I offer my own simple, inaccurate and incomplete geopolitical narrative which I wrote early in 2021 on someone else’s blog… I thought I would post it here. It’s simple… but I hope that keeps it somewhat understandable.
Animals can’t move around, communicate, or stay alive in spacetime, without what we describe as energy. Energy allows you to go for a walk, communicate with someone on the other side of the world, and allows your body to make cellular transformations that keep you alive.
As a child, the Prudom affair always fascinated me. There is still no satisfying motive to explain Barry Prudom’s behavior.
We do know from Newspaper articles of the time that questions were being asked by MP’s less than 11 days after Barry Prudom’s death, about whether there a connection between Prudom, and Geoffrey Prime. This is because on the 15th July 1982 Geoffrey Arthur Prime formerly a Senior Sigint Officer with the RAF, then later Sigint at GCHQ Cheltenham was formally charged in court under the official secrets act.
It’s already known that hyper-weak non-thermal magnetic fields can affect organisms. A well known and reproducible effect involves migration and navigation of birds, turtles and other organisms called Magnetoreception. Although a mechanism has not yet been identified, behavioral studies on animals can reliably produce the effect at magnetic field strengths from one to a few tens of nanoTesla (nT). These effects can be reliably produced in the presence of the much stronger natural geomagnetic fields generated from within earths core. Despite the magnetic field from the planet core being thousands of times stronger than the weak magnetic field strengths which the researchers are using, the researchers can still reliably produce these behavioral effects wthin organisms without them being drowned out by the stronger fields.
It’s worthwhile providing some comparisons to demonstrate just how weak the magnetic field strengths used in Magnetoreception studies are…
Beyond these Magneoreception studies lies the research into non-specific hyper-weak magnetic field effects in organisms which falls under the field of Magnetobiology in general. The bulk of the research into biological effects is here with many thousands of published papers. But these studies suffer from poor reproducibility, and are nearly all unique, Prato & Binhi suggest the principle causes being the random and nonspecific non-thermal effects that researchers don’t control for.
Binhi and Prato suggest in their recent paper that the only way to improve the reproducibility for studies in the field of Magnetobiology is to run them in isolated hypomagnetic environmental conditions. Prato has already shown how successful this strategy can be, in his own studies exploring the behavioral effects on mice after they are place inside Mu-Metal magnetically shielded chambers. And in a later study reintroducing controlled magnetic fields inside these shielded chambers.
They then argue, using copious amounts of research from a wide range of previous studies in hypomagnetic conditions (magnetically shielded), that the results are still too random and well distributed, but are often of such weak or selective magnetic field strength or frequency that future research should probably focus on either a universal physical mechanism, or a molecular gyroscope mechanism, with a water proton mechanism being an outside possibility…
Looking at each of these – most likely – mechanisms in turn, they argue that:
The universal, or general physical, mechanism is interesting because its predictions do not depend on the nature of the molecular magnetic moments. It is assumed only that they precess and relax. Therefore, there is an attractive possibility to measure the MF target parameters, the gyromagnetic ratio and the thermal relaxation time, separately. The mechanism predicts the maximum effect of approximately 12% and the existence of HMF and ac/dc MF effects simultaneously in one and the same organism.
The magnetic moment of a molecular gyroscope does not precess. The moment occurs due to the rotation of charges that are distributed over the gyroscope—a rotating molecule with its ends temporarily fixed. Gyroscopic mechanism is attractive by the high value of the expected effects, up to 50%, and a relatively small value, 0.03, of the critical parameter γHτ. However, (i) the critical MF is highly dependent on the size of a virtual space for rotation, and (ii) the existence of the long-, or coherently, rotating parts of a protein chain in the process of folding has not yet been confirmed in any experiments besides magnetobiological ones.
The proton-exchange mechanism requires very precise technique for its validation—a magnetic exposure system that could eliminate any extraneous MF variations exceeding 1 nT. Available observations of 10 to 1000 greater critical MFs do not support the mechanism. In addition, this has not been mathematically developed to a level that would allow one to make experimentally verifiable predictions. Further, even if the mobility of a portion of water protons was really changed in 1-nT MFs, it is unclear how this change could affect the rate of biochemical reaction.
