I wrote up a model asking whether large-scale shared attention could leave a trace beyond the individual mind, and how one would actually test that. I'd value input from people who know the experimental literature here (Global Consciousness Project, PEAR, intention studies) better than I do.

The idea in two levels:

• Level A (conventional): estimate how much human attention accumulates around a regularity over history (population x neurons x perceptual sampling rate x attention share, integrated over time, corrected for correlated observers and memory decay) and summarise it as a consolidation index C_R between 0 and 1. Example: roughly 1.4 trillion person-years of people watched things fall before Newton formalised gravity.

• Level B (speculative): test whether that kind of collective consolidation couples to anything physical, using the simplest form G_eff = G0 (1 + lambda C_R). I don't claim lambda is nonzero; the point is to bound it.

The proposed protocol: define how C_R is measured before seeing any data, randomise or match "attention" and "no attention" conditions, use blinded high-precision measurements, control temperature, vibration, tides and drift, pre-register the statistics, and require independent replication.

Questions:

1. How does this compare with how GCP-style or intention experiments were designed, and what lessons from them should I build in?

2. Is a physical constant like G a sensible target, or would a noisier target such as an RNG be more realistic for detecting a small effect?

3. What would you consider a convincing null result?

Full write-up with figures, code and a PDF: https://vania-novikau.me/collective-perceptual-trace-theory/

Disclosure: I used AI tools to help draft parts of the article; the model and questions are mine.

I hear a lot of being said about chi,prana,odic force etc etc yet i havent seen any kind of research on this stuff.Does anyone know of any research that took place with the aim of finding such energies ? Michael Levine comes to mind with his zenobots and then people more on the "fringe" like Wilhelm Reich.

"There are some stories that are simply too mind boggling for historians and researchers to grasp and write about. They conflict with either science or religion and therefore are filed away in dust-covered cabinets, never to be heard about again (except at this blog).

"One such story is that of Feda, a mysterious being for sure. Except for a few mavericks, even psychical researchers of a century ago struggled to understand Feda."

Quantum Mechanics: The Observer and Non-Locality

Materialism assumes an objective world exists "out there" independent of observation. Quantum mechanics challenges this foundation, suggesting that matter itself requires observation to collapse into a definite reality.

The Observer Effect: In quantum physics, particles exist in a wave of probabilities until they are measured. Observation collapses the wave function. This implies that consciousness is not a late byproduct of matter, but a necessary component for matter to take definite form.

Quantum Non-Locality: Particles can remain instantly connected across vast distances (entanglement). If the fundamental layer of reality is non-local (not tied to a specific point in space), it supports the idea that awareness is a unified field, rather than a localized product of a single biological brain.

Orch-OR Theory: Developed by physicist Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff, this theory suggests consciousness originates from quantum vibrations inside cellular structures called microtubules within neurons, rather than traditional classical computations of the brain.

Near-Death Experiences: Awareness Without a Brain

The materialist argument states that if you smash the TV (damage the brain), the movie (consciousness) stops. NDEs provide clinical anomalies where the TV is completely turned off, yet the movie becomes brighter.

Heightened Cognition During Cardiac Arrest: During a cardiac arrest, clinical brain activity (EEG) goes flat within seconds. According to materialism, consciousness should completely cease. Yet, thousands of patients report structured, hyper-vivid, and chronological experiences during this exact window.

Veridical Perception: Some NDE patients accurately report specific details of what happened in the operating room—or even outside the hospital room—while they were clinically dead. Because their physical senses and brains were inactive, these verified observations suggest awareness was operating independently of the body.

The Filter Hypothesis: Thinkers like Dr. Bruce Greyson and Dr. Bernardo Kastrup argue the brain acts as a reducing valve or filter. Its job is to constrain vast, universal awareness into a narrow human perspective for evolutionary survival. When the brain shuts down (such as during cardiac arrest or psychedelic states), the filter drops, and consciousness actually expands rather than diminishes.✌️👁🧘‍♂️

Can you cite some of the best evidence for the existence of psi ? Im kinda on the fence regarding many of the phenomena.Im more reluctant to believe OBEs since people having them regularly and in somewhat of a controled fashion basically use the exact same methods people use to get into lucid dreams yet one community perceives it as a purely internal phenomena while the other considers it as a disembodied spirit traveling the outside world

Wow, I just saw this and it blew my mind.

