On our survey we came upon a tree downed by lightning. As the picture below shows it was pretty gnarly and twisted.
We are taught that lighting is created by an imbalance in the atmosphere. The negative charge in the clouds is attracted to the positive charge in the atmosphere at ground level to beget lightning strikes.
Further lighting will be attracted to the tallest, or taller objects in an area. So if you are walking in a field during a storm you may be struck by lightning because you will be the tallest object.
The earth itself is negatively charged.
Per the NOAA page:
As the storm moves over the ground, the strong negative charge in the cloud attracts positive charges in the ground. These positive charges move up into the tallest objects like trees, telephone poles, and houses. A "stepped leader" of negative charge descends from the cloud seeking out a path toward the ground. Although this phase of a lightning strike is too rapid for human eyes, this slow-motion video shows it happening.
As the negative charge gets close to the ground, a positive charge, called a streamer, reaches up to meet the negative charge. The channels connect and we see the lightning stroke. We may see several strokes using the same path, giving the lightning bolt a flickering appearance, before the electrical discharge is complete. Below is an image of a lighting streamer per the NOAA page.
Lighting strikes help power the Earth's Schumann Resonance, low frequency electromagnetic waves, that many call our Mother's (Earth) heartbeat. In the early 1960's NASA found astronauts were physically affected when deprived of the Schumann Resonance so they created devices to simulate it for astronauts to take with them on their voyages.
NASA's explanation of Schumann Resonance:
At any given moment about 2,000 thunderstorms roll over Earth, producing some 50 flashes of lightning every second. Each lightning burst creates electromagnetic waves that begin to circle around Earth captured between Earth's surface and a boundary about 60 miles up. Some of the waves - if they have just the right wavelength - combine, increasing in strength, to create a repeating atmospheric heartbeat known as Schumann resonance. This resonance provides a useful tool to analyze Earth's weather, its electric environment, and to even help determine what types of atoms and molecules exist in Earth's atmosphere.
The waves created by lightning do not look like the up and down waves of the ocean, but they still oscillate with regions of greater energy and lesser energy. These waves remain trapped inside an atmospheric ceiling created by the lower edge of the "ionosphere" - a part of the atmosphere filled with charged particles, which begins about 60 miles up into the sky. In this case, the sweet spot for resonance requires the wave to be as long (or twice, three times as long, etc) as the circumference of Earth. This is an extremely low frequency wave that can be as low as 8 Hertz (Hz) - some one hundred thousand times lower than the lowest frequency radio waves used to send signals to your AM/FM radio. As this wave flows around Earth, it hits itself again at the perfect spot such that the crests and troughs are aligned. Voila, waves acting in resonance with each other to pump up the original signal.
While they'd been predicted in 1952, Schumann resonances were first measured reliably in the early 1960s. Since then, scientists have discovered that variations in the resonances correspond to changes in the seasons, solar activity, activity in Earth's magnetic environment, in water aerosols in the atmosphere, and other Earth-bound phenomena.
Is there more to the Earth--Lightning relationship?
Yes.
Strike Points
I believe there is much more to the Earth-Lighting relationship. One of which are Strike Points.
A Strike Point is an aspect of Mother Earth, a feature, like a part of the human body only it is part of our Mother's Unseen, or Subtle Body. A Strike Point is a receptacle meant to capture lighting strikes to better facilitate the transfer of electricity from lightning to power the telluric currents in our Mother, the earth.
How does this all mesh with scientific thought about the process of lighting strikes? Are lightning strikes drawn to Strike Points and tall objects are struck because they lie between the sky and a Strike Point? Is the area of a Strike Point struck because the geomagnetic force is low in that area and needs o be replenished? Or are Strike Points merely a coincident indicator? What about?
Currently I really don't know how much influence a Strike Point has in this process.
What I do know is that I consistently find Strike Points close to where Lightning has struck. I have often dowsed out Strike Points close to objects that have been hit by lighting.
Again, I have consistently found Strike Points close to lighting struck objects like the tree in the picture below.
In the picture above the Strike Point is within 5 to 10 feet of the tree's trunk.
The stone in front of the tree is a Manitou Stone.
I mention Strike Points because I will be adding locating them to my business/activity of water dowsing for wells. I will also be including other services related to the earth. I plan on setting up a webpage for my services.
Knowing if you live close to a Strike Point is important because if you live close to a one there is an increased chance that your home or property will be struck by lightning.
Lighting can indeed strike twice, thrice or more. Peter Shell tells me that his grandparents home was struck four times.
Would you feel comfortable living in a home next to, or even on a Strike Point?
Surveys are so much fun because you never know what you will find, or learn.
Geomancy Rocks!
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