When I was a child, my grandfather
explained to me that the northern lights
were caused by light shimmering off Arctic ice.
The scientific explanation is that they
are caused by material thrown off by the sun,
colliding with the atmosphere of the Earth.
And when it comes to the moon, I was always
captivated by the fact that we can only see one side of it
from Earth.
The other side has only been visited and photographed
from spacecraft.
But the moon, like the northern lights,
has a complex relationship with the Earth as does the universe.
Science continues to discover more
about that astounding interconnectedness.
And the interconnectedness that affects the tides, the weather,
the seasons, every aspect of life we take for granted,
right down to the blood in our veins.
The forces of nature, no matter how
seemingly random, from storm clouds and lightning,
to blowing snow and high winds, ultimately determine
our well-being.
All of nature's forces gift the surface of the Earth
with subtle energy.
All we have to do is touch it and become truly alive.
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Welcome to the Power of Natural Healing with Howard Straus.
We have Ober And Clint Ober started out his career writing
on the rise in popularity of cable television.
But he wasn't very happy.
And from that dissatisfaction, from that unhappiness
with his personal achievement and his goals
and what he felt like he was doing for the world,
he has made one of the most significant health
discoveries of all time.
Pretty far fetched, I thought.
But something to consider while dealing with the cold reality
of the day.
35 below windchill.
Does the sink work?
20 below zero sitting overnight.
Couldn't use this.
But the more I thought about that internet show
with its elevated message, perhaps
there was some truth to it.
Greatest health discovery ever, OK.
When you're in physical pain like I was,
you tend to look closer at your options
for some kind of relief.
This was a winter like no other.
44 feet of snow fell in total.
There's a reason why I feel crappy today.
Hello, can you help me carry some pieces of firewood?
The workload was daunting and unrelenting.
My back muscles kept me in agony.
My frozen hands stayed numb.
Here's a fence.
An eight foot high fence, as you could see.
I take care of orphaned wildlife.
Their lives fared much better in the brutal season
compared to their wild counterparts.
You might have wondered what that greatest health discovery
pronouncement made on that internet show was.
It is called earthing, which refers to the recent uncovering
of the fact that major health benefits result
from contact with the Earth's energy field
by walking barefoot.
Wearing conductive footwear, such as leather, also works.
But because I was desperate, I went
for the whole treatment from head
to toe, regardless of the temperature.
After about 20 minutes of lying naked on the bare Earth
in below freezing temperatures, a wave of calm
had come over me.
And I felt a warm and tingly.
The next morning, something was missing.
It was the pain in my back and both of my hands
were no longer numb.
This was crazy.
How could this have occurred?
Was it my imagination?
Did I simply tell myself the pain would go away
if I touched the Earth, and by doing so it would?
I decided to try a different method.
Of course, I didn't want to stay connected to the Earth
by lying outside in the cold, since earthing around me
is all about soaking up the Earth's free electrons.
All I needed to do was take a grounding rod into the Earth
and bring the energy right into the cabin.
And while I was at it, why not start
an experiment to see if this magic works on other living
things?
And so I also cut two sprigs off a Cottonwood Sapling,
rounding one and not the other to see if it would influence
the sprouting of the buds.
This, I thought, would be the litmus test.
But hey, why stop with Cottonwood twigs?
It was almost Valentine's Day, and my helper Rocky
delivered ideal additional specimens for my experiment.
Thank you.
I put the first batch of lilies in the new workshop additions,
which were not grounded to the Earth.
And even added the stuff that comes with store
bought flowers to give them a longer shelf life.
The other batch for the grounding experiment.
But the next morning after sleeping grounded,
something else was happening.
I noticed I wasn't grinding my teeth in my sleep anymore
either.
Things started coming into focus rapidly after that.
The Cottonwood sprig that was in the ground and vase
sprouted before the other one.
And then the verdict was in between the grounded
and ungrounded lillies.
Guess which largely kept its petals the longest?
The grounded lily of course.
All the ungrounded lilies in the new workshop edition
had long been dead.
It is a moment like this that you just
want to jump on your snow machine
and get to the first person you can think of who is suffering,
who might really take you seriously.
That person was my associate, Mario Benassi.
And then my helper Rocky caught an internet discourse
between two celebrity doctors about this earthing discovery.
I got to say, I think this is where Dr. Mercola he fell off
the wagon on this one.
Who is doing this?
And who gave this idea?
Well it's because it's not simply walking barefoot,
the devil's the details.
