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I believe there’s a connection between conscious minds that is not connected to the senses.
It originates off some legend that a large team of monks gathered to meditate and pray together on a given day. The city’s crime rate drastically fell on that day.
It sometimes seems to manifest in other stories, like family knowing immediately that something bad happened to a family member (before getting a call about it) or animal keepers having an emotional bond with their creatures without being able to communicate.
Probably the claimed "Maharishi effect" in 1974. The Transcendental Meditation organisation (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi) said that the quality of life would noticeably improve if at least the square root of 1% of the population practised the TM technique. They claimed the crime rate fell in some cities in 1974 because of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation
IMO It's some pretty dubious stuff, but you may find stuff about The Global Consciousness Project interesting.