CHAPTER FOURTEEN

ASTROGENETICS AND NETWORKED INTELLIGENCE

Since the beginning of recorded history mankind has been espousing the science of astrology. The Egyptians, the Greeks, the Mayans and the Aztecs all maintained that there was a direct link between the cosmic bodies and life here on planet Earth. Yet in modern times the science of astrology is mostly regarded as a quaint eccentricity based on myths and fables. The scientist of today would categorically deny that the celestial horoscope in some way influences our personality or our destiny. Everyone these days more or less accepts the fact that the blueprint for our makeup is to be found in our genes, and this is where we must look for an explanation of our various moods and behaviours, our personality, our level of intelligence, our talents, and even our morality and social values. What if it emerges, however, that it is precisely our genes that are influenced by the position of the celestial bodies, in particular the sun and the moon? Wouldn’t this in fact mean that the science of astrology has some credibility after all, and that the ancients intuitively knew more about this than your modern scientist who arrogantly dismisses astrologers as being merely soothsayers and charlatans espousing primitive myths and superstitions.

In their book, Vernetzte Intelligenz, Fosar & Bludorf tell us that there is a networked intelligence in our genes. This networked intelligence creates a hypercommunication amongst all living beings, including plants. At the level of our genes we are all in fact connected. The hypercommunication is facilitated by the magnetic flux tubes in the DNA that generate a programmed resonance, evidenced by the Phantom-DNA Effect. This resonance interacts with conventional brain waves to create consciousness for all sentient beings, and in addition this magnetic resonance is capable of interacting with conventional electromagnetic forces in the external world, and can therefore trigger and orchestrate a wide variety of natural phenomena such as tornadoes and thunderstorms. It is also known that the Earth has a natural frequency, the Schumann Frequency, and the magnetic resonance in the DNA is therefore capable of generating abnormal geophysical phenomena, such as crop circles, simply by transmitting frequency coded information via plasmoids (rotating magnetic fields).

Not only does the DNA act as a transmitter, but also it acts as an antenna. It can receive frequency coded information from the external world. It is known that the DNA reacts to voice modulated laser light, and it is also known that it can react to radio waves provided the correct frequency is found. The DNA can receive information from the natural frequency of the Earth, it can receive information from brain waves and it can also receive information from energy radiating from the sun. This energy is not just in the form of visible light, but also includes very substantial energies not detectable through our senses, such as ultraviolet, infrared and microwaves etc. There is a vast amount of frequency encoded information here that is not obvious to us, but which is capable of being received and stored in the DNA. Once it is realized that the DNA acts as a solitonic/holographic computer that processes information from the external world, it is most likely that the sun cycles and the seasons can have a pivotal effect in determining our emotional makeup and personality at the time of conception.

Edmund Van Deusen, who wrote a book called Astrogenetics, (1) first noticed this in his garden at his seaside cottage. He started planting morning glories at different times of the year, and he was amazed to find that the flowering plants which came from the same group of seeds all had different colours and other characteristics, depending upon what time of the year they were planted. He says that each successive planting had a characteristic colour, size and twist of vine. He concluded that each plant had its own unique personality stemming from its season of birth. If this is true for plants, why should it not also be true for human beings. This set him on the road to enquiring whether perhaps there was some truth in the ancient practice of astrology after all.

Van Deusen set about examining data linking a person’s birth date to his or her chosen trade or profession. Most professional bodies and worker guilds collect a certain amount of information about their members, including of course their dates of birth. Van Deusen found that he could access this information, and he found that in a wide variety of trades and professions, clear patterns emerged where people born under a certain star sign were either under-represented or over-represented. For instance, out of 4006 college athletes he found above average numbers of Leo and Virgo and below average numbers of Aries and Gemini. Amongst 2,088 journalists and editors he found above average numbers of Scorpio and Sagittarius, and below average numbers of Capricorn and Libra. Van Deusen concluded that there is clear evidence that a persons star sign can determine their personality to the extent that it can make them more or less likely to engage in certain professions or callings, or to have certain talents or aptitudes. To cite another example, he found that a much higher than normal percentage of Jazz musicians were Sagittarians.

