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From Tom Jacobs, for About.com

The Tibetan hand prayer wheel, which is a profound spiritual tool and sacred to the Tibetans, offers another example of this energy dynamic in operation. The hand prayer wheel usually has a pendulum attached to a rotating cylinder that is spun at right angles to it. On a physical level, spinning the prayer wheel creates a subtle magnetic field as the pendulum and cylinder cut through the gravitational pull of the Earth at right angles. In all of these examples, the magnetic field created is relative to the movement of the object/person through the force of gravity. Of course, this does not explain all aspects of the energy healing Arts but it may prove that gravity has a direct relationship in the formation of Chi energy.

Normally, the relationship between gravity and magnetic fields would not be readily observable on Earth because the relative magnetic field is weak for small objects (mass). Also, current thinking links magnetism to ferrous metals. My premise is that the mass does not have to be ferrous or metallic and that the field created would normally be too low for our current sensors to detect in most circumstances. However, for large objects and celestial bodies the data may be there if one looks for it. There is also a possibility that even though the current detectable magnetic property of a material seems to disappear when heated, the inherent subtle magnetic field may still remain intact. This could point to the possibility that these materials take on a stronger magnetic signature over time due additional forces in the Earth's core but owe their inherent magnetism to the force of gravity.

Along this same line of reasoning, assuming that the original premise that a mass moving at right angles to the pull of gravity creates a field of magnetic force is correct, the Earth's magnetic field may be more of a product of its orbit around the Sun as it cuts through the Sun's gravitational pull than from interior flows of molten material. In fact, this material may actually take on a magnetic signature due to this phenomenon. Pole shifts in the Earth's magnetic field could be actually caused by a large celestial body that passes close enough to Earth thus creating a temporary offsetting gravitational pull to that of the Sun.

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