The Five Rites are a form of simple stretches that among many things stimulate the gland of the body to increase in vitality and stamina. The Rites are not rigorous exercises. The Five Rites are simple postures that activate the body’s nervous system on the etheric level to restore optimal health. The glands are key components in the nervous system. George Crile shows in “The Phenomena of Life” (TPOL) how the glands govern the bodies electrical systems “It is at once clear that there is within the organism an energy-controlling system which is activated by the special senses primarily. Theoretically, this system would consist of the special senses, the brain, the adrenal-sympathetic system and the thyroid gland.” Ruth Drown suggests that the glands are conductors of ether or vital force. A very interesting book called “Hindu Secret of Virility and Rejuvenation” (HSOVR) published by The Basic Science Fellowship suggested the idea that each rite triggers a gland and stimulates it in a gentle manner. Dr. Drowns observations combined with this idea led to the conclusion that these rites develop the glands and thus the body’s ability to receive the vital force, or ether that is constantly descending into the brain and through the entire body via the glandular system as electricity.

The Five Rites as given by Peter Kelder do not refer to ether, glands, or chakras but simply to Vortexes. The connection of the vortexes to the glands is no mere coincidence; this is an ancient borderland science. The glands and the nerve plexus are the physical manifestations of the chakras. I imagine the colorful wheels depicted in mythology are descriptions of the fields viewed through highly developed senses that can perceive the ether. Rudolf Steiner describes such sense development. That the glands are radiating energy we know from the radio,electric interpretation of life as developed by George Crile, “Evolution probably seized upon the factors that have the power of shifting the amount of radiation toward the short wave field, hence increasing the amount of electricity generated. Thus, an increase in the electrical charge up increases the muscular and glandular activity of the animal.” The Five Rites seem to enhance the ability to shift the amount of short wave radiation toward the short wave field. ‘We see a glimpse of the etheric/electric transmutation taking place within the Vortex. The Five Rites stimulate the entire “energy-controlling system”, the body’s ability to receive vital force is enhanced.

The correspondence between the Vortexes and the key organs of the “energy-controlling system” is demonstrated in Figure One.

There are seven Psychic Vortexes in the body: Vortex “A” is located within the forehead; Vortex “B” is located in the posterior part of the brain; Vortex “C” is in the region of the throat at the base of the neck; Vortex “D” is located in the right side of the body above the waist line; Vortex “E” is located in the reproductive anatomy, and is directly connected with Vortex “C” in the throat; Vortexes “F” and “G” are located one on either knee.

Vortex “A” is the pineal gland.

Vortex “B” is the pituitary gland. The pituitary is a very small gland, it is about the size of a pea. Its situation is within the head at the base of the brain about midway from front to back. Its condition has a marked influence on the gonads.

Vortex “C” is the thyroid gland. This gland is in the neck, just above the collar bones. It is closely related with every action which takes place in the pelvic, it stimulates the adrenals and the gonads as well.

Vortex “D” is the Liver and the Adrenal Cortex. The liver maintains a function which is essential to the life and activity of the cells of the brain and adrenal cortex.”

Vortex “E” is the gonads and ovaries. The sex glands or glands of reproduction (in the male) are called gonads. They are closely interlocked with
every other function of the human body.

Vortexes “F” and “G” are very mysterious and relate to the muscular aspects of the rites.

Using the correspondences we can take a look at the rites to observe their function on the glands.

Rite #1

Stand erect with arms outstretched. horizontal with the shoulders. Now spin around until you become slightly dizzy. There is only one caution: you must turn from left to right. (Figure 1)

Effects: It seems that whirling stimulates into great activity vortexes “A”, “B”, and “E”. These have a stimulating effect in the other two “C” and “D”. This first rite seems to be the one that awakens all the vortexes but primarily stimulates the pineal / pituitary glands in the head, in turn activating the generative glands. “The pituitary is a very small gland; it is about the size of a pea. Its situation is within the head at the base of the brain about midway from front to back. Its condition has a marked influence on the gonads.” (HSOVAR)

The thyroid in the neck is also activated along with the liver and adrenal glands.

Both Vortexes “A” and “B” are in the brain, which plays a most vital role in the acquisition of energy. It is no wonder the skull has often been thought to be the challis of vital force. “Since in a bipolar mechanism, the electrical current must flow from areas of higher to areas of lower potential, it is necessary to cite such facts as may tend to support the conception that the cells of the brain are the principle source of the electric energy that coordinates the body and to show how the direction of the fabricated current is established.” (TPOL) In Ruth Drown’s conception of the ether the brain is the main receiver of the ether, which is descending or emanating into the physical world constantly creating and recreating the body. There is a mysterious connection between ether and electricity. Electricity has been considered as decayed ether by many borderland scientists in the past few decades. The brain points to the mysterious connection between the ether and electricity. “The electric current, therefore, would pass from the highest potential within the cells through the zones of lower potential in the axons and nerves toward the points of lowest potential in the glands and muscles to be stimulated.” (TPOL)

The activation of Vortex “C” at the neck, stimulates the thyroid glands. “In the higher terrestrial animals the rise of the thyroid gland coincides with the rise of mental and bodily energy.” (TPOL) BV simple stimulation the glands will release energy and begin to recreate a larger supply for the next demand. This way each simple short routine gradually builds up a huge force over time. It cannot be rushed. It is a slow gradual toughing and rejuvenation of the limbs of the tree of life. We will find more on information on Vortex “C” when we look at the Fifth Rite.

The region of Vortex “D” contains the liver. “…The liver maintains a function which is essential to the life and activity of the cells of the brain and adrenal cortex.” This rite awakens this vortex slowly; it will become much more activated later.

Rite #2

Lie flat on the back on a rug. Then place the hands flat along side the hips. Fingers should be kept close together with the fingertips of each hand turned slightly toward one another. The feet are then raised until the legs are straight up. If possible, let the feet extend back a bit over the body, toward the head but do not let the knees bend. Then slowly lower the feet to the floor and for a moment allow all muscles to relax. Then perform this rite all over again.

Effects: Further stimulating into action the Seven Vortexes.

HSOVAR: Primarily this simple movement cares for the distended abdomen from which so many suffer and which is the cause of so much loss of vitality and virility. The region most affected by this movement is the muscle sheath covering the lower abdomen. The second rite influences the hardening process of the abdominal walls.

Rite #3

Kneel on rug, place hands on things, and lean forward as far as possible with the head inclined so that the chin rests on the chest. Now lean back as far as possible; at the same time the head should be lifted and thrown back as far as it will go. Then bring the head up along with the body. Lean forward again and start the rite all over.