This led Van Deusen to develop his theory of Astrogenetics. He concluded that the explanation must be in the biorhythm of our mother while we are in the womb from the moment of conception onwards. It is well known that our bodies are governed by a series of internal clocks that can alter our body chemistry. There is the twenty-four hour cycle that is directly determined by the sun. Concentrations of some of our hormones can vary by 50 percent or more during the day depending upon where we are in relation to the sun. In addition we all have an annual biorhythm which is dependent upon the changes in the seasons, which in turn is determined by our cyclical rotation around the sun. Van Deusen concludes: “This, then, is the final clue we need to explain the astrogenetic cycle. All of us, men and women, have a subtle but definite annual biorhythm. Our body chemistry changes according to the season. And when a baby is conceived, the expression of its genes will be directly affected by the particular part of the cycle its mother is experiencing during the months between conception and birth.” It can be seen that Van Deusen does provide a rational, if not very specific, explanation as to how the time of conception can have a direct affect on our genetic make-up and our personality based upon the changes in biorhythm of our mother while we are in the womb. In what he says it is more or less assumed that this will in turn be determined by radiation from the sun, but no specific information is provided on this aspect.

Van Deusen summarizes his theory of Astrogenetics: “The implications were immediate: Genes could influence personality; and this gave me the clue I was seeking. From earliest times, astrologers have attempted to explain the annual cycle of personality in terms of the celestial environment at the moment of birth, crediting ‘unknown’ forces for want of any known factors that might account for the phenomena. Why not look, instead, to the environment of the mother’s womb and the influence of this environment on the expression of the infant’s genes? Cyclic changes in this environment could create the personality differences which astrologers have observed. And the differences would be part of our genetic structure as human beings. We could accept them, then, as part of our nature, along with the upright posture, flexible fingers and advanced intellect.” The fact is the length of the solar day does have a precise astrological significance, and this does have a direct affect on the mother’s biorhythms as the seasons change. At the moment of our conception, and for the nine months of gestation, there is a pattern of radiation from the sun unique for each one of us that can have a bearing on our genetic characteristics.

The twelve signs of the zodiac will be familiar to us all. Each one represents a constellation of stars that is visible behind the sun as the earth does its yearly rotation around it. Our horoscope is said to be the unique configuration of stars in relation to the sun at the time we are born. The fact is that our horoscope encapsulates a precise positioning of the sun in relation to our life trajectory. Our star sign describes the position of the sun in relation to ourselves and they are in effect sun-signs. Astrologers have been able to identify certain personality traits and characteristics in different star signs. Van Deusen lists the generally accepted characteristics of the different signs. For example, Capricorns are said to be highly organized and preoccupied with personal prestige, Geminis are full of energy and enthusiasm, Aries people are petulant, impatient and self-centered etc. What Van Deusen is saying is that our mother’s biorhythm will actually have a direct effect on our personality, and this will in turn be determined by the radiation from the sun. We like to think that it is simply our genes that has determined our personality and aptitudes. The fact is however we would have completely different personalities if we were born at a different time of the year, notwithstanding the fact that we have inherited the same genetic make-up from our parents. The length of the solar day does have a significant effect.

Maurice M. Cotterell, co-author of The Mayan Prophecies, (2) presents a more detailed analysis of the sun’s magnetic field, and its significance for life here on Earth. In particular he demonstrates that cycles in the sun’s magnetic field coincide with the sun-signs of the Zodiac, and he therefore explains how people born under different sun-signs can have predictable characteristics and personality traits. The appeal of Cotterell’s theory is in the way he sets out to demonstrate specifically the cyclical fluctuations of the sun’s magnetic field and how it interacts with and changes our DNA. This is therefore an extension of Van Deusen’s theory. Not only can these cyclical fluctuations in the sun’s magnetic field influence the biorhythms of our mother at the time of our conception and during the nine months of gestation, but also we have seen from the networked intelligence theory of Fosar & Bludorf that our DNA acts as an antenna that can receive and process information from electromagnetic fields in the environment, principally the magnetic field of the sun. Essentially what Cotterell is arguing is that the sun’s magnetic field has an affect on our DNA, and this explains the sun-signs of the Zodiac in astrology.

Cotterell was inspired to construct this theory when he came across a study that actually found a correlation between the astrological birth-signs and extrovert/introvert tendencies. According to this study conducted by an astrologist, Jeff Mayo, and a psychologist, Prof Hans Eysenck, the twelve sun-signs of the Zodiac display alternating positive/negative attributes. People born under the positive signs (Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, Aquarius) tend to be extroverted, and people born under the negative signs (Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, Pisces) tend to be introverted. According to this study the odds against those results happening by chance are 10,000 to 1.

