Electricitas Anhang

 

[Ruth Sagerer]

Kristall-Information und -Technik

Kristalle haben elektromagnetische Kräfte und sind Informationsträger.

In atlantischer Zeit wurden sie zur Nachrichtenübertragung und Heilung verwendet. Der Wissenschaft sind die Eigenschaften des Kristalls als Wandler einer Energieform

in eine andere (Transformation; speichern, senden, übertragen) bestens bekannt.

Übt man z.B. mechanischen Druck auf einen Quarzkristall aus, gibt er Energie in Form von Wärme, Licht oder elektrischer Spannung ab, was als Piezoelektrizität bekannt ist

und technisch genutzt wird. Unsere gesamte moderne Technologie basiert überwiegend auf den Schwingungs- und Resonanzeigenschaften  reiner Kristalle.

Kristalle haben auch das Computer-Zeitalters eingeleitet. 

Einige Beispiele für den technologischen Einsatz:

in Ultraschallgeräte 

in Computerchips zur Datenspeicherung

in Oszillatoren um Hochfrequenzen in elektronischen Geräten zu steuern, 

in Kondensatoren um Energie zu

speichern oder zu übertragen, 

in Quarzuhren um die Frequenz eines elektronischen Schwingkreises (statt Pendel) genau einzuhalten, 

im Laser um z.B. als Rubinkristall kohärentes Licht entstehen zu lassen uvm.

Photovoltaik (Solarenergie)

Werkzeugtechnik - Polykristalliner Diamant (Schleif-Bohrwerkzeuge), Werkzeugbeschichtung

 

[Frances Wilburn]

The New Plague - The Dangers of Electromagnetic Pollution

Resume written by Stuart Deeks

Areas covered in this project: Electricity and Magnetism - electromagnetism.

“Whenever an electric charge moves it is always accompanied by a surrounding magnetic field“. “Consider that almost everything in the body (the brain, nerve signals,

biochemical processes and so on) has an electrical basis, and we generate our own electrical field“.

The effects of particular frequencies on the human brain and body. - Historically the choice for some electrical mains frequencies appears to have been unfortunate.

The effects of higher frequencies: microwaves, TV, computers, communications transmitters, radar and ionising radiations x-ray, cosmic radiation, gamma rays, CT scans and MRI.

In between: all radio frequencies.

Specific problems with certain precise frequencies [Tetra frequency (= TErrestrial TRunked Radio)], power levels and waveforms all have an effect. Precise therapeutic uses of ‘sawtooth’

wave forms; also adverse effects of the same wave form when used at the ‘wrong’ frequency or strength. Examples of this from recent orthopaedic work;

electromagnetic treatments to strengthen the calcium matrix, in order to accelerate the repair of difficult bone fractures.

Exposure levels: “Continued - exposure to a steady wave form is more likely to have a negative effect, whereas intermittent exposure to a pattern of changing frequency and

wave forms is considerably more friendly to us“.

The effects of increasing exposure over the last 50 years to radio, TV and all domestic and other electrical appliances, also higher frequency devices such as computers,

mobile phones etc are discussed: the fog of electro-magnetic field (EMF) pollution.

“With the rise in EMF pollution, which can effect all micro-organisms even at a DNA level, it is hardly surprising that new diseases arise“.

New Diseases

Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity - begin from exposure to new computers or moving house close to a high electromagnetic source, or other novel source of EMF.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME - suspect sensitivity to EMF. Neurological and immune system problems.

Autism - EMF may have a part to play.

Fragile x Syndrome (= eine der häufigsten Ursachen erblicher kognitiver Behinderung/Ursache = genetische Veränderung auf dem X-Chromosom/Behinderung kann in Schwere stark

variieren und von leichten Lernschwierigkeiten bis zu extremer kognitiver Beeinträchtigung reichen) the question of exposure of many newborns in hospitals to large amounts of abnormal EMF.

Pineal gland - “the principle structure in the brain that is directly sensitive to the earth’s magnetic field“. As a result it functions abnormally when exposed to man made abnormal EMF.

Changes to Pre-existing Diseases

Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s/Cancer - people at risk to certain cancers dependant on their EMF exposure (at work)/Mental Disease and Adrenal Stress

            Advice - Prudent avoidance.

Suggestions given as to ways of reducing EMF impact in the home and workplace.

Frances concludes with a miasmatic note: “If miasms have been passed (strengthened?) on by latent energetic magnetic field signatures, then by continually bombarding the body with EMF,

we are disrupting and exciting all latent miasms” She refers to “the rise of disorders relating to our DNA coding” and new diseases of our time. She asks the question

“What if it is not AIDS which is the miasm but EMF?”.

Introduction

Research for this project has taught me much about the world we live in and what dangers we expose ourselves to on a daily basis. I will therefore try to share my experience with

the reader over the course of this project.

Electromagnetic Fields and Radiation

In physics the coupling of electricity and magnetism was first discovered by Hans Christian Oersted in 1820 and solidly established by the work of Michael Faraday in the 1850’s and James Clerk Maxwell in the 1860’s. Before scientists had assumed electricity and magnetism were unrelated forces but Faraday and Maxwell demonstrated

that they are aspects of single fundamental force = electromagnetism. Whenever an electric charge moves it is always accompanied by a surrounding magnetic field.

Conversely when a magnetic field is moved through a loop of conducting material such as copper wire, an electric current is generated in the wire. (underlying technologies as dynamos, electric generators and transformers).

Electromagnetic interactions usually described in terms of fields or radiation (= EMR = EMF).

This is because the phenomenon consists of a moving electric charge and its associated fields, physicists often refer to the ‘dual nature’ of this force, meaning it can be detected either as a particle (such as a proton) or as a wave (a radiation field).

Electromagnetism is said to be active everywhere in the universe except within the nuclei of atoms, where the strong nuclear force dominates. Measured in wavelengths the universal force of electromagnetism spans a wide spectrum of energy, or radiation, from radio waves at one end to gamma rays at the other. In between these 2 extremes a thin slice of the spectrum is occupied by light from infrared to ultraviolet. The units of light (the particles which carry the electromagnetic force) are called protons and are distinguished by their respective wavelengths.

