The Day The Earth Stood Still . . . ?

A charged body which rotates creates a magnetic field. The sun is a charged body, and it rotates, and charged particles arrive from it in a continuous stream. The earth is a charged body, and it rotates, and it possesses a magnetic field. If the magnetic field of the sun were to govern the earth’s motion, then after an encounter with a comet the earth could resume its rotation, though on a changed orbit. If it is true that the comet and the earth exchanged electrical discharges, as Dr. Velikovsky maintains that they did, then there may be even reason to suppose that the earth’s “inertia�  is electrical in character. How do we know that the earth and the planets are so different from the electrons inside the atom. The answer has been phrased thus: “We do not read in the morning paper that Saturn and Mars have changed their places.�  But we do read in the ancient records, says Dr. Velikovsky, that Venus, mars, and Earth have changed theirs.

There is certainly change in the earth's life but this occurs within a context of balance. The earth's poles do tilt which causes the seasons. If the earth tilted even a few more degrees or if there were any deviation of the earth's orbit around the sun, the life of the earth would be greatly altered or non-existent. The organic life of the Earth has developed its cycles within the womb of the solar system. The sun, the principal energy source, is itself a cyclically pulsating body which experiences periodic expansion and contraction. The sun revolves in a 27-30 day cycle, its heat output fluctuates in a 273-month cycle, sunspots occur in a 22.22-year cycle, and the magnetic poles of the sun reverse themselves every 22 years. The widely varying energy fields of the sun encompass the earth, as it vibrates within what might be called the solar energy body.
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Uncountable numbers of organic events occur each second on earth, conditioned by celestial events within the body of the solar system. The sunspot cycle, the solar cycle, the moon cycle, the alternation of light and dark, all these events and more, trigger or impress themselves on organic events on the earth. Everything is in relationship; everything flows in cyclic adaptation according to its nature and place in the universe. Organic events such as the metabolism of plankton in the oceans, the migration of salmon, the growth of forests, the annual migration of caribou, the cycles of sexual reproduction and innumerable other events all are influenced by cyclic forces utterly enmeshed in a flowing whole so intricately balanced that a relatively small eruption on the sun, a solar flare, can create multiple effects in the process of the life of the earth. Whether viewed from the energy metabolism of the solar system or from the vantage point of the various kinds of living molecules in the cell, life unfolds in a series of wholes, each fitting into and forming an integral aspect of a larger whole. The many parts whose functions combine to create the cell are also a part of an organ, which in turn is part of the whole body. That body may be part of a tribe, a school of fish, or a deer herd whose social body then fits into a larger food chain. The pattern of the cosmos is form integrated within form and mind within mind.

The various habitats across the surface of the planet create the whole body of the earth, which itself is involved with energy flows (metabolism) that are solar, galactic and cosmic. The mind of the cell exists within the mind of the organ, which exists within the mind of the body. Form exists within form, mind within mind and life within life.