Introduction

What follows here is a fairly comprehensive discussion of a relatively new and unknown health and allergy issue. Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) are present in anything that's run by electricity or contains it. World Health Organization, several international medical communities and an increasing number of health care practioners are integrating EMF analysis into their practices.

Health effects can be muscle pain, memory loss, brain fog, chronic fatigue, attention deficit disorder, wounds slow to heal, headaches, finger tingling, carpal tunnel syndrome, and effects on your vision and sleep.

Many other things can produce any or all of these symptoms. EMF is something that should be considered and either verified or ruled out early... which is easy enough to do. Not doing it can be expensive, frustrating and health impairing.

The fields from electricity are a stressor (adding to the many we already tolerate) just as all other forms of pollution, many of which are also invisible.

EMF is present in your car, your home, your workplace, your children's school. It is unavoidable, but can be dealt with responsibly through Prudent Avoidance once you make them detectable. Simple metering devices can do that.

Changing anyone's EMF environment will have beneficial effects. Some people are highly sensitized to them and without changes their health will not improve.

What follows here is intended to be a discussion of what we know about EMF issues sufficiently detailed and comprehensive in scope to allow any serious inquiry or treatment to find sufficient information to produce results. It is also arranged by subject to allow selecting subjects relevant at the time, quick access to information and a return to the discussion later as needed.

Many websites and publications will offer varying opinions on the subject of EMF. This one is produced by people who live with the hypersensitization and necessitated lifestyle and environmental changes necessitated by the measured and definite reactions discussed below ... and have proven to themselves its accuracy through trial, error and a lot of pain.

Its usefulness for you will depend on a determination you effect for yourself examining their presence in your own life.

EMF (electro-magnetic fields)...what are they????

What is a field?

There are thousands of invisible things that affect us every day: bacteria, viruses, molecules, chemical pollution...to name a few.

As in the cases of bacteria prior to their discovery by Luis Pasteur, the deadliness of the polio virus prior to the salk vaccine or the effects of chemical pollution prior to environmentalism .... the damaging effects of these invisible entities did not wait for our discovery to affect us. We are at exactly the same turning point with Electro-Magnetic Fields and human health.

Physics defines a field as anything that can transmit energy from one object to another without physical contact. We live with them every day. How does the sun's energy warm you on earth? How does your channel changer control your tv from across the room with no wires? Where are the lines connecting your cellphones?

These devices accept your sounds or commands, electronically convert them into electro-magnetic fields, transmit them across space without a physical connection and reconvert them into useable end products on the other end...invisably and without physical connections. They are there...in the space between the ends...alive and well, whether you see them or not. They can be easily detected and measures...made visible.... with competently constructed metering devices and have been for 200 years. They are not a mystery or anything new...just widely unknown. My first course in them was as a junior in the Physics Department of the University of Colorado (Boulder) in 1968 (the only college course I ever flunked...ironically).

A good analogy to help us understand EMF is to imagine yourself swimming in a lake as a speedboat passes leaving waves in its wake. The boat's energy parts the water, the water forms waves, the waves rock you in their wake. There is no connection between you and the boat...but there is an effect...one that can lull you if its small...or drown you if its huge.

Any time electricity travels down a wire, it creates exactly similar wave energy in its path which radiates out from the source and if anything is within proximity (they die off naturally with distance) that something is affected...whether we see it or not.

Electro-magnetic fields are the glue which literally holds together all of physical reality as we know it. EMFs are the reasons electrons do not fly away from the nucleus of atoms, they are the bonding mechanism that forms molecules, they are the cement which forms molecules into cells and they are the communication mechanism which controls our entire endocrine and nervous systems. EMF is what lie detectors, electroencephalograms and electrocardiograms measure...the silent and invisible electrical energy waves that literally run us and the world around us.

It is quite literally impossible for us to create artificial, man-made electromagnetic fields, then saturate ourselves in them and not have something result. In the words of Janey Sorenson (at the time Public Relations Director for the local power company)..."How can there not be an effect?"

There is no such thing as a living plant or animal (homo sapiens included) which is not affected by manmade EMF... any more than we could expect to be immune to bacteria or viruses just because we don't know about them or can't see them.

What makes them

Electro-magnetic fields are formed any time electricity is present or moving. Many things produce these fields: generators, power plants, power lines, house wiring in the walls, outlets, batteries, cords, appliances, computers, televisions, cell phones...anything that contains electrical power.

Even though something as small as a bedside clock radio may not show anything emanating from it, it is producing fields. In fact, they are one of the major culprits in sleep-disorders produced by electrical devices in close proximity to our sleeping positions.

Elecro-Magnetic Field Meters make them visible and measurable. A very short period of time with a good one can bring you into a dramatically different perception of your environment...and probably, a much healthier one.

The difference between Ac and Dc electricity

We deal with two radically different types of electricity...AC and DC. DC (which stands for Direct Current) is the kind that comes from batteries, which have a positive and a negative post. A wire connected between these two activation posts will pass electrical energy only in one direction...from the positive to the negative. This current or stream of energy will be continuous and always travel in the same direction and will continue until all the energy stored in the battery is depleted. As you will see, from a health standpoint, we consider this (DC) electricity safe and benign ...that is, it is not generally connected with any of the health issues which are of concern with AC (Alternating Current). One reason for this is that the planet on which we evolved (at least most of us) produces very large DC fields because of its rotation and the metals in its core. Typically meters are not designed to measure DC fields because that is an added expense and typically not a health concern.

Alternating Current (AC) is quite another story. AC is produced by rotating generators (from the emergency gas generator on your RV to the ones powering the transmissions lines at Glen Canyon Dam...there is one at the end of every power line in the world...that's where our electricity comes from. There are natural AC fields...which we have also evolved to tolerate, but the ones of concern in human health issues and the ones we consider in this discussion are the ones man himself makes with his own technology.

Generators make energy by rotating and the energy they produce does not travel up one wire and back through another. It jiggles (or alternates) back and forth fairly rapidly as the generator turns from positive to negative posts. By a neat trick of science discovered by Nikoli Tessla in the late 1800's and utilized by the electrical industry today, this alternating current does not peter out when passed down a long power line, like DC does. For that reason, we can make AC electricity at Lake Powel and send it down a wire to fire a television set in Hollywood or your home.

Most, if not all, of the electrical power in your home, work place, children's school and restaurants is Alternating Current (AC), You pay a power bill monthly for a dose of it. (You do, but I don't...and as you'll see, the reason is that I know better).

A potential stressor

The metal electrons in the generator, power line, electrical panel, wiring, outlets and appliances in your home are not the only things that the Alternating Current you buy monthly are jiggling.

The fields surrounding all of these electrical devices are sending alternating current energy into the space around them. Because our bodies are made up of electrons, molecules, cells and nerve impulses easily affected by these fields...they feel an effects...sometimes a big or damaging one...usually they feel many.

If you don't know that this is happening and where they are, you may very well account things you know about...sleepless nites, headaches, skin irritation, arthritis flare ups to whatever. Only after you know about, credence (or at least openly scrutinize) their existence and effect, measure them and experiment to determine cause and effect from exposure will you be able to clearly and scientifically determine their effect. Some people react...some don't. We don't know why, but we do know beyond a doubt that they do. But the question is...do you?

Because EMF is acting to interfere or modify your endocrine system (which creates all your body chemistry), your nervous system impulses, your cellular functions, your body energy (or Chi...as per Eastern Medical Terminology) and your immune functions, it is or can be an environmental stressor functioning exactly the same way as chemical pollution, emotion stress, exhaustion or disease affect your body and mind.

Very often, partially explained problems with sleep, immune disease or stress become completely and thoroughly understandable when EMF is added as a possible contaminant. It is very seldom the only problem, but is invariably a potent ingredient in maladjustment to our environment....which is the origin of all disease, if you think about it.

Especially if you notice a consistent change or problem associated with going into a certain space, operating your car, sleeping in a certain bed...EMF is a prime suspect and is easily credenced or omitted as the culprit...measure it, analyze it, change it.

