A fugal discourse on the electromagnetic coupling of electromagnetic processes in the earth-ionosphere and the human brain

There exists a space between the ionosphere and the surface of the earth within which electromagnetic standing waves, generated by lightning strikes, can resonate around the earth; these standing waves are known collectively as the Schumann resonances. In the late 1960s König and Ankermuller already reported striking similarities between these electromagnetic signals and those recorded from the electroencephalograms (EEG) of the human brain; both signals exhibit similar characteristics in terms of frequency and electric and magnetic field intensity. The analyses reported here demonstrate that 1) microscopic (brain) and macroscopic (earth) representations of natural electromagnetic fields are conserved spatially, 2) that electric fields recorded from human brains exhibit strong correlation with the strength of the these parameters and 3) that the human brain periodically synchronizes with signals generated within the earth-ionosphere waveguide at frequencies characteristic of the Schumann resonance for periods of about 300 msec. These findings recapitulate 17th century ideas of harmony amongst the cerebral and planetary spheres and may provide the means necessary to quantitatively investigate concepts of early 20th century psychologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Human Studie

Non-Locality changes in intercerebral theta band coherence between practitioners and subjects during distant Reiki procedures

This study investigated if changes in interbrain coherence as measured by quantitative electroencephalography occur during distant (non-local) Reiki procedures where the stimulus and response person who never met were separated by 50 m. Compared to sham-procedure pairs, Reiki pairs displayed increased shared transcerebral coherence within the theta band particularly within the left temporal lobes. There was evidence of maximum changes in strength of inter-brain coherence in the Reiki pairs after three minutes of the procedure that was not evident in sham procedure pairs.  The magnitude of the increased coherence, although small, would be within the quantitative range associated with the changes in information when operations converge in neuronal systems. Although the potential access of Schumann resonances and the “cerebral field” generated within all human brains due to their immersion within the geomagnetic field offer potential solutions, the Pitkanen Topological Geometrodynamics (TGD) theory of consciousness allows a more palatable and potentially testable explanation for the apparent violations of space-time contiguity and causality

Similar Spectral Power Densities Within the Schumann Resonance and a Large Population of Quantitative Electroencephalographic Profiles: Supportive Evidence for Koenig and Pobachenko.

In 1954 and 1960 Koenig and his colleagues described the remarkable similarities of spectral power density profiles and patterns between the earth-ionosphere resonance and human brain activity which also share magnitudes for both electric field (mV/m) and magnetic field (pT) components. In 2006 Pobachenko and colleagues reported real time coherence between variations in the Schumann and brain activity spectra within the 6-16 Hz band for a small sample. We examined the ratios of the average potential differences (~3 μV) obtained by whole brain quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG) between rostral-caudal and left-right (hemispheric) comparisons of 238 measurements from 184 individuals over a 3.5 year period. Spectral densities for the rostral-caudal axis revealed a powerful peak at 10.25 Hz while the left-right peak was 1.95 Hz with beat-differences of ~7.5 to 8 Hz. When global cerebral measures were employed, the first (7-8 Hz), second (13-14 Hz) and third (19-20 Hz) harmonics of the Schumann resonances were discernable in averaged QEEG profiles in some but not all participants. The intensity of the endogenous Schumann resonance was related to the 'best-of-fitness' of the traditional 4-class microstate model. Additional measurements demonstrated real-time coherence for durations approximating microstates in spectral power density variations between Schumann frequencies measured in Sudbury, Canada and Cumiana, Italy with the QEEGs of local subjects. Our results confirm the measurements reported by earlier researchers that demonstrated unexpected similarities in the spectral patterns and strengths of electromagnetic fields generated by the human brain and the earth-ionospheric cavity

Rostral-Caudal Correlation.

<p>Scattergram of the correlation (r = 0.82) between the discrete potential difference values for the caudal-rostral vs left-right potential differences.</p

Local Harmonic Synchrony.

<p>Cross-channel coherence between the caudal root-mean-square derivation and extremely low-frequency electromagnetic activity recorded simultaneously in Sudbury, Canada for one male and one female measured on separate days. Evident in this time-frequency analysis is harmonic synchrony occurring between brain electrical activity and atmospheric ‘noise’ at approximately 8, 13 and 20 Hz which define the first three harmonics of the Schumann resonance.</p

Non-local Harmonic Synchrony.

<p>Similar harmonic synchrony between extremely low-frequency atmospheric noise measured in Cumiana, Italy and brain electrical activity measured in Sudbury, Canada at 8, 13, and 20 Hz for two subjects (1 male and 1 female) measured on a different day.</p

Variance explained of all classic microstates as a function of the intensity of the Schumann resonance (first three harmonics) within the EEG.

<p>N indicates numbers of records per <i>post hoc</i> group.</p

Averaged Schumann Resonance Profiles.

<p>Mean Log value of the spectral density for high and low intensity subjects as a function of frequency for the rostral, middle, and caudal regions of the cerebrums. Note the peaks at the fundamental Schumann resonance (first harmonic) as well as the second (about 14 Hz) and third (about 20 Hz) harmonics.</p