Wow! What a Peace Intention Experiment! Thanks to so many of you for participating, inviting your own contacts to join us, organizing watch parties and more!

On January 28, I traveled to Boulder and Gaia’s headquarters and we set up careful preparations for the largest Peace Intention Experiment I’ve ever done! And I met so many wonderful people, including Lorye McLeod (who was in the The Power of Intention documentary for healing her growing blindness during our Intention Masterclass and who now has 20/20 vision). I also finally met in person Jonathan Goldman, the wonderful composer of Choku Rei, the music we’ve used for every Intention Experiment since the very beginning in 2007!

Here are some photos of our GaiaSphere attendees and me with Jonathan and his wife Andi, and also Lorye. It was wonderful to meet them all in person (and also so many more students and colleagues of mine I’ve known only via Zoom)!

Our target revealed

As many of you discovered, our target for this Peace Intention Experiment was Washington DC, which I chose for two reasons.

There are two Washington DCs. One is the part that Americans and many people around the world know well: the stunning promenade culminating in the Washington memorial, the White House, the Lincoln Memorial and the Capitol building – the stately seat of US government.

The other Washington has some of the most violent and crime-ridden neighborhoods in America.

Our target was specifically those three most violent areas: Brentwood, Deanwood and Anacostia. According to information published in 2024, one in three residents in Brentwood can expect to fall victim to violent crime or property crime. And Deanwood has a crime rate 600 percent higher than the national average in the US.

We’ve got to be patient for the results. University of California Professor of Statistics Dr. Jessica Utts will need to wait several months before analyzing D.C. police and FBI data to observe whether there has been a meaningful lowering of violence.  

But we also measured the effect on the participants as well.

Changes in the live Peace Experiment audience 

We’ve taken Bio-Well measurements of more than 40 people who were in the GaiaSphere auditorium with me before and after the experiment, plus measurements in the room by two Sputnik devices.

World renowned Russian physicist Dr. Konstantin Korotkov will be analyzing both sets of data to see if there were any big changes in health markers (Bio-Well and Sputnik) and any deep emotional shifts in the audience (Sputnik).

We had a number of healings in the audience: one fellow who suffers from regular panic attacks had one before the experiment, and said that it was completely gone by the end. Others healed their pain in various areas. One man suffering from frozen shoulder could live his arm completely up without pain. 

Many said that it was the deepest, most powerful and transformative experience they’d ever had.

Did you join us? If so, make sure to write your impressions below.  

The Mirror Effect

In the coming weeks, I’ll be sending a survey to all the people who signed up for the Experiment, asking them to tell me about their personal experiences during the Experiment and afterward.

Every time I do a Peace Intention Experiment, up to 50 percent of people report major effects during the experiment and healings in their relationships, their health, their attitude to life and even their life’s purpose.

As these results come in, we’ll share them with you. In the meantime, all Experiment participants: make sure to take note of any changes in yourself, your health, your relationships, and your attitudes towards others, most particularly those whose beliefs you disagree with. 

And let’s find out whether one good thought is all it takes to heal a city, heal yourself and heal the world.