There is no holonomic analysis in the media or science except for David Bohm, Jose Arguelles, and maybe Rupert Sheldrake in Physics, Time Science, and biology and me.
Earth Ascending is not speculation, but a precise set of keys, a code, a matrix, and ultimately a display of the underlying patterns governing the conscious experience of life on this planet. Everything is resonant with everything else.
Earth Ascending, Jose Arguelles, Pg29
There is a universal resonant mechanism. The name given to this common structural resonant mechanism is the binary triplet configuration. This configuration represents both primary structure as well as primary process. It is the pattern underlying the PSI BANK MATRIX, (the Van Allen Belts around the earth), the key resonant pattern for all life, purposive intelligence and conscious behavior on this planet.
Consciousness is a matter of the heart, not science. These men, a constant parade of them led by Dr. Greer, who I do respect, doesn’t understand that because females are super intelligent co-creators of life with Source by creating humans in our body, we can lead on inspiring all cultures to peace, not war. Yet men treat our perspectives and us like a footnote in their thesis. It shouldn’t matter anymore how they treat us because they need to stop running the planet… obviously. Under men’s rule, we are in population collapse.
“Just be quiet, honey. We’ve got the big guns, and it will be taken care of.”
Women as a collective need to stop waiting for these men that keep blathering and repeating themselves.
Love isn’t a feeling. It’s creation, and women create LIFE in our bodies. There is nothing we love more on earth than our children. We adore our children irrationally. To us, they are perfect.
Focusing on military and politics isn’t going to change consciousness. Love does, and males have a blockage with that. If humanity is going to be saved, it will be women who do it because we are the ones who made it.
How…are we going to dominate the conversation without taking our clothes off and putting makeup on?
I don’t do any of that, and I don’t seem to be dominating the conversation in the midst of population collapse. I just piss people off, or I’m ignored.
Who does Space Force think will be attacking them IN SPACE? It WILL NOT be any Stellar Species. The only ones who need to defend themselves are the peaceful ET from OUR attacks on them. We are the primate warmonger monkeys in this jungle, not them.
Starlink satellites shouldn’t interfere with our magnetosphere amplitude frequencies. It looks like Earth is in an ELM prison of some type.
Space Force to expand missile-defense satellite network in medium Earth orbit
The Space Systems Command released a “request for prototype proposals” for the Missile Track Custody Epoch 2 program
They better not be using defensive tech to attack peaceful ET, or we will find out, and action will followfrom them.-Me.
From GROK
In the context of the article from SpaceNews titled “Space Force to expand missile-defense satellite network in medium Earth orbit,” Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) refers to a specific range of altitudes in space, situated between Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geostationary Orbit (GEO), where the U.S. Space Force plans to deploy a network of missile-tracking satellites. Specifically, MEO spans altitudes from approximately 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) to 35,786 kilometers (22,236 miles) above Earth’s surface. (The amplitude layer of the magnetosphere) The article highlights that the Space Force is developing this MEO-based satellite constellation, known as the Missile Track Custody Epoch 2 program, to enhance its ability to detect and track advanced missile threats, such as hypersonic glide vehicles.These satellites in MEO offer advantages over those in lower or higher orbits: they provide better sensitivity and wider coverage compared to LEO satellites, while being closer to Earth than GEO satellites, allowing for more persistent tracking of fast-moving, maneuverable targets with faint heat signatures. (This could be deceptive though-L.T.)
This positioning makes MEO a strategic “middle ground” in the Space Force’s multi-orbit missile defense architecture, complementing existing systems in LEO and GEO to create a layered, resilient defense network.
My concern about disruption of our magnetosphere
Light comes from sound (a physics fact). So when the sound levels change, the light changes! The source of all light is the sun which all sound hertz levels have in common whether they are radio hertz or magnetosphere hertz -L.T.
