Electromagnetic Frequencies and Their Impact on Health
EMFs stand for electromagnetic frequencies, which are a major part of our world emanating from everything—from radio, television, electric blankets, cell phones, tablets, FitBit bracelets, routers, computer screens, and more. These frequencies have a definite effect on our health.
As electric vehicles are being mandated in California and embraced by environmentalists, the safety of these devices and vehicles is not being discussed, although the deleterious effects are known and have been reported. There seems to be an effort to downplay or hide these reports.
An incredible work of reporting on these dangers is in the book The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg, who personally is very sensitive to the effects of EMFs. He documents the history of electricity and its effects on humans, animals, and plants from the first experimentation with crude static electricity devices in the 1700s in France, England, Germany, Holland, Italy, and the United States to primitive electrical generators that followed.
Early Experimentation with Electricity
At first, these experimentations were used as parlor tricks and entertainment, progressing to medical devices that were used to treat people who were suffering the ill effects that telegraph and electrical wires for lights and phones brought to an unsuspecting public.
In 1746, Pieter van Musschenbroek, professor of Physics at the University of Leyden, had been using his usual friction machine consisting of a glass globe spun on its axis while he rubbed it with his hands, producing static electricity. However, electricity in those days was of limited use because it had to be produced on the spot, with no way to store it.
Musschenbroek and his associates designed an ingenious experiment that would change the world forever: They sought to store electricity in a glass bottle partially filled with water. The experiment succeeded beyond their wildest expectations.
“I am going to tell you about a new terrible experiment,” Musschenbroek wrote to a friend in Paris, “which I advise you never to try yourself, nor would I, who have experienced it and have survived by the grace of God, do it again for all the Kingdom of France.”
He continued, “Suddenly my right hand was hit with such force, that my arm and whole body were affected more terribly than I can express. In a word, I thought I was done for.”
The Hidden Costs of Progress
Firstenberg explains: “But only half the message registered with the public. The fact that people could be temporarily or, as we will see, permanently injured or even killed by these experiments became lost in the general excitement that followed.”
Musschenbroek’s experience was the direct effect of electrical current, but the effects of EMFs derived from that current would soon be felt—and the effect on our health would be catastrophic.
In the prologue of The Invisible Rainbow, Firstenberg discusses EMFs found in nature and in our own bodies, stating, “The energy of our cells whispering in the radio frequency range is infinitesimal but necessary for life. Every thought, every movement that we make surrounds us with low-frequency pulsations, whispers that were first detected in 1875 and are also necessary for life.”
He writes, “We live today with a number of devastating diseases that do not belong here, whose origin we do not know, whose presence we take for granted and no longer question. What it feels like to be without them is a state of vitality that we have completely forgotten.”
EMFs and Modern Disease
“Anxiety disorder,” afflicting one-sixth of humanity, did not exist before the 1860s when telegraph wires first encircled the earth. No hint of it appeared in the medical literature before 1866.
Influenza, in its present form, was invented in 1889 along with alternating current. Doctors flooded with cases in 1889 had never seen the disease before.
Prior to the 1860s, diabetes was so rare that few doctors saw more than one or two cases during their lifetime. Obese people never developed the disease.
Heart disease was the twenty-fifth most common illness, behind accidental drowning. It was rare for anyone other than infants and the elderly to have heart issues.
Cancer was exceedingly rare. Even tobacco smoking did not cause lung cancer before electrification.
“These are the diseases of civilization, that we have also inflicted on our animals and plant neighbors, diseases that we live with because of a refusal to recognize the force that we have harnessed for what it is,” Firstenberg asserts.
“The 60-cycle current in our house wiring, the ultrasonic frequencies in our computers, the radio waves in our televisions, the microwaves in our cell phones—these are the distortions of the invisible rainbow that runs through our veins and makes us alive. But we have forgotten. It is time we remember.”
Be sure to read the rest of this story in January's issue!
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