I live in an area and state with very little industry and low population. We don't have a lot of man made structures, power lines, cell phone towers, traffic etc. I don't travel that often. I recently was on a trip to a big city in another state and the amount of high speed action, artificial energies, stimulation and noise was sensory overload. I had to get out into nature and do some hiking. There was a strange sense of having this artificial energetic structure built up in the city that people were deeply involved with. People were so rushed and wound tightly. Just being in and around it was affecting me in odd ways.

I watch the suspicious observers YouTube updates on occasion. He gives some good information I think is interesting. Here's the video for today the 29th

http://youtu.be/XXtNaKnQrqQ

Looking at the space weather website, it has this to say about current space weather activity.

A widely-held misconception is that space weather stalls and becomes uninteresting during periods of low sunspot number. In fact, by turning the solar cycle sideways, we see that Solar Minimum brings many interesting changes. For instance, the upper atmosphere of Earth collapses, allowing space junk to accumulate around our planet. The heliosphere shrinks, bringing interstellar space closer to Earth. And galactic cosmic rays penetrate the inner solar system with relative ease. Indeed, a cosmic ray surge is already underway. (Goodbye sunspots, hello deep-space radiation.)

http://www.spaceweather.com

Anyhow, awhile back I got into looking deeper at solar flares and cosmic rays. How these universal and intergalactic events and energies affect our universe, possibly upgrade DNA and transform all life forms. I find it all so intriguing. I'll copy paste an excerpt from a link that I in in awe of.

Cosmic Ray Composition: Cosmic rays include essentially all of the elements in the periodic table; about 89% of the nuclei are hydrogen (protons), 10% helium, and about 1% heavier elements. The common heavier elements (such as carbon, oxygen, magnesium, silicon, and iron) are present in about the same relative abundances as in the solar system, but there are important differences in elemental and isotopic composition that provide information on the origin and history of galactic cosmic rays. For example there is a significant overabundance of the rare elements Li, Be, and B produced when heavier cosmic rays such as carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen fragment into lighter nuclei during collisions with the interstellar gas. The isotope 22Ne is also overabundant, showing that the nucleosynthesis of cosmic rays and solar system material have differed. Electrons constitute about 1% of galactic cosmic rays. It is not known why electrons are apparently less efficiently accelerated than nuclei.

These cosmic rays could be considered building blocks that also contain rare elements. And each ray has its own unique composition. Almost like pieces of a puzzle.

http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/dick/cos_encyc.html

What if we were freely allowed to absorb and assimilate these universal energies?

I've been thinking about my last trip and the strange realization that large cities and places of industry appear to be faraday cages of their own. Locking out cosmic rays, solar flares and the positive impacts.They've built up an artificial boundary that seems to feed people on a strange level while limiting them.

Is technology distancing us from natural progression while promoting artificial constraint? With all the wi-fi, "smart" phones (what a bizarre terminology), televisions, computers and other devices most people are surrounded by daily; are we participating in co-creating our own faraday cages to constrain and contain ourselves and universal connectivity?