When
Russian cosmonauts first spent long periods of time on
board the Mir space station, they got sick. Their symptoms
indicated this was more than a simple lack of exercise,
too much zero gravity or an overdose of canned food. Their
illnesses appeared to be caused by a lack of contact with
the magnetic field surrounding the earth. After the Russian
space station was equipped with a special “magnetism
generator”, the cosmonauts’ symptoms disappeared.
After the experiences
of the Russian cosmonauts, some scientists must have thought
to themselves: if the natural magnetic field surrounding
the earth is so important to health, what does it mean
that this field is increasingly being disturbed by the
explosive growth of electric machinery? After all, every
electric current produces an electromagnetic field and
those fields increasingly “compete” with the
earth’s natural magnetic field.
Cells are ordered
by magnetism. The smallest building blocks of life—atoms
and molecules—are micro magnets with a plus and
minus pole, comparable to the earth’s poles. Because
everything is made up of atoms and molecules, every structure
is determined by magnetism. Communications in the body
take place via miniscule electric currents and the electromagnetic
frequencies they generate. If (electro) magnetism orders
the very process of life, then a disturbance to this magnetism
will result in an increase in chaos and degeneration.
And that is exactly what’s being observed: a strong
increase in degenerative diseases and chaotic explosions
of violence among humans and in nature.
This growth
in disorder around us may be explained by the increasing
disruption of the natural magnetism that supports health
and harmony. The explosive increase in unnatural electromagnetic
fields is making increasing numbers of earth dwellers
“space sick”. Just like the cosmonauts, people
are losing contact with the natural frequencies that support
life on earth. A large number of appliances emit extremely
low electromagnetic frequencies (see box), often in the
same frequency area as the fields that control the biological
processes in our bodies. This radiation can disturb hormonal
and biochemical processes.
Back in the
1970s the American physician Robert O. Becker, now professor
emeritus of orthopedic surgery at the State University
of New York, warned that our health would be affected
by artificially generated electromagnetic frequencies.
Becker, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize for
health, is convinced that the increase in these frequencies
is directly linked to the rise in rates of cancer, birth
defects, depression, learning disabilities, chronic fatigue
and Alzheimer’s.
His argument: “All matter living and non-living
is an electromagnetic phenomenon. The material world,
at least as far as physics has penetrated, is an atomic
structure held together by electromagnetic forces.”
His concern: “The human species has changed its
electromagnetic background more than any other aspect
of the environment.”
How damaging is it, Becker wonders “that the density
of radio waves around us is now 100 million or 200 million
times the natural level reaching us from the sun.”
The question is, how exactly are these waves affecting
us?
Experiments with animals have showed that disturbing the
electromagnetic fields can have serious consequences.
Bees, fish and termites veer off course and are no longer
able to perform certain functions. When you destroy half
a termite’s nest and then disrupt the workers’
electromagnetic communication, they no longer know what
to do. The strength of the electromagnetic field with
which termites communicate came to light several years
ago in the Peruvian capital of Lima. The fire brigade
was sent to clean up a termite’s nest because the
waves were so strong they completely scrambled radio reception
in a neighboring area. The positive effect of magnetism
has been demonstrated in the case of animals as well.
Flies that ate magnetized sugar in experiments lived twice
as long, and mice exposed to a strong magnetic field twice
a day also increased their longevity.
The importance
of the magnetic field for orientation was demonstrated
by Hans Fromme and Friedrich Merkel of the Zoological
Institute in Frankfurt, Germany. In an experiment, they
kept European robins in a cage. Away from sunlight and
stars, the birds continued to stare longingly to the southwest;
precisely the direction they would normally migrate. But
when the magnetic fields around the birds were disrupted,
they lost their orientation.
