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The Heart’s Hidden Intelligence: Solar Storms, Coherence and Consciousness

Can your heart sense what the brain cannot? Cardiologist Prof. Abdullah Alabdulgader reveals how the human heart is more than a pump—acting as a sensor and resonator that synchronizes with Earth’s magnetic field and our environment. He shows how to use Heart rate variability – a key biomarker of resilience and connection – to bring your life on a new level.

About the Guest

Prof. Abdullah Alabdulgader is an interventional cardiologist, founder & CEO of the Prince Sultan Cardiac Center in Saudi Arabia, and creator of the King of Organs conference. His long-term studies on heart rate variability (HRV), coherence, and geomagnetic fields place him at the forefront of a growing field: heliobiology.

📚 Selected Publications & Collaborations

Prof. Alabdulgader’s work bridges cardiology, space physics, and consciousness studies. His most recognized contributions include:

  • Long‑Term Study of Heart Rate Variability Responses to Changes in the Solar and Geomagnetic Environment Scientific Reports (Nature), 2018 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-20932-x
  • Space and Human Consciousness: The Great Whisper Natural Science, 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4236/ns.2021.137020
  • Human Heart Rhythm Sensitivity to Earth Local Magnetic Field Fluctuations Journal of Vibroengineering, 2015 Read full text (PDF)
  • Higher Incidence of Congenital Aortic Valve Stenosis in Higher Magnetic Latitude Countries: New Insights and Potential Therapies Archives of Clinical and Biomedical Research, 2025 DOI: 10.26502/acbr.50170447
  • Heart-Based Resonant Field Theory of Consciousness European Journal of Applied Sciences, 2025
  • Planetary Fields and the Human Heart: A GIMCI Editorial GIMCI, 2017
  • Prof. Alabdulgader has collaborated closely with the HeartMath Institute, a pioneering research organization exploring the connection between heart rhythms, emotional regulation, and human consciousness.

What You’ll Learn

• Why heart rate variability (HRV) may reflect your ability to adapt, focus, and connect

• How solar storms and geomagnetic fluctuations influence heart rhythms

• What “heart coherence” means—and how to enter it

• How the heart may act as an information processor—5000× stronger electromagnetically than the brain

• Why planetary magnetic fields might influence congenital heart defects

• The link between cardiology, space physics, and human consciousness

📄 Summarized Transcript

Opening

ABDULLAH: A heart which is beating like a Rolex — very regular — is very sick. And what is the indicator of good health? Like a good account in the bank — the variation. So when you have much variation, you have excellent health.

TOBIAS: The only indicator which reflects the psychophysiological wellbeing — and our ability to orchestrate with the higher powers and the outside space — is heart rate variability. If you improve your heart rate variability, everything will be corrected.

This is Solar Health. I’m Tobias Pahlen, and this week I’m talking with Professor Abdullah Alabdulgader. He’s a cardiologist and the founder and CEO of the Prince Sultan Cardiac Center in Saudi Arabia, one of the leading heart centers in the Middle East. Every year they treat more than 70,000 patients and they have a track record which put them at the first place of the Ministry of Health’s rankings, and he was also the first in the country to perform robotic heart surgery.

Now to tackle the question of why children are born with heart defects, he also established Saudi Arabia’s National Registry for congenital heart diseases. This work is aimed at uncovering the real causes behind these conditions and finding ways to prevent them, so fewer children will have to face these difficulties in the future. This research showed that factors like solar storms and shifts in Earth’s magnetic field might play a bigger role than we imagine in how the heart develops in the early embryo.

Since 2006, he’s been leading the yearly King of Organs conferences, bringing together cardiologists and scientists from different fields to look at how the heart connects to human consciousness, intuition, and the electromagnetic environment around us. His contributions to heliobiology also earned him the Gold Medal of the World Organization for Scientific Cooperation. He has carried out some of the longest studies on heart rate variability and how it connects to solar factors. He installed special magnetometers in Saudi Arabia as part of the HeartMath Global Research Network. And beyond the science, he is also an ambassador for heliobiology, bringing these ideas into media and public talks. He really connects the dots between medicine, space physics, and even spirituality. In our conversation, he shares why heart rate variability might be one of the most important, yet overlooked health signals and how tuning into your heart rhythm can change the way you feel and think, and how something he calls “heart language” can help us connect across time and space. This is my conversation with Professor Alabdulgader.

