FieldREG Anomalies in Group Situations

Foundational GCP methodology paper establishing the FieldREG paradigm for monitoring collective consciousness effects on random systems. Direct precursor to Global Consciousness Project experiments monitoring major global events (e.g., September 11, 2001). Demonstrates that non-intentional group consciousness correlates with REG anomalies, extending PEAR laboratory findings to field conditions. Only SSE Council meeting (business context) showed null results, supporting hypothesis that emotional/cognitive engagement drives effects.

Portable random event generators with software to record and index continuous sequences of binary data in field situations are found to produce anomalous outputs when deployed in various group environments. FieldREG systems operated under formal protocols in ten separate venues (professional meetings, religious rituals, group gatherings), all subdividing naturally into temporal segments. The most extreme data segments from each of the ten applications, after appropriate correction for multiple sampling, compound to a collective probability against chance expectation of 2×10⁻⁵. High degrees of attention, intellectual cohesiveness, shared emotion, or other coherent qualities of the groups tend to correlate with the statistically unusual deviations. Effect sizes per bit (0.0003) and per hour (average 0.3) are similar to laboratory REG experiments.