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Solar activity, revolutions and cultural prime in the history of mankind
Abstract
Russian astronomer A.L. Tchijevsky published in the twenties of 20th century a study comparing the approximately 11-year cycling of "sunspot activity" and "historical process", analyzed globally since the 5th century B.C. to the 19th century A.D. According to him, phenomena of societal "excitation", as revolutions, occurred synchronously with the solar maxima, and, oppositely, those of peaceful activities of masses, as science and arts, with the solar minima. Recently, Slovak philosopher E. Páles describes periodic fluctuation of historical events in mutually distant geographic areas during more than three millennia. The period lengths, however, are longer, one of the most pronounced being around 500 years. THE QUESTION was therefore posed: does a similar correlation with sunspot activity, as found for 11-year cycles, exist also in the 500-year cycling?
The historical data consisted of two time series concerning revolutions in Europe and China, and of eight time series from activities in science and arts registered from five geographic areas. For the comparison, parallel time series of sunspot (Wolf) numbers, available since IInd century B.C., were constructed. Using periodic regression function, the times of peaking were estimated for each data set.
In agreement with Tchijevsky's hypothesis, revolutions culminated near to solar maxima while cultural flourishing usually distinctly near to solar minima. This conclusion is based on the level of statistical significance alpha=0.05.
Solar impact on geomagnetic field could be one of elucidating mechanisms. Recently, electromagnetic influencing of brain function has been realized artificially.
... Many researchers are looking for a possible external cause for changes in human behavior and a broader sense -in addition to changing aggressiveness towards the outside world, aggressiveness towards oneself expressed in self-injury, changes in attention leading to car accidents and industrial accidents, brief losses of consciousness leading to falls, drowning, poisoning, etc. The first Russian astronomer Alexander Chizhevsky in the 20s of the 20th centuries directed public attention with examples of time coincidences between the manifestations of aggressive behavior -wars, revolutions, assassinations, with the maxima in solar activ-ity, and the manifestations of economic and cultural growth with the minima in solar activity [2]. The periods with maximum solar activity are defined as connected to "uprisings and rebellions mostly ended up in collectivist, totalitarian systems, that appealed to group hysteria, violent mob rule, and imperialism" (Sacha Dobler, [3]). ...
... The periods with maximum solar activity are defined as connected to "uprisings and rebellions mostly ended up in collectivist, totalitarian systems, that appealed to group hysteria, violent mob rule, and imperialism" (Sacha Dobler, [3]). (Persinger, et al. [1,2]) reasoned about a possible connection between solar activity and wars. (Partonen, et al.) speculated on a possible relationship between suicides in Finland, seasons, and solar activity, and found marked seasonality (maximum in spring) and some influence of solar activity [4]. ...
A dangerous phenomenon for humanity is described. In the joint analysis of data from satellites in orbit around the Earth and from the health statistics source EUROSTAT, it became clear that, by some mechanism, flows of positively charged particles with high energy entering the Earth's orbit increase mortality on the planet's surface. The increase in mortality is in a zone of maximum risk in the Northern Hemisphere, parallel to the equator and bounded by the parallels of 30° and 60° north latitude. Examples are given for the European Union mortality from several mental and behavioral causes of death, confirming the described phenomenon. A hypothetical mechanism based on observational evidence has been proposed, according to which this dangerous phenomenon is due to solar alpha particles of high energy sufficient to overcome the atmosphere's resistance and reach the Earth's surface in a limited area of maximum death impact.
... Russian scientist Alexander Tchijevsky was the first to link more severe battles in World War I to peak sunspot periods [33]. Since then, numerous other scientists found a correlation on a larger societal scale with increased violence, crime rates, social unrest, revolutions and frequency of terrorist attacks to the solar cycle and the resulting disturbances in the geomagnetic field [30,33,[39][40][41][42][43]. ...
... Many studies have indicated that disruptions in the geomagnetic field is associated with adverse effects on human health and behavior [30,41,[50][51][52][53][54][55][56]. For example, geomagnetic storms can alter the hormone balance of the body, such as the melatonin/serotonin balance [57][58][59]. ...