Effects: This rite is very effective in speeding up vortexes “A”, “D”, and “C”, especially “E”.

HSOVAR: “…it strengthens those spinal erector muscles that have so important a function in guarding vital nerve centers and procreative sources.”

The third rite is for the small of the back and all the procreative forces housed within the pelvic girdle. We see physically how this rite builds up the pelvic region. It is in the head movements that stimulate Vortex “C” the thyroid gland. Vortex “D” is stimulated by the combination of the head movement with the stimulation of the pelvic region and lower back. Vortex “D” is the liver and the adrenal glands.

George Crile demonstrates a connection between the thyroid gland, the adrenal gland and gonads in the pelvic region. “The Thyroid. This is not in the pelvic region at all, but in the neck, just above the collar bones. But it is closely related with every action which takes place in the pelvic never the less, for it stimulates the adrenals and the gonads as well.” (TPOL) By gentle stimulation the Five Rites transform and vitalize the glands and organs of the body. Vortex “D”, the liver and adrenals that are interdependent upon each other for their growth are strengthened. “… The liver maintains a function which is essential to the life and activity of the cells of the brain and adrenal cortex.” (TPOL) The etheric formative forces that are constantly reconstructing our bodies can flow much easier through a body that has utilized the Five Rites to increase vitality. “As the liver is an organ with a very high functional activity its semi permeable membranes also are rapidly broke up and have to be replaced, and it also may depend upon some other organ for the essential lipid molecules.’S7e postulate therefore that these molecules for the semi permeable membranes of the cells of the body might well be supplied by the adrenal cortex. The liver in part and the ductless glands in part maintain the structure of the cells.” (TPOL)

Rite #4

Sit on the rug with feet stretched out in front. Then place the hands along side the body. Now raise the body and bend the knees so that the legs, from the knees down, are practically straight up and down while the body, from the shoulders to the knees will be horizontal. Before pushing the body to a horizontal position the chin should be well down on the chest. Then as the body is raised the head should be allowed to drop gently backward as far as it will go. Next, return to a sitting position and relax for a moment before repeating the procedure. When the body is pressed up to the complete horizontal position these every muscle in the body.

Effects: This will have a tendency to stimulate vortexes “F”, “G”, “E”, and “C”.

HSOVAR: “…It stimulates all the vital sources, reactivates the glands, tones up the muscles which surround the pelvic girdle and helps, put you in good condition all over.”

The fourth rite stimulates all the procreative forces and reaches the lumbar region of the spine. Vortexes “F” and “G” have far reaching energetic potentials. Stability is imparted from the knees, but the stain on the muscles creates a huge electrical reaction. Placing the chin on the chest again stimulates Vortex “C” This tones the gland and causes a secretion of its hormone which gives the body an increase in energy. “The sources of sustained energy are primarily the hormone of the thyroid gland.” (TPOL)

Rite #5

Place the hands on the floor about two feet apart. Then, with the legs stretched out to the rear with the feet also about two feet apart, push the body, especially the hips, up as far as possible, rising on the toes and hands, at the same time the head should be brought so far down that the chin comes up against the chest.

Next, allow the body to come down to a ‘sagging’ position. Bring the head up, causing it to be drawn as far back as possible.

HSOVAR: The tucked head has an important effect on the glands in the front of the neck. This rite exerts a stimulating effect on the muscles surrounding the small of the back, the great nerve centers, and cause a gentle stimulation to pass through all the procreative sources. The fifth rite stimulates the entire pelvic basin, the gonads, the thyroid, the thymus, and the pituitary gland.

The fifth rite stimulates Vortex “C” in the most efficacious manner. While all the vortexes are spinning, one supporting the other, we can glimpse the subtle energy works of the human body. George Crile, that pioneer of borderland science, showed that the thyroid gland was indeed the master key to the subtle electrical nature of man. “The unique effect of their thyroid hormone upon mental and emotional activity can now be explained be the demonstrated fact that the thyroid hormone increases the percentage of radiation in the short wave or ionization field and the immediate effect of this would be the of increasing the electrical potential of the brain. This increased electrical potential would confer upon the brain a corresponding increase of mental and emotional power.” Our experience of life, all our emotions and mental process are dependent upon electricity. That subtle electricity that comes into the glands from the ether as it passes through the nervous system of the living being. “In the higher terrestrial animals the rise of the thyroid gland coincides with the rise of mental and bodily energy.” (TPOL) The stronger we can make Vortex “C” the more electricity we can generate in our bodies. “The thyroid secretion through its control of oxidation governs the electrical conductivity, electric capacity, and electrical potential of the tissues; that is, the thyroid gland governs the capacity of the organism for work.” (TPOL)

“We may then sum up this consideration of brain thyroid gland corroboration in shifting the short wave reaction of the brain as follows, (a) The Thyroid hormone specifically increases the percentage of short wave radiation, (b) This increase in short wave radiation is due to the effect of the thyroid hormone on nitrogen metabolism. (c) As the thyroid hormone shifts the wave emissions toward the short or powerful end of the spectrum, and as the brain and nervous tissue are especially affected by the thyroid hormone, it would appear to follow that the brain and other units of the nervous system are speeded by the thyroid hormone. (d) Man has a relatively larger thyroid gland than any other animal, and greater mental, emotional, and physical activity. He owes these characteristics to the relatively large development of the brain, which, collaborating with the thyroid gland, produces the required amount of powerful short wave radiation.

Vortex “C” receives attention in all five rites. Its ability to radiate energy to the brain and other parts of the nervous system is the key to the subtle energy works of the human body.

The great secret of the Lamas was rediscovered by George Crile: “The state of mind and the state of consciousness are a result of radiation and electrical potential.” The Eye of Revelation by Peter Kelder is not just a fairy tale but a transmission of an ancient electrical, etheric technology. By practicing the Five Rites one seems to have the potential of increasing their bodies ability to capture, create, and use the vital forces that underlie the amazing field of vibrations we call life. The Vortexes are the spinning etheric substance underlying the electrical activity of the brain and glands. These rites work on the very foundations of our beings.

The EYE OF REVELATION is upon the world.

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In the mid 1800s Baron Karl von Reichenbach opened a whole vista of new knowledge when he discovered the existence and properties of what he called Od force, a force that flows from minerals and light, in plants and animals, and even radiates from the stars. The Od, the Odic force, named for the Norse god Odin, the “all transcending one,” and the Norse word “voda”, which means “I go quickly…! stream forth”. A mysterious force that permeates all things, that is everywhere present, and surely must be easily revealed, but is actually perceptible to very few.

