Some days, things just seem off.
Maybe the people around you randomly act annoyed by small inconveniences, or the news makes it sound like the world is teetering on the edge of something catastrophic. You may come to see your day job as pointless and miscommunications lead to even more frustration. Weird synchronicities might begin to pile up causing you to question your own sanity.
Some might say this is just how life is on planet Earth in the year 2023. Others may chalk it up to some astrological cliché, like Mercury in retrograde. Even longer spells of perceived weirdness or emotional struggle can be explained away as something temporary, like seasonal depression.
Whatever it may be, human nature tells us this too shall pass. And for most people, it usually does.
But what if these varying periods of personal and societal disturbance were actually understandable?
Subconscious Effects of the Field
It has long been common knowledge that certain animals are able to navigate the globe through an inherent ability to sense the electromagnetic field that surrounds our planet. Migratory birds are the best-known species to demonstrate this evolutionary mechanism, as we all know geese fly south for the winter.
Although this trait — known as magnetoreception — is prevalent in many species of mammal, it has long been the consensus of academia that humans do not have the biological hardware to tap into it.
Even though we possess a cryptochrome in our retina that should allow us to perceive electromagnetic fields, the daily navigation of our own personal lives doesn’t seem to provide us with a conscious path to this perception.
However, recent research calls this common wisdom into question.
In 2019, a group of biologists and neuroscientists published a study showing the first evidence of geomagnetic sensing by the human brain. In the paper, titled Transduction of the Geomagnetic Field as Evidenced from alpha-Band Activity in the Human Brain, researchers showed that the brainwaves of certain individuals responded to the shifts in the experiment’s magnetic field.
Interestingly, the reactions were widely varied among the subjects. Some showed no reaction at all, while others had their alpha waves shrink to half the size they are normally. This shows that some people are much more sensitive to changes in electromagnetic variables than others.
The reduction of the subjects’ alpha waves is another intriguing data point. These waves, which oscillate at a frequency of 8-12 Hz, are mostly present during states of wakeful rest.
This means there is a strong correlation with the brain’s default mode network (DMN), a neural connection of regions within the brain that is active when no external task is being performed. The DMN is also related to introspection and making associations, along with daydreaming and reflection on the self within the individual’s social context.
Essentially, this network and its associated brain waves are most active when we are subconsciously processing our environment.
Our participants were all unaware of the magnetic field shifts and their brain responses. They felt that nothing had happened during the whole experiment – they’d just sat alone in dark silence for an hour.
Underneath, though, their brains revealed a wide range of differences. Some brains showed almost no reaction, while other brains had alpha waves that shrank to half their normal size after a magnetic field shift.
It remains to be seen what these hidden reactions might mean for human behavioral capabilities. Do the weak and strong brain responses reflect some kind of individual differences in navigational ability? Can those with weaker brain responses benefit from some kind of training? Can those with strong brain responses be trained to actually feel the magnetic field?
A human response to Earth-strength magnetic fields might seem surprising. But given the evidence for magnetic sensation in our animal ancestors, it might be more surprising if humans had completely lost every last piece of the system.
Thus far, we’ve found evidence that people have working magnetic sensors sending signals to the brain – a previously unknown sensory ability in the subconscious human mind. The full extent of our magnetic inheritance remains to be discovered.
The notion that our species may be able to access a new sense is an exciting prospect. The fact that only the brains of certain individuals reacted to the changes in the field also raises some interesting questions regarding the evolutionary mechanism that is potentially involved.
However, there are some concerning aspects of this that also need to be investigated.
The fact that these disturbances in electromagnetic fields affect our brains subconsciously suggests that brain waves can be altered without us even noticing. This raises questions about certain scenarios where we may be affected by magnetic alterations or anomalies, both natural and artificial.
Next-level Psyops
As I hinted at earlier, major news networks — and media in general — can have underestimated effects on our psychological state. The amount of time our society currently spends consuming content through phone and TV screens already makes us rather vulnerable to manipulation via algorithms. Targeted advertising and recommended YouTube videos are just a few examples of how we may be influenced subconsciously online.
In the hands of bad actors these powerful tools can be implemented subtly on a massive scale, resulting in extremist belief systems, a polarized electorate, and organized disinformation networks like QAnon.
One unlikely advocate of the QAnon conspiracy theory is a retired U.S. Army major general named Paul Vallely. A Salon article from September 2020 lays out the Q agenda in the context of a similar disinformation campaign on UFOs, drawing a parallel with Richard Doty’s infamous interactions with researcher Paul Bennewitz. Bennewitz was eventually hospitalized for mental illness exacerbated by the false information he was fed.
The parallels between QAnon’s tales and Doty’s military-funded disinformation campaign — including such oddities as subterranean battles between the American military and otherworldly creatures — is remarkable. Are such cover stories endlessly recycled with slight new twists whenever necessary? After all, why dream up new cover stories when the old ones will do? Who even remembers these obscure details from the ’80s and ’90s?
Perhaps the real secret behind QAnon is connected to the identity of the one military official who has actually endorsed the anonymous “whistleblower” in public. That lone endorser is retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely.
