Supernature

1. Supernature: The Bridge Between Known and Unknown

Between nature and the supernatural are a host of happenings that I choose to describe as Supernature.

Science's shifting ground. Traditional science, even physics, no longer holds absolute truths, blurring the old lines between natural and supernatural phenomena. This uncertainty is exciting, suggesting the universe is not a finite puzzle but an ever-expanding mystery with soft edges extending into the inexplicable.

Life's improbable order. Life creates order from the universe's tendency towards chaos, constantly battling decay by extracting energy and information from its environment. This intricate web connects all living things into one vast, self-maintaining system, part of a larger Supernature.

Hidden resources. The persistent human need to believe in unseen things suggests these beliefs, or the phenomena they attach to, have real survival value. Many of these lie in the "occult," meaning secret knowledge, hinting at abilities we've long possessed but hidden from ourselves.

2. Cosmic Rhythms Shape All Life on Earth

Life keeps time, and it seems that the beat is an old one, determined mainly by the rotation of our own planet, which turns the sun on and off like some giant cosmic strobe light.

Earth's fundamental cycles. Life is profoundly influenced by the Earth's movements, creating fundamental rhythms like the 24-hour circadian cycle (day/night) and the yearly circannual cycle (seasons). These cycles provide vital information for survival, from when plants should photosynthesize to when animals should hibernate or migrate.

Lunar and solar influences. Beyond Earth's rotation, the Moon's gravitational pull creates tides and monthly cycles, affecting marine life profoundly and even influencing weather patterns and human birth times. The Sun's activity, including sunspots and magnetic storms, correlates with long-term cycles in climate and even disease outbreaks.

Subtle environmental cues. Organisms respond to incredibly subtle environmental changes, such as tiny variations in light, temperature, barometric pressure, and even the Earth's magnetic field. These cues act as time signals, synchronizing biological processes across diverse species.

• Circadian rhythms: Seen in Euglena's movement, fruit fly emergence, cockroach activity.
• Circannual rhythms: Affect hibernation (ground squirrels), breeding seasons (aphids), and even human birth weight and intelligence correlations.
• Lunar rhythms: Influence tidal animals (Convoluta, oysters), fish spawning (grunion), worm breeding (palolo), and potentially human menstruation and bleeding.

3. Life Fields and Resonance Connect Organisms to the Environment

The supernatural becomes part of natural history.

Organisms possess energy fields. Living things generate subtle electrical fields, detectable even outside the body, which fluctuate with biological events like ovulation and disease states. These "life fields" are influenced by external forces, including the Earth's magnetic field, which is itself affected by cosmic bodies.

Resonance amplifies subtle signals. The principle of resonance explains how life can respond to extremely weak stimuli, such as the Moon's distant influence or low-frequency vibrations. If an external wave pattern matches the natural frequency of an organism or its components, energy is transferred, making the subtle signal noticeable.

Shape and frequency. The form of objects can influence resonance, potentially explaining phenomena like the preserving properties of pyramids or the effects of specific shapes on biological processes. This suggests that form itself might be a function of environmental frequencies, connecting matter and energy in unexpected ways.

• Harold Burr's experiments: Demonstrated life fields in salamanders, eggs, and seeds, linking voltage changes to biological states.
• Ravitz's findings: Showed human life fields fluctuate with lunar cycles.
• Piccardi's experiments: Revealed chemical reactions in water are influenced by solar activity, suggesting water's sensitivity mediates cosmic effects on life.
• Chladni figures & Cymatics: Show how sound frequencies create visible patterns in matter, hinting at form being shaped by vibration.

4. Mind Exerts Influence Over Matter

The psychokinetic force begins to look like an electric-field phenomenon.

Beyond physical interaction. While ecology studies direct interactions between life and environment, there are subtler links, not dependent on muscle or breath, but on the force fields surrounding living things. These fields may allow life to influence matter in ways previously considered supernatural.

Psychokinesis (PK) evidence. Laboratory experiments, particularly those by J.B. Rhine and later researchers, provide statistical evidence that mental intention can influence random physical events like dice throws or radioactive decay. The effect is often small but statistically significant, suggesting a subtle force at play.

Special talents and physiological links. Individuals like Nelya Mikhailova demonstrate dramatic PK abilities, moving objects seemingly with willpower alone. Physiological monitoring during her demonstrations revealed intense stress reactions and a pulsing electrostatic field linked to specific brain wave patterns (theta rhythm), suggesting a connection between mental state, energy fields, and PK.

• Rhine's dice experiments: Showed statistically significant deviations from chance based on mental intention.
• Radioactive decay tests: Subjects influenced the rate of particle emission from radioactive sources.
• Nelya Mikhailova: Demonstrated macro-PK (moving objects) with associated physiological changes and a pulsing energy field.
• Sergeyev Detector: Developed to measure changes in the life field during PK activity.

5. Beyond the Five Senses: Hidden Perceptual Abilities

Supernormal does not mean supernatural.

Expanded sensory spectrum. Life's senses are not limited to the traditional five; organisms perceive a much wider range of stimuli, from electrical fields (mormyrid fish) to subtle vibrations and chemical traces. What seems supernatural in humans may be hyperacuity or a different mode of perception common in other species.

