Project MindSync Presents
City Guardians From Prediction to Purpose.
Could thousands of synchronised minds help create positive social change in a city? Less crime. More peace. Greater wellbeing. City Guardians is Project MindSync's experiment designed to find out whether synchronised human intention can make a measurable difference.
To Become Eligible
Per Full Tribe
One Shared Intention
Measured & Published
Standing on Curious Shoulders
We are not the first people to ask what might happen when human minds come together. These three projects gave us good reason to keep asking.
The Maharishi Effect
Large group meditation studies reported something extraordinary: as the number of people meditating together increased, measures such as violent crime appeared to fall. The findings are still debated, but they raised a fascinating question.
HeartMath Institute
The HeartMath Institute has studied what happens when people enter calm, focused states together. Their research has reported measurable patterns in heart rhythms and synchronisation between people.
Global Consciousness Project
The Global Consciousness Project placed random number generators around the world and watched them during major events shared by millions of people. Across hundreds of events, the project reported unusual patterns in the data.
Different experiments. Different methods. Different results.
None of them settled the question. All of them gave us a reason to keep asking it.
Ordinary People. One Shared Intention.
City Zen Guardians are the people at the heart of Project City Guardian. Wherever they are, they enter the same guided meditation at the same time, focusing on one shared intention: to create positive change in their city.
No robes. No monastery. No meditation experience required. You learn the MindSync process, join your city's Tribe and, when the time comes, synchronise with other Guardians around one shared intention.
You don't have to believe it will work. You just have to be curious enough to find out.
Project City Guardian
The experiment is
Project City Guardian.
The participants are
City Zen Guardians.
Guardianship Is Earned Through Experience
City Zen Guardians do not simply click a button and join an experiment. First they learn the MindSync process through repeated LottoSync sessions.
01 — Become a Synconaut
Join Project MindSync and take part in LottoSync. Learn the Station, guided Mindflow State and the experience of synchronising with your Tribe.
02 — Complete 10 Sessions
Complete ten recorded LottoSync sessions so the process, timing and guided state are already familiar before taking part in a city experiment.
03 — Become Guardian Eligible
After your tenth completed session, you become eligible for Guardianship. When your city is ready and a place is available, you may be invited to join its City Guardian Tribe.
You Have Been Selected.
You've completed the required MindSync sessions and a place is now available in your city's Guardian Tribe. Guardian training then prepares the group to use the same familiar Station and process for a different purpose.
Will you accept Guardianship?
One City. One Tribe. One Shared Intention.
Eligible Guardians are organised by city. A full City Guardian Tribe contains 250 people, using the same Tribe architecture already built into Project MindSync. Cities can progress from recruiting to ready to active as the programme develops.
RECRUITING
Guardian-eligible Synconauts are joining the city pool and completing their training.
READY
The required participant group and experimental protocol are in place. The city is ready for a scheduled experiment.
ACTIVE
The city's Guardian Tribe is participating in a defined experiment and the agreed outcome data is being collected.
The Long-Term Vision
One city becomes two. Two become ten. Ten become a network. If the evidence ever justifies taking the experiment further, City Guardians can scale city by city while preserving the same basic structure.
The Question Comes First. The Data Comes Next.
A striking result is not enough. The outcome and measurement method are defined before the session, real-world data is collected independently wherever possible, and positive, negative or inconclusive results all count.
01 — Define
Choose the outcome, geographic boundary, measurement period and comparison before the experiment begins.
02 — Synchronise
Trained City Zen Guardians enter the same guided session at the same scheduled time around the predefined intention.
03 — Measure & Publish
Use independently recorded outcome data, report what happened and replicate before making stronger claims.
If the result is null or inconclusive, we publish that too. We do not know where the experiment leads. That is precisely why we want to run it.
Questions Worth Exploring
Some questions don't have simple answers. That's what makes them worth asking.