This explains what EMF is. However our main concern is with the oscillation and vibration of these fields. The difficulty is that very few of us are familiar with EMF mainly because we have no sense of them; however this does not mean we are not sensitive to them. Consider that almost everything in the body (the brain, nerve signals, biochemical processes) has an electrical basis, and we even generate our own electrical field by movement (Kirlian photography).

Confirmation of our sensitivity to EMF fields comes from the relatively recent scientific discovery of just how dependant we are on the magnetic fields of the earth (terrestrial magnetism) and the low frequency Schumann waves (around 7.8hz), which are found in the earth’s ionosphere. This became apparent during the investigations of the causes of the variety of symptoms suffered by the early astronauts while in space for relatively short periods.

An orbiting spacecraft is of course outside the influence of all natural and terrestrial magnetic fields and generating these artificially solved the astronaut’s problems.

It is clear that we are dependant on the earth’s naturally occurring EMF, and research has also shown that as well as us needing it we are also stressed by these fields. The

history of geopathic stress is long and varied: unhealthy spirals which dowsers detect above subterranean water have probably always been with us; negative energy leys are

believed to have existed for thousand of years, yet by comparison electro-stress from man-made EMF is the merest of newcomers, with a history measured in decades.

Recent research has suggested that there are pronounced frequency- dependent effects on the human brain and body. Professor Smith, in his book “Electromagnetic Man“,

suggests that it is ‘coherent’ waves (broadly those which persist in a regular pattern for long periods, perhaps like the earths energies and leys) which are likely to have

biological effects [affected most by extremely low frequency (ELF) in the band up to 300 cycles per second (or Hertz)]. (What is hz on a tv?? Hz on TVs refers to the rate

a display refreshes itself. So, 60 Hz, it refreshes every 1/60-th of a second or displays 60 frames/sec, 120 Hz, means it displays 120 frames/sec.). Since all content is 60 Hz or 50 Hz (or 24 Hz for movies), if the TV screen refresh rate is higher it needs to make up frames. It can display the same one twice or use interpolation to make up frames).

Of course the most important source in this band, because it is universal, is mains frequency (50-60Hz), though there are some others of interest.

It is impossible to escape the influence of man-made electricity anywhere in the world. Incidentally some researchers suggest that we would have fewer problems if the frequency chosen for mains electricity had been higher: 200-300Hz rather than 50-60Hz. There is no technical reason for using this lower frequency, and it means we have ended up with an unfortunate choice. Yet, as we are clearly sensitised by the very nature of our biological systems, it is likely that continued exposure to 200-300Hz would only present us with a different range of problems. In addition, there is even

a suggestion that the 50Hz supply used in most of the world is on balance worse than the 60Hz supply found in the U.S. and a few other countries. It seems possible that some of the harmonics of 50Hz resonate with the body in a particularly unfortunate way. However speculating on the benefits of change is unrealistic in a world committed so heavily on one system.

At the other end of the scale, an extremely high frequency of thousand of millions of Hz can also affect us, although in different ways (microwaves/TV/computers/communications Transmitters/radar; and higher still we move into the realms of ionising radiations such as X-ray/cosmic radiation/gamma rays/C-T scans (=  X-ray computed tomography) and MRI (=  Magnetresonanztomographie). Between these 2 extremes there is a huge band that includes all radio frequencies. So that a better understanding of the overall electromagnetic spectrum is clear some some technical details follow.

Windows of Frequency

This is an idea that arises from several research reports (including Leal, see refs). These suggest that there may be another very important factor to bear in mind when looking at hazards: this is the concept of specific narrow bands or windows of frequency and power, within and only within which hazards may be present. If this is correct it could at least partly account for the suggestion that 50Hz mains power is worse than 60Hz, or that some weak fields do more damage than others. This has also recently been supported by anti-Tetra research, which is in a higher band of frequency than mains electric, yet specific health risks appear more likely at that specific frequency.

Tetra is a pulsed microwave signal putting it in the upper band of EMF. Its frequency is 395 MHz and it divides a pulsed wave into groups of 4, which pulse at a frequency of 17.6Hz (pulses each second). Pulsing at 17.6Hz has been proven to cause Calcium Efflux (leakage) from the brain in seven separate experiments from the 1970’s to the

1990’s. The Stewart report (2000) specifically recommends that pulsing at this frequency be avoided.

This suggestion may help to explain why some apparently well founded research findings, have been later contradicted by other colleagues. If the researchers did not

realise the crucial significance of defining the precise frequency power and waveform of the EMF used it may indeed be impossible to replicate results.

Waveform

One of our key themes in examining EMF stress is the importance of both frequency and power level determining whether a particular EMF is potentially harmful to us. The other factor that needs considering is waveform. The effect of the shape of the electromagnetic wave -the way in which the output rises and falls- is a technical subject, but it will help understanding the basic facts.

The waves formed by electricity flowing in wires and cables or generated by electrical equipment can be examined by using an oscilloscope, a device which displays on the

screen a graph of the way the wave rises and falls, as well as providing numeric information. Looking at an oscilloscope screen will give you an idea of the frequency:

the higher this is the more pulses per second and the closer the waves will be together. It will also show how regular or random the pattern is.

As suggested we believe that both waveform and windows (= pauses) are important considerations. Any rotating generator, such as those used in power stations, produces

a field, which rises and falls smoothly and regularly. This will typically appear in what is called a “sine wave”

Sine wave

It is unlikely that the wiring in our homes or offices will produce such a clean cut trace, because as mains supply travels it picks up all sorts of extra patterns feeding back from the apparatus it supplies, but generally the pattern is maintained. It is also possible to generate a square wave which rises quickly from zero to maximum then holds

a peak and then falls just as quickly back to zero, or even to a negative value.

Square Wave

Finally fields will often be found similar to those below where they rise sharply to a maximum and then tail off gradually to zero before repeating the cycle.

Because of their appearance they are often called “saw tooth” waves. It has been shown that EMF used therapeutically often have a saw tooth wave form because they produce the best response. Perhaps this is because they closely approximate the wave forms generated by the body it self.

Saw tooth Wave (spiked)

It seems a reasonable assumption that, if a particular shaped wave has a stronger beneficial effect when used therapeutically, then the same shape must also have the

potential to produce a marked adverse effect when used at the wrong frequency or strength.

An excellent example of this exists in orthopaedic work over the last 10 - 20 years. Scientists have discovered that the biological information used to regulate the activity of the bodies various systems exists in the form of physical codes, such as the bio-molecules of hormones and neurotransmitters, but also in the form of ‘energetic’ codes.