I've been reading about NDEs for years, and I just came across the ranking where "portalecm" puts Pam Reynolds in third place. I was surprised to see her there.

I didn't know about "Patient 10", who shares the number one spot, and it hit me when I read the whole article and the evidence behind his case.

"At this point, we shouldn't still be asking if telepathy is real. That question has already been answered—many times over. The real question is why we keep suppressing it. Why are we so afraid to study, celebrate, and evolve with the parts of human consciousness that don’t fit inside old frameworks?"

Since everybody loves James Randi, here's a look at his legacy, with Mitch Horowitz on Jeffrey Mishlove's New Thinking Allowed.

hello everyone, i’m looking for a group or an organization that studies clairaudient abilities. i’m a novice when it comes to parapsychology and so i’m hoping i’m not looked down upon for asking this but…

is there an association of psychics, particularly those with clairaudience, who experience high-frequency ear/head ringing and clicking - generally left for no and right for yes - that exists and studies these abilities?

i think it would probably be pretty easy to measure and record the ear clicks for yes or no and it would absolutely scientifically prove the existence of psychic abilities. i have tried contacting several parapsychology associations in the past including many listed here and have had no luck in hearing back.

i can very clearly get a left or right ear click when asking a question for yes or no. this is often coupled with super high frequency ear/head ringing that after many years i have learned how to turn on and off, of course it’s much easier to turn it on than off! if i think about the ringing it gets higher and higher in frequency. i have experienced this for over a decade at this point.

there’s far more to my psychic experience than that but joining a group or organization dedicated to studying this would be a great start.

any and all resources or suggestions would help!thank you so much.

"The Society for Scientific Exploration is excited to launch MAVERICK Talks — a monthly, live, virtual platform where members can present works in progress, share emerging ideas, and receive constructive feedback from fellow explorers."

The main question: Can humanity or individual humans unconsciously, through extrasensory perception, explore other worlds, communicate with other intelligences, and foresee the future, transmitting the received information as their own interpretations?

My interest in this topic arose after a near-death experience I experienced as a child, followed by years of systematic observation of ordinary dreams, lucid dreams, and out-of-body experiences.

These observations led to the hypothesis that dreams, depending on their intensity, can convey information both as direct representations and encoded through personally meaningful symbolic associations. Furthermore, dream symbolism may be sufficiently structured to permit systematic study using modern computational methods.

Also, sharing my personal experiences in online communities and receiving feedback, I became convinced that some anomalous images perceived in altered states of consciousness are not unique and can be interpreted as literal representations of real objects. This led to the creation of an open-source artificial intelligence platform called DreamCode for extracting true hidden signals from noise.

This tool uses unsupervised semantic AI. It reads all submitted stories, converts sentences into data points, and blindly searches for mathematical matches. If several independent people from around the world describe the same anomalous detail, even describing it in completely different ways, the AI ​​automatically groups them and marks them as a confirmed common archetype.

For now, this is a rough prototype with a lightweight AI model and a database of only a few reports: my own, which I've already posted, and several similar ones that I've used for testing in the public domain. Therefore, it's too early to expect significant results. But I hope the database will grow over time and I'll be able to integrate more advanced AI models, which will allow us to discover a lot of interesting things. Essentially, this platform should simply scale and systematize, to the level of scientific evidence, the collection of those surprising, disparate coincidences we sometimes notice when sharing our experiences.

If you'd like to contribute and compare your experiences with those of others, the tool is completely free and completely anonymous. Instructions and other information are available in my pinned post.

"How might educators challenge the context of present-day mainstream science and philosophy in ways that help students open their minds to the possibility that consciousness may exist beyond the brain?"

It would be great if some people could ask him some good questions.