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It is probable that those who succeed in business are the ones who are insensitive to the electrical environment of the office, which is not conducive to the optimum functioning of the body. It is possible too that part of the feeling people get about their cars is due to the way the shaped metal body of the vehicle sheds variations in environmental fields, thus producing a protected space, a kind of 'Faraday cage'.

Coleridge was one who could fine-tune his depression. His weather sensitivity was an essential element in his poetic sensibility [...]. It would manifest itself either in poetry or in rheumatism after close contact with nature, as when he slept out in wet fields by the river after a quarrel with his brother, or when once he swam in his clothes, or with his move to the damp climate of the Lake District.

In the case of an earthquake, it is suggested that animals respond to subsonics created by the grinding of rocks, to the electrostatic charges built up by mechanical pressure, and to charged aerosols released from the ground. The Chinese have an advanced system of earthquake warning based on the observation of animals; in the West we prefer to disregard this valuable source of information.

I was browsing the bookshelf at home (I share with a few people) and was drawn to this book. Thankfully I ignored the facile blurb on the back - the writer of that may have read the book but they missed the point. Even the 30 page introduction contained a wealth of knowledge and insights that had me not wanting to put it down!

I just finished with the Introduction. One should NEVER skip a books Introduction :).