These energetic codes of information may trigger the same cellular reactions that the molecular codes of information activate. As an example, the cells of our bones

normally communicate with one another by both chemical and electrical signals. In recent years, orthopaedic surgeons have begun to use electromagnetic treatment

devices known as “bone stimulators” to accelerate the repair of especially difficult bone fractures that cannot heal normally. The orthopaedic bone stimulator energetically

stimulates new bone growth and bone repair by transmitting healing messages carried in the code of pulsed EMF tuned to a very specific frequency for bone healing to work.

Researchers discovered, the frequency of the EMF used to radiate the fracture site had to be so precise that a slight variation in frequency would change the message carried to the bones from

“lay down new strengthening calcium matrix” to “reabsorb calcium from the bones to weaken the bone structure”. In other words, any slight deviation in the coded energy message would not only fail to heal the broken bone but would actually weaken and aggravate the situation. In the case of bone stimulators, the body accepts a coded EMF signal, in place of a normal biochemical or electrical signal, by using pure energetic bio-information to instruct the bone tissue to activate the healing process. This is a wonderful example therefore of how EMF have the potential to produce marked beneficial or harmful effect, purely based on the exact field or wavelength generated.

This kind of study will later be discussed in terms of how it relates to our ever-increasing understanding of homeopathy and it’s workings on an energetic level.

Finally it is important to also note that, along with the differing wavelengths and frequency, overall exposure can add to the harmful effect.

Dr Cyril Smith („Electromagnetic Man“) suggests that continued exposure to a steady wave form, whatever it’s shape is more likely to have a negative effect, whereas intermittent exposure to

a pattern of changing frequency and wave forms is considerably more friendly to us. It is interesting to note that most therapeutic devices follow the latter rather than the former pattern.

Summary

By now you should be aware that several different characteristics of EMF play a part in determining whether they are likely to affect us in some way. Frequency is important, both low and high particularly, and it is important to pay attention to specific narrow bands or windows that harbour more hazards such as 50-60Hz or 17.6Hz. It is also more likely that how regular the pattern is may be as crucial as frequency. Power is another factor to take into account, though we may well have to question the automatic assumption that stronger fields are necessarily the most dangerous in all cases. The homeopathic use of subtle energy and the concept of windows of hazard both merit questioning of this assumption.

I have identified the specifics of EMF. Next I will identify the sources that can cause us harm, and look at the research on ill effects to human health.

We are currently facing diseases that were unknown just a few decades ago. It has been suggested that we have to look for influences that were relatively insignificant fifty years ago, and therefore not threatening, but since then have grown rapidly and universally. Unnatural man-made EMF fulfils these criteria.

In the last fifty years radio use has increased ten thousand fold, TV even more so; and new innovations to our modern life continue to add to the EMF pollution. For example some of the basics of every day life we take for granted are harmful if we are continually exposed to them. Items include:

• Electric blankets                                                                • Water beds

• Electric alarm clocks                                                          • Tea makers

• Kettles                                                                               • Microwaves

• Ovens                                                                                • Irons

• All other electrical appliances

We then have higher frequency devices such as

• Computer technologies                                                  • Wireless routers which use radio waves

• Portable music players we plug into our ears                       • Mobile phones

• Radio communications                                                        • Tetra communications

• Hard-based ground systems like sub stations, pylons, radio, TV and mobile phone masts.

Finally our EMF pollution culminates with exposure to:

• X-ray                                                                                 • Cosmic radiation

• C T scans                                                                           • MRI scans

This list is not exhaustive and continues to be added to almost on a daily basis.

As discussed in chapter one, although the range of the EMF of these devices spans over a large spectrum, our discussion here is of the massive rise in ill health effects we are beginning to see from the fog of EMF pollution, regardless of where it lies in the spectrum.

It has been shown by a substantial amount of research that all man made EMF, regardless of frequency, produce the same biological effects. These effects, which deviate from normal functions and are actually or potentially harmful, are the following:

(Microwave News)

• Effects on growing cells, such as increase in the rate of cancer cell division.

• Increase in the incidence of certain cancers.

• Developmental abnormalities in embryo’s.

• Alterations in neuro-chemicals, resulting in behaviour abnormalities such as suicide.

• Alterations in biological cycles.

• Stress responses in exposed animals that if prolonged, lead to declines in immune system efficiency.

• Alterations in learning ability.

• Changes at a DNA level.

These biological effects interact to influence the clinical state of a person who is chronically exposed to any abnormal field.

The difficulty with clear identification of links between EMF and ill health is continually being called into question however, because EMF fields cannot be sensed and are hard to measure. Because of this ordinary people are generally unaware of their dangers until it is too late.

The global environmental changes brought about by our use of electromagnetic energy has exposed all living organisms from viruses to humans, to new energetic fields that not exist before. We have begun to see how these man made fields interact with sensing systems designed to only perceive only the normal terrestrial electromagnetic

environment, thus producing abnormal biological effects that result in changes in the incidence of disease. This interaction appears also to have been the origin of some new disease states and of a number of unexpected changes in the characteristics of some pre-existing disease states. In theory, a disease that suddenly appears from nowhere

may be caused by genetic change in a pre-existing micro-organism (a bacterium or virus) that creates new pathological characteristics, or it may be caused by major

declines in resistance to disease, making people susceptible to attack by microorganisms previously incapable of producing disease.

In practice things are not so simple: Hippocrates was correct in believing that the clinical characteristics of disease are the result of combined actions of both the disease

producing agent and the condition of the patient’s body. When we are facing a new disease, it is often difficult to tell which; however with the rise in EMF pollution, which

can affect all micro-organisms even at a DNA level, it is hardly surprising that new diseases arise. It is interesting that it takes so long to make connections when the

evidence is now so clear.

New Diseases

Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity

Is becoming increasingly more prevalent. It includes a variety of allergic type symptoms often starting with flu like condition. Symptoms include headache,

fatigue, nausea, dizziness, inability to concentrate, skin problems, eye problems and aching joints. Almost all patients experience an abrupt onset of symptoms most often

after being exposed to new computers or moving house close to a high electromagnetic source; but always the onset is the result of exposure to a new source of EMF.