How then is it that such a subtle force came to be discovered?

The Baron, a scientist foremost, developed his ideas through rigorous experiment: special darkrooms were created that were connected to wires that would conduct Od from plates that collected the force from the Sun or Moon; minerals, magnets and crystals were brought into the darkrooms via special rotating tables that permitted no light to enter. Various displays of Odic force manifested themselves during these experiments, elaborate descriptions of which may be found in his own writings.

Reichenbach, perhaps curiously, also utilized sensitives for his research. It was during his early work with Somnambulism that he was introduced to the idea of sensitives, and from this he posulated that sleepwalkers are sensitive or allergic to something being carried in on the moonlight, an Odic agitation. The theory opened his mind to the possibility of humans sensing his Odic force directly.

In his wide travels, Reichenbach met many people who claimed to be “sensitives”, and he used a wide range of these sensitives in his research, from medically-trained professionals to the inmates of some few asylums. Over time, the Baron would eventually begin to see these Odic displays himself in small measure, his persistent endeavor into Odic research changing his perceptions, but the sensitives remained his primary sources in his experiments.

Od is best detected through certain materials that focus it more than others— for example, it was seen to dance and glide in spectacular beauty when it flowed along magnets and crystals. Reichenbach used the term “concentrator” when discussing these Od sources, as Od is not generated by these objects at all; he declared that the Odic streams “flowed on eternally”, as it flows through the Earth, and travels along the light that streams from the Sun, Moon, and stars.

One of Baron von Reichenbach’s most moving early accounts of his Odic force come from his first introduction of bar magnets into his darkroom experiments. In one such account, he wrote that bright blue flames issued from the north pole, cold and soothing, and from the south poles, red flames, hot and irritating; glittering rainbows, or dark rainbows, could be seen radiating around the largest magnets. Magnets, it seemed, were the strongest Od concentrator . . .

Until crystal formations were introduced to the sensitives. When Reichenbach later introduced a large crystal into the darkroom, it appeared to be “streaming with fine white Odic light of great power”. “Lost Science” by Gerry Vassilatos summarizes Reichenbach’s descriptions further:

“The sharp crystals point projected a deep blue Od jet, some eight inches long. This bright blue projection was in constant motion. Emitting numerous sparks, the flame-jet in the space beyond the sharp point was tulip shaped. Turning the crystal around, the broken crystal base revealed a dense red and yellow smoke.”

As one discovery led to another, Reichenbach further added that his Odic force would flow through wires, and that flames and hot and cold sensations traveled along their length. It must surely have been a magnificent sight to behold. If only it were not limited to observations of his sensitives.

At first glance, it might seem that we are suggesting only sensitives can access these experiences, or that these experiences are the vain imaginings of deranged minds, it may be possible for everyone to participate in this knowledge. We look to Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Anthroposophy and a pioneer in spiritual science, a man who advanced the ideas of an ether with very similar properties to Reichenbach’s Od, for a means to gain access to these perceptions.

Steiner believed that all human beings had senses that could perceive the ethers, and that, especially through Initiation and mental discipline, these senses could be awakened. This is key: the idea that the mind may be trained to see subtle forces, like the Odic force, through a gradual awakening of the senses. It may explain the Baron’s developed ability to observe the Odic displays after a vigorous and extended research— his consciousness was expanded to perceive the subtle qualities.

We believe that these powerful claims are worthy of further investigation, and that the experiments of the Baron can be reproduced. By combining several of the Baron’s discoveries into one small unit, we will attempt to focus the Odic force in a darkroom (and detail how you may attempt the same). We note that it may not be possible to observe the colorful displays described by Reichenbach’s sensitives in our first attempts— we must wait and watch with open minds. The Process itself must precede the experience. Experiments in this vein serve as excellent objects of meditation, a means for the senses to develop.

To start, we can easily obtain (and combine) magnets, wire, and crystals. As this experiment requires a darkroom, a windowless space may be ideal if available, but heavy curtains or wool blankets over windows and doors in the space you plan to conduct the experiments should suffice. You will need to set up a space for a jar to be eye level on a table, three of four feet from a comfortable chair, where you can remain relaxed and alert. The length of time the experimenter can remain in the dark with his mind focused on the object should be prolonged as long as possible. As the experiments continue, the length of time should steadily grow longer, your attention is being disciplined not to wander. This is often difficult, as the eyes tend to wander about looking for light, but the more the eyes become attuned to the Odic luminosity, the longer the gaze may be focused, the more time spent in deep observation.

As always, keep a written record of all experiences during these experiments, even a lack of phenomenon. Observe without judgment, perform without the “lust of result”. Our proposed experiment runs approximately the course of a week, and is meant to be repeated for up to a year or longer. The senses will gradually become more sensitive to the subtle formative forces at play within growing crystals and along the surface of the bar magnets.

EXPERIMENT ONE: Crystal Od

In large jar mix one cup of salt with two cups water. Mix well to create a saturate solution. Drop three or four lengths of wire about four inches long into the solution. Place jar uncovered under a bright desk lamp for several hours.

EXPERIMENT 2: Magnetic Od

The Odic forces focused by magnets are good for observation. The darkroom, chair and table along with two bar magnets are required for these observations.

EXPERIMENT 3: Focused Od

Whereas the previous experiments dealt with focused Odic forces, this experiment is an attempt to show that Odic concentrators (magnets and crystals) may be combined to achieve a very high concentration of the Odic force.

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I watched a video of a Sky Serpent the other night, but it looked more like a giant butter-fly than anything reptilian. It looked like a floppy circle bending in half and flitting around like a fish out of water. “Things never seen seem familiar” is a paraphrase from an old Grateful Dead song, and this describes my experience pretty well as I instantly recognized it.

I have been familiar with “Etheric Critters” ever since a friend first brought my attention to Borderland Sciences Research Foundation. It was Borderlands who published some of the original photographs taken in the 50′s and 60′s for Dr. “T. J.” Constable in his book “The Cosmic Pulse of Life,” and the finest available versions of these photographs are in Borderland’s 1990 revised edition, now out of print (though there are still a limited copies available); Dr. T. J. has himself reprinted with third generation photographs recently with another publisher.