Me
Starlink satellites, operated by SpaceX, are designed to provide global internet coverage and orbit at relatively low altitudes (typically around 340–550 km above Earth). The question of whether they interfere with Earth’s magnetosphere frequencies is an interesting one, but there’s no clear evidence to suggest they have a significant impact. The Earth’s magnetosphere is a complex region shaped by the planet’s magnetic field, interacting with solar wind and cosmic radiation. It operates across a wide range of natural frequencies, like the Schumann Sound Resonances (extremely low frequencies around 7.83 Hz and its harmonics), which are tied to the Earth-ionosphere cavity.
Starlink satellites, like most modern satellites, emit radio frequencies for communication—primarily in the Ku-band (12–18 GHz), Ka-band (26.5–40 GHz), and potentially V-band in the future. These frequencies are orders of magnitude higher than the natural resonances of the magnetosphere. (Radio frequencies are SOUND as well as noted by HERTZ) In theory, electromagnetic interference could occur if satellite emissions overlapped with or disrupted natural frequencies. However, the power levels of Starlink transmissions are tightly regulated by bodies like the FCC and ITU to avoid interference with terrestrial systems and other satellites.
The magnetosphere itself is more directly influenced by solar activity (e.g., geomagnetic storms) than by human-made radio signals. Studies on radio frequency interference tend to focus on astronomical observations—like radio telescopes—rather than magnetospheric effects, and even there, Starlink has mitigation strategies (e.g., adjusting satellite brightness and emission patterns).
That said, some speculation exists in fringe circles (not backed by peer-reviewed science) that large constellations like Starlink could subtly affect atmospheric or magnetic phenomena, especially with thousands of satellites in orbit. No rigorous data supports this, affecting the magnetosphere’s frequencies specifically. The sheer scale of the constellation—over 6,000 satellites as of early 2025—does raise valid questions about cumulative electromagnetic noise, but the magnetosphere’s dynamics are driven by forces far stronger than satellite signals. (They just said above that the satellite emissions were orders of magnitude higher than the magnetosphere.)
A major disruption of the polar vortex appears to be underway as the Arctic stratosphere suddenly warms. Researchers call this a “sudden stratospheric warming event.” It’s caused by planetary atmospheric waves crashing into the vortex and breaking it up. Cold air spilling out of the weakened vortex could plunge the USA, Canada, and parts of Europe into bitter cold little more than a week before the arrival of Spring. This also marks the end of polar stratospheric cloud season for Arctic observers.
CIR HITS EARTH, SPARKS AURORAS: If you’ve never heard of a co-rotating interaction region (CIR), just think of it as a mini CME. One hit Earth on March 8th, sparking more than 10 hours of geomagnetic storms. “The auroras in Minnesota were some of the brightest I’ve seen in a while,” reports Anna Eastman, who watched the show from the Agassiz Wildlife Refuge:
CIRs are transition zones between fast – and slow-moving streams of solar wind. They contain magnetic fields and shock waves akin to those of CMEs. While CMEs require some sort of explosion on the sun, CIRs do not. They form gently from the sandwiching of solar wind streams–no solar flare required.
A fast-moving solar wind stream has arrived on the heels of the CIR. This is the same stream that created the CIR in the first place by compressing a region of slower solar wind ahead of it. Blowing 600 km/s, the fast stream could cause additional category G1 (Minor) storms on March 10th. High-latitude sky watchers should remain alert for auroras. Aurora alerts: SMS Text.
The arrival of the CIR on March 8th immediately caused a G1-class (Minor) storm, intensifying to category G2 (Moderate) on March 9th. Sky watchers in Iceland, Canada, and multiple US states from New York to Utah saw the geomagnetic glow. “Even with a bright Moon, it was a beautiful light show,” she says.
Click on the inset diagram to learn more about CIRs.
I haven’t talked about this very much trying to acclimate you to the other aspects of Mayan Time Keeping. Now that I’ve introduced you to the double strands of our DNA being CA (Civilizational Advance, past to present) and AC (Aboriginal Continuity, future to present) we need to be aware of the fact that in the Long Count we are in TIME CELL FIVE: The Matrix.