These people (see ref BBC News 29th Jan 2005), once sensitised, become sensitive to many common devices that previously did not produce any symptoms (e.g. TV, cars,

telephones, power lines). Severity of the condition varies from mild to severe.

The University Essex is at present researching the plausibility of this syndrome to see ist true effects. They are concentrating on mobile phones as the source of EMF but they also appear to correlate the research with other sources of EMF. Further research has been completed in Sweden and was recently reported at a W.H.O. convention in

Prague in October 2004. The book Black on White gives accounts of 400 cases of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity. The outcome of this research has prompted

acceptance of this condition in Sweden and the right to apply for disability status.

At present the mechanisms causing a hypersensitivity to novel EMF are unknown, however it would appear that there is a direct effect upon the nervous system, and

overall immunity is likely to be involved in a patient’s susceptibility to the syndrome. The incidence of the syndrome is increasing and at present it is unclear as to whether it is new specific devices emitting specific fields or the overall intensity from all the sources, which is increasing the sensitivity in humans.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/M.E.

This was originally termed post viral syndrome in its early days; however, research has ruled out Mononucleosis or Epstein Barr virus, and in fact potent antiviral drugs generally do not work with people diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). Many doctors dealing with these patients suspect sensitivity to EMF. This ties up with one of the original large outbreaks of the disease in the computerised dealing rooms of the financial markets in the City of London. Some support for this theory is found in the fact that many CFS patients feel better if they take holidays away from EMF sources.

Hypersensitivity and CFS have a number of common characteristics: both are new conditions that begin abruptly with flu like symptoms and many of the symptoms,

especially those associated with the central nervous system, are identical. The major difference is in the reported sensitivity to EMF. As these fields are generally overlooked as an exciting agent, many people do not consider them as a major causative aspect in their illness.

Finally the early idea of the computerised markets being a trigger has continued to hold up as lawsuits from a hundred workers in California’s Silicon Valley continue to go

through the American courts. Employees are claiming that exposure to EMF fields at work have resulted in considerable neurological and immune system problems in line

with electromagnetic hypersensitivity and CFS. Dr J. Cone Chief of Occupational Medicine at San Francisco’s General Hospital:  Patients “are not those with typical allergies, but people who appear to have some kind of neurological or immune system problem” (Cross Currents, The Perils of Electromagnetic Pollution, Pg 253)

AIDS

As outlined earlier EMF have the ability to effect change at a DNA level and can have an effect on cell division and growth, and as such its link to the arrival of new diseases provokes hot debate. For example Aids and the HIV virus. It appeared from nowhere and its causes are still as yet unknown. The virus shares many attributes with other viruses that cause various leukaemias in humans and animals, but its clinical characteristics are dominated by its attack on the immune system, particularly the T-cell lymphocytes.

Dr Julie Overbaugh and her colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health: worked with a cat leukaemia virus that is capable of producing either leukaemia or an acute immune deficiency syndrome similar to human Aids. They concluded that a subtle mutational change would convert “a minimally pathogenic virus into one that would include an acute form of immunodeficiency“.

It would appear that the current HIV virus is the result of just such a mutation of a preexisting virus that was originally either non pathogenic or minimally so to people.

Because EMF have been shown to cause genetic mutation perhaps it may be suggested that there was a point where saturation of EMF became so high in the late 70’s early 80’s, and that it was at

this point that the mutations occurred.

Many consider this suggestion farfetched. However research by Dr Daniel Lyle of the Jerry L Pettis Memorial Veterans Hospital in Loma Linda, California showed that

exposure of human T-cell Lymphocytes exposed in culture to a low strength 60Hz electric field for 48 hours significantly reduced their ability to fight off toxic foreign cells.

Lyle's report is the first to link such fields directly to the immune system. This finding raises the question between the depressant effect of EMF on T-cell function and the susceptibility of those cells to the HIV virus.

It is also interesting to note at this point that researcher Roger Coghill, who has conducted a great deal of research on people in this country and the USA, has shown that 11 of the 12 American cities that have the highest incidence of Aids also have the highest general level of electromagnetic traffic of all kinds. He believes firmly that the huge growth in electromagnetic pollution is a major if not a root cause of the Aids epidemic. It is time therefore to stop thinking of Aids as being the result of infection with HIV and to begin to consider the possibility that these EMF might play a predisposing or causal factor in the total syndrome.

(other theories: Tests in africa with life material from a monkey race for polio vaccinations have made the transfer of aids-material to humans possible).

Autism

Theorists have always suggested that a variety of insults to the developing nervous system were responsible for the onset of Autism (e.g. congenital rubella, vaccine, trauma

damage, injury or biological assault to the brain). Recent research by Dr Hanson of the Institute of Neurobiology at the University of Gothenburg (Germany) has investigated the possibility that EMF may also have a part to play. Dr Hanson investigated effects of exposure to both microwave and power frequency fields on the brains of new-born experimental animals. In the case of microwaves, brief exposure resulted in damage to nerve cell structures that only became visible as a latent effect 2 - 4 months after exposure.

Damage was visible in the brain, retina, optic nerve and cerebellum.

In animals exposed to 50Hz EMF anatomical changes were found in the cerebellum of new-borns.

More recently Dr E N Albert of the George Washington University Medical Centre found the same pathological changes in the cerebellums of new-born rats that had been

exposed to low power microwaves at 1 - 6 days of age.

At this time we cannot be sure whether the actual lesions in the cerebellums of autistic children match those in the cerebellums of animals that were produced by exposure to either power frequency

or microwave fields. However, the apparent onset of autism as a clinical condition in the early 40’s does coincide with marked increase in EMF energy.

The fact that both autistic children and the experimental animals have been found to have lesions in the same area of the brain is a remarkable coincidence, which requires

further study.

Autism is a devastating disease that severely hinders the sufferer’s ability to live a normal existence. It is therefore of vital importance to determine whether this disease is

the result of exposure to abnormal EMF, whether this be in the final stages of foetal life or the early new-born stage.

Fragile X syndrome and SIDS

As with Autism it has been suggested that EMF exposure in late foetal and early newborn has a massive effect; additional research into Fragile X syndrome supports this

theory. Fragile X syndrome is characterised by various degrees of mental retardation, behavioural disturbances and anatomical characteristics and has been found to be

related to the X chromosome. The X chromosome shows and apparent separation on one leg, hence the term Fragile X.

