The Schumann Resonance:
The What And The Why

Hands up all of you who have heard of the Schumann Resonance!

Hmm! Not bad!

Now, hands up all of you who know what it is and why it is important.

Not so many this time.

So let me take a few moments to explain a bit about the Schumann Resonance and why it might be something you should know a little about.

Think of a bottle

The easiest way to explain what this thing is is to ask you to think back to when you have blown across the top of a bottle and you got a note out of it.

If you kept blowing steadily, you got the same note. If you altered the level of liquid inside, you altered the note.

Now, to understand the Schumann Resonance, think of the gap between the surface of the Earth and the top part of the atmosphere (the ionosphere, about 50 miles above the surface) as the bottle.

Instead of someone blowing air, there’s a lot of electrical discharge (lightning).

There’s going to be an awful lot of crackling going on from the electricity and because there’s a current flowing (not air moving), there is a sort of tone produced all around the Earth.

While the actual, precise explanation is more complex than that, it will serve to give you some insight into what the Schumann Resonance is; the ‘tone’ of the Earth.

It got its name from a German physicist in the 1950’s who first predicted then discovered this frequency.

What’s the frequency?

Go back to the idea of the bottle again. The bottle didn’t change shape and the liquid level didn’t keep changing and you kept blowing steadily. All that produced a clear note or tone.

Well, the Earth’s surface is not nice and flat all over and the electrical discharge isn’t constant, so you can’t expect the tone to be steady and not changing.

Depending on where you are on the surface of the Earth, the measurement of this ‘tone’ will vary.

It seems that the general frequency of this tone is around 8Hz (or 8 cycles a second). You will probably come across a more precise number, like 7.83Hz but that is just an average. (Much like the average 2.3 children per household!)

In fact, there are various frequencies, caused by the variations noted above. These other frequencies are 14, 20, 26, 33, 39 and 45Hz.

Earth’s heartbeat

The Schumann Resonance has been called the Earth’s heartbeat, because every living thing has grown up with this pulse or tone going on in the background. In fact, not having it can cause physiological problems, as NASA found out when monitoring astronauts in orbit. Now, there is a frequency generator on each space craft to mimic the ‘heartbeat’.

It seems, however, that the frequency of this ‘heartbeat’ is changing slightly. (Bear in mind, however, that the resonance has only been monitored for less than 50 years.)

And that is what some people are becoming interested in.

After all, if the heartbeat we are used to ‘hearing’ all the time is changing, what does that mean for us, for the Earth itself?

If you add into this the fact that the Earth’s magnetic field has been weakening over 2000 years, then there are those who point to this changing frequency as evidence of a pole-shift or some other big earth changes.

What does it all mean?

Changes in the Schumann Resonance, whether they are temporary or something more permanent, could be the cause of changes in you and your environment.

Some people can be very sensitive to extremely small changes in electrical fields (indeed, dowsers have been proved to show such sensitivity) and that can cause uncomfortable symptoms.

Then there is the wider area of the changes happening in the earth and what they might alter in the physical and subtle energy bodies, not only of us but of animals and plants.

Then again, there is the whole question of how this is affecting the non-human, non-visible areas of our world and the answers become even harder to see.

In a nutshell, if the Schumann Resonance is changing, by however small a degree, it is bound to have an effect upon you and your environment. Those effects might be small, or they might be much larger. You might be more or less aware of them yourself, but the plain truth is, it is already having an effect!

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