We could easily say that each time cell represents 4000 years so that all together it’s 20,000 years. It may even be 40,000 for each harmonic and then 400,000 years. It wouldn’t be hard to add zeros. What is the actual date of the Red Dragon Tribe with it’s sulfuric acid ways starting things here? The planet was started by FIRE and BLOOD. Thus on the CA timeline, which are the first 9 archetypes, we have the RIGHT FIRE HAND and RIGHT BLOOD FOOT. That is Time cells one and two and Red Moon which starting the DNA sequencing with Methionine.
Then we have the Left Truth Hand and Sky Foot for the next 9 tribes. At some distant point in Time, Time Cell Three and Four commenced and here we are like ants running all over the planet. According to the Urantia Book, the human race is only one million years old whereas all other DNA life came before us in the past time cells. For instance, I just posted that the cat species are 3 million years old. Plants are even older.
Here in Time Cell 5 we begin with Red Earth, an AWARENESS OF SYNCHRONICITY, how to navigate the energy here, our energy bodies, vortexes, quantum physics, energy healing, the Aquarian Age (Uranus mediates Red Earth and Aquarius) and we JUST began the Age of Aquarius a few months ago if you remember.
I don’t know how long it’s going to take to move through this Time Cell but you can see we end up as our Solar Selves aligned with our Star, The Sun. But first we have to go through a time of Reflection and Transformation. This will not be a quick process. I just wanted you to see that evolution of Life on Earth is an orderly process from initiation, refinement, transformation and ripening.
Fabulous movie. High-level military whistleblowers stating the existence of black budget government programs to reverse engineer ET tech, unsanctioned, taxpayer funded secretly.
We could look at this again to focus our intentions on a golden era on earth
There will be only Zero Point Energy as an energy source for all cars, trains, rockets, and all vehicles. They will run on energy from the natural ether all around us, the infinite energy field. Natural roadways will exist in the air for them.
but Zero Point Energy vehicles-Stat.
People will place family, children, and reproduction ahead of work. Work might be limited to twenty hours a week. Robots will do the automated work. They will also help out with domestic work in the home.
This is Tesla Optimus
All healthcare will be based on food and herbs grown at home or in a garden. It will also be based on food grown hydroponically or on a patio. Herbs and meditation will be integral parts of healthcare. Meditation will be normal, starting with children in school or home school.
Men and women will both be present in public office with equal shared power. Sex and culture will no longer be an issue at all.
There will still be countries and governments, but they will be small and bureaucracy limited. There will still be money based on culture. The type of money won’t matter, but it will all be public and will not be able to be hidden.
The Earth’s biosphere will be cleaned up, all plastics biodegradable or ♻️ recyclable, all issues or toxic air and water cleaned up.
We may be able to correct brain abnormalities easily. Also, stop the telemeres in our cells from aging.
Feel free to comment and add your own vision for a better life on earth.
We are post-election and in the Central Axis of Timelessness mediated by Age of Aquarius URANUS. Now, we have more backups to decide what quality of life we want. People feel empowered by those who want life to improve for Americans. They do not wish to grovel in the past or remain superficial. We’ll see how things progress. I hope the monied men don’t get drunk with power, but it’s very possible.
3D mantra-Building inspiration, I build a spiral of creation.
4D mantra
Today is mediated by Uranus, White 5 Radiant Wind
5D
I pulse in order to reflect. Realizing order I seal the matrix of endlessness with the solar tone of intention. I am guided by the power of timelessness.
Kin 178-White 9 Solar Mirror
Overtone tone of radiance~5~9
The definiteness of form leads to its luminosity. Light comes from the very heart of our being. Tone five teaches us that by focusing on our inner essence, we naturally begin to glow. The energy we radiate is perceived in the form of concentric rings. True power comes to us no sooner than we actually begin to dwell in the center of our being. The responsibility we take for our lives shows our ability to center our being. Our management of inner resources also expresses this capability.
