The Schumann Resonance and the Earth's Heartbeat

Originally aired on Soul Deep Dig Podcast ⬅️ Listen Here
Ep 046 October 27, 2025
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Welcome to another deep dive where we explore topics through both intellectual understanding and spiritual awareness. Today, I want to talk about something that's been circulating on the internet lately: the Schumann Resonance (spelled S-C-H-U-M-A-N-N, like the frequency resonance, not residence where you live).

What Is the Schumann Resonance?

The Schumann Resonance, or SR, is essentially the Earth's heartbeat—a set of ultra-low frequency standing waves that bounce between the planet's surface and the ionosphere. First measured in 1952 by German physicist Winfried O. Schumann, it sits at roughly 7.8 hertz with higher harmonics around 14, 20, and 26 hertz.

But here's what fascinates me: just because we first measured it with machines in 1952 doesn't mean it didn't exist before, and it certainly doesn't mean people didn't know about it.

When Science Catches Up to Ancient Wisdom

This reminds me of scientists discovering that burning sage kills 97% of airborne viruses. Indigenous cultures have been saying for centuries that sage clears the vibration of a room, clears energy, clears space. They used different words, but the essence was the same. Everything is energy.

Science often assumes that if something can't be measured, it can't be known. But those of us who can feel a refrigerator humming or hear lights buzzing know differently. Human beings can be vibrationally sensitive. I can hold an MP3 player playing different frequencies turned down so low I can't hear it, and I can tell you which frequency is playing just by feeling it in my hand.

So isn't it possible that people in our past were also vibrationally sensitive? They didn't have the science tools to corroborate it, but they didn't need them because they just lived it. They just knew.

Why This Matters Now

I'm bringing these concepts together because I want us to trust ourselves more. I also want us to recognize that we're going through things that aren't just personal—that we might wake up and have a week, a day, or a period during the year that feels harder, heavier, more confusing, or alternatively lighter and easier. These can literally be energetic, atmospheric, and actual atmospheric changes working with us.

When you live in nature, you know this instinctively. A sunny day versus a rainy day are two different kinds of days. That doesn't mean you can't be resilient or have a great day either way, but we've become so separated from nature that we're starting to forget this. The result? We think everything is our fault. We start to believe we're independent of all these other things happening outside of us, independent of nature itself.

The Brain-Earth Connection

Here's where it gets really interesting. The fundamental 7.8 hertz frequency of the Schumann Resonance overlaps with the brain's theta-alpha range—the meditative state, not your everyday "it's two o'clock, time to check the mail" beta state. The Schumann Resonance isn't working on the part of your brain that makes to-do lists; it's working on the part that meditates, dreams, creates, and accesses higher consciousness.

Ancient Peoples Knew This

Certain indigenous oral traditions describe cyclical "earth songs" or heartbeats. They had rituals timed to sunrise, storm cycles, and lunar phases. Many aligned their ceremonies with solstices, equinoxes, and seasonal storm cycles—times when global lightning rates shift and the Schumann Resonance amplitude changes noticeably.

Consider these examples:

• Aboriginal song lines trace dreamtime paths that sing the land's vibrations

• Siberian Tungus beat their drums at four to seven hertz to enter spirit realms

• Sweat lodge grandfather rocks radiate infrasound near Schumann lows

• Tibetan monks' overtone chanting hits frequencies that resonate ionospherically

• Ancient structures like the pyramids and Stonehenge may have been built as resonators

Science might say these are "unconscious attunements," but if you've ever worked with someone who can purposefully enter a shamanic journey or meditative state to receive information, you know it's not just unconscious. People consciously worked with these frequencies.

Living in the Modern Electromagnetic Soup

We now live surrounded by Wi-Fi, cell phones, and electromagnetic fields. Do you remember life before Wi-Fi? If you can get out to a place without it—deep in the mountains, truly out there—it feels different. The contrast is striking.

When we disrupt our natural attunement with EMF smog and constant tech stimulation, we might experience foggy thinking, wild dreams, or an electric buzz in our veins, especially during solar flares. But when the Schumann Resonance spikes naturally, we might experience periods of euphoria, collective epiphanies, or what some call "the planet dreaming."

Reclaiming Our Rhythms

There's a great disservice being done when we tell people that what they're sensing collectively or globally is just them being "oversensitive" or "overdoing it." We're being taught that we shouldn't tune into these greater patterns, that our lives should only be affected by our will, discipline, and choices.

But here's a better metaphor: You can say the river is rough today and make choices about whether to fish, swim, or canoe in it. You don't have to look at the rough river and say, "Well, I decided today I was going to canoe, so I have to do it." When you realize you're part of nature and honor it, the river helps inform your choices. You're not separate from it.

The Cycles We've Forgotten

In many indigenous cultures in the Northern Hemisphere, the new year starts in November. You enter the dream time, spending months dreaming before you emerge with plans that you then execute. By late summer, you have your harvest—of actual plants, but also of ideas, dreams, innovations, and iterations. In October, you release what's no longer needed so you can return to the dream time again.

This isn't 365 days of "go, go, go" where every day is the same until you take a vacation. It's cyclical, beautiful, and aligned with nature's rhythms.

You Don't Have to Be Specially Sensitive

Here's the thing: you don't have to be sensitive to frequencies to understand or live with any of this. You really don't. But you do have to choose to honor your own gut, your own intuition—that part of you that knows beyond what the calendar tells you.

You need to strengthen the part of you that can make decisions using all available information, including the subtle stuff. To yes, do hard things, but also let yourself do easy things. To reclaim into our modern lives the knowing that we are part of this Earth. And frequency is part of the Earth and the universe. And so are you.

An Invitation

If you want to bring this more into your life, try setting these intentions:

• May I have more flow

• May I understand what I need to know about this

• May I feel confident and comfortable in my own rhythms as part of nature

• May I feel the natural highest good that already exists

When someone says "the energy's off," you can ask yourself: Is this something personal to them? Are they talking about something greater happening? You don't need to know the definitive answer, but you can stop looking at each person as separate from all that is, while also not losing sight of their individual experience.

I want us to hold that duality—that yes, you might be feeling something, and what do you need right now? And I also might be feeling something. We are both individuals and part of the collective, both separate and connected.

A Final Thought

Just by talking about these things, just by considering them, you're doing something important. You have no action item you must complete. Just by bringing this back into awareness, we are helping ourselves return to something deep, something we may have forgotten—something that may be really good to reclaim.

Alora Cheek is the host of Soul Deep Dig podcast and a spiritual coach who works at the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern understanding.