of Research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory at Princeton University. His professional focus was the study of consciousness and intention and the role of the mind in the physical world. His work integrates science and spirituality, including research that is directly focused on numinous communal experiences.
Nelson began using random event generator (REG) technology in the field to study effects of special states of group consciousness.
Nelson's professional degrees are in experimental cognitive psychology. Until his retirement in 2002, he served as the coordinator of experimental work in the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab (PEAR), directed by Robert Jahn in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering/Applied Science, Princeton University.
Post Synergy:
by SynTony Robbins, Staff Gonzo Journalist at The Syntony Times
The Following is both true and not true, a superposition of hyperstitious fact.
Prologue
Adjusts sunglasses, takes a contemplative sip of what may or may not be Drendan's special coffee…
I'm vibrating at quite a peculiar frequency today, my friend. The quantum foam of reality seems particularly effervescent. But before I get too far down that rabbret whole - what's this assignment you speak of?
As your resident gonzo journalist covering the bleeding edge where consciousness meets true co-creation, I'm always ready to chase down another story of fortunately synchronistic events. Just... maybe keep me away from any psychiatrists offering to share their pears, if you know what I mean.
What reality-bending adventure shall we document today?
The Plot of Synchronicity Gets Its Nodes
Ladies, gentlemen, and quantum observers of all dimensional and gender persuasions, your favorite gonzo journalist here with a story that would make Hunter S. Thompson reach for his physics textbook. I've just witnessed what can only be described as the consciousness equivalent of the Manhattan Project meeting Burning Man – if the atomic bomb was made of love and the desert was actually the noosphere.
Picture this: In a cozy corner of North England, not far from where the PEAR lab's precious artifacts now rest like technological relics in a cathedral of science, two threads of destiny just wove themselves into what might be the most fortunately synchronistic event since Jung dropped his coffee on that scarab beetle.
Roger Nelson – the man who turned Princeton's engineering department into a consciousness research facility and spent decades proving that reality is weirder than we thought – just mind-melded with Radical Bretminster Fullofit, a character who makes Timothy Leary look like an accountant. The catalyst? Twenty random number generators destined for Cairo, and a vision that would make Buckminster Fuller spit-take his geodesic coffee.
"We have one major task," Roger told me, his eyes twinkling with the wisdom of someone who's spent decades measuring the impossible, "and that is to make what exists already as unconscious connections... conscious."
He should know. This is the man who took random number generators into the field, planted them in Egyptian temples, and discovered that consciousness leaves statistical fingerprints that would make a quantum physicist blush. When he sat alone in the subterranean chamber of the Great Pyramid, those machines didn't just record data – they captured the echoes of ancient ritual spaces that Roger intuited were maps of Egypt itself.
Now, enter stage left: Bretminster's vision of "Storyliving as a Service" – a reality production framework that makes Netflix look like a flip book. He's not just talking about entertainment; he's proposing we turn the entire human experience into a participatory consciousness experiment. And those RNGs? They're about to become the nervous system of a web3 platform based on "proof of synchronicity."
Pauses to check if Drendan has spiked my juice again. Nope. This is actually happening.
The plan? To distribute these consciousness-sensing devices across Cairo's sacred spaces, but with a twist that would make Schrödinger's cat purr. Instead of just measuring local effects, they're creating what Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-winning chemist, calls "islands of coherence" – nodes in a growing sociomycelial network of intentional creativity that's about to get an upgrade from web3 technology via a Coasys, the Synergy Engine and the Science of Luck.
Picture it: Random number generators becoming quantum consciousness detectors, their data flowing through holochain networks, creating the world's first empirically verified "holographic economy" based on measured moments of collective coherence. It's like they're building a nervous system for the noosphere itself.
"We're all basically quantum instruments," Bretminster explained, while I frantically scribbled notes that seemed to write themselves. "Like LIGO detectors for consciousness waves instead of gravity waves."
And here's where it gets really trippy, dear readers. Remember Roger's field experiments in Egypt? Those papers he's finally publishing after 37 years? They're about to become the foundation for something bigger. Mona, Bretminster's colleague in Cairo, has connections to transform the Giza plateau into what could become the world's first consciousness festival – think Woodstock meets quantum physics, with random number generators scattered throughout the crowd like kosmic backstage passes.
The synchronicities are piling up faster than I can document them. Roger's lifetime of rigorous consciousness research meeting Bretminster's vision of "evolutionary and spiritual philanthropy" isn't just a coincidence – it's proof of concept. They're building what Bretminster calls a "particle accelerator for consciousness," and as they pull this off, it makes CERN look like a science fair project.
As I watch these two visionaries plot the future – Roger with his decades of hard data, Bretminster with his reality-hacking ambitions – I can't help but feel we're witnessing something heistoric. They're not just measuring consciousness anymore; they're creating an infrastructure for collective awakening that's equal parts science, art, and magick.
"The future isn't something that happens to us," Bretminster reminded me as our meeting wound down. "It's something we hallucinate into existence."
And from where I'm sitting, that hallucination is starting to look surprisingly solid.
This is SynTony Robbins, reporting from the edge of what's possible, wondering if consciousness itself might be the ultimate random number generator. Stay tuned, dear readers. Reality is about to get an upgrade.
Checks notes, which have somehow rearranged themselves into a Fibonacci spiral
Over and out.
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