The four unignorable, non-materialist features of near-death experiences

Out of 8 billion humans on Earth, only around 0.33% are women with Nordic features, blonde hair and blue or green eyes

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Preview / Preliminary Findings: Geosynchronous Monitoring Protocol (GEOSYNC)

Over the past few months, I have spent several hundred hours building a live, physics-based monitoring system for Earth’s rotation, gravity field, magnetic field, and crustal activity. It uses only authoritative open data (IERS, GFZ, USGS, EONET, standard geomagnetic reconstructions).

Before I share more in a few weeks, I wanted to offer up a complete summary as it is now monitoring live and recording data. First, the system doesn’t assume any specific theory. It literally just watches, in physical units:

  • Length-of-day and polar wobble
  • J2 (Earth’s flattening term)
  • Surface angular momentum budgets (AAM/OAM/HAM/SLAM)
  • Field strength, pole drift, SAA behavior, reverse flux
  • Global volcanic and seismic patterns
  • Similarity to known paleo excursions

Right now, several independent indicators are all elevated at once:

  • J2 anomaly: >3σ above late-20th-century baseline [σ = standard deviation]
  • Surface Attribution residual (SAI): >3σ (surface forcing and wobble no longer match)
  • Geomagnetic stress: in a “critical” band for the first time in the instrumental record under this framework
  • Crustal destabilization: rare reactivations + synchronized activity patterns
  • Paleo similarity: strongest match to documented excursion onsets (e.g. Laschamp)
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Both D* J2 and D* SAI are in highly anomalous states

Historically, you do see large J2 spikes or individual anomalies by themselves (namely in the 70s, with return to nominal conditions throughout the 80s) but the system recovered. However, what you do not see in the modern data is what we see now: high J2 + high SAI residual + critical geomagnetic stress + critical crustal stress + excursion-like paleo match, all at the same time. In other words, we are no longer in a “quiet, stable dipole” state on this planet.

We are in an excursion-like, high-stress phase of the Earth system, as far as rotation, geomagnetism, and crustal response are concerned.

There is absolutely no refuting this.

This does not mean I can tell you “what day something happens,” or guarantee any particular outcome with really any level of confidence. In my opinion though, only two broad paths exist at this point (and the paleo record does show both):

  1. The system partially recovers (indicators relax, timelines stretch)
  2. The system continues to deteriorate and commits to an excursion-class transition

Which path we’re on depends on how these indicators move from here.

If current deterioration persists or accelerates, the odds of a major reorganization in the coming years rise significantly. If key indicators stabilize or reverse (J2, SAI residual, field decay, pole drift, SAA behavior, crustal stress), risk stretches or falls.

However, based on the data, we entered an anomalous state roughly 50 years ago but underwent said recovery. Such a precursor-recovery-crisis pattern is documented in excursion literature (e.g. Laschamp). Early instabilities (like 1970s-80s D*_J2 spikes) probe the system but recover when the geomagnetic infrastructure is intact. Unfortunately, 

50 years ago we did not have convergent, rapidly accelerating anomalous conditions across Earth rotation, geomagnetism, and crustal destabilization over known LLVPs as we do today. And we have already exceeded the peak instability of D*_J2 from back then.

Nevertheless, the point of GEOSYNC is to make that evolution measurable, not speculative.

With all of the above in mind, people have a right to know the present state:

  • Multi-σ departures from baseline in rotation/gravity
  • Synchronized anomalies in field behavior and crustal activity
  • A combined configuration that, in the modern record, has no prior analogue and looks most like known excursion phases in the paleo record
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In the coming weeks, I will release:

  • The complete GEOSYNC v1.0 findings and outputs
  • Full indicator definitions
  • Comprehensive data library
  • Backtests showing when these metrics did not fire together
  • Live dashboards / logs so anyone can independently verify, critique, or falsify the framework using the same public data (possibly early 2026)

NOTE: Please, do not read too far into the similarity calibration to Laschamp. This is most likely because there is simply substantially more data and literature around Laschamp then just about any other excursion we have identified. More to come.