These Sky Creatures, or “Etheric Critters”, live in the sky, in the ether. This “ether”, however, is not the same ether that was disproved by Einstein and Morley-Martin — it is, instead, an attempt to describe a energetic atmospheric phenomena that has been observed on the borderlands of perception, and, indeed, the word ether has been used many times to denote different ideas as pointed out in the 2001 Journal of Borderland Research (“Ether, Electricity and its Manifestations”). The idea of ether as used to describe the UFO phenomenon can be roughly described as a physical density level that is most clearly understood as the Quantum Vacuum in the physics underlying the theory of Free Energy.

Ether is Extra-dimensional. Meade Layne described the first Etheric UFOs as the 4D Ether Ship Mystery. Any discussion of the fourth dimension becomes quickly and hopelessly confused when we try to differentiate between various ideas of the fourth dimension (i.e. equating the fourth dimension with Time), and we are only interested in introducing the idea of extra dimensional theories of the UFO. For a detailed explanation, see Meade Layne’s “Ether Ship Mystery (and Its Solution)”.

Can living creatures exist in this strange energy dimension? As hard as it is to picture anything living in this energy ocean, it was when borderland technology emerged that allowed us to perceive this living force that these creatures started being observed. The first Etherians were detected psychically in the 1940’s; a startling “scientific” technique that begs a new look into consciousness, physics and the life force. It has been postulated that the intense neurological activity of the brain may directly interface with the Quantum Vacuum in ways that seem to verify the claims of magicians for hundreds of years, that the intention focused brain has an effect on environment in which it is physically embedded.

Wilhelm Reich was no ordinary kook. Reich studied directly under Sigmund Freud, the Father of Modern Psychology. Reich discovered a primary life-force similar to Ether that he called Orgone Energy. One of the amazing features of this energy is that it could be manipulated at great distances in the sky creating rain by altering the relationship of the electrical charge between the earth and the atmosphere using a simple arrangement of tubes that are grounded in running water. He discovered this energy first inside the human body when he was studying the expansion and contraction of the biological organism. Optimum mental and psychic health required the regular contraction and expansion of this vital force in the physical body. The Orgone Accumulator was one of several tools he had developed to help facilitate his research. Atmospheric research led to the development and perfection of the “cloud buster” which could change the potentials in the atmosphere at extreme distances resulting in the creation and dispertion of clouds and rain. It quickly attracted the attention of our Sky Creatures.

Not long after his lab assistants and visitors started reporting strange occurrences in the sky and he himself heard something buzz overhead he began noticing a strange pollution that was effecting the local environment. In his most suppressed book, “Contact With Space“, Dr. Reich describes the destructive effects UFOs have on our energetic enviornment. It was not more than 30 days after Reich aimed an experimental “cloud buster” at one of the many UFOs that were beginning to somewhat harass the pristine wilderness laboratories that the Federal government issued an order for his to cease research and publishing… not long after, he died in prison and his books and tools were literally burned to ashes like some scene out of the darkest Inquisition.

In the wake of this suppression that was impossible to ignore, T. J. Constable set aside his phychic contacts with Ashtar Command and started building cloud busters out in the desert. His desire was to physically grasp the ether beyond the subjective impressions of the mind, to twist the invisible into scienifically observable forces that can be engineered. T. J. was able to extend the work of Reich by capturing images of the unidentified flying objects, amorphous blobs in man cases, with infrared filters on his camera. T. J. published his interpretation in The Cosmic Pulse of Life.

(Jose Escamilla using similar techniques as Mr. Constable was able to make similar photographs of atmospheric creatures he called “Rods”. His research can be found on the internet.)

These observations, although they take place consistently for the last 60 years of UFO reporting, have remained as a kook sideline to the more mainstream abduction conspiracy stories. The idea that some sort of sentient creatures live in the atmosphere or lives in the massively fluctuating energy in the atmosphere is exceedingly hard to conceptualize. This mental picture is becoming much easier to visualize with the images from NASA showing floppy blobs sporting around in outer space. “Critters” … some sort of atmospheric fish?

But why critters in space? There is no life in space… or is there? It is theorized by alternative scientists that Orgone Energy exists in space. There is a very important photo of the lunar landing where the astronauts are surrounded by a blue glow; this is thought to be an orgone charge luminescent in the vacuum of space.

The presence of humans and equipment in space is going to create the same energetic conditions as an Orgone Accumulator or a ‘cloud buster’; an extreme potential of Orgone Energy is attracting these critters like they were moths to a flame. We have indeed seen many pictures of “critters” hanging around the space station and space shuttle. The latest video of these “Critters” is similar to observing sea life in its natural habitat. These elusive “Critters” seem most like dolphins that swim along side the crafts that journey beyond the shores into the deep borderlands of science and perception.

Excerpts from “THE COSMIC PULSE OF LIFE” by Trevor James Constable

Chapter Seven

THE CASE FOR THE CRITTERS

… the mistakes and errors are the price for the great romance of doing something for the first time.

- SIR FRANCIS CHICHESTER

The concept that certain UFOs could be living organisms not originate with me. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s story Horror of the Heights gives a startlingly prescient description of the “air jungle” and its denizens. Doyle makes other references to borderland residents in The Edge of the Unknown, published by Putnams in 1930. Charles Fort also speculated about critters in his Book of the Damned, available in several editions. The first modern theory encompassing this idea with specific reference to UFOs was probably the original “etheric interpretation” of the flying discs, formulated in 1946-47 by the late N. Meade Layne, MA.

Mr. Layne published his theory in a penetrating 1950 monograph The Ether Ship Mystery and Its Solution. He was founder and first director of the Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, Inc., in San Diego, California. A former university lecturer and an outstanding writer, Meade Layne produced one of the classics of ufology in his monograph. His achievement was to produce the only theoretical treatment of UFOs to survive the entire modern period. This document is still available today with added comments by Riley Crabb, second director of BSRF.

Mr. Layne’s “etheric interpretation” is also readily extensible to cover new UFO facts, and is required reading for any person with a genuine desire to break out of the bondage of mechanistic thinking. There can be no doubt that Meade Layne was a generation ahead of his time with his mobile thinking. He also emerges as easily the greatest writer of ufology’s break-in period.

The methods of obtaining advanced information that were employed by this pioneer, at a time when UFO data were sparse, will be dealt with later in proper context. A sample of his writings will illustrate that his work disqualifies with equal alacrity both the faint-hearted and the weak-minded:

“The aeroforms are thought-constructs, mind constructs. As such, they are, in effect, the vehicle of the actual entity who creates them. Just as our own terrestrial minds rule and become identified with our bodies, so does the entity of the Etheric world make for himself a body or vehicle out of etheric substance.

