I see that tomorrow marks the start of Compassion To Action.
CommonPassion.org, in cooperation with many local and global groups, is orchestrating the world’s largest interfaith global meditation and prayer event ever performed. This will be a series of meditation and prayers for community and global peace to be held between May 15th and May 29th, 2007. It is anticipated that over 1,000,000 people will participate in this two-week program from virtually every faith-system, religious group, indigenous community and meditation assembly currently in existence.
Apparently they also think that as well as making themselves feel good, they will have a positive effect on the rest of us:
Concurrent with the prayer-meditation practices we will monitor crime statistics, emergency call data and other social indicators to ascertain change as a result of this peace-creating program.
Oh dear, more woo, I fear. I’m sure that they will collect data, and I’m sure that some carefully selected data will show positive correlations. But it would not surprise me if there is other data that doesn’t. After all, they seem to have selected data before…
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