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ARPAST - The Arkansas Paranormal and Anomalous Studies Team is a science-based research group dedicated to furthering our measured understanding of anomalous and unexplained phenomena via the utilization of state-of-the-art equipment, methodologies, and techniques. With over 150 members worldwide, ARPAST is also one of the fastest-growing and most widely respected organizations of its kind as well.
Our mission is to document, collect, and analyze environmental and corroborated data surrounding reported paranormal events while ruling out or uncovering any possible explanatory causes for such phenomena. We are NOT "ghost busters," nor do we do "interventions," "cleansings," or "exorcisms." Our goal is not to "prove" or "disprove" the existence of "spirits" or "ghosts." To carry such an agenda would be to presume an understanding of that which is not currently understood within the context of scientific fact.
ARPAST works with other serious, science-based organizations and entities, including major universities and educational foundations, to further the progress of knowledge in this elusive field of study. Our members are extensively trained in the use, operation and understanding of equipment and methodology, and our training curriculum is second to none. We also use an extensive custom-designed database to seek patterns and correlations of data collected from over 200 investigations.
It is the intention of ARPAST to continue to grow and expand, and to stay true to our mission of using solid research and evidence gathering, data corroboration and peer review leading to potential hypotheses that may one day truly explain the "unexplainable."
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“The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.” - Sigmund Freud
I am incredibly proud to announce that ARPAST has been chosen to host an "EGG" (Our EGG name is EGG.ARPAST.AR) for the Princeton University "Global Consciousness Project" experiment. This is an extremely proud accomplishment as there are only 121 EGG sites throughout the world.
This long term experiment ties in well with our other experiments as it explorers the connection between consciousness and the unknown. From their website:
The Global Consciousness Project, also called the EGG Project, is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration of scientists, engineers, artists and others. We collect data continuously from a global network of physical random number generators located in 65 host sites around the world. The archive contains more than 10 years of random data in parallel sequences of synchronized 200-bit trials every second.
Our purpose is to examine subtle correlations that may reflect the presence and activity of consciousness in the world. We predict structure in what should be random data, associated with major global events. When millions of us share intentions and emotions the GCP/EGG network data show meaningful departures from expectation. This is a powerful finding based in solid science.
The Global Consciousness Project, also called the EGG Project, is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration of scientists, engineers, artists and others. We collect data continuously from a global network of physical random number generators located in 65 host sites around the world. The archive contains more than 10 years of random data in parallel sequences of synchronized 200-bit trials every second.
GCP’s instruments, referred to as “EGG’s” (an acronym for electrogaiagram), generate random numbers which can be represented as a continuous output of 1’s or 0’s. The principle is similar to that of flipping a coin, only much faster. In any set number of coin flips, an observer has an expectation that half of the coin flips will produce a result of “heads,” and half will produce “tails.” In Dr. Nelson’s process, “heads and tails” are replaced by “1’s and 0’s,” but the concept of an “expected result” remains the same.
In his analysis of this data, Dr. Nelson is looking for significant deviations from the expected result. That is to say, suspiciously long strings of either 1’s or 0’s. Using our coin analogy, imagine that you decide to flip a coin 100 times. You would expect to get 50 “heads” and 50 “tails,” with the understanding that the actual results might deviate slightly one way or the other. But what if you got “heads” 90 times in a row? That would indicate a significant deviation from the expected result.
By itself, this seeming coherence in a random system is meaningless. It isn’t until we apply the data to Dr. Nelson’s hypothesis that a very interesting phenomenon is revealed. Using a very strict criteria, Dr. Nelson began to examine the data as it correlated to major world events. Targeted events included such things as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the death of Princess Diana, and even New Year’s Eve celebrations. What Dr. Nelson discovered was that in the majority of these instances, the sampled data from the EGG network did indeed show the significant deviation from expected result that I describe above, and that Dr. Nelson predicted.
Stated more simply (if somewhat less accurately), the results seemed to indicate that during major global events, the consciousness of a vast number of the world’s people–likely focused on the event–seems to exert some influence on the EGG network…the random number generators begin to generate long strings of non-random numbers.
For more information on the Global Consciousness Project be sure and spend some time on their extremely comprehensive website: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
