Moon | Man | Madness - The Lunatic effects! - Part 2

If you have not read the part 1 of this article, I strongly recommend you to read that one first to understand the context. Earlier, you have read about the madness, moon can cause. In this part 2, we will talk about “if it really works?”

Does it really work?

Following Pliny the Elder & Aristotle, some present-day authors, such as Miami psychiatrist Arnold Lieber, have conjectured that the full moon’s thought effects on behavior arise from its pull on the water. The human body, after all, is about 60-65% percent water & brain is 73% water. So perhaps the moon works its wicked enchanting by somehow disrupting the orientation of water molecules in the nervous system. Very likely, isn’t it! However, there are at least three reasons why this clarification does not hold true.

First, the gravitational effects of the moon are far too microscopic to produce any expressive effects on brain activity, let alone behavior. As the late astronomer George Abell of the University of California, Los Angeles, noted, a mosquito sitting on our arm exerts a more powerful gravitational pull on us than the moon does. Yet to the best of our knowledge, there have been no reports of a “mosquito lunacy effect.”

Second, the moon’s gravitational force affects only open bodies of water, such as oceans and lakes, but not contain sources of water, such as the human brain.

Third, the gravitational effect of the moon is just as potent during new moons—when the moon is invisible to us—as it is during full moons.There is a more serious problem for passionate advocates in the lunar lunacy effect: no evidence that it exists. Florida International University psychologist James Rotton, Colorado State University astronomer Roger Culver, and University of Saskatchewan psychologist Ivan W. Kelly have searched far and wide for any consistent behavioral effects of the full moon.

In all cases, they have come up empty-handed. By combining the results of multiple studies and treating them as though they were one huge study—a statistical procedure called meta-analysis—they have found that full moons are entirely unrelated to a host of events, including crimes, suicides, psychiatric problems and crisis center calls. In their 1985 review of 37 studies entitled “Much Ado about the Full Moon,” which appeared in one of the psychology’s premier journals, Psychological Bulletin, Rotton and Kelly humorously bid adieu to the full-moon effect and concluded that further research on it was unnecessary.

Persistent critics have disagreed with this conclusion, pointing to a few positive findings that emerge in scattered studies. Still, even the handful of research claims that seem to support full moon effects has collapsed on closer investigation. In one study published in 1982, an author team reported that traffic accidents were more frequent on full-moon nights than on other nights. Yet a fatal flaw marred these findings: in the period under consideration, full moons were more common on weekends, when more people drive. When the authors reanalysed their data to eliminate this confounding factor, the lunar effect vanished.

Nevertheless, there are two strong theories & both are persuasive. My research on this subject is in reference with my actual findings of the condition of moon planet in a typical natal or birth chart its influence on the human mind.

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Credits 1. My Grandfather Late Pt. Shri Kedarnath Ji Misra 2. Psychology Professors Lilienfeld and Arkowitz 3. Photo Courtesy: http://6abc.com/weather/tips-for-photographing-the-supermoon-eclipse/1002061/