Also relevant to this study is the fact that over several thousand years the astrological sun-signs no longer correspond to the star constellations by which they were named. This has come about as a result of the precession of the equinoxes (a slow westward shift of the equinoctial points along the plane of the ecliptic), which means that the names of the sun-signs are now merely a convention, and does not conform with the actual position of the sun vis-à-vis the star constellations in the galaxy. But the Mayo/Eysenck study indicates that the extrovert/introvert tendencies correspond to the original sun-signs. As a result of this Cotterell concluded that the true cause of this must be the magnetic field in the sun itself, and does not depend upon the position of the sun in relation to the star constellations. “There could be only one explanation for this: what was important in astrology was not the starry background of the zodiac, which in fact only acts as a clock-face, but some cycle related to the sun itself. In other words the root of astrology lay in solar influence and the variations in the solar year.”

Cotterell already knew about the way radio waves can be affected by solar radiation. At times when there is increased sun-spot activity, radio waves can tend to become distorted and more ‘noise’ is generated in the transmission. Evidently this is an example of how one form of radiation can directly affect another form of radiation. If radio waves can be affected when there is increased sun-spot activity, it stands to reason that the natural frequency of the DNA can also be affected. Following on from this it is reasonable to conclude that the radiation from the sun would be capable of interacting with and modulating the natural frequencies of the DNA in a cyclical fashion, which would account for normal biorhythms that are known to exist. The length of the solar day is only one aspect of this. It is likely that there is a direct and seamless connection between the magnetic field of the sun and the magnetic flux tubes in the DNA of all living creatures (including plants) which means that all life is merely a unified and constant exchange of information - the networked intelligence.

Cotterell presents his own theory about what causes the sun’s magnetic field to fluctuate in a predictable and cyclical fashion, consistent with the astrological sun-signs. His essential explanation has to do with the fact that the sun is composed of superheated plasma gas and does not rotate uniformly like the Earth. Because the sun is not a solid ball, there is a faster rotation of the gaseous material at the equator, and relatively slower rotation at the poles. See Figure 1. This causes the solar magnetic flux to become twisted and a higher concentration of energy to be radiated from the equator or center of the sun, than from the poles.

Figure 1. Twisting of solar magnetic flux.

In Cotterell’s theory this twisting of the magnetic flux tubes also has a direct bearing on sunspot activity, which likewise occurs in a cyclical fashion. Sunspots are areas of relative coolness on the surface of the sun, and it has been known for a long time that the appearance and disappearance of these sunspots seems to follow a recurring cycle of approximately 11 years. It is argued that these sunspots occur precisely because of the non-uniform nature of the sun’s magnetic field. Gaseous material rotating faster at the equator and relatively slower at the poles, is said to create pockets where the energy is stronger.

It is now known that space is not a perfect vacuum, but is in fact filled with radiation, gases and dust particles. This is the so-called ‘solar wind’ that is given off from the sun. It consists not only of visible light but a whole host of radiation such as radio waves, infra-red, ultra-violet and X-rays. The solar wind is a stream of charged particles, ions, that are constantly being thrown off the surface of the sun. This radiation can become particularly intense at the time of solar flares. The solar wind strikes the earth’s magnetosphere, known as the Van Allen belts. See Figure 2. These zones of radiation consist of charged particles spiraling to and fro that are trapped in the earth’s magnetic field. On its sunward side the Van Allen belts is compressed by the highly energetic particles of the solar wind, which collide with the earth’s magnetic filed. On the opposite side, the ‘magnetotail’ stretches far our into space. In other words the earth’s magnetosphere is itself distorted in a cyclical fashion as the Earth rotates around the sun.

Figure 2. The earth is encircled by zones of radiation known as Van Allen belts.  On its sunward side the Van Allen belt becomes compressed by the highly energetic particles of the solar wind.

