Applications: Protocol 5 Report

Connections Through Time - Issue 13: October - December 2001

Protocol 5 is an Associative Remote Viewing approach that uses a consensus to arrive at a prediction for a future event.  People either work alone or in small groups of 2 or 3.  The predictions were based on a consensus involving a minimum of 2 predictions for the same future event.  The future event was the change in closing price of a specific stock or index on the stock market.  The details on Protocol 5 are here.

There were 26 "groups" submitting predictions.  21 of these were "groups of one" where one person submitted a minimum of 2 predictions before submitting a consensus prediction for the stock event.  Sets of 10 stock event predictions were the basic unit established for statistical evaluation and for the paying of incentive fees.  These fees were paid to groups achieving 7 or more successes out of 10 trials.

The following table shows the results of 95 sets of predictions in terms of the number of successes out of 10 trials.  For example, in April 2001, there were a total of 7 sets submitted with 4 of those sets having 8 successful predictions.  In May, there was one group who achieved a perfect score of 10 successes out of 10 trials.

• Beginners luck is a real phenomenon associated with the psychology of the conscious mind and how it gathers information from the subconscious mind.

• When beginning a new intuitive task, there are often positive emotions:
• Anticipation

• Fun to be doing something new

• When beginning a new intuitive task, there is no feedback yet and so there is a minimum of psychological "baggage" concerning:
• Fear of failure

• Fear of success

• Intellectual chatter

• The individual's subconscious mind may be in touch with a societal subconscious mind that provides strong resistance to public success in the area of precognition.  The resistance may originate from societies subconscious knowledge of the major paradigm change implied by the reality of precognition and other intuitive skills.
• Intellectual, as well as intuitive, knowledge of how society would react could also be a factor.  It is clear that many people would be quite "upset" if precognition became a reality on a day to day basis.  Imagine the changes in our society if some people were to publicly predict the stock/financial markets or lotteries in a reliable fashion using precognition.
• Resistance to public success in precognitive applications may occur when there is a potential for a large "misalignment" between the current societal ideas about reality and the actual public evidence about these ideas.  Think of these (societal ideas and public evidence) as two vectors in a complex "idea" space.  As the misalignment increases, so will the societal resistance to further change.
• There is a natural tendency for societal ideas about reality to become aligned with reality.  This process takes time and seems to be governed by societal subconscious interactions with consciousness that are not understood. 

• This is very speculative and could easily be interpreted as an excuse for not achieving higher statistical significance in public experiments and applications.

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Physics: Can Global Events Affect Random Number Generators?      Intuition: Individual Intentions Can Affect RNGs"