Back in the 1980s, Vallely wrote a paper with Lt. Col. Michel Aquino titled From PSYOP to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory. Their writing advocates for going beyond traditional military psychological operations and incorporating disinformation that must instill “a predisposition to inevitable defeat.”
To this end, MindWar must be strategic in emphasis, with tactical applications playing a reinforcing, supplementary role. In its strategic context, MindWar must reach out to friends, enemies, and neutrals alike across the globe – neither through primitive “battlefield” leaflets and loudspeakers of PSYOP nor through the weak, imprecise, and narrow effort of psychotronics – but through the media possessed by the United States which have the capabilities to reach virtually all people on the face of the Earth.
Readers of my most recent article will no doubt recognize the term “psychotronics” in the paragraph above. The fact that these high-ranking military men advocate for something more comprehensive than existing psychotronic weaponry should raise some eyebrows.
Even more concerning are the citations at the end of the paper. Beyond such mind-altering phenomena like “ionization of the air” and “extremely low frequency (ELF) waves,” the authors suggest exploiting the susceptibility of the human brain to “atmospheric electromagnetic activity.”
The human body communicates internally by EM and electrochemical impulses. The EM field displayed in Kirlian photographs, the effectiveness of acupuncture, and the body’s physical responses to various types of EM radiation (X-rays, infrared radiation, visible light spectra, etc.) are all examples of human sensitivity to EM forces and fields.
Atmospheric EM activity is regularly altered by such phenomena as sunspot eruptions and gravitational stresses which distort the Earth’s magnetic field. Under varying external EM conditions, humans are more or less disposed to the consideration of new ideas. MindWar should be timed accordingly.
In short, Vallely and Aquino are suggesting that individuals are more receptive to subliminal messaging when tied to certain levels of distortion in the Earth’s electromagnetic field. This idea appears to be supported by the 2019 study mentioned earlier in the article regarding the effects of magnetic alterations on alpha brain waves and the resulting subconscious response.
It is rather alarming to think that human magnetoreception could be harnessed to develop more effective psychological operations.
But perhaps this can be overcome if we can rediscover and regain conscious control over this ability. As the authors of the 2019 study asked, “Can those with strong brain responses be trained to actually feel the magnetic field?”
A Lost Intuition
Recall that the authors of the 2019 study wrote that the existing evidence of our animal ancestors possessing such magnetoreception would make it “more surprising if humans had completely lost every last piece of the system.”
US government studies into such fields as anomalous cognition and remote viewing protocols suggest they’ve had a longtime interest in harnessing aspects of the brain that most would consider pseudoscience.
Those involved in these programs insist that the evidence shows these practices are anything but.
Prolific remote viewer Joe McMoneagle suggests that all humans have the proper cognitive hardware to successfully perceive events and locations from a distance psychically through an inherent intuition.
But like the authors of the study discussed before imply regarding magnetoreception, McMoneagle suggests anomalous cognition is a sensory capability we’ve no longer maintained as a species.
You have to understand that remote viewing was never designed to give you perfect images of anything. It was designed to give you warnings for survival.
It goes back 400,000 years, and it was to ensure your survival against things like cave bears that were 15 feet tall and weighed 3,000 pounds and had nails 4.5 inches long. You don’t want to run into one of those turkeys or you wouldn’t survive. So it was a way for the subconscious to give you warnings or protect you in some way.
Well, we lost the need for that probably 30,000 years ago. Or 10,000 years ago, whenever it was that we became sufficient [enough] at hunting and gathering that we could actually have some spare time for doing other things.
So our need for survival mechanisms has disappeared. We hire people to protect us now, like police and firemen and stuff like that. So we don’t need it anymore.
That’s why really good remote viewers are usually ex-policemen, ex-firemen, soldiers, surgeons. They are people who are faced with making life or death decisions in the instant, without the ability to go and look something up in a book or talk to somebody for advice.
It’s an intuitive response.
Once again we are talking about subconscious reactions and a lost ability to harness an ancient sensory apparatus as a species. McMoneagle also relates how specific individuals show more susceptibility or control over this capacity, just like the authors of the 2019 study into human magnetoreception.
Overcoming the Influence
The military interest in how electromagnetics affect the brain in tandem with anomalous cognition comes together with the subject of the UFO phenomenon. McMoneagle speaks of the connection within the same interview, and this correlation will be discussed in a future article in detail.
But for now, we have a few questions left unanswered.
- Why are only some individuals more susceptible to electromagnetic effects?
- Can all humans react to these signals under the right conditioning and methods, or is there a genetic/epigenetic component?
- Are those more consciously aware of these electromagnetic signals able to repel subliminal messaging by those who harness the phenomena to influence unsuspecting victims?
- And finally, do these lost intuitive capabilities of magnetoreception and remote viewing originate from the same mechanism inside the brain?
There are many more correlations between these subjects that stand out, but for now, I will leave you with one final thought from Stanford professor Dr. Garry Nolan on the default mode network discussed towards the beginning of the article.
Whatever the reason may be that we lost this subconscious sense, one must wonder what might be possible if we can ever get it back.