It's walking barefoot on the Earth.
And the Earth is a massive source of free electrons.
And when you do that, these electrons go into your body.
So my mother-in-law has been torturing me about this.
She has been talking about walking barefoot outside, which
I thought was just a scam to get me out of the house.
Meantime, my associate Mario had some news.
I didn't really think it was true.
Like I didn't want to believe it at first, but it's the truth.
He hasn't been snoring for the last three nights.
Now I don't hear him snore at all.
After an initial email, Clint Ober,
the man who discovered grounding or earthing for modern man,
contacted me.
I explained to him how many people
I knew were suffering in our community.
He responded with this box.
From then on, all I had to do was disseminate information
and put together resources to anyone
I knew that would benefit.
We're getting out.
Kim, are you there?
Now you're in pain, right?
I am.
What's the matter?
Ruptured disk.
So you're always in pain?
Always.
Take this.
You're here.
So I just bumped into you.
Local business owners took this seriously.
My reputation and hunch about grounding
was now open to public scrutiny.
Either this was going to change the community of Haines, Alaska
or I'd the laughing stock of the town.
Alaskans it seems are skeptical by nature,
and quite opinionated to boot.
Show me a better way, I'll do better.
Saying Steve that you should just take this thing
and run with it, and get it out to the public as fast
as possible, to as many people as possible.
It's a concept I hadn't considered.
So whether it makes sense or not, who's to say?
But I did crawl underneath the house
and get naked and lay on the Earth for about 20 minutes
and I felt better.
Why would the local doctor be so underwhelmed by this?
Uh-oh.
Something happened here.
And I'll tell you how dang good I
feel without any back problems whatsoever.
Really?
Has your back gotten better?
I have absolutely no pain in my back whatsoever.
How long have you had this back pain prior to meeting
on this earth thing?
20 years.
Day to day was a struggle.
My goodness.
Every day was a struggle to get through.
Oh, it got into the truck.
Well, the wolf like that.
Almost everyone is being transformed,
some literally overnight.
So I placed calls with people at NASA
for support in making this film.
[INAUDIBLE] I try not to get involved in anyway
with things that I don't understand
or don't really know what to think about them.
So I just can't do it.
I hope that this turns out to be a breakthrough.
Good luck to you, Steve.
I got message from the astronaut.
He turned me down.
He said it's too crazy.
What do you think?
Should I give up?
No.
Why?
Nobody's going to believe this.
Believe what?
Believe that this works.
Well, he's not the only person in the world.
Well he's a man to walk on the moon.
He's pretty important.
So?
Just because he turned you down doesn't
mean that other people won't believe in it.
Well nobody believes in this stuff
unless you get a famous person to talk to it
and at least give their opinion, don't you think?
No.
I see everyday Joe that's going to need this more than the guys
that got millions of dollars.
I have been a filmmaker for 30 years,
mainly for the likes of National Geographic.
If there ever was a film that I needed to make about nature,
this one was it.
We started to do more research and met earthing advocates,
including Clint Ober himself.
I say is laying on the Earth, just laying down on the Earth.
You don't have to be naked, you're touching the Earth.
If you can take your shoes off, that's great.
It's like no amount of Advil or Motrin
or Aleve can do, the anti-inflammatory power
that the Earth can.
I'm using part of my parka here so we can see you.
I don't know if it's my coat sliding down or no,
it's just the connections just barely there.
OK, barely there.
All right.
If a Raven flies by and sits in a branch and the hemlock
right here it's going to lose you.
Our first great meeting with earthing discoverer Clint Ober
and assistant Dr. Christy resulted in another shipment
of boxes of information and resources
to continue to ground our hometown.
The deeper question needs to be asked.
If there is a message at all about earthing,
it really is, it's not about that it had some wires and all
that kind of shit.
It's more about our connection with nature, with the planet,
with the universe.
You know we invented plastics in 57, I think DuPont
and it started entering the market in the 60s.
The first thing we did with plastics
is we put them on the soles of our shoes.
It always amazes me how much insight and wisdom
can be deciphered from observing nature.
This wolf I live with named Isis,
was also raised with the help of my veterinarian Dr. Vic Walker.
Until this moment, Dr. Walker had no knowledge
of what was happening regarding earthing
and my involvement with it.
They go powerful jaws, don't they?
They're barefoot essentially.
You're my vet, veterinary sanctioned
by the state of Alaska to look over the animals here
and everything.