Seal of the White Wind
Communications and connections. Spirit. Breath.
Receive and express the energies of Spirit and Connectedness. Focus on the presence of the Spirit in all your activities. Be in tune with your natural inspiration! May the Spirit help you express the hidden truth of your being! The movement of the Spirit is the omnipotent Breath of being itself, uniting everyone and everything. North – cleans. Heart chakra. Middle finger of the right hand.
Timespace Sync
5 Uranus, Mercury, Earth ,and 9 Pluto pulse from 4D time to affect our 3D manifestation.
This is our Hidden Wisdom mediated by Pluto. SYNC.The Capricorn Moon harmonizes with Saturn and the Sun today. We are cautious. We draw upon common sense when making decisions. We pay special attention to structures, rules, and goals, especially around the Moon-Saturn sextile. The Moon in Capricorn is astute and security-oriented.
This is our Guide Power, White 5 Dog mediated by Mercury. SYNC.Mercury forms a minor square to Chiron. Insecurity might make it awkward for us to express ourselves naturally this morning. It could also affect how smoothly we communicate.
This is also our Guide Power. SYNC. With Mercury’s trine to the North Node, we might connect with information. We might also meet people who encourage us to grow. They help us improve or move forward. These energies help ground us but also keep us open to new methods and possibilities.
This hurricane formed in the Gulf of Mexico and moved eastward instead of forming in the Atlantic and moving westward. That’s because Earth’s time polarity has reversed, which reverses Earth’s movement.
The earth holon is following the sun’s lead. Time is reversing, so our evolution can march forward despite the nefarious wishing to stop us.
Green Central 52-day cycle of Enchantment. Big Synchronicity.
As I saw this post at 1am, and I thought immediately of the Green Central 52-day cycle in the Harmonic but I wasn’t sure. I just checked. We are currently in that 52-day cycle which started with Red 1 Magnetic Moon or 1Methionine on May 17, 2024, the start codon in any evolving RNA sequence. This is the Court of the Matrix to synchronize human. The MOON GENESIS.
In this 52-day cycle we have 13-day cycles
Red Moon Methionine,-Power of Universal Water/emotions
White Wind Glycine-Power of Spirit Communication
Blue Eagle Arginine-Power of Vision
Yellow Star Leucine-Power of Elegance, art, and beauty
The Moon Genesis is complete that started with the RED spectrum which is showing up in the picture with the GREEN spectrum. The Mayan Harmonic is LITERAL. It is SEEN in the all the astronomical lights, auroras and displays and the SOUND, the TONES are seen in the magnetosphere. The Harmonic manifests our bodies as magic via our mother.
NOAA
3RD OF JULY FIREWORKS: NOAA forecasters say that G1-class geomagnetic storms are possible on July 3rd when this CME is expected to graze Earth’s magnetic field. The approaching CME was hurled into space by an erupting magnetic filament in the sun’s southern hemisphere. Aurora alerts:SMS Text
GREEN GHOSTS IN A GEOMAGNETIC STORM: This picture may be the first of its kind. On June 27th, photographer Tom Warner of South Dakota caught a bunch of Green Ghosts in a geomagnetic storm:
“This was a huge bucket list item for me,” says Warner. “An MCS thunderstorm was moving through the area, so I set up my camera to photograph sprites. The auroras and the Green Ghosts were NOT expected!”
Everyone knows what auroras are. Green Ghosts are still new to many observers. They’re the green blobs on top of the red sprites. (That’s vulgar to call universal light blobs and sprites-L.T.) Experienced observers say they appear in as few as 0.2% of sprite photos.
“Tom Warner’s green ghost is very clear–and certainly an unusual sight combined with aurora!” says Oscar van der Velde, an upper atmospheric lightning researcher at the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya.
