Overload
Going out in violent weather
Category: Actions
Type
Voluntary
Introduction and description
Violent weather – wind, rain thunder – all produce sound and sound is a mechanical stimulant to our bodies if we are out in that storm. If you happen to be by the seashore, even better because the crashing surf and rolling waves also produces considerable sound.
Violent weather produces a whole spectre of sound going from high frequency audible to low frequency inaudible sound.
Some spiritual experiences, particularly hallucinations, are produced not by audible sound but by inaudible sound – usually infrasound. It has only recently been established that severe weather produces infrasound, sound that can be experienced thousands of miles away – for more details see Storms and infrasound and Observation 003274 which shows how children are affected by storms.
The sound – of all frequencies - is caused by both the movement of the air and by rapid atmospheric pressure fluctuations. The sound is totally unpredictable because it depends on the cloud cover, the topography of the landscape and the high and low pressures themselves.
In other words, the actual frequencies produced during a storm or from thunder will vary because the processes producing the sound are obviously variable. Masses of air are colliding and thus producing energy waves, some of which can be heard, some of which cannot.
These cannot be predicted to produce specific frequencies. So a storm or thunder will have unpredictable effects on us, all we can predict is that it will have some effect. Sometimes the effects are quite special.
Background
If we go back to mythological times, we start to appreciate that the ability of wild weather to provoke spiritual experiences was well known and furthermore thunder in particular was known to have spiritual effects. Many many people considered that the gods were in thunder and as we know, the gods of the Nordic races – Thor- for example were thunder gods as was Zeus, the supreme Greek god.
Thor was the red-haired and bearded god of thunder in Germanic mythology and Germanic paganism, and its subsets: Norse paganism, Anglo-Saxon paganism and Continental Germanic paganism. Thor was a much revered god of the ancient Germanic peoples from at least the earliest surviving written accounts of the indigenous Germanic tribes to over a thousand years later in the late Viking Age.
It was not that the noise of thunder was like the voice of a god, they saw things as well, they obtained visions!
Method
What you do depends on how much risk you want to take, but as this is an overload technique and thus for the brave, my view would be go for gold and get right in that storm, walk about in the wildest weather, by the sea, let the wind howl round you, be buffeted, bashed, watch vast waves crash upon the cliffs and the shore – get yourself really scared!!! Be overwhelmed by the sheer power of weather at its most extreme.
But be careful of the lightning - see being struck by lightning!
How it works
Physically
Physically, violent weather works through Stimulation via resonance and it is important that you read this section to get a full understanding of the consequences of this activity.
This is whole body stimulation and thus completely unpredictable. Depending on how close you are to the storm it will either be low intensity or high intensity
- The lower frequencies will stimulate the smaller organs – so for example, stimulation via infrasound may give you an experience via the temporal lobe, amygdala, and reticular formation - see the Brain and its functions
- The higher frequencies - particularly at high intensity, may work via the knock out of other organs again see the Brain and its functions.
Simply put anything could happen! But the farther you are away from a storm the more likely it is that you will have mood swings or temperature changes or feel sleepy and go dreamy. The nearer you are to it, the more likely it is that you will have some seriously 'exciting' effects, as your Intellect gets knocked out!
So I suppose it depends how brave you want to be.
Remember that any two people together in a storm may experience completely different effects because the size of each person’s various glands and organs differs. Two people standing in a thunderstorm together might get completely different results – one may get a profound experience, another may get nothing, or a headache.
If the size of your amygdalas differ, for example, and the frequency is such that it stimulates only one side, you could end up being in deep deep deep despair after the storm [stimulation of the left side] or as high as a kite ready to kiss the world [right side].
Functionally
There is a major contribution made logically by Emotions. Any overwhelming weather can produce overwhelming emotions, so we have a contribution from emotional overload via the sheer grandeur and vastness of the effects. Furthermore, the ego is affected as any storms of a major size that we are in the middle of, perhaps unprotected, overpower us and humble us and make us feel small, even if we do also feel exhilarated. Thus a very large storm has a magnificent contribution to make on squashing the ego.
Advantages
- Free and legal
- It always has some effects – even minor
- Fun and exciting
Disadvantages
- Affects body not just mind - Storm sound is ‘surround sound’, it envelops us, there is no directional or controlled focussing at all. As such this sort of sound has a stronger effect on the human body as a whole. It can affect the circulatory system not the head. It is not just the brain that can be affected, all of us can depending on the size of our organs and their resonating frequencies.