The syndrome is second only to Downs Syndrome as the most common genetic defect. It affects one in a 1000 - 1500 births.

Following the above research into Autism Dr Alan Reiss of John Hopkins University found similar patterns of defect on the cerebellum in Fragile X patients. The suggestion made therefore is that

the production of these abnormalities is as a result of exposure to abnormal EMF.

This raises some alarming questions as many new-borns are exposed to large amounts of abnormal EMF in hospitals and nurseries; for example:

• High tech monitoring devices; often the new-borns are lying on these.

• Wiring is often attached to read cardiac electrical activity.

• Incubators.

• Photo light therapy for jaundice babies; this has also been shown to causes calcium efflux, which, in adults, has the potential to cause brain tumours.

For the first few months of life the brain of a baby infant is said to be “plastic” because it is rapidly changing and making new electrical connections and anatomical

arrangements. Exposure of the brain at this time to abnormal EMF may result in either the production of abnormal connections or actual permanent anatomical changes with tragic results. These results are often not made apparent until months or years later.

It has been well documented that the pineal gland is the principle structure in the brain that is directly sensitive to the earth’s magnetic field. As a result it functions abnormally when exposed to man made abnormal EMF. Because this gland produces a host of psychoactive chemicals (such as melatonin, dopamine, seratonin and others) its abnormal functioning during the delicate time of growth

in the brain of new-borns may result in a variety of transient or permanent neurological and behavioural abnormalities.

Some effects may be subtle and not yet identified and others may be related to disturbances such as slower learning, ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), or

SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome).

Dr O’Leary has been studying the possible link between SIDS and EMF; recently she reported that eight deaths occurred in one weekend (four within a single two hour period) within a radius of seven miles from a top-secret military base where powerful new radar was being tested. This indicates a link is possible.

Changes to Pre-existing Disease

Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s

These are two diseases that have shown a marked increase in incidence. Additionally there has been significant rises in both diseases in people before the age of fifty. One of the crucial reasons for this may be the exposure to increasing EMF. Research has shown that patients who develop symptoms before the age of fifty often show similar

brain lesions to Downs and Fragile X Syndrome patients.

Studies on chimpanzees repeatedly exposed to low- level EMF and microwave showed progressive signs of Alzheimer’s. Autopsies confirmed lesions like those in Downs

patients but in these tests they were caused by repeated exposure to EMF.

Cancer

The research on the negative effects of EMF and various types of cancer has been extensively researched.

Many professionals appear to be particularly at risk to certain cancers, dependent on their exposure. Cancer is one of the largest noted effects of EMF exposure and the issue that members of the general public worries about most.

The reason the effect of EMF is so strong is predominately because of the stimulatory effect EMF has on cancer cells. Also EMF has the ability to alter genetic apparatus of

dividing cells, thereby causing mutations that cause the various cancers. Additionally the effect of different types of EMF may also trigger a variety of cancers; for example:

microwaves have been associated with calcium efflux from the brain resulting in brain tumours; exposure to cosmic radiation has been associated with increases in breast

cancer in female flight attendants; female VDU and computer operators also show an increased risk of breast cancers as well as a higher rate of miscarriage. General

exposure at as little as 3m Gauss has been proven to cause a 20% increase in childhood leukaemia.

It is clear to see why Cancer is the biggest worry for the general public and in many respects given its alarming increase the links with EMF should be taken more seriously.

Mental Disease and Adrenal Stress

One of the final questions that EMF may help to answer is why today there are so many people who are permanently stressed, tense and wake up tired and aching every

morning. It may well explain why these people always feel run down or feel they cannot cope even though their diets and life styles show no reason for feeling unwell. Such

people are becoming depressed and at worst suicidal. The link with suicide was demonstrated in England in the early 1980’s by Dr Perry. He found a significant

correlation between suicides and attempted suicides in a high EMF locality, and the proximity of patients’ homes not only to overhead power lines but also to underground

high tension power lines was significant. This rules out a psychosomatic effect, as patients were not aware of the underground power lines.

A later study gave similar results. In 1988 he published a study showing a correlation between illnesses of people living in a tower block and whether they lived near to the

high voltage supply cables which rise up the side of the building. Those flats near the supply lines accounted for 62% of all hospital admissions from that block from heart

attacks, additionally 71% of those admitted suffered depressive disorders as well. Dr. Dowson and Lewith have also shown that headaches and depression can be linked to

power lines.

Summary

This chapter proves to be scary reading for the uninformed. Not only is EMF apparently responsible for new diseases that are becoming uncontrollable such as AIDS, but also EMF is helping to make diseases we are familiar with more serious and we are becoming susceptible at a younger age. More worrying still is the alarming increase in

cancers and genetic defects we are beginning to see not only in children but adults too.

Electromagnetic energy may be a key factor in all these problems and as such I suggest that it can also be a key to the answers. Scientists and doctors have dismissed energy

medicines for many years; however, calls are being increasingly made for their integration. The therapeutic possibilities of utilisation of the bodies own energetic system

to treat these new conditions is the key to moving forward. We must find ways to increase our understanding of energy medicine and encourage its integration with

orthodox medicine. Following this idea through therefore I will now look at what Homeopathy with its basis as an energy medicine has to offer, and consider how and

why it is best suited to help treat our twenty first century ailments.

Homeopathy, Its Foundations as an Energy Medicine

“The dynamic forces of mineral magnetism, electricity and galvanism act no less homoeopathically and powerfully on our vital principle than medicines actually called

homeopathics” (Hahnemann Aphorism # 287 6th edition of the Organon)

Hahnemann was keenly aware when he wrote the 6th edition of the Organon that electromagnetism had it’s negative effects. At the time he did not fully understand the

physics behind the electrical and magnetic relationship; however he understood ist negative effects. He also understood it could work positively. EMF ‘s relationship to

homeopathics may well be closer than we have previously realised.

Many researchers have tried and so far failed to conclusively prove how homeopathy works. Many have hypothesised as to possible explanations, there has been much

debate and criticism has been directed towards the homeopathic camp. Most scientists and doctors around the world have refused to keep an open mind about something that works, yet because they don’t understand it, will not accept its validity.

I would like however to present some compelling arguments that are as yet unproven but which appear to begin to lead the way in finding the elusive answer which could validate our practice. It is interesting to note that with the rise of man made EMF and their negative effects we may just have found the basis of how it can work positively to promote health through homeopathic and other energy medicines such as acupuncture.