Magnetic crystals have been found in a number of animals—including
salmon—that enable them to tune in to the earth’s
magnetic fields. Recently Robert Becker, among others,
found these crystals in humans. Becker believes that people
unconsciously tune in and navigate thanks to the magnetic
field around them. When these fields are disturbed, people
become disoriented—literally ungrounded. The reverse
also appears to be true: magnetism can be specifically
used for healing. There are indicators dating back thousands
of years that ancient Chinese, Japanese and Egyptians
used magnets for healing. Descriptions of magnetic therapy
have also been found in the works of Aristotle, Plato
and Homer. They wrote of using the therapy to help paralysis,
rheumatic disorders and swollen joints, among other things.
Cleopatra evidently wore a magnetic amulet on her forehead
to maintain her youth.
These ancient
cultures not only worked with actual magnets, usually
made from magnetite, but there are also descriptions of
people who could “magnetize” their hands.
This type of magnetism was also successfully applied in
the 18th century by Austrian physician Franz Anton Mesmer,
among others. The success of his treatment method was
so striking that the medical and political authorities
of his time felt seriously threatened and wanted to have
Mesmer beheaded. Mesmer was eventually vindicated and
this type of “magnetization” is still practiced
by healers today.
What Mesmer
was not able to prove scientifically back then, has been
proven now. Robert Becker has demonstrated that the brain
waves of healers who magnetize their hands are in synch
with the frequency of the earth’s natural magnetic
field. This same frequency has also been measured among
meditating monks. Researchers at the Menninger Clinic
in Kansas, USA, found that healers will often produce
up to a million volts of charge during healing work. In
other words: meditating is not some cosmic practice, but
can actually ground you to the earth. Many healers, too,
do nothing more than reconnect their patients to the earth
using their magnetic powers.
Robert Becker calls this form of healing “energy
medicine”. In his book The Body Electric: Electromagnetism
and the Foundation of Life he writes: “The idea
of an energy medicine that postulates a common basis for
all of these disciplines has arisen lately because of
new discoveries in biology that cast serious doubt on
strictly mechanistic concepts of life and seems to reintroduce
the old idea of a body energy. These discoveries are not
‘vitalistic’ in the sense that they prove
or even hint at some mysterious, unknowable life force.
Rather, they reveal the presence of electrical and magnetic
forces at the most basic levels within living organisms.”
When electricity was developed, it became possible to
generate magnetic fields thousands of times stronger than
those emitted by magnets. When Nikola Tesla discovered
alternating current and the rotating magnetic field at
the end of the 19th century, this laid the foundation
for controversial but successful instruments that could
heal with the help of electromagnetism. One example is
the machine that the American physician Royal Raymond
Rife used to treat viruses and cancer. Rife had discovered
that every cell has a specific electromagnetic frequency.
His theory was that if you increase these frequencies,
the organism “explodes”, much like an opera
singer shatters a glass.
Particularly
in countries in the former East Bloc, a large number of
experiments have been conducted using electromagnetic
instruments, with which specific healing frequencies are
generated. William Pawluk, the American physician and
vice president of the former North American Academy of
Magnetic Therapy, summarized the results of 30 years of
research on magnetic therapy in Eastern Europe, and spent
20 years experimenting with magnets on himself and many
others. Summarizing his findings, he says, “Actually,
people are not biochemical but magnetic. My experience
is that many chronic diseases are the direct result of
disturbances in our magnetic fields. Unfortunately, science
currently sees the body mainly as a biochemical unit and
is therefore primarily pharmaceutically oriented.”
Pawluk is enthusiastic
about the results of research in Eastern Europe, which
he details together with Czech researcher Jiri Jerabek
in the book Magnetic Therapy in Eastern Europe, A Review
of 30 years of Research. Pawluk’s conclusion: “Magnets
speed up the healing process, decrease pain and increase
blood flow, which means you have more oxygen and waste
products are eliminated more quickly. They also have a
direct effect on biochemical processes in cells. Even
after therapy has ended, its effects continue for weeks.”
Physics has
many theories about how this works. One of the things
we know with good certainty is that electromagnetic fields
induce current or charge in the tissues of the body. That
is, they help the body generate more energy. Pawluk: “In
one example, in wound healing, typically only a small
percent of the genes controlling wound healing are turned
on. With pulsed magnetic fields upwards of 85% of the
genes are turned on. This means a faster and stronger
healing response. The wound healing is less likely to
stall and get complications. I had one example of a man
with a gunshot wound to the head with a bad skin injury
and a hole in his skull. The doctors did not have to graft
the skin of his face and the hole in skull began to fill
in over the 6-8 weeks we were treating him with pulsed
magnetic fields.”