Why the Heart? Early Influences

TOBIAS: What brought you to this very interesting topic of heliobiology as a clinical cardiologist?

ABDULLAH: When I was a child, I was brought up in a conservative and religious community, and I was reading about the human heart in the Holy Qur’an and the Sunnah, and also about other holy books. What is the meaning of the heart in the holy books? All the time, it equals the mind, the human consciousness — being believer or not believer. One of the amazing points is that the mention of the heart in the holy books is zero times as a pump. And, you know, the heart was my gate to heliobiology. I described a congenital anomaly of the human heart in Canada, and it was the first description in human history, as it was published in the Annals of Diagnostic Pathology. When the news came to the whole world that a Saudi doctor is describing a new congenital anomaly, it was like a stimulus to open the door to the ancient question: what is the heart, and how to combine the holy books and the scientific meaning? Actually, there was a big gap. And I think for this reason, I entered heliobiology to connect the heart to space and astrophysics. And I came to know my friends Rollin McCraty, Franz Halberg, and all the colleagues forming our international team nowadays.

Calgary: Long Hours and a Key Finding

TOBIAS: You mentioned experiences in Canada where you observed more congenital heart diseases. Can you tell me about that time in Canada?

ABDULLAH: I went to Canada for postgraduate training in clinical electrophysiology, pacing, and implantation of devices. I was visiting Calgary for a one-month rotation. I asked my colleagues to extend my working hours. One senior colleague asked, “Until what time do you want to be here?” I told her, “As much as you allow me.” She allowed me to be there from 4 pm, when we ended our duty, until midnight. I did this continuously — it was like a bank of very precious material on congenital anomalies of the heart. Among those hearts, I found a native Canadian cadaver of a newborn who died at two weeks of age. This cadaver was examined by many people before me, but it was shining to me where I was able to combine congenital heart disease with respiratory congenital disease and also gastrointestinal disease. The combination came to my mind, and I was able to fill a missing ring in the chain of the process of human cardiogenesis. It was a very strong stimulus, which took me to think about the nature of the human heart and how it connects to astrophysics and to the higher powers.

Geography, Subtypes, and the Planetary Magnetic Field

TOBIAS: In Canada you observed patient cases. In your papers later on, you described that these kinds of anomalies are more frequent in countries like Canada, which are towards the northern or southern sides of the Earth.

ABDULLAH: One of the prominent projects worldwide was the Congenital Heart Diseases Risk Factor Project in Saudi Arabia. To the best of my knowledge, it is the largest bank of risk factors in the world. I discovered that the trend of subtypes of congenital heart diseases changes between countries. Incidence of congenital heart disease overall is almost stable worldwide — about 1% of the population — but the subtypes differ: valvular diseases, septal diseases, single ventricles, and so on. What you refer to is the incidence of valvular aortic stenosis. When I was in Canada, and in communication with colleagues in Scandinavia, North Europe, Russia and all around the North Pole, I documented that valvular aortic stenosis is much higher in their countries than in ours. In equatorial countries like Saudi Arabia and Nigeria, the strength of the magnetic field is about 25,000 nT, and this number is almost three times higher near the North Pole — about 65,000 nT in Edmonton and other northern locations. It was amazing: there was a very strong trend in the disease — even more than statistical significance. I documented this and introduced new news to the congenital heart community: we think about everything, but we forget the strongest factor — the planetary magnetic field — which has something to do with cardiogenesis when we were embryos in our mother’s uterus. I suggested that the planetary magnetic field is truly a contributing factor. So why not study similar patterns? I also discovered cancers, especially bone tumors. There are colleagues worldwide who use low magnetic fields to treat cancer diseases and to influence tumorigenesis pathways — even to kill cancer cells. Through discovering risk factors, we may interfere or even abort congenital heart disease — which was once thought a far dream.

TOBIAS: We also know that space-weather disturbances are more dominant near the magnetic poles. Is it possible that magnetic fluctuations from space-weather events can trigger these malformations?

