Solar History: The Connection of Solar Activity, War, Peace and the Human Mind in the 2nd Millennium

by Sacha P. Dobler

There is a positive side to solar-induced climate It may be periods of high solar activity and high sunspot numbers – which are associated with a stable and more favourable climate – are also periods of increased mass excitability, war and genocide. In fact, throughout the last millennium, there were 4.6 times as many deaths from war, genocide and persecution during Grand Solar Maxima than there were in Grand Solar Minimum. In contrast, Grand Solar Minima - the ‘bad-weather periods’ - were times of relative peace, reason and of improvements of human rights. In the 1920s, the Russian scientist Alexander Tchijevsky discovered that social excitability, wars and rebellions unfolded primarily at the peaks of the 11-year solar cycles (Schwabe- cycles). I found that within the past 1000 years, what is true for the 11-years cycles, also applies to the non-periodical cycles of Grand Solar Minima and Maxima, recurring roughly every 200 or 400 years. The correlation coefficient of anthropogenic death rate per decade and Grand Solar Maximum condition is r= 0.9 (very strong correlation). Not only were most mass killings committed during these Grand Maxima, but the corresponding uprisings and rebellions mostly ended up in collectivist, totalitarian systems, that appealed to group hysteria, violent mob rule and imperialism. The narration of the history of this period is intended to illustrate this pattern and to warn of future repetitions. In addition to the multi decadal trends of wars and atrocities, we even find singular battles and mass violence in connection with the visible manifestations of high solar peaks, solar storms, visible sunspots and aurorae. This book is about our future as much as it is about the past, as we have most likely entered the next Grand Solar Minimum. The latest solar forecast by NASA predicts Solar Cycle 25 to be the lowest in 200 years, which will put us in at least Dalton Minimum conditions already in the next decade. This partly confirms the transition has most likely begun. When the final drop begins - given the trends of the last millennium continue – we are once more confronted not only with unpleasant material adaptation processes, climate downturn and food shortages, but ultimately also with a social mood of increased reason, relative peace and rationality. This can give us a time window of between several decades and 150 years to find out how we prevent the next round of mass killing and totalitarian injustice in the following Grand Solar Maximum.If we succeed, future generations may live in the most peaceful and constructive environment that the world has ever seen. To aid to the solving of the problem of a peaceful transition is the aim of this book.

339 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2018

Reviews

[Dusty Howard · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am a nurse with a penchant for anthropological evolution especially in relation to medical history. When sars1 came into play back in early 2000 I started paying more attention to the physical universe and its impact on humanity and disease. When a new respiratory illness brought on by a mystery virus showed up in 11-2019, my kids thought i was being overly concerned. I decided to make a quick chart comparing solar flares to periods of pandemics & epidemics in history, immediately noticing patterns. I started to realize there must be more to the sun and how it affects disease, crops, and even human behavior. After several months of trying to put some data together I realized someone has probably done all of this work already and started looking. I found Sacha Dobler. What I didn't expect was the relationship of the flipside of the no solar flares was the increasing level of aggression we have with increased solar irradiation. Curiously, I wonder if there is a direct relationship with solar irradiation and triggering those with mental health issues r/t chemistry in the brain, specifically bi-polar. It does appear that well controlled are having more issues with mania out of the blue. There is an uptick in acts of aggression all over, coincidently, we had a moments of rare northern lights exposure in this area recently. I was so surprised to see how little attention or work has been put into this field of study. It looks relatively new considering what we have known since the 60s. Im so grateful for this book and im really hoping more attention is garnered in support of this field of research. Greek, Egypt, ancient religions all revered the sun, because it is our creator, without it we cannot have life, and with it, as with all things, we are most harmonious in homeostasis, the energy received must be in a perfect balance for our life to flourish. But, also in life, when we, as all life forms on earth are taxed or stressed, we adapt & evolve or die. Whether it be a tree, crop, pest, animal, human, or virus. Life is full of cycles, the sun is now in menopause, and those hormones of solar irradiation are no longer as perfectly cycled, full of misfires, too much, too little, fading out, preparing to die. I forsee more radical fluctuations to the solar cycles. Deeper lows and higher highs or quicker turn around. Either way, I wish there was more attention on this. Great book!

[Walter Cavinaw · Rating 2 out of 5]

## Summary
The book examines a connection between grand solar cycles (sunspot counts averaged over whole ~11yr sunspot cycles) and man-made deaths, wars and revolutions. It discusses different potential reasons for why this might be the case and what other cycles and climatic effects there are.

## Review
First, on the rating, the ideas and lines of thought were very provocative and interesting and are worth 4 or 5 stars. But the format, presentation and meandering between topics were worth two stars.

To the author: you need to clean up the format and presentation. Secondly make the topics flow together. Although some of the political discussion was interesting and made me think about topics I had never considered before, I also often found myself wondering "how did we get here". There were too many tangents.

With that said, I have bought the author's second book knowing that it will suffer from the same formatting issues but I appreciate the ideas (I am also interested in geomagnetic and electric impacts on biology and behaviour) and independence of thought and want to support it.

I think most people would ignore a book like this because they are afraid to stray too far from the group accepted norms of inquiry but I am grateful for reading it because it introduced me to interesting thoughts and further reading. By cross-referencing with other work on revolutions (Goldstone) I would think the connection would come via three different channels: the effect of cosmic radiation on human biology and behaviour; the effects of GCRs on climate through clouds and (possibly) volcanoes; lastly, the creation and propagation of disease either directly through cosmic radiation regulated by the sun's magnetic field, or indirectly as a result of climate.