Our understanding of the human body and its own electrical and magnetic system may just hold the answers we are looking for.

Many of us are aware of the Benveniste investigations, which were very publicly discredited by a team of investigators from “Nature”. However Benveniste went on to

publish even more significant research that continued to validate the homeopathic phenomenon.

His follow on experiments showed that the homeopathic remedy Apis actually inhibited basophile de-granulation, whether the basophiles were exposed to pharmacological

dosages or to homeopathic dilutions of anti-lge antibodies. In other words a homeopathic remedy used to treat certain types of allergy actually inhibited the release of histamine from the blood cells. This effect is similar to that of antihistamines.

Another unusual finding, and one that interests me more, was that the ultra weak or homeopathic dilutions of antibodies would lose their biological activity if they were

exposed to magnetic fields. In a separate experiment, Benveniste studied the influence of homeopathic dilutions of histamine on blood vessels. These very high dilutions of

histamine (at a sub molecular concentrations) were able to influence coronary blood flow in living guinea-pigs hearts. Pre treatment of the homeopathic dilutions with either heat or EMF caused them to lose their ability to influence blood flow.

However when high strength (pharmacologically active) solutions of histamine were exposed to heat or magnetic fields there was no loss of biological activity.

The sensitivity of homeopathic dilutions to energies such as heat and EMF’s suggests that homeopathic remedies are indeed energetic medicines with mechanisms very

different to those of conventional drugs. Further verification of this “energetic wiping” effect exists in the practice of modern homeopathy. Homeopathic practitioners often

remind their patients not to leave their remedies near TVs, magnets or strong heat as such exposure is known to negate the activity of the remedy.

Even more fascinating is the fact that the biological activity of substances such as histamine can be energetically transferred to water without direct exposure of the

substance to the water. Radionic systems such as the Rae machine have been utilised by homeopathic practitioners for years. The devise has two metal lined hollow wells

interconnected by specialised circuitry and a potentiometer. The practitioner places a vial containing an active substance in one well, and distilled water in a small bottle in the other well. The potentiometer can be turned for a direct transfer of energy (identical potency), or it can be turned to produce a homeopathic potency ranging from C 1 to over C 10.000. By utilising a similar electronic or radionic technology, Benveniste transferred the biological activity of histamine into sealed ampules of water.

In subsequent experiments, he verified that the water in these ampules indeed possessed biological activity and an ability to influence living systems.

The role of energy transfer and its avenue being EMF is becoming a new and exciting avenue, which physicists are beginning to investigate. Some new theoretical models

from the world of physics are now in a position to provide a better understanding into the energetic mechanisms of homeopathy. Italian physicist Emilio Del Giudice suggests that the radiation fields of charged molecules create an interaction among the electric dipoles of water molecules to create a permanent polarisation of water. The water molecules then become coherent, somewhat like the light waves in a laser. Thus in a homeopathic remedy, the coherent organisation of the water molecules leaves an energetic signature of the substance in the water. This signature is resonantly transferred to the physical body (itself as coherent energy matter field) when the homeopathic remedy is ingested.

Through a strong energetic coupling provided by the body’s coherent state, there is a transfer of energetic information and a corresponding change in the electromagnetic field frequency pattern of the bodies cellular system. This energetic frequency shift then influences biochemical reactions at a cellular level. Del Giudice is suggesting that

cellular biochemistry is actually an energy field assisted operation. Consider at this point the previously mentioned study about energetic biological codes that assist in cell repair of broken bones. Introduction of pulsed man made EMF tuned specifically to the frequency for bone healing replaced the body’s own coded electromagnetic signal. This kind of work supports the hypothesis that the human bodies functions are controlled on one level by electromagnetic systems. So an energetic field tuned to the right frequency (by a well chosen homeopathic remedy) will have an active effect on the healing process as the energetic fields of the body and the remedy interact. It is unsure at this stage whether the energy patterns stored in water are of an electromagnetic nature or a magneto electric nature; this awaits further investigation. Nonetheless, evidence is accumulating that homeopathy and other vibrational therapies actually deal with the transfer of frequency specific energetic informational patterns and not with a direct molecular effect.

It is at this point I would like to put forward my own suggestion. Much like the research in chapter 1 which suggests that wave length, frequency, strength of the field and specific windows play a large part in whether an EMF causes a negative effect, I suggest that, on the basis of the above research, that it could be hypothesised that homeopathic remedies are similar in nature to a generated specific EMF. They interact with our biological systems (themselves electrical) by forming an energetic standpoint that reacts with the EMF of a set of symptoms. Homeopathic remedies may act as an indirect reflection of the frequency of vibration at which the body is resonating, i.e. what might be called a “disease frequency” or a “window of frequency” to provide the activation or interaction of energy needed to purge the “frequency” of the illness from the body.

By attempting to match the prescribing symptoms of a specific homeopathic remedy with the symptoms of an acutely ill patient, the practitioner may really be matching the vibrational frequency of a homeopathic remedy with the vibrational frequency of the patient. According to this “ vibrational, EMF, resonance theory” a vibrating system (the patient) will maximally absorb energy in it’s resonance frequency. Therefore only a perfect match between the frequency of the sick patient and the frequency of the

homeopathic remedy will provide an appropriate energy transfer and thus induce a healing response.

Much of the research presented here points well to this hypothesis; however it is still just a hypothesis and requires further investigation. Plausible ideas for investigating such effects are difficult. However one suggestion is to measure the specific resonating frequency of a patient with an acute illness before and after an appropriately well chosen remedy. This is a simplistic approach but one that may provide simple answers, although it may not necessarily cover the realm of chronic prescriptions.

I also feel we need to look at the practicalities of dealing with disease states that are plaguing our society as a result of EMF.

I aim therefore to look at practical pointers for homeopaths to use in consultations, diagnosis and remedy choice.

The Real World

Every good homeopath knows that an ideal situation is to match the symptom picture of the patient to that of the remedy. Having thought much about how and why remedies work I now believe that I am matching subtle energy pictures. The importance of treating each patient as an individual now has reasoning and clarification for me. As a new homeopath this work has focused my thoughts very clearly on the reasoning and subtle energetic workings of homeopathy. When faced with the question „how does it work“?

