Science: Collective Consciousness

Post ideas, suggestions and discuss ways that we can measure the effects of our community and global meditation-prayer-celebration events. These effects will be in terms of improving social harmony (less crime, improved quality of life), improvement in economic indicators (increased socially responsible investing, decrease in poverty), and diminishment of environmental issues (drop in pollution, increase in wetlands). Ideal metrics are real-time data streams such as emergency calls to police, online financial transaction data, real-time environmental reports, etc. It is very helpful if contributors can do at least initial research on the viability of the ideas, and provide links and other sources so that discussion threads can be productive.