The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life

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is being rolled out across the country, despite growing evidence that it is disruptive to our health, our safety, and the environment. The Invisible Rainbow is the groundbreaking story of electricity as it's never been told before--exposing its very real impact on the biosphere and human health. Even Franklin developed a chronic neurological illness that began during the period of his electrical researches and that recurred periodically for the rest of his life. Although he also suffered from gout, this other problem worried him more. Writing on March 15, 1753, of a pain in his head, he said, I wish it were in my foot, I think I could bear it better. One recurrence lasted for the better part of five months while he was in London in 1757. He wrote to his doctor about a giddiness and a swimming in my head, a humming noise, and little faint twinkling lights that disturbed his vision. The phrase violent cold, appearing often in his correspondence, was usually accompanied by mention of that same pain, dizziness, and problems with his eyesight. ³ Franklin, unlike his friend Dalibard, never recognized a connection to electricity. Since electricity could initiate contractions of the uterus, it became a tacitly understood method of obtaining abortions. Francis Lowndes, for example, was a London electrician with an extensive practice who advertised that he treated poor women gratis for amenorrhea. ⁹

Table 1 lists the effects on humans, reported by most early electricians, of an electric charge or small currents of DC electricity. Electrically sensitive people today will recognize most if not all of them. Table 1 - Effects of Electricity as Reported in the Eighteenth Century 3. Electrical Sensitivity

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Jennifer Wood is an architect who has lived and worked throughout the world. In 1996, she experienced radiation poisoning resulting from over-exposure to widespread commercial cell phone use and other forms of wireless technology while writing a long novel that attracted the attention of the film director, Oliver Stone. Pieter van Musschenbroek, professor of physics at the University of Leyden, had been using his usual friction machine. It was a glass globe that he spun rapidly on its axis while he rubbed it with his hands to produce the electric fluid—what we know today as static electricity. Hanging from the ceiling by silk cords was an iron gun barrel, almost touching the globe. It was called the prime conductor, and was normally used to draw sparks of static electricity from the rubbed, rotating glass sphere. In the 4th and most speculative category, Firstenberg believes all life is part of a global electric circuit and that the ongoing launch of (eventually) thousands of SpaceX Starlink satellites (with pulsing EMF) into the ionosphere, which are meant to provide internet access to the entire world, will disrupt this natural circuit, and END all life on this planet! Electrotherapy finally fell permanently out of favor in the early twentieth century, perhaps, one suspects, because it was incompatible with what was then going on in the world. Electricity was no longer a subtle force that had anything to do with living things. It was a dynamo, capable of propelling locomotives and executing prisoners, not curing patients. But sparks delivered by a friction machine, a century and a half before the world was wired, carried quite different associations. In the early 1970s, atmospheric physicists discovered that the earth's magnetic field was significantly disturbed by human electrical activity. By injecting a signal into space and capturing its echo, it was established that the initial signal had in fact been modified by multiples of the 60 Hz power grid used in North America.

No safety studies have been done. Humans are the test tubes. Is it that far out to opine that 5G and the Wuhan virus pandemic are connected? If you study a map that shows 5G concentrations you can see there is a correlation with the areas hardest hit with deaths by Covid. But suggestions that 5G is involved with be met with charges of “conspiracy theory.” Making money, after all, is the most important thing we do. Money trumps health concerns. In the 3rd category, Firstenberg links plagues with EMF. He notes the historical correlation between plagues and sunspots, which vary with the sun's magnetic field. Firstenberg says that influenza used to be infrequent but after 1889, it became an annual event due to widespread electrification. (AC power line harmonics can actually be detected in the upper atmosphere.) He blames the 1918/57/68 pandemics on major shifts in human EMF, which perturb the earth's natural EMF state: 1918 (widespread introduction of radio due to WWI); 1957 (widespread deployment of radar); 1968 (28 military satellites were activated in the magnetosphere). Firstenberg notes that numerous attempts to PROVE that the 1918 pandemic (which killed 20-50 million people worldwide) was an infectious disease all failed. There are three people in the early and mid twentieth century whose experimental results can and most certainly should revolutionize medicine again. Embryologist Sylvan Meryl Rose found that salamander’s severed limbs were “strongly positive during the first few days after injury, then reversed polarity to become strongly negative for the next couple of weeks, finally reestablishing the weakly negative voltage found on all healthy salamander legs. Rose then found that salamanders would regenerate their legs normally, even without a nerve supply, provided he carefully duplicated, with an artificial source of current, the electrical patterns of healing that he had observed” (151). I wonder if humans could regenerate limbs in the same way.