I now feel I have an answer that makes practical and scientific sense. I believe that, given another five years, proof will be available and our profession will gain the validation and acceptance it deserves.

Practicalities: How to Identify and Treat

When taking a patients case for the first time we spend so much time finding out every little detail of their lives. We spend time looking for that maintaining cause or the ‘never been well since.’ Yet in four years of study I have never once thought to ask about EMF exposure. It is a paradox that just as we are unaware of the negative effects our continued exposure can cause, we also underestimate its possible influence as a strong maintaining cause in many of our cases. It can remain a hidden entity until it is too late, much like the cancer it goes on to cause!

It is important to stress that if I am to add anything to the wisdom of our community that I outline the importance of asking certain questions of all our patients:

• Where do you work? How many computers are around your work space? Do the fronts or the backs of the computer face you? (This is important as more EMF

comes from the back and sides of computers)

• Where do you live? How close is it to power lines, pylons, radio, TV, mobile phone masts or other high power sources?

• Is where you work or live close to a power station or electric substation? Assume city dwellers are close to many things.

• What is your mobile phone usage?

• How often do you fly?

• Where is your bed located in reference to electrical equipment or the mains fuse box?

• How long do you spend at a computer daily?

• Where did your parents work? (Children of greatly exposed parents are at a higher risk of being sensitive themselves and at a higher risk of many cancers)

• Have your symptoms changed or started when you came into contact with a new EMF source? [Such as changing jobs, house, using new electrical equipment

            mobile phones) or a new mast going up in your locality].

• Do you work for the armed forces, police, fire service or in an industry that uses

 

Tetra technology.

Be aware that most patients will never have considered these items to be a risk factor and therefore be prepared to explain their influence. By asking patients these questions and having a basic understanding of the problems involved, I believe that as homeopaths we can begin educating not just those affected but their friends and family.

By educating we are also laying the foundations to beginning to help those affected.

Remedies to consider

This is a difficult section as each patient is different and as with other chronic problems individuality is as always very important. However I will endeavour to outline remedies that on their symptom picture and relative affinities should, given the right patient, have a beneficial effect.

Consider remedies that have a beneficial effect on calcium uptake and absorption.

These remedies should be considered in cases where the exciting factor is due to Tetra, radio waves or microwave. These sources of EMF have been shown to have a negative reaction on calcium uptake (brain).

Remedies to consider are:

The Calcium family and the Silica’s.

Silica is also a remedy that comes up highly is this sphere and all of it associates need to be considered if the patient is of a silica type generally.

One of the key factors of both of these remedies is that they are often adversely affected by the outside world and must take time and withdraw to protect themselves. Consider this aspect when seeing the patient.

Cancer Remedies

Remedies with an affinity to cancer, and/or a fear of it, should also feature highly in cases of EMF sensitivity mainly because it is activating a cancer miasm in those who are susceptible. These remedies must also be considered in cases where the family history suggests there could be a problem, i.e. increased risks of cancer have been reported in children whose parents worked in power stations or who were electrical workers, or in families who lived close to a high exposure sources.

Consider following remedies:

Carc.

Ars.

• Sea salt

Nat-m.

• Rosequartz

Emerald

South Pole/ North Pole/ Ambo

Plutonium

Caesium

Strontium

Rad-br.

Clay = Ton

Cobalt

Cad-s.

X-ray

• Mobile Phone = DES

Many of these remedies have a cleansing action, therefore do not rule out other similar cleansing remedies.

Those people who work in certain professions and expose themselves to the upper EMF spectrum often require specific remedies. Even if they report no ill effects, it may be wise to use them prophylactically as exposure is often accumulative and not recognised as harmful until many years later.

Professions at risk include but not limited to: pilots, cabin crew, radiographers, anyone working with microwave technologies i.e. armed forces, police. Also people working in the electrical industry and telecommunications.

Specific remedies to consider:

X-ray

Sol

Emerald

• Electicitas

Rad-br.

Plutonium

Rose Quartz

• Combination Jet lag [

Arn. C 12 (Sleepless & restless when overtired),

Cocc. C 12 (Constant drowsiness after loss of sleep/headache from traveling),

Kali-p. C 6 (Weak & tired from overexertion/headache from fatigue),

Gels. C 12 (Insomnia from exhaustion),

Nux-v. C 12 (Heartburn/anxiety + restless),

Arg-n. C 12 (Mental anxiety)]

As EMF appears to have such a dampening effect on immunity it is also important not to forget the benefits of a well-chosen constitutional remedy as well as considering

specifics known to improve immunity such as:

Echi.

Goldfish

AIDS

Emerald

Considering remedies that are generally hypersensitive is also wise, as the degrees of sensitivity appear to increase in many of these patients and once sensitivity is

established they then go on to become sensitive to things they used to be able to tolerate.

Consider remedies under rubrics such as Constitutions hypersensitive:

Med.

Nit-ac.

Puls.

Phos.

Sulph.

Ars.

Carc.

Scientifically speaking, when properly indicated, it would make far more sense to prescribe a homeopathic preparation of the appropriate electromagnetic field (remedy)

or miasmatic remedy that would pervade every cell of the living organism.

All of the following have a strong desire to be magnetized, or are affected by magnets, or have electric-like symptoms.

ACON. Agar. Ail. Alco. Aloe. Alum. Ang. Arn. Arg-n. Aaster. Bell. Berb-v. CALC. Calc-p. Cann-i. Canth. Carb-v. Caust. Cench. Cic. Clem. Cocc. Colch.

Croc. Cup-m. Dig. Dios. ELEC. Euphr. Euon. Ferr-met. Fl-ac. Graph. Hell. Hep. Hipp. Ictod-f. Iod. Iris. Kali-bi. Kalm. Kreos. Lach, Lil-t. Luna. Lyc. Mag-p. Manc.

Meph. Nat-c. Nat-s. Nit-ac. Nux-m. Nux-v. Paraf. Pip-m. PHOS. Ph-ac. Phyt. Ptel. Rad-br. Sang. Sanic. Sapo. Sep. SIL. Spig. Stram. Sulph. Tarent. Tarax. Tab. Ter.

Uran. Valer. Verat. Vesp. and Zinc-s.

It might also be useful to consider rubrics such as:

• Generals: magnetised desires body to be

- - - - - - - from electricity ailments.

- - - - - - - < electric shock.

- - - - - - - electric shock sensations.

