Science tells us that the atmosphere is a giant heat engine, and that the interactions of sunlight, atmospheric gases, and land and sea masses produce the complex system we call weather. But science is often very wrong in predicting the weather and the timing of earthquakes because the planet Earth is a living being, and our atmosphere is influenced by human thoughts and feelings.

When there is a crisis in the human kingdom, there may be great upheavals in nature. Anger and fiery passions may create heat spells and fires. Coldness of heart and crystallized states of mind may create freezing spells. Drought can be caused by the imposition of thought that prevents an adequate flow of energy to the emotions. Collective lies may catalyze typhoons or earthquakes. The accumulation of negative thoughts or emotions in one area may pollute it, creating the necessity for a tornado or hurricane to sweep it clean.

In the inner spiritual realms, an "accident" is viewed as "an explosion of force" where emotional energies such as hatred, jealousy, or vindictiveness find a physical outlet. Spiritually dedicated people are sometimes guided to certain areas to act as human shock absorbers. Some have been sent to locations to inwardly balance the earth and lessen earthquakes, for example.

The causal relationship between human thoughts and emotions and weather patterns is not normally visible, unless confirmed by the timing of a physical event. The inner causes are often complex, including long-term cumulative effects, human karma from the past and causes in the nonhuman kingdoms, which are more difficult for humans to assess. However, there are some rather dramatic relationships that can be seen when studying the timing of events and weather patterns, as synchronicity does indicate a significant relationship.

For example, in the midst of very heated discussions between the American and Philippine governments over the continued presence of U.S. military bases there, the Mt. Pinatubo volcano erupted near the base in question in July 1991, and again the following year, causing extensive damage and forcing the United States to abandon the base immediately. The Filipino people wanted Clark Air Force Base to close, and the volcano complied. A general worldwide cooling seems to be the result of the volcanic eruption. Significantly, after the base closings, one hundred new factories were created there.

In November 1985 eleven Supreme Court justices were murdered in Colombia and the Palace of Justice burned to the ground by drug­trafficking forces, after the court declared it would extradite top drug dealers to the United States. Several days later a massive earthquake hit the country.

In the midst of massive demonstrations and upheavals in Soviet Armenia, where more than one hundred thousand Armenians had fled from racial riots in Azerbaijan, a massive earthquake struck on December 7, 1988.

Over a thousand people were killed by an earthquake of 6.8 magnitude in Turkey on March 14, 1992, in an area where Turks had been attacking the Kurdish population.

The massive earthquake that hit San Francisco in October of 1989 occurred just minutes before the World Series game was about to be played between the San Francisco and Oakland teams, with intense emotional rivalry between the two. Oakland is just across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco, and it was this bridge that dramatically collapsed and killed several people.

A tornado hit Metarie, Louisiana, in February 1989, the exact area where a few days earlier the former head of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, had been elected as Republican representative to the Louisiana State Legislature in a very contentious election, causing a national scandal.

After the strange and sudden death on September 29, 1978, of Pope John Paul I, who had been installed only a month earlier, it rained for seven days straight in Rome. This storm broke all records and created a great deal of speculation about the real cause of the pope's death--or murder, as some claimed. Since no investigation or autopsy was performed, and no one saw the body before it was embalmed, there was much suspicion about the cause of death, as the pope had been creating rapid reforms, removing corrupt members of Church hierarchy, calling for a redistribution of wealth, and publicly praying to “Father/Mother God.”

In the United States, 1988 saw one of the worst droughts in decades, just as speculative and corporate takeover fever, seen spiritually as an overheated desire for possession and control, reached its peak. The fever of greed raging through the American body politic found its correlation in the climate of the country. At the same time, massive forest fires throughout the West reflected back to us the blistering effects of our collective attitudes. The drought symbolized the lack of the waters' of compassion, when self-centered acquisition and the fires of the mind dominated by the will to power burned away any heart-centered feeling and concern for the com­mon good.

The Chinese have always seen the link between nature and politics, seeing natural disasters as a sure sign that the mandate of heaven is passing, and that it is time for a new ruler. Chairman Mao died in September 1976, just six weeks after the most devastating earthquake in Chinese history-in Tangshan-killed at least 242,000 people. The major floods that hit China in 1991 were seen by many Chinese as a sign that the Communists were losing the mandate of heaven after the Tiananmen Square massacre. This was reinforced when 10,000 crabs suddenly came ashore on Hainan Island in the south. The Chinese feel that a miracle or tumult in the natural world reflects one to come in the political world.

Were all these events simply "coincidences," or did the thoughts and emotions stirred up by these events create vortices of negative energy that triggered reactions in the natural world? Perhaps people need a dramatic and uncanny act of nature to give them pause to reflect on themselves and the rightness of their actions. We need to read the "Book of Life" more carefully to see what our weather patterns are telling us about the causes we are creating.

In the Ageless Wisdom, humanity is said to be the bridging kingdom between the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms and the higher spiritual kingdoms because we contain elements of all the kingdoms within us. Our true role is to channel love and blessing energies to these kingdoms--rather than create imbalances in them through our negative emotions. Many thousands of people are doing this today in their love and caring for nature and animals through the ecology and animal rights movements. Animals, in turn, absorb human emotions and help heal them. Many studies have shown that plants are also affected by human thoughts and emotions. Our tenderness and compassion for animals and plants will create a more gentle and loving environment, with fewer natural upheavals.

Many people are sending positive, loving energy in their prayers and meditations to places of ecological devastation to help create healing. Psychics have even noted that earthquakes have been prevented in certain areas where people meditated together to visualize light protecting and sealing the fault lines. As we give our blessings to nature, nature will bless humanity.

Note:  Here are a few out of the hundreds of other examples we’ve noted of the connections between weather patterns and human thought and emotions since we wrote this over 10 years ago:

The Bible reported that the sky darkened and the earth shook as Jesus died during the crucifixion.  The Dalai Lama reported that two days before fighting broke out with China as they were preparing to invade Tibet, an earthquake shook Lhasa, and a strange red glow appeared in the air which he saw as a omen. 

The epicenter of the January 17, 1994 California earthquake was Northridge and Reseda, where 70% of the $2.5 billion world-wide pornographic film industry is based.

A huge number of tornadoes hit the Midwest in May 1996 right after the popular movie “Twister” played in movie houses everywhere.  Could people’s subconscious minds have been so deeply impacted by this powerful film that they created what they feared?

A major hurricane hit Bermuda on August 15, 1995 on election day, as the country was voting to establish independence from Britain, postponing the election.

An unusually long and severe blizzard shut down the entire government in Washington D.C. in 1996 during a huge budget fight and stalemate between Democrats and Republicans, symbolizing the hardness of heart towards the people whom the government serves.