The Perihelion Effect

Mood and Sun

Holiday Stress Relates to Perihelion Time

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We are all familiar with the idea of holiday stress. That feeling that time is going by faster and faster from Autumn until New Years. Sometimes it is a feeling of losing control, insomnia or the surreal feeling of losing your mind. Usually this is attributed to the pressures of buying gifts, seeing family, travel […]

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Rupert Sheldrake – Is The Sun Conscious?

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Rupert Sheldrake is brilliant. Here he uses the sun as his subject to subvert our defacto materialist worldview. He cleverly deconstructs science by its own methods. He is a tremendous inspiration to me.  It is sometimes difficult to accept his conclusions. Is this just spectacular bullshit?  Dr. Sheldrake is very straightforward speculations not conclusions. And what

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Solar flare: The sun touches our psyche

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From 1948 to 1997, the Institute of North Industrial Ecology Problems in Russia found that geomagnetic activity showed three seasonal peaks each of those years (March to May, in July, and in October). Every peak matched an increased incidence of anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and suicide in the city Kirovsk. One explanation for the correlation

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Jevons and solar cycles

Chronobiology, Biographies,

William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) English economist and logician Jevons’ Sunspot Theory: From Curious Coincidence to Discredited Idea In the late 19th century, the prominent British economist William Stanley Jevons proposed a fascinating, albeit unusual, explanation for the recurring boom-and-bust cycles of the economy: sunspots. This theory, linking celestial activity to earthly commercial crises, has a rich history, a

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Depression, mental illness and mood swings in the third world

Seasonality,

There is inconclusive data regarding seasonal affected mood disorder in the third world.  This is due in large part to a lack of research funds.  However an interesting study has been proposed that will compare specific mental illness found in the developed world and chart occurrence of mood disorders and correlate that seasonality to see how

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