The magnetic fields used to produce these behavioral effects could be of such weakness that I would argue that that to be completely through. All future studies on organisms which are analyzing small and strange behavioral changes in organisms, are going to need to control for the environmental magnetic field conditions present during the experiment.
In my opinion, if this research suggests the use of magnetic shielding, and hypomagnetic conditions for reproducibility of these magnetobiological studies, then this must also have a bearing on the reproducibility of studies exploring anomalous human phenomena.
Many regular members of the official Skeptiko-forum have today posted messages of dismay, after waking up to find thousands of forum messages had been deleted overnight:
“…this is sad, can it be undone..”
“…Really sad development..”
“…I can’t believe it. All those posts…”
“…To be frank, I find this action outrageous…”
“…symbolic of how Skeptiko went from a place of serious scholarship to a rag peddling silly conspiracy theory nonsense…”
“Well that’s a terrible thing to do. boo….”
“…isn’t it rash to just delete all those threads that so many people contributed to…” Continue reading
Apparently so… this behavioral study ( Prato et. al. 2013 ) which shows an extremely robust effect, deals with hyper-weak (33 nanoTelsla) magnetic field (MF) effects on mice. These hyper-weak magnetic fields reduce a strange analgesic effect on mice previously discovered by the authors. This analgesic effect is caused by 1 hour of shielding from ambient MF’s inside a Mu Metal chamber. The study sort of falls outside of the usual Magnetoreception studies to do with animal navigation. It’s one of the most thorough studies I’ve ever read. It’s very detailed and somewhat difficult to understand so I will try to simplify, and briefly explain the main issues as I see it…
This is a little thought experiment I came up with some time ago to help me think about conscious awareness, and how information within the external world is stored, combined and shared.
A woman called Freda attending hospital for a routine operation is asked to choose a number between 111 – 999, and key it into an electronic device without anyone else seeing, and to also write the number secretly on a card, and seal it inside an envelope. Such that no one other than Freda knows the number. Freda is not told the reason for this.
Freda is then taken into the hospital theater and anaesthetised so as to induce a loss of consciousness. Unknown to Freda, the electronic device into which she entered the number is actually a portable timer, and the number she entered corresponds to the number of seconds that the timer will begin counting down from, once activated. Whilst active, the timer will continue counting down until it reaches zero, at which time it is capable of triggering the activation of any device it is attached to. Continue reading
As some of you will know, I believe that the classic NDE (cardiac arrest in hospital) is the result of one or more third parties, laying down a pattern on the experients brain whilst it has become more exposed to external fields, due to a loss in power of it’s endogenous EM field.
What I’ve tried to show in the very simplistic diagram below are two experients existing patterns, one sad, the other angry, which are overlayed by an external third parties pattern. In each case the differences between these patterns is processed by the experient, resulting in an NDE that attempts to understand and incorporate the differences.
Fig 1. External fields intersecting an exposed brain, lay down a new pattern which is processed, and the differences are understood in terms of the NDE.
Each experient understands and incorporates the new pattern in their own way, the angry experient has a repelling experience (red), and the sad experient has an attractive experience (green). However, both experients are simply trying to incorporate the new pattern, and understand it in the most appropriate way.
Here’s a diagram (Fig. 1.) I produced during 2013, to aid me in thinking about the relationships between the sense of space I experience with different states/senses during wakefulness.
When I say, ‘sense of space’, what I’m really talking about is my perception of the location for each of these states/senses, in relation to where my sense of ‘self’ is currently located. If your not sure what I’m talking about, don’t give up, it should become clearer as you read more.
Fig. 1. Ordering of my perceptions, according to the sense of space they produce.
Note that the scaling of the diagram, and the positioning/ordering of the labels are completely arbitrary. It’s my own idea, I don’t know if it has any validity, or indeed whether others have already documented these relationships in the past. Continue reading
I recently watched part of a presentation on Youtube by Dr Michael Graziano concerning his ideas about consciousness (below). In the video at 8:07 he shows a graph which I find interesting. You’ll need to watch from the start of the video to understand this experiment though.
On the graph within the video… Continue reading
Ehrsson’s team have published an interesting new paper in which they claim that a subjects experiences whilst in an induced OBE state, can later be shown as impaired, when the subject is asked to recall the experience in a normal (none OBE) state. Continue reading
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