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Electrical Pollution
By Shivani Arjuna
From Educate-Yourself.org
1-25-4

(This article was written for publication in the quarterly of The
American Polarity Therapy Association.)

Electrical pollution, invisible, silent, odorless, tasteless, is the
perfect pollutant. We have not evolved any methods of sensing its
presence. A few people, like me, have become "electrically sensitive"
and are able to know when we are being exposed due to immediate
symptoms that we experience, but most people, even if exposed to
levels and wave lengths that are literally killing them, notice
nothing. Everyone living in areas of the world with electricity is
being negatively affected. It is only a question of degree. (Dr.
Neil Cherry, Evidence That Electromagnetic Radiation Is Genotoxic:
the implications for the epidemiology of cancer and cardiac,
neurological and reproductive effects. His presentation to New
Zealand Parliament in May 2000, European Parliament in June, 2000.
Look for link at www.electricalpollution.com/ Monumental.)

Electricity is termed dirty or polluted when the normal 60 cycle sine
wave carries with it various high frequencies, which damage
electronics and living beings. Industry and large corporations spend
billions to protect their electronic equipment from this, but nobody
is looking out for humans.

The present pollution is created as electricity passes through
anything electronic, which ãchops upä the sine wave and then dumps
these high frequencies into the current as it is passed on. This RF
(radio frequency) energy causes neurological, cardiac, respiratory,
ophthalmological, dermatological and other conditions ranging in
severity from headaches, fatigue and ADD to pneumonia, psychosis and
strokes. (No Place To Hide Volume 3, Number 1, April 2001, Special
Issue on Russian and Ukrainian Research Editor Arthur Firstenberg
lists all proven RF symptoms. Can be obtained at (718) 434-4499 or
see at www.electricalpollution.com/) Childhood leukemia, a good
indicator, is markedly higher in areas with electrical pollution
from ground current. (N. Wertheimer, D. Savitz & E. Leeper Childhood
cancer In relation to indicators of magnetic fields from ground
current sources, Bioelectromagnetics, Vol. 16, pp. 86-96, 1995))

In the old days before electronics, electrical power was polluted at
the source, by brushes in the generators. A monumental
epidemiological study using childhood leukemia as a marker found an
absolutely correlating increase in this disease in areas of the USA,
Africa and Europe as they sequentially became electrified. (Samuel
Milham & E.M. Ossiander, Historical evidence that residential
electrification caused the emergence of childhood leukemia peak,
Medical Hypotheses, vol. 56, #3, 2001, pp. 290-295) Generators now
produce clean power but modern pollution levels are much higher due
to electronics.

For every electron that leaves a substation, one must return. As
electricity polluted with high frequencies likes to spread out in
what is called the skin effect, the presently inadequate utility
wiring system causes 70% of the return current to flow across the
surface of the earth. Most people think the earth soaks up
electricity like a sponge. It does not. Electricity just flows over
the surface, like water over a brick. This ground current is
attracted to, and enters your home on, water pipes, gas mains and
phone lines, greatly increasing the amount of high-frequency
exposure you already have from your own electrical service. Various
metal structures in your home, from wiring and lamp cords to fins in
electric baseboards and the metal springs in your bed actually
broadcast these harmful frequencies right through your body 24 hours
a day, whether or not any electrical appliances in your house are
turned on. In many places attempts to ground bring in more current
than they take out!

You may have read that strong EMF is created by your refrigerator,
hair dryer, etcetera. This is true, but the electronics in your
house are really quite a small part of the picture as electricity is
already extremely RF-polluted when it enters your home, from
everybody "upstream." It is not commonly known even by those who
write on this subject, nor by many who do professional remediation,
that the RF is the main culprit.