The Global Coherence Initiative (GCI) is a science-based, international effort that conducts research on interactions between humans and the Earth's magnetic field environment as well as collective intention on promoting peace, and harmony. In order to carry out one aspect of the interconnectedness research, GCI has created a Global Coherence Monitoring System (GCMS), which is comprised of a network of six magnetometers specifically designed to measure geomagnetic and resonant frequencies in Earth's magnetic fields, such as Schumann resonances, Alven waves and other field-line resonances. The finding from this line of research suggests that global collective behaviors and numerous human physiological rhythms are affected by and in some cases synchronized with solar and geomagnetic activity. Additionally, we discuss why the majority of research conducted thus far has focused on how disruptions in the earth's magnetic fields are associated with adverse effects on health and behaviors. However, it is important to note, that solar and geomagnetic activity can also have a positive impact on human physiology and health. Furthermore, we believe there is an even more fundamental and important aspect of the earth's magnetic fields that can be utilized to help lift human consciousness. We propose that the earth's magnetic fields provide a plausible mechanism that interconnects and non-locally distributes information to all living systems on our planet. We review several independent lines of research that support the hypothesis that the earth's magnetic fields can act as a carrier of and encoded by physiologically patterned and relevant information. The four primary hypotheses of the GCI are articulated and the existing theoretical and experimental support for each hypothesis is discussed.
... [205] Because fluctuations in magnetic fields can affect virtually every circuit in biological systems, [5,205,342] human physiological rhythms and global behaviors are not only synchronized with solar and geomagnetic activity, but disruptions in these fields can create adverse effects on human health and behavior. [343][344][345] Research by Burch et al. [346] and Rapoport et al. [347] provide evidence that melatonin levels are reduced during increased solar and geomagnetic activity. Cancer, neurological diseases, acute heart disease and heart attacks among other diseases and accelerated aging are all related to melatonin levels that are too low. ...
... On a larger societal scale, increased violence, crime rate, social unrest, revolutions and frequency of terrorist attacks have been linked to the solar cycle and the resulting disturbances in the geomagnetic field. [345,359,[368][369][370][371] The first scientific evidence of this belief was provided by Alexander Tchijevsky, a Russian scientist who noticed that more severe battles during World War I occurred during peak sunspot periods. [371] He conducted a thorough study of global human history dating back to 1749 and compared the period to the solar cycles through the period, up to 1926. Figure 11.4, ...
This insightful and comprehensive monograph provides fundamental and detailed summaries of HeartMath Institute’s many years of innovative research. It presents brief overviews of heart rate variability, resilience, coherence, heart-brain interactions,intuition and the scientific discoveries that shaped techniques developed to increase fulfillment and effectiveness. Included are summary reports of research conducted in the business, education, health and first responder fields. Both the layperson and science professional will appreciate its simplicity and thoroughness.
... This is best documented for a circadian system, which when synchronized in period (which happens to coincide with the earth's rotation around its axis) can show differences in phase representing a division of labor in time. Likewise, about 5-month cycles in 15 years of mostly daily data on the volume of urine of a healthy man and on his steroidal metabolites can share their period with both relative sunspot numbers (Wolf or Zürich numbers, International Sunspot Count, or Brussels SIDC Index) and geomagnetism, but can follow different phases, There are solar-interplanetary-terrestrial associations with human health versus disease, long claimed and descriptively documented by leaders of genius in the field of in the past, such as Chizhevsky (1921), and at present by Mikulecký (2007) and Ertel (1996). They recognized that health includes economic, political and climatic well-being and that all aspects of the biosphere depend on weather on earth and in space. ...
... Periods in the biosphere congruent with overlapping if not overlying uncertainty with helio-or geomagnetics are found in several different spectral regions of a given variable or system of variables. Transdisciplinary congruences of periods are also found in the usually 24-hour synchronized circadian and about 7-day (circaseptan) systems, in about 5-month (cis-half-year) (Cornélissen et al. 2008) and 6-month (Cornélissen et al. 2003) systems, and are documented in the transyear (Halberg et al. 2003b, 2007a, Kováč and Mikulecký 2005, 2006, Mikulecký and Florida 2005, Mikulecký 2006) and circasemimillennial , Mikulecký 2007) spectral regions, to cite but a few examples. ...
Selective congruence, namely a pairing of various biospheric cycles of certain frequencies with different environmental ones and further selectivity of phase behavior at the given frequency characterize an ultradian to infradian, prominently circadian transdisciplinary spectrum. Diseases documented among others to be influenced by the cosmos range from individuals' strokes to populations' crime and terrorism, conditions studied by chronomics as time structures (chronomes). Methods of investigation include the extended cosinor allowing for the added estimation of the period with a measure of uncertainty, as well as global and gliding spectral windows complemented by chronobiologic serial sections. These methods estimate, each of them with uncertainties, changes as a function of time in weather on earth and in space on the one hand and in human personal and broader affairs on the other. They further map features of these time structures that may change as a function of time in a logically consistent way. Associations of several biological time series with physical environmental variables are presented herein, as are methods used for their investigation and a statistical assessment of their congruence.