Then Nollet had the idea to place his subjects on the floor underneath the electrified metal cage instead of in it, and they still lost as much, and even a bit more weight than when they were electrified themselves. Nollet had also observed an acceleration in the growth of seedlings sprouted in electrified pots; this too occurred when the pots were only placed on the floor beneath. Finally, wrote Nollet, I made a person sit for five hours on a table near the electrified metal cage. The young woman lost 4½ drams more weight than when she had actually been electrified herself. ²³ THE EXPERIMENT OF LEYDEN was a craze that was immense, universal: everywhere you went people would ask you if you had experienced its effects. The year was 1746. The place, any city in England, France, Germany, Holland, Italy. A few years later, America. Like a child prodigy making his debut, electricity had arrived, and the whole Western world turned out to hear his performance. From their experiences Winkler took away the lesson that electricity was not to be inflicted upon the living. And so he converted his machine into a great beacon of warning. I read in the newspapers from Berlin, he wrote, that they had tried these electrical flashes upon a bird, and had made it suffer great pain thereby. I did not repeat this experiment; for I think it wrong to give such pain to living creatures. He therefore wrapped an iron chain around the bottle, leading to a piece of metal underneath the gun barrel. When then the electrification is made, he continued, the sparks that fly from the pipe upon the metal are so large and so strong, that they can be seen (even in the day time) and heard at the distance of fifty yards. They represent a beam of lightning, of a clear and compact line of fire; and they give a sound that frightens the people that hear it.

Duchenne knew the anatomy of the ear in great detail, in fact it was for the purpose of elucidating the function of the nerve called the chorda tympani, which passes through the middle ear, that he asked a few deaf people to volunteer to be the subjects of electrical experiments. The incidental and unexpected improvement in their hearing caused Duchenne to be inundated with requests from within the deaf community to come to Paris for treatments. And so he began to minister to large numbers of people with nerve deafness, using the same apparatus that he had designed for his research, which fit snugly into the ear canal and contained a stimulating electrode. There is no doubt that electricity sometimes cured diseases, both major and minor. The reports of success, over almost two centuries, were sometimes exaggerated, but they are too numerous and often too detailed and well-attested to dismiss them all. Even in the early 1800s, when electricity was not in good repute, reports continued to emerge that cannot be ignored. For example, the London Electrical Dispensary, between September 29, 1793, and June 4, 1819, admitted 8,686 patients for electrical treatment. Of these, 3,962 were listed as cured, and another 3,308 as relieved when they were discharged—an 84 percent success rate. ¹ 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.

The fourth century Chinese understood electricity long before 18th century europeans did. Qi is electricity (123), and yin and yang are negative and positive. “The pure Yang forms the heaven, and the turbid Yin forms the earth. The Qi of the earth ascends and turns into clouds, while the Qi f the heaven descends and turns into rain” (42). “Every acupuncture point has a double function: as an amplifier for the internal electrical signals, boosting their strength as they travel along the meridians; and as an antenna that receives electromagnetic signals from the environment. The dantians, or energy centers of Chinese medicine, located in the head, heart, and abdomen—equivalent to the chakras of Indian tradition—are electromagnetic oscillators that resonate at particular frequencies, and that communicate with the meridians and regulate their flow” (123-124). “When the surface of the skin was stained with the dye, only points along the meridians absorbed it” (126). Few individuals today are able to grasp the entirety of a scientific subject and present it in a highly engaging manner . . . Firstenberg has done just that with one of the most pressing but neglected problems of our technological age."—BRADLEY JOHNSON,MD, Amen Clinic, San Francisco Read this book and be alarmed. It's perfectly OK to know when your life and the life of this planet are under direct and immediate threat from a toxic unnatural source, in this case it's all man-made.

The powers that shouldn't be are the controllers of the narrative. It's obvious that discussions related to EMF influences are being stymied by those powers and the laws in place to protect their agenda. In this book, Firstenburg lays out the history of the scientific study of electricity. He lays out some of the research and studies that have been done on the topic as well as the consequences of those studies. Many of these studies and their results on living things seem to have been lost despite evidence to prove the contrary. is being rolled out across the country, despite growing evidence that it is disruptive to our health, our safety, and the environment. The Invisible Rainbow is the groundbreaking story of electricity as it’s never been told before—exposing its very real impact on the biosphere and human health.

The story of electricity and its previously ignored effects on humans, plants, animals and the earth’s magnetosphere open the door to a better, more informed future. Despite thousands of peer-reviewed scientific studies, much of the population is presently unaware of this issue. The term electrical sensitivity, in use again today, reveals a truth but conceals a reality. The truth is that not everyone feels or conducts electricity to the same degree. In fact if most people were aware of how vast the spectrum of sensitivity really is, they would have reason to be as astonished as Humboldt was, and as I still am. But the hidden reality is that however great the apparent differences between us, electricity is still part and parcel of our selves, as necessary to life as air and water. It is as absurd to imagine that electricity doesn’t affect someone because he or she is not aware of it, as to pretend that blood doesn’t circulate in our veins when we are not thirsty. Just as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring warned the mid-twentieth century about the dangers of indiscriminate chemical and pesticide use, Arthur Firstenberg’s Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life provides a comprehensive analysis of the perils of electricity’s proliferation and exposure to its electromagnetic radiation.” Imagine you were a patient in 1750 suffering from arthritis. Your electrician would seat you in a chair that had glass legs so that it was well insulated from the ground. This was done so that when you were connected to the friction machine, you would accumulate the electric fluid in your body instead of draining it into the earth. Depending on the philosophy of your electrician, the severity of your disease, and your own tolerance for electricity, there were a number of ways to electrize you. In the electric bath, which was the most gentle, you would simply hold in your hand a rod connected to the prime conductor, and the machine would be cranked continuously for minutes or hours, communicating its charge throughout your body and creating an electrical aura around you. If this was done gently enough, you would feel nothing—just as a person who shuffles their feet on a carpet can accumulate a charge on their body without being aware of it.