I had logged on a little early, just to make sure it would all work in time to try to do something about it if it glitched. I had such a time getting TO the page, with several rounds of, after waiting a while, getting one of those “timed out” notices. After that, so once I finally reached the page by 9:40, I just logged in and stayed there, so it wasn’t a matter of starting early enough, yet still, it did not flip. The large number of posts describing the same problem indicates that there is not enough band width to handle this many respondents. This needs to be remedied with increased band width. I would suggest that the number of posts reporting the page not ‘flipping’ is also indicative of a larger number of people who have not posted about it, but who have experienced the same problem.

Also, I sent an e mail describing the repetitive and even confusing sign-up issue, though I forgot to mention that silly floating pop-up sign-up in that, I did say enough to make it clear how and why this was causing confusion. I received no answer, and on Mon., there it all was again, and with that floater too.

Please take note that there are a number of other posts also mentioning this.

It is important to staighten things out so that you can be contributing to the FURTHERANCE of INCREASING participation in large group and global meditaions rather than the opposite by demonstrating that its too dysfunctional to bother paying any notice to them when seeing one announced or receiving an invitation to participate. By correcting the problems, all who DO arrange for the time and space to participate are then actually ABLE to participate rather than finding themselves blocked out (while yet confronted with yet MORE insisting push, again, to SIGN UP.)

At sign-up, there are questions that because of HOW they are asked, and also from what is NOT asked to go with that, perhaps the answers have left an impression that many long-time meditators were instead inexperienced and hence the barrage of e mails with elementary instructions for beginners to learn a selected version of HOW TO, and ALL of them having a link, only link given, seeming as if to the site, but that goes only to a sign-up page which has links “about the author” and etc., but each such link is ONLY to yet another page of a bit of rudimentary info and yet another sign-up.

Speaking for ourselves, we did not come to give personal attention or kudos to the author of a worthy yet rudimentary book, we came for the impersonal motivation to participate in a UNIVERSAL quality of meditation that has, with its scientists’s quantifying aspect, the potential for contributing to wider awareness of the effectiveness of meditation applied to world problems and needs.

The question on the sign-up form asked if a person had ever participated in an EXPERIMENT like this before. Answering ‘no’ does not mean people are inexperienced in working with large group and global meditations. The book is written from a point of view that does not stem from a long experience of meditation. The “experiment” has attracted a good number for whom meditation was a “practice” long ago that, from that “practice”, has moved onward, merging with their lives into a natural, ongoing way of life. We would appreciate an opportunity to participate in such a worthwhile project without that entailing any participation focused through personal attachment of/to, with, or as if students under, the author.

Creating a depersonalized main page that is focused on THE WORK and not a person, and with NO pushy SIGN-UP form would be greatly appreciated. From that main page then, providing a link to a page dedicated to that day’s particular point of meditational focus would be like a breath of fresh air compared with how it is handled at present, and would alleviate all confusion that has been engendered by numerous e mails that push again each time to sign-up and link only to a sign-up page with a floating sign-up additional pop-up, plus links to personalized offerings of the author, all leading to yet another push for sign-up.

Also, if for some reason, somehow, logging in does not then provide a count of how many are participating, and you wish for people to register each time, please at least drop the “questionaire”. If it is being used to provide divisions into classifications, the questions used are not adequate for that and are a bothersome additional repetition.

Please do work on resolving these matters. They have been a problem for many who have sought to participate.

Thank you.
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Thank you for this wonderful opportunity!