You love this wolf?
Oh, yes.
At this moment Dr. Walker revealed the chronic pain
and stressed his wife was currently going through.
So she deals with inflammation and pain?
Is that right?
Yes.
Give her this.
What's this, Steve?
Not a day went by that I wasn't amazed with reports from people
in our town.
As hints of spring began to become evident,
I kept a close eye on the snow lines for the first opportunity
to become emancipated from footwear.
With the longer days and warm winds, one of the family
decided to suddenly wake up after months of hibernation.
Her name's kitty, a five-year-old grizzly bear
orphanged as a cub and given to me by the state of Alaska
to take care of the rest of her life.
Here's another creature, gifted with the extension
of the senses we seem to have lost or never attained.
Living by voices we shall never hear.
The awakening of the bear also awakened something in me,
something that said how beautiful the natural cycle
of life is.
How precise rhythmic patterns of the Earth work.
And how the hum of the Earth is in sync
with the moon and the forces beyond that.
How beautiful it all is,
And this is where this film takes another turn.
While tossing frozen salmon out of the freezer for the bear,
I realized that my assistant was right.
The astronaut that turned down involvement on this movie
project was not the only human to set foot on the lunar
surface, 12 of them did.
And now, two were suddenly willing to contribute
their time to this movie.
We were set to meet on a Florida beach.
By the time I arrived with the film crew in Cape Canaveral,
Florida it all became dreamlike.
It was here where I was going to meet
Laura [? Koniver, ?] a medical doctor who was going
to help with these interviews.
There's three rooms under Richard Smith.
Richard Smith?
Would you like a grounded or non grounded room?
What?
Smoking or non smoking?
Non-smoking.
The film crew couldn't resist letting the hotel receptionist
in on the subject matter of this documentary.
But it did plant a seed of an idea in my mind
to share with the motel owner back in Alaska.
A far cry from my first earthing experience,
there was a very comfortable way for civilized people
to receive the same Earth energy in the form of a conductive bed
sheet.
Life's an adventure.
But who do I have to thank for this chance introduction?
None other than our beloved rooster [? Squawky. ?] Laura
was about to help me meet two people
with a unique perspective about the Earth.
I was going to say Dr. Rachel, I know
that you experience a really intimate moment
where you felt interconnected with everything,
you've been in space.
OK.
There was no script for the shoot,
and of course, none of this was staged.
I had my film crew from National Geographic,
Laura and her family, and a strong desire
to document different perspectives about the Earth,
its healing power, and the interconnectedness of all life
therein.
And I remember I watched you describe
a moment where this just hit you, it just washed over you.
You had this moment where you felt interconnected to not just
the Earth, but the stars, everything.
That's exactly, experiencing that particular phenomenon.
I didn't know what to call it at that point.
Cultures are rooted in this type of unity experience,
it says everything to all interconnected.
A gift for you.
After listening to what Dr. Mitchell shared
and before we ran out of time, I had one chance
to give him the same tools for connecting to the Earth
just like everyone back home.
One, one, three, zero.
Laura was now speaking with Charlie Duke, the 10th man
to walk on the moon on Apollo 16 and the Director in Houston
to guide Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong
to become the first man to walk on the lunar surface.
[INAUDIBLE] [? out of ?] control both [? auto ?] only that
command over.
Tranquility base here, the eagle has landed.
OK, they want to know how excited were you
when you put your first foot step on the moon.
Well I was like a little kid.
Charlie Duke also did this interview barefoot.
He too understood that the ground beneath our feet
is a natural treatment table for what ails us.
He saw it all as intelligent design.
Now I look back on my adventure and it's
a song that says the heavens declare the glory of God,
and the skies proclaiming the works of his hands.
And it's not an accident, it's not a chance.
It's just an orderly universe that we see.
And the planets, and their courses,
and the stars, and all of the physical laws that
are so repeatable over and over and over again.
And I see God's hand in that.
Laura had a deep knowledge of how grounding works.
She had no reservations in inviting me
back to her home in Charleston, South Carolina to explain
all this.
It was in Dr. Koniver's home that I could see her vision
and understanding about how earthing works
and what it can do for humanity.
But then she didn't stop there.
It seemed there was this inner drive
to suggest this comprehensive healing modality
through mini painted creations.
So profound, yet so simple that even a preschooler could
comprehend.
Dr. Koniver was very much aware of the scientific research
conducted over the past 15 years on earthing.
She believes the future of health care
will be vastly different for her children because of it.