Green Ghosts were discovered in May 2019 by Hank Schyma, a Houston Texas-based storm chaser. Initially, researchers thought they might be a form of green airglow activated by sprites when they touched a layer of oxygen 80 to 90 km above Earth’s surface. Indeed, Ghost is an acronym: “Green emissions from excited Oxygen in Sprite Tops.”
New research casts doubt on that explanation. A paper recently published in Nature Communications reports a Herculean effort to decode the color of Green Ghosts. About a month after Schyma discovered the phenomenon, a team of lightning scientists led by María Passas Varo of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía began chasing thunderstorms, hoping to catch a Green Ghost in the slit of their spectrograph. It wasn’t easy. Green Ghosts appear unpredictably and often last for no more than a fraction of a second. Four years and 2000 spectra later, they managed to capture just one spectrum of a Green Ghost strong enough to study. The results surprised them.
Green Ghosts, (the Maya Harmonic Green 52-day Spectrum-L.T.) it seems, are made of metal.
Check this out.-L.T. Metal Lines up for DNA. Metal interacts with DNA. Of course! We have metal in very small amounts IN OUR BODIES. This is a no-brainer.
Spectrum of a Green Ghost over the Mediterranean in Sept. 2019. [full caption] [source]
“We identified a mix of spectral lines, including mainly iron, nickel, oxygen and nitrogen, that when combined, produced a green-yellow glow,” says van der Velde, a co-author of the study. “There were also traces of sodium and silicon.”
This metal-rich stew is more like meteor debris than airglow. Iron atoms deposited by meteors burning up in Earth’s atmosphere peak in abundance 85 km high–about right for the tops of the tallest sprites. Green Ghosts might thus be a type of “meteor fluorescence.”
Or not. These conclusions are based on just one spectrum, and Green Ghosts may be far more varied than that. Stay tuned for updates as the research continues.
What is the Meaning of this?
We are Protein, DNA, Sound, and Light. It’s in my new book. It’s real. The intention and feelings of our minds manifest us via our parents to continue learning and evolving in free will. Love your body and your mind. Focus on what you can control. YOU!
The study of history is a geological sub-field in an overall study of psycho-atmospheric harmonics as monitored by the guiding factor, the psi bank. Thus, in order to better understand and evaluate “what happened in history, ” it is best first to understand the guiding function, structure, and nature of the psi bank itself.”-
Earth Ascending by Jose Arguelles
“The earth, all physical life and humans ARE TIME. We are manifested as time and our MINDS are collectively being absorbed and processed around and IN the earth. It’s called the Psi Bank. Our collective life-mind emanations are seen as the auroras around the planet. We are light. The sound pulses in through the ionosphere and turns to light via the amino acid proteins of DNA. Magically, through mind, we take form and come into being with the rest of life on earth.”-Lisa T.
The psi bank is a resonant structure operating in tandem with the electromagnetic fields of resonance, or Van Allen Radiation Belts, which circle the globe at 2,000 and 11,000 miles altitude. For ourselves as a species, changes in evolution are inevitably changes in consciousness.
According to the theory of the noosphere, changes in the evolution of the biosphere (life on Earth) are programmed into the DNA and registered as frequency structures held in place by the psi bank, the fourth-dimensional planetary memory field. This is REAL INTELLIGENCE. A.I. is not better or stronger than nature. It’s foolish to suggest it.
The psi bank also reflects the bipolar magnetism of the Earth and the fourfold shifting of the Earth in one rotation around the sun.
QFactor would be the bottom 5 delineations on the right. Frequencies are the Tectonic plates and 4 delineations above that. Amplitudes are Atmosphere, troposphere and stratosphere. The Tones of Creation pulse in the Ionosphere, radiation belts and ELM field.
Activating the Psi Bank in the 13 Moon Calendar as Daily Psi Chrono Units (PSI/PCU)
This psi bank regulator, located between these two electromagnetic fields, is not only a storage unit for all thought, but also contains all knowledge of the evolutionary timing programs.
