CLIMATE CHANGE AND PHENOMENA
Posted by anthonynorth on July 25, 2007
We are facing dangers, today, from global warming. This essay is not going to argue whether this is man-made or a natural cycle as such, but is to suggest another avenue of research – into the relationship between climate and paranormal experience.
Many researchers, including myself, have suggested that an environment can have an effect upon the mind. But does the present climate change offer a possibility of testing the hypothesis in action?
GAIA
The idea that the Earth is a form of entity, living in a relationship with its occupants, is older than history. Tribal animism is based around the existence of two worlds – the physical and the spiritual – existing parallel to each other.
The continuance of this idea is represented in mythological goddesses from around the world. Today, Gaia is the most well known, but many symbolize them all in the term, Mother Earth.
In the late 20th century a touch of rationality was given to the subject in Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis where it is argued that the various aspects of the planet seem to co-ordinate themselves, including the biosphere, which includes us.
INTELLIGENCE?
This is not to suggest the existence of intelligence or intentionality in this relationship. But could it be that, through natural processes embodied in the global environment, natural consequences could arise that suggest intentionality?
El Nino is a classic example. A phenomenon of the Pacific Ocean, it seems to regulate global temperatures, as if a kind of pressure valve. Present climate change seems to be causing El Nino more often, suggesting a form of control.
But it is a long way from here to suggesting a linkage with climate change and paranormal experience. Yet there has been research that, if allied to the possibility, could provide indications of such a mechanism.
ELECTROMAGNETISM
As the planet warms up, climate is becoming increasingly erratic. Throughout the world, abnormal weather is being increasingly seen. Yet one consequence of meteorological disturbance is a change in electromagnetism.
This can often be seen in a thunderstorm. And the interesting thing is the lull before the storm can often cause mood changes in the individual. A calmness can come, leading to an almost mystical-like state.
Such states have been associated with paranormal activity, and it is no coincidence that supernatural fiction often associates ghostly visitations with the thunderstorm. Maybe it isn’t just a storytelling device, but a reality.
SPIRITUALITY
Research into the effects of electromagnetism on the brain has been done by Persinger and others, and it seems that it can have an acute effect, causing moods to alter, to hallucinations and mystical states.
Could a global atmosphere, on the change, have a similar effect among a population? For instance, it is interesting to note the rise of New Age spirituality at a time when, unbeknown to us, climate change must have been accelerating?
Looking into history, we can see similar effects. Christianity seemed to rise in the Dark Ages amid a suspected, and prolonged, meteor shower. Occultism arose in the modern world at the time of the mini-ice age in north western Europe.
FIGHTING BACK
Of course, there would be other, social reasons for changes in spirituality within a population, but the possibility of climate having an effect deserves study. For the implications could be profound.
During the present climate change period we have seen a rise in paranormal experience from New Age spirituality, to mystical states, to millions claiming abduction by aliens. Could they all be allied to climate?
If we accept this as a possibility, then like El Nino, planet Earth may well have a pressure valve to infect the possible culprits. For one thing about mystical states is that the experiencer usually becomes a more spiritual, environmentally-friendly individual, at one with himself and his planet.
Maybe planet Earth is fighting back – by changing us, bit by bit, into guardians of the planet rather than its vandals.
© Anthony North, July 2007
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Ruth said
The Book of Cosmogony and Prophecy, in Oahspe has revealed in great detail periods of light and dark, heat and cold in greater and lesser cycles. The changes warming since 1850 was documented in 1881 (Oahspe 1882 Ed.)and the rise in light and spirituality was predicted, as well as the great changes in society associated with Globalization. The 1850 cycle was the beginning of not only a larger cycle of 3000 years but another of 24,000 years and another of 72,000 years!
Ruth