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>> 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, an 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.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

>> Welcome to "The Power
of Natural Healing"

with Howard Straus.

>> We have Clint Ober.

Now, Clint Ober started
out his career writing

on the rising 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 his--

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 wind chill.

Does the sink work?

20-below zero sitting
overnight, couldn't use this.

Oh, dear.

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, yeah?

>> Oh, 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.

It's an 8-foot high fence,
but as you can see--

I take care of
orphaned wildlife.

Their lives fare 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 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 or grounding
is all about soaking up

the earth's free electrons.

All I needed to do was stick
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
of a cottonwood sapling,

grounding 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 trees.

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

edition, 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 grounded vase

sprouted before the other one.

And then the verdict was
in between the grounded

and ungrounded lilies.

Guess which lily kept
its pedals 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 gotta say--

I think a lotta folks will
say this is where Dr. Mercola,

he fell off the
wagon on this one.

What?

Who's doing this?

And who gave you this idea?

>> Well, it's because-- it's
not simply walking barefoot.

It's walking-- the
devil's in 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's 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.

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 he had to
do was disseminate information

and put together
resources to anyone

I knew that would benefit.

Word's getting out.

Tim, are you there?

Now, you're in pain, ay?

>> I am, always.

>> What's the matter?

>> Ruptured disc.

>> So you're in always pain.

>> Always.

>> Take this.

Hi, 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 be the
laughingstock of the town.

Alaskans, it seems,
are skeptical by nature

and quite opinionated to boot.

>> Show me a better
way; I'll do better.

>> I'm 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.

>> So 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.

>> [INAUDIBLE] 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.

>> And how long have you had
this back pain prior to meeting

on this earthing thing?

>> 20 years.

Day to day was a struggle.

>> Oh, my goodness.

>> Every day was a
struggle to get through.

Oh, we got in the truck.

Well, the wolf will like that.

>> Almost everyone was
being transformed, some,

literally overnight.

So I placed calls
with people at NASA

for support in making this film.

>> Hey, Steve [INAUDIBLE] I try
to not get involved in any way

with things that I
don't understand,

I 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.

>> Stop.

I got a message
from an 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 are

people won't believe in it.

>> Nobody believes in this stuff
much you get a famous person

to talk to and at least give
their opinion, don't you think?

>> No.

It's the everyday
Joe that's going

to need this more than you guy
that's got millions of dollars.

>> I've 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.

>> [INAUDIBLE] 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, is my
coat sliding down on--

>> It's just the connection's
just barely there.

>> OK, barely there.

All right, if a raven
flies by and sits

on a branch in the hemlock
right here it's going to--

I'm going to lose you.

Our first Skype 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
bed pads and wires

and all that kind of stuff.

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 wold 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 have 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 stress 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 is Kitty, a
five-year-old grizzly bear,

orphaned as a cub and given
to me by the state of Alaska

to take care of for
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 weakening 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.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

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?

>> Oh, 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.

So I went out--

But who do I have to thank
for this chance introduction?

None other than our beloved
rooster Squawkee Laura

was about to help
me meet two people

with a unique perspective
about the Earth.

>> [INAUDIBLE] Dr, Mitchell,
I know that you experienced

a really intimate moment where
you felt interconnected with

everything, even in space.

>> OK.

There was no script
for this 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, 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 phenomena.

I didn't know what to
call it at that point.

Cultures are rooted in this
type of a unity experience.

It says everything is
all interconnected.

>> Here's a gift for you.

>> And 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.

>> 1130--

>> 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.

>> Mode control both auto --

Descent override command
- Tranquility Base here.

The Eagle has landed.

>> OK, they want to know, how
excited were you when you met

your first footstep 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 there's a psalm that says
the heavens declared the glory

of god and the skies proclaim
the works of his hand.

And it is not an accident.

It is not a chance.

It's just an orderly
universe that we see.

And the planets and their
forces and the stars

and all of the
physical laws that

are so repeatable over
and over and over,

and I see god's hand in that.

>> Laura had a deep knowledge
of how grounding works.

