Lightning bolts as "binding consciousness" of humans on Earth: Ionosphere as Jung's Collective Unconscious

For example, Persinger (2012) demonstrated that

the frequency and current magnitudes of lightning strikes when scaled appropriately

contain the same intrinsic electrical current density as those of action potentials and the

frequency of lightning strikes, which is about 44 +/- 5 strikes per second or ‘40 Hz’

(Christian et al., 2003), approaches the ‘binding’ feature of consciousness (Llinás and

Ribary, 1993).

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be most evident between the maximum widths of two hemi-ellipsoids which would occur

approximately at the level of the temporal lobes.

The dynamic asymmetry of the human brain has been attributed to the

approximately 10% greater white-to-grey matter ratios and blood flow in the right

hemisphere which is slightly larger and heavier than the left. The structural component

for most interactions between the two hemispheres, primarily the corpus callosum and

anterior commissure, is composed of numbers of axons that are less than 1% of the

numbers of neurons within the cerebral cortices of either hemisphere. Hence there

should be specific latencies for quantities of information to be transmitted between the

two loci.

Effectively the human cerebrum is two boundaries or loci within which processes

associated with more than 90% of the neurons in each locus remain and do not interact

directly with the homologous area in the other hemisphere. The differences in

morphological structure between the two cerebral hemispheres have been

underestimated.

more neurons became coherent the subject’s experiences shifted along a continuum

from “normal ideation” to vestibular and powerful thoughts, to “vivid perceptual

experiences” and ultimately to convulsions.

E. R. John [40] had shown

experimentally several decades ago that learning through different modalities was

transferable in a single trial if the frequency patterns of the pulses from different

modalities were identical. Interactions of input from different modalities information could

be synthesized into experiences.

An equilibrium model would predict that during this period there should be an

increase in current density within the right parahippocampal region as the Schumann

amplitudes decrease. That would suggest the direction of this metaphoric “Poynting

vector” would be towards the intracerebral locus. The direction of the equilibrium would

be from the ubiquitous Schumann sources into the right hemisphere.

being that has ever existed could potentially be stored within the earth’s geomagnetic

field. Accordingly, the transient interactions that occur along the earth-ionosphere-brain

axis approximately once every minute may be indicative of levels of consciousness that,

by definition, can only be perceived on their respective time scale and would potentially

be evidenced by the repeated but independent re-visiting of concepts and ideas that

permeated throughout the course of history, such as the interdisciplinarity that was once

central to the major creative achievements of the Renaissance period as well as during

the times of Ancient Greece. If this is true, Jung’s ‘collective unconscious’ may have

more relevance than suspected.