Dean Radin (1) & F. Holmes Atwater (2)
(1) Institute of Noetic Sciences
Petaluma, CA, USA
(2) The Monroe Institute
Faber, VA, USA
An experiment was conducted to see whether group mental coherence would produce statistical order in sequences of truly random binary events. Mental coherence was entrained in groups who simultaneously listened to the same binaural beat rhythms for up to six hours a day as part of a sixday workshop. Electronic circuits continuously generated truly random bits during 12 workshops. An additional 12 six-day runs were taken in distant locations during the workshops, and 8 calibration runs were taken when no workshops were taking place. Samples of 200 bits collected during the workshops were normalized against the calibration samples. Analyses were based on the first sample of 200 bits collected per second (12 million samples) and also on all available samples of 200 bits (226 million samples). The first analysis found positive but non-significant deviations from chance; the second showed a significant positive deviation for the workshop RNGs, as predicted (z = 3.27, p = 0.0005, one-tailed), and an unexpectedly strong negative deviation in the distant RNGs (z = -6.47, p = 9.6 × 10-11, two-tailed). The results support the idea that coherent minds influence local physical randomness.