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by James Borges
The recent Solar
Maximum gives us a wonderful opportunity to observe the Sun
in action.
Borderland Sciences has
been investigating the relationship of the Sun and human behavior
for many years, and we are quite confident that we can predict
behaviors based on sunspot fluctuations over very short and long
durations within the Solar Cycle of 11 years.
Historically, research has been conducted to link the 11 year cycle
of the sun to changes in human behavior and society. The most famous
research had been done by professor A.L. Tchijevsky, a
Russian scientist, who presented a paper to the American
Meteorological Society at Philadelphia in the late 19th century.
He prepared a study of
the history of mass human movement compared to the solar cycle,
beginning with the division of the Solar cycle into
four parts:
I)
minimum sunspot activity
II)
increasing sunspot activity
III)
maximum sunspot activity
IV)
decreasing sunspot activity
He then divided up the
agitation of mass human movements into five phases:
1)
provoking influence of leaders upon masses
2) the "exciting" effect of
emphasized ideas upon the masses
3) the velocity of incitability
due to the presence of a single psychic center
4) the extensive areas covered by
mass movements
5) Integration and
individualization of the masses
By these comparisons he
constructed an "Index of Mass Human Excitability" covering
each year from 500 B.C. to 1922 A.D. He investigated the histories
of 72 countries in that period, noting signs of human unrest such as
wars, revolutions, riots, expeditions and migrations, plus the
number of humans involved. Tchijevsky found that fully
80% of the most significant events occurred during the
years of maximum sunspot activity. He maintained that the
"exciting" period may be explained by an acute change in
the nervous and psychic character of humanity, which takes place
at sunspot maxima.
Tchijevsky discovered that the solar minimum is the lag
period when repression is tolerated by the masses, as if they lacked
the vital energy to make the needed changes. He found that during
the sunspot maximum, the movement of humans is also
at its peak. Tchijevsky’s study is the foundation of
sunspot theory on human behavior, and as Harlan True Stetson,
in his book
Sunspots and Their Effects,
stated,
“Until, however,
someone can arrive at a more convincing excitability quotient
for mass movements than professor Tchijevsky appears yet
to have done, scientists will be reluctant to subscribe to all
the conclusions which he sets forth.”
Stetson did
acknowledge that the mechanism by which ultraviolet radiation
is absorbed was still a puzzle biologists had to solve.
The mechanism behind the stimulation of human behavior is still a
mystery, but the theories of Georges Lakhovsky may shed some
light. He considered his book,
The Secret of Life, the
extension of a scientific hypothesis of a new theory of life.
The Sun is one of Earth’s primary
sources of cosmic radiation. While the Sun does
produce its own radiations, solar winds actually capture passing
cosmic dust and radiation and blow it into the earth’s atmosphere.
While it may seem frightening to some, this can actually be
considered the Primal Vibration that sets the cells
vibrating with Vital Force. This is the Prana,
that Cosmic Breath, which is meant to vitalize man,
and is the source for our evolution.
Dr. George Crile, a distinguished American surgeon, studied
the sun in light of its radiant energy. In the ‘Preliminary
Remarks’ to Lakhovsky’s The Secret of Life,
Professor d’Arsonval quotes Crile:
“It is clear that
radiation produces the electrical current which operates
adaptively the organism as a whole, producing memory, reason,
imagination, emotion, the special senses, secretions, muscular
action, the response to infection, normal growth, and the growth
of benign tumours and cancers, all of which are governed
adaptively by the electric charges that are generated by
the short wave or ionizing radiation
in protoplasm.”
He felt that the entire
energy system of living beings is controlled by radiant energy and
electrical forces. D’Arsonval points out that Lakhovsky
and Crile found that living cells are electrical cells
functioning as system of generators, inductance lines, and
insulators. The underlying mechanism is the oscillating circuit. An
oscillating circuit is a circuit containing inductance and capacity,
which when supplied energy from an external source, is set in
electrical vibration and oscillates at its natural frequency.
D’Arsonval explains further that a conductor is said to possess
inductance if a current flowing through it causes a magnetic field
to be set up round it. The capacity of a condenser of an isolated
body is a measure of the charge of the quantity of electricity it is
capable of storing. From such a circuit, energy is readily given off
in the form of waves. According to Lakhovsky, the nucleus of
a living cell may be compared to an electrical oscillating circuit.
The nucleus consists of tubular filaments, chromosomes,
mitochondria, made up of insulating material and filled with a
conducting fluid containing all the mineral salts found in sea
water. These filaments are thus comparable to oscillating
circuits endowed with capacity according to a specific
frequency.
The cosmic radiation from the Sun is a
blessing of Vital Force. As Lakhovsky
has postulated, it is the cosmic radiations that give the cells
their vibrant oscillations. While the sunspot maxima is
occurring, the solar flares and the subsequent
geo-magnetic reactions effect the many subtle reactions that take
place within our bodies at the atomic level. It has been theorized
that this has a direct relationship to the metabolism of the body.