- High intensity means high risk - The intensity of storm sound is often high. We can feel it vibrating our whole bodies. We think it is the audible sound that causes the vibrations, but often it is not.
- Totally unpredictable in effect - The effects are totally unpredictable. It may well work, but we won’t know what it will do! Thus the approach is interesting but risky. On the other hand we cannot avoid it, if we are in an area where there are storms then we are going to be affected whether we like it or not and the area affected by a large storm can cover several hundred miles.
Observations
Both the Mistral in the Rhone Valley and the Sirocco off the Sahara are said to “create periods of momentary insanity”. There seems to be little evidence of the sirocco producing any form of hallucinatory experience – but I may be wrong. Since resonance is frequency dependent, and the sirocco appears to produce different frequencies to the mistral, it has different effects. Hormones are affected by the sirocco, whereas emotions seems to be affected by the Mistral.
I do not believe it is an accident that so many painters found inspiration in Provence. I have provided a section which shows just some of the painters that lived and worked in Provence.
Related observations
Healing observations
Hallucination
- Brittany - M. Pierre Vichon of Pointe du Raz, Finistère feels the shot which killed his friend 014035
- Brittany - The Rance fées who appear during storms 014027
- Community key to healing after tragedies like tornadoes, Oregon District mass shooting 029544
- Dorothy Walpole - the Brown Lady 008382
- Fairy hill with treasure 004088
- Grimble, Sir Arthur - And the Island of Whistling Spirits 010880
- Hurricane Katrina and hallucinations 003277
- Low pressure causes madness 006546
- PubMed paper - Naawtal, spells and wind 006548
- Saved by a disembodied voice - If the vessel had continued her original course for a few more minutes all would have been over for both ship and crew 025281
- Storms and school children 003274
- The Dyatlov Pass incident 006796
- The true-life story of Adrift 029552
- This Man’s Smell Hallucinations Can Predict the Weather 029549
Wisdom, Inspiration, Divine love & Bliss
- Cash, Johnny – I love weather; I'm a connoisseur of weather 025921
- Constable, John - Seascape Study with Rain Cloud 002893
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Bathers 010406
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Canal de la Giudecca Venise 010403
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Cypress 010407
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Cypresses 010400
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - French pines 010396
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Goats 010399
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - L'air du soir 010395
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - La Plage de Saint Clair 010401
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - La Plage de Saint Clair 1907 010409
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Landscape with pines 010408
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Landscape with stars 1908 010405
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Le Nuage Rose 010402
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Napes 010397
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Reclining nude, young girl 010410
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - San Giorgio Maggiore Venice 010404
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - The Return of the Fisherman 1896 010411
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Two nudes under a cork oak 010412
- Cross, Henri-Edmond- the Clearing 010398
- Gogh, Vincent van - Portrait of Dr. Gachet 003953
- Levy-Dhurmer - Autumn 007566
- Levy-Dhurmer - Death the Bride 007560
- Levy-Dhurmer - Eve 007554
- Levy-Dhurmer - Florence 007561
- Levy-Dhurmer - Gust of wind 007557
- Levy-Dhurmer - La Bourrasque 007568
- Levy-Dhurmer - La Sorcière, 1897 007562
- Levy-Dhurmer - Le Bienveillante 1917 007555
- Levy-Dhurmer - Le Silence 007564
- Levy-Dhurmer - Méduse 007565 007565
- Levy-Dhurmer - Moroccan beauty 007522
- Levy-Dhurmer - Mystère ou La femme à la médaille 007551
- Levy-Dhurmer - Nun 007556
- Levy-Dhurmer - Portrait de Mademoiselle Carlier 007553
- Levy-Dhurmer - Salome 007563
- Levy-Dhurmer - various 007567
- Maid and poesy 004092
- Millais, John Everett - Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind 007744
- Mistral and madness 003280
- Mistral and madness 003279
- Nietzsche - Miscellaneous quotes - The effects of the storm 010723
- Picasso, Pablo - Guernica 003737
- Picasso, Pablo - The Old Guitarist 003736
- Picasso, Pablo - The Weeping Woman 003734
