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The Relationship between Local Geomagnetic Activity, Meditation and Psi. Part I: Literature Review and Theoretical Model
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- 자료유형학술지논문
- 저자명Roney-Dougal, S.M.,Ryan, A.,Luke, D.
- 학회/출판사/기관명Society for Psychical Research
- 출판년도2013
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- 학술지명/학위논문주기JOURNAL- SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH
- 발행사항Vol.-No.911[2013]_x000D_
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- 소개/요약INTRODUCTION A four-year longitudinal research programme investigating the effect of local geomagnetic field fluctuations and meditation on receptive psi has been initiated at a Tibetan monastery in Scotland. This Note is intended to give the theoretical background for this research programme. Research findings from several disparate disciplines have been synthesized into a model that can be used to understand associations of both environmental variables and a person's state of consciousness with an individual's performance in controlled psi tests. Initially a description of the evidence for both geomagnetic activity (GMA) and meditation relationships with psi is presented. Since GMA exhibits variation by season, and possibly lunar phase, relationships between these cycles and psi are also considered. A theory that connects these variables is then presented, drawing on evidence that GMA may affect the function of the pineal gland within the human brain, and research that suggests that the pineal gland may produce psi-conducive neurochemicals. GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY The Link between the Sun and Geomagnetic Activity (GMA) It is necessary to begin by explaining the origin of GMA, so as to give a background to the reasons for investigating local rather than global GMA. There are a large number of global and local variations in GMA. The main component of the Earth's geomagnetic field is generated by electric currents within molten iron slowly moving in the earth's outer core. In addition up to 10% of the overall field is generated by features of the crust and atmosphere, allowing for local anomalies and rapidly changing conditions. The field's intensity varies from approximately 24,000 nanoTesla (nT) to 66,000 nT; a value of approximately 50,000 nT is typical at mid-latitude locations such as the UK. There is a diurnal variation in the field of approximately 20 nT at mid-latitudes, attributable to thermal and tidal currents in the ionosphere. The largest variations, however, are due to collisions between the Earth's field and fast-moving plasma (electrically charged gas) ejected from the Sun; these variations can reach approximately 250 nT at mid-latitudes. These plasma ejections can be due to spectacular explosions on the sun, known as solar flares, which are most common at the peak of the sun's approximately 11-year activity cycle, or they can be due to coronal holes, lower density areas of the sun's atmosphere, that have 'open'
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