As in all venues of Environmental Medicine...we assume that what is wrong is wrong with the environment, not the body. Our bodies have evolved over millions of years and are quite adept at providing us with health, unless there is a problem in the environment...what we term an Environmental Annomaly...mold, bacteria, pollution, stray fields.

Cure the anomaly and the body will heal itself. It is a disastrous and obvious mistake to bring an environmentally damaged body to a health practitioner, dose the body with pharmaceuticals or herbs and then return it to the contaminated environment. It will up the scale. Our immune systems are trying to tell us something...and they will succeed...(or leave).

In Environmental Medicine, we fix what we've screwed up in the environment and let the sophistication of our physiology take care of itself...which is and will for all time remain far smarter than you and I will ever be.... and has been for millions of years.

Electric vs. Magnetic Fields

As if things weren't complicated enough already...we have two, not just one, kind of fields besides AC and DC. That's why the word Electro-Magnetic is hyphenated. There are electrical fields and magnetic fields.

Electrical fields happen any time electricity is present, whether the appliance is on (and the current is moving through it) or not. For that reason, an outlet will measure an electrical field with nothing plugged it. A light fixture has one even if its off. Electricity when its not moving will not produce a magnetic field.

Magnetic fields only happen when power is in motion...electricity running down a power line, a refrigerator motor when its running, an electric range when the burners are hot.

It is very difficult to find meters which measure both accurately and within known effective ranges. Just because one is there does not mean the other is or isn't. This has to be measured and tested.

Typically, the magnetic field is dangerous...associated with lethal brain cancer and leukemia. The electrical fields are irritating, but not pathological...they are more commonly associated with sleep deprivation, irritation, memory loss, chronic fatigue, etc.

Now, if you really wanted to get lost in the science, we could get into a dissertation on how magnetic fields traveling create electrical fields and how electrical fields traveling create magnetic ones...but I know you don't have the time to go there...but they do anyway. Just thought you should know...in case you get bored or want to impress the bridge club.

 

Where Are They Found?

We have electrified so much of the planet, that it would be easier to describe where EMF is not, if indeed any such place now exists. A more useful question is where are the primary, conventional sources most typically found to be a problem and ones I should begin by considering today.

Power lines

Power lines are the most well known culprits to us all. They carry huge amounts of AC power and I have measured their fields at levels known to produce individual reactions at distances up to 1/2 mile. The problem with a field measurement on any power line on any particular day is that the amount of power the generator has traveling down them varies, literally, from minute to minute depending on the demand on the other end. There are times when a huge transmission line is carrying no power at all. If you find a high reading, believe it...if its low, try several more times for an average.

Stories are myriad and legend about the association of brain cancer, leukemia and many more minor disorders associated with power lines. Despite what a frighteningly powerful lobby from the electrical industry (remember that General Electric is not just the company that makes the huge generators, but also the largest defense contractor in the world...and by his own admission single-handedly got Ronald Reagan elected President)...the scientific evidence (see our bibliography on EMF from around the world) is overwhelmingly conclusive that these effects and dangers are real.

There is no dealing with power lines. They can only be eliminated or avoided. We have stores...if you want to hear them. Lots of them.

Cellphone and Radio Towers

The radio towers are about as publicly legend as the power lines in terms of things to avoid...radio transmissions are a form of AC fields oscillating a lot faster than the power lines, but every bit, if not more, damaging.

The irony is the proliferation and complete public denial about the dangers and inadvisability of cellphones. The cellphone proliferation has necessitated the myriad placements of new cellphone (radio)towers...ironically in the middle of many unsuspecting neighborhoods and with the complete abridgment of public protection or review due to corporate lobby power and deception. Those are problem enough.

An avalanche of health deterioration research on the phones is accumulating, chiefly in areas outside this country and in which the scientific community is less controlled by the AT&T wallop...which includes now the proliferation of its own corporate generated "scientific" research.

The basic analysis is simple. Would you buy a house next door to a radio tower? No. What do you think is right underneath the radio antennae on your cell phone? Duhhhh. I don't bother explaining this to a defensive cellphone owner. I just tune my emf meter to radio frequency and lay it on the table. They lay their cell phone next to the meter and punch the "on" button. I watch as the phone logs onto the cell tower. In a minute the meter pegs as the phone makes connection. Their eyes get about the size of silver dollars...Kind of like hitting you cerebral cortex with a digital 2x4, huh? They never answer and they never give up the convenience. Too bad they don't kill people faster, we need the population reduction.

Now the evidence of hearing deterioration and magnetic field exposure from the ear pieces are establishing ground. A big fight coming. Despite the disgusting contamination of peace and quiet as well as the loss of relaxing, dignified healthy atmospheres in our restaurants, public spaces, etc their proliferation continues. Gradually libraries and more intelligent, competent business owners are banning them (my favorite is the metal recycling center in Montrose). Your health is affected standing next to a user. There is no reason you should tolerate it...or your loss of public privacy and atmosphere.

Service Entrance Equipment/ Electrical Panels

After the power line reaches your house and passes the power meter its next stop is the breaker panel where everything is split, switched and routed. Analysis of the problems with these panels would take a book. Let me cut to the chase with a quick true story and hope it tells all.

She is a medical doctor and at the time was the Emergency Room physician at a regional hospital, doing 24 hour shifts, sleeping in a tiny physicians quarters when she could. She had also received a big dose of environmental illness training (including EMF concerns) in the process of taking our introductory video course to Natural Building.

She called one day saying she had what I was talking about. Our EMF meters showed a huge field near the pillow end of her cot at work and she had long sense come to associate sleep loss with when she was at work...losing the problem when she left. She had developed definite fibromyalgia symptoms all over her body.

What she hadn't noticed was that the electrical panel for the entire Emergency Room was on the other side of the wall from her pillow position. It pegged the meters.

She resigned the job and within two weeks the sleep disorder and the fibromyalgia were gone. They have not returned and it's now years.

Burn this fact deep into your memory...if we diagnose and remedial an environmental illness before your immune system collapses, your body will reset to normal. If not, you will experience a "threshold" and enter a new system of permanent reactions which will hyper sensitize you. The evidence we have in case studies to date indicates that that thresholding is irreversible...its for life. This is graphically true with chemical allergies and now appears convincingly true with Electro-Magnetic Hypersensitivity.

Appliances

The discussion of electrical gadgets and their fields would take another book still. The biggest culprits are refrigerators, electrical ranges, microwaves, blenders (anything with a motor), toasters, hair curlers, clock radios, deep freezes, bug zappers and all communication devices.

The up side of EMF concerns is that the fields die off quickly with distance. Simply arrange your home...especially seating and sleeping areas away from appliances. Don't forget to look on the other side of the wall. Your vision may not go through 2x4s and drywall...even concrete...but EMF doesn't even know they're there.

Lighting Fixtures

There are as many different levels and types of fields from fixtures as there are different lighting fixtures. The biggest culprits are ballasted fluorescent tube fixtures. The first scientific study documenting a 30% reduction in learning ability in school age children in fluorescent lit classrooms came out in the 1950's. Things have only gotten worse since them. The solution to fluorescence is to replace or abandon them. The culprit is not the tube, its the heavy copper wire windings in the ballast...a large heavy black box buried in the fixture. If you notice headaches or tingling when you near a fluorescent fixture, this is the best and cheapest analysis of EMF Hypersensitivity you can find.

The next worse are energy saver conversion fixtures you screw into a socket after you remove a standard light bulb. They save energy all right, but at the expense of huge fields. No EI I know diagnosed as EMF Hypersensitive can get close to them.

Any light fixture running on standard AC power has fields. The test is simple...get close for a bit, then distant and see what you feel. The solution is simple...remove, distance or replace it. Standard light bulb incandescent fixtures can be shielded and grounded, usually effective in removing the electrical field...but not the magnetic.