Because the gaseous substance of the sun is rotating faster at the equator than at the poles, magnetic bubbles can also emerge that will have a different polarity. This causes the solar wind to alternate between negatively charged electrons and positively charged protons. See Figures 3 and 4.  According to Cotterell it is this alternating negative and positive charged solar wind, as modified and distorted by the earth’s magnetosphere, that creates a rhythmical and cyclical influence on all life here on Earth. This is what sets up our biorhythms and it is precisely this alternating radiation that can interact with the natural magnetic resonance of the DNA. So people born under different sun-signs can have positive or negative attributes or personality traits that are in some respects consistent and predictable.

Figure 3. The sun rotates, sending out positive and negative magnetic radiation towards the Earth.

Figure 4. As the sun rotates the particles of which the solar wind is composed fan our rather like the droplets of water from a garden sprinkler.

Cotterell develops a theory of personality based upon the influences of the sun’s magnetic field at the time of conception. The constant changes in the magnetic field directly affect our DNA at the precise moment that the egg and the spermatozoon merge to form the new zygote, and for the next nine months of gestation. “Personality types that share the same solar radiation code have an affinity with each other, whereas those with opposite codes respond unfavourably. Fluctuations in solar radiation patterns nonetheless cause people of opposite zodiacal signs to be attracted to each other. The solar radiation sequence determines the natural moment of birth in babies born at full term (after 275 days’ gestation), and does the same also for those who are in fact born prematurely or late.”

The foetus chooses its own moment of birth. This in turn is based on the radiation pattern emanating from the sun at the precise moment of conception. “On the 275th day - calculated from the time of release of the ovum from the ovary, and including the seven-day period before the ovum attaches to the uterine wall - the bombardment of solar radiation again switches to a negative sequence. The child again feels discomfort, anxiety and stress. This time the foetus reacts by producing hormones which are carried through the bloodstream causing the onset of labour to commence in the mother. Shortly after, the mother gives birth to a ‘positive’ offspring. In effect the feotus chooses its own moment of birth. This is ideally when the radiation pattern that was instrumental in its creation at the time of conception (and which is repeated during months 6 to 9) ceases. The moment of birth is thus related to the moment of conception. And in this way personality traits ostensibly determined, say astrologers, by events at the moment of birth can be seen to correlate with events at the moment of conception, and to have arisen due partly or wholly to genetic mutations attendant at that time.”

In support of his arguments, Cotterell cites studies demonstrating that human females deprived of solar radiation for a length of time, experience disruptive changes in their endocrine systems. This in turn affects the production of the ‘timing’ hormone, melatonin, and the fertility hormones, estrogen and progesterone. The corollary of this is that under normal conditions the radiation from the sun is modulating the biorhythm and the reproductive system of all females, which in turn is going to have a direct affect on the foetus. Cotterell also analyses the effect of solar radiation on several other fertility and menstruation hormones in his efforts to demonstrate that there is a correlation between hormone generation and solar activity, and that menstruation is disrupted in the case of disrupted solar radiation. “Altogether a very complex interaction occurs which translates solar cycle activity into hormonal activity. These hormones determine fertility levels. Any disruption in solar radiation thus likewise disrupts fertility. One obvious objection to this mechanism questions why all females do not menstruate at the same time in response to a common radiation stimulus from the sun. It is of course because all females were not conceived at the same time. The biorhythm and fertility clocks commence at the moment of conception. Those females who are conceived at the same time may be expected to menstruate at the same time, subject to environmental modifying factors.”

The theories of Van Deusen and Cotterell are concerned with the sun’s magnetic field and its affect on the DNA at the time of conception. Another major influence will be the magnetic field of the moon. Our moon orbits the earth every 29.53 days measured from new moon to new moon. This is the so-called ‘synodic’ month. A new moon occurs when the moon intersects an imaginary plane between the sun and the earth. - that is when the moon is directly between the sun and the earth. Our moon is one of the largest of its kind in our solar system. Its diameter is more than a quarter of the diameter of the earth. Only the moons of Jupiter and Saturn are larger than our moon. The influence of its magnetic field on the living organisms of this planet are likely to be very significant indeed.