“This body may be of any shape or size, any one of a hundred mutants – such as the indefinite and changing shapes reported by observers of flying saucers throughout the world. The shapes may be a wheel, a globe, a fusiform or cigar shape, a fireball, vapor or gases. It may have any density, any rate of vibration desired. The impenetrable steel of landed discs, is, as it were, a sort of etheric isotope of our terrestrial steel, or we may call it ‘etheric steel’. The shapes and vehicles and the entity operating them form one being, just as a human being is a psychophysical mind-body unity. The body of this Etherian entity is a thoughtform which can go anywhere, and penetrates our earth and sea as easily as our air.”

Etherian physics in all its significance for true ufology – the ufology of the Future – will be enlarged upon as this book proceeds. The important point for now is that I was not the originator of the theory that some UFOs could be living organisms, and that Meade Layne – and also John Bessor – preceded me by about ten years. When Meade Layne saw my collection of more than a hundred photographs of these mutants not long before his death, he was exuberant. He termed their capture on film “the death knell of the old order.”

Meade Layne’s daring hypothesis – a brilliant synthesis of physics and metaphysics – was shown to be valid when I literally stumbled across these organisms in the summer of 1957. This experimental accident, and my subsequent photography of dozens of these critters in situ, merely confirmed the extant theories of far brighter minds than mine. This borderland breakthrough was crude, awkward and some at uncomprehending, but it nevertheless threw light immediately into the darker, previously impenetrable corners of history’s greatest mystery.

Endless implications ensued. Technical, theoretical,cognitional, philosophical, psychological, methodological and scientific questions arose of staggering magnitude. Unraveling all this will take the best efforts of far better and younger, more functional minds than those that currently dominate world science. The response we found, outside the mall circle of friends and associates who understood our work, was essentially confined to fear and anxiety. We understood some of this only too well.

When these strange living forms burst into our ken, we found it essential to be light-hearted about our work – if only to diminish the psychological impact of unknown terrors. The sight of these queer, plasmatic fauna in photographs was sufficient to repel sensitive people otherwise interested in UFOs. Motion pictures of them sometimes caused psychically sensitive persons to bolt from the room during screening. Numerous persons today who have tampered chemically with their perceptions by ingesting LSD have become aware of these strange organisms. Back in 1957-58 however, few people were willing to attempt chemical extensions of perception, and prior knowledge of the critters was confined to learned and accomplished occultists, who knew only too well how real the things were that we had been able to capture on film.

We conceived of ourselves as children, struggling to stay upright by clinging to the side of a crib. Our falls and spills and mistakes were almost perpetual and often comical. Everything we touched was new, and there were no technical ~ texts to consult. Our ability to see the funny side of our adventures never left us, and was always a counterbalance to what might otherwise have become overwhelmingly serious.

Kidding in no way diminished our curiosity. We kept on after the critters. No one had ever done anything like this before, and it was a tremendous thrill. The laws of these etherain realms are essentially functional and biological, and they open themselves only to the researcher who, in his experimental work, has not lost his ability to play – to play like a child. The searching organism is almost always playful. A sense of humor is essential, for experience quickly teaches the field worker that the stupidity and cupidity of contemporary man must surely be the comedy of the gods.

Chapter Eighteen

FROM ORGASM TO UFOs

No unimportant man is hated and persecuted as Reich was.

- A.S. NEIL

The following account of Wilhelm Reich’s involvement with UFOs is drawn from Contact With Space. Supplementary and illuminatory material has been contributed by Robert McCullough, one of Reich’s research assistants at the time. A student of Steiner’s work in the interim, McCullough is better able on that account to evaluate what happened at Orgonon and in Tucson during those haunted days. My own interpretations and evaluations have been also added, based upon insights, findings and experiences already described in this book.

The discovery of the orgone energy is the practical, technical break-in to the UFO problem. Appropriately enough, therefore, we find Dr. Reich’s theoretical involvement with the technical principles immanent in UFOs commencing right after he discovered the orgone in the atmosphere in 1939-40. During the WWII years he worked out a mass-free energy formula, and also a pendulum formula. Both these formulae, and the mathematics from which they are derived, are published in Contact With Space. These formulae anticipate enormous velocities in kreiselwelle functions, and anticipate mathematically the characteristic wobbling and swinging associated with UFOs since 1947. Developed long before that, the formulae ran parallel in the time of their calculation with the first radar sightings of UFOs made by military and naval units during WWII.

Dr. Reich was a practical man. Since he could not at the time confirm these formulae with actual observations and experiments, he deposited them in the Orgone Institute archives until such time as they could be empirically confirmed. His discovery of the orgone energy had obsoleted the old physics by filling the universe with a mass-free primordial energy. He recoiled from making the kind of abstruse mathematical gambits – factually unsupported – that had emptied out that same universe, divesting it even of ether. These notions had hamstrung physical research, blocked comprehension of the orgone energy and led to systematic biasing of the scientific mind against any conception of a living cosmos.

Dr. Reich decided to wait for factual developments. In 1947 he started his work on vacua that led to blue lumination of the orgone energy. He detailed this work in the first issue of the Orgone Energy Bulletin, published in 1949. This was contemporaneous with Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 sighting in Washington state, and the subsequent early work and writing of Major Donald Keyhoe.

In the late 1940s and early ’50s, Dr. Reich occasionally heard about UFOs through newspaper reports and news broadcasts. He was so immersed in his work in biophysics at this time that he paid these reports scant attention. Considering the scope of his research and inventions, the extent of his responsibilities in teaching and running Orgonon, and his artistic diversions into writing, painting and poetry, his brushing contact with the UFO subject is understandable.

Visitors saw UFOs around Orgonon in 1951. In August of 1952, standing on his front porch, Dr. Reich heard something whizz by from southwest to northeast in a few seconds. He did not see the object. Although the whole subject of UFOs was still largely ridiculed, Dr. Reich himself did not consider that there was anything particularly strange in the earth receiving visitors from outer space. These reverie conditions were soon banished, for in the post-Oranur period the alien invaders intruded upon Dr. Reich and his work – forcing themselves into his life with malefic intent.

This truth is far stranger than fiction. The presence of these malevolent aliens might have gone unnoticed, as it has in most of the world, had they not tackled a scientist of such phenomenal observational powers as Wilhelm Reich. His ability to single-handedly punch right through to the orgone discovery, on observation and experiment, is a matter of record. Those same observational powers rallied to his aid in 1953, when UFO attentions to Orgonon developed into an attack.

