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Sun spot activity and creativity
Identifier
000786
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
It is technically impossible to attribute a spiritual experience to a change in solar activity. Too many other factors can also have played a part in producing an experience, thus any evidence will be entirely circumstantial. But there has been some quite interesting work done in trying to see if there is any statistical correlation between times of high sun spot activity and flares and reports of spiritual experience. For example..
A description of the experience
Ertel, Suitbert; "Synchronous Bursts of Creativity in Independent Cultures; Evidence for an Extraterrestrial Connection," The Explorer, 5:12, Fall 1989.
In a previous paper, 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 ('Maunder 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 (AD600-AD1800), it was found that, as expected:
- Cultural flourish curves show marked discontinuities (bursts) after the onset of secular solar excursions, synchronously in Europe and China;
- During periods of extended solar excursions, bursts of creativity in painting, literature, and science succeeded one another with lags of about 10-15 years;
- The reported regularities of cultural output are prominent throughout with eminent creators. They decrease with ordinary professionals.
"The hypothesized extraterrestrial [ie sun spot] connection of human cultural history has thus been considerably strengthened. "