ABDULLAH: Yes, absolutely. We call it a “cluster” — a period of increased incidence of a disease. Sometimes in my clinic, for two weeks, I see more than usual pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum — case after case. If we investigate more in heliobiology and remember the first generation in the field — Alexander Tchijevsky, our great Russian scientist — I consider Rollin and myself the third generation; the second is Franz Halberg. The disturbances in space weather could also be related to clusters of congenital heart disease. When we have too many disturbances, disease may increase in certain areas of the world, and it relates to the incidence of certain subtypes.

Tchijevsky, Halberg, and the “Heart Century”

ABDULLAH: I give thanks for the name of Alexander Tchijevsky because I think he’s a true father who drew our attention to this track. In the golden Islamic period between the seventh and fifteenth centuries, Al-Razi and Ibn Sina spoke about the possibility of human disease because of space weather, but the true decoding was done by Alexander Tchijevsky.

TOBIAS: You mentioned also Franz Halberg. Can you explain a little bit more about his role?

ABDULLAH: Franz Halberg is a name which should be remembered by all generations. In the beginning of the last century, Albert Einstein traveled from Eastern Europe to the United States because of politics at that time. He was a very prominent name worldwide. All generations refer to him as one of the most intelligent brains in human history. But I think Franz Halberg is not less, if not even more, than Albert Einstein. If you read his research, you need to read it two or three times to start to understand. And I think his language is going to be the next 200 years’ science to open new doors in heliobiology. He’s the founder of chronobiology. He was awarded the gold medal by WOSCO in 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey. I was there, and he looked at us like a very merciful father. In Istanbul he introduced me in a very strong way, and at that time I was also nominated for the same gold medal which he won in 2011 — which I am wearing now. We are proud to be the next generation of Franz Halberg.

TOBIAS: In your heart-rate variability studies, you found that the heart is synchronizing with the Schumann resonances and also with solar factors like space-weather factors.

ABDULLAH: There was a huge gap in scientific communities to know or believe that the heart is doing something like the mind. The 20th century is called the brain century. I think the 21st century must be called the heart century. All the theories in our medical environments worldwide consider the brain as the generator of consciousness and human mind, and I think this is a huge mistake in our scientific communities, and the reason why many diseases are a big struggle and we cannot treat them. The pathway is wrong if we start from theories that discuss human consciousness and refer it to the brain — especially then, non-reductionist theories like David Bohm mentioned part of the truth — but the complete truth starts from the human heart.

To know how this pump — creating the largest electromagnetic field in the human body — communicates with the environment and how it relates to information: the gate to this is the discovery of heart-rate variability (HRV). For the audience: HRV is the beat-to-beat variation of the heart. When you see the ECG, you see the R-waves. In a normal, healthy heart you see variations between one beat and the next. Those variations are the true carrier of human information. We have four major frequencies that we investigate.

Credit goes to HeartMath Institute in the United States — Doc Childre and Rollin McCraty and colleagues — who started earlier than us. I started with HeartMath in 2008, and they began investigating the human heart and its emotional operation in 1991. HRV is the carrier of human information. I was fortunate to join Rollin McCraty and establish a project here in Saudi Arabia under my Prince Sultan Cardiac Center. It was granted by the late Prince Abdulaziz — blessing to him. We did a long-term HRV study and synchronized the measurement with the Schumann resonances, solar wind/solar radio flux, and cosmic rays, and discovered that the heart rate is orchestrating with higher energetic fields. This was the basement of my heart-based resonant field theory, explaining our communication to higher fields.

TOBIAS: Before I knew about heart-rate variability, I just knew about things like pulse or blood pressure. But now you say the heart is not really beating like a clock — it’s not regular.

ABDULLAH: God forbid — if your heart is beating very regular, this is the manifestation of heart disease. When I go to the intensive-care unit and see on the monitors a very regular heart, I tell my junior colleagues this patient is very sick and may pass away if we don’t take care of him within one or two days. A heart beating like a Rolex — very regular — is very sick. And what indicates good health? Variation. When you have much variation, you have excellent health.