She had no reservations
in inviting you

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 her many
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.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

>> Thanks for the
moose branches.

>> You're welcome.

>> You're going to help me--

what's that?

>> That's grounding
things from a lady,

she feels bad because she--

too well, or she'll
loose her disability.

It's OK?

>> But then there
was Rocky himself,

a man who lives a hard life
and sort of is homeless,

who sleeps in his truck each
night until I invited him

to stay with me in the cabin.

[SNORING]

There was no way I would
ever get a good night's sleep

with that type of situation
happening on the couch

4 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.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

>> My associate Mario
rendezvoused 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.

>> Do you think I
should tuck my shirt in?

>> Yeah, maybe.

>> [INAUDIBLE]

>> Hi.

Glad to meet you.

>> I've been following you
since I was a little kid.

>> Where are you now?

>> Well, I live in Alaska.

>> In Alaska.

>> Outside of Haines, Alaska.

And this is Mario Benassi.

>> Hi.

>> --an associate of mine.

>> Nice to meet you.

>> We used to shoot for PBS
and all these different things,

nature shows.

Between the two of
us, I don't think

we've ever been so
tongue-tied to meet you.

>> Come on.

>> [INAUDIBLE]

>> Come on.

Let's go out there.

>> OK, you lead the way.

>> So you haven't
visited this place?

>> I have never been here--

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 system.

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 up and get

it to yield even more.

Cut the trees down.

We'll genetically modify
and genetically alter

trees so they grow faster.

Of course, 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 wildebeest
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 work with ancient
systems of knowledge.

I'd look at and research
how the ancestors worked

and build 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's 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 Carrol Alt
who spoke about body care.

And with that comes the
realization for millions

of women that earthling 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.

>> And so we're
going to get started.

Are we hooked up to
the earth up here?

>> Yes.

>> We've got Earth.

OK, so it's time to
take off our shoes.

[INAUDIBLE] 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.

>> [INAUDIBLE]

>> 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 trailer
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 is no difference
at the grocery store.

The flow of people to my porch
wanting to be grounded never

let up, and word
continue to spread.

By the time the
daisies 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 collect as many plants as
I had room for the 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.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

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.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

As time passed, my
veterinarian, Dr. Walker,

returned with his family.

By now, even he had experienced
what earthling 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 were running
trials with plants--

>> Y'all come on back now.

>> --while simultaneously
conducting earthling trials

with patients.

>> Tell me how the
study went for you?

>> The main reason I wanted to
do this was because anytime 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 of the study.

>> Well, never before, in
the history of humankind,

we have to 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 we're

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 chronically
inflammation in patients

verified by thermography, which
distinctly depicts reduction

in inflammation through
color temperatures.

As for Garrett
and Esther, it was

time to whet their appetites.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

This phenomena is
bigger than all of us.

Beyond the greatest
health discovery ever,

it may encompass
much, much more.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

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 planets negative charge.

Gothic cathedrals were
oftentimes built exactly

upon energy hotspots.

All of these sites whether
conical mounds or stone

circles were built with
impressive precision

rivaling any technology
we possess today.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

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 sort of 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.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Then I was determined to
meet someone who could infuse

insight, answers, and hope.

Jon 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 in rocks thousands

of years earlier.

The world's top
mathematicians are now

extrapolating
mathematical equations

from this sacred geometry.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

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 ray

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
a sunflower field to meet in.

She was running on
asphalt most the time,

which is nonconductive.

And since the soil
was so parched,

it was also nonconductive.

However, Rae 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 itch.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

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 above 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 think that it's not going

to work.

>> No, I think the science
is really indisputable about

the benefits.

So these are a 7.

>> 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.

Electrostatics 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 Oschman responded
to all the questions

that Esther and
Garrett sent him.

He emailed 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.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Because of profound
effects that earthling

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 earthling
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.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

At the urging of my parents,
I flew to nearby Chicago

where there was another
advocate of earth thing

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 groaning with Dr. Oz.

>> Do you go barefoot a lot?

