Magnetic Religions

This is a strange concept, granted, however I am idly curious as to other’s thoughts on this topic.

We have proven, scientifically, that artifical magnetic fields can alter human thought to varied degrees. It can even force an individual to sense the presence of imaginary individuals, visual and auditory responces that are again not there, etc. These can alter our, and animal, behavioural patterns, thought processes, bio-chemistry and physiological function.

-www.magneticfields.org/sky/aarc/noncartesian.html
-ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel4/5704/15368/00710444.pdf?arnumber=710444
-artificialtelepathy.blogspot.com/2007/01/hearing-voices-schizophrenia-or.html
-linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0031938484901392
-www.springerlink.com/index/1Q0433TH1M1564H5.pdf

The question is: If these low powered fields can be used to generate certain processes and changes to the human mind, what could the three massive ones, that we interact with every single day, do to us? These three are:

The Sun.
The Moon.
The Earth.

These three bodies have magnetic fields that, on a day to day basis, affect us and by proxy our minds. I am certain that I need not make any correlations to ancient societies, who were atleast aware of what it was they prayed to, however these same ideals resound in men and women to this day. When we look out at the world, perhaps we can also see the almost blatantly obvious three way divide in people.

Postulate: Term ‘worshiper’ used as meaning those whos minds are affected by the varied frequencies of magnetism by these three bodies… Individuals with like ‘Magnetic frequency,’ or thought process, will be grouped thus:

Sun Worshipers: Monotheistic religions inwhich believe in one omnipotent creator that rules for all of eternity, is the most powerful object in all of creation (Strongest magnetic field of the three bodies, it’s magnetic fields dominate the others, and it truly created the Earth and the life there on).

Moon Worshipers: Buddhism, Hinduism, etc. Pacifists generally and calm of mental state. Controlling the mind and consciousness and attempting to ascend higher than the restraints of our own selves. (Smallest magnetic field of the three, a passive magnetic field if one wishes. This magnetic field is wonderfully stable, though is easily shoved aside by the others. The moon is gentle and loving, and again with out this body the Earth would die for mankind.)

Earth Worshipers: Generally Polytheistic religions, creative and emotional. We find here our esoteric and ‘pagan’ belief systems. One with nature or those around them, generally wishing peace and harmony, and having tendencies to ascribe to more than one god. (Pervasive magnetic field in our lives it is neither as strong and dominate as the Sun’s, nor as calm and peaceful as that of the moon. Fairly rowdy at times, still prone to the influences of the other two as the Earth’s magnetic field is shifted back and forth by the Sun and Moon.)

From their outward actions, to their almost habitual dogmatic beliefs, we can easily identify the traits of these celestial bodies in these religions. In fact, the concept of Mono-theism started in our written history with a pharoh named Akhenaten… who incidently set Egypt to pray to the Sun and only the Sun.

Now… in modern society:

The world has a growing mistrust of christians/muslims/jews… unfortunately these three are at almost perpetual war and getting worse over the past couple of years… oddly enough the Sun’s magnetic field has collapsed and gone a bit crazy itself… the Sun’s magnetic field is also currently forcing the Moon and Earth’s magnetic fields around a bit like a bully.

-http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002A&A...390..767L

The Earth’s magnetic field is slowly shifting in relation to the Sun’s… here soon it shall also collapse and re-arrange itself. Oddly enough the Mayans believed that civilization as we know it should end, and a whole new era of consciousness would ensue… strange since that is what seems to be happening.

I think this just adds to the very long list of reasons why we can’t trust that our perceptions correspond to any absolute reality.

As Descartes made clear so long ago, science, to get beyond this fact, requires either faith or demonstration of the fact that we aren’t being deceived by our senses…

Figured I would add one more question:

If the concept above is true, what happens if these magnetic fields collapse, or shift? Will even our personal sense of North and South change? etc.

Yes; we can do this to birds in tests.

More or less the concept of a mangnetically created religious thinking would be simple, in a shorter summary it would be as follows:

The people of the Earth are under the influence of 3 magnetic fields at all times. These fields are, generally speaking, stable for thousands of years.

As magnetic fields alter human thought process, we can assume that for the past, say, 11,000-13,000 years we have been under a fairly stable influence, aside from those more aligned with the magnetic field of the Sun… this would simply be a frequency inwhich certain individuals are more aligned with then the other two. The magnetic field of the sun, as we have discovered, rotates and shifts fairly often… there again in the “sun worship” religions we see a steady pattern of breakaways and new concepts throughout history.

The sun religions:
Christians
Jews
Monotheists in general
Many ancient cults.

The moon religions:
Often pagan worship, very little importance is offered the moon by the Sun religions, atleast on the whole, however we do find the symbolism of the Sun in almost all sun religions, and the moon in most ‘pagan’ religions… such as many ‘new age’ religions.