Before I left, she agreed to do more research on earthing
with her own patients.
Arriving home, I was relieved that my assistant Rocky
Seward had kept everyone happy.
In my hometown, there continued to be profound
and life impacting reports.
At the Eagle Foundation, for example,
there was Dave Olerud, who had been a paraplegic for 30 years.
In a state of unimaginable suffering,
barely able to twitch his toes, until now.
He had only been grounded a month.
Thanks for the moose branches.
You're welcome.
Are you going to help me--
What's that?
That's grounding things from a lady she gave it back
because she can't get too well or she'll lose her disability.
Is that OK?
But then there was Rocky himself,
a man who lives a hard life, sort of is homeless,
who sleeps in his truck each night.
Until I invited him to stay with me in the cabin.
There was no way I would ever get a good night's sleep
with that type of situation happening on the couch, four
feet away from my bed.
The next night, Mr. Seward agreed
to allow me to hook him up to the earth in an experiment.
He had nothing to lose really, since he'd never
gotten a true night's sleep anyway due to waking up choking
and with a headache and more.
You guessed it, he never snored again.
My associate Mario rendezvous with me at a street corner
in Vancouver to meet this host.
His name is Dr. David Suzuki.
But who is he, really?
He's probably one of the most well known scientists
of our age.
He's a national hero in Canada.
And he's probably one of the most eminent ecologists
that people recognize.
You think I should tuck my shirt in?
Yeah, maybe.
Hi.
Nice to meet you.
I've been following you since I was a little kid.
Where are you now?
Well, I live in Alaska, outside of Haines, Alaska.
And this is Mario Benassi.
Hi.
Nice to meet you.
We used to shoot for PBS and all these different things,
nature shows.
But between the two of us, I don't
think we've ever been so tongue tied to media coverage.
Come on.
Come on, let's go up there.
OK.
You lead the way.
Yeah, OK.
So you haven't visited this place?
I have never been here.
OK.
I explained to Dr. Suzuki how our town was benefiting
from earthing, and asked if he thought
reconnecting to the Earth's energy field
would be beneficial.
Absolutely.
We need to be connected with the earth, which gave us birth.
The moment I was born, I needed a breath of air,
as did everyone else.
And from that time to the last breath we take before we die,
we need air 15 to 40 times a minute.
That's nature, man.
We take air into our bodies, we fuse with it,
and pump it through our systems.
We are air.
We are water.
70% of my body is water for heaven's sakes.
And we leak it all the time through our skin and our eyes
and our nose and our crotch and we lose water,
and we have to keep topping up.
That water comes from all over the world.
We are a part of nature.
That's what we are.
But we think that we've grown so smart
and that we can actually pump nature out and get
it to yield even more.
Cut the trees down, we'll genetically modify
and genetically alter trees so they grow faster.
First, the quality of the wood is crap.
But we think that we can grow trees
as if they're corn or tomato plants, which
is absurd of course.
We have now become the most numerous mammal on the planet.
But we're not like wildebeests or mice or caribou,
we are endowed with huge amounts of technology,
a consumptive appetite that is insatiable,
and we are trashing the planet as a result.
And we're trashing our home.
It's our home.
We were fortunate enough on this journey
to meet historian Freddy Silva, who clearly understood
the Earth's energy fields from the perspective
of the intuitions of ancient people.
What is it that you are doing that brought you out
to the West Coast here of Canada?
I sort to work with ancient systems of knowledge.
I'd look at certain research, how
the ancestors worked and built temples around the world.
Look at the ways in which they develop common attitudes
to developing consciousness.
And then find that there are commonalities
between these points of view that
are shared by different cultures around the world.
Mr. Silva pointed out that earthing is not
a new discovery, just a rediscovery
of what the ancients already knew would help them to heal.
I was now literally connected to the Earth almost 24/7.
The remarkable way I was being affected
made me ponder that most people in modern societies
are almost never in direct contact with the Earth's
surface.
No wonder so many people walk around fat, sick,
and nearly dead.
Sometimes nothing prepares us for the devastating stress
and emotional upheavals that can lay claim to your life.
The first thing grounding does is calm the nervous system.
It soothes the left side of the brain
and synchronizes the right and left brain.
Where I found pain relief was to do what the ancients did,
immerse myself unclothed into the Earth.
It's like throwing bucket of water on a fire as opposed
to using just a cup.
More exposed skin allows the earth
electrons to flow into one with much more volume and intensity.
