Wobbly Universe

Almost since I got access to the Internet in 1994, there have been repeated reports about two things that are now increasingly being linked.

1. The Mayan Prophecies of 2012.

2. The increasing frequency of the earth's Schumann resonance.

These are both solidly in the area of cycles and I often get asked about them. I just received an email from a friend about INTERNATIONAL BRANCH Of LION Of JUDAH. This site in turn quotes Weinholds.org where we can read "Welcome to the home page of Barry and Janae Weinhold and the Carolina Institute for Conflict Resolution and Creative Leadership (CICRCL), which provides evolutionary resources for shifting consciousness."

The stuff that we seek is on several pages and indeed the site map shows that there are 15 pages about the shift of 2012. There we can find this paragraph which was also quoted on the other site:

The Schumann resonance, also known as Earth’s heartbeat, has increased from its normal 7.8 hz. and is hovering around the 9 – 11 hz. level. It is expected to move to 13 hz, the frequency of unconditonal love. Gregg Braden, a geologist who has been studying this, calls this place where the Schumann or magnetic frequency and the electric frequency intersect ZERO POINT.

So perhaps it would be of interest to find out what the Schumann frequency is actually doing. There is a site that makes available information about regular measurements of ELF / ULF (Extra Low Frequency / Ultra Low Frequency) and the Schumann Frequency of the Earth. They have graphs of Schumann frequency from 1990 up to almost the present so we can see what is really happening. Two different laboratories have made the measurements, Arrival Heights, Antarctica (upper graph from 1990 to 2000) and Parkfield, California (lower graph from 1996 to 2003).

Looking at these two graphs we can see that there is a slight variation in the Schumann resonance frequency. It goes up and down on some sort of annual cycle by about 0.1 to 0.2 Hz, and combining the two graphs together we can also see that there were peaks around 1991 and 2002 with a trough around 1996. It would appear that the 11 year sunspot cycle is also showing up in the frequency.

However there is no sign of an increase to the 9-11 Hz range as stated by Barry and Janae Weinhold and those that quote them. There are no dates on their web pages, so we do not know when they were written. They do say:

It is interesting that the largest increase ever recorded in the Schumann frequency occurred in 1987 and coincided with the eruption of Supernova 1987a and the Harmonic Convergence, when millions of people gathered at sacred sites around the world to pray and meditate together. If you remember, this is the time when Russell Boulding believes that the Shift might have really begun.

Well our graph doesn't go back as far as 1987, but certainly if anything unusual happened them (which would surprise me greatly) it had all returned to normal by 1990.

I also see that they in turn copied this information from someone else. Russell Boulding has a web site Preparing for the Great Shift. However I don't think that he is the origin either.

A google search for schumann frequency increasing 2012 says that there are 11,700 sites, but google usually overestimates by a large factor so that a thousand is more likely.

Why do so many people pick up and quote something that has no basis in fact? It appears that someone made this up (I am guessing about 1995) and since then it has been quoted and expanded by people who make a living by telling people all about the coming golden age and the frequency of love, when all around us there is war and destruction. I invite any of these people to produce evidence that the Schumann frequency is actually increasing, has reached 9-11 Hz or is heading towards 13 Hz.

For that matter, the idea that the frequency is moving from 8 to 13 Hz because these are Fibonacci frequencies is equally silly. You cannot say that 13 Hz is a Fibonacci number, because 13 Hz is the same thing as 13*60 cycles per minute or 780 RPM and 780 is not a Fibonacci number. Of course it is the 10th harmonic of the old 78 RPM records, so some is clearly going on here. (sarcasm! sarcasm!) Frequencies are not numbers - they have units. This whole thing of ignoring units and taking the numbers is totally meaningless and a sure sign that the writer does not know what they are doing. You can only look at things as numbers when they have no units which can also result from taking ratios of things that have the same units as then the units cancel.

The same meaninglessness applies to the supposed 2012 date of the Mayan calendar. This looks to me to be the equivalent of the Christian calendar turning over to 1000 or 2000 and nothing more. Of course humans made all sorts of fuss at these times too and nothing happened. I find no evidence of the end of the world. I find no combination of cycles coming together to make catastrophe at that time, and I have studied many hundreds of cycles.

I do find a time in the future when a combination of cycles come together to cause extreme catastrophe and a mass extinction event. I predict that this will happen in 42,000,000 AD. There will be a couple of lesser events in 4,000,000 AD and 16,000,000 AD but the really big one is still quite a long way off. For 2012 AD I don't find anything out of the ordinary.

When making predictions it is a good idea to give your past credentials. In 1986 I predicted that 1987 would be 1929 revisited, an accurate prediction. This prediction was based on my own cycles analysis of stock or share markets done in the 1980s and was verified with Edward R. Dewey's analysis which was done back in the 1960s. I have predicted no other such serious event in our time. I did repeatedly have a big laugh about the Y2K predictions. But just to be sure, I pressed the buttons on our washing machine with a long stick on 1st January 2000 (and again in 2001 in case that was really the millenium as some claimed).