Doctors are as unaware of this situation as everyone else, so the
best way to determine whether someone's health problems are related
to RF is to lower the RF levels and see what happens. In schools and
homes where RF remediation has been done, many kids with Attention
Deficit Disorder suddenly don't have it any more, and teachers with
mysterious maladies that kept them from working a full work week now
don't miss a day. Kids who had such severe asthma they needed
nebulizer treatments no longer do and many chronic headaches and
complaints of chronic tiredness have melted away. (Melrose
Chronicle, Melrose, WI 2/26/03) Many diabetics find that their need
for insulin drops dramatically or even ends when they avoid RF, and
conversely that it increases when they are exposed. (My friend and
mentor Dave Stetzer's blood sugar skyrockets within minutes when he
is exposed to RF, which for him has proven to be the sole causative
factor. To date, the blood sugar of every person he has tested is
affected within minutes.) Cows give up to 10 more pounds of milk per
day on the days when the RF in their environment is low (Donald
Hillman et al, Relationship of electric power quality to milk
production of dairy herds, Shocking News, 9/11/02 Also avail. at
wwww.electricalpollution.com), and 20 pounds more if power quality is
remediated and remains clean (Conversation with power quality expert
Dave Stetzer of Blair, WI). I myself have needed less thyroid
hormone as my electrical environment has been improved, yet notably
more on days with more RF exposure. [Since writing this, I have been
able to discontinue use of thyroid hormone altogether, after
spending some tme away from home in a yet cleaner electrical
environment.]

My own story illustrates both the effects of RF exposure and the
challenges of dealing with them We live in a Wisconsin Winnie-the-
Pooh three-acre beech and maple woods surrounded by farms and
woodland. Not a place where youâd expect to find dangerous
environmental pollution, so that was not suspected when I began to
have "spells." Although I previously had low blood pressure, I began
experiencing spells of a sudden, sharp rise in blood pressure with
skyrocketing pulse rate and wild cardiac arrhythmia. I was taken to
the ER by ambulance twice, but by the time I got there pronounced
normal. $18,000 worth of medical tests, including a MRI of my brain,
as finally a tumor was suspected, found nothing to account for these
and other bizarre, frightening symptoms,. Bewildered doctors finally
pronounced that I was "just having panic attacks". They prescribed
beta blockers, which block normal stimulation of many bodily systems
including the heart, but these rendered me so zombielike that I
refused them. Insomnia increased to the point where I was sleeping,
in broken bits, from 3-5 hours a night. I felt as if I was made out
of paper. Just breathing and walking felt taxing. My anxiety level
was extreme, my adrenals were exhausted and my thyroid needed help
from hormone replacement. Already slender, I became a shadow. My
husband had to care for me, and I wasn't sure I was going to survive.

I had previously read a bit about EMF, and it occurred to me to try
some experiments, such as sleeping in different places in the house.
I noticed immediate symptoms if I went near a TV, a telephone, a car
fan, the water pipes in our house.... (Later I would discover I had
become electrically sensitive, a sort of walking EMF meter, affected
by dimmer switches, electric heating systems, computers in banks and
post offices, the chair at the dentists office, .... ) At least now
I had a clue. Fortunately, I was put in touch with a power quality
engineer who graciously taught me about power quality and how
to clean up my immediate environment and save my life. We did
experiments and took readings with a variety of meters, indoors and
out. We put in shielded phone lines, moved water pipes, made the
first few feet of incoming water pipe nonconductive (Some RF still
jumps onto the pipes from house wiring.). We gutted old electric
baseboards that though disconnected were broadcasting RF over large
areas including our bedroom, and got all metal out of and away from
the bed. We installed RF filters, removed dimmer switches and
fluorescent lights, sold the aquarium, got me a speaker phone and a
laptop computer I use on battery only, and I avoid the high-field
parts of the yard.

With each of these steps results were immediate and dramatic. The
cardiac symptoms ceased. I was able to sleep. My anxiety level
dropped. My recovery has been steady and I am much better. Only,
however, to the extent to which I am able to avoid RF. I was exposed
to extreme levels of electrical pollution for many months, and
remain electrically sensitive to date, with quite-circumscribed
activities. Even at home, RF is not totally unavoidable when the
power is on. I am markedly better on days spent away from the house
in areas free of ground current, and in warm weather when the main
can be off at night.