Wiring

The biggy on the unseen scene is the wiring in your walls. Anyone who has seen a house under construction has seen the quagmire of wire strung in the walls before they are covered and painted. They emit fields and there's no telling where they are or aren't. Even after you've given in and moved your headboard away from the outlets and put the bed lamp and clock radio across the room, you still may be sleeping with your cranium a couple of inches from nasty wires safely hidden in the wall. Only a field meter can tell you if they're there or not. Quick test is to throw your pillow down on the other end of the bed for a few nights and test the difference. The real test if you sleep better, is to return it to the wall end for a night or two. If you're reacting to wall wiring, you will soon know it.

Outlets

By now, the concern with these folks should be obvious.

But let me add a story here. A man from my childhood, long since removed from a planet replete with fields was widely known in my community as a loony. He was a motion picture projectionist, spending 4 hours a day sandwiched between twin motion picture projectors.

Every once in a while he would go berserk and wander around the house claiming there were demons in the walls, and bandaging the electrical outlets with aluminum foil to keep them from coming out. This behavior was kept quite secret except from the gossip circle...which included just about everyone.

I don't know if I though he was nuts then, but I sure don't now. Motion picture projectors are powered by electrical motors with some very nasty fields. They had hyper sensitized him. When he got enough of this, he would threshold and could sense the fields in residential appliances and outlets. The aluminum foil is a fairly effective shielding device for the electrical field components.

If he's like me, once he gets sensitized, the fields from any source become quite irritating...something that...lacking objective knowledge and explanation...could easily be explained as demonic by default. I describe them as demonic despite a quite scientific and learned background. Before I unplugged from the Grid (the power lines the power companies use) I tried reducing the fields in my then AC powered micro....by covering the outlets with aluminum foil...which helped quite a bit.

Gadgets

All of this concern...both about pollution, chemical sensitivity and EMF...is causatively related to exorbitant and unnecessary consumption. Nowhere is this more graphically displayed than in the invariably escalated sickness directly related to the gadgetization of our lifestyles..... electrical gadgets to open garage doors, communicate with the internet, watch mind debilitating spectator sports, even trim our nose hairs.

The generation of Alternating Current electricity is the number one atmospheric pollutant worldwide and the prime explanation for global warming...so we don't have to use scissors to rim our nose hairs????

Why????

Televisions

Tube type televisions emit huge fields, which have a lulling or hypnotizing effect in the effective distance of their magnetic fields...which is several feet. This is exactly why, especially children, are hypnotically attracted to them. You can watch the physical expression of the hypnotic effect yourself within the first 5 minutes of exposure. It's addictive...try to pull them or yourself away. The same physiological effect also induces several effects including sleep and attention deficit disorders after removal.

Computers

The Swedish government several years ago identified the toxic effects of computer screens and hard drives, ending in governmental manufacturing standards which are rapidly becoming the world standard, even in a country as backward and compromised scientifically as ours.

The 2 milligaus Swedish computer screen standard is now adopted by many manufacturers largely through consumer pressure.

It's not nearly enough, as confirmed by those known to be hyper sensitized and operating machines with measured fields.

If you have a tube type monitor, dump it now. Use only LCD/ flat panel screens. Watch out...though the screen may be field free (as the LCD technology typically is), the speakers and other wiring typically included are not and can quickly put you back to where you started...as documented with the Ruth Davis case (see the Smart Shelter web site) where a frantic employer plunked 600 dollars into a flat panel computer to try to keep her as an employee, without consulting someone with knowledge and a meter. The new computer was as bad as the old, if not worse. Ruth also won the first of several cases against her...but that's still another story.

Smart Shelter has devised a measured and time tested methodology for "0" AC field computer operation. This is especially recommendable (and indeed evolved after several EIs complained of carpal tunnel/ finger tingling and pain sensation from laptop keyboards and any mouse).

A laptop is used with a flat panel LCD screen and a DC cigarette lighter adapter, which is powered from a deep cycle battery (or your car) at least 6 feet away. The battery can be charged with a standard AC battery charger plugged into grid power as long as its over 6 feet distant. This will produce a field free computer, except for when the hard drive starts to spin...which produces high level and very irritating magnetic fields in the AC spectrum. If that's a problem, buy a $30 remote keyboard and remove yourself with distance from the hard drive. The hard drive on most laptops is right under the keyboard...my Macintosh has its on the upper right size. (We don't discuss PCs here.) We know convincingly and with long years that this DC powering system works for people with very high level EMF hypersensitivity....or those who don't want to risk getting it.

If your computer tower is below your desk, watch for leg aches on the leg next to it...if that happens, apply the therapeutic and guaranteed effects of a loaded double barrel 12 gauge shotgun...being, of course, careful not to harm any living creatures or irritate other workers.

Cellphones

We've been through this one before. Don't include them in your life, don't allow them in your home or automobile and be as insulting, insistent and scathing of users as legally possible (or not). Insist that restaurant owners, business proprietors, managers of public spaces protect your cultural integrity, sophistication of atmospheres, privacy and health by banning them from their premises.

Tell people you don't like or who are a burden to the planet and society to use them as often as possible along with spraying the inside of their home with herbicides and driving trail bikes and atvs very very fast near large rocks.

DSL devices

These are simple small radio transmitters and by now we would hope that the reasons they should never be allowed in your living environment should be obvious. DSL and Wireless Devices monitored to date show huge and particularly toxic electrical fields in both the radio and standard field frequency ranges. It is very common for people who install them or visit internet cafes and libraries where they are newly installed to experience immediate headache and irritation phenomenon. I can feel them entering an internet cafe. I also use them, but just don't hang around any longer than necessary.

Wireless Internet Devices

See the above.

Automobiles

It's a sleeper often to realize that your automobile is a huge source of EMF...especially the newer ones. Think about it...they are computer operated, replete with wiring and gadgetry, electrified by a generator, harbor fans, window and other motors ...induct and spread fields through the metallic body. But the real killer is all the rotating metal parts in the engine, transmission (which is right by your feet) and drive train...which yield high level and varying magnetic fields depending on speed.

Jet lag normally associated with long times in cars...is an exhausting effect of magnetic field stressor exposure. To prove this...sit for four hours in a car on a trip and see how you feel at the end...your balance, coordination, drowsiness, exhaustion, attention. Now sit for the same 4 hours quietly at home and do the same assessment. If you do this, I guarantee an eye opener.

There is no known effective remediation for car exposures. The only antidote is reduction of time in operation...something we should be developing anyway.

Manufacturing changes are possible to curtail at least some of this. For some reason, some newer cars are showing surprising freedom from electrical component fields which are glaringly present in older models...possibly because manufacturers are becoming aware and utilizing effective shielding methods and grounding to eliminate them. This cannot be done for the magnetic fields coming from moving metal parts, since the magnetic fields will go through anything...a 12 inch lead wall, even...yes, really... and cannot be shielded.

We could make a nonmetallic car. We have the technology.

Neon Signs

Those big black boxes on the neon signs in store windows are ballast similar to the fluorescent tube light fixtures, except even more deadly. If you want to know whether you're sensitized, go sit under one in a restaurant for half an hour.

Underground Cables

Mall parking lots are increasingly under grounding cables with high fields to halt ugly overhead power lines. Sidewalks and street lighting are being treated the same way. If you feel uncomfortable or react to something you can't find...check out what's buried.

In Ruth Davis's case (see web site) it wasn't just the under grounding of cable...but passage of stray magnetic field current in the water line under her apartment floor that did it, not just for herself, but two out of three of her cats too. At least we're erect and higher off the ground.

Telephones

The ear pieces in phones are magnetic field generators. If you notice an ear or headache 3-5 minutes into a phone conversation...it really is the phone...put a meter on it, you'll see. If you don't notice this effect, keep on using them....you will.

Power Tools

Red flag is muscle pain or arthritis flare up after using power drills, saws, etc...all of which use motors and produce high EMF right in the grasp of your innocent little pinkies.

 

Solar Inverters

Lots of hip, slick and cool savvy sustainable people buy expensive, beautiful DC power generating solar panels thinking they're saving money and the world by powering from the sun. So far so good...they probably are...except for the aluminum in the collector frame which has a wad of embodied energy and is yanked kicking and screaming from the fragile breast of our mother earth...and more. As we know, the DC electricity coming direct from solar panels is safe in terms of EMF as far as we know.