I think when we speak about vital signs, we speak about heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, and temperature — all critical and important. But one measure is a unique indicator of general and specific health — it reflects psychophysiological status and our ability to orchestrate with higher powers and space: heart-rate variability. I strongly recommend we consider HRV a cardinal vital sign — at the top of them.

TOBIAS: It’s really interesting that, from the beat-to-beat changes in the heart, we can infer psychological state and the autonomic nervous system, and so on. Can you tell me what you did in your studies — how you linked HRV to these environmental factors — and what you found?

ABDULLAH: In 2010, at the King of Organs International Conference, Rollin McCraty was my right hand; I call him my heart brother, and he calls me the same. We suggested a long-term experimental study. It was possible because I was director of the Prince Sultan Cardiac Center. We studied HRV frequencies in relation to three energetic fields: Schumann resonances about 250 km above us — the cavity between Earth’s surface and the ionosphere; the solar wind/solar radio flux; and cosmic rays (mainly gamma rays from massive nuclear explosions in the universe). These three planetary/cosmic energetic levels were proven by our group to orchestrate the human heart. This was the basement of my heart-based resonant field theory, explaining our communication to higher fields.

Storms, Desynchronization, and “Global Consciousness”

TOBIAS: We can see one example of your studies where you plotted the Schumann resonances together with heart-rate variability, and we can see here that during a normal period these two are in sync. Then we have something happening here — a geomagnetic storm. That means the sun had a blast like an X-flare or a CME coming to Earth and disrupting our magnetic system, the magnetosphere. And that, of course, also affects the Schumann resonances. You observed that, in this case, heart-rate variability completely loses synchronization with the resonances.

ABDULLAH: Yes.

TOBIAS: Here, after the storm, they come back into pace with each other again.

ABDULLAH: Yes.

TOBIAS: What did you think when you saw these results?

ABDULLAH: I think what we show in our diagrams is part of our global consciousness process. This is the Global Consciousness Project led by Roger Nelson, and now the leader is my friend, Rollin McCraty. I think we are all, as humans, affecting our energetic fields and the energetic fields are affecting us. That’s what creates the term global consciousness. Those fields are affected by international events like wars, crimes, and epidemics. It’s a major marker that the whole universe is almost one unit.

TOBIAS: During periods when we have a storm and the heart loses synchronization — did you see people being more affected with heart issues or other changes?

ABDULLAH: I want to stress two points: myocardial ischemia (presenting as myocardial infarction or angina/chest pain) and disturbance of heart rhythm, especially atrial fibrillation. Those correlate to our planetary magnetic field. The solar wind — there is wind all the time — but in strong events it can reach millions of miles per hour. This huge movement in the universe affects our planetary magnetic field and orchestrates with our heart. It can increase ischemia, myocardial infarctions, and rhythm disorders. It also brings periods of depression, and even suicidal and homicidal events can increase. Even healthy people may show more traffic accidents.

TOBIAS: In your papers — for example the Scientific Reports (Nature) paper — you correlated HRV not only to Schumann resonances, but also to solar factors — solar wind and cosmic rays. You found a characteristic behavior in the physiological response. Interestingly, this behavior is delayed by about 10 hours.

ABDULLAH: Yes. We see an environmental event — any geomagnetic disturbance — and then we wait about 10 hours to see it reflected in participants’ HRV. Alexander Tchijevsky mentioned lag in his historical observations, correlating severe battles during World War I with sunspots. Now we can explain this: light takes 8 minutes from the Sun, but solar wind and plasma need 2–3 days to travel ~150 million kilometers to Earth, and psychophysiological changes can follow with additional delay.

TOBIAS: I had similar results in my studies correlating blood parameters to solar effectors, seeing a lag of 3–4 days — but I couldn’t reproduce the 10-hour gaps because the blood values were daily, not minute-by-minute.

ABDULLAH: In our long recordings, participants wore HRV recorders 24 hours a day for weeks — even months — so we could resolve those shorter delays. And you know, at the beginning of the experiment we started with 16 male and 16 female volunteers. How many continued? Zero males, 16 females.

TOBIAS: The females rule the world!