>> Most of the time, except for
when I'm driving or have to do

a professional video shoot.

>> My cab driver looked like he
already knew that this ancient

wisdom.

I'm going to listen to some
of our callers comments here,

again, OK?

You want to hear them too?

>> OK.

>> There's a famous
German philosopher.

His name is Arthur
Schopenhauer, and he already

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 becomes widely
accepted as self-evident."

What do you think about
Dr. Mercola's viewpoints

on walking barefoot.

>> My grandparents say
all the same things.

Walking on the grass is very
healthy, especially your 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 their
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 a unity experience.

It says everything's
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.

Dr. Gary Schwartz,
along with Dr. Christy

oversee these studies at
the University of Arizona.

I followed Dr. Christy to
another research facility

in Southern California
to meet Dr. Gaetan

Chevalier, a biophysicist
and electrophysiologist.

Dr. Chevalier, along
with his colleagues,

have spent almost 15 years
in trials and studies

of everything, ranging
from sleep studies, skin

conductivity, cortisol
levels, stress and tension

studies, heart rate
variability studies,

and many other published
physiological parameters

that are relevant to everything.

On Skype, Garrett
and Esther we're

looking for international
opinions and comments

on the subject of earthing.

>> I'm Pawel Sokal.

I am a physician.

I'm a neurosurgeon.

>> All of us were processing
this information together

and thinking about so many
we love that are suffering

because they don't
know about this.

In Seattle, Washington, where
Esther and Garrett were now

attending college nearby,
they took part in a race

where shoes were shunned
called the naked 5K.

I found it rather odd
though that, although it

was a barefoot race, it seemed
like the barefoot runners were

still in the minority.

The footwear industry is a
$55 billion a year force.

And the idea that
running barefoot

is far superior to
high-tech foot gear

is not something industry
will espouse publicly.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

There was a biker cameraman
at this event, however,

that told us of a race
done in central Mexico

that makes any other
marathon pale in comparison.

He invited us to his home
to see what he documented.

This filmmaker's name
is Sterling Noren.

And Sterling wanted to
show us story and proof

of the Tarahumara
Indians he follows.

They live in a remote
canyon in central Mexico.

And they're able to
run superhuman marathon

distances of up to 250 miles.

No one on earth can
match their endurance.

And many observers
attribute their capability

to the simple fact
of living barefoot.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Garrett and Esther
gave me clarity

of what earthing really is.

Earthing or grounding
is foundational physics.

Its power for eliminating
inflammation and helping

to defeat everything
from heart disease

to carpal tunnel syndrome to
sleep apnea is mind blowing.

But this energy medicine
suggests something universal.

I followed the intuitions
of these two kids

to Maui, to the University
of Hawaii's Institute

for Astronomy.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Curiously, after a 20-minute cab
ride listening to these kids,

our driver was in no rush to
put his shoes back on either.

Dr. JD Armstrong
took it from there,

bringing us higher and
higher above the clouds

and away from the
light pollution

of the city of Kahului
down below to the Haleakala

Observatory where some
of the world's most

powerful telescopes peer through
the portals of the universe

and reap data that
is transmitted

to NASA, to governments,
to institutions worldwide.

To understand why or how
grounding works at all,

we have to comprehend why or how
the earth has a negative charge

to start with.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

It all has other-worldly
explanations.

It involves space
itself and the sun

and the moon and the weather and
lightning and the Earth's core

and how it's all interconnected.

And to look into this deeper,
one has to wait a while.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

What this 30-ton
telescope sees out there

and what is millions
of light years

away are images that show
up on banks of computers.

What this information conveys
depends upon who you are.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

For Esther, what she saw
incomprehensibly infinite space

was the same thing in the design
of Garret's ear, a fractal,

a spiral, a sequence.

In fact, the spirals in
space and the spirals

found in the outer and inner ear
and elsewhere are all the same.

They are an exact
mathematical equation.

It is called the golden ratio
and the Fibonacci sequence.

In other words,
sacred geometry--

it's on your face, your
hands, and everywhere.

