Power of Prayer?

[Guest guest]

Om Namah Shivaya,

 

When I recite "Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu", I consciously try to focus

my thoughts on the planes, both internal and external, that I feel need the

force of that prayer for peace and happiness. While I do not doubt the

importance of prayer for my individual consciousness, I sometimes though,

wonder how much effect prayer has on the world in general...I guess this

might be because what we hear of the world in the news does not usually

indicate growing tolerance, love and peace and all those positive

things...rather the opposite. I found the attached article an encouraging

sign that mass prayer might indeed swing the world one way rather than the

other. Who knows how many terrible paths not taken in history has owed that

decision to prayer or the intervention of great souls like Amma? Probably

quite a few!

I guess this is why Amma is like our personal pep squad, trying to rally us

by example and exhortation to group prayer and satsang that helps to generate

true peace within ourselves that can in turn perhaps influence peace among

others.

Usha

 

Mind Over Matter on a Planetary Scale

Source: Herald Sun

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, January 2, 2002: Intriguing research suggests that

the collective horror across the globe on September 11, 2001, was so great

it was recorded by machines. Evidence from a worldwide experiment that has

been running since 1998 has lent credence to the belief that electrical

energy generated by the human brain is powerful enough to exert an influence

on objects -- in essence, that mind can move matter. The experiment, based

at Princeton University, New Jersey, is known as the Global Consciousness

Project (GCP). The research involves computers at 40 places across the

world, producing a steady stream of random bits -- the digital equivalent of

flipping a coin 200 times a second at each site. Normally the outcome will

be about 50:50. But, field research in situations where large groups of

people become integrated, such a concerts, shows a reduced randomness of the

bits. Significant events in the last two years, such as the 2000 US

presidential election, the NATO bombing in Yugoslavia and the Sydney

Olympics opening ceremony have created blips on the data collection system

large enough to hint that the combined focus of large numbers of people on

the event produces an effect detectable on appropriate instruments. But

these incidents were dwarfed by the extraordinary findings of September 11,

when instruments recorded a marked aberration from the usual random data.

Across the world, the project's machines remained less than random for three

days. GCP director Roger Nelson said, " We do not know how the correlations

that arise between electronic random event generators and human concerns

come to be, and yet the results of our analysis over the past three years

repeatedly indicate such correlations".

[Guest guest]

Om Amriteshwariye Namah

 

yes I would agree with you - i was reading the same article yesterday

and thinking same. You reminded me of regular chanting of Lokah

Samasta ... and its positive vibrations. I was picking up very

negative vibrations just around 9/11. Group prayers do help a lot

 

Thanks for sharing

 

Om Namah Shivay

 

:ekanath

 

Ammachi, DJUM@a... wrote:

> Om Namah Shivaya,

>

> When I recite "Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu", I consciously try

to focus

> my thoughts on the planes, both internal and external, that I feel

need the

> force of that prayer for peace and happiness. While I do not doubt

the

> importance of prayer for my individual consciousness, I sometimes

though,

> wonder how much effect prayer has on the world in general...I guess

this

> might be because what we hear of the world in the news does not

usually

> indicate growing tolerance, love and peace and all those positive

> things...rather the opposite. I found the attached article an

encouraging

> sign that mass prayer might indeed swing the world one way rather

than the

> other. Who knows how many terrible paths not taken in history has

owed that

> decision to prayer or the intervention of great souls like Amma?

Probably

> quite a few!

> I guess this is why Amma is like our personal pep squad, trying to

rally us

> by example and exhortation to group prayer and satsang that helps

to generate

> true peace within ourselves that can in turn perhaps influence

peace among

> others.

> Usha

>

> Mind Over Matter on a Planetary Scale

> Source: Herald Sun

> PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, January 2, 2002: Intriguing research

suggests that

> the collective horror across the globe on September 11, 2001, was

so great

> it was recorded by machines. Evidence from a worldwide experiment

that has

> been running since 1998 has lent credence to the belief that

electrical

> energy generated by the human brain is powerful enough to exert an

influence

> on objects -- in essence, that mind can move matter. The

experiment, based

> at Princeton University, New Jersey, is known as the Global

Consciousness

> Project (GCP). The research involves computers at 40 places across

the

> world, producing a steady stream of random bits -- the digital

equivalent of

> flipping a coin 200 times a second at each site. Normally the

outcome will

> be about 50:50. But, field research in situations where large

groups of

> people become integrated, such a concerts, shows a reduced

randomness of the

> bits. Significant events in the last two years, such as the 2000 US

> presidential election, the NATO bombing in Yugoslavia and the Sydney

> Olympics opening ceremony have created blips on the data collection

system

> large enough to hint that the combined focus of large numbers of

people on

> the event produces an effect detectable on appropriate instruments.

But

> these incidents were dwarfed by the extraordinary findings of

September 11,

> when instruments recorded a marked aberration from the usual random

data.

> Across the world, the project's machines remained less than random

for three

> days. GCP director Roger Nelson said, " We do not know how the

correlations

> that arise between electronic random event generators and human

concerns

> come to be, and yet the results of our analysis over the past three

years

> repeatedly indicate such correlations".