The German
physician and professor Wolfgang Kafka is also delighted
with the results of magnetic therapy. He developed a mattress
that emits electromagnetic frequencies (see box). Kafka
has collaborated with various universities in recent years
in testing the effects of treatments with his mattresses.
This research reveals that nine out of ten people respond
positively to using the magnetic mattresses. A study of
2,000 patients of various doctors also yielded encouraging
results. Kafka: “Eighty percent of the people with
a variety of health problems recovered after using magnetic
therapy. Ten percent felt much better, and 10 percent
unfortunately saw no effect. The patients’ complaints
varied from headaches, muscle stiffness, asthma, lumbar
vertebra syndrome, sleeping disorders, general aches and
pains, arthrosis, blood flow problems, depression, migraines,
knee problems, chronic fatigue syndrome, sciatica, osteoporosis,
inflammations, skin diseases, rheumatism, diabetes to
RSI.”
Kafka believes
that because of the many disturbances from new technologies,
the earth’s natural magnetic field cannot always
supply us with enough energy for vitality and health.
“With the help of an electromagnetic field, molecules
can be spurred on to greater activity,” he says.
“As a result, chemical reactions—and, hence,
healing processes—speed up.” For example,
it has been shown that electromagnets can speed up the
blood flow in capillaries by 300 percent within five minutes.
Kafka has a videotape that dramatically shows the effect
of electromagnetism on blood cells. The red blood cells
“swim” faster and are less prone to clotting,
which means they can absorb and emit more oxygen. This
could be an explanation for the fact that people often
feel more energetic immediately after magnetic therapy.
Because magnetic
therapy spurs the body to dispose more quickly of waste
materials and speeds up the healing process, William Pawluk
considers it ideal in combination with every other therapy:
“Chemotherapy research shows that cancer cells are
killed twice as fast when magnets are used. That means
you need half as much medicine to achieve the same result.”
Magnetic therapy also appears to be exceptionally useful
for “daily maintenance”. It helps eliminate
built-up tension and rid the body of accumulated poisons.
Pawluk estimates that 70 to 80 percent of all the problems
physicians hear about from their patients on a daily basis
are stress-related. “These cumulative stresses,
often so small as to be unnoticeable, gradually accumulate
and like grains of sand over time, can create a desert.
Magnetic fields blow away the accumulating grains before
there are too many.”
Research into
the healing effects of magnetic therapy is still in the
early stages. There is still no equipment capable of precisely
measuring the subtle frequencies in the body. As a result,
magnetic therapy has made little headway in convincing
the medical establishment of its importance. However,
evidence is mounting that electromagnetic fields are vital
forces that can stimulate remarkable healing. George Burke
writes in his book Magnetic Therapy: “Healing is
nothing other than restoring the regulating ability of
the magnetic force.” He concludes that magnetic
therapy quickly increases the influx of vital power in
the body and remagnetizes it, restoring its ability to
organize itself. “This gives the body back its natural
magnetic power.”
The power of magnetic therapy is that it works directly
on so many illnesses at their very essence—a lack
of life force and harmony in the patient’s system.
As a primal force in the universe and in our bodies, magnetism
is part of the very foundation of health.
Sources: Robert
O. Becker: The Body Electric and Cross-Currents;
Mariano Bueno: The Grand Book of the Healthy House;
George Burke: Magnetic Therapy; Jiri Jerabek and
William Pawluk: Magnetic Therapy in Eastern Europe,
a review of 30 years of research; Roy Martina: Vitamin
M; Michael Milburn and Maren Oelberman: Electromagnetic
Fields and Your Health; William H. Philpott and Sharon
Taplin: The Biomagnetic Handbook; Wulf-Dietrich
Rose: Elektrostress; Proof! (May 2004), www.drpawluk.com
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