Why Feng Shui Works – Scientists Discover Magnets In Brain

A Luopan, the traditional feng shui compass

I love stories like this. They renew my faith in the natural order of the universe. Not that my faith needed renewing, but too many times people blame the natural order for being obscure, not themselves for not having enough information.

The art of Feng Shui measures the cycles of the Earth's electromagnetic field and applies this influence to the directions and dwellings of human beings. Yes, folks, not only do you really intercept this field, it really affects you in ways you can't imagine unless you have a feng shui reading done.

It is also my personal belief that at birth, the magnets in your brain are "set" in some way based upon the positions of the planets, and that is why astrology "works" also, but I don't yet have scientific proof of that idea.

However, I do have proof that we humans have the capability and therefore the likelihood of detecting and being affected by the Earth's electromagnetic fields.

Read on……

From the Earth's magnet field affects humans website:

ITEM 43:

Microscopic magnets have been found in the human brain that might help explain possible links between cancer and electromagnetic fields, scientists said Monday.

'They are little biological bar magnets' made of crystals of the iron mineral magnetite, said geobiologist Joseph Krischvink of the California Institute of Technology. 'This really is an exciting discovery.' . . . Homing pigeons, whales, salmon, honeybees and some shellfish and bacteria have microscopic magnets . . . "

- Associated Press, Omaha World-Herald. Tiny Crystal Magnets Found in Human Brain. May 12, 1992.

Here is the whole story as reported in the Syracuse, NY newspapers, the evening "Herald Journal" or the morning "Post Standard." I'm not sure which newspaper it was in; I have the original clipping, but failed to record which paper or the date I clipped it. I assume it was clipped close to the date as listed above, May 12, 1992, since it appears to be the same AP article.

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Scientists Discover Magnets In Brain

Crystals may explain the side effects of home appliances.

Pasadena, Calif. (AP) - Microscopic magnets have been found in the human brain that might help explain possible links between cancer and electromagnetic fields, scientists said Monday.

'They are little biological bar magnets" made of crystals of the iron mineral magnetite, said geobiologist Joseph Krischvink of the California Institute of Technology. "This really is an exciting discovery."

The crystals are strongly magnetic, unlike other iron compounds in the body. They come in two sizes, about one-millionth and 10-millionths of an inch wide," he said during a news conference.

Homing pigeons, whales, salmon, honeybees and some shellfish and bacteria have microscopic magnets.

In recent years, scientists found growing but inconclusive evidence that electromagnetic fields, or EMF's, might increase the risk of certain cancers, including childhood leukemis and brain tumors.

EMF's are invisible electric and magnetic fields generated by power lines, appliances, and everything electrical.

Many physicists doubt any EMF-cancer link because "they thought there were no plausible mechanisms by which electromagnetic fields could affect biological tissue," Kirschvink said.

The study found an average human brain contains about 7 billion microscopic magnets, weighing a total of one-millionth of an ounce, said associate research engineer Atsuko Kobayashi-Kirschvink, who co-authored the study and is married to Kirschvink.

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Further evidence from the Earth's magnet field affects humans website:

ITEM 44:

"Every organism including the human organism, demonstrates cycles of biological and mental-emotional activity closely linked to geomagnetic force-field patterns and more complex force-field interrelations, both planetary and solar-terrestrial in scope. Human behavior is influenced through the direct current control system of the brain by the terrestrial magnetic field, solar and planetary conditions, and both high and low energy cosmic radiation."

- Dr. Robert O. Becker, Medical Research, Syracuse University.

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"I found in my research that this permeability (of blood cells) is under the direct control of (Earth's) geomagnetic field. Apparently the control is connected with changes occurring in the water molecules of the membranes."

- Dr. Alexander Dubrov, USSR Academy of Sciences. Soviet Life. Jan 1972.

ITEM 49:

"After analyzing six years' worth of data, two geophysicists (S.R.C. Malin, B.J. Srivastava, Nature) have concluded that there is a significant relationship between heart attacks and changes in the earth's magnetism."

