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Thank you for your question!

You will pardon me if I ask again for some evidence of collective consciousness.

No problem, though I'm sure we'll get into it much greater detail as we pursue the definitions with AntiGuv. Here's some to get you started:

Princeton Engineering Anamolies Research

Rupert Sheldrake investigations (biology)

The Science of Collective Consciousness

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“FieldREG” data produced in environments fostering relatively intense or profound subjective resonance show larger deviations than those generated in more pragmatic assemblies. (view PDF) Venues that appear to be particularly conducive to such field anomalies include small intimate groups, group rituals, sacred sites, musical and theatrical performances, and charismatic events. In contrast, data generated during academic conferences or business meetings show no deviations from chance.

Translation: We are quacks and frauds like Uri Geller, and our phenomenon is non-existent in double blind studies.

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Sheldrake is another quack who's data goes south when his experiments are done with controls.

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Here's a link to a discussion of Morphic Resonance.

I am saddened when bright people fall for quackery. Conan Doyle was taken in by a couple of teenage girls and their pictures of garden fairies. The psychologist William James was sucked in by a medium, whom he labeled the white crow.

In my lifetime I have seen large numbers of people taken in by plants with feeings, pyramid power, Atlantis in beach stone, and a dozen others.

I always associated this with left wing, new age hippie thinking, but I will have to re-evaluate this.