isiZulu on our Galactic Stoep

isiZulu Greeting on Voyager 1: "Siyanibingelela maqhawe, sinifisela inkonzo ende...."  The message translated to English is "We greet you, great ones. We wish you longevity."

-http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/languages/nguni.html

The world in which we live is more miraculous than we know. There are things which go on in our world about which we know nothing.

-Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa

The two Voyager spacecraft were launched in August and September of 1977 and spent more than 11 years exploring Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune before officially heading off toward interstellar space in 1989. As of 2011 they are still operating and now leaving our Solar System. On board is a Golden Disk of data, recordings, and images. Greetings in several languages assumes there is intelligent life out there. Some examples:

Amoy (Min dialect)
"Friends of space, how are you all? Have you eaten yet? Come visit us if you have time."
Arabic
"Greetings to our friends in the stars. We wish that we will meet you someday."
English
"Hello from the children of planet Earth."
Gujarati
"Greetings from a human being of the Earth. Please contact."
Hebrew
Peace
Nguni (Zulu)
"We greet you, great ones. We wish you longevity."

For more see: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/greetings.html

The greetings may have been in jest but express a deep unconscious longing to connect with life out in so-called "Outer Space". They give voice to the hope that we are not alone in the incomprehensible vastness of  the Universe. These greetings sound almost like a heartfelt response to the message of the Hosts of Heaven themselves: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward everyone!" (Luke 2:14) The Zulu greeting is especially significant.

"We greet you, great ones. We wish you longevity."

I am fortunate to have been born and now retired in the Kingdom of the Zulu, KwaZulu-Natal living among a proud and beautiful people, the Zulu. In the Nguni languages, iZulu means "heaven, or sky". The Zulu are  Sky People.

Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa is one of the more colourful and controversial of the Zulu. He is a sangoma   or Zulu shaman. He has sought to preserve Zulu tradition and folklore in several books, notably Indaba, My Children and Song of the Stars, the Lore of a Zulu Shaman. See http://credomutwa.com/about/

In Song of the Stars, Credo Mutwa writes about extraterrestrial life. He says:

Life can take many forms. Look at the forms that life can take on this planet alone. Here in this bush, there are insects you could easily mistake for rocks or for pieces of bark  -- until one of them stings you, that is. Life does not have to consist of bipeds who move and breathe and smoke cigars as we do. I have said it before and I say it again -- the universe is a gigantic chamber of possibility where everything has the chance and the right to happen; and so we must not have cut-and-dry theories regarding just how life should look. Life could surprise us! (p.143)

He then describes the "many kinds of extraterrestrial creatures" he is aware of, the Muhondoruka, the Mutende-ya-ngenge, the  Mvonjina, and others.

In an astonishing interview with Andreas Müller (For Full Text see  http://www.kornkreise-forschung.de/textCredoMutwa.htm), Mutwa relates stories about Star Peoples and Crop Circles in Africa.

Art: Credo Mutwa

Sometimes large fields of corn and millet were planted. These were sacred to the goddess and were offered to the vast armies of birds to eat. No human being could enter the sacred cornfield. 

The sacred fields were ploughed far from the ordinary millet, maize and corn, as they were left unfenced. Over centuries, people had discovered that the star gods sometimes communicated with human beings through these sacred fields. Time and again, strange circular depressions were seen in the centre of these fields. These depressions were called Izishoze Zamatongo, the great circles of the gods. 

These circles were an amazing sight to see. The gods never cut the stalks of corn or millet when they form these depressions. It appears as though a great circular, disk-shaped force has descended on the field. It pressed the corn firmly into the ground, without breaking the stalks or damaging the plants. Then the force appears to spin, resulting in the strange spiral appearance of the fallen stalks. Words cannot describe such a phenomenon, which I have seen more than thirty times in the course of my life as a traditional healer. Whenever a circle appeared in the fields, the people rushed to erect a fence of poles around the circle. They would dance and perform other sacred rituals honouring the star gods and the Earth Mother.

-Credo Mutwa, Isilwane The Animal - Tales and Fables of Africa, Foreword

Ngiyabonga kakhulu Vusamazulu! You made us not to forget where we come from, to understand our myths, stories, and customs and to learn more about them.