Visions of space ships shooting destructive rays into the ground, Hollywood-style, rise to mind at the use of the word attack. The assault on Reich and his work was on a far more subtle and clever scale. Again it aimed at keeping the presence and the purposes of the attackers concealed while the destructive work was done. In the spring of 1952, Dr. Reich noticed a strange black substance settling on the rocks from which his observatory was built. The black deposits also began to appear on other rock surfaces in the vicinity.

As Bob McCullough recalls, Reich’s ability to detect such subtle processes was well-nigh incredible: “Dr. Reich’s powers of observation were simply tremendous. I never found his equal among the scores of scientists I have worked with since. He was continually drawing my attention to things that had completely eluded me, even close up. His awareness was also astounding, as was the case with melanor, the black substance that we later connected with UFOs.”

Dr. Reich noticed the black substance gathering. He made time-lapse films over a period of several weeks. These films proved beyond doubt that the blackening was an ongoing process. Other similar substances Reich detected he named brownite and orite. McCullough made preliminary analyses of these materials in 1953, his findings being published in 1955 in CORE (Cosmic Orgone Engineering), a publication of the Orgone Institute Press.

Melanor attacked and destroyed rocks and dried up the atmosphere. The substance created excitation of the biological energy of workers at Orgonon, who were afflicted with cyanosis, nausea, thirst and miscellaneous pains. When McCullough scraped or hammered melanor off the rocks for analysis, pressure would quickly build up in his head and his face would flush and burn. Scraping seemed to excite the melanor, which caused a corresponding strong reaction of the biological energy of any human being nearby.

To melanor was added the compounding problem of DOR – Deadly Orgone Radiation. DOR is orgone energy that has become sequestered, and resultantly stagnant and stale. DOR clouds surrounded Orgonon and deadened the light. The landscape in the magnificent splendor of rural Maine turned bleak and somber. Trees and shrubs blackened and withered.

An enterprise dynamically devoted to life thus became surrounded by and infected with death processes. There can be little doubt today – and McCullough for one has none – that a new kind of warfare was being waged against Dr. Reich’s scientific oasis. Had these processes not been rapidly detected by Dr. Reich’s phenomenal observational powers, they might well have advanced to the point where this malefic engineering would have extinguished Orgonon, Wilhelm Reich and everything to which his discoveries have led us. There are very few people able to tolerate for long – biophysically and biopsychiatrically – the kind of conditions that the malevolent aliens subtly imposed on Orgonon.

Dr. Reich, McCullough and others at Orgonon became aware as events proceeded that their energy was being drawn out of them. In November of 1953, Dr. Reich read Keyhoe’s Flying Saucers Are Real, and began to put two and two together. Minus any knowledge of orgone energy, Major Keyhoe had set down facts in his book that could not have failed to connect with Dr. Reich’s pioneering in the borderland of etherian physics. Reich could relate the noiselessness of most UFOs to the near-noiselessness of his own orgone energy motor. The bluish lights often reported around UFOs and as UFOs were functionally related to the blue lumination of orgone energy in vacor tubes. The spinning rotating discs with their oft-noted swinging motions in the heavens were fully compatible with the spinning wave motion of orgone energy, and the mathematical formulae that Reich had worked out during World War II.

UFOs hung in the night sky around the laboratory. Occasionally they moved and shifted their positions. Dr. Reich took time exposures to objectify their presence. Such photographs proved that UFOs concealed themselves among the stars, a stratagem that I reported from personal experience in They Live in the Sky. Dr. Reich’s photographs demonstrated the ability of UFOs to materialize and dematerialize. Objects appeared during time exposures and disappeared before the exposures were terminated.

Dr. Reich and his facilities were getting a great deal of attention from UFOs. This attention was unwelcome, unwanted, disruptive, damaging and dangerous. On many nights, Reich himself was unable to sleep in the quarters at Orgonon, and drove from place to place in a station wagon, snatching fitful catnaps. McCullough has said of this baleful time: “It was as though the energy – or something – was following him around and you could see him becoming slowly exhausted by the strain.”

What was actually going on is not too difficult to deduce, given the reality of invisible entities of vast technical skill in those matters to which Wilhelm Reich had broken through. There could be no more effective way to deal with this gifted, brilliant man than to drive him crazy, cause him to break down and to lose his mind and otherwise formidable reasoning powers. To reduce his laboratory with ray guns would only raise endless questions and investigations. Drive him crazy however and every armored nincompoop of high academic qualification would stand vindicated when saying: “I told you Reich was nuts.”

The shutters could be drawn on etherian physics for another century.

Dr. Reich decided to fight back. His weapon was his own Invention, the cloudbuster. Designed and developed to control the weather, the cloudbuster was an obvious tool to use against anything operating in the heavens and employing orgone energy functions. Dr. Reich demonstrated weather control with these devices, reported his findings fully in his journals and bulletins, and also made the information available to the U.S. government.

Others have carried on this work since Dr. Reich’s death, including myself. As one who has personally worked for many years with cloudbusters, designing, building and operating them experimentally, I have no doubt whatever that they work. In 1974, because of my concern over the spurious expanding use of these devices by amateur experimenters, I personally produced and financed a 75-page survey of orgone energy weather engineering and circulated it to the relevant Federal agencies. The reader will recognize that such a heavy expenditure is not made unless there is both genuine concern over the matters involved and conviction as to the power of the device. This is mentioned here to emphasize that in dealing with Dr. Reich’s use of the cloudbuster as a weapon, I can once again write as a participant, having myself used cloudbusters to provoke the appearance of certain types of UFOs.

The original Reich cloudbuster consisted of an array of parallel, hollow, metal tubes. One end of the array is grounded into water. The tubes, or pipes, are mounted on a turntable or similar pivoting assembly so that the free ends of the pipes may be directed into the atmosphere at any elevation and on any bearing like a battery of Oerlikon guns. Dr. Reich theorized that the hollow metal pipes “drew” orgone energy into the water, thereby permitting manipulation of the orgone energy potentials in the atmosphere. Through such manipulations, control of the weather may be exercised.

The cloudbuster gets its name simply. The device will dissipate, i.e. “bust”, any discrete cloud at which it is precisely aimed. Since Dr. Reich felt that he was being drawn upon by the UFOs around Orgonon, and that the whole environment was being sucked to death by such drawing, he decided to draw upon the UFOs with his cloudbuster. There have been writers and commentators with no practical knowledge whatever of these matters who have elected to refer snidely to Dr. Reich’s use of the cloudbuster in this way. He used it as a spacegun because he had no option. He was within his rights to defend his own life, his laboratory and his work against the entities who deliberately set out to harm him.

