Sunspots and Human Behavior
by James Borges
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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