ET Awareness & Communication
Science and Consciousness: The Pioneers
4 Week Course with Dr. Peter Merry and Dr. Wolfhardt Janu
Format
Course Content:
4 Live Zoom Webinars
90 min each
Recordings will be provided
Integration Sessions:
4 Live Zoom Meetings
Not Recorded
Date
Course Content: 4 Wednesdays
November 6, 13 ,20 ,27 2025
7 AM Pacific/ 10 AM Eastern/ 4 PM CET
Integration Sessions:
4 Mondays
November 10, 17 ,24 and Dec 1 2025
11 AM Pacific /
2 PM ET / 8 PM CET
Overview
Over a period of 28 years, scientists at Princeton University’s engineering department, led by Prof. Robert Jahn and Dr. Brenda Dunne, researched how human intention impacts the world around them and other consciousness-related phenomena. It was triggered by findings that fighter pilots in their planes seemed to influence the readouts of the sensitive instruments on their dashboards through their inner states.
After many years and thousands of experiments, they demonstrated that human intention does indeed affect otherwise random events around us. They also showed how collective group experiences influence randomness.
For most of their research they used something called a Random Event Generator, which uses a quantum tunnelling process to generate a series of 1s and 0s at random. They used graphic readouts on a computer screen to represent those 1s and 0s (e.g. a line on a screen that goes up with more 1s and down with more 0s). Test subjects had to try and influence the line without physically interacting with the computer (even from the other side of the world).
By the end of their 28 years of research in 2007 the evidence that human intention and our inner states impact on the world around us was highly significant (1:1 billion statistical probability that what they found was chance).
This course tells the story of the PEAR lab, featuring original video, audio and written material from the two key people who led the PEAR project, Dean of the Princeton University School of Engineering Dr Robert Jahn and psychologist Dr Brenda Dunne.
Having reviewed each week’s video materials from the PEAR Proposition Video Set, participants join Dr. Peter Merry and Dr. Wolfhardt Janu in an interactive seminar to explore the content. Peter and Wolf currently work with the original PEAR equipment at Wyrd Experience, where it is on loan from the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL), set up by PEAR to continue their work. They have built on the original technology to develop research and consumer applications.
Required Material:
The PEAR Proposition Video Set
In order to take this course you to need to purchase the “PEAR Lab Proposition” Video Set (50 USD) separately via this link:
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you should be able to…
- Describe the origins, goals, and key findings of the PEAR laboratory’s research into consciousness and human intention.
- Explain the function and purpose of Random Event Generators (REGs) and how they were used to measure the influence of intention.
- Interpret data patterns and results from key PEAR experiments and assess their statistical and experiential significance.
- Reflect on the implications of PEAR research for the mind-matter relationship, including individual and group consciousness effects.
- Critically evaluate the methodological challenges and philosophical questions raised by consciousness research in a scientific context.
- Engage in informed dialogue about contemporary applications and extensions of the PEAR legacy, including current work at Wyrd Experience and ICRL.
4 Week Outline
Welcome to this foundational course in Science and Consciousness! This course explores the groundbreaking work done at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research lab (PEAR) and this first module is all about introducing PEAR through the videos and articles from the key people involved, Dr. Robert Jahn and Dr. Brenda Dunne.
- PEAR Synopsis
- Introductory Lecture
- The PEAR Proposition
- Introduction to PEAR
- PEAR Proposition
Module 2 looks to give you more of a feel for the lab, with Brenda taking you on a detailed tour and the article providing background context for the PEAR work.
- PEAR Lab Tour
- Engineering Anomalies Research
Module 3 includes a perspective from Brenda in dialogue with Peter Merry a number of years after the lab closed. The audio dialogue is a lovely conversation between Brenda and Bob about the work at PEAR and the document references one of the key books they wrote about their work.
- Dialogue with Dr. Brenda Dunne and Dr. Peter Merry
- Introduction to PEAR Dialogue with Dr. Brenda Dunne and Dr. Robert Jahn
- Margins of Reality Pre-amble
Module 4 places the PEAR work in the historical context of academic work on psychology with Chris Roe one of the most respected academics today in that area. Then there are some fun videos to end with about the PEAR staff and extended family!
- The Past and Future of Psychology
- Living PEAR
- PEAR Family Slideshow
Featured Faculty
Dr. Peter Merry
Dr Peter Merry has founded a number of organizations, including Wyrd Experience, Wyrd Technologies, Science and Consciousness conferences, the Center for Human Emergence (Netherlands), and Engage!. He has trained and supported government ministers and CEOs in transformative leadership.
Peter has facilitated integral change processes in multinational corporations, government ministries, and in multi-stakeholder initiatives with global players. He has been an environmental activist and spent many years in the non-profit sector including leading international youth training programs for the Council of Europe.
He is a recognized expert in the field of evolutionary systems dynamics and, in particular, Integral Spiral Dynamics In. He has published four books: Evolutionary Leadership, Why Work?, Leading from the Field and Volution. He has a PhD from Ubiquity University’s Wisdom School in Volution Theory, and a MSc from the University of Edinburgh in Human Ecology.
See https://petermerry.org
Featured Faculty
Dr. Wolfhardt Janu
Dr. Wolfhardt Janu is Chief Scientific Wyrdo at Wyrd Technologies. He holds a PhD in chemistry and worked for 10 years in academic research. He then moved to be a freelancer in software and hardware development for customized laboratory solutions.
Together with his colleagues and friends he developed a new method to scan the output of two random number event generators (REG’s) for correlations, which enables one to detect with high precision changes in a non-local field, mainly known as the field of consciousness.
He has practised Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu for 19 years, discovered African Shamanism (Sangoma) and (co-)led several private scientific teams investigating the “paranormal” in theory and practice. In 2007 he got to know the work of Ken Wilber, and since then he and his team(s) have been using the Integral map as the main tool to navigate and communicate on the margins of the so-called “unknown”.
Included: Weekly Integration Sessions with Linda White, PhD
- Provide an interactive forum for deeper reflection on course material.
- Encourage peer dialogue and engagement.
- Offer support for personal responses that may arise from the coursework.
Linda White’s approach integrates principles of Jungian, integral, and transpersonal psychology, 12 step recovery and evolutionary spirituality. She is developer of Psycho-Somatic Integration (PSI), a process that deepens subtle body awareness.
Her doctoral research introduced a trans-rational recovery cosmology that is applied to trans-generational trauma and moral injury of the UFO truth embargo and presented a trans-rational recovery process as a modern day wisdom tradition.
About Wyrd Education
This course is part of the Wyrd Education Certificate in Science and Consciousness as well as the Graduate Degrees in Science and Consciousness Program at Ubiquity University.
Wyrd Education works with Wyrd Experience who have restored and currently host the equipment and library from the PEAR lab (on loan indefinitely from ICRL), based at the Broughton Sanctuary in Yorkshire, UK. Wyrd Education focuses on providing learning experiences that remind us of the nature of our interconnectedness.
About ET Studies
This course is part the Academic Certificate on Extraterrestrial Awareness and Communication.
By joining this program, you will become part of the first wave of human beings dedicated to enabling humanity to enter its ET Moment in a spirit of open heartedness toward all beings, whether terrestrial or extraterrestrial.
Required Material:
The PEAR Proposition Video Set
In order to take this course you to need to purchase the “PEAR Lab Proposition” Video Set (50 USD) separately via this link:
Science and Consciousness: The Pioneers
4 Week Course with Dr. Peter Merry and Dr. Wolfhardt Janu
$199