- - - - - - - Emergency electric shock

- - - - - - - < radiation

Finally it is important to outline which of all the above remedies stand out the most, and are worth additional consideration when presented with a patient’s case.

Sil

Phos

• Elec.

Acon.

Calc.

• Mobile phone (= DES)

North and South poles and both

X-ray

After considering all of the above the novice might imagine the choice of prescription to be deceptively simple: to prescribe X-ray, Elec. or Magn-pa. for patients suffering from induced electrical and magnetic field diseases. However Hahnemann cautioned against such an overly simplistic approach in an aphorism.

He stated, "There are those who would like to introduce a 3rd kind of therapy, called isopathy, treating a disease with the identical miasm (agent) that produced it. But if this were possible, since this miasm (agent) would reach the patient only in highly potentised and therefore altered form, it would cure by opposing a simillimum to the simillimo. To try to cure this way,

with an exactly identical disease agent (per idem), runs counter to all common sense and therefore to all experience....nothing can come of it but misfortune and aggravation of the disease."

We see that Hahnemann warned us of being so simple in our prescribing, we must concentrate on the overall picture and remember that dealing with these cases may test

all of our abilities to get it right or to get even close. This is often because when dealing with cases it is impossible to remove the patient away from the maintaining cause so what we are attempting will only ever palliate the condition. Hahnemann also discussed this dilemma in his writings and said, The disease producing agent comes under the heading of "Occupational" or currently in vogue the term "Homotoxicological" (see Aphorisms #71-81).

(1-5) In Aphorism #77 he wrote, "These self-inflicted disturbances go away on their own with improved living conditions if no chronic miasm is present (1-3) This of course meaning that the patient must be removed from the adverse influence. In this case the magnets and/or electrical currents.

Only when the above protocol fails to resolve the disease pattern should the prescription of a homeopathic remedy be considered. And then, of course, only the remedy which best matches the chronic miasmatic totality of the case should be prescribed which frequently would not be: X-ray, Elec. Magn-au. Magn-arc. Magn-amb.

H. in his writings admits that this is by no means easy. I will however endeavour to suggest some simple tips that we can give to our patients to help to avoid where possible this maintaining cause.

Additional Patient Advice - Prudent Avoidance

• Measure your home/ work/ school environments with a Gauss meter.

• Avoid areas where the field is above 1mG

• Do not sit too close to the TV. The amount you are exposed to reduces the further away you sit.

• Check the specific absorption rates (SAR) of your mobile phone. It should be less than 0.5 SAR. You can check the rates by doing a search for SAR on mobile

phones on the internet.

• Do not sleep with any electrical equipment closer than a meter.

• Use a battery powered alarm clock and keep it on the other side of the room.

• Locate your mains power supply, do not sleep directly above it or on a wall above where it is mounted.

• Turn off all electrical equipment and remove the plug before going to bed.

• Do not leave computers TV, video etc. on standby.

• Do not sit close to your computer screen and do not have the backs of computer screens pointing at you.

• Consider rearranging furniture so that all electrical equipment is on an exterior wall. That way you are not creating an EMF field in the adjoining room.

• Do not sleep under an electric blanket.

• Where possible reduce the amount of electrical equipment and wiring in your home.

• If you have patients that are particularly sensitive it may be worth them not wearing metal jewellery and avoiding metal framed glasses as they act as conductors.

• Very sensitive patients should consider investing in specialist equipment that helps to neutralise the negative fields. These devices are available online from companies such as Clarius.

• Consider using protective crystals to wear and to place around sensitising objects such as computers. Crystals to consider are Emerald and Amethyst.

• Consider the use of plants in your environment that are known to absorb negative EMF such as spider plants.

• Overall where possible be aware of both domestic and commercial sources and try where possible to limit overall exposure.

• Reduce children’s exposure wherever possible (their systems are still growing).

• Other sensible tips can be gained from online sources.

 

Miasmatic Note

I did not feel that this work would be complete without including a note on the new miasm we have created. Miasms represent a totally different concept in the mechanism

of illness causation. For example, although miasms may be acquired as a result of an infectious agent, the infection itself is not the miasm. Even though the disease-causing

agent may have been eradicated by treatment, subtle energetic traces of the infectious agent may persist at an unseen level. These disease-associated energy traces are

incorporated into the individuals bio-magnetic field. The miasms reside there until their latent toxic potential is released into the molecular/ cellular level of the body, often due to a trigger, where disruptive changes or illness may manifest. However the delayed illness, which occurs, is different to the one associated with the original disease-causing agent. Miasms weaken the natural body defences in a particular area, creating a tendency towards manifesting different types of illness at a later time. Acquired miasms may be caused by exposure to a variety of noxious agents including bacteria, viruses, toxic chemicals and even radiation.

Miasms create energetic signatures that predispose individuals to certain types of illness. They are an energetic pathway by which, the life events of a parent are passed

to the children. The alarming context to be considered here is that the very means by which these Miasmatic dispositions are passed on may be the trigger for a new and

potentially devastating new super miasm.

If miasms have been passed on by latent energetic magnetic fields signatures, then by continually bombarding the body with man made EMF we are disrupting and exciting all latent miasms.

We are creating a layer of miasmatic potential for future generations that is so prolific as an energy signature that not one of us will be able to escape its effects. It will have the potential to

interact with all other miasms as EMF’s are already coded in the energetic sphere. They already have the potential to cause new disease such as AIDS, which has been considered by some

a miasm in it’s own right. What if it is not AIDS which is the miasm but EMF.

The effects are already seen on this generation: reductions in the rates of fertility and large increases in the numbers of children being born with genetic and behavioural defects.

The rise of disorders relating to our DNA coding is on the increase and we have seen a rise in new diseases that is unprecedented in our time. Energetic signatures and

the links between EMF and energy medicine are unresolved mysteries waiting to be discovered.

This is a sobering thought to bring this project to a close and all I can add is that we as homeopaths are in a beneficial position. We have the fortunate understanding and

insight to realise that the subtle energies we work with every day are very powerful and are to be respected and passed on. We have a responsibility to educate those around

us, even those who don’t believe. The near future holds the key to others understanding the complexities of homeopathy and offering it the respect it deserves. I can only hope that as a homeopathic community we urge the scientists forward and actively involve ourselves in the pursuit of the answers and the best ways to treat our patients.

 

 

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