Hemi-Sync® Journal 2004-1&2 (Winter/Spring)

each RNG were processed by taking the first 200 bits record- ed at the beginning of each second and summing those bits into samples. The chance expected value of each sample was thus 100. Each sample was turned into a standard normal deviate as z = (value - 100)/square root (.25 * 200), and then that z value was squared. This zsquare value, one per second, is chi-squared distributed, and is a measure of variance of the output of the RNG. The zsquares were then summed to form a chi-squared value with degrees of freedom equal to the number of values in the sum (thus forming a cumulative measure of variance). The resulting chi-squared value was converted back into a normal- ized score after each 60 seconds of data as z_var = \(chisquare_sum * 2) - (df* 2 - 1), where df is the number of degrees of freedom, or samples, and then plotted. This z_var score is thus a way of graphing cumulative changes in variance and is the “standard” method used for this sort of long-term field RNG test. Each of the test series ended up with a z score greater than the chance expected value of zero, and series 2 and 4 resulted in significantly higher scores. “Days” in the following graphs refers to twenty-four hours of continuous recording, and not to the time of day. Since all recordings started around 11:00 a.m., one may think of each “day” as 11:00 a.m. one day to 11:00 a.m. the next day. Preliminary Findings Figure 1, next page, is a combined preliminary result from the five series for the main RNG (labeled NPC in the graph), --- PAGE 4 (OCR) --- HEMI-SYNC® JOURNAL the DFH RNG, and the RMR RNG. From this perspective, it is clear that the NPC RNG progressively accumulated to ever- increasing levels of significance as the six-day test continued, whereas the other two RNGs did not. The RMR RNG ended up almost exactly at chance, and the DFH RNG ended up slightly below chance (meaning slightly constricted variance). A rising curve here, as seen in the NPC RNG, means that at Figure 4 q cay —Nec—rMR FH the bit level there were too many sequences of Os or 1s, which led to too many large individual z scores, which led in turn to too many large z-squared values. The fact that this trend con- tinued throughout the test in the NPC RNG is consistent with the idea that group mental coherence—presumed to be evoked by Participants in focused consciousness during the conduct of exercises using the sound technology called Hemi-Sync—per- sisted for a number of days. It reached significance around day four and continued on to odds against chance of about 300 to 1 by the end of the training week as seen in Figure 2. Figure 2, below, shows the same information as Figure 1 displayed in terms of (one-tailed) odds against chance. Notice that in Figures 1 and 2 around day four there's a sudden upturn in the cumulative NPC graph. A cumulative graph holds an increasing amount of “inertia” from all previous data, so a sudden “bump” like this after four days of recordings Figure 2 1000 . Nps odds against chanco —nPc—RMR FH is unexpected. A similar but smaller bump is observed in the RMR and DFH graphs as well. To examine this in more detail, see Figure 3. Instead of a cumulative plot, this shows the z score equivalent of a thirty-minute-long sliding window of chi-squared values. This allows us effectively to examine high- er-frequency components of the RNG outputs. Figure 3 indi- cates, over the five-test series combined, that just after the beginning of the fourth day of recording (recall that each “day” starts at about 11:00 a.m.) there is a sharp and very unexpect- ed increase in the NPC RNG variance. The DFH and RMR RNGs do not appear to show much of interest, at least not to this degree, during the same time period. Figure 3 SAO DOO oo days Figure 4 shows the same information as Figure 3 but in terms of odds against chance. It indicates, again within a pre- liminary look at these data, that the sharp rise peaked with odds of about 2 million to 1 against chance. Examination of the markings in the data records for the RNG in NPC indi- cates that at this time, in every series (except series 3, which only contained a few marks early on), this sharp rise occurred within thirty minutes of trainer notes indicating a Hemi-Sync exercise called Vibe Flow 15. Figure 4 ode agatast chance ° 1 2 3 4 . ‘ Discussion The Vibe Flow 15 exercise warrants closer consideration, as it seems to have evoked a statistical effect beyond the small but persistent “coherence” created in the Nancy Penn Center during the GATEWAY VOYAGE. This may have something to do with the Vibe Flow 15 exercise, but it may also be due to a kind of “kindling”or build-up effect that took four days to per- colate. Vibe Flow 15 is the third Hemi-Sync exercise on the morning of the fourth day. Interestingly, that morning is orga- nized as a “silent morning” during which participants remain --- PAGE 5 (OCR) --- Winter/Spring 2004 silent unto themselves without the usual group verbal shar- ing of their voyages through consciousness. Is the coherence of quantum entropy on the morning of day four associated with a kindling effect, the silent morning, the power of the Vibe Flow 15 exercise, or... ? There were several other preliminary findings of inter- est: The first event (with odds > 1,000 to 1) occurred on the morning of the first full day, roughly when the Cadle Car wake-up music was playing. A second event looked like it was associated with Intro to Focus 12. A third event was asso- ciated with reconvening for the first full day afternoon ses- sion. We have already mentioned the fourth event, the Vibe Flow 15 effect on the fourth day. A fifth event, with odds of almost 5,000 to 1, was associated in some way with the notation Super Sleep on the same day as the big Vibe Flow 15 effect. Note that precise time-event correlations are not easy to establish because the data markings on the different records are not uniform. Associations are somewhat clearer when two or more records show the same events within a few minutes of the peak statistical effect. The only two events showing this level of clarity were the Vibe Flow 15 and Super Sleep. There is also evidence for a possible diurnal effect in the NPC RNG results, suggesting that while people are awake during the day and in focused consciousness during the conduct of exercises using the Hemi-Sync technology, there are intriguing deviations. When they are sleeping at night, these same deviations decline. Conclusion In quantum physics the oversimplified concept of phys- ical matter—atoms with protons, electrons, etc., existing as tiny building blocks—has been left behind and replaced by the concept of physical matter as composed of quanta of energy with “tendencies” to exist. What we consider to be subatomic randomness is fundamental to this understand- ing. To quote Sir James Jeans, a prominent twentieth-cen- tury physicist, “The more we learn about the nature of the physical universe, the less it looks like a great machine and the more it looks like a great thought.” Tt would appear from the preliminary observations of this study that collective Hemi-Syne-focused states of con- sciousness experienced by GATEWAY VOYAGE program participants may coincide with periods of reduced quantum randomness, an unusual coherence in an otherwise probable realm of subatomic quanta. The program participants were not aware of the continuously running electronic random- ness-monitoring devices. Perhaps the observed coherence of quantum randomness could be an inherent quality of focused human consciousness and focused consciousness a key to understanding that we are more than our physical bodies. As Robert A. Monroe said: “Focused consciousness contains all solutions to the questions of human existence. Greater understanding of such consciousness can be achieved only through interdisciplinary approaches and coordinated research efforts.” References 1. R.D.Nelson, D. I. Radin, R. Shoup, and P. A. Bancel, “Correlations of continuous random data with major world events,” Foundations of Physics Letters 15, no. 6 (December 2002). 2. There is the possibility that the “collapse of entropy” effect in RNGs is localized. If this is true, the farther the RNG is away from the participants in the pro- gram, the smaller the observed effects may be. THE MONROE INSTITUTE BOARD OF ADVISORS Laurie A. Monroe, President James Beal, MS Barbara Bullard, MA Wilson Bullard, PhD Gregory D. 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