My friend Joe Skehan sent me a link today to this article – “Can this black box see into the future?” –  on The Gobal Consciousness Project. 
Amazing stuff.  I had no idea that anyone was working on anything
like this.  Yes, even the researchers are skeptical … however
they are also seeing patterns.

These researchers are digging deeper into the possibility that there
could be ways to monitor, or more specifically detect, the presence of
a “global consciousness” using a distrbuted set of monitoring nodes
they refer to as “eggs”.  These devices are designed to generate
random numbers, and yet the researchers are able to detect deviations
in these numbers that seem to coincide with major events on
earth.  The first set of quotes that caught my attention was:

Using the internet, he [Dr. Roger Nelson] connected up 40 random event generators from all over
the world to his laboratory computer in Princeton. These ran constantly, day in
day out, generating millions of different pieces of data. Most of the time, the
resulting graph on his computer looked more or less like a flat line.

But then on September 6, 1997, something quite extraordinary happened: the
graph shot upwards, recording a sudden and massive shift in the number sequence
as his machines around the world started reporting huge deviations from the
norm. The day was of historic importance for another reason, too.

For it was the same day that an estimated one billion people around the world
watched the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales at Westminster Abbey.

The article goes on to give other examples, and the web site
has even more information about the research.  What is even more
interesting is the blend of both scientific and artistic personalities
that are joining on this research.  All of this exploring the
possibility that there are forces at work – detectable forces – that
might indicate that humans have more abilities then we are taught to
believe.

Cool stuff …