... 9,12,22 Therefore, it should not be surprising that human physiological rhythms and global behaviors are not only synchronized with solar and geomagnetic activity, but disruptions in these fields can create adverse effects on human health and behavior. [23][24][25] Changes in geomagnetic activity are correlated with hospital admissions and mortality from heart attacks and strokes, as well as numerous other adverse health effects such as depression, fatigue, mental confusion, and number of traffic accidents that occur. There is a voluminous scientific literature indicating important biological processes take place such as altered blood pressure, heart rate, HRV, melatonin lev-els, increased occurrence of cancer, balance of hormonal system, reproductive system, cardiac and neurological disease, and death. ...
... On a larger societal scale, increased violence, crime rate, social unrest, revolutions, and frequency of terrorist attacks have been linked to the solar cycle and the resulting disturbances in the geomagnetic field. [25][26][27][28][29][30][31] The first scientific evidence of this belief was provided by Alexander Tchijevsky, a Russian scientist who noticed that more severe battles during World War I occurred during peak sunspot periods. 31 He conducted a thorough study of global human history and constructed an index of Mass Human Excitability dating back to 1749, which he then compared to the solar cycles over the same time period until 1926. ...
The much anticipated year of 2012 is now here. Amidst the predictions and cosmic alignments that many are aware of, one thing is for sure: it will be an interesting and exciting year as the speed of change continues to increase, bringing both chaos and great opportunity. One benchmark of these times is a shift in many people from a paradigm of competition to one of greater cooperation. All across the planet, increasing numbers of people are practicing heart-based living, and more groups are forming activities that support positive change and creative solutions for manifesting a better world. The Global Coherence Initiative (GCI) is a science-based, co-creative project to unite people in heart-focused care and intention. GCI is working in concert with other initiatives to realize the increased power of collective intention and consciousness.
The convergence of several independent lines of evidence provides strong support for the existence of a global information field that connects all living systems and consciousness. Every cell in our bodies is bathed in an external and internal environment of fluctuating invisible magnetic forces that can affect virtually every cell and circuit in biological systems. Therefore, it should not be surprising that numerous physiological rhythms in humans and global collective behaviors are not only synchronized with solar and geomagnetic activity, but disruptions in these fields can create adverse effects on human health and behavior.
The most likely mechanism for explaining how solar and geomagnetic influences affect human health and behavior are a coupling between the human nervous system and resonating geomagnetic frequencies, called Schumann resonances, which occur in the earth-ionosphere resonant cavity and Alfvén waves. It is well established that these resonant frequencies directly overlap with those of the human brain and cardiovascular system. If all living systems are indeed interconnected and communicate with each other via biological, electromagnetic, and nonlocal fields, it stands to reason that humans can work together in a co-creative relationship to consciously increase the coherence in the global field environment, which in turn distributes this information to all living systems within the field.
GCI was established to help facilitate the shift in global consciousness from instability and discord to balance, cooperation, and enduring peace. A primary goal of GCI is to test the hypothesis that large numbers of people when in a heart-coherent state and holding a shared intention can encode information on the earth's energetic and geomagnetic fields, which act as carrier waves of this physiologically patterned and relevant information. In order to conduct this research, a global network of 12 to 14 ultrasensitive magnetic field detectors specifically designed to measure the earth's magnetic resonances is being installed strategically around the planet. More important is GCI's primary goal to motivate as many people as possible to work together in a more coherent and collaborative manner to increase the collective human consciousness.
If we are persuaded that not only external fields of solar and cosmic origins but also human attention and emotion can directly affect the physical world and the mental and emotional states of others (consciousness), it broadens our view of what interconnectedness means and how it can be intentionally utilized to shape the future of the world we live in. It implies that our attitudes, emotions, and intentions matter and that coherent, cooperative intent can have positive effects.
GCI hypothesizes that when enough individuals and social groups increase their coherence baseline and utilize that increased coherence to intentionally create a more coherent standing reference wave in the global field, it will help increase global consciousness. This can be achieved when an increasing number of people move towards more balanced and self-regulated emotions and responses. This in turn can help facilitate cooperation and collaboration in innovative problem solving and intuitive discernment for addressing society's significant social, environmental, and economic problems. In time, as more individuals stabilize the global field and families, workplaces, and communities move to increased social coherence, it will lead to increased global coherence. This will be indicated by countries adopting a more coherent planetary view so that social and economic oppression, warfare, cultural intolerance, crime, and disregard for the environment can be addressed meaningfully and successfully.
... It is commonly recognized, that geophysical environment factors may stimulate social unrest by influencing the mental state of people [6]. Increased rates of violence, crime, revolutions, frequency of terrorist attacks also have been significantly linked to geomagnetic activity factors [7][8][9]. A number of studies have demonstrated evidence that geomagnetic and solar influences affect human behavioral and health outcomes, the nervous and cardiovascular systems being the most clearly impacted [10][11][12]. ...