Eyeless sight and color sensitivity. Some blind individuals demonstrate the ability to perceive light and color with parts of their skin, like fingertips or elbows, suggesting a diffuse sensitivity throughout the body. This ability, also trainable in sighted individuals, hints at a physiological response to light frequencies beyond normal vision.

Psychometry and subtle traces. The idea that people leave discernible traces on objects they handle, detectable by psychometrists, aligns with findings that human fields can subtly alter substances like water. While anecdotal evidence is strong, scientific proof is elusive, but it suggests a potential for perceiving subtle interactions between life and matter.

• Mormyrid fish: Navigate and "see" using self-generated electrical fields.
• Rosa Kuleshova: Demonstrated the ability to "see" colors and read print with her fingers and elbow while blindfolded.
• Color psychology: Shows colors have direct physiological and psychological effects, potentially linked to frequency resonance.
• Robert Pavlita's generators: Metal objects of specific shapes seemingly accumulate and release energy influenced by human handling, hinting at psychometry's basis.

6. Altered States Reveal Untapped Mental Potential

There is nothing supernatural about any of these talents; many of them have been objectively studied and imitated in the laboratory.

Hypnosis and suggestion. Hypnosis, a trance state distinct from sleep, allows conscious suggestion to influence involuntary bodily functions normally controlled by the autonomic nervous system. This demonstrates a remarkable capacity for the mind to control physiology, from pain perception and allergic reactions to heart rate and blood pressure.

Autosuggestion and psychosomatic effects. The ability to influence one's own body through suggestion is evident in psychosomatic disorders, where mental states cause physical illness, and in practices like yoga and meditation, where adepts gain conscious control over vital functions. This highlights the powerful two-way street between mind and body.

Dreams and hallucinations. Dreams, occurring during paradoxical sleep, and hallucinations, induced by sensory deprivation or chemicals, offer glimpses into the unconscious mind's workings. These states, often rich in symbolism and seemingly detached from external reality, suggest vast, unexplored capacities within the brain beyond its role in physical survival.

• Animal hypnosis: Induced by constriction, disorientation, or rhythmic stimuli, showing a primitive, widespread response.
• Human hypnosis: Used as anesthesia and to influence physiological responses like skin reactions and reflexes.
• Yoga and meditation: Practitioners demonstrate conscious control over heart rate, breathing, metabolism, and temperature.
• Sensory deprivation & Hallucinogens (like LSD): Induce states of "unsanity," altering perception and revealing hidden mental landscapes.

7. Telepathy: Evidence of Direct Mind-to-Mind Communication

For the first time in history, visible proof of the transmission of an impulse from one mind to another, across four hundred miles, had been obtained.

Beyond sensory channels. Telepathy, defined as gaining information without known sensory means, is supported by statistical evidence from card-guessing tests and anecdotal accounts of crisis communication between emotionally bonded individuals. While controversial, the persistence of results suggests a phenomenon beyond chance.

Physiological correlates. Russian research, particularly with subjects like Karl Nikolaiev and Yuri Kamensky, has provided physiological evidence of telepathic transmission. EEG recordings show correlated brain wave changes (specifically alpha rhythm) between sender and receiver, even across significant distances, and shared physical sensations like nausea.

Conditions for contact. Telepathy seems most likely to occur in specific psychological states characterized by relaxed attention, often associated with alpha brain waves, similar to states achieved in meditation. It may be masked by normal conscious activity and break through most easily during emotional crises or altered states.

• Rhine's ESP tests: Used Zener cards to statistically demonstrate telepathy and clairvoyance.
• Soal & Shackleton: Achieved exceptionally high scores in telepathy tests with colored animal cards.
• Popov group research: Showed synchronized brain waves and shared physical sensations between telepathic subjects.
• Rabbit experiment: Suggested telepathic crisis communication between mother and offspring across distance and physical barriers.

8. Time is Relative, and the Future May Already Exist

Time is a rhythm.

Time as a function of events. Time is not an absolute, linear flow but a rhythm, a measure of intervals between events. Einstein's relativity shows space and time are intertwined in a four-dimensional continuum, where past, present, and future may not be as distinct as they seem.

Biological echoes of the past. The behavior of organisms, like the European eel's seemingly suicidal migration to the distant Sargasso Sea, can reflect conditions that existed millions of years ago, as if the past is still influencing the present. This suggests a biological connection to deep time.

Precognition and expanded present. While true future prediction is unproven, some phenomena hint at a form of "knowing in advance." Statistical evidence suggests people unconsciously avoid accident-bound trains. This may not be seeing the future, but rather an enhanced perception of subtle cues in the present that indicate likely outcomes, expanding the "now" to include imminent possibilities.

• Einstein's relativity: Showed time is affected by gravity and speed, linking it to space.
• European eel migration: Behavior seemingly driven by ancestral breeding grounds now thousands of miles away due to continental drift.
• Kozyrev's experiments: Suggested time has its own energy and can be influenced by matter, potentially linking cosmic processes.
• Train accident study: Showed fewer passengers on trains involved in accidents, suggesting an unconscious avoidance based on unknown cues.

Last updated: May 2, 2025