- Picasso, Pablo - Self portrait 003735
- Poincare, Henri - Discovering arithmetic transformations of indefinite ternary quadratic forms 014471
- Renoir - Nudes 3 008044
- Scott, Sir Peter - A superb rain storm came past over Horseshoe Hole Farm and Balaclava 022841
- Twenty five Chinese poems - Winter - A Rough Sea 012704
Out of time
- Andrew Lang - Jonka Dyneis sees a tragedy 004643
- Monsoons, Lightning, and the Way Toad Venom (Bufo alvarius) by exuberantmantra EROWID 020107
- Scottish fasting 004089
- Scottish remote viewing 004087
In time
- Andrew Lang - Jonka Dyneis sees a tragedy 004643
- Armies eating barlie 004091
- Black Elk - Native American Indians - Birds and Spirit helpers 003272
- Brittany - M. Pierre Vichon of Pointe du Raz, Finistère feels the shot which killed his friend 014035
- Constable, John - Marine Parade and Old Chain Pier 002896
- Constable, John - Seascape Study with Rain Cloud 002893
- Constable, John - Stonehenge 002894
- Constable, John - The Leaping Horse 002895
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Bathers 010406
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Canal de la Giudecca Venise 010403
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Cypress 010407
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Cypresses 010400
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - French pines 010396
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Goats 010399
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - L'air du soir 010395
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - La Plage de Saint Clair 010401
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - La Plage de Saint Clair 1907 010409
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Landscape with pines 010408
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Landscape with stars 1908 010405
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Le Nuage Rose 010402
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Napes 010397
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Reclining nude, young girl 010410
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - San Giorgio Maggiore Venice 010404
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - The Return of the Fisherman 1896 010411
- Cross, Henri-Edmond - Two nudes under a cork oak 010412
- Cross, Henri-Edmond- the Clearing 010398
- Dorothy Walpole - the Brown Lady 008382
- Dufy, Raoul - Intérieur à la fenêtre ouverte 1928 002643
- Dufy, Raoul - Nice Casino 1936 002642
- Dufy, Raoul - Vase de Pois de Senteur 002644
- Fairy hill with treasure 004088
- Gogh, Vincent van - Wheat Field with Crows 1890 003955
- Gogh, Vincent van - Olive Trees 003956
- Gogh, Vincent van - The Reaper 003952
- Gogh, Vincent van - The Room of Van Gogh at Arles 003954
- Grimble, Sir Arthur - And the Island of Whistling Spirits 010880
- Maid and poesy 004092
- Renoir - Boats and Shepherdesses 008050
- Renoir - Clowns and Pierrots 008059
- Renoir - Dances and pianos 008051
- Renoir - Girls combing their hair 008047
- Renoir - Landscapes 1 008062
- Renoir - Landscapes 2 008063
- Renoir - Landscapes 3 008064
- Renoir - Landscapes 4 008065
- Renoir - Landscapes 5 008066
- Renoir - Luncheons and Balls 008049
- Renoir - Nudes 1 008042
- Renoir - Nudes 2 008043
- Renoir - Nudes 3 008044
- Renoir - Nudes 4 008045
- Renoir - Nudes 5 008046
- Renoir - Portraits 1 008053
- Renoir - Portraits 2 008054
- Renoir - Portraits 3 008055
- Renoir - Portraits 4 008056
- Renoir - Portraits 5 008057
- Renoir - Portraits 6 008058
- Renoir - Portraits 7 008060
- Renoir - Portraits 8 008061
- Renoir - Umbrellas 008048
- Renoir - Young boy with a cat 008052
- Saved by a disembodied voice - If the vessel had continued her original course for a few more minutes all would have been over for both ship and crew 025281
- Schopenhauer, Arthur - The World as Will and Idea - Power, nature and contemplation 002759
- Schopenhauer, Arthur - The World as Will and Idea - The power of nature 002758
- Scottish fasting 004089
Prophecy
- Alarming prophecy 004080
- Armies eating barlie 004091
- Grimble, Sir Arthur - And the Island of Whistling Spirits 010880
- Sir Victor Goddard’s Time Slip Adventure 024903
Other observations
- Correlation between strokes and violent weather 006543
- Desert wind, anxiety and neuroses 006550
- Hot winds and panic attacks 006551
- Low pressure and suicides 006557
- Lung disease and thunderstorms 006545
- M A Czaplicka - The Burga and the Buran 003278
- Mark 3 - and Hesiod 003276
- Migraines and Chinook winds 006544
- This Family Hid From a 300 MPH Tornado in a Water Pipe 029539
- Traffic accidents and heart failure from infrasound 003275
- Violent weather and its impact on childbirth 006555
- Wind and cold cause heart patient deaths 006554