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Weather By The Moon
The effect can be duplicated in gardening. Subjecting
seeds to a magnetic field before planting increases the
yield of certain crops. A Russian company does this via the
Internet using a mail order system. Yet many indigenous
peoples, including the Early Maori, did most of their planting
just after the New Moon. Presumably this gave the seeds
just enough magnetic dosage. Planting later would have been
slightly too harsh. The question must be asked, did they
discover this through trial and error or is this scientific
knowledge thousands of years old? There is every reason
to believe there were many peoples in NZ before the Fleet
Warriors, and in the legends of the latter are descriptions
of what was taught by those who came before - the tangata
whenua, the Enlightened Ones, the ‘guardians of the land.’
With the magnetic field effect sufficiently established,
scientists (Lethbridge) analyzed thunderstorm frequencies
for the U.S. in relation to the Full Moon. During
a thunderstorm they measured the electrical potential of a
tree and the ground. For several hours before the onset of
a storm, the ground measured a positive electric potential
of 60 mv for several hours. The electrodes in a tree showed
also a 40-50mv potential. Then quite suddenly, the positive
potential of the ground potential dropped to zero and
became the negative potential of 20-30 mv. As the storm
passed, this was reversed and the ground recorded a positive
potential again of 60 mv. A very similar change occurred
in the tree potentials prior to the storm, with the
development of reversed polarity paralleling the Earth,
beginning somewhat sooner and taking a little longer to
develop. It could be said that planting seeds according to
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