The study examined the relationship between local geomagnetic field fluctuations and physical and mental health among young adults in Lithuania. 264 participants were recruited for a two-week period study, during which they had to fill-in paper questionnaires, consisting of a 12-Item Short Form Survey (SF-12), assessing physical and mental health, 4 questions about physical vitality, emotional vitality, social wellbeing and overall wellbeing, and questions regarding sociodemographic data. The results of the study revealed that possible influence of geomagnetic field fluctuations appear not simultaneously with the changes in human health status, but with a 12-hour lag. This relationship was found to be weak but significant, however, only with mental health.
... Persinger (1999) employed techniques of multiple regression to show an intermediate strength association between yearly estimates of global mortality from "social expenditures" (wars and armed conflicts) and the lagged values for variations in the global release of seismic energy in conjunction with geomagnetic indices. The research was inspired by the original thinking by A. L. Tchijevky from the early 20 th century (Mikulecky, 2007) who reported the strong association between peaks in solar activity and major conflicts and the persistent yet infrequently investigated moderate strength between solar activity and global seismicity (Jakubcova and Pick, 1986;Odinstov et al, 2007). Recently, Anagnostopolous et al (2013) reported a positive correlation between daily numbers of admissions to psychiatric facilities and the numbers of small (M<3) earthquakes within the region of Crete, Greece. ...
... The majority of such crimes coincided with the increases in geomagnetic activity [8]. Over many years, significant results were received by M. Mikulecky [9]. Using historical data consisting of two time series concerning revolutions in Europe and China, and of eight time series from activities in science and arts registered from five geographic areas, it was found that revolutions culminated near to Solar maxima, while cultural flourishing is usually shown distinctly near to Solar minima. ...
Using data on suicide terroristic attacks in Israel, Iraq and Afghanistan (1062 cases 1994-2008) it was found that certain patterns of heliogeo-physical factors were similar in all countries studied, and typically accompanied such acts. Geomagnetic activity significantly increased (p<0.0001) at the day of attack and at the next day following attack. Interplanetary magnetic field polarity tends to change at the day before attack (p<0.03) and at the day after attack (p<0.007).
... Mikulecký's publications, like ours, mirror one of the solar wind's wobbly periodicities, that he dubbed " Halberg's transyear " (Kováč and Mikulecký 2005, 2006, Mikulecký and Florida 2005, Mikulecký 2006). Moreover, by the use of cross-spectral multivariate coherence he concomitantly considers the relative contributions to human epilepsy of geomagnetism and gravitation, reporting on a primary role of the latter, a topic deserving follow-up with methods such as those he had used on appropriate time series relating to the elucidation of many other problems (Mikulecký 2007). We all stand on the shoulders of many others (Ertel 1994Ertel , 1996Ertel , 1997a, b), including some who did not pursue the uncertainties of cycles involved (Dewey and Mandino 1971) or ignored the cycles (Stoupel et al. 2000Stoupel et al. , 2003) rather than assessing their ever-present uncertainties to avoid correlations that signify no more than concurrent cyclicities. ...
Originally a remembrance of an elderly physiologist, this paper illustrates the need for a standardizedspecification of certain experimental or survey conditions beyond those usually necessarily disclosed inconventional publications, namely calendar-dates, clock-times and geographic locations, to allow referenceto helio-ionosphero-geomagnetics along with natural and artificial lighting and temperature. When possible,body times given by a marker rhythm also should be specified. A personalized chronobiologic cybercare caneventually include focus on infradians, beyond circadians. Benefits from longitudinal monitoring are:1. Chronobiologically-interpreted blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) monitoring enables the diagnosisand treatment of vascular variability anomalies (VVAs) or, if lasting in several 7-day records, disorders(VVDs), not yet screened for in practice, that increase cardiovascular disease risk independently of anelevated BP. 2. The optimal treatment time for the individual patient can be determined and potential harmavoided, since the same dose of the same medication for the same patient can help or harm depending onlyon when it is administered. 3. Benefit may be derived in cancer treatment timed according to markerrhythmometry. 4. The change from a spotcheck-based health care to one of internet-aided systematicself-surveillance by the automatic collection and analysis of time series stems from evidence that nonphoticand photic environmental influences affect biota, associations that may depend on geographic and temporallocation. 5. Imaging in time includes formatting for time, globally and locally, for the mapping of atransdisciplinary spectrum of cycles involving “good” and “bad” strain in human physiology,versus suddencardiac death, suicide and terrorism, all latter requiring rational countermeasures.
Heliobiological studies investigated the effects of solar variability on human health through epidemiological approaches. Hospital statistics revealed associations between geomagnetic disturbances and blood flow-related pathologies like myocardial infarction or stroke. Further clinical studies, looking at parameters like heart rate variability (HRV), discovered underlying physiological processes, yet they could not explain the biophysical mechanisms. In order to broaden physiological understanding, this study explored changes in the hematovascular system due to dynamics in solar- and geomagnetic activity.