We know it is the subtle magnetism of positive and negative charges
that pulls certain particles across membranes in cells to produce
energy. These magnetic exchanges result in the stimulation of
enzymes and the production of energy like ATP. The
increase of penetrating waves during a solar storm causes an
excitation in these electro-chemical reactions within the body.
Tchijevsky also identified correlations between changes in solar
magnetic activity with biological processes. In light of
Lakhovsky’s theory in his own words,
“…with the aid of
elementary analogies, that the cell, essential organic unit in
all living beings, is nothing but an electromagnetic
resonator, capable of emitting and absorbing radiations of
very high frequency.”
A plausible mechanism is
provided to understanding the stimulating effects the radiation from
the Sun has on human behavior. In an
abstract entitled “Automated Experiment on Macro-fluctuation
Monitoring” Bruns A.V. and Visolimsky B.M. also
find a close relationship with the solar activity and bio-chemical
reactions.
“Phenomenologically
obtained data could be treated like an effect of the surface
(controlled by solar activity) on the physico-chemical kinetics.
This effect was realized, evidently through the mechanisms close
to nuclear magnetic resonance in geomagnetic field.”
In another historical
study Suitbert Ertel writes in his article “Synchronous
Bursts of Activity in Independent Cultures; Evidence for
Extraterrestrial Connections” that evidence has been reported
suggesting a link between historical oscillations of scientific
creativity and solar cyclic variation. Eddy’s discovery of
abnormal secular periods of solar inactivity (Maunders minimum
type) offered the opportunity to put the present hypothesis to a
crucial test. Using time series of flourish years of creators in
science, literature, and painting (A.D. 600-1800) It was found as
expected:
1)
Cultural flourish curves show marked discontinuities
(bursts) after the onset of secular solar excursions
synchronously in Europe and China
2) During periods of extended solar excursions,
bursts of creativity in painting, literature, and
science succeeded one another with lags of about 10-15 years
3) The reported regularities of cultural output
are prominent throughout with eminent creators. They decrease
with ordinary professionals. The hypothesized
extraterrestrial connection of human culture has thus
been strengthened
The evidence seems to
show that during the maxima of sunspot activity human behavior
is stimulated.
There is some Russian research that shows an increase in cardiac
problems during sunspot maxima. The solar activity
probably sets off a preexisting condition and no one is suggesting
that people will drop dead in the streets. We could see the stress
of solar activity on the biology of living things as an evolutionary
agent weeding out the old and sick and strengthening those who
can resonate with its radiations. In his Preliminary remarks
to Lakhovsky’s The Secret of Life the Professor
d’Arsonval gives several examples of research done in the last
hundred years that shows the most malefic effects from solar
activity come at the sunspot minima. He notes from the
British Medical Journal, March 7th & 14th of 1936 that both
Colonel C.A. Gill and Dr. Conyers Morrel found increases
in pandemics of deadly diseases during the period of minimal
sunspot activity. In Gill’s study he showed that
every pandemic of malaria since sunspot records were taken had
occurred when sunspot numbers were lowest. Similar trends were
observed in East Africa and elsewhere with Yellow fever epidemics
since 1800 occur during the sunspot minima.
Dr. Conyers Morrel
also finds that,
“...waves of
epidemic diseases covering considerable periods exhibit a very
close correspondence with the phases of sunspot periods.
Diphtheria, Typhus, and Dysentery seemed to prosper when there
was an absence of solar activity."
We also see an increase
in disease in Solco W. Tromp’s study. Without the stimulation
from the Sun human health seems to diminish. The immune system
seems to grow unresponsive during the solar lull and diseases can
more easily gain a foothold in the body. Not only human health but
Life itself seems hampered by the lack of solar activity. William
Hershel wrote in 1801,
“It seems probable
analyzing the period between 1650 and 1713, and judging by the
normal yields of wheat, that a scarcity of vegetation occurred
whenever the sun appeared to be free from spots.”
The depressed state of
metabolism and lack of food in agricultural centers may have seemed
very inviting to the Mongols. Goncharov, in an
abstract on the “Asian Nomadic Invasions and Solar Cycles”,
said,
“From the 4th to the
16th centuries the Central Asian Steppe was the
cradle of the series of great nomadic tribal invasions into
agricultural regions of Europe, China, and South Asia. Those
invasions had similar features. They arose in middle latitudes
and recurred every 160-220 years – exactly after solar
abatements.”
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Moore, Carol,
Sunspot Cycles and Activist Strategy,
http://www.carolmoore.net/articles/sunspot-cycle.html
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Lakhovsky, Georges, The Secret of Life, BSRF, 1985
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Petersen, William, Man, Weather, Sun, John Anderson Publishing
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Stetson, Harlan True, Sunspots in Action, The Ronald Press
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