The Planet Minute mobile app is a free, ad-free tool to facilitate collective intent experiments focused on global concerns. It offers a real-time, scalable application for testing hypotheses related to directed intention and planetary change. Drawing inspiration from historical collective intention practices, such as the “Big Ben Minute” and the “Maharishi Effect”, the app provides a structured platform for users to engage in focused intent while also contributing data for scientific analysis. This presentation will provide an overview of the app’s purpose, structure, and scientific potential.
Planet Minute utilizes two-tiered intention statements. The “big print” intent is broad, high-level goal, which is paired with a “small print” intent that includes a precise, measurable outcome. Incorporating real-world monitoring systems provides empirical grounding for intent-based outcomes and sets defined metrics for success. The app currently presents three varieties of intention sessions as follows:
Subject: Amazon Rainforest Big Print: Protect the Amazon Rainforest. Small Print: Achieve a 10% reduction in deforested hectares in the Brazilian Amazon between August 2025 and July 2026 compared to the average of the last four years, as measured by the System for Monitoring Timber Harvesting (https://imazon.org.br/en/).
Subject: Rising Sea Levels Big Print: Reduce the loss of ice mass from the Greenland ice sheet. Small Print: Achieve at least a 10% decrease in the rate of ice loss across Greenland in Q2 of 2025 compared to the average data of the first half of the last 10 years, as measured by the Mass and Height Change Index (https://polarportal.dk/en/greenland/mass-and-height-change/#c8450) on the Polar Portal website.
Subject: Generation of Solid Waste in Mexico City Big Print: Reduce solid waste in Mexico City. Small Print: Achieve at least a 5% reduction in the average daily generation of solid waste in Mexico City during 2025 compared to the annual daily averages reported by Mexico City’s Ministry of the Environment (https://www.sedema.cdmx.gob.mx/programas/programa/residuos-solidos) over the past five years, measured in metric tons per day.
Users of the app are invited to select the amount of time that they wish to spend in an intention session, with the minimum option being one minute. The app provides soft music and a gently moving abstract background to facilitate a meditative state for the requested session length. Outside of intention sessions, users are invited to optionally provide demographic information, respond to sheep/goat and confidence questions, and self-report their mood and mindfulness. The mindfulness measure, developed by Public Parapsychology, draws upon established constructs, but has not yet been formally validated in the scientific literature.
Community input is invited for further tasking the Planet Minute app (https://publicparapsychology.org/planet-minute-task-request-form/), establishing practical intervention periods (e.g., one hour to one year) to determine the short-term vs. long-term effectiveness of intent-based influence, as well as understanding the interplay between intention and external factors (e.g., governmental policies, economic forces, behavioral habits) that could impact observed changes.
Planet Minute aims to enhance the scientific study of collective intention while advancing parapsychological approaches to climate action. Introducing its potential and function at the PA Convention may help the future of Planet Minute as both a public engagement platform and a scientifically rigorous research tool. Links for Apple and Android versions of the app can be found at http://planetminute.org. Anonymized data from the app will be publicly available in an open repository currently in development. In the meantime, data is available by request.
Biography
Annalisa Ventola is a researcher and educator in the field of parapsychology, promoting public scholarship, effective science communication, training psi, and applying consciousness-based practices to climate action. She is the Executive Director of the Parapsychological Association, and the Founder of Public Parapsychology.
About the Parapsychological Association
The Parapsychological Association is an international professional organization of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of psi (or ‘psychic’) experiences, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, psychic healing, and precognition. The primary objective of the PA is to achieve a scientific understanding of these experiences.
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Published on October 21, 2026