The Earth Religions:
Also pagan worship, by definition, however in these religions nature worship and Earth Gods/goddesses were vastly more important than the rest… such as Egypt, for easy examples: Isis and Geb. Often these cults placed more stock in earthly matters than those concerning astronomy and solar/lunar study.

Each of three religions can be seen, throughout history, as having gone ‘toe to toe’ over their beliefs on a fairly regular basis. This is easily explainable by the three differeing magnetic fields, and the human mindset of each group being almost drastically different.

We see evidence of this in modern society, as the ‘Sun Religions’ have either collapsed, or are beginning to take new focus in ‘new age’ concepts or in ‘Earth Worship.’ (I.E. the Suns magnetic field collapsed some years ago, and the primary concern of almost everyone is becomming the ‘saving of our planet.’ This, before the sun’s field collapsed, was not that primary of a concern… and with time the ‘oneness with the earth’ and ‘living in harmony with our world’ is almost in the forefront of our thinking… There again, the Earth’s magnetic field is the second largest inwhich we interact with, and closest in frenquency to that of the Sun, as opposed to the Moon.

More or less, the idea needs alot of work, and I’ve no way of committing a scientific experiment to prove it, however thus far I feel it workable.

Any other ideas?

Apothis,
Be wary of analogies (magnetism to belief). They seldom show anything more substantial than correspondences.
Hume went way past Descartes in noting that we verify, or describe as truth, that which we experience. The mind/body split Descartes believed in is now being summarily discredited in fields of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology.
If the senses delivered faulty infomation, we humans would become extinct. That we can manipulate matter indicates some veracity of received sense data. That we can eat and procreate suggests that we can know something other than our particular selves.
Since I’m 66% water, is my mind affected by any physical disturbance of water?

This is a great misinformation act regarding the subject matter of paganism, and is overly burdened with error.

There’s polytheism, spiritualism, animism, shamanism, and then there’s the regions…

Namely you are wrong with the moon bit because most of the pagan forms you are thinking of (Pre-Christian European Polytheists/Spiritualists; i.e. Druidism [Celtic Paganims], Anglo-Saxon paganism [Germanic Paganism], Norse paganism [Germanic Paganism]…) had multiple counter parts of themselves in the Sun and the Moon, as well as aspects of Nature and the Human condition, and/or wisdom.

Your listing of “Moon religions” and “Earth religions” is not really needed to be separate as they are one in the same among the pre-Christian European Pagan religions.

To my knowledge, there is no singular moon worshiping religion, meanwhile there are a great multitude of religions that venerate the moon in some degree.

In creating the “Moon” and “Earth” separation based on the existence of exclusive Sun religions is an error similar to the invented Slavic pagan “white god” simply because it was assumed that one must exist and could be derived meaning and value of based on the evidence of the Slavic “black god”.

Just because there is of one, does not inherently mean the counter value must be as well.

greatdreams.com/moon/moon_worship.htm

I was not so much utterly seperating them as entire concepts… more the seperation of the religious focal points, not of all aspects of each religion.

Besides, this makes sense as the Moons magnetic field is highly overpowered by the other two.

In reference to the Water comment… water DOES change shape subjectivly.

life-enthusiast.com/twilight … _emoto.htm

I’m aware of moon worship, as I pointed it out previously, however, I think that the trichotomy you are thinking of is unnecessarily simple.
I know that you seem to have a facination with these types of topics, namely Sun worship and Egyptian’s, but that does not directly cross over as the only form of religious appeal.

It was a dominant form of religion for a period of time, but before it there was religion that wasn’t related to the Sun, Moon, or Earth, and after it there was add-on’s that accounted for the nature of man and the mystical unknown instead of just the Sun, Moon, and Earth.

Religion evolves as man does, so the truly magnetic religion is the current religion that expresses the understanding of the times and accounts for the aspects of reality closest to in full grasp of the current categories of reality.

At present, there is a shift, whereby man is starting to find interest in essence once again instead of the material reality; philosophy and theology are yet again discussing the essence of things, states, and existence rather than dialoguing the physical implications of what we are learning about our material reality.

Due to this, concepts of religion that are more crude in concern with material, but more advanced or apt in the expression of the essence of experience and man are taking a rise.
Religions that hold a more physical hold on the metaphysical reality are starting to slip behind and find disagreement.

The acceptance of religion is widening as the essence is searched for in light of the utility need of religion.

And this is where the “magnetic religions” are seeming to be religions from long past and resounding with relatable concepts at this time in, at least Western, history.

They are magnetic because they are relatable to our present need.

Still…
I see little need for a trichotomic separation of the largest basic elements surrounding Man in interest of identifying some aspect of religious revelation.
It is far to crude of a form for the present Man to find actual value beyond novelty.