An event was taking place now.
It involved grounding 1,000 people, all at the same time
during a 70 minute presentation organized
by Clint Ober, the discoverer of earthing for modern man.
First there was Carol Alt, who spoke about body care.
And with that comes the realization for millions
of women that earthing is the Holy Grail for beauty care.
But the main event was Dr. Christy,
who upon taking center stage would instruct everyone
to begin grounding themselves during her talk.
OK.
So are we hooked up to the earth here?
Yes.
We've got earth, OK.
So it's time to kick off your shoes.
In a moment--
As Clint Ober observed this group,
he looked confident that it wouldn't take long
for grounding to affect everyone in the room.
We're going to have a good time.
I was nowhere near prepared for the number
of people that were affected by being grounded that came
back and wanted to talk to me.
How do you interview almost 1,000 people?
It's such a simple and so profound and powerful concept,
and it's right there beneath our feet.
This is what just blows me away.
I've been writing about health for 35 years.
I got a call from the state of Alaska.
Another orphaned animal, this time a baby moose.
Because she was likely a mere 48 hours old,
I had to keep her safe from hungry, wild Grizzlies,
and so I put her in a bear proof horse trailer
with the door shut temporarily.
I named her Karen, because the horse trader
kept Karen ungrounded.
I devised a way to reconnect this moose calf to the earth
with a grounding pad.
She instinctively knew where to lie down, whether it
was concealed or not.
The next step was an exercise in reality having
to do with true nutrition.
This moose primarily needed raw milk with all the live enzymes.
If it was pasteurized, she would likely die.
Yet I'm amazed that people are told
there's no difference at the grocery store.
The flow of people to my porch wanting to be grounded never
let up, and word continued to spread.
By the time the daises were in bloom,
I was elated with the return of my son Garrett from his work
down South.
Garrett and his 19-year-old girlfriend,
Esther, were somewhat aware of earthing
but wanted to learn more.
I would show them.
It was just a matter of time.
The plants themselves had something
to say about earthing.
More and more people in our town wanted to be grounded.
It was overwhelming.
Garrett and Esther were now part of the team.
I wanted to make an impression on these two kids,
and collected as many plants as I had room
for to replicate and verify.
I just laid back and watched.
If grounding is all a placebo effect in humans,
then the results with plants would be pretty black
and white I thought.
Vegetation can't lie.
Inspired by the moose calf's natural connection
to the earth, I found myself going barefoot most of the time
too.
I felt like a kid again.
As time passed, my veterinarian, Dr. Walker,
returned with his family.
By now even he had experienced what earthing had rendered.
By this time in town, my assistant Rocky Seward
was called to help replace a sign.
An official declaration to our entire community and beyond.
The first motel in the nation to offer overnight accommodations
grounded.
On the other side of the continent,
Dr. Laura Koniver also had studies underway.
Her interviews with the Apollo astronauts
gave her inspiration.
They too are running trials with plants.
Y'all come on back now.
While simultaneously conducting earthing trials with patients.
Tell me how this study went for you?
The main reason I wanted to do this was because any time you
say, oh walk outside in your bare feet
in this way, that would be awesome.
I have loved the study.
I noticed that I was sleeping better.
I had a deeper sleep.
And now long term I don't have pain at all anymore.
I can't say enough how much of a difference
this has made in my life.
Laura's children took these patient results
in like they were multiple miracles.
And the lab results stunned everyone.
Then renowned cardiologist Dr. Stephen Sinatra
heard in the study.
But never before in the history of humankind,
we have the ground.
Laura Koniver continued to email all of us,
particularly my son Garrett and his girlfriend Esther.
It caused these kids to question everything.
Everything from the food we eat, to the drugs people
take, to what they were taught in science
class in high school.
And above all, why we all wear rubber soled shoes.
Grounding soon caught the attention of outsiders,
like a film crew that were working
on an episode for National Geographic.
The show's host took a particular interest
in what happens to plants.
I pointed out clinical case studies
online with the geographic team of the seemingly miraculous
disappearance of chronic inflammation in patients.
Verified by thermography, which distinctly
depicts reduction and inflammation through color
temperatures.
As for Garrett and Esther, it was
time to wet their appetites.
This phenomena is bigger than all of us.
Beyond the greatest health discovery ever,
it may encompass much, much more.
The curiosity of these two kids now led them on a quest,
just like me.
I agreed to support their research,
wherever that might take them.
