Intuition and Our Milky Way Galaxy

Our galaxy is a spiral galaxy or disk galaxy.   This means that there is a center and a Galactic Equator (GE).   Here is a summary from an article with lots of details on our Milky Way Galaxy.
"As we are situated within the outer regions of this galaxy, only about 20 light years above the equatorial symmetry plane but about 28,000 light years from the Galactic Center, the Milky Way shows up as luminous band spanning all around the sky along this symmetry plane, which is also called the "Galactic Equator". Its center lies in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, but very close to the border of both neighbor constellations Scorpius and Ophiuchus."

Greg Kolodziejzyk has been keeping records on his 1,250 Associative Remote Viewing (ARV) sessions and results.   At his website, he has recently published his research results concerning the Effects of Local Sidereal Time (LST) on ARV Performance   LST is a time system that is based on the orientation of the stars - so at a given location, the same LST will lead to the same orientation of you with respect to the Galactic Equator (GE).   Greg noticed that his best performance was when the Galactic Equator was straight above him.   We have organized his data in a different format using the concept of a "highest angle to the GE", where this angle would be 90 degrees when the GE is overhead..   Here is the chart showing the excellent correlation between his "Effect Size" (how well he performed at his ARV precognitive predictions) and the "highest angle to the GE".

To better understand the meaning of the "highest angle to the GE", look at the "SkyMap" at the left.   The direction toward which you are looking (NWSE) and the angle above the horizon (the circular lines show the horizon, and then 20, 40, 60 and 80 degrees) are shown.   The center of the map is straight up at 90 degrees.   The Galactic Equator (GE) line is also shown for a Local Sidereal Time of 13:00 at Calgary, BC, Canada - where Greg's data was obtained.   This map is from the CyberSky shareware program (get it, it's lots of fun and informative).   As an example, if you were to look toward the NorthEast at an angle of 20 degrees above the horizontal, you would be looking at stars on the GE.   Looking East or West, the GE crosses the horizon. The highest angle that you could see the GE at 13:00 LST at Calgary is about 23 degrees and you would have to look toward the North.

At about 04:00 and 21:00 at Calgary, the highest angle to the GE is straight up at 90 degrees.   The 04:00 LST skymap from Greg's report is at the left.   His map shows the stars and the "Effect Size" value.   His effect size is directly related to the precognitive ARV predictions and the resulting success rates that he recorded.

The two graphs below show the key variables plotted against the LST.   Note that at Calgary, the minimum "highest angle" is about 23 degrees at 13:00 LST.   In Honolulu, Hawaii this minimum angle is only 5 degrees and still occurs at about 13:00 LST.   The Effect Size curve vs. LST is quite regular with one apparent "outlier" at LST = 02:00.

Greg's results appear to differ, in terms of key LSTs, from the earlier published group results of S. James P. Spottiswoode, Apparent Association between Effect Size in Free Response Anomalous Cognition Experiments and Local Sidereal Time.   James was the first, to our knowledge, to point out any relationship between LST and intuitive performance.   His group results show a significant increase, about a factor of 4 in some types of intuitive functioning, at a Local Sidereal Time (LST) of 13.5 hours.   Here is his abstract:
Nothing is known about the physical mechanism of anomalous cognition (AC), or ESP. A first step towards generating focused hypotheses would be the discovery of a physical parameter which clearly modulated AC performance. In this paper, an association between the local sidereal time (LST) at which a trial occurs and the resulting effect size is described. In an existing database of 1,468 free response trials, the effect size increased 340% for trials within 1 hour of 13.5 h LST (p = 0.001). A independent database of 1,015 similar trials was subsequently obtained in which trials within 1 hour of 13.5 h LST showed an effect size increase of 450% (p = 0.05) providing confirmation of the effect. Possible artifacts due to the non-uniform distribution of trials in clock time and variations of effect size with experiment are discussed and rejected as explanations. Assuming that some unknown systematic bias is not present in the data, it appears that AC performance is strongly dependent upon the LST at which the trial occurs. This is evidence of a causal connection between performance and the orientation of the receiver (i.e., a term for subject or participant), the earth and the fixed stars.

Conclusion:
More individual quantitative data are needed to understand the relationship between Greg's individual results and the group results that James examined.   Also, we believe that each person performing intuitive work in a quantitative fashion would benefit from examining their own "galactic biorhythms".