Though our local power quality was shown by independent test to be
poorer than most, toxic electricity is a chronic, severe stress
affecting virtually everyone, that only increases as the pollution
proliferates. Individuals who have cleaned up their immediate
environments universally notice dramatic improvement in a wide range
of conditions and symptoms, usually of conditions that they had never
thought of as related to electrical pollution.

I offer the following points and ideas for your further
consideration. ( Space here allows for only a small portion of the
relevant facts. Please get in touch for more information.)

- If you have clients who, in spite of doing "all the right things"
still do not flourish, consider what RF they are living in.

- I gave several Polarity sessions to a woman whose apartment was by
a hefty electric cable, with EMF levels high enough to cause
childhood leukemia. The usual techniques simply did not work there.
How does EMF affect Polarity sessions?

- Dr. Robert Becker theorizes that healers sense a disease site in a
patient through radiating an EMF from their hands which induces EM
resonance in the patient, the return signal then being felt by the
healer. A resonant action occurs between the fields given off by the
healer and the intrinsic electrical-control systems within the
patient's body. "While these currents have a vanishingly small flow,
they would nonetheless produce local DC magnetic fields within the
tissues. These fields, in combination with a frequency given off by
the healer, could result in resonance with other charged particles."
As the theory rests on complex resonance, the Earth's magnetic field
must be involved. Dr. Becker therefore reasons that healers have
greater diagnostic and healing ability during times of quiet
geomagnetic field conditions and that their abilities are adversely
affected by magnetic storms and locations in which man-made magnetic
fields or extra low frequency (ELF) fields are present. (Becker,
Cross Currents, 240-241) An important issue for Polarity therapists
to consider and research.

- The current induced in the body is a product of field strength and
frequency. A field oscillating at 180 Hz induces three times the
current in you as a 60-cycle field does. In such a field, every cell
in the body will experience a shift in polarity 180 times a second.

- Our natural body currents are DC. Earth itself has a very strong DC
field with which we evolved. AC is damaging to living systems,
inducing currents within them which DC does not.

- The Earth's field fluctuates with time of day. Different organ
systems of the body are more energized at different times of day.
Sensitivity to the minute fluxes in the Earthâs natural magnetic
field is the most important component of our circadian rhythms.
(Levitt, ibid., 118-120)

- Dr. Becker believes "That humans interact so fundamentally with the
earth's magnetic fields...may be the most important biological
discovery of the 20th century." It may also be a hidden variable in
all research.

- The belief that only ionizing (heating) radiation can harm living
organisms has been absolutely disproven, yet persists as the basis
for official exposure guidelines.

- Living organisms are sensitive electromagnetic systems that run on
millivolts. Vanishingly small charges far below the threshold of
awareness affect them. (Exposure guidelines set by utility-supported
"experts" are still based on voltage, to avoid palpable shocks. The
frequency of the field or current is, however, the key factor.)

- Safety standards are based on exposures considered safe for the
average adult male, however children are more affected by EMF than
adults. The greater the cell division rate, the more chances for
something to go wrong, and the growth processes themselves are
affected by EMF, babies in utero being most affected. Field-created
defects are permanent and are passed on to succeeding generations,
for instance the inheritance of brain-tumor tendency in children of
men with high occupational exposures. ( Dr. S Nordstrum, "Effects of
paternal EMF exposure on offspring, Bioelectromagnetics, vol. 4, pp.
91-101, 1983) "There may also be frequency-specific windows for
different organ systems, meaning that certain exposures may be
particularly detrimental at fixed times during fetal growth."
(Levitt, ibid.)

