Can a Dance Floor Change Reality? We Are Setting Up an Experiment to Find Out.

February 2026 — Davor Radic, Ecstatic Oracle Dance

If you have ever been in a room full of people moving together — really together — you know the feeling. Something shifts. The air gets thicker. Boundaries dissolve. You stop being individuals and become one breathing, moving organism.

But what if that is not just a feeling?

For decades, researchers at Princeton University asked a strange question: does group consciousness affect the physical world? They built small devices called Random Number Generators — machines that produce perfectly random data, like flipping a fair coin thousands of times per second. Then they brought these devices to rituals, concerts, meditation groups, and ceremonies. And something unexpected happened. During moments of deep group coherence, the randomness shifted. Not by much. But consistently. Across hundreds of events. The odds against chance: over a trillion to one.

This research — the FieldREG experiments and the Global Consciousness Project — has been running since the 1990s. It has been published in peer-reviewed journals, debated, replicated, and questioned. It has never been fully explained.

What We Are Doing

Since December 2025, I have been running a True Random Number Generator during every Ecstatic Oracle Dance session. These are 3 to 4 hour ecstatic dance events at venues across the Netherlands — Nijmegen, Groesbeek, Roermond, Zutphen, and more. The sessions follow a structured arc: opening silence, breathwork, a progressive musical build, peak ecstatic movement, and closing integration.

During all of this, the TRNG is collecting data. 200 random bits per second. Millisecond-timestamped. Automatically analyzed. Everything is open and live at play.ecstaticoracle.dance.

So far: 12 sessions. Over 30 million data points.

What Are We Looking For?

The core question is simple: does the randomness change when the group enters a state of deep coherence?

A True Random Number Generator should produce an equal number of ones and zeros over time — a perfect 50/50 split. If during peak moments of the dance, that balance shifts — even slightly, but repeatedly across many sessions — that is a signal worth investigating.

We are not claiming we found something. We are saying: we have the data, we have the infrastructure, and now we need the science.

How We Plan to Do This

Right now, our data is preliminary. Individual sessions show suggestive patterns but nothing individually conclusive — and that is exactly what the existing research predicts. Effects in this domain do not show up in single runs. They emerge when you aggregate across many events using proper statistical methods.

To turn this into real science, we need:

1. A pre-registered experimental protocol. Before the next session, we define exactly what we expect, when we expect it, and how we will measure it. No post-hoc storytelling.

2. Defined phase windows. Each session has a natural arc — opening, build, peak, integration. We need to map these phases precisely and test whether TRNG deviations cluster around specific moments.

3. Controls. Running the TRNG in an empty room before the event. Running it during non-dance activities. Ruling out interference from sound systems, phones, and temperature.

4. Aggregate analysis. Combining all sessions using the Stouffer Z method — the same approach used by the Global Consciousness Project to combine data from hundreds of events into one statistical picture.

5. Independent verification. A second random number generator from a different source, running alongside ours. If two independent devices show correlated deviations during the same moments — that is hard to dismiss.

Who We Are Reaching Out To

We are in conversation with researchers who built and analyzed the original experiments — people at Princeton, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, HeartMath Institute, and universities in the Netherlands, France, and Germany.

The goal is not to prove anything alone. It is to set up the conditions where the data can speak clearly, with proper methodology and independent eyes on the analysis.

What Comes Next

Our next session is the Sufi Edition on March 31, 2026 at a chapel in Groesbeek — featuring Sufi whirling guided by an initiated teacher Lizelot, daf drumming from a Persian Sufi lineage, and voice alchemy. This is designed to be our first structured pilot study, with baseline measurements, phase timestamps, and potentially multiple measurement devices running simultaneously.

If you are a researcher interested in consciousness, group coherence, or mind-matter interaction — we would love to hear from you.

If you are a dancer — come dance. The data is listening.

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