1 Psi Plate = 520-units (one 260-unit Tzolkin above, with an inversed 260-unit Tzolkin below – as shown above, top and bottom Tzolkin.)
1 260 Unit Tzolkin = 1/2 of one Psi Plate (as shown above) 4 Psi Plates = Complete 2080-unit Psi Bank
Visualize the psi bank, with the Psi Chrono Unit of the day on your app,pulsating on all eight psi bank plates. You can visualize it glowing and pulsating in its corresponding color. (i.e. Red for Red Dragon units, White for White Wind units, etc.)
Lawoftime.org doesn’t give a deeper explanation of the MEANING of your psi chrono unit, but I’ll take mine for an example.
Mine is White 12 Crystal Wizard, the goddess Ixchel. I do feel that energy pulsing in my destiny. The communal empowerment and equal public power of women is at the front of my mind and in my posts all the time. That was the case before I knew my PSU. I can feel I’ve had past lives with women as magicians and healers, and I’ve incarnated literally doing it. I have dharma and karma with the role of women as magicians and healers, and I suppose I’m working it out in this lifetime.
To see more posts explaining the Psi Bank, just go to the search box on the home page and type Psi Bank.
The first day of summer is the Solstice, June 21. We are gaining sunlight in the spring, and we lose sunlight from summer until Winter Solstice on Dec. 21 when the sunlight increases. The length of the day always remains the same. It’s just the light that changes. Good lesson for life.
New kitty 😺
He is Alex’s cat, but I’m calmer so…he likes me too. We call him Chai, and I call him Chai Shiva because he is a destroyer when rambunctious. He is extremely acrobatic and smart.
O Look!! There is time on the Cartesian coordinate system and I just posted about that issue. Nada.
If you put a square around those light cones and fill it with numbers, it’s the Tzolkin. Only the light cones are DNA double helix and the DNA sugar backbones, which are the GAP kin. We’ll see if someday they listen to me.
We are dense light. All life is dense light. Sound is the magnetosphere around earth. Life is manifested from sound to light onto a holographic movie screen. Time is DNA.
These silly physicists make everything so lifeless and dry. I feel sorry for them falling back on their PhD. to get jobs with Apple to help A.I. snuff out humanity by believing AI can become conscious.
A new study hints that humans have magnetoreception abilities, similar to some other animals.
ANIMAL MAGNETISM Like birds, bacteria and other creatures with an ability known as magnetoreception, humans can sense Earth’s magnetic field (illustrated), a new study suggests. vchal/Shutterstock
A new analysis of people’s brain waves when surrounded by different magnetic fields suggests that people have a “sixth sense” for magnetism.
Birds, fish and some other creatures can sense Earth’s magnetic field and use it for navigation (SN: 6/14/14, p. 10). Scientists have long wondered whether humans, too, boast this kind of magnetoreception. Now, by exposing people to an Earth-strength magnetic field pointed in different directions in the lab, researchers from the United States and Japan have discovered distinct brain wave patterns that occur in response to rotating the field in a certain way.
These findings, reported in a study published online March 18 in eNeuro, offer evidence that people do subconsciously respond to Earth’s magnetic field — although it’s not yet clear exactly why or how our brains use this information.
“The first impression when I read the [study] was like, ‘Wow, I cannot believe it!’” says Can Xie, a biophysicist at Peking University in Beijing. Previous tests of human magnetoreception have yielded inconclusive results. This new evidence “is one step forward for the magnetoreception field and probably a big step for the human magnetic sense,” he says. “I do hope we can see replications and further investigations in the near future.”
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During the experiment, 26 participants each sat with their eyes closed in a dark, quiet chamber lined with electrical coils. These coils manipulated the magnetic field inside the chamber such that it remained the same strength as Earth’s natural field but could be pointed in any direction. Participants wore an EEG cap that recorded the electrical activity of their brains while the surrounding magnetic field rotated in various directions.
