Scientists discover that humans have a magnetic 6th sense to detect something we can't even see.
A researcher in US thinks he might have finally found evidence of humanity's sixth sense (the ability to detect in subconscious way).
It’s called magneto-reception and it refers to the ability to perceive magnetic fields.
The ability to perceive Earth's magnetic field has been confirmed in birds, insects, and some mammals, which they use to migrate and orient themselves with the world around them, and now geophysicist Joe Kirschvink from the California Institute of Technology says he's identified it in humans for the first time.
According to Joe Kirschvink “it’s part of our evolutionary history. Magneto-reception may be the primal sense.”
A recent study published by Kirschvink in the journal Nature Communications suggests that a protein in the human retina, when placed into fruit flies, has the ability to detect magnetic fields. The research claims that it can serve as a magneto sensor, but whether or not humans actually use it in this way is unknown.
Best of all , Kirschvink claims his results can be repeated and verified something that previous experiments hinting at our magnetic sense or magneto-reception have failed to do. Kirschvink has so far only presented the results of a very small trial involving 24 participants, and he's still in the process of writing up the paper, so nothing has been peer-reviewed as yet.
Kirschvink has so far only presented the results of a very small trial involving 24 participants, and he's still in the process of writing up the paper, so nothing has been peer-reviewed as yet. That means we're taking his word for the conclusions for now, but he's just received US$900,000 in funding, and is working with labs in Japan and New Zealand to help confirm them. While claims of human magneto-reception have been debunked before, experts think this might be the real deal.
The theory of the researchers and scientists behind this project are as follows:
1- The Earth’s magnetic field is a carrier of biologically relevant information that connects all living systems.
2- Every person affects this global information field.
3- Collective human consciousness affects the global information field. Therefore, large numbers of people creating heart-centered states of care, love and compassion will generate a more coherent field environment that can benefit others and help offset the current planetary discord and incoherence.
4- There is a feedback loop between human beings and Earth’s energetic/magnetic systems
5- The Earth has several sources of magnetic fields that affect us all. Two of them are the geomagnetic field that emanates from the core of the Earth and the fields that exist between Earth and the ionosphere. These fields surround the entire planet and act as protective shields blocking out the harmful effects of solar radiation, cosmic rays, sand, and other forms of space weather. Without these fields, ice as we know it could not exist on Earth. They are part of the dynamic ecosystem of our planet.