New York Times. April 24, 1979. Heart Attacks Tied To Magnetic Change.

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In a fascinating study on geomagnetic storms and depression, British researchers found that male hospital admissions with a diagnosis of depression rose 36.2% during periods of geomagnetic activity as compared with normal periods. The investigators hypothesized that this increase may have been caused by a phase advance in the circadian rhythm of melatonin production.

Kay RW. Geomagnetic storms: association with incidence of depression as measured by hospital admission. British Journal Psychiatry 1994 164(3): 403-9.

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Think Feng Shui doesn't affect YOU??

Think again!

Astronomy in the Hindu Tantric Diagram Sri Yantra

This should come as no surprise, but one of the world's oldest, most sacred designs has astronomical associations as its foundation. The Hindu Sri Yantra takes the practitioner from an outward journey (the square) to the center of spiritual Be-ing (the dot in the center of the diagram.

Yantra: Hindu Tantric Diagrams

by Patrick A George

Translation

[Shri Shankaracarya], Saundaryalahari, prathamo bhagah, Anandalahari:

The angles of your feet are transformed into four [angles] related to Shiva and five [angles] related to Shakti, which are distinct from those of Shiva, and thus into the nine primary forms of matter, as well as into forty-three [angles], eight-petals, sixteen-sides, three-folds and three-lines. || 11 ||

Kaivalyashrama, Saubhagyavardhani:

One should make a circle according to one's desire
[i.e. as large as one wants].
One should draw a line from east to west
and divide it into forty-eight parts. || 1 ||

One should make nine marks on this:
on the sixth, on the sixth and on the fifth,
on the third and again on the third,
on the fourth and then on the third,
on the sixth, and on the sixth again.
One should extend nine lines on both sides of these marks,
from south to north. || 2-3 ||

One who is skilled in this

[i.e. who knows the technical terms and drawing process]
should remove fractional parts [from these lines] in order:
on the first, second, and fourth,
then on the fifth and sixth,
and on the eighth and last
agni [three], bana [five], kala [sixteen], purana [eighteen],
sixteen, veda [four], and agni [three]. || 4-5b ||

One who is learned should then join these lines in order:
the ends of ravi [Sun] in the middle of shani [Saturn],

the ends of candra [Moon] in the middle of ketu [descending node],

the ends of mangala [Mars] in the middle of the circle,

the ends of budha [Mercury] in the middle of rahu [desc.(s/b ascending) n.],

the ends of guru [Jupiter] in the middle of bhauma [Mars],

the ends of shukra [Venus] in the middle of soma [Moon],

the ends of shani [Saturn] in the middle of the circle,

the ends of rahu [ascending node] in the middle of ravi [Sun],

the ends of ketu [desc. n.] in the middle of budha [Mercury]. || 5c-7 ||

[Thus] the best shri cakra is formed,
with its center having the form of trembling fire,
with eight and twelve and fourteen lights of fire. || 8 ||
Apart from the cakra there are vasu [eight] lotus petals and sixteen leaves;
it is adorned with a triad of circles
and has an earthly house distinguished by three lines.
The dwelling consists of a three-fold road
and is beautifully adorned with four-fold doors;
the cakra is divine, completely splendorous,
consisting of the nature of moon, sun and fire. || 9-10 ||

This dimensional variability utilized in the construction of Vedic altars is further developed in the proportional systems of yantras, the ritual diagrams of Tantric initiation and empowerment. As in the case of the tradition of Vedic altars mentioned above, there are many types of yantras. All yantras share the same basic scheme of enclosure, or "walls," although the representation within these walls varies depending upon the purpose of the yantra. In the case of the Shri Yantra, perhaps the most well known yantra, the central area is occupied by a pattern of nine interlocking triangles representing the goddess Shri.

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Phoenix here.......I thought it would be helpful to add color to the diagram so that the trianges for the various planets and lunar nodes could be clearly identified. Here is what I came up with: