Would you like to join the Intention Experiment?

[Beekeeper]

If so, the details are here:
http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/peace/

[boris]

I've signed up, currently waiting for more details, sounds like a great idea.

[Beekeeper]

It's getting closer. http://www.theintentionexperiment.co...ght-target.htm

[Beekeeper]

Important instructions for the Peace Intention Experiment

Please go to our new website for the Peace Intention Experiment

September 14, 2008

12 noon US Eastern Daylight Savings Time

Other times:

9 am Pacific Daylight Savings Time

10 am Mountain DST

11 am Central DST

12 noon EDST

5 pm British Summer Time

6 pm European Summer Time

For other time zones, consult:
http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=MPqJp& ... la6BqiTI4w


Dear readers,

We're just seven days away from the first day of our week-long
Peace Intention Experiment, and we can now announce where you
should go every day from September 14 through September 21:

http://www.thepeaceintentionexperiment.com

We're using a dedicated site on a very large server for this
experiment, so the thousands of participants don't overwhelm our
main site. So every day of the seven-day experiment, here's what
to do:

1. At 11:45 Eastern DST (or the equivalent time in your area) get
comfortable in your special intention space if you can (if your
computer is in another room, make that intention space special).

2. At least 10 minutes before the start of the experiment, go
directly to http://www.thepeaceintentionexperiment.com. DON'T GO TO OUR
MAIN INTENTION EXPERIMENT WEBSITE.

3. Sign in, using your email address and password. The target area will then be revealed to you.

4. Read our description of the target area. We've chosen an area
with some of the highest violence levels in the world.

5. Allow yourself to feel for the people who live there. To stir
compassion, we have deliberately included some graphic photos to
give you a sense of what these people have to endure.

6. Begin to power up. Consult our intention tips and The
Intention Experiment for full details.

7. Wait for the page to flip. When it does, and you reach the
page with the intention statement, begin to hold that thought for
10 minutes.

8. Hold the intention for 10 minutes, while the music (Jonathan
Goldman's Choku Rei) plays.

9. Focus on the beautiful images of peace and harmony in our
target area, which we've included on that page.

10. When the experiment finishes, click onto the forum and share
your experience with our community.

11. Return the following day at the same time and repeat the
experiment - each day for seven days.

12. Get a candle ready. We will all light a candle for our target
area on Sunday, September 21 - the International Day of Peace.

Please open up your emails from us each day this week and next.
We'll keep you posted on what to do, when.

Remember: the experiment runs for an entire week at exactly the
same time for 10 minutes. Please participate every day that you can.


Warm wishes,

Lynne McTaggart

[Beekeeper]

More news from Sri Lanka


Dear readers,


Hemantha Bandara, of the Foundation for Co-existence, has been
steadily sending me data on daily violence levels for the weeks
following our Peace Intention Experiment September 14-21. We'll be
tracking this until this Friday, which represents a month after our
experiment ended, at which point Dr. Jessica Utts, the professor of
statistics at the University of California at Davis, will have the
full numbers to analyze.

However, several interesting trends have continued - including
lower levels of violence after the Peace Intention Experiment.

As I've reported earlier, intentions may have had the initial
effect, it seemed, of vastly increasing violence. The week of the
Peace Intention Experiments experienced a sudden surge of attacks
and killings, largely brought on by the Sri Lankan government,
which sought a last full-on effort to quash the Tamil Tiger rebels
in the Northern stronghold, once and for all.

Not surprisingly, with all this enhanced government activity, the
killings and injuries suddenly escalated, with 461 murders and 312
people with serious injuries during the eight days of our
experiment.

This was an average of 58 deaths per day, or 406 for a seven-day
week, with 39 injuries per day and 273 for a seven-day week.
Violent deaths alone increased by 69 per cent per cent and injuries
virtually doubled.

In the 24 days we've recorded after the experiment, violence levels
immediately plummeted as soon as the experiment ended and have
stayed low. The weekly average death rate in the North dropped by
49 per cent and injuries by 23 per cent from the week of our
experiment.

In the Eastern portion of Sri Lanka, where there is far less
fighting, but where the Tamil tigers still have a presence the
figures were also intriguing. The death rate escalated during our
intention period to 3 deaths per day, on average, and 2 injuries
per day. However, immediately after our Peace intention
Experiment, the death rate fell to 0.95, a 68.4 per cent drop.
Injuries also dropped by 14 per cent.

[Timotheus]

[Beekeeper]

Speaking of letting it be, why not let people experiment with the power of intention? It's possibly one way to know "God". If it does nothing for you, let it be. Others like to find things out for themselves.

[Timotheus]

[Beekeeper]

It's all good.

[Beekeeper]

Violence continues to fall in Sri Lanka

The Foundation for Co-existence has sent over the report of the
fourth week after our Peace Intention Experiment, and we've discovered
that the statistics have continued to dramatically fall.

Remember, during the Peace Intention Experiment itself, the
killings and injuries suddenly escalated, averaging 58 deaths per
day, or 406 per week, with 39 injuries per day and 273 per week
week. Violent deaths alone had increased by 69 per cent and
injuries virtually doubled.

As soon as our Peace Intention Experiment ended, violent deaths
plummeted by 49 per cent and injuries by 23 percent.

Now, the fourth week after the experiment, violence levels have
continued to drop, with our latest weekly total to October 21
totalling 98 deaths and 111 injuries - with an average of 14
deaths and 15.8 injuries per day.

This represents a fall in deaths of more than 75 per cent. Injuries
also have fallen by more than 59 per cent.

Furthermore, violence levels have dropped to levels below those
from before the Peace Intention Experiment. Comparing the average
weekly death and injury tolls for the 12 weeks prior to our Peace
Intention Experiment, figures for this latest week show 24.1 per
cent fewer deaths and 40.6 per cent fewer injuries.

I'll leave it at that.