Garrett and Esther learned that the ancients
had a clear comprehension of the earth's
subtle electrical fields and the planet's negative charge.
Gothic cathedrals were oftentimes built exactly
upon energy hot spots.
All of these sites, whether conical mounds or stone
circles, were built with impressive precision,
rivaling any technology we possess today.
The architectural design that was implemented
in building Gothic cathedrals was carefully planned out
with the purpose behind it all.
It was to harness and channel subtle earth energy directly
down corridors and spaces.
In 2008, when NASA announced that the earth is linked
to the sun by a network of magnetic portals,
they essentially validated the ancient temple builders
who sourced these very flux events
on the land and their connection beyond our terrestrial sphere.
Then I was determined to meet someone who could infuse
insight, answers, and hope.
John Stuart Reid brought me to an ancient stone circle
site called Long Meg and Her Daughters,
which is considered one of the largest stone circles in the UK
next to Stonehenge.
It is in this cow pasture where John and I
began some analysis of the breadth
and width of these individual stones
and their formational link to the earth's energy.
These stones, put here thousands of years ago along
with their inscriptions, have weathered the test of time.
What were these ancient secrets?
I was about to find out.
Experiments are conducted inside a special room
called the Faraday cage.
It is in this environment where studies take place
with instruments such as the Cymascope, which
uses a few drops of water to manifest frequencies.
It's an audio oscillator, and we're
going to set it to the Schumann cavity resonance of 7.83 Hertz.
The frequency of the earth, it has never
been seen before like this.
This heartbeat occurs in the spherical cavity
between the surface of the earth and the ionosphere.
It's almost as if the universe is trying to tell us something,
perhaps synchronicity.
The brains of all creatures, including humans,
are tuned to this frequency and this pattern,
simply with water and light.
The frequency of the earth made visible for the first time
ever, yet the same design carved on rocks thousands of years
earlier.
The world's top mathematicians are now
extrapolating mathematical equations
from this sacred geometry.
Then I heard about a teenage girl
named Rae Heim who was running barefoot coast to coast.
I wanted to cheer her on.
If successful, she would become the youngest and only female
who ever ran across America, not to mention doing it barefoot.
The odds were against her.
She was running to raise awareness of children
who live in poverty.
Because of the oppressive heat and drought conditions
Rae was running through, I thought the best place to meet
would be where there was both shade and free energy.
Rae had no idea why I chose the sunflower field to meet in.
She was running on asphalt most of the time,
which is nonconductive.
And since the soil was so parched,
it was also non conductive.
However, ray could receive earth energy if all she did
was touch one thing.
The roots of the sunflower went deep into the earth,
and so the moist stem was essentially a grounding rod,
giving Rae earth's power.
Now aware of the secret, Rae was gifted with an inch.
Back home in Alaska, earthing was now the talk of the town.
And for many who didn't want to go barefoot
for various reasons, there was a solution.
By drilling holes in shoes and sandals
and inserting a conductive plug, the earth's energy
could go back up into the foot.
Next best thing to barefoot.
And then a lady from New York heard about what
was happening in our town.
She knew that not everyone would want to wear grounded sandals,
she had options, grounded shoes.
They're wonderful.
Well I'm kind of the kind that thinks
that it's not going to work.
I think the science is really indisputable about benefits.
So these are a seven.
There are very good reasons to think
that this may very well be the most important health
discovery ever.
And it's something you all need to know about.
Electric statics is a branch of physics,
and it teaches us that when two conductive objects make
contact, if they have different electrical potential,
they equalize virtually instantaneously.
You may know that Penicillin was a revolution in medicine.
This is a revolution in health care
that I think transcends Penicillin.
Dr. James Oschman studied at the Marine Biological Laboratory
under Nobel Prize winner Albert Szent-Gyorgyi,
the biochemist who did research of electronic biology
in the 80s.
Dr. James Oshman responded to all the questions
that Esther and Garrett sent him.
He e-mailed information and illustrations,
which quantified and verified the scientific research,
including the double blind placebo
studies and the clinical trials that were conducted
over a period of 15 years.
How beautiful to know, and yet how tragic
to realize that much of humanity has never heard of grounding?
Because of profound effects that earthing
has on women of all ages, Dr. Laura Koniver
would email Esther and Garrett pictures
she painted that spoke in subtle detail of this fact.
Children who practice earthing that have been studied
have been shown to have profound reductions
in physical and emotional issues.