They could have just done what the early PV installers responsibly supported ....convert all the appliances, etc to 12 volt DC and live happily ever after.

But then the yuppies showed up and they wanted their hot tub motors, dacari blenders, sport big screen tvs and bedside unspeakable electric toys.

To accommodate, the installers put about a $2000 inverter between the panels and the house and converted the safe DC to some real nasty AC power. Now AC grid power is nasty enough the way it comes from your highly paid electrical company. The inverters attempt to take the nice flat straight lines that trace DC power and jiggle it into the up and down, back and forth sine waves that characterize AC. Problem is inverters are digital. Digital works in square blocks, not sensual waves. The result is an inverter AC wave form which on closer scrutiny resembles a chain saw blade. Apply solar inverter ac fields to your brain and you will get about the same effect. They are nastier than grid AC by a factor of about 30-50% for those who are reactive.

The solution if you are solar powered and reactive is to dump the inverter, move the panels closer to the house (or build them into the structure the way the Dutch do...called Integrated Design) and convert the interior to DC lighting and appliances. I did all that for about $500...and all at Wal Mart...but then I live in a Micro and treat the words minimalism and sustainability with uncommon tenacity and reverence. (I also sleep at night.) But that's the health solution. The inverter is a symbol of conspicuous and disastrous consumption if there ever was one. For that reason, I keep a small one around to run hand drills, saws, and my old stereo any time I get in a mood to demonstrate my dominance over all else that lives and a planet many times smaller than my mind. It's about balance, afterall...not extremism. You can get a hernia trying to extract a good ego.

If you want verification of this phenomenon we have some owners you can talk to.

Listening Devices

Jogging head sets, personal stereos, cell phone ear pieces...if you think they'll make matters better, find someone with a good meter.

Electric Blankets

The heating wires you can feel inside these critters deliver nasty magnetic and electrical fields all over your body all night. The results are obvious if you are one of us who reacts to them. It's best not to use electric blankets at all, but if you must, turn the blanket on to warm the bed before you get in it, then unplug the blanket at the wall before you go to bed. Turning the blanket off but not unplugging it may leave you with electrical fields in the blanket even though the current which produces the dangerous magnetic field is no longer present.

Water Bed Heaters

Any electrical device that produces heat produces magnetic as well as electric fields. Water bed heaters placed 6 inches from your body for the duration of your sleep are steep problems by any standard.

How Do I Know If I'm Affected?

Sleep Disorders

One of the most common trigger points for diagnosing EMF effects are loss of sleep, trouble going to sleep, shallow sleep, repeated waking, or feeling exhausted after sleep. Indications currently point toward an EMF effect of the hypothalamus gland, which regulates melatonin and seratonin secretion which control our sleep cycles. Noting sleeping disturbance following car travel, computer operation, etc are surefire diagnostic tools and the price is right.

There are many reasons for sleep problems...but EMF is the first one that should be verified or eliminated...because it is so common and so easily removed.

Menopause

No, you are not going to hear that EMF causes menopause. The reason it's here is to warn that almost every successfully diagnosed and treated middle aged woman I know had chalked up the symptoms of EMF problems to menopause. Seems to me...not having had the problem myself...that the change of life gets blamed for damned near everything. (Maybe I should try it...scapegoats come in handy sometimes.)

The solution is simple...suspend your suspicions, give the diagnosis and field metering a try...remediate and see if there are results...if not demand your misery back.

Headaches

Any kind of headache is indication of an electrical phenomenon problem. Watch to see if repetitive ones follow exposure to any of the field sources you should now be aware of.

Tingling

Finger tingling on computer keyboards, power tool operation, etc is indicative of nerve stressing from EMF. Little else will effectively cause it.

Ramping Up/ Hyper-Activity

The current effect of ADD (attention deficit disorder) and hyperactivity are locally uniformly explained in EI (those with Environmental Illness...including chemical allergies and EMF sensitivities) circles as the simple result of television, computer, cell phone and personal listening device overexposure...which children and adolescents experience with elevated response rates. Utilizing the masking pharmaceuticals such as Ridilin, etc and then after numbing, sending the child back into contaminating fields is inviting disaster. If the EMF is the problem, reintroduction invites an escalation of the immune responses which are already trying to warn you of environmental anomaly. Sooner or later the immune system wins...but often with quite nasty consequences. At any rate, it will soon override the drugs.

ADD

See the above.

Nerve Reactions

Spasms, tingling, numbing, etc should all be first tested for EMF basis before any medication is applied.

Sounds

Not many, but a few, describe a hearing sensation associated with EMF. One teenager says he can walk down a street and hear which houses have tvs on without hearing the tv. Weird as this sounds, I've done that. There may be a juncture in our cerebral cortex which activates a certain auditory phenomenon electromagnetically. The sound is usually a high pitched whine...or then, maybe you are really crazy. Ruth describes it (and apparently so does a publication with the World Health Organization, as machinery sounds)....but she just seems to kind of like that sort of stuff.

Correlation with MCS

For reasons which may not really yet be readily explainable other than on a general stress level basis, there is a documented 50% overlap between people with MCS...multiple chemical sensitivity...and EMF Hypersensitivity. This came out of the Bau Biology German Academic Community Research several decades ago and is verified by research case studies such as those done by Smart Shelter Network. This correlation has become so consistent that the second thing I do as a practitioner of Environmental Illness (after identifying MCS) is to test living and working environments for EMF (with the patient) and screen for EMF reactions. I personally suspect that the correlation between the two is more like 60-70%...and climbing...possibly due to a 100% correlation yet to be revealed as our knowledge and analysis tools increase.

Candidiasis

Treatise on fungal overgrowth/ candidiasis and its interrelationship with Environmental Illness is dealt with elsewhere on this web site and in prolific other publications. See the Smart Shelter Website Resource Files for a work on Candidiasis itself.

Suffice it to say in summary that the immune responses to EMF stressors may match those with chemical pollution sufficient to induce the hydrochloricedic secretion (and other ) defense phenomenon sufficient to kill off the beneficial bacterial balance we depend on for digestion and result in a chronic fungal overgrowth...or candidiasis. This fungal overgrowth can enter the mycelial stage and travel (effect) virtually any other part of the body beyond the digestive tract where it originates...result...jock itch, pit itch, skin rash, balance problems, gas, impotence, loss of female sexual appetite, athletes foot, nail fungus...you know...all the pleasant stuff. Don't worry, its just more bugs eating you.

The documented medical consequences of this secondary response are indeed deeply debilitating and may constitute the major amount of recovery work once the hyper-reactivity is diagnosed and the stressors removed.

Candidiasis results in ADD, Chronic fatigue, and other nicey nices.

Arthritis Flare-ups

Especially prevalent in the Ruth Davis case is the documentation of a direct correlation between EMF exposures and rheumatoid arthritis irritation. This is conclusive and predictable...amazingly so...power tools, automobile operation, computers.

Whether or not the arthritic condition itself is caused by EMF remains to be determined. The fact that it is documented archaeologically to be thousands of years old in our species may indicate that is not its historic origin (AC power is just 100 years old) but that doesn't mean it isn't also another cause. More to be discovered. But if you're an arthritis sufferer, check out the correlation to fields with your flare-ups.

The Storage Phenomenon

How can the human physiology store alternating current energy it is exposed to??? Now that is a question for physics and electronics experts. It is also a question we seriously need answered. The reason we need an explanation is that our pragmatic case study evidence with those who are well developed in their awareness and reactivity to alternating current fields indicates that the storage phenomenon is real and potentially debilitating and sensorially transferable to others.

Realization of a storage phenomenon occurred first in dealing with an advanced EMF EI in the throws of a huge magnetic and electrical field loading from dwelling and workplace fields well in excess of safe standards... eventually leading to a complete collapse. When the person drove a car for 3-4 hours or allowed themselves to be saturated in fields, there was approximately a 24 hour period following during which physical contact or proximity of someone else in a relaxed and unexposed state and sensory to the field phenomenon would experience a tingling sensation often escalating to the point of pain and withdrawal, similar in quality to deep bone or tissue arthritis attacks. This phenomenon has become regular and predictably residual to known exposures over enough instances to indicate that somehow the toxic effects of AC field exposure is being stored and dissipates slowly over time.

