Companion Piece to the Buddha Machine

Some time back I wrote a post about the Buddha Machine. Then, around a month later, on Buddha Purnima Sepia Mutiny made another post about it. Well, with the Buddha Machine, you could attain nirvana for $23.

But wait. To attain nirvana, one must be tuned into the cosmic consciousness! And how can one expect to get tuned into the cosmic consciousness, when there's no machine to do that!! Well, that's all in the past now. An NYU student Rob Seward, has created a Consciousness Field Resonator for his Master's thesis to tell us about the ebbs and flows of the universal (ok, not universal, but global - you got to start somewhere!) consciousness.

So, the story begins with all the various random number generators at various research institutions across the world. It seems that every time a major earth-shattering event occurs (say, something like 9/11 or Princess Di's funeral) there are statistical anomalies within the numbers generated by them. We know that because they all feed into this one server at Princeton which looks for and catches these statistical anomalies. The reason, they say, for these statistical anomalies is that there are changes in the global consciousness.

Rob Seward's creation has a random number generator and hardware designed to catch anomalies in generation of these random numbers. Which means that if the generator produces numbers which have some kind of discernible pattern (which they really shouldn't - but will only have when there are changes in the global consciousness level) then the machine will alert the owner to these changes.

So, the bottom-line? You have a companion piece to the Buddha Machine. You can buy enlightenment and a machine that tells you about the crests and troughs of global consciousness. I'm reserving my comments about how the *&%# anyone can spend valuable dollars of research funds on this stuff for another post...