This setup simulated the effect of someone turning in different directions in Earth’s natural, unchanging field without requiring a participant to actually move. (Complete stillness prevented motor-control thoughts from tainting brain waves due to the magnetic field.) The researchers compared these EEG readouts with those from control trials where the magnetic field inside the chamber didn’t move.
Joseph Kirschvink, a neurobiologist and geophysicist at Caltech, and colleagues studied alpha waves to determine whether the brain reacts to changes in magnetic field direction. Alpha waves generally dominate EEG readings while a person is sitting idle but fade when someone receives sensory input, like a sound or touch.
Sure enough, changes in the magnetic field triggered changes in people’s alpha waves. Specifically, when the magnetic field pointed toward the floor in front of a participant facing north — the direction that Earth’s magnetic field points in the Northern Hemisphere — swiveling the field counterclockwise from northeast to northwest triggered an average 25 percent dip in the amplitude of alpha waves. That change was about three times as strong as natural alpha wave fluctuations seen in control trials.
ROTATION REACTION When downward-pointing magnetic fields were rotated counterclockwise, from northeast to northwest, researchers saw a significant dip in participants’ alpha brain waves (left). Alpha waves are similarly dampened when someone receives sensory input like a sound or smell. This response was not seen when downward fields rotated clockwise (center) or were held steady (right).
Curiously, people’s brains showed no responses to a rotating magnetic field pointed toward the ceiling — the direction of Earth’s field in the Southern Hemisphere. Four participants were retested weeks or months later and showed the same responses.
“It’s kind of intriguing to think that we have a sense of which we’re not consciously aware,” says Peter Hore, a chemist at the University of Oxford who has studied birds’ internal compasses. But “extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof, and in this case, that includes being able to reproduce it in a different lab.”
Questions raised
If these findings are able to be replicated, they pose several questions — such as why people seem to respond to downward- but not upward-pointing fields. Kirschvink and colleagues think they have an answer: “The brain is taking [magnetic] data, pulling it out and only using it if it makes sense,” Kirschvink says.
Participants in this study, who all hailed from the Northern Hemisphere, should perceive downward-pointing magnetic fields as natural, whereas upward fields would constitute an anomaly, the researchers argue. Magnetoreceptive animals are known to shut off their internal compasses when encountering weird fields, such as those caused by lightning, which might lead the animals astray. Northern-born humans may similarly take their magnetic sense “offline” when faced with strange, upward-pointing fields.
This explanation “seems plausible,” Hore says, but would need to be tested in an experiment with participants from the Southern Hemisphere.
The brain’s attention to counterclockwise but not clockwise rotations “is something surprising that we don’t really have a good explanation for,” says coauthor Connie Wang, who studies magnetoperception at Caltech. Some people may respond to clockwise rotations, just like some people are left-handed rather than right-handed, or clockwise rotations generate brain activity not captured in the alpha wave signal, she says.
Even accounting for which magnetic changes the brain picks up, researchers still don’t know what our minds might use that information for, Kirschvink says. Another lingering mystery is how, exactly, our brains detect Earth’s magnetic field. According to the researchers, the brain wave patterns uncovered in this study may be explained by sensory cells containing a magnetic mineral called magnetite, which has been found in magnetoreceptive trout as well as in the human brain (SN: 8/11/12, p. 13). Future experiments could confirm or eliminate that possibility.
With this first compelling evidence that humans are subconsciously processing magnetic signals, “we can [try to] identify the brain region it originates from and try to identify the nature of the cells” responsible, says Michael Winklhofer, a magnetoreception researcher at the University of Oldenburg in Germany. “This is really the first step.”
Previously the staff writer for physical sciences at Science News, Maria Temming is the assistant managing editor at Science News Explores. She has bachelor’s degrees in physics and English, and a master’s in science writing.
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