Discussion of possible physical mechanisms for such a storage system would get into involved science and will be left for other occasions. Basically, the storage of DC field energy (in batteries, capacitors, etc) is common and well described. AC field storage is quite another matter. Candidates might be the Chi energy body itself which contains myriad resonating ac fields measurable with electronic devices (see the work of UCLA researcher Valerie Hunt in her Book The Infinite Mind).

Attempts to remediate or relieve these storage phenomenon through various grounding and saturation mechanisms have not been conclusively productive.

Interviews with several professional body worker/massage therapists regarding their experiences of touching certain clients and obtaining shocks or tingling sensations produced a 100% positive response. They all explain it through various thoughts, none are conclusive or scientifically elucidated.

Trusting Your Intuition

How many times I've walked an open minded individual with EMF symptoms through a familiar environment showing them where the fields are with a meter and having them tell me they had already decided or developed habits not to sit or sleep in high field areas they had no way of knowing were there. It happened again day before yesterday. Usually, when that happens, I just show them how the meters work and leave them with them for a week, knowing what relief and effect their revelations will have on that person. I warn them...do not discount your intuition. Undoubtedly, long before knowledge and the invisible being made visible come to them, their sub- conscious will have told them something was wrong.

Two months ago I went through a woman's house of 27 years occupancy and within minutes, without explanation, she was watching the meters peg in certain corners and commenced launching into stories about when she had abandoned those places and why. "They just didn't feel right." Every single one of the places she had selected and gave her comfort.... the ones she worked and slept in...every single one had very low or no detectable fields at all.

This phenomenon is noticeably prevalent in very intelligent and evolved people, very sick ones and those who have done long term and extensive work in body energy, acupuncture, accupressure, yoga, mediation and other chi energy based disciplines.

New Age Wingnut Guacamole

That's what I figured this stuff was when Roland Holzwarth first described it to me...buncha crap. Problem was, I had problems. MCS had already been diagnosed thanks to L.A. air, bad diet and a formaldehyde-based cabinet industry. It had cut me off at the knees. In a six month spiral I went from a first rate cabinet maker to a traumatized idiot with no memory, wracking abdominal pain, constant acid indigestion, chronic sinusitis and a level of exhaustion that would keep me in bed for all but about 3 hours a day.

The MDs all failed miserably along with a $10,000 battery of tests at the VA...a phenomenon I found later to be quite common...our chemically based conventional medical technology (the one from Pfizer and the AMA) succeeds in correctly diagnosing about 25% of the cases they confront. A batting average like that with the baseball people would get you promptly fired.

Their conclusion was that I must be crazy...and ended with a conference with the doctor, a prescription for Zanex and an referral to a psychiatrist. Thankfully, I left all three on the desk. You are not crazy. They may very well be.

Caroline Metzler probably saved my life. She was a newly graduated acupuncturist and Chinese Herbal Medical Specialist. She identified all the ingredients...a food Nazi...she converted me to organic, taught me to cook, explained the candidiasis, assembled the pieces and said, " relax, it'll take two years to clean you out. Yuk.

The full blown diagnosis of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity came home courtesy of Dr. Erika Elliot, MD (Santa Fe) at an Environmental Illness conference in Aspen (maybe 1995)...not because she was a doctor...she too had quickly learned that not only was medical school useless, it was probably a liability. She had MCS (they had built her a new medical center which cost her her health...all to code mind you). Not she nor any of her colleges could diagnosis her problems. Alternative practitioners did and her story matched mine like a glove...in a 6 month period of time she went from being an amateur world class mountain climber to not getting out of bed. This was my story...it was what I had...but not the whole story.

A couple of years into this (getting the chemicals out of my life) 25% of the time there were no toxins to trigger the reactions I was still having.

Roland had gotten sick of listening to me whine (as Caroline later pointed out...all EIs have victim mentalities...true). He is a trained EMF analysist...training under Dr. Peter Sirke (San Diego). He arrived at my micro home the next day with a suitcase full of German EMF meters and we soon found that I reacted to an electrical field of 2 volts/meter and was living in an environment averaging 3-4,000 (that's right...2000 times my threshold levels).

He put an electrical ground wire on my headboard and I slept for the first time in years like a baby. But its taken years of trial and error...matching reactions to fields and fumes to get to the point of credence and awareness.

If this stuff is New Age Wingnut Guacamole to you and you're sick...just live with long enough for your belief system and your immune system to heal each other. That's just where we are. It's just the way we work. There are no shortcuts any of us have ever been able to find. Everything you're feeling I've felt and so have others. You may be confused, but you are not alone.

Fact is Seldom Convincing

Any previously unknown or widely accepted vanguard in technology is invariably met with disbelief, discounting, condescension and sometimes persecution. Electro-Magnetic Field considerations are certainly no exception...neither is chemical sensitivity despite the fact that EPA and World Health Organization place those documented to be affected at between 17 and 27% of the American Population. World Health, as we speak has convened a master panel of (mostly European) MDs to delineate the medical declaration of EMF as a known and treated medical health hazard (they treat it in other countries...why not here?). 18 American States and all the up to speed First World Countries (which does not include the United States) have signed onto the policy of Prudent Avoidance...stating that yes, the fields are known to be dangerous...but, no, we don' have the details sufficient to legislate their levels yet...so in the meantime, avoid them where possible. and tune in later. My last search of the World Health web site (WHO.int) delivered 982 documents on EMF.

Never the less, our work has been met with accusations of new age nebulousness, theories that the meters are the work of the devil, that they don't exist at all (interestingly enough from a college trained electrical engineer working for IBM...who had college courses on electrical shielding design to control them)...la de da de da.

When you're this sick and come to know it, you just keep the winners and plow on through the muck...banking on the long term. We do this, because there is no other reasonable choice.

Actual Wingnutism

The only EMF that can be scientifically dealt with are the ones we can measure. Belief system warfare is with us. Magnets you put on your refrigerator, decorator electronic circuits you wear around your neck, protection from beneficent angels, things you put in your shoes...are all proffered by some practitioner somewhere to cure nasty electromagnetic fields. None of these devices produce any meter-measurable effect on AC fields. Shielding/grounding systems can sometimes correct electrical fields (rampant in every conventionally wired home)...nothing, and I mean nothing, will stop a magnetic field.

Dr. Holzwarth (Roland is a certified German Naturopathic Physician...I find out much later...he's also very shy and humble) has a great statement about all of this: "Vell, depens on yo belief zystem. But on scientific basis, ve can only deal vith vat ve can measure an in dat relm der is no effect." In English that may mean that your belief system (or the disbelief one) may protect you from realizing your reaction to fields, but there is no such thing as a body with atoms, molecules and cells glued together by natural EMF that isn't affected by the manmade ones....whether you choose to know it or not.

 

"En Terra Science" and EMF

It does you no good for me to know what's wrong with you. It does you no good to know what's wrong with somebody else. Only when you know what's wrong with you can we get to work fixing it.

The largest pitfall of contemporary allopathic medicine is that the practitioner presents the image that they can heal you in order to charge a price. The result is that you believe that and give up responsibility for your own health by paying the chemical industry for quick fixes...which they cannot effect, but instead produce mind-numbing bandages to produce that illusion...which results in you returning to the chemical and energetic environmental toxins that made you sick.

"En Terra" means "on the ground".

Our scientific community has been all but dismantled by corporate lobbied declines in independent research funding and an increase in allowing the corporations who manufacture products to do their own research regarding their safety. The result is that we have regulatory agencies reduced to ineffectiveness and the illusion of science hanging precariously to the thread of an historically, but now nearly extinct, reputability of independence and integrity protecting the health and welfare of the American public. This is why the formaldehyde (a known and documented carcinogen) contained in the cabinet products which cost me a career in mid life are still legal in the U.S. and are categorically banned in Germany. That's why the insane (and escalating) level of unshielded wiring in American homes mainly located at headboard level is shielded and relegated to ceiling placement safely away from our heads in the German electrical code books. Their regulatory agencies are systematically protected from the buyoffs which have dismantled American consumer and public health regulation.

