Is the Sun Controlling Us?

As summer approaches and temperatures rise, there is a noticeable increase in criminal activity. We’ve always known that the sun influences mood and energy, but this is usually attributed to the heat, which causes discomfort and agitation. But what if we are being influenced not just by the heat, but by the sun’s radiation? While this might seem like something a schizophrenic would say (like Dr. Schreber’s sun-rays influencing the ‘World Order’), it is actually part of a theory proposed by bio-physicist Alexander Chizhevsky, who argued that the ‘innumerable streams of electrical particles and electro-magnetic waves’ influence human behaviour in predictable cycles.

As Chizhevsky explains in his seminal study, ‘Physical Factors of the Historical Process’, the sun is an ‘enormous generator of electrical energy’ which reaches beyond the fathermost planet in our solar system. The earth, therefore, is well within the sun’s field of power and is affected by its ‘periodical fluctuations’ which are manifested on its outer surface by the appearance and disappearance of sunspots.

Sunspot activity has been known to affect magnetic storms, the Aurora Borealis, thunder, cyclones, temperature, precipitation, pressure…