How Will the World Change Come About?
Diana Cooper – I am sure you have heard of the 100th monkey experiment, when scientists were doing experiments on an island in the Pacific. They fed the monkeys by throwing yams into the sand, which meant they were gritty and unpleasant to eat. One day a baby monkey dropped its yam into the water and when it fished it out, it was clean of sand. Next time it picked up a yam from the sand he washed it in the water again.
Eventually the mother copied and then other young monkeys followed suit. Then more mothers. Finally the males did it too. When a critical mass of perhaps a hundred monkeys had learnt to wash their yams, suddenly all the monkeys could do it. But here’s the stunning thing. Researchers found that at that critical mass moment all the monkeys on all the other islands in the Pacific also did it. In other words, at the point of critical mass the consciousness spread to all. Continue reading
Emily Rose Laochua – In the 1950s, scientists conducted research on a group of macaque monkeys on the Japanese island of Koshima. These scientists would drop sweet potatoes on the ground for the monkeys to eat. However, one day, one young monkey took the sand covered sweet potato and rinsed it at a nearby lake, discovering that the sweet potato tasted better washed.