But not everyone agrees.

>> Intelligent
design is horseshit.

First, let me ask
you, what's your view

on intelligent design,
then I'll tell you mine.

>> When the Institute's Dr.
Ritter learned we were making

a film about earthling, he
called us in for a talk.

Dr. Ritter had never heard
about earthing before.

The fact that these two kids
were poking around and speaking

with the staff about the merits
of connecting to the earth

bothered him.

After all, Garrett and
Esther were not scientists.

What do they know?

>> Do you think connecting
to the earth with our skin is

important or can help your body?

>> I don't really
understand the question.

>> No shoes or socks on,
bare skin against the earth--

do you think that's beneficial?

>> I haven't read these studies
that you're asking about,

so I'm not going to answer that.

>> Should I explain
a little bit first?

>> You took the questions
out of sequence.

>> Oh, well, I said it
goes from the bottom up.

I can read the top one first.

>> I'm a physicist.

We study the nature of matter,
the interaction of matter,

and what the rules are
of the govern that.

We see four forces in nature,
gravity, strong force,

weak force, and
electromagnetism.

Is the earth connected
to other things?

Sure, we feel the
gravity of the moon

that fills the gravity
of my telephone

right here and vice versa.

Is the earth connected
because of these things?

Yes, we understand
that in physics.

Are you talking
about something else?

>> When you do connect
your body with the earth,

there is scientific evidence
that shows the inflammation

in the body is decreased
because, basically,

the electrons from the earth
go into your body and decreases

the inflammation.

>> What is the result of
these "scientific" studies?

>> To welcome scientific debate
of this undeniable phenomenon

will only ultimately
give earthing more power.

It is a threat to
the status quo,

but are we able to assure
our children of a future

if change does not occur?

We are immersed in
an environment that

is not conducive to health
or even a society that

is sustainable.

Are we leaving our children
with an irreparable legacy?

>> Since I was born in 1961,
the use of toxic plastics has

skyrocketed and so have
an epidemic of ills.

Surely, we will
turn this around.

And when Garrett is
my age, the planet

will be a much cleaner place.

But is this just a dream?

These kids needed some hope.

I knew just who to see.

But before our guest arrived,
I had a time of reflection.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

It was at this moment
that I realized

that if I had known
about birthing years ago,

the mother of my son would
still be in this world.

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 Maya,

I was extremely sick.

And 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.

I tell you what, I sure started
sleeping better at night.

I hurt my shoulders
probably seven years ago.

I pulled both of
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 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 in 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, 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.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

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 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.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

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 C-1 booster rocket,

many times as long
as the Atlas, which

launched John Glenn,
generating power

equivalence to
10,000 automobiles

with their accelerator
on the floor.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

>> 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
that the sunflower experiment

that we're doing
with Gary Schwartz.

>> Is this a wire
that's connecting them?

>> Yeah, it's a wire,
and 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,

certainly would suggest that.

>> Yeah.

>> As the Atlas, which
launched John Glenn.

>> And so now we 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.

[APPLAUSE]

>> There is a saying in one of
the traditions [INAUDIBLE] they

said, let there
be peace on earth,

and let it begin with me.

It has been what I have
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 create
for ourselves and our planet

and our progeny, a
sustainable civilization.

And we aren't there yet.

We've got a log of work to
do, but what we can do it.

And I have devoted
my life to it.

Because the experience that I
had coming back from the moon

has been shared by
most astronauts that

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, galactic clusters,
and recognizing how immense,

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,

we're not going to make it 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 when 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 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 of earthing,

is that it [INAUDIBLE]
huge number

of made-up, new-age claims.

And I can't say
I've heard anyone

say they have a health benefit.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

>> 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.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

>> 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.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

>> As for me, I don't know
what the future holds,

but whatever happens, I'll
certainly have memories.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

For each of us, eventually,
whether we're ready or not,

some day 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
were beautiful or brilliant,

rich or poor,
famous or anonymous,

or thought to be those things.

What will matter
is not only 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.

[MUSIC PLAYING]