Post by sometimeman on Jan 3, 2008 22:13:52 GMT -4
THE HUNDREDTH MONKEY!
I have nothing to offer, I only Pray, May the God if Abraham, Issac and Jacob have mercy upon me and let me live to see the HUNDREDTH MONKEY!
In a nutshell the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon was the result of scientific investigation of a Japanese monkey, Macaca fuscata, which had been observed in the wild for over 30 years.
In 1952 the scientists were giving the monkeys sweet potatoes that they dropped in the sand along a river. At one point an 18-month-old female named Imo, tired of eating sweet potatoes covered with sand, decided to wash hers off in the nearby stream. She then taught this technique to her mother and her playmates. From 1952 to 1958 scientists noted that all the young monkeys learned this trick but the older monkeys who didn’t imitate the younger ones continued eating the sand-covered spuds.
Then, in the fall of 1958, something truly amazing happened. The monkeys on Koshima Island where this was all occurring reached a threshold in numbers one day and (using the figure of 99 monkeys) suddenly the 100th monkey also learned the new trick and by that same evening almost all the monkeys in the tribe were washing their sweet potatoes off.
As Ken Keyes, Jr. wrote, “The added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow created an ideological breakthrough!” But, as he goes on to further explain, that wasn’t all. Spontaneously the habit of washing sweet potatoes “jumped over the sea” and “colonies of monkeys on other islands and the mainland troop of monkeys on Takasakiyama began washing their sweet potatoes!”
Based on these events Keyes, Jr. concluded, “Thus, when a certain critical number achieves an awareness, this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind. Although the exact number may vary, the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon means that when only a limited number of people know of a new way, it may remain the consciousness property of these people. But there is a point at which if only one more person tunes-in to a new awareness, a field is strengthened so that this awareness reaches almost everyone!”
I have nothing to offer, I only Pray, May the God if Abraham, Issac and Jacob have mercy upon me and let me live to see the HUNDREDTH MONKEY!
In a nutshell the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon was the result of scientific investigation of a Japanese monkey, Macaca fuscata, which had been observed in the wild for over 30 years.
In 1952 the scientists were giving the monkeys sweet potatoes that they dropped in the sand along a river. At one point an 18-month-old female named Imo, tired of eating sweet potatoes covered with sand, decided to wash hers off in the nearby stream. She then taught this technique to her mother and her playmates. From 1952 to 1958 scientists noted that all the young monkeys learned this trick but the older monkeys who didn’t imitate the younger ones continued eating the sand-covered spuds.
Then, in the fall of 1958, something truly amazing happened. The monkeys on Koshima Island where this was all occurring reached a threshold in numbers one day and (using the figure of 99 monkeys) suddenly the 100th monkey also learned the new trick and by that same evening almost all the monkeys in the tribe were washing their sweet potatoes off.
As Ken Keyes, Jr. wrote, “The added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow created an ideological breakthrough!” But, as he goes on to further explain, that wasn’t all. Spontaneously the habit of washing sweet potatoes “jumped over the sea” and “colonies of monkeys on other islands and the mainland troop of monkeys on Takasakiyama began washing their sweet potatoes!”
Based on these events Keyes, Jr. concluded, “Thus, when a certain critical number achieves an awareness, this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind. Although the exact number may vary, the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon means that when only a limited number of people know of a new way, it may remain the consciousness property of these people. But there is a point at which if only one more person tunes-in to a new awareness, a field is strengthened so that this awareness reaches almost everyone!”