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  • How Peace Activists Can Be More Effective

    How Peace Activists Can Be More Effective

                                                            Buryl Payne

     

    Peace activities are all too
    often reactive rather than proactive. Only after an international battle or war
    has occurred, attempts are made to ameliorate situations by constructing treaties,
    agreements, or curtailment of nuclear weapons, cluster bombs, poison gas,
    biological weapons, etc.  This is
    political symptom treatment. Historical analysis shows this approach is only
    partially successful.  When wars start up
    again, peace treaties go out the window!

    Effective peace treatments for
    warring behavior may be aided by more modern understanding of the nature of
    war.

     

    Section I.  Wars come and go in cycles.

     

    Warring behavior can be
    considered as a kind of mass psychosis. It is insane behavior. Individuals who
    behave that way are locked up and treated by psychiatrists.  

    The most important finding of
    scientists, based on observations, not theories, is that wars come and go in
    cycles.  These cycles were discovered by the
    late Professor Raymond Wheeler, a psychologist and historian at the University of Kansas. He found that as part of
    his larger historical analysis, international battles happen in approximately 11
    year cycles and have done so for 2,500 years. Later on, his work was statistically
    validated by Edward Dewey, Director of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles.
    Dewey considered the analysis of war cycles as the most important work of his
    life.  A portion of Wheeler?s data on war
    cycles is shown in Figure 1.

    Figure 1. Some of Wheeler?s
    Data on International Battles.                            The 11 1/5-year cycle in
    International Battles, 1760-1947.

    Dewey and Wheeler suspected
    that warring behavior was connected with sunspot cycles, but their work took
    place before space probes were created. It has been discovered that solar wind,
    or streams of particles emitted from the Sun, affect the Earth?s magnetic field. This field is most active a year or two
    before or after the sunspot peak; never right on the sunspot peak, and it influences
    all biological life on Earth.

     

                

    Figure
    2. - A Typical Smoothed Sunspot Peak.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    The battles start mostly during the ascent, or
    descent, of sunspot activity, when geomagnetic activity is highest. The small
    arrow at the bottom of Figure 2. indicates our position on the graph of time
    vs. sunspot activity, as of Fall 2009. The sunspot activity is still zero. Once wars start, the length of them depends on other factors.  Only the start of battles or wars is
    triggered by solar activity.  Many other
    human ailments or behaviors are also highly correlated with solar activity
    cycles via the geomagnetic field activity, such as heart trouble, flu,
    accidents, and psychotic behavior.  There
    is a large body of literature on these effects. Sunspot and other kinds of solar
    activity is in turn related to, and predicted by, the positions of the planets.

    When Earth is close to Mercury, Venus, and Mars at
    the same time and the Moon lines up with one of them, this is a common likely
    time for international battles to start. Warring Behavior usually occurs twice
    every eleven year solar cycle as illustrated in Figure 3.

    Laboratory studies have shown that geomagnetic
    activity affects human brain rhythms and endocrine balance in some individuals.
    There is a change of context for the explanation of human warring behavior from
    that of individual responsibility (and irresponsibility) to that of a kind of
    mass psychosis triggered by processes off the planet. This is not a theory, it is observations.  Of course, other factors are involved such as
    greed, territoriality, religious doctrines, and race differences, all
    primitive, short sighted, animalistic factors no longer relevant for 21st
    century Earth. However, the cycles of war take precedence over those factors.
    Most importantly, outbreaks of wars are predictable.  The primitive, tribal factors do not
    usually support making predictions.  

     

    This approach provides peace activists with important
    information. Peace actions can be more clearly directed to be preventative methods,
    rather than a reaction.

     

    Section II.       The
    Power of Thought.

    Scientists found proof that the power of thought can
    affect physical events and the behavior of others. While some people with
    classical scientific education rigidly hold on to older mechanical views of how
    the Universe works, others, forging ahead, accept, and are demonstrating in and
    out of the laboratory, that thought power is a real force. During 1983 to 1988,
    the Academy for Peace Research and an organization, called Peace the 21st,
    organized global peace meditations six times a year. The results clearly showed
    that solar activity decreased 24 hours after each meditation. Figure 3. shows
    some of the data.

     

    More is, on my website:

    Buryl.com under ?Academy for Peace Research? > ?past
    projects? > ?The Power of Thought? (http://www.buryl.com/apr_power_of_thought.htm) and linked at the end of that is further information.  At that time the power of thought was not a
    common paradigm, except to a few quantum physicists and new age thinkers, so no
    editor was found who would print the report.

    Now things have changed. This time period ( 2010 ? 2020
    ) is a good one for peace thought power projects, and the majority of political
    leaders remain unconsciously within the framework of the older scientific
    paradigms or have even more pre-scientific beliefs coming from the feudal
    middle ages and their own tribal religions. ?I?m right because I?m bigger,
    stronger, more ruthless, command more men, etc.?, or ?My god says our tribe is
    the best?, or ?my skin color is better than yours?. With such prevailing
    paradigms, peace activists can work using thought power without any resistance.

    Predictive knowledge of likely times of mass
    psychosis can suggest good times to take preventative physical and mental
    actions. Even though a large proportion of the people may not understand the
    full scientific background or principles involved, they can be involved in a
    simple way with positive visions.  Peace
    thought power (meditations or visualizations) can be simple, easy, and
    celebratory, designed when possible to fit in with festive times and holidays.

    At the same time, plans for physical disruptions can,
    and must be, made, for there are too many pre psychotic or insane political
    leaders who control and direct uneducated or mechanically thinking people.

    In longer term views, peace activists can plan ahead
    to educate children in modem scientific findings, taking care of mother earth
    as a whole And the use of thought power and stepping out of the older paradigms
    such as ?might makes right? or ?the use of force is a last resort.?  Perhaps many armies can be slowly replaced by
    international peace corps.  If children
    can be educated everywhere, peace will probably manifest in one or two
    generations.

     

    Dewey, E. R., Evidence of
    cyclic patterns in an index of International War Battles. 600 B.C.-A.D. 1957,
    Cycles, 21(6),  pp 121-158, 1970.

     

    Dilbeck, M. et al The
    Transcendental Meditation Program and Crime Rate changes in a Sample of Forty
    Eight cities.                      Crime
    and Justice, Vol. IV, 1981.

     

    Friedman, H. and Becker, R.O.,
    Geomagnetic parameters and Psychiatric Hospital Admissions, Nature, V. 200, pp
    626-                628, 1963.

     

    Hundhausen, A.J. 1979. Solar
    Activity and The Solar Wind. Review of Solar Physics and Space Physics. pp.
    2034-       2048.

     

    Payne, B. The Global
    Meditation Project, National Council for Geocosmic Research, Winter 1987.

     

    ?              How to Predict Solar and Geomagnetic Activity.
    (inpublished as of Jan., 2004)

     

     

    ?              Planetary Positions and Sunspots,
    1992. National Council on Geocosmic Research. Spring.
    1359 Sargent         Ave. St.
    Paul
    , MN 55105
    .

     

    ?              Global Peace Meditation Research
    Project - Interim Report. NCGR Journal. Winter-Spring, 1987. Available    at www.buryl.com.

    ?              Power of thought to Influence the Sun. Journal of
    Borderland Research (no longer in print). Available at           www.buryl.com.

    (Payne articles available in
    e-book format in the book on ?Spin? by Buryl Payne, http://www.buryl.com/spin_book.htm)