The hundredth monkey effect was supposedly based on research of a group of monkeys on one particular island. This group lived on a Japanese island and was given sweet potatoes covered in sand.
These monkeys learned to wash these potatoes and the behavior began to spread to younger generations of monkeys. The scientists then went onto report that this behavior seemed to spontaneously appear on other islands among other monkeys that did not have any contact with the first group.
The study was published but has now been discredited; individuals have said it was part of “New Age Mythology”. It was discredited in part because at least one monkey who knew how to wash the potatoes may have swam to another island and spent an amount of time there.
Scientists disprove things often and at times are right and wrong. Could this Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon be true and if so what does it mean?
If the hundredth monkey phenomenon is true that would mean that at a certain level of awareness this information could be communicated. With this vast universe and all the things we do not fully understand, is it silly to believe it is not possible.
However, scientific “tests” are accurate. If the level of precision was not there for any scientists liking (especially those who are out to disprove such a phenomenon) then it must be inaccurate.
Finding a test to measure mass consciousness may be quite difficult. Science may never agree with the Hundredth Monkey Theory or any other relating to a communications among the minds.
With all that we do not know the idea of having a communicating consciousness can be pretty scary to many. Fear drives people and perhaps that is why there is always such a fervor to disprove anything that seems impossible.
What is your opinion about The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon?
Great post. Even if there is no such Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon. It is still a great parallel to keep an open mind.
-EJ
EJ
From what stance are you saying there is not such thing as the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon?
Just from where it says in your post that the study was discredited. In following up on it there appears to be a lot of anecdotal evidence but not any hard conclusions about how valid the hundredth monkey phenomenon came about. It’s validity as a study was really not my point though.
Please do something to improve the visibility first. I do not understand the hundredth money phenomenon .