The science behind the Earth changes

While looking for a theme for this year’s Society for Scientific Exploration online conference 2024, I picked up the book, Science of the Soul, which led me to choose, “A Great Shift” for the theme. For the list of talks at this conference, go to the SSE conference page.

In Science of the Soul (2015), physicist Claude Swanson wrote extensively about ‘The Great Shift’, the transition period at the end of the Kali Yuga, as a time of expanded consciousness coinciding with Earth changes. The Yuga Cycle, of which Kali Yuga is part, is a well-known astronomical cycle, 25,800 years-long, described by many ancient cultures. In a recent book, Yuga Shift (2023), author Bibhu Dev Misra analyzes the Yuga Cycle, identifying possible triggers for cataclysmic events between the Yugas, with a potential end-date of the Kali Yuga in 2025.

With a Kali Yuga end-date potentially occurring in the near future (2025), what Earth changes have been predicted or may occur during the Great Shift? There has been much speculation about these Earth changes, but what does the science say?

1. The Earth has moved into a new region of space with increased interstellar dust and plasma, affecting the Sun and planets.

According to Swanson (2015), the Earth changes (i.e., climate change) are not solely due to an increase in greenhouse gases. Changes are also occurring on, “every planet in our solar system, and the sun as well.” For example, the ice caps on Mars, formerly easily visible, have disappeared. And, solar sunspot number is at its highest point since the last ice age (see diagram below).

The Russian scientist, Dr. Alexey Dmitriev (1998) wrote an influential scientific article summarizing the interplanetary changes, concluding, “Strong evidence exist that these [planetary] transformations are being caused by highly charged material and energetic non-uniformities in anistropic interstellar space which have broken into the interplanetary area of our solar system”. In other words, scientists are seeing an increase in interstellar dust and plasma in the solar system.

In support of this possibility, astronomer Priscilla Frisch, in “The galactic environment of the sun“, notes that interstellar space is not uniform and changes over time – it has dense areas (interstellar clouds) and relative voids (like the Local Bubble). Frisch wonders, “whether it is a coincidence that Homo sapiens appeared while the sun was traversing a region of space virtually devoid of interstellar matter”. Currently, the solar system is penetrated by the Local Interstellar Cloud, with interstellar material (hydrogen/helium and dust) moving through the solar system perpendicular to the solar wind and the sun’s movement.

Spikes in beryllium in Antarctic core samples suggest that, “a dense cloud fragment of the Local Interstellar Cloud” may have penetrated the solar system 33,000 and 60,000 years ago, corresponding to glacial periods. Recently, the Ulysses spacecraft mission found that interstellar dust in the solar system increases during solar maximum, where it is concentrated around the sun and planets. Some of the planetary changes occurring now (during a solar maximum) could be due, in part, to increased interstellar material.

2. The Earth is undergoing a magnetic field pole shift (geomagnetic pole reversal).

Another predicted change during The Great Shift is a geomagnetic pole reversal. The geomagnetic poles (North and South) wander over time, due to the changing dynamics of the internal planetary dynamo, and flip during a reversal. The North Magnetic Pole has moved significantly in recent years, but it is still within the polar region of the planet.

During a field reversal, the Earth’s geomagnetic field (GMF) decreases in strength and magnitude, and then changes polarity. Ben Davidson and his Suspicious Observers YouTube channel (over 750,000 followers) shows the following scary figure of the Earth’s magnetic field dropping in strength, predicting a reversal in the 2030-2040 timeframe.

What Davidson does not show is that the GMF increases and decreases with time, but does not always end in a reversal. In a blog by geologist Dr. Chris Rowan, we see that the GMF was high in the last 2000 years, so the decrease may be just a correction.