A dataset of 40 blood parameters alongside HRV measures for 1,779 non-hospitalized individuals between 45 and 83 years of age was compared to solar-, cosmic-ray-, and geomagnetic activity indicators during the solar minimum period between years 2007 - 2010. Demographic subgroups regarding age, gender, health scores and certain pathologies were analyzed. Correlations from clinical- and geospace-data were assessed for different time-lags between both datasets, applying signal smoothing methods and Bonferroni correction.
Increased levels for certain differential leucocytes, inflammatory markers, and glycated hemoglobin A1c were observed for long-term periods of increased cosmic-ray intensity paired with reduced geomagnetic activity (p<0.01) – which accounts to an increase in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors comparable with other studies during similar periods. Similar correlations were noted in liver and kidney function markers. No significant correlations were found for red blood cell parameters and routine clinical coagulation factors.
For lipid parameters, an increase in the Apolipoprotein B / A1 ratio was found for long-term periods of higher solar radio flux F10.7 (p<0.01) – resulting in another increased CVD risk factor. On shorter timescales, peaks in Total- and LDL-Cholesterol were observed following space-weather events after a delay of 6 days (p<0.01) – a characteristic time-lag behavior corresponding with similar heliobiological studies.
HRV parameters showed an increase in absolute power across all frequency bands and in SSDN for periods of increased geomagnetic activity with a time-lag of 3 - 4 days. Regarding the interplay of HRV with inflammation factors, connections to the blood parameter findings of present study were established.
Demographic subgroup analysis revealed significant dependances on individual factors: Inflammatory responses were most pronounced in male subjects within the youngest age group (49 – 62 y.). Further, results were more expressed in subjects with a lower KSK-12-health score and suffering from hypertension or stroke / myocardial infarction in the past.
This study established a foundation for heliobiological research on clinical chemistry. It has shown highly significant correlations analyzing blood parameters in a large cohort of elderly participants in the northern hemisphere, which depended significantly on demographic factors and – as demonstrated by the analysis of solar cycle subwindows - on the solar cycle macrophase, as well.
Astrology is seen as a dubious discipline in many contemporary discussions. However, all critiques of astrology treat it as a contending scientific discipline in the same way that mainstream sciences such as physics, statistics, or biology is a scientific discipline. The current paper shows that there is an alternative description possible, based on ideas of action theory, which both protects the integrity of the practice of astrology, and renders it a reasonable discipline, without making superfluous claims about its predictive efficacy. The argument hinges on discovering form concepts which best capture situation-types which are encountered in daily life. The three central aspects of astrology, viz., (a) planetary influence at a distance on our lives, (b) the determination of such influence based on the calendaring of birth, and (c) the salutary effects of rituals to propitiate the planets or suitably alter their influence are all redescribed to show that as effective material causes they distort the nature of the astrological activity but as form-concepts have a central role in generating practical knowledge.
It is known that space and terrestrial weather can have a significant impact on the physiological status of the body, including in the form of meteopathic reactions, the development of acute or chronic diseases exacerbation. Many works have been devoted to the study of the influence of the Earth's weather on human health. Despite the fact that there are facts indicating that many processes on Earth are associated with heliogeophysical phenomena, scientific research containing a clear system and methodological basis in the field of studying the influence of heliogeophysical factors on the health of the population is currently insufficient. The original articles on the assessment of the space and terrestrial weather impact on human health, presented in bibliographic and abstract databases and information systems PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, NEB (eLIBRARY.RU ), Cyber Training, the results of dissertation research that meet the criteria for compliance with the stated goal and the quality of research results. A total of 204 full-text publications were identified based on the results of a targeted search, of which 107 fully met these inclusion criteria. Changes in the heliogeomagnetic environment affect almost all organs and systems. The largest number of studies are devoted to assessing the impact of space weather on the cardiovascular system (41 articles – 38,3%) and the nervous system (45 articles - 42,0%). However, the analysis found that also significant systems affected by space weather are respiratory systems (4 articles - 3,7%), digestive (5 articles - 4,7%) and reproductive systems (11 articles - 10,3%). In addition, the course of the infectious process depends on the influence of solar activity (5 articles – 4,7%).
