SUPERIOR PLACES ON THE GLOBE - PART 2

AURORA  BOREALIS SEEN IN NORWAY

AURORA BOREALIS or the Northern Lights is an affect of the Solar Flares the Sun emits.   We are currently over five years of the eleven-year cycle and now entering the 24^th  Cycle.  This peaks in 2013 and 2014. Solar Flares sends electromagnetic fields that are disruptive to our planet, the possibility of the ability to  wipe out a lot of our electronic civilization.

Some scientists say there is actually a correlation between the rise and fall of solar activity and the human consciousness. There has also been concern in what way our Suns' abnormal behavior can influence human health. The Sun's activity as it interacts with the Earths magnetic field, effects extensive changes in human beings perspectives, moods, emotions and behavioral patterns.

Alexander Chizhevsky, the Russian biophysicist who founded  Heliobiology (study of the sun’s effect on biology) proposed that human history is influenced by the eleven-year peaks in sunspot activity, triggering humans en masse to act upon existing grievances and complaints through revolts, revolutions, civil wars and wars between nations.

Chizhevsky  analyzed sunspot records comparing them to riots, revolutions, battles and war in Russia and seventy-one other countries for the period 500 BCE to 1922 CE. This is known as historiometry. He findings was  influenced by the eleven-year peaks in sunspot activity, triggering humans en masse to act upon existing grievances and complaints through revolts, revolutions, civil wars and wars between nations.

Professor Raymond Wheeler, from the University of Kansas, expanded on Chishevsky's work by studying violence during 1913; measuring the time between battles and severity. These findings were compared with the suns 11 year sunspot cycle.

The results showed that as the sun cycle peaked, there was a rise in human unrest, uprisings, rebellions, revolutions, and wars between nations. As the magnetic fields intensified, the reaction within the human brain was a mixture of deadly emotional tantrums and unadulterated killing sprees.

Chronology of recent times  of the sun’s intensification follows the pattern:

2001 the solar cycle 22  at the sun’s maximum there was 9/11, Iraq invading Kuwait and the US entering the first battle against Saddam Hussein.

2011 -  2012, the flares are expected to endure toward their maximum. As this incredible activity is being witnessed, we are assured that more wars, toppling countries and populations will be displaced

Entering the 24^th cycle , we will experiencing more unrest. NASA and other space agencies worldwide have warned about it. The cycle is predicted to be extreme, violent, unpredictable, and may even affect Earth’s technology.

 Solar Cycle 24 has begun.

Expected to surge as much as 50 times more than the record-breaking solar cycle 23—that saw X-flares produced stronger than ever recorded. Monster cycle 24 will reach maximum intensity from 2011 and peaks in 2014.

It’s the worst possible solar cycle at the worst possible time.

So while it is smooth activity before the intensity begins again, lets go to where these sun flares manage to enter the earth’s atmosphere show casing the most spectacular sky. The effect of seeing the Aurora Borealis takes your breath away.   It is seen in Norway, Finland, mainly in the Northern skies. 

So before world chaos becomes too difficult to circumnavigate to the Northern Skies, I decided that before I died seeing the Auroras can make my life complete.  Last weekend was my jaunt into flowing multi-colored auroras helping to  illuminate a busy sky above Tromsø, Norway. Although Auroras might first appear to be moonlit clouds, they only add light to the sky and do not block background stars from view. Called the Northern Lights in the northern hemisphere, Auroras are caused by collisions between charged particles from the magnetosphere and air molecules high in the Earth's atmosphere. If viewed from space, auroras can be seen to glow in X-ray and ultraviolet light as well.  Predictable auroras might occur a few days after a powerful powerful magnetic event has been seen on the Sun 

Wilcox Solar Observatory at Stanford University, predicted that by December 2013 there should be what is termed a “solar flip” – a “complete field reversal” of the sun’s polar magnetic fields. The predictions were backed up this week by fellow observers at the Wilcox Observatory who have recorded “an increase in cosmic rays, sunspots and solar flares… an increase in solar activity that has resulted in those at high latitudes on Earth seeing more of the beautiful auroras, or northern lights.” 

I went on a cruise around the island of Tromsø in the evening.  Magical can only be described in the dead of the night amongst the safe and calm waters with beautiful views of the city, mountains, fjords.  The Northern Lights almost God like in its presence changed my skeptical belief in the supreme being. The different locations we visited on this cruise provide different views of the sky .  Seeing the northern lights sky together with 24 other strangers on this boat, sipping hot glug (spiced wine) wrapped up in fleece jackets, I felt as if I was transported nearer to the Creator.   The bond that joined the 24 souls together on an unimaginable trip to heaven can only be captured once, magically.