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Scientists may have found the first evidence of primordial black holes born during the Big Bang – ‘if it’s real, then it’s enormous’

Scientists may have found the first evidence of primordial black holes, born in the very first seconds of the Big Bang. These tiny singularities can be smaller than a single atom but contain almost as much mass as our sun (artist’s impression) 

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Physicist proposes theory of consciousness – which could explain what happens when you die

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GRACE Detection of Transient Mass Redistributions During a Mineral Phase Transition in the Deep Mantle

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EXCLUSIVE: Your Biggest DMSO Questions Finally Answered

A Midwestern Doctor brings expert clarity to what people are getting wrong about DMSO — and what the real science shows it can actually do.

Dear readers, I have something special for you today, an exclusive interview with the author behind The Forgotten Side of Medicine, A Midwestern Doctor.

I know many of you have questions about DMSO — and I actually do, too. That’s why I asked 

A Midwestern Doctor to have a back-and-forth conversation to get your most common questions about DMSO answered, along with other items.

In case you’re not familiar, The Forgotten Side of Medicine has quickly become a powerhouse medical newsletter on Substack, reaching #1 in the Health Politics category — a remarkable achievement.

A Midwestern Doctor’s work is so detailed and prolific that it’s almost hard to believe a single person can consistently publish 10,000-word reports with such ease.

But A Midwestern Doctor delivers every time, providing all the medical receipts so you can make truly informed decisions about your health.

Without further ado, onto the interview.

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Prevalence and predictors of childfree people in developing countries

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3000 Years of One Family: DNA Discovery in Germany

Study debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation

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The study:

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‘As an intelligent civilization progresses, they would become part of the fabric of space-time itself’ — Andrew Gallimore

Possible genetic basis of psychic ability identified

Highlights

  • •Limited research has formally evaluated the genetics of psychic ability.
  • •This case-control study compared DNA of 13 vetted cases to 10 matched controls.
  • •One noncoding sequence was conserved in the wild-type form for all psychic cases.

Abstract

Introduction

It is commonly believed that psychic ability, like many mental and physical traits, runs in families. This suggests the presence of a genetic component. If such a component were found, it would constitute a biological marker of psychic ability and inform environmental or pharmacologic means of enhancing or suppressing this ability.

Methods

A case-control study design was used to evaluate differences between psychic cases and non-psychic controls. Over 3,000 candidates globally were screened through two online surveys to locate people who claimed they and other family members were psychic. Measures of relevance to the claimed abilities (e.g., absorption, empathy, schizotypy) were collected and based on those responses, individuals with indications of psychotic or delusional tendencies were excluded from further consideration. Eligible candidates were then interviewed and completed additional screening tests. Thirteen individuals were selected as the final “psychic cases,” and ten age-, sex-, and ethnicity-matched individuals with no claims of psychic ability were selected as controls. DNA from the saliva of these 23 participants was subjected to whole-exome sequencing. Two independent bioinformatics analyses were blindly applied to the sequenced data, one focusing exclusively on protein-coding sequences and another that also included some adjacent noncoding sequences.

Results

Sequencing data were obtained for all samples, except for one in the control group that did not pass the quality controls and was not included in further analyses. After unblinding the datasets, none of the protein-coding sequences (i.e., exons) showed any variation that discriminated between cases and controls. However, a difference was observed in the intron (i.e., non-protein-coding region) adjacent to an exon in the TNRC18 gene (Trinucleotide Repeat-Containing Gene 18 Protein) on chromosome 7. This variation, an alteration of GG to GA, was found in 7 of 9 controls and was absent from all psychic cases.

Discussion

The most conservative interpretation of these results is that they result from random population sampling. However, when the results are considered in relation to other lines of evidence, the results are more provocative. Further research is justified to replicate and extend these findings.

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Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena

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