We contribute to academic discourse by examining the influence of solar-driven geomagnetic disturbances (GMD) on homicide rates in the USA and Canada. Despite the substantial discrepancy in homicide rates between the two countries, our analysis uncovers a remarkable synchronicity in homicide trends from 1990 to 2020, demonstrating an 89% correlation. This suggests a shared underlying factor influencing homicidal behavior on both sides of the border. Furthermore, our initial findings reveal a significant correlation between GMD and annual homicide rates in both nations, ranging from 57% to 65%. We present the results of rigorous econometric tests incorporating the Kp index for GMD, highlighting the potential link between GMD and homicides. We also propose a medical pathway to explore the role of the circadian regulatory system, which responds to environmental cues. Additionally, we suggest how our findings, which partially attribute responsibility for homicides to environmental factors, may impact a legal system founded on the premise of free will.
Previous works demonstrated that human creative output fluctuates in periods of 500-years, and more importantly that these periods of creative output maxima occurred simultaneous with increased solar activity. Indeed, early works by Chizhevskiy pointed to the correlation between solar-and-lunar geophysical variables and human behaviour. Interestingly, Persinger, and St. Pierre demonstrated increased aggression in rats during increased geophysical activity. Using these studies as a foundation, we explored the CDB90 Battle Dataset to find a pattern or potential periodicity in large scale human aggressive behaviour-war-specifically within the duration of battles. Using the mean duration of battles for various wars from 1600 to 1950 revealed a 7-day periodicity in military conflicts during the 20 th Century, with subharmonics at 14, 22, and 29-days. The existence of the 7-day period in large-scale aggregate behaviour may suggest the reflection of biological cycles also of 7-days, whose original entrainment is likely due to solar and lunar influences. Such entrainment may be why attempts to organize human societies with cycles other than 7-days become superseded by circaseptan systems as they reflect a natural, biological pattern.
This long-term study examined relationships between solar and magnetic factors and the time course and lags of autonomic nervous system (ANS) responses to changes in solar and geomagnetic activity. Heart rate variability (HRV) was recorded for 72 consecutive hours each week over a five-month period in 16 participants in order to examine ANS responses during normal background environmental periods. HRV measures were correlated with solar and geomagnetic variables using multivariate linear regression analysis with Bonferroni corrections for multiple comparisons after removing circadian influences from both datasets. Overall, the study confirms that daily ANS activity responds to changes in geomagnetic and solar activity during periods of normal undisturbed activity and it is initiated at different times after the changes in the various environmental factors and persist over varying time periods. Increase in solar wind intensity was correlated with increases in heart rate, which we interpret as a biological stress response. Increase in cosmic rays, solar radio flux, and Schumann resonance power was all associated with increased HRV and parasympathetic activity. The findings support the hypothesis that energetic environmental phenomena affect psychophysical processes that can affect people in different ways depending on their sensitivity, health status and capacity for self-regulation.
Humanity needs transdisciplinary science for spirituality assessment as a critical step to optimizing ethics. Genetics has shed light on the biosphere, technology upon the noosphere, in which, the achievements of the information age notwithstanding, no obvious spinoff for morality is yet apparent.
A scientific optimization may become possible in ethics to the extent to which any reproducible since cyclic features of spirituality and of criminality become measurable. Should either the “good” or the “bad” or both be found to be at least passively influenced by cyclic physical environmental factors, as is putatively the case, these aspects of behavior may eventually become actively manipulable, perhaps utilizable for human survival.
Toward this goal, we have focused elsewhere on outcomes as different as religious motivation, if not spirituality, criminality, and atrocity, and on the underlying dynamics as states at least partly within the brain and in the brain’s relations with the circulation of blood, the heart, and the broad neuroendocrines.
We introduce in this chapter that chronomics has already mapped time structures in religious behavior that can lead to a study of underlying geographic/geomagnetic latitude-associated mechanisms.
The earth's magnetic fields are carriers of biologically relevant information that connects all living systems. The electromagnetic coupling of the human brain, cardiovascular and nervous systems, and geomagnetic frequencies supports the hypothesis that the mediated reality of electromagnetic bandwidths can be correlated with bio-energetic and geomagnetic frequencies. Understood as bio-energetic functions (Thinking, Feeling, Sensing, & Intuiting), the media-sphere becomes measurable according to principles of coherency (measured as heart-rate variability, HRV) and principles of Jungian dream analysis (compensation and dramatic structure). It has been demonstrated that the rhythmic patterns in beat-to-beat heart rate variability reflect emotional functions, permeate every bodily cell, and play a central role in the generation and transmission of system-wide information via the electromagnetic field. So, the "media dream" becomes susceptible to psychological analysis leading to a better understanding of unconscious cognitive archetypal patterns of contextual collectives.
