by Jeff Parsons

Created on: July 06, 2010

The Earth’s energy grid. It’s a term that gets used in many ways. Lately, it brings to mind that we’ve always been a part of this living environment called Gaia, but somehow, along the way, we’ve lost much of what we once knew. Long ago, we were closer to the land, to nature and to ourselves.

Does the energy grid exist? Of course it does. How we interact with it may be up for discussion, but the Earth’s energy grid definitely exists. It has been around us; it still is and always will be.

The truth has always been out there, albeit, maybe in different forms of understanding. For example, ancient Norse legend depicted the Valkyrie riding forth across the sky on errands for their war god Odin. The light flickering from their armor created the Northern Lights or what is now called the Aurora Borealis. Similarly, in the 1800s, Michael Faraday discovered that a moving electrical conductor will create a magnetic field, and vice versa. Highly charged particles, such as those coming from the solar wind, will interact with the Earth’s upper atmosphere, and viola, we have the energy in action, producing the breathtaking beauty of the Northern Lights. Different understandings, same basic truth, intriguing isn’t it? We learn new things about science all the time. Image the wonders that we don’t know of right now, but only have tantalizing hints to capture our imagination.

Our atmosphere is charged with energy, but the Earth also has a local energy field as well. The crust of the Earth is amazingly thin compared to the enormous amounts of hot magma below it. The magma is moving, electrically charged and energetic, and, because it’s also so large, it can have a significant magnetic field associated with it. This magnetic field can pass through the layer of the Earth’s crust and manifest itself as an electrical charge on a specific spot on the surface. Since the crust is not uniformly thick, it stands to reason that not all areas will experience the same electromagnetic interaction. Some places will have more, some less, and also, certain areas of the crust have higher amounts of conductive metal within them, thereby enhancing the effect. To sum it up, moving magma, beneath a sometimes thin or electrically conductive crust, can create a magnetic field that manifests as an electrical current on the Earth.

That’s the energy grid on a purely Earth Science basis. But there’s more to life than science.

Historically,

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