Voyager Links:
Other Languages: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/languages/languages.html
More about Voyager: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/index.html
Voyager Timeline: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/timeline.html
Check where the Voyagers are now: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/index.html

For further reading: 
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion (Collected Works of Joseph Campbell Series)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inner-Reaches-Outer-Space-Collected/dp/1577312090/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323156095&sr=1-1

©Colin G Garvie HomePage: http://www.garvies.co.za

Pulse Beat of a Planet!

Every second 200 lightening strikes occur somewhere on earth in order to keep reestablishing electrical balance between the earth and the ionosphere. These lightening strikes energize the 'flute' and vibrate the resonating cavity. The 'flute' vibrates waves that bounce off the ionosphere and then off the earth, back and forth. The resulting 'song' incorporates information from the ionosphere which reflects the universe and information about everything that occurs on earth. Usually this 'music' is described in terms of its beat or frequency. The beat frequency is called the Schumann Resonance... It is likely that the nervous system of the human being evolved in relationship to the Schumann Resonance, which, among other things, functions as a timing mechanism for optimal biological functioning... This wave guide is not empty, but rather is embedded with information from the entire universe. The rhythm like the beats of a drum holds within it a symphony that each of us receives and interprets in our own way. Imagine the changing light of a star or the light of the changing moonlight impacting the ionosphere in a way that can be decoded or heard by the human brain. Likewise, on the side of the earth's crust, the other side of the musical instrument, all activity on earth modulates its bit of information, whether an action or a thought, into this vibrating field. To be tuned to the earth's electromagnetic field is to be literally tuned to the universe.

-http://www.envirohealthtech.com/ecfaq.htm

Science Fiction? At Technical College the only two subjects I passed with distinction were: Space Physics and Microwave Techniques. Microwave Techniques fascinated me as much as did Space Physics. I probably felt there was a connection between the two. And indeed there is!

One section of the Microwaves syllabus was "waveguides" and "standing waves".

A waveguide "is a hollow conductive metal pipe used to carry high frequency radio waves, particularly microwaves". At Ultra High Frequencies one is no longer working with copper wire conductors to convey electrical impulses but literally a plumbing system! In our case we were working with electro-magnetic microwaves. In the case of sound waves, caves and stethoscopes are "waveguides" too. Similarly, we “conduct” light waves by means of optical fibres.

A standing wave occurs when the wave within the conductor appears to be stationary as in the ripples of a pond that appear not to be moving.   This happens when the wave guide is in resonance or tuned to a particular “beat” frequency. One then has what is called a resonating cavity. Drums and acoustic guitars are resonating cavities or chambers. Standing waves also occur in river rapids and ocean swells.

Wikipedia: A standing wave in a rectangular cavity resonator

The Earth-Ionosphere Complex is also a waveguide with its own resonating frequency but operating not at Ultra High frequencies (UHF) but at Very Low Frequencies (VLF). A recent report of io9 explained:

The Earth pulses with a special kind of resonant wave. The Schumann Resonance has long been dubbed 'the Earth's heartbeat,' and it has only been spotted from below. Recently, though, satellites have found signs of this electromagnetic heartbeat leaking up into space. 

The heartbeat of the earth goes at about eight cycles per second. Like many other heartbeats, it's regulated by electricity. When lightning strikes the earth, it creates electromagnetic waves in the atmosphere. These waves are caught between the ground and the upper atmosphere, sixty miles up. Most of these waves are dampened and shake themselves to nothing. 

Others, with just the right wavelength and frequency, just keep going. The wavelength is the circumference of the earth (or twice the circumference, or three times, or four, and so on). This means that the troughs of these waves will always line up, as will the crests. When crests combine, they get bigger. And with lightning hitting the earth over four million times a day, these waves keep getting the boosts they need. The waves don't sweep across the surface of the earth. Instead they're like standing waves, that just pulse at their troughs and crests - a resonant heartbeat. Scientists call this heartbeat The Schumann Resonance.

 (See also the Wikipedia article at  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonances)

What is intriguing about the phenomenon is that it could explain many so-called "paranormal" occurrences. Schumann resonance excitations have been linked to upper atmospheric "transient luminous events" (TLE) curiously called "sprites", "elves", "gnomes", "jets", and so on. Intense Solar activity could also modulate TLEs. Some high altitude "unidentified flying object" sightings might simply be TLEs.   However I would hesitate to discount all UFOs as TLEs! That would spoil many a ghost story. Some TLEs are real epiphanies such as the Shekhinah, the Annunciation at Bethlehem, Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration, or even the Day of Pentecost!

