This is the first annual event which will culminate in the year 2012 with the Club of Budapest's "Embrace the Planet" Celebration. The first global event was inspired by the work of the Mount Fuji Sanctuary in Japan, one of the participating organizations of this initiative.

This event will be monitored by Roger Nelson, the former director at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratories and is current head of the Global Consciousness Project. Roger Nelson will monitor through his REG network the numbers generated by the computers and search for possibly significant deviations from randomness during the meditation/prayer events, with special attention to the intense and hand-holding phases. The findings will be verified and subsequently released to the press and public.

To assemble, in various parts of the world, a critical mass of concerned and spiritually engaged global citizens to meditate or pray together to heal, through the power of their collective consciousness, our war- and violence-torn, ecologically threatened and critically endangered planet.

The worldwide events of the Global Peace Meditation and Prayer Day involve a significantly large number of people of good will from different faiths and cultures, coming together to pray for, or meditate on, peace on the planet and goodwill among people, and the way toward re-establishing harmony with nature. The events include the following segments:

• General opening, with speeches, singing, or dancing, as designed by the organizers.
• A sustained period of meditation or prayer, focusing on peace and harmony among people, between nations, and in the relations of humans with life in the biosphere.
• A 15-30 minute period of intense meditation or prayer, guided by a renowned spiritual leader and concluding with the three-fold repetition of a plea, prayer, or intention such as "May Peace Prevail on Earth".
• A five-minute concluding ceremony, during which the participants form a circle around a globe, or similar symbolic representation of the planet, and hold hands in profound silence.

Measurements of the Effects

• 1.Worldwide Effect on Computers
• 2. Effect on the Local and Regional Communities more details here

Time Synchronization
To ensure an optimally powerful effect, the timing of the meditation and prayer events will be precisely synchronized. Due to the large distances involved in the worldwide events, they cannot all take place at the same time. However, three specific time-zones will be specified and adopted:
Morning, East Asia/Australia time:
Japan: Mount Fuji
Australia Afternoon
India time = Forenoon

Europe time:
India: Oneness University
India: Auroville
India: Lucknow
Hungary: Budapest
Italy: Damanhur
Israel: Tel Aviv

Afternoon Central Standard Time = Forenoon Hawaii Time:
USA: Duluth, Minnesota
Samoa
USA; Wassaic, New York
The GMT-equivalent of the events will be identified and communicated to the monitoring teams.

Communication of the Results: A series of large-scale meditation/prayer event taking place in a coordinated way in various parts of the world and linking faiths and cultures East and West is a "global first"; it has never been done before. Its effect on artificial devices of high sensitivity, such as complex computers, and on interacting groups of human beings, may produce unprecedented effects. Showing this in a controlled and scientific verified way would be sensational news, of high interest for all concerned people, including religious and spiritual groups, forward-looking sustainability-conscious business companies, and the public media. It would be highly positive news for the human future, as it would show that our thinking, and even our consciousness, can influence the way we, and others around us, live and act. It could be the "butterfly effect" that makes the difference between a destiny of breakdown to violence and chaos, or one of breakthrough to a more peaceful, humane, and sustainable civilization. The Club of Budapest, its interfaith Global Peace Meditation and Prayer Day partners, and the coordinators personally, are committed to carrying forward this project, and to make its results known locally as well as globally through the appropriate channels (press communiqués, the Internet, TV reports and interviews).

Follow-up: Following a successful conclusion of the 2007 interfaith Global Peace Meditation and Prayer Day, similar Days are to become an annual event. They are to culminate in September 2012 with the Club of Budapest's "Embrace the Planet" Celebration, where a very large number of people will hold hands, forming a giant human chain around the planet. Given a measurably significant effect already of local meditation/prayer events in various parts of the globe, it is to be expected that millions of volunteers holding hands and meditating on, and praying for, peace and harmony on the planet, will make a crucial difference for our life and future at a point in time that is widely recognized as critical for the life and future of the human family.