ABDULLAH: (laughs)

Coherence and the Heart’s Field

TOBIAS: Beyond timing, your papers also talk about coherence. What does heart coherence mean?

ABDULLAH: Cardiac coherence is a term from HeartMath Institute. It explains why the heart is an information organ. When we measure HRV during different emotions, positive states (appreciation, happiness) look different from negative states (frustration, pain). Even within positive or negative emotions, the patterns differ. In coherence, the HRV pattern becomes smooth, sine-wave-like and symmetric. Disturb the person — the pattern turns noisy.

TOBIAS: I tried HeartMath’s app that uses the camera to measure coherence via the pulse in the finger. I also noticed HRV itself isn’t constant — there’s a rhythm on top of the variability. What’s the connection to health?

ABDULLAH: Physicists taught us: put pendulums of different sizes in one room; after some time they synchronize with the largest one. In the body, the largest electromagnetic field is the heart; number two is the brain. The ratio of the heart’s field to the brain’s is often cited as 5,000:1 — massive dominance. So the heart guides other tissues via its field (in addition to neural and biochemical pathways). DNA acts like a micro-antenna, detecting frequencies and guided by the heart. This is why the heart is the king of the organs. When the heart is in coherence, other organs tend toward coherence.

TOBIAS: That brings us to the practical question: what can we do to improve coherence and health?

ABDULLAH: If you want better health and a better life, look at your HRV. When you improve HRV, many conditions improve — even major diseases. You can improve it through spiritual connection, good exercise, optimizing hormones (e.g., testosterone in males), reducing stress, and other measures. HRV is highest around age 22 and declines thereafter — but at 60 or 70, you can still train HRV to be like that of a younger adult.

Using Forecasts; HRV in Medicine and Pregnancy

TOBIAS: Can this be used in practice with space-weather periods? We can’t change the Sun — but can people protect themselves?

ABDULLAH: In our statistics, 10–15% of the world’s population is affected. It depends on health status, self-regulation capacity, and individual sensitivity. I advocate including space-weather forecasting in daily weather worldwide. Some countries already mention it for navigation and communication, but not for biology. We should prepare vulnerable people: optimize HRV between storms, adhere to medications, and improve general health to increase tolerance when disturbances arrive.

TOBIAS: Could doctors include HRV more routinely? And what about pregnancy?

ABDULLAH: Cardiologists should include HRV when evaluating patients — those with poor HRV need closer care. In obstetrics, HRV first entered science through fetal monitoring (CTG): when the fetus shows poor variability, it’s in stress. They started the job — and we continue.

Development, Pathways, and Prevention

TOBIAS: Earlier you linked fetal development and geomagnetic sensitivity to congenital outcomes. What impact might this have?

ABDULLAH: Discoveries show the planetary magnetic field affects organogenesis — demonstrated even in controlled laboratory settings and inferred in oceans (e.g., fish). By simulating planetary fields we can influence molecular pathways during development. If you find the pathway of the “crime,” you can prevent it. Congenital heart disease burdens families and health systems; understanding these pathways could help us reduce it.

TOBIAS: There are reports of shielding experiments — like Faraday cages — where animals developed anomalies when isolated from natural fields. Is it the external fields or our adaptation to them that matters most?

ABDULLAH: It’s both — internal and external. We should improve self-regulation, but the external factor is there. Humans often ignore the inner signal (intuition) that animals heed; they move away from disaster zones before we notice. This is a call to listen to nature and to the heart.

Heart Language & Closing

TOBIAS: Toward the end, let’s touch on heart coherence, intuition, and what you call “heart language.”

ABDULLAH: Yes — if we improve our heart language, we communicate better with our surroundings, even across long distances. We’ll recognize that, as human nations, we share risks from nature that should unite us more than politics divide us. Become closer to nature; listen to the heart.

TOBIAS: A beautiful point to close this first session. In our next session, we’ll return to further topics, e.g. the heart’s field versus the brain, long-distance synchronization between people, and practical ways to build coherence. Thank you, Professor Abdullah — and thanks to everyone watching. Please visit solarhealth.org for links to the publications and resources.

ABDULLAH: Thank you. It was a pleasure, and I hope to see you soon.

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