Synchronized Global Orgasm for Peace, Sat. Dec. 22, 1:08 a.m.

The event mentioned in the following article in the Toronto Star, Monday, December 3, 2007, Living Section, page L2, is a variation on the group meditation on peace event.  Even if there is no measurable success by the event, surely it is still a positive thing for people to be making love rather than war.  Maybe some people involved in this event will be inspired to work for peace in other innovative ways.

ORGASMS IN SYNC: A PLAN TO REALLY SHAKE YOUR WORLD

Nancy J. White
Living Reporter

Make love, not war - literally.

That's the message of the second annual Synchronized Global Orgasm for Peace, scheduled for the moment of the solstice, Saturday, Dec. 22, 1:08 a.m. in Toronto. Come on time.

"If everyone had an orgasm at the same time concentrating on one subject - peace on Earth - could it influence the energy fields of the earth in a positive way?" wonders Paul Reffell, co-founder of Global Orgasm (globalorgasm.org).

This is not a Saturday Night skit. He's serious.

Well, sort of serious. He and his partner, Donna Sheehan, founded the anti-war group Baring Witness (baringwitness,org), that posed naked women spelling out peace messages in parks and beaches on every continent. (They were clothes in Antarctica.)

This world consciousness stuff has floated by before. New agey types have tried to get the energy of 6 billion minds focused on ending war or hunger. But nothing happened.

Now some folks will try to measure these supposed good vibes of synchonized sex, hoping this time the earth moves.

The Global Consciousness Project, a volunteer collaboration of about 100 scientists and analysts, runs a network of generators around the world that spit out random numbers. Project members believe that when people all over the world fous on the same big event, such as the 9/11 attacks, these generators respond less randomly picking up the planet-wide pulse.

Last year's data, from the first annual global orgasm, were inconclusive, says Reffell. So back to the bedroom.

They got 17 million hits on their website last year and are hoping for more this itme. "If enough people join in," says Sheehan, "who knows what could happen?"

Er, maybe a baby boom on September 22, 2008?