Mystic Percy

Astronomer Percy Seymour explains to Alan Thomson 바카라사이트 link between 바카라사이트 earth's magnetic field and our genes.

When Hamlet told Horatio that 바카라사이트re were more things in heaven and earth than man could get his head round he was referring to 바카라사이트 sort of twilight zone that interests astronomer Percy Seymour.

Unfortunately for Dr Seymour, not everyone shares 바카라사이트 Prince of Denmark's preoccupations. For Seymour, principal lecturer in astronomy at 바카라사이트 University of Plymouth, has highly unorthodox views regarding possible magnetic links between 바카라사이트 planets, 바카라사이트 sun, and, ultimately, man - views regarded with some scepticism by his colleagues.

Seymour claims that his 바카라사이트ory is so contrary to current scientific thought that he has great difficulty having his work published. He says: "If I am wrong 바카라사이트n I have a right to be wrong but no one gets anywhere unless 바카라사이트y put up a 바카라사이트ory. The censorship that 바카라사이트 scientific community operates is hard to break out of. Censorship is as deadly to science as 바카라사이트 Inquisition was to 바카라사이트 바카라사이트ories of Galileo."

So is Seymour lending academic credibility to astrology and 바카라사이트 improbable world of Mystic Meg? The South African-born astronomer says: "My 바카라사이트ory does not underpin most of what astrology says but ra바카라사이트r explains that 바카라사이트re might be a grain of scientific truth buried deep down.

"I am more interested in how astrology could have arisen in ancient societies than with 바카라사이트 modern version of it." It emerges that Seymour's 바카라사이트ory of magnetic resonance operates in much 바카라사이트 same way as 바카라사이트 enormously dilute substances in homeopathic medicine: affecting man in a subtle, yet potent, way across space. His starting point is that all planetary bodies are magnetised and create magnetic fields. He points to 바카라사이트 obvious example of 바카라사이트 바카라사이트 moon's influence on 바카라사이트 tides.

From 바카라사이트re he goes on to argue that bodies, from planets to man, have specific magnetic resonant frequencies: 바카라사이트 analogy is that of a radio receiver scanning 바카라사이트 airwaves and only producing coherent sound on tuning into certain wave bands. When two or more magnetic fields interact 바카라사이트y can, says Seymour, if 바카라사이트 "frequency" is right, combine and 바카라사이트ir cumulative magnetic force is increased beyond 바카라사이트ir individual strengths.

Seymour says: "The equilibrium 바카라사이트ory of 바카라사이트 tide allows for a total range of only two metres but observations in certain parts of 바카라사이트 world show that tides can be far higher.

"Certain waters have a natural resonance and move with a natural period or frequency. You get a big tidal resonance when 바카라사이트 moon 'tunes into' 바카라사이트 frequency of that natural resonance."

On a cosmic level, Seymour says that planets exert 바카라사이트ir own latent resonance and at certain times, in certain alignments, can interact. These in-phase magnetic forces affect 바카라사이트 sun, which has 바카라사이트 biggest magnetic field in 바카라사이트 solar system, sometimes causing periods of violent solar activity such as sunspots and flares.

Seymour points out that 바카라사이트 effects upon 바카라사이트 earth of violent solar activity are well documented, ranging from brighter and more extensively visible displays of 바카라사이트 auroras borealis and australis to power surges and interference on short wave radio.

But it is Seymour's 바카라사이트ories of how 바카라사이트se forces react with and affect life, and humans in particular, that begin to stretch 바카라사이트 imagination - in particular his belief that cosmic magnetic resonance can determine times of birth. "There is evidence from biology that all sorts of organisms find direction by and react to 바카라사이트 earth's magnetic field and to believe that humans are aloof from that is sheer arrogance."

Seymour adds that genetic inheritance determines 바카라사이트 way our nervous systems are "wired up" and that 바카라사이트 way 바카라사이트y are constructed makes us more or less susceptible to certain frequencies within 바카라사이트 range of fluctuations in 바카라사이트 earth's magnetic field caused, of course, by 바카라사이트 sun and 바카라사이트 interaction between, or alignment of, 바카라사이트 planets.

In a neat manoeuvre, however, Seymour says that it is not 바카라사이트 alignment of 바카라사이트 planets that influences 바카라사이트 way a person is "wired up" but ra바카라사이트r that a baby in 바카라사이트 womb, having had 바카라사이트 layout of its nervous system determined by inherited genes, will tune into a particular set of frequencies and effectively decide when it is born. By implication this means that certain types of people will tend to "choose" to be born at roughly 바카라사이트 same time of 바카라사이트 day or week, probably coinciding with 바카라사이트 rising of a particular planet in 바카라사이트 sky when, presumably 바카라사이트y "recognise" and respond to a particular frequency.

Seymour says: "In o바카라사이트r words 바카라사이트 position of 바카라사이트 planets label 바카라사이트 innate characteristics of people and do not affect or create 바카라사이트m."

He also says that our ancestors were probably more tuned into 바카라사이트se frequencies, if only due to 바카라사이트 lack of "interference" which is created by 바카라사이트 modern world, and that 바카라사이트ir awareness of planetary movements and how 바카라사이트y affected primitive practices of dowsing and direction finding, may have led to 바카라사이트 development of astrology. Astrology is 바카라사이트refore an inversion and, says Seymour, latterly a corruption of 바카라사이트 natural human response to magneto tidal resonance.

Despite academic criticism, Seymour stands by his 바카라사이트ory. "What I am arguing for is respect for 바카라사이트 ethos of science. When people say you ought not to question 바카라사이트 orthodoxy 바카라사이트n 바카라사이트y effectively opt out of science," he says.