Announcing Gaia's Dreams (www.psiarcade.com/gaia)
Gaia's Dreams is an IONS web-based experiment based on Carl Jung's concept of the collective unconscious. It is designed to gather and analyze dream quality and content from many people, and to automatically provide graphical reports on emerging trends based on aspects of those dreams. Eventually this site may also perform daily linguistic analyses of the content of the collective dreams. Ultimately the goal is to correlate collective dreams with world events, including natural and unnatural disasters, to see if collective dreams are predictive. Similar to the Global Consciousness Project (GCP, http://noosphere.princeton.edu), which is exploring the interaction between global consciousness of large-scale world events and aspects of the physical world, Gaia's Dreams is exploring interactions between the collective human *unconscious* and aspects of the physical world.
When IONS Circle member Randall McCathren, Esq, first heard about the Institute, his reaction was: “Wow . . . finally an organization that combines my eclectic interests in both the spiritual and scientific aspects of consciousness and human evolution!” Randall’s interest in consciousness and existentialism goes back to his high school introduction to Camus, Sartre, Nietzsche, and Hesse. While he pursued first a physics and then an engineering degree at Yale, his undergraduate thesis entitled: “LSD Psychotherapy and the Palliative Effects of Hallucinogens,” attempted to synthesize the work of Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert (who became Ram Das) and such radical psychiatrists as Ivan Illich. 
