The scientific community is just beginning to appreciate how the fields generated by living systems and the ionosphere interact with one another. For instance, the earth and the ionosphere generate a symphony of frequencies ranging from 0.01 hertz to 300 hertz, and some of the large resonances occurring in the earth’s fields are in the same frequency range as those of the human heart and brain. Although researchers have looked at some of the possible interactions between the earth’s fields and human, animal and plant activity, scientists have barely scratched the surface of what is possible when we realise that these two fields could work together. But, I am jumping ahead of myself…!
A number of important findings already have emerged. For example, changes in the earth’s magnetic field are associated with:
- changes in brain and nervous system activity
- performance of athletic, memory and other tasks
- sensitivity in a wide range of extrasensory perception experiments
- synthesis of nutrients in plants and algae
- the number of reported traffic violations and accidents
- mortality from heart attacks and strokes
- incidence of depression and suicide.
It’s interesting to note that changes in geomagnetic conditions affect the rhythms of the heart more strongly than all the physiological functions studied so far.
There is also evidence in some cases that people’s brainwaves can synchronise with the rhythm of the electromagnetic waves generated in the earth’s ionosphere. When people say they “feel” an impending earthquake or other planetary events, such as weather changes, it is possible that they may be reacting to the actual physical signals that occur in the earth’s field prior to the event.
While it is not difficult to conceive that life-forms embedded in the earth’s magnetic fields could be affected by modulations in these fields, it is a more far-reaching proposition to suggest that the earth’s fields can be influenced or modulated by human emotions. Nevertheless, researchers theorise that when large numbers of humans respond to a global event with a common emotional feeling, the collective response can affect the activity in the earth’s field. In cases where the event evokes negative responses, this could be thought of as a planetary stress wave, and in cases where a positive wave is created, it could create a global coherence wave. This perspective is supported by research which has shown that emotions not only create coherence or incoherence in our bodies, but, like radio waves, also radiate outward and are detected by the nervous systems of others in our environment.
It is now clear that our nervous systems detect these electromagnetic waves generated by others in our environment, but does it work the other way around? Is there also evidence of a global effect when large numbers of people create similar outgoing waves?
Do Our Human Fields Affect the Earth’s Fields?
The events of 11th September provided for the first time in our history the chance to monitor an outpouring of human emotion. In September 2001, two geostationary operational environmental satellites (GOES) orbiting the earth detected a rise in global magnetism that forever changed the way scientists view our world and us. The GOES-8 and GOES-10 each showed a powerful spike of Earth’s magnetic-field strength in the readings they broadcast every 30 minutes. It was the magnitude of the spikes and the time they occurred that first called them to the scientists’ attention. From a location of about 22,300 miles above the equator, GOES-8 detected the first surge, followed by an upward trend in the readings that topped out at nearly 50 units (nanoteslas) higher than any that had been typical for the same time previously. The time was 9a.m. eastern standard time, 15 minutes after the first plane hit the World Trade Center and about 15 minutes before the second impact.
At the same time, Roger Nelson and his team at Princeton University for the Global Consciousness Project utilsed a worldwide network of random number generators. Their findings have provided convincing evidence that human consciousness and emotionality create or interact with a global field, which affect the randomness of these electronic devices. The largest change in the random number generators occurred during the terrorists attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Even more intriguing was the fact that the random number generators were significantly affected some four to five hours prior to the attack, suggesting a worldwide collective intuition about the impending event (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: Evidence of Collective Intuition: Random Number Generator Data from Around the World per 9/11/01 Terrorist Attacks.
In addition, two National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) space weather satellites monitoring the earth’s geomagnetic field also displayed a significant spike at the time of the September 11th attack and for several days thereafter, indicating the stress wave possibly caused by mass human emotion created modulations in the geomagnetic field (see Figure 2).
Figure 2: Geosynchronous Operational Environmental Satellites – Measuring the Earth’s Geomagnetic Field.
The correlation between the events and the reading was uncanny. And it was undeniable. In light of the data, two questions had to be asked: Were the attacks on the World Trade Center and the satellite readings actually related? If so, what was the link? It’s the answer to the second question that sparked the research, and the ambitious initiative that has followed. Subsequent studies by Princeton University and the Institute of HeartMath, have found that the correlation between the GOES readings and the events of 9/11 are more than coincidences.
Following the discovery that the satellites had recorded similar spikes during events of global focus in the past, such as the death of Princess Diana, the factor that seemed to connect the readings was clear: the indications pointed to the human heart. Apparently, the last episode of ‘The Bachelor’ (when the Bachelor chose the woman he wanted to marry) also caused a large spike! It seems that the world loves a love story :=)
So it would seem more specifically that it is the heart-based emotions (not just love) of the world’s population that results from such events that seems to be influencing the magnetic fields of the earth. What makes this discovery so significant is that those fields are now being linked to everything from the stability of the climate to peace between nations.
References:
http://www.glcoherence.org/monitoring-system/about-system.html
http://sites.google.com/site/peaceandconflictresolution/miracleprayerchains/magnetic-fields