-Each individual is a unique receiving antenna. For instance, one' s
height affects which wavelengths one receives most easily. ( Polk,
ibid. chapter 9) Weight and fat/water content play roles, as do
metals (teeth, implants) in the body. ( C. Polk & J.H. Song,
Electric fields induced by LF magnetic fields in in homogenous
biological structures... Bioelectromagnetics vol. 11, 235-249, 1990)

- Cell polarity is disrupted by EMF and currents, with profound
effects. Healthy cells have: polarized walls with positive charge
outside, negative inside; few and small pores; calcium ions mostly
outside cells; ability to communicate with other cells via
molecules; ability to attract attaching information-bearing
molecules. Their ability to choose what to allow in and out depends
on electrical charges on ions like calcium, sodium, proteins,
sugars, hormones, etcetera, as well as pore size and cell wall
polarity. Cells affected by EMF and currents: lose polarity; have
calcium ions equally inside and out; lose ability to manufacture
enzymes; have more and larger pores, allowing waste molecules to
penetrate the cell. If the field or current is of long duration, the
cells die. This is called electroporation. (J.C. Weaver,Molecular
basis for cell membrane electroporation, Annals of the New York
Academy of Sciences, Vol. 720, pp. 141-152, 1994. Several more
references listed in CURE booklet.)

- Melatonin production is decreased by exposure to EMF. Though most
known as the hormone necessary for good sleep, melatonin has such
numerous functions that wellness is not possible when it is
insufficient. It regulates our internal clock, affects gonadal
hormones, moods and behavior and the immune system and exerts direct
effects on the growth of breast, prostate and colon cancers. (R.P.
Liburdy et al, ELF magnetic fields, breast cancer and melatonin,
Journal of Pineal

- We are particularly sensitive to EMF during sleep, the time when
various healing activities take place in the body. (It is interesting
that the front-to-back polarity of our brains reverses during this
time. Levitt, ibid.133) The effects of spending eight hours asleep
in a toxic electrical field are severe.

- Resonance occurs when an aspect of a force, such its wave length,
matches a characteristic of an object receiving the force. This
allows the power inherent in the force to be maximally transferred
to the object, causing it to vibrate. (The crystal goblet when the
opera singer hits high C, for instance.) Within the object, the
resonance is self-perpetuating. You and I are objects being thus
affected.

- Cyclotron resonance enables very low-strength EM fields, acting in
concert with the Earth's steady-state magnetic field, to produce
major biological effects by concentrating the energy in the applied
field upon specific particles, such as the biologically important
ions of sodium, calcium, potassium, and lithium. This resonance is
produced by frequencies between 1 and 100 hertz. European
electricity is 50 hertz and N. American is 60 hertz! Yet safety
standards have been based on power, not frequency. (Becker, ibid.
235)

We need to learn as much as possible about how our highly sensitive
electromagnetic energy systems are affected by external electric
fields entering the body. Presently, both military and utility
establishments exercise undemocratic freedom in ways very harmful to
the citizenry and no one is looking out for individuals regarding
EMF. We must educate ourselves and take protective measures on our
own.

The literal future of humanity depends on our ability to live with
increasing amounts of high-frequency radiation. Polarity
practitioners have the perfect background to do further research on
the effects of EMF and come up with health-saving remedial measures.
Please get in touch with the author if this interests you, and also
for much more information than could be included here, including
numerous household remediation techniques.

RESOURCES: Good introduction, info. on RF filters at
www.electricalpollution.com See also http://emfacts.com/,
http://www.ortho.lsumc.edu/Faculty/Marino/EMF.html and
www.emfguru.org. B. Blake Levitt's book, ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
includes much not elsewhere readily available re. the effects of EMF
on animals and plant life. Dr. Robert O. Becker's book, CROSS
CURRENTS, is a "must read." Call C.U.R.E at 715-564-3362 for an
information-dense booklet with 200 references. ( I suggest a $5
donation.) Out of print but still available is Lucinda Grantâs
HANDBOOK OF ELECTRICAL SENSITIVITY.