One study of 28 parents of autistic children
found a dramatic change in behavior and communication
skills after grounding the children only two months.
And then I had an opportunity to visit my parents in Minnesota.
And both of my parents had health issues
that recently were miraculously wiped away by earthing.
If earthing worked for them, it was a strategy
that would know no boundaries of age, race, color,
or creed or circumstance.
At the urging of my parents, I flew to nearby Chicago
where there was another advocate of earthing
who is known to millions of people around the world.
This is a doctor who does not accept conventional medicine
at face value, and who successfully
shines a light on true healing and
environmental sustainability.
Not surprisingly, living grounded
is something this man had been doing for the past eight years.
It's hard to believe, isn't it?
It is.
His name is Dr. Joseph Mercola, the physician
that we had seen in February on a show discussing
grounding with Dr. Oz.
Do you go barefoot a lot?
Most of the time, except when I'm
driving or have to do a professional video shoot.
My cab driver looked like he already
knew about this ancient wisdom.
I'm going to listen to some of Mercola's comments
here again, OK.
You want to hear him too?
OK.
There's a famous German philosopher,
his name is Arthur Schopenhauer.
And he had a comment about truth which is really quite amazing.
I think most appropriate to when we're considering
a topic like grounding.
And his statement was, it is ridiculed,
then it becomes violently opposed,
and then finally it becomes widely accepted
as self-evident.
What do you think about Dr. Mercola's viewpoints
on walking barefoot?
My grandparents say almost the same thing, walking
on the grass is very healthy, it's basically you're heart.
In this journey, if that's what you could call it,
I know noticed within myself a renewed sensitivity
about the subtle details of nature,
the flow of the seasons, the dance of life.
And when it came to personal emotions
about the affairs of the heart, a stronger belief
in the ultimate power of love and the value of patience
and understanding, and the ability to operate on faith
emerged.
Everyone around me seemed happier.
Now I could see patterns never noticed
before from the basic designs of a beehive,
to the arrangement of leaves and seeds of a sunflower,
to the mathematical consistencies
of the design of everything.
Nothing was random.
It's more about our connection with nature, with the planet,
with the universe.
Cultures are rooted in this type of unity experience.
It says everything, all interconnected.
It's not an accident.
It's not a chance.
It's just an orderly universe.
An orderly universe all right, even within our bodies.
To many people, earth energy remains abstract,
but what if I could document the rate at which red blood
cells travel after a subject is grounded for a mere two hours?
It's a scientific visual.
It's a fact that blood thins significantly
when one is grounded, thus earthing becomes a major factor
in battling heart disease.
As I flip the switch for the blood
to be influenced by a controlled DC electric field,
we could now see the difference of blood velocity
before and after two hours of earthing.
As you can see, under controlled conditions of the DC current,
the blood cell velocity is unequivocal
before and after earthing for two hours.
But for many other women of Haines
that gathered in our workshop, the future is indeed bright.
I grew up in Angoon, Alaska.
And in Angoon we as a village, as a culture,
believe that we have to be good to the earth
and respect the earth most importantly,
so that the earth will be good to us.
The first five months of my pregnancy with Mia I
was extremely sick.
And then I was introduced to this grounding.
As for the people in the town of Haines--
I was born with spina bifida, and Rocky came up here
and was telling me about this grounding thing.
And he went ahead and gave me a couple of the patches,
and I put them on my feet.
And I tell you what, I started sleeping better at night.
I hurt my shoulders probably seven years ago,
I tore both my rotator cuffs.
And now it's different?
And now it's different.
I used to not be able to just reach up,
I used to have to go like this and just kind of gingerly
put my arm up.
And I can.
And so you've gotten lots of comments
about this earthing room here at your motel, right?
Yes, indeed.
And some people, what happens to them?
Do they call you again, want to come here?
Sure.
Yeah, they'll call us back.
And if they're traveling through the community again,
they come back and will stay at our motel
so that they can access this room again.
What are they feeling when they stay here?
Relief from back pain, relief from arthritis type pain, just
a good, comfortable sleep, those kinds of things here.
Here, I'm going to give you this journal.
We have to start keeping records of this.
You remember the skeptical doctor in Haines
who thought that earthing was anecdotal?
12 months later, he's more perplexed than ever about
what's happening in town.
And now an official dinner was being planned
for some very special guests.
I met up with these guests at the Seattle Tacoma
International Airport.
It was Dr. Christy, and astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell.