The solution is to establish a scientific laboratory and research system independent of this compromise. The best bet for a location is your home and the most likely scientist you can trust would be you..."En Terra"...on the ground...your ground.

We'll talk about the new Environmental Medicine in a minute, but here we need a quick look at how En Terra Science integrates the new technology of Bio-Energetics (how energy like electricity affects our bodies) into a medicine you can afford, take with you, verify for yourself and see work (or not).

The job of an En Terra Practitioner is to research the causes and effects of environmental problems in relation to their possible health effects. They then educate you about them while showing you how to screen your own living environment and lifestyle for culprits...hair conditioner, aroma therapy toxins, emf. They then devise simple trial and error experiments with you so that you can play with exposing and removing yourself from the suspected trouble points until you yourself determine their effect...and effect their removal or cure.

No one else can tell what you're reacting to or not...what's causing your brain fog and what's not. Only you can. If you think about it, only you can benefit from that knowledge. You need something to take with you...when you need it, the doctor will be gone. You need to become the doctor.

The sleeping killer regarding conventional medical practice today...based on a devine MD dispensing magical chemicals to heal you instantly...is not just the failure of chemistry to remedy a chemically destroyed environment...not just the fact that a vast number of chemically treated medical problems are actually energetic in origin...but the fact that this focusing of unrealistic expectations and the 75% failure rate end up in a huge depressive emotional load for the MDs themselves. There are those who deny the dilemma and reap indirect consequences and then there are those who accept them honestly and either change careers or plummet into depression. How many stories would you like to hear of both?

The fact is that we are responsible for our own health and we need a system built around that...encouraging and enabling...even insisting on that. En Terra Science. The doctor is not a curing source...they are an information source for you to learn about yourself and the environment and then effect your own remedies.

This is a smart man/woman sport. It takes time, openness and brains. It's certainly not for everyone. Many will not be able to get it. We need the population reduction.

To cut to the chase, a good En Terra EMF analysis would go something like this:

I can't sleep, have headaches, fingers tingle at the computer keyboard and my right foot aches 5 minutes into a car trip.

Do you know what Electro-Magnetic Fields are?

No. What's that...more New Age Wingnut Guacamole?

Yes, exactly.

Well, what are they really.

(you've had the explanation already, I won't repeat it here.)

How do you know if you've got them?

(explanation of possible symptoms and bio-physiology...you've already got that too)

Here, lets have a look...

(the Wingnut whizzes his magic EMF meters through your home picking out the wiring, appliances, etc)

You figure he's getting the meters to rise by squeezing the box.

He hands you the meters and they do the same thing in your hands...without squeezing. Shit...this is real. Something is actually here...the invisible starts becoming real.

Look...you keep the meters for a week, play with them, find the fields, switch off the circuits, sleep at the other end of the bed...da, de, da, de da...see for yourself if this is what's doing it.

You do. The fields in your car are a lot higher by your right leg. The computer is off the scale. The high fields by your bed are dumped by switching off the breaker and you sleep like a baby...even start having wet dreams...(you're a little backed up by now, you know)

A week later, you've done your own research, discovered your own reactions and cures, the practitioner got all kinds of other things done beside grappling with your denial and arguments and you go on to form a delightful and productive relationship for life (or not)((we won't go down that road right now)).

As simple as this may sound, you'll find that this scenario for practice solves all the contemporary problems with compromised professional science, overpaid and under effective medical license holders, affordability and chemical dependency in a era in which we exit biochemistry and transit to bio-energetics as our medical paradigm.

En Terra Science...back to earth...feet on the ground...you do it, I'm going fishing.

Environmental Medicine and EMF

We have discussed elsewhere and before the new definition of Environmental Medicine, so we'll limit this to just a couple of points added here.

There exists within the community of allopathic/conventional medicine an entity called The American Academy of Environmental Medicine. These are MDs specializing in a practice acknowledging that there are environmental ingredients which can cause health problems. Typically they analyze for allergies...skin testing for pollen reactions...some chemical analysis...no EMF known to date.

For those of us with full blown chemical allergies and vast storehouses of science and practical experience diagnosing and remediating our environments with the result that we achieve health...these practices are discouragingly archaic, misdirected and often disastrous in their cures.

For instance, the use of steroid prescriptions for someone with near-terminal fungal pneumonia displaying MCS systemology introduces a non-natural protein into an already hysterical immune system with the result that that system rapidly escalates already near lethal immune reactions. You can (and do) kill people this way. The intent is not to argue medical protocol here...the solution is to construct completely different and effective protocol elsewhere.

The assumption with most allergy reactions today is that they mean that there is something wrong with the body. The fact is, in the case of MCS, that what is wrong is wrong with the environment. The body is just fine. In fact, the average MCS victim (EMF ones as well) are categorically excellent specimens of natural resistance prior to inundation from environmental anomalies...chemical and energetic pollution.

Calling treating the body for environmentally caused illness "Environmental Medicine" is a diabolic misnomer. Environmental Illness treats the environment and allows the body to heal itself...which it almost invariably will...given that it hasn't been already throttled to death.

For this reason Environmental Medical Practitioners research the environment and case study evidence to correlate which symptoms might be caused by what environmental problems, give that information to the victim and let them conduct their own En Terra research and remedy.

Our systems are amazingly complex, multi-layered and changeable. It is completely unrealistic for any outside practitioner to think they can ever effectively diagnose what problem in your home causes what problem in your body. There are vast clues, but you need them as your medical encyclopedia to find out for yourself. If you can't or won't undertake this responsibility for yourself then the real Environmental Medicine will cheerfully refund your misery...which brings up the last point, which is this: Environmental Medicine and En Terra Science must be and are by definition...free of charge. For money to be involved in these exchanges will get us right back to where we are today with the chemical, medical and pharmaceutical industries drugging our children with mind-numbing and emotional development paralyzing perscriptions...which is New Age Wingnut Guacamole if I ever saw it.

Let's end here with a graphic story...true one. Molly just emailed me following a workshop we did in Castle Valley (where it was obvious she was an Alpha two or three level E.I.). This deals with chemicals, but the corollary to EMF is identical. Her email complained of a "forced" exposure to several perfume drenched women at a gathering ending in her being sick for days. She wanted to know what would take the toxins out of her system. What's wrong with this story?

We discussed the perfume/ aroma therapy toxicity issues at the workshop, which opened an awareness in her. But her response was to seek a medical bandaid to cure what she assumed to be a sick immune system after the exposure. Molly is this sick because there is a rapidly increasing sector of our population whose immune systems (which are not only healthy, but some of the most advanced) will no longer tolerate the chemical environmental pollution. There is nothing that will remove those toxins after they are in the system.

The only reasonable approach is to correct the environmental anomaly and allow the body to heal itself. (It can filter the toxins...we can't). Molly's solution is to train herself to enter an environment, smell the stench and leave...without regard to anything else but her health. Then she needs to tell the women what they are doing to her and to themselves and their families...especially their children. Then she needs to place the fragrance-free pamphlets we gave her to zerox on the counter of stores she visits (especially natural food stores) and to the women involved.

Crucial to the transition to Environmental Medicine is the realization that the problem is not with our bodies...the problem is with the environment. No bandaid is effective which tries to treat a wounded system and leave the toxic environment uncleansed. We are having these immune reactions not because our systems are crippled but because they are telling us to get busy cleaning up the pollution mess. Those of us with debilitating levels of EMF and MCS reactions are the leaders who have been placed in such austere, challenging and painful circumstances that we no longer have the option of ignoring the problem...and the problem is not us, it's it.

We also carry forward an environmental responsibility to remedial the surroundings which we come to find debilitating and further to spread that work to others...or we will perish.