The data of the monitoring of the birth defects of the neural tube for 1985-2007 years from Crimean Republic Medical Genetic Center has been analyzed. The group of comparison: 127 cases of the neural tube defects. The control group: 127 cases of birth of healthy children closest by the time and place of birth (for each case from comparison group). By the method of superposed epochs the weekly values of the hellogeophysical indices (Ap index of geomagnetic activity, Wolf Numbers - index of Solar activity, interplanetary magnetic field polarity) during the gametogenesis and embryo period of prenatal development. The statistical significance of the values of heliogeophysical Indices in the comparison and control groups was calculated using the statistical Wilcoxon criterion for the independent groups. It was founded that during 12-18 days of embryogenesis embryos with neural tube defects the increased geomagnetic activity is probable, comparing with the control group. Since the forming of the major part of the neural tube defects takes place during 2-3 weeks of embryo growth, the increase of geomagnetic activity during or before this stage may be one of the ecological risk factors for this pathology.
The author discusses the short-period (years to decades) and medium-period (hundreds to thousands years) variations of climatic and tectonic activity and their influences on the human history and recent life. At a regional scale, it is demonstrated that for the last 170 years periodic changes of the Caspian Sea level are the combined result of the water balance variations (mainly caused by climatic changes) and the recent tectonic activity partly manifested by seismicity. The influence of active tectonics consists in the integral effect of various deformations producing changes in the Caspian reservoir volume. Phases of the sea-level fall correspond to the growth of seismicity under the Caspian basins that indicates the extension and sinking of the reservoir. Phases of the sea-level rise correspond to the growth of seismicity under the adjacent uplifts and their slopes that indicates transverse shortening of the reservoir and a decrease in its volume. The climatic and tectonic processes influence the Caspian level mainly in the same direction. The global observations show that the 11-yr and multiple-of-11-yr cyclicity is the most significant among the recent short-period variations of climatic and tectonic activity. This cyclicity influences the economic activity of the society. The ~1,200-yr (~1,800-yr in one case) cycles are the most important among the medium-period variations of climatic and tectonic activity (i.e., fault movements, earthquakes, and volcanism) in the Middle and Late Holocene. These cycles contributed to the historical crises, which were characterized by social unrest and mass migrations, and changed the balance of political forces. On the other hand, the crises determined breakthroughs to new technologies and new forms of economic and political relations. The crises were manifested in the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt and East European Platform. Perhaps they covered the entire Northern hemisphere. Synchronism of climatic and tectonic events in both short- and medium-term oscillations is possibly caused by the difference in the rotational velocity of the liquid outer core and mantle (the dominant factor), periodic changes in the Earth's orbital parameters, as well as solar activity. Multiple-of-11-yr cycles correlate with the periodic changes in solar activity, whereas the 1,200-yr cycle is associated with the precession of the geomagnetic axis around the Earth's rotational axis. The short- and medium-period variations of climatic and tectonic activity should be considered in planning the sustainable development of the society.
The sophistication of modern technology and statistical analyses is sufficient to fully explore the potential of geopsychology or "the geopsyche". It is defined as the relationship between the complex matrix of static and time-varying geophysical and geochemical variables within a locality and human behavior. Geomagnetic variations, sufficient to explain about 10% of the variance, have been reliably associated with cardiovascular stability and the brain's cerebral sensitivity. There is strong correlational evidence that long-term geophysical fluctuations may shift a population's cognitive style and its responses to environmental crises. Two sites within Ontario, Canada are considered proofs of concept. In one site, associated with marked mineralization and strong local gradients in the geomagnetic field, there is an aggregation of creative individuals who report that "the place" is responsible for their elevated productivity. In another site, the apparent interaction between tectonic strain, hydrological loading within a magnetite mine, and the construction of a cell phone communication tower produced unusual brain-frequency magnetic fields that have been associated with an epidemic of intuitive and "spiritual" experiences within tens of thousands of visitors. We suggest that the optimal creativity and adaptability of future populations may require determination of the empirical congruence between the person's neurocognitive profile and the geophysical environment.
Thermodynamic and kinetic properties of magmas are central goal in volcanology researches. Gases play an important role to explain and understand volcanic activity. Relatively recent use of a novel optical remote sensor are a key to have gas data in real time for the surveillance of real state of volcanic activity and to take administrative and political decisions for mitigation and preparation to an eventual volcanic eruption. Examples of temporary sulphur dioxide emissions from three active Colombian volcanoes are presented, together with all cases of activity showed by each volcano since 2007 till 2012. As andesite volcanoes, they show properties to seal volcanic chimney and facilitate pressurization within final stages of explosive eruptions.
