I'll concede that maybe I'm being too harsh and there's something real but unconventional here. That said, the whole presentation is like the perfect uncanny valley for real scientific inquiry. Very unsettling.
I don’t know a ton about it but I’ve followed it for a while and that’s what it looks like to me.
We should have more of this. Much of what this kind of place generates is kooky or art rather than science, but it’s also the kind of mountain stream that feeds into things like the 1990s Santa Fe Institute that in turn helps give us modern agent based simulation — to pick one random example.
I also don’t get the sense this place has been turned into a vehicle to inject race science or other “heterodox” “just asking questions” fashy on-ramp stuff into the discourse like some other forums for free thinking.
How so?
> Also the QRI page is really well designed and organized, which is generally not a feature of people who aren't thinking straight.
In my experience, LSD/DMT doesn't necessarily cause one to "not think straight", especially if they're a regular / long-term user. It absolutely depends on the person though.
I am not sure people have normal cognition/consciousness around strong magnets: MRIs are associated with slower response times and cognitive fog https://www.nature.com/articles/npre.2008.2443.1 But at least some of that might be related to magnetic dipoles at a cellular/micro-level vs. “field disruption.”
I'm curious if anyone around here has tried grounding themself while working or sleeping and noticed any difference. From a naturalistic standpoint, it seems like a valid concept to test as our pre-, say, 100ya bodies' environment had very low ambient EMF radiation. Then, before the vulcanization of rubber, our transportation when on foot, at least, was spent grounded to the earth through leather (or other natural fabric) shoes (AFAIU).
Anyway, I do notice that going to a park and spending a chunk of time leaning on a living tree or just plopping down on the ground on our cotton blanket does seem to confer a pleasant bodily result. Or maybe it's just Placebo. I don't know yet.
From what I remember or understand, grounding oneself to the Earth causes our body to be flooded with electrons from the Earth's natural resevoir, but I'm no EE, so I would appreciate some folks leveling me up by sharing their expertise with those reading this.
Perhaps grounding oneself will help harmonize our internal electical waves in a way that helps improve our concentration.
I'm also curious how grounding oneself would affect the alkalization of our body. I'm sensitive to acidic foods such as tomato paste or marinara or jalapeno. I'm no chemist, so I wonder if there would be an effect in that dimension as well.
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained." --Unknown
Thanks in advance.
All I know for sure is that up to, pehaps, 100ya, most people were in contact with the Earth for many or even most hours of their day. 200ya, we were almost all nearly always grounded. That's but a blip in our bodies' developmental history.
I certainly haven't noticed anything.
Vulcanization of rubber in the 1940s has left us mostly disconnected from the Earth ground. It is worth exploring. The unscientific call this fundamental connection with the Earth "pseudoscientific". All science is worth studying to find out what the effects are, my friend.