We are a 130,000 year old species with a several million year old evolution confronting alternating current and chemical contamination barely a hundred years in the making. Expecting ourselves to miraculously adapt to a maddeningly escalating pollution environment is not just unrealistic, it is suicidal...and this is indeed born out with each new generation of increasingly reactive and debilitated children. This isn't a nebulous argument or one that will go away with a new prescription or a better herb. We either get rid of the fields and the chemical stench today or it will, quite literally, get rid of us...and that it is already well along the road to doing...and doing with dispatch and finesse...and a lot of completely needless suffering and pain.

Are your hair dye and cellphone worth that?

What Can I Do?

We come down to acting on the solution...but only after being convinced of the problem. There is a dangerous transition immediately following the introduction of the first information, the wrestling match with disbelief and denial, the ramping up of tenuous ventures into En Terra Science and Environmental Medicine and the arrival at the bewildering realization of just how many messes we live with every day now begging...demanding ...remediation.

Most people arrive at this juncture, survey the bomb craters and run for cover. The reasonable approach is to adopt the objectives of understanding and correcting these environmental problems a little at a time and knowing that the transition out of toxification will probably be a long one. A local support group...even just a couple of fellow believers ... goes a long ways toward bolstering us for what will actually become a delightful, simplifying, cost savings and healthier future ahead. Like the majority of our solutions...if there isn't one available, it's up to you to make one.

Here goes...the list that we'll never finish.....

Prudent Avoidance

Briefly discussed before, Prudent Avoidance, is a now worldwide policy, adopted currently by 18 states in the U.S. which recognizes EMF as a problem, admits that much more is to be revealed and recommends an interim policy of becoming aware of their presence and locations...then avoiding them wherever possible.

The bad news is that electrical fields can stop your sleep and collapse your short term memory...the magnetic fields can kill you...brain cancer and leukemia.

The good news is that the fields die off fairly rapidly with distance...usually 2-4 feet.

The one thing you can get up from this document right now and start doing...without cost or training...is to examine your living and working environment for field sources...electric water heaters, power lines, service panels, computers, tvs, etc and move everything 4 feet away from them...especially the beds...that's where you spend a third of your life.

The next move is to dump the unnecessary and destructive sources...cellphones first, then televisions unless they're flat panel, same thing with tube type computer screens, microwaves definately...all unnecessary devices...hair dryers, etc.

Simple awareness of the sources, identification of the problems and Prudent Avoidance can cut your exposure by a third overnight. Educate your kids and your partner. If your partner balks you've been thinking about another one anyway. If there's someone particularly problematical to the planet...like dirt bike and atv owners...give them all your discarded appliances and have them move their beds nearer the service panel. We need intelligence based population reduction rapidly. Strive for balance and informed effect instead of that namby pamby saccharine belief that all creatures are basically good. Lots are scum and the boat's sinking.

No matter how intense the fields are in your home...places will exist and can be found where things will feel better.

Field Metering

This is a killer. Find someone with good meters and use them...whatever it takes. Beware...just buying meters on the internet can get you into guacamole even a wingnut could not survive. Most meters are calibrated on scales not accurate to levels we now know are threatening.

Electrical Fields need to be measured on a scale from 0 to 100 volts per meter. The level of effect will be at about 2 volts/meter. Levels above 25 volts/ meter need to be avoided completely. The tri-field meter I bought years ago and no longer use for electrical fields measures 0 to 100 kilovolts...kilovolts are 1000 volts. A field which measures 1 on that scale and might be assumed safe is actually 500 times over the threshold where my cerebral cortex starts banging against my cranium. We are trying to get the Tri-Field meter manufacturer to adjust the meter (which does an excellent job with magnetic fields) to adjust the electrical field scale so that one medium priced (less than $150) meter will do both jobs...we'll see. Buying one and having someone add a resister might work. Other meters may not have this problem. Lately there is a prolifery of them on the market.

Magnetic field meter scales need to measure accurately in the 0-3 milligauss range. The tri-field meter is great...a very sensitive range from 0-4 milligauss and a larger one from 0 to 100...allowing good detection. 1/2 milligauss is where the problems can be expected to begin. No areas with over 3 milligauss should ever be used for extended period.

Roland and I spent months calibrating meters with his high tech German professional ones. He had a special prototype made in Germany to match the standards we'd uncovered in me. Importation barriers have so far prevented their availability here. Either other meters need comparing and verifying or the German ones need to made here for sale(for electric fields)...the Tri-Field is excellent for magnetic ones.

A meter owned by an individual will sit unused for 99% of your life. The effective solution is to form community pools, buy a single meter (or set) and pass it around. You'll get carried away with it for a week, get all the info you can handle and not come back to it for a year. Meanwhile it can be be used in someone else's house or for newcomers. There is no more effective educational and analytical tool than to place a meter in the hands of a novice with a bit of education and send them home to play with it for a week. It will change their lives or save you a lot of time...depending on their conclusions. Some people need this...some don't

It is a mistake in our experience to rely on a meter as a thorough and conclusive device which you can believe if it says there is no field around. If it says there is...then there is. But meters are built only to measure certain frequencies and sometimes only in certain directions. Frequencies outside the meter's range could be problems for you despite the meters incapacity to indicate them.

In about 1-10% of all incidences when I can identify an EMF reaction (after time you get so you can recognize what your body is telling you) the meters show low or no fields present. Nonetheless these reactions can be quite strong. It has become apparent that in the final extent your immune system and the bio-feedback you learn with the field reactions from sources you can measure have to be the final analysis. Don't be surprised or think you're nuts if this happens to you. You're nuts...we already know that...but the fields you feel really are there...whether the meter tells you so or not.

Meters make most of the invisible visible. They are the beginning and foundation of all EMF work.

Professional environmental analysists are becoming more and more available in every community as we evolve. Few are well trained in EMF...almost none are properly equipped. Steal their meters and send them to me for analysis. If they're no good, I'll send them back.

Shielding

Once a field is found and it cannot be avoided, or (as is the case in almost all modern code compliant residences) it is found everywhere, the next most likely possibility is shielding. Don't expect miracles here.

Only Electrical Fields can be shielded. Magnetic Fields can penetrate mastodons and mean cats. They cannot be stopped. Don't try unless your good with failure.

A shield is some kind of metal (or carbon) which conducts electricity placed between the emf source (wire, outlet, fixture...) and you. It has a wire attached which runs outside to an independent ground rod...which is a long metal stake driven deep into the ground. The shield grabs the nasty fields, scurries them down the wire and the rod deposits them safely in the huge breasts of mother earth (the British call this "Earthing"). Ground rods can be found at the hardware store in decorator copper or brass with a clamp on the end. There are short...two or three foot ones (which will do fine for a shield ground) and huge long ones...like 8 feet long...which are used to ground your breaker panel and punch holes in the devil's butt...if you're that daring or bored. The long one isn't needed.

Do not under any circumstance attach a shield ground wire to a copper water pipe or the ground rod from other devices like the breaker panel. They will pick up the grounded stray fields from the other devices and transmit them to the shield, where they will radiate back into your environment, defeating their purposes. For more detailed discussion of this phenomenon consult the New Age Wingnut Guacamole Manual , pages 149-356.

Good shielding materials are foil faced bubble pack with a ground wire duct taped to one side. Get it at the lumber company or steal it from a backpacker. State of the art grounding materials are made...Roland has them...like the neat screen made out of carbon and paint containing conducting particles. You can paint your cat and duct tape a grounding wire to its tail and maybe save its life or make it live forever. Roland Holzwarth is on the Smart Shelter Website...www.smartshelter.com...go to the "Green Pages" and look up EMF...don't fall in. We find lost skeletons on the website all the time where people went in and never came back out.

Let me warn you that effective and thorough shielding can make a radical difference in your home, especially for one or two real problem sources. Don't expect miracles. After years of trying, my only conclusion is that to get field free ( and if your reactive it is definitely worth it) you need either to convert your home to DC power or live in an off-grid Micro. More about that in a bit.

The electrical codes which are taunted to do so much to protect us from the nasty gremlins in the wires, are lobby controlled by the Electrical Labor Unions and the electrical equipment manufacturers...like GE and Westinghouse...who yearly heap more and more needless wiring demands on the code requirements. The result is that your nice safe modern home is not only a chemical nightmare because of toxic building materials but an EMF quagmire of impossible to remedial over wiring. Killer is...you paid for it and now you'll pay to fix it.