In an article Vom Mond angezogen [The moon’s attraction], (3) Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf tell us that there is a statistically significant correlation between the specific phases of the moon and sleep disturbances. At the time of the full moon and the new moon humans are more irritable, the numbers of reported crimes increase as does the suicide rate. Many people report suffering from attacks of insomnia at this time. There are also indications that our circardian rhythm is based on the 25 hour day and is more closely aligned to the revolution of the moon around the earth, than to the revolutions of the earth as it orbits the sun. The Canadian researchers Sheldon Geller and Herbert Shannon describe the sleep disturbances and psychotic abnormalities that occur during the summer months at the time of the full moon, as the ‘transylvania effect.’ At this time instances of sleepwalking become more common. This coupled with the increase in violent crimes and suicides tends to suggest that Count Dracula stirs in all of us at this time and we tend to behave like vampires and werewolves. These changes in the orientation of the earth, moon and sun are however cyclical, and so it may be assumed that there are actually complex patterns of magnetic influence that are going to have a direct effect on our genetic material not only at the moment of conception, but throughout our entire lives.

The influence that the gravitational pull of the moon has on the ocean’s tides here on earth is known to us all. The sun however also has an influence on the tides. This is why we experience particularly large tides when the sun and the moon are lined up with the earth, at new and full phases of the moon. We are told that the full lunar phase (sun and moon are aligned on opposite sides of the earth) and the new lunar phase (sun and moon are aligned on the same side) enhance the tides here on earth to about the same extent. See Figure 5. Here again however there are obviously going to be cyclical changes in the earth’s magnetic field that are going to have a direct bearing on our DNA at the time of our conception and afterwards. With both these bodies cyclically changing our magnetic field it is impossible to specify with any precision the actual forces that account for the personality traits in each specific sun-sign in the Zodiac. Complex changes and realignments are occurring from moment to moment and the overall pattern of change in the magnetic field from the time of conception and for the nine months of gestation are likely to be unique for each one of us. At the same time broader similarities can emerge between people conceived or born under different sun-signs because the overall cycles in the magnetic field are similar.

Figure 5. Competition between the sun and moon in producing tides.  When the sun and moon are lined up there are particularly large tides.

We are told that the lunar cycle exerts a major influence upon women and their menstrual cycles. The menstrual cycle is 29.5 days which coincides exactly with the lunar month. It is also said that the moon can trigger ovulation twice in the menstrual cycle, similar to the effect that the full moon and the new moon can have on the tides. During the full moon the feelings and emotions of women are heightened, which in turn can have positive and negative effects on practically every aspect of a woman’s biological and reproductive functions. According to Czech psychiatrist, Dr Eugene Jonas, the lunar phase at which a woman becomes fertile depends upon the relationship between the sun and the moon at the moment of her birth. If we read this theory in conjunction with the theories of Van Deusen and Cotterell, we may say that a woman’s fertility depends upon the influence of magnetic radiation from the sun and the moon on her own DNA at the precise moment of her conception. This influence carries on through the nine months of her own gestation and thus influences the time of her birth. Figure 6 demonstrates that when the sun and the moon return to the same position they were in at conception, it can trigger a woman to spontaneously ovulate, even if this occurs outside her normal mid-cycle fertile time. The explanation for this can only be that a woman’s DNA is uniquely stamped at the precise moment of her own conception.

Figure 6. When the sun and moon return to the same position as they were when a woman is conceived she can spontaneously ovulate.  This is known as the natal lunar fertile phase.

In the practice of astrology there is much talk of other planets in our solar system and other star constellations in our galaxy, and these become relevant in as much as they serve to define the precise phases of the sun and the moon in relation to ourselves. The sun-signs of the Zodiac refer to the star constellations that can be seen behind the sun as the earth rotates around it. By the same token the conjunction of the other planets rotating around the sun is going to be unique at our time of conception. We often think of astrology as merely telling us where the planets and asteroids were in the heavens at the time we were born. However once we realize that this in turn can tell us the precise conjunction of the sun and the moon at the time of our conception, it becomes reasonable to assume that the combined magnetic fields of these two bodies has had a unique effect on our DNA. The repetitive nature of these cycles also implies that the same or similar influences are at work on all creatures born on a specific day or during a specific sun-sign of the Zodiac.

NOTES

1. Edmund Van Deusen. Astrogenetics. New York: Doubleday, 1976.

2. A.G. Gilbert & M.M. Cotterell. The Mayan Prophecies. Dorset: Element, 1995.

3. Grazyna Fosar & Franz Bludorf. “Vom Mond angezogen” [The Moon’s Attraction]. Matrix 3000, Issue 28, July/August, 2005.