More startling than an extraterrestrial invasion, however, is our tampering and exploitation of this extremely delicate membrane and shield around our Planet. The reported "leakage" has probably been occurring all along and only now being detected. But what if it is a symptom of something suddenly seriously out of kilter? In a paper by Richard Alan Miller and Iona Miller, The Schumann's Resonances and Human Psychobiology,  the authors  raise concerns about projects such as the very controversial HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) Project. It is not a little worrisome that some of these projects are military. They write...

We live in a matrix of oscillating fields; the tiniest fluctuations in one interlocked field carry over perturbation into others. Many times per second, pulses travel completely around the world between our planet's surface and the ionosphere sending coordinating signals to all organisms. 

These signals couple us to the global electrostatic field. Named for their discoverer, these Schumann Resonances (SR) provide the orchestrating pulse for life on our planet.  

We all march to the cadence of this cosmic drummer - our planetary heartbeat, which sets the tempo for health and well-being. Damaging this planetary pacemaker could spell doom for life as we know it. In the name of progress and defense, this pacemaker is now threatened, while vast amounts of public money are spent on this exploitation.

(Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haarp)

Solar Activity also influences the resonating frequency of this Global Ventricle. Some believe there is a correlation between Cosmic and Solar Activity, the Schumann Resonance Frequency, and psychological behaviour, health, and altered states of consciousness. (http://www.neilcherry.com/documents/90_n4_Schumann_Resonance_and_suicide.pdf, http://www.neilcherry.com/documents/90_n2_EMR_Schumann_Resonance_paper2.pdf)  It is supposed that Earthlings are electromagnetically coupled to the rhythms of the Spheres. Gregg Braden speculates, suggesting that the Schumann Resonance is increasing, affecting cellular resonance. We perceive this as time speeding up, he says. (For more about Tesla, Braden, and others see http://www.world-mysteries.com/sci_tesla2.htm) Schumann's Resonance has in recent years taken on spiritual, mystical, esoteric, and theological connotations indicative of the growing connectedness between Science and Spirituality.

Much of this is highly speculative but as I learnt way back in the late 1960s at a more practical, hands on level, if you damage, dent, puncture, modify, or perforate your waveguides there could be unexpected consequences. The characteristics of the system, in this case, our planetary eco-system including the manner in which we interact with our environment and others could be affected! We know, for instance, what happened when the Ozone Layer was ruptured. Whether Conspiracy Theorists have valid grounds for concern or not, it would still be wise not to rush in where angels fear to tread. We need to think twice about harmful atmospheric fracking. An ionospheric hernia might not be all that pleasant!

In conclusion, may I direct readers to an interesting forum thread where Michael Persinger (PhD Behavioral Neuroscience) was quoted:

All behavours, including consciousness, are generated by and correlated with brain activity. The activity can be conceived as complex matrices of electromagnetic patterns and their associated chemical changes. Weak intensity complex magnetic fields generated by the earth and by human technology affect consciousness and experience. The critical factor is not the intensity of the fields but their patterns and the information contained within the patterns. Those patterns that are most similar to the natural temporal configurations of brain activity are most effective. 

The brain activity associated with consciousness responds to the subtle changes in geomagnetic activity. These changes include alterations in the occurrence of dreams, enhanced electrical sensitivity of groups of brain cells (and the more extreme form, electrical seizures), and the ability to focus during the day. 

Because all human beings are immersed within the ---> geomagnetic field we are intrinsically connected to it and to the secondary fields that arise from this connection. Very small changes in the activity of the earth's magnetic field due to alterations in solar activity can affect all human beings. These direct effects are primarily upon the subtle but complex electromagnetic fields that interact with everyone's consciousness due to the marked similarity of the characteristics of our brains and our genetic history.  

This creates the potential for the function of every person's brain activity to be changed---> without their awareness. 

And that is scary!

More Links:
Magnetic Activity And Schumann Resonance: http://quake.geo.berkeley.edu/ncedc/em.intro.html
For the "Ham" enthusiast - how to construct your own Schumann Resonance detector: http://www.vlf.it/re_2/schumannsearch.html



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