But by the time we landed in Juneau, Alaska,
a storm was brewing, and all flights to our hometown
were canceled.
The only other alternative to get home
was a sketchy ferry ride.
No amount of cold, and snow, or storms could cancel this event.
There was one slight last-minute problem however.
Remember the Eagle's Nest Motel?
First in the nation to offer an earthing room?
Well, they were sold out, no vacancy, no room for Edgar,
and Dr. Christy, and Jason her assistant to stay.
Too many people had come to town to meet Edgar and Christy.
The only other option was my place.
I was not prepared for that.
When Dr. Mitchell asked, is there plumbing in there?
As a joke, well no.
There really wasn't.
All the pipes were frozen.
Ironically, it all started to feel familiar.
I really was home again.
We have seen facilities now being
created for the greatest and most complex
exploration in man's history.
We have felt the ground shake and the air
shattered by the testing of a Saturn C1 booster rocket.
Many times as powerful as the Atlas
which launched John Glenn.
Generating power equivalent to 10,000 automobiles
with their accelerator on the floor.
It wasn't long before everyone discovered
that we had more in common than we could have realized.
So I'll show you, this is the sunflower experiment
that we're doing with Gary Schwartz.
Is this a wire that's connecting it?
Yeah, it's a wire and then there's a mesh.
And it becomes really distinct over time.
This poor little sunflower that's not connected
starts to wither and wilt, and the one
that's connected to the earth is still vibrant and strong.
It seems to me when I look at this that the earth itself
has this energy to give every living creature.
Well it certainly would suggest that,
certain it would suggest that.
Yeah.
As the Atlas which launched John Glenn.
And so now are at the moment of the hour,
it's such a privilege to be able to introduce to you Apollo 14
astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell.
There is a saying in one of the traditions of [INAUDIBLE]
they said let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.
It has been what I had worked for since I came back
from the moon, to help we as humans learn
to live with each other and for each other,
and to create for ourselves and our planet,
and our progeny, a sustainable civilization.
And we are not there yet.
We've got a lot of work to do, but we can do it.
And I've devoted my life to it, because the experience that I
had coming back from the moon had
been shared by most astronauts.
Not it may not be exactly described
in the way I describe it.
But nevertheless, it's what's called the overview
effect of seeing this magnificent little planet
that we have in the backdrop of the universe of stars,
and galaxies, and galactic clusters.
And recognizing how immense this universe is,
and we're just a small part of it.
And we have an important part to play in our civilization
and in our future, because either we're
going to make it together or we're not
going to make it at all.
As heartwarming as Edgar's visit was to this community,
I had to force myself to turn the page
and approach my son Garrett and his girlfriend Esther
with a different perspective, which
would challenge and ridicule everything
they were experiencing.
I found and invited a person who had something to say,
and would do so in a public venue.
He was no friend of what all the healed people of this town
embraced as truth.
He didn't care how many would be listening.
Absolutely, the more the merrier.
Welcome to all.
We understand that you've created
a website called Skeptoid.com.
And you've written an article about earthing, citing
Dr. Mercola's opinions about earthing and your own.
Mostly correct, yes.
That blog was written by one of my blog authors, not by me.
OK.
And do you feel that earthing can
be beneficial to healing and reducing inflammation?
The short answer is no, I'm not aware of any reason why
there might be anything beneficial connected with this.
Basically as far as I can tell you,
what I know earthing is that it's
one of a huge number of made up, new age claims.
I can't say I've heard anyone say about the health benefits.
I walked 30 feet today.
What are the implications of all of this?
Will it become an unstoppable force
for the benefit of everyone?
If it can happen here, it can happen anywhere.
So in the end, I remembered the others over this past 11 months
that helped with this film and how they were affected.
The earth knew what the patients needed.
So y'all in town visiting?
Yeah, we're here to shoot this movie
and basically tell the world about the medicinal benefits,
which are absolutely huge.
As for me, I don't know what the future holds.
But whatever happens, I'll certainly have memories.
For each of us eventually, whether we're ready or not,
someday it will come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises, no more minutes, hours,
or days.
All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten,
will pass to someone else.
Your wealth, fame and [? temporal ?] power,
will shrivel to irrelevance.
It won't matter whether you are beautiful or brilliant,
rich or poor, famous or anonymous,
or thought to be those things.
What will matter is not what we got, but what we gave.
Not what we bought, but what we built for those you loved.
And if there is love, there is a reason to hope.
I think now I'm ready for winter.
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