On 12 May 1954, between 9:40 p.m, and 10:45 p.m., Dr. Reich turned the cloudbuster on luminous UFOs hanging in the nearby sky. Two UFOs to the west of Orgonon were made to fade out several times by training the cloudbuster on them. This proved that Dr. Reich’s invention could technically reach the strange aerial objects whose presence was associated with the overall deterioration of the environment at Orgonon. Perhaps it was possible to impair or even disable the propulsion systems of these weird craft. The scenario was that of a battle.

This experience of causing UFOs to dim out shocked Dr. Reich deeply. He feared that if he attempted further to mitigate UFO mischief upon his scientific center at Orgonon, he might precipitate an interplanetary war – something General MacArthur had inferred might lie in the near future. Accordingly, Dr. Reich took no further action against UFOs with the cloudbuster until much later that same year. Nor should it be forgotten, in understanding the terrible burdens borne by Dr. Reich at this time, that he was under simultaneous attack by the unholy alliance of Big Medicine and Big Government. Like the UFOs around Orgonon, they too wished to see Wilhelm Reich and his work extirpated.

An order dated 19 March 1954 directed Dr. Reich to halt all research activity in orgone energy, including publications and publishing. This action hampered his work at Orgonon because revenues that sustained the center came largely from accumulator rentals. Seldom if ever has scientific work of such vital moment been so mindlessly harassed in the name of the law.

There can be little doubt, with the perspective of the years since these happenings and an understanding of the New Knowledge, that the whole destructive scenario was conceived and executed by the Boys Downstairs. Psychic control of officials who are spiritually inert is about as difficult for alien technology as making a telephone call is for us. The aim of the whole venture was to bring Reich down and bury his work.

The measure of Wilhelm Reich’s striking clarity of mind is his ability to keep plowing ahead despite all this engineered adversity. The advancing desolation of the area around Orgonon was associated with the incursion of these big, yellow and “stars” after the Oranur Experiment. Melanor, orite and brownite appeared pursuant to the UFO onslaught. Dryness and discomfort ensued in man, animals and vegetation.

Dr. Reich began to transfer this picture to a world canvas. He began to see the connection between the withdrawal of life energy from Orgonon – the world center of thought and work on life energy – and a similar sapping of life energy from the planet as a whole. He could readily relate, with his functional mode of thought, the world-wide expansion of desert conditions to the local conditions at Orgonon. He began to see the drying up of the planet and the planetary problem of DOR as engineered conditions rather than natural developments.

Dr. Reich began to suspect that UFOs were undermining earth life, subtly, silently, steadily and secretly. He thus became the first scientist to anticipate from knowledge and experience the unpleasant truth about the Boys Downstairs that has been delineated in this book. All of it was based, in his case, upon observation and experiment and without any study whatever of what Dr. Steiner has said about these same matters.

The years since Dr. Reich’s death have served to confirm his well-grounded suspicion of what he called the COREmen (for Cosmic ORgone Engineering).

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Our only real tool on the Borderlands of Science is our perception, so it is common to view the teachers and healers of Radionics as special, and they are special, but no more so than the rest of us. These pioneers have by chance, or genetics, had an advantage perceiving the invisible realms of vibration — the natural ability to detect vibrations in these individuals was some how heightened. Many times these individuals learned to train their talents and focus their perceptions with meditation and other techniques they acquired from the Mystery Schools.

So it is on the path of technique and training that even the most insensitive person may develop these natural senses. The human nervous system was built to detect radiations of an extremely subtle nature — it is hard wired into the survival system of our bodies. The nervous system is sensitive to the cells pulsating and the atoms revolving, and to the rhythms of the etheric; we can identify even the radiation of particular atomic structures like gold or liver tissue. It merely takes experience and practice.

We will here outline two experiments that will train the nervous system to detect both gold and liver tissue. If the experiments are strictly adhered to over time the results will get better and better; this is the evidence: the gradual improvement of the ability to detect the presence of a particular energy structure, be it gold, tissue, or even auras and such subtle fields. You will become familiar with the sense of success, and also that of failure. You will learn to listen to your nervous system and muscular system interacting with the vital forces, subtle manifestations, and all forms of physical vibrations.

You can use a pendulum, Cameron Aura Meter, or L-rods for the experiments, whichever tool you are most comfortable with. The tool is just a focus for information from the nervous system; it is transduced into very subtle electro-muscular responses that cause the tools to move. The skill is in using your nervous system to perceive the radiations, and eventually the tools themselves will be cast aside as the perceptions become heightened.

For the first exercise you will need a gold coin, three or more envelopes, and cardboard to slide into each envelope. You can get a Year 2000 gold dollar from any bank without much trouble. Cut three or more strips of cardboard so that all are exactly equal and that they fit inside the envelopes. On one of the pieces of cardboard cut a round hole in just the top layer of the cardboard, large enough to insert the gold dollar. Tape over the dollar to keep it in place, as it should be a flat surface. Put it in the envelope and put a tiny red dot on just one side. Put the other two cardboards into the envelopes. Seal all three envelopes.

Shuffle the envelopes until you have forgotten which is which and place them on the floor. You can try many variations: place one in each direction, place them all in same direction, etc. Now try to determine which envelope contains the gold coin, being certain to keep notes of your observations, every hit and every miss. Determine the best set up and stick to it for a while until you get better and better at it.

The second exercise is to give a practical experiment in medical radiesthesia. We can detect the radiations of particular tissues. To determine if a organ is unhealthy, it seems that some time should be spent getting to know that frequency of radiation, then we can determine if an organ is diseased or about to become so. This second exercise needs a hunk of liver from a chicken or from a cow, three bowls, and three cardboard covers that cover the bowls. Place the liver in one of the bowls. For this it is best to have someone else shuffle the bowls, as you can feel the weight difference. (You have a good friend who will help you shuffle raw liver in a bowl, don’t you?) Determine with whichever instrument you have chosen which bowl has the liver. Over time you will be able to detect liver vibrations. While these are dead cells, the atomic structure is intact as long as the liver is fresh; our own attempts to see if we could determine how long liver tissue had been dead was a bit gross and had to be tossed before we could get any real idea.