When I talk to Roland about electrical fields in modern construction, his eyes roll back and he just lifts his hands. This is needless and doesn't happen in Germany...where he is also a licensed electrician.

Distancing

You may not be able to shield everything out and have to settle for minimizing the effects of EMF by distancing.

The biggy is the bed. Put your pillow on the toe end of the bed and let you noggin sleep in the middle of the room, so only the toes next to the wall will fry. Put your refrigerator on the back porch...you don't need the noise anyway.

Move all electrical appliances...lights, radios...four feet from the bed.

No-brainer stuff.

Furniture Arrangement

This should be obvious by now. If it isn't, the safe thing to do is to sell it all and move in under a bridge. Note...have the bridge checked out with a meter...they cast heavy electrical cables in the concrete to cross the bridge and for lights. See if other bums glow in the dark...that's a good test for starters.

Your Sleeping Space

Most of this has already been well hammered...but here's the test: if you don't sleep well, try sleeping outside or away from the house. Adi (Paonia) built a great solar strawbale house with her husband Greg and 5 kids...with a metal roof which inducted the solar inverter fields and spread them everywhere. She could never sleep in it and wound up in the family RV outside in winter because if she didn't remove herself, she didn't sleep at all. When she did, she did.

Adi survived six months like this, accused by all around her of nutsism until we met one day, took the meters to her house, explained the phenomenon and elevated her to benign sainthood as the towns best EMF EI..."I'm not crazy." Not a bad mantra.

But that's the diagnosis. Almost anyone will remark how well they sleep on the ground camping (at least those not eaten by bears or motorheads). They don't have an explanation for why. But a good one is that there are no fields there.

If you do this two or three times with good results...look at your sleeping space fields and do whatever.

A good whatever is to get a flashlight and a $6 battery operated digital alarm clock from Wally world. Find the breakers that shut off all the power in your bedroom. Do that by plugging something into everything and turning them off until everything's off. Maybe be more than one circuit...and doesn't mean there aren't other active circuits in the floor, ceiling, etc going somewhere else...but will do for a start. Be careful about second floor bedrooms with active light fixtures in the room below. Those can be removed with low grade controlled explosives and drywall patching compound.

See for three nites how you sleep...dumping power each nite. The real test is turning it back on and seeing what comes back. You're the best meter we've got. It either works for you or it doesn't. The cost is right.

Disconnecting

Most modern appliances are not field free when they're turned off. Plug Load is what an appliance like a tv or radio still draws when powered down. This happens to keep the controls and clocks active. The only effective solution is to place a $3 in line switch at the wall outlet. Hardware store has them...plug prongs on one side, place to plug the appliance in on the other and a switch in the middle. Turn the appliance off at the wall...then you know it's field free. Failing this...simply unplug the sucker.

If circuits are an habitual problem you can have them disconnected inside the breaker panel. The inspector will never know. If you get caught, the kids did it. It's easier to beg forgiveness than to act for permission. You know this.

Eliminating

If you gain a good understanding of the price you pay for EMF, you'll start to find the needlessness of much of what you previously thought necessary or indispensable. In Micro Habitats we are completely powered not by solar, but from Reclaimed Power...all DC...without electrical refrigeration, microwaves, irons, hairdryers, etc. Very few of us stink, walk funny or couldn't be taken into decent social surrounds.

Minimalism and off-grid sustainability open satisfaction levels in human existence squandery cannot.

If it's AC...dump it. The devil made it.

Field Free...All DC environments

We have finally arrived at what we were obviously headed toward all along...an all (or nearly) DC living environment...one blessed with crystal clear, tinkling, rainbow effervescent, silent, sweet and religiously benign Direct Current electrical power.

We have dumped the devil instigated, dangerous, electrocuting, polluting AC grid power made by the worlds single largest global warming industry by ripping coal from the bowels of the planet, firing it in the stinking infernos of generating plants, polluting the air for millions of miles and innocent children, ripping apart our public lands for hideous metal kachina dancer power lines and arriving at our homes ready to tear every fabric of human sanity apart.

Not to overstate the case, in the long run, an all DC living environment is the only one that can assure EMF safety and is a pragmatic necessity eventually for those with elevated levels of EMF Hypersensitivity.

The Micros are designed that way. Solar homes can be retrofitted to do that with what is already there. Ordinary homes can be converted one item or one room at a time until they at least have safe havens...which you will invariably find over time becoming the places you feel best and the kids want to be.

We are on the verge of now converting standard homes, like Greg and Adi's to DC by expanding the technology used in the Micros to residential use. The excess energy dumped with automobile operation is stored in extra deep cycle batteries in the car. When you come home, the car is plugged into dedicated wiring leading to the safe spaces. There, 12 volt DC lighting, tvs, computers, etc operate on it. Over time, as sources increase and demands diminish it should be possible to expand this system to a significant safe environment and simply let the AC diminish from disuse.

The health improvements of all DC environments are no more graphically demonstrated than in the case history of Ruth Davis...see it on the Smart Shelter Web Site.

Automobiles

Cars are one of the biggest buggers, most persistent necessities and exasperatingly hard to remedial ingredients in our lives.

We've discussed origins and nature of AC electrical and magnetic car fields elsewhere. To reiterate, everything in the modern auto is powered. Even DC power turns to AC inside a motor. Rotating metal parts in the engine and drive train make nasty, high and ever changing magnetic fields with changing car speeds. We sit in close proximity to all...and often for long times...and invariably (whether we realize it or not) with steep consequences. This is why there are so many wing nuts in L.A.

I finally had to give up my Colorado to California semiannual truck trips to see my daughter Carlee and my Santa Barbara sailboat the Emma June because every 800 mile drive ended in 3 days of "jet lag" exhaustion. Jet Lag is another name for Chronic Fatigue. We all feel this. With those hyper sensitized it becomes disastrously overwhelming.

There's no getting away from them.

Ruth gets bad foot and leg problems notably on the drive train side of her feet from her Yukon. My accelerator peddle foot gets so painful after half an hour and especially at speeds over 50 that I can only drive with cruise control on and my foot on the dashboard. Over an hour in the car will affect sleep for both of us.

Oh, for a solution to this one. An electric car? RRRight.

I bought an air-cooled VW vintage van thinking the motor in the back would be safe. The electrical fields brought or inducted to the driver's seat were every bit as disastrous as other cars. Go figure.

We're choking and killing over petroleum. Certainly the message here could not be that we don't drive so much. Certainly that couldn't be it...not after nuking Sadam for a fresh tankful. Certainly not. Certainly not. We couldn't do that.

Faraday Cages

Well, the wingnut geeks get here after all.

You know, Thomas Edison predicted all of this. When Nikoli Tessla sold George Westinghouse on AC and world jumped on the grid power wagon...Edison screeched danger and traveled the U.S. by train electrocuting dogs in public ( it's a fact) with AC trying to get his point across. We took his light bulb and ignored him with history. He was right. This stuff kills dogs.

It's surprising to research the history of electrical development and discover how many people knew and how prolific the solutions they developed were. Now's a good time to resurrect them.

A Faraday cage is a screen or metallic barrier which completely envelopes a living environment, intercepting outside radiation such as radio, cell tower and power line field and grounding them before they enter your chambers. This is shielding on a big scale. You can put a Faraday cage over your whole house. The look is sure to catch on.

One of the things we're trying with the Ruth Davis Micro is to leave the aluminum skin on her RV prior to Micro conversion. The shell is then wired to a grounding rod. We'll see. Our Land Steward locations are typically so remote that no clear meter testing or reaction results have yet been gathered.

If you have a big problem such as home proximity to a power line, are particularly bored or simply sucking air for something else to perturb your fundamentalist neighbors...might consider this one.

 Codes and EMF

There was a time a ways back when I became part of the teaching faculty for the International Congress of Building Officials (that's the organization for building inspectors and where they go to get their training). At one point I addressed a group of