The study of the possible effect of solar variability on living organisms is one of the most controversial issues of present day science. It has been firstly and mainly carried on high latitudes, while at middle and low latitudes this study is rare. In the present review we focused on the work developed at middle and low geomagnetic latitudes of America. At these geomagnetic latitudes the groups consistently dedicated to this issue are mainly two, one in Cuba and the other in Mexico.The Cuban and Mexican studies show that at such latitudes there are biological consequences to the solar/geomagnetic activity, coinciding in four points: (1) the male population behave differently from the female population, (2) the most vulnerable age group to geomagnetic perturbations is that of ⩾65 years old, (3) there is a tendency for myocardial infarctions (death or occurrence) to increase one day after a geomagnetic Ap index large value or during the day of the associated Forbush decrease, and (4) the myocardial infarctions (death or occurrence) increase as the geomagnetic perturbation increases.Additionally, the Cuban group found seasonal periodicities from their data, and also that increases of female myocardial infarctions occurred before and after the day of the geomagnetic disturbance. The Mexican group found that the male sex is more vulnerable to geomagnetic perturbations and that the myocardial infarction deaths present the conspicuous cycle of ∼7 days.
Countering the trend in specialization, we advocate the trans-disciplinary monitoring of blood pressure and heart rate for signatures of environmental cyclic and other variabilities in space as well as terrestrial weather on the one hand, and for surveillance of personal and societal health on the other hand. New rules (if confirmed novel laws) emerge as we recognize our inheritance from the cosmos of cycles that constitute and characterize life and align them with inheritance from parents. In so doing, we happen to follow the endeavors of Gregor Mendel, who recognized the segregation and independent assortment of what became known as genes. Circadians, rhythms with periods, τ, between 20 and 28 hours, and cycles with frequencies that are higher (ultradian) or lower (infradian) than circadian, are genetically anchored. An accumulating long list of very important but aeolian (nonstationary) infradian cycles, characterizing the incidence patterns of sudden cardiac death, suicide and terrorism, with drastically different τs, constitutes the nonphotic (corpuscular emission from the sun, heliogeomagnetics, ultraviolet flux, gravitation) Cornélissen-series.
Contemporary neuroscience suggests the existence of fundamental algorithms by which all sensory transduction is translated into an intrinsic, brain-specific code. Direct stimulation of these codes within the human temporal or limbic cortices by applied electromagnetic patterns may require energy levels which are within the range of both geomagnetic activity and contemporary communication networks. A process which is coupled to the narrow band of brain temperature could allow all normal human brains to be affected by a subharmonic whose frequency range at about 10 Hz would only vary by 0.1 Hz.
The aim of this study was to assess any variation in positive, negative and total affect recorded longitudinally; to compare the results with those from prior transverse or hybrid population studies, based on the same or a different method of mood rating; and to test for any association of mood with cardiovascular, hormonal and geophysical variables monitored concomitantly. The study approach was as follows. A clinically healthy 34-year-old man filled out the positive and negative affective scale (PANAS) questionnaire five times a day for 86 days. Systolic (S) and diastolic (D) blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) were also measured automatically at 30-minute intervals with an ambulatory monitor from May 19 to June 29, 2000, while different endpoints of heart rate variability (HRV) were also determined at 5-minute intervals from beat-to-beat electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring for 42 days between May 3 and June 14, 2000, with only short interruptions while the subject took a shower and changed ECG tapes. Saliva samples were collected at the times of mood ratings for one month for later determination of melatonin and cortisol concentrations. Intervals of 24 hours of the record of each variable displaced in increments of 24 hours were analyzed by chronobiologic serial section at a trial period of 24 hours to assess the circadian characteristics as they changed from one day to another. Estimates of the midline-estimating statistic of rhythm (MESOR) and circadian amplitude and acrophase obtained on consecutive days were correlated among variables to assess any associations. The findings were as follows. Overall, a circadian rhythm was demonstrated for all variables. A positive association was noteworthy between the circadian amplitude of negative affect and the MESOR of both SBP (r= 0.363; P= 0.029) and DBP (r= 0.389; P= 0.019), suggesting that BP is raised in the presence of large swings in negative affect. Needing further validation was a weak association between the MESOR of negative affect and the circadian amplitude of SBP (r= - 0.272; P = 0.108), suggesting a lowering of the circadian SBP amplitude in the presence of a strong negative affect. Of further interest was the lack of a statistically significant relation between positive and negative affect, not only in terms of the MESOR but also in terms of the circadian amplitude.
A periodicity of about 500 years has been discovered in the history of poetry and documented by means of inferential statistics. Great poets of Arabia, Persia, China and Japan emerged periodically every 500 years. Moreover, the waves of poetic creativeness in the West and in the East have been synchronous for the last 3000 years. It is a surprising fact, that this periodicity has been known already before 800 B.C. to the priests of Babylon, who ascribed it to the influence of goddess Inanna. A set of psychological symptoms typical for pubescence recurs on a global (worldwide) scale during these historical epochs every 500 years. One possible explanation would be to search for a cosmophysical factor, which impacts the neuroendocrine system of men.