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The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life
The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life
The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life
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The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life

By Arthur Firstenberg

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5g 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.

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Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is ‘safe’ for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling the story of electricity in a way it has never been told before—from an environmental point of view—by detailing the effects that this fundamental societal building block has had on our health and our planet.

In The Invisible Rainbow, Firstenberg traces the history of electricity from the early eighteenth century to the present, making a compelling case that many environmental problems, as well as the major diseases of industrialized civilization—heart disease, diabetes, and cancer—are related to electrical pollution.

"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

"[A] masterpiece."—Celia Farber, investigative journalist

"This seminal book...will transform your understanding ...of the environmental and health effects of electricity and radio frequencies"—Paradigm Explorer

LanguageEnglish
PublisherChelsea Green Publishing
Release dateMar 9, 2020
ISBN9781645020103
The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life
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Arthur Firstenberg

Arthur Firstenberg is a scientist and journalist who is at the forefront of a global movement to tear down the taboo surrounding this subject. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University with a degree in mathematics, he attended the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine from 1978 to 1982. Injury by X-ray overdose cut short his medical career. For the past thirty-eight years he has been a researcher, consultant, and lecturer on the health and environmental effects of electromagnetic radiation, as well as a practitioner of several healing arts.

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  • 5/5
    A very informative book, highlighting what has been the problem all along…electricity! All of these technological advancements comes a a very steep price: our health!
  • 5/5
    This is a remarkable book about a subject of which I had very little awareness. It has truly opened my eyes to the electronic soup we're living in. A must read!

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  • 5/5
    This author has done seriously extensive research.
    This is a must read for every person who wants answers to what the hell is going on in our insane world and the truth behind all these new illnesses that are popping up that are ignored unless Big Pharm can make money with a symptom pill.
    They have known the cause of cancer and other serious diseases taking out millions every year yet those in authority ignore persecute and remove anyone who speaks up.
    People seriously need to wake up and stop this insane destruction of our planet in the false pretence of advancement.
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The Invisible Rainbow - Arthur Firstenberg

The INVISIBLE RAINBOW

A History of Electricity and Life

Arthur Firstenberg

Chelsea Green Publishing

White River Junction, Vermont

London, UK

Copyright © 2017, 2020 by Arthur Firstenberg.

All rights reserved.

Drawings on pages 3 and 159 copyright © 2017 by Monika Steinhoff.

Two bees drawing by Ulrich Warnke, used with permission.

No part of this book may be transmitted or reproduced in any form by any means without permission in writing from the publisher.

Originally published in 2017 by AGB Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Sucre, Bolivia.

This paperback edition published by Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020.

Book layout: Jim Bisakowski

Cover design: Ann Lowe

Printed in Canada.

First printing February 2020.

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 20 21 22 23 24

Our Commitment to Green Publishing

Chelsea Green sees publishing as a tool for cultural change and ecological stewardship. We strive to align our book manufacturing practices with our editorial mission and to reduce the impact of our business enterprise in the environment. We print our books and catalogs on chlorine-free recycled paper, using vegetable-based inks whenever possible. This book may cost slightly more because it was printed on paper that contains recycled fiber, and we hope you’ll agree that it’s worth it. The Invisible Rainbow was printed on paper supplied by Marquis that is made of recycled materials and other controlled sources.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020930536

ISBN 978-1-64502-009-7 (paperback) | 978-1-64502-010-3 (ebook)

Chelsea Green Publishing

85 North Main Street, Suite 120

White River Junction, VT 05001

(802) 295-6300

www.chelseagreen.com

In memory of Pelda Levey—friend, mentor, and fellow traveler.

Author’s Note

FOR EASE OF READING I have kept the endnotes to a minimum. However, all sources referred to in the text can be found in the bibliography at the back of the book, together with other principal works I have consulted. For the convenience of those interested in particular subjects, the literature in the bibliography is organized by chapter, and within some chapters by topic, instead of the usual single alphabetical listing.

A.F.

Contents

Prologue

PART I From the Beginning…

1. Captured in a Bottle

2. The Deaf to Hear, and the Lame to Walk

3. Electrical Sensitivity

4. The Road Not Taken

5. Chronic Electrical Illness

6. The Behavior of Plants

7. Acute Electrical Illness

8. Mystery on the Isle of Wight

9. Earth’s Electric Envelope

10. Porphyrins and the Basis of Life

PART II … To the Present

11. Irritable Heart

12. The Transformation of Diabetes

13. Cancer and the Starvation of Life

14. Suspended Animation

15. You mean you can hear electricity?

16. Bees, Birds, Trees, and Humans

Photographs

17. In the Land of the Blind

Notes

Bibliography

About the Author

Prologue

ONCE UPON A TIME, the rainbow visible in the sky after a storm represented all the colors there were. Our earth was designed that way. We have a blanket of air above us that absorbs the higher ultraviolets, together with all of the X-rays and gamma rays from space. Most of the longer waves, that we use today for radio communication, were once absent as well. Or rather, they were there in infinitesimal amounts. They came to us from the sun and stars but with energies that were a trillion times weaker than the light that also came from the heavens. So weak were the cosmic radio waves that they would have been invisible, and so life never developed organs that could see them.

The even longer waves, the low-frequency pulsations given off by lightning, are also invisible. When lightning flashes, it momentarily fills the air with them, but they are almost gone in an instant; their echo, reverberating around the world, is roughly ten billion times weaker than the light from the sun. We never evolved organs to see this either.

But our bodies know that those colors are there. 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. The electricity that we