Dowsing Clips

http://www.hlla.com/reference/dowsing.html:

Dowsers have frequently conducted experiments at dowsing conventions in which they passed electricity through ground, and found they could easily pick up the resulting electromagnetic energies. Scientists have identified three sensors that can pick up this electromagnetic information. One is near or in the pituitary gland (in the brain), and there is one on each adrenal gland (near each kidney). The theory is that by comparing the information from these three internal sensory points, the brain can determine both the distance and direction of an electromagnetic-source without our conscious awareness–much in the way the brain uses the two eyes to calculate how far away an object is, another thing the brain does without us consciously thinking about it.

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Divining rods and all common dowsing devices, are the simplest forms of electroscopes. The bent rod for example is just a variation of Gilbert’s straw needle electroscope. The divining rods are charged with static electricity from the dowser’s own body. This static electricity can be seen quite adequately with a simple millivolt meter. This voltage is measured between the hands of the dowser, to measure this voltage accurately a diff amp should be used at the input to the voltmeter, “this eliminates stray signals which are common to both hands”. The amount of voltage will vary depending on the person. A good dowser will have a high reading, “above 100 mv” while a poor dowser may read as low as,”0 mv.”. For males the right hand is usually a negative polarity, and the left hand is positive in polarity. These polarities are usually reversed in females.

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"Not since _______, have such violent outbreaks been seen on the surface of the sun as have been reported this year."

The quote is from Harlan True Stetson, the date in the blank is August 1917, and the year Stetson wrote this was 1937. It sounds like it could have been written today. I’m a little dismayed at the hysteria being generated by the media about our current solar condition. We seem to be witnessing "grasping at straws" attempts to point the finger at anything suspect of causing total chaos as we approach the new millennium. At first it was Y2k that was supposed to end the world as we know it, and as that died out due to challenges and rational thought from real computer experts and industrialists (note: the computer industry is preparing for sales in the year 2000 — not the end of the world), now the Sun is the most recent victim to blame for our upcoming Armageddon. Mind you, most of these claims are coming from the alternative media, who again treasure alternative media sources for their documentation and confirmation. These media types do not consult scientists who are respected in the fields in which they work, rather they consult with so-called alternative spokespersons, prophets, and pseudoscientists (yes, I said that dreaded word) who profess "radical changes are a coming" and "head for the hills" mentality.

A classic example of this kind of behavior was presented to us at BSRF last year. We received several faxes from a couple of groups who had claimed that there was an extraordinary seismic event that occurred and had lasted for hours. They suggested that it had originated from deep inside the earth, and was unprecedented in that it was not felt by anyone. They had also suggested that it was probably a precursor to other potentially devastating seismic events. I perused the seismic databases in search of this anomaly and found nothing, so I asked the group if they could provide any data on the event. I received another fax with several seismograms from the internet’s Live Seismic Server which appeared to detail this event with a statement from the group that the USGS was silent on the event — that they may be involved in a coverup. After a quick glance at the seismograms it was easy to correlate the data exactly with a known event that had occurred on the day in question, and that their speculation on the duration of the event had stemmed from their inability to properly interpret the seismograms! Needless to say, after I replied to the group with the correct analysis, it was never mentioned again.

Of course, the USGS was not involved in any coverup — they simply had no idea what these groups were talking about and chalked it up to more lunatic hysteria — as do many mainstream scientists when confronted with such data. I can hardly blame them for their reactions as this is becoming more commonplace as the millennium approaches. Many in the scientific community are being bombarded with allegations of covering up data and research even when they try to present their findings openly. In order for the alternative science community to properly liaison with mainstream science this will have to cease. It is our hope that these attacks do not encourage elements of quantitative science to withhold rather than reveal.

So then, what is really happening with our Sun? Is there something unusual and extraordinary about the recent rise in sunspot numbers? Are communications satellites, automobiles, computers, powerplants, etc. going to be rendered useless? Is the sun going to explode soon or lash out with a gigantic fireball to consume the earth and her inhabitants? It’s always a possibility, but I don’t think so. There are some things that solar activity might be responsible for, but we’ll check into that a little later. First, let’s look at some graphical comparisons of sunspot activity through recent history. It has been stated by some media personalities that the recent rise in sunspot numbers may be the highest ever recorded — that the jump to over 300 (or 340) is simply unexampled.

[note: "Sunspot Number" is comprised of a daily index of SUNSPOT activity (R), defined as R = k (10 g + s) where S = number of individual spots, g = number of sunspot groups, and k is a variable scaling factor (usually <1) that indicates the combined effects of observing conditions, telescope, and bias of the solar observers. See: http://spaceweather.com/java/archive.html#sunspotnum

Rather than post all the graphs, here are some links to historical solar and geomagnetic data charts from 1956-1991 which show that unsmoothed sunspot numbers have indeed reached such levels and higher:

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Or for the really enterprising see this historical database of daily numbers from 1818 to present (appears to be incomplete): http://www.oma.be/KSB-ORB/SIDC/DATA/dayssn.dat

During solar maximum there are many sunspots, and during solar minimum there are few. The plot linked below shows the number of smoothed sunspots observed from the year 1749 through the present: http://www.sunspotcycle.com/images/zurich.gif

Now here is a graphical comparison of solar cycles 21, 22 and our current Cycle 23:

And, here is a graphical comparison of solar cycles 10, 13, 17, 20 and the current Cycle 23 (using the international monthly smoothed sunspot number):

While Cycle 23 (our present cycle) has been predicted to be slightly above average (See: Cycle 23 will be above average but no record setter) Dr. David Hathaway of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center said, "It’s like saying we’re going to have a mild or cold winter,"

It is now quite probable that the Earth’s climate may be linked to sunspots. The "Little Ice Age" corresponded with a 70-year period, 1645-1715, when sunspots were thin in number, the Maunder minimum. Also, there are strong statistical associations linking current trends in climate (surface temperatures) to trends in solar activity (See these two excellent papers by Dr. Theodor Landscheidt from the Schroeter Institute for Research in Cycles of Solar Activity, Nova Scotia, Canada entitled, SOLAR ACTIVITY: A DOMINANT FACTOR IN CLIMATE DYNAMICS , and Solar Activity Controls El Niño and La Niña ).

Now that we have fairly determined that Cycle 23 is not really any different than previous cycles, what is it that the sun will affect, and what is it that we should really concern ourselves with?

Part II – Sunspots and Human Behavior

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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 behaviour for many years, and we are quite confident that we can predict behaviours 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: 1) Minimum sunspot activity; 2) increasing sunspot activity; 3) maximum sunspot activity; 4) 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 (available from BSRF), 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” (reprinted by BSRF), 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.& 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”, aid, “From the 4th to the 16th centuries the Central Asian Steepe 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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