Random Event Generator (REG) Outcomes in Baltimore County/Dundalk Historic District Ghost Expedition: Support for a Consciousness Bridge?
Graphical displays of Random Event Generator (REG) experiment results captured by Maryland Paranormal Research ® at the Dundalk Patapsco Neck Historical Society and Museum Sep 30 - Oct 1 2017.
The Dundalk Historic District Ghost Expedition was conducted as part of the National Ghost Hunting Day (NGHD) experiment to build a global “consciousness bridge.” The NGHD event involved synchronized paranormal investigations occurring from 10 pm - 12 am EST with connectivity provided by streaming services and social media.
Random Event Generators (REGs) are statistical devices commonly employed in parapsychology to test mind-matter interactions, specifically microscopic psychokinesis (micro-pk) activity.
REGs generate a random walk from a sequence of 200-bit trials per second of binary [0,1] events. [The device flips a coin 200 times per second]
The bits are generated by random or unpredictable fluctuations in voltages as electrons tunnel through a barrier in a diode. High and low voltage samples are converted into 1 and 0 bits
The expected average from 200-bit trials having 0 or 1 outcomes is 100. Actual averages will be higher (or lower) than 100. The difference between an actual and the expected average is termed an “error”
A simple random walk is obtained by cumulating the errors (or normalized errors) from each series of bit trials. For some purposes, e.g. “goodness of fit” statistics, it is convenient to compute the cumulative error squared
REGs also display a parabolic boundary at the 95% confidence level. Hence random walks have a 1 in 20 chance of ending outside parabola bounds
At Princeton University, REGs were used to study global consciousness fields as part of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) program spanning nearly three decades. This global network of REGs is now managed by the Global Consciousness Project (GCP).
National Ghost Hunting Day 2016 utilized the GCP network of REG's. A parapsychology researcher used GCP REGs in proximity to NGHD investigation locations and found evidence of a shift in the random walk at occurring near the outset of the NGHD 2016 event and downtrending through the event
Similar random walk shifts and downtrends were encountered in sequential Maryland Paranormal Research ® REG experiments and investigations in 2016 using the Psyleron REG-1 device
For NGHD 2017, Maryland Paranormal Research ® REG experiment epochs were conducted prior to the start of the NGHD event (before 10:30 pm) and after the NGHD event was underway.
The first epoch (before 10:30 pm) generated a random walk trending above although near baseline levels that was characterized by a low Z score, suggesting low levels of psi functioning, not beyond chance
The second epoch (after 10:30 pm) generated a random walk trending well above baseline levels that was characterized by a higher Z score, suggesting higher/increased levels of psi functioning, and was statistically significant at the 10% level (one-tailed test)
The graphs did not mirror the global REG pattern observed for NGHD 2017 from the GCP network. Although the experiment was conducted within the global NGHD event, our REG is not a node on the GCP network
This divergence of REG outcomes at Dundalk from the GCP network may have been driven by local versus global influences
These results lend support for implicit psi, and for the notion that a "consciousness bridge" may have been established during the Dundalk Historic District Ghost Expedition and NGHD 2017 event. The psi functioning is implicit, working on subliminal or unconscious levels. The conscious focus of participants is on the engagement or ghost hunt itself
However, it is not possible to precisely know the sources of psi functioning (or field effects) on the REG, whether from post-mortem agencies or living agencies (experiment participants and/or experimenters themselves).
REG results in isolation can’t provide evidence of a haunting. A haunting involves recurring activity experienced in varied physical forms seemingly sourced to post-mortem agencies, appearing to have an affinity for a location or parts of a location
Instead REG results may be conservatively interpreted as a consciousness effect that at least bears some relation to efforts to communicate with post-mortem agencies, the attention and focus given to that communication, and perhaps from the communications themselves
The outcomes seen here are not unlike those encountered when REGs are positioned near sporting and concert events, where implicit psi from crowd engagement and attention appears to drive REG trending
The direction of bit scoring or trending in REGs is not fully understood and requires continuing experimentation
Various studies suggest it may be correlated with: goal orientation or intention; emotional states; the (psychological) valence of events; the extent of attention and focus; and innate psi ability
In linguistics and the semantic framing around graphs, "up" is considered "good" and "down" is considered "bad." This kind of meaning, while natural, may not fit all circumstances affecting above or below baseline REG trending
If sustained REG downtrends were a signature for post-mortem agency (ghosts), this would imply that low-voltage sampling/scoring is somehow easier for this form of agency. However that is an unknown
Until more is known, the statistical significance of a trend perhaps matters more than its direction
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Comparison of Random Event Generator (REG) Outcomes In Sequential Paranormal Investigations of Haunted Locations. (2016, Jun 4). Maryland Paranormal Research ®
Maryland Paranormal Research ®. (2017, Sep 30). Ghost Expedition Baltimore County, Dundalk Historic District/Dundalk and Patapsco Neck Historical Society and Museum. Maryland Paranormal Research ®
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Maryland Paranormal Research ®. (2017, Oct 1). Dundalk and Patapsco Neck Historical Society and Museum: Random Event Generator Experiment at 2230 EST on Sep 30 2017. (c) Maryland Paranormal Research ®. All rights reserved.
Old Dundalk: The Dundalk Shopping Center (c 1940s). Pinterest. Source unknown.
