SyncTXT is a research experiment and a self-exploration tool that combines modern technology with the concept of synchronicity, as postulated by the psychologist Carl Jung.
The technology behind SyncTXT was developed by Psyleron—an outgrowth of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research lab at Princeton University. The PEAR lab found that human intention was able to influence the output of devices known as random event generators (REGs). This influence could happen even at a distance, and in ways that seemed to correlate with subjective factors of the human mind.
While experimenting with an application designed to send useful reminders to users at random times, Psyleron developed a system that used random event generators to send text messages to its staff whenever statistically significant deviations in the data were detected.
What Psyleron staff found was that these messages often came at coincidental or synchronistic moments, corresponding to what they were thinking or doing. It appeared that just as operators were capable of influencing laboratory REGs with conscious intention, the subconscious was capable of shifting the REG output during everyday life.
SyncTXT was made available to the public in late 2008, as a tool for exploring synchronicities and meaning coincidences in daily life.
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Shrink Rap Radio: Listen to an interview about SyncTXT as well as some of the background research that led to its development, and see what potential users might expect. Listen here.
Create an account with SyncTXT. You will be prompted to enter your mobile phone number, and to choose a set of messages—or write up to sixty-four personalized messages—that you would like to receive. When you are finished with this step, a dedicated stream of data from a Psyleron REG is assigned to your mobile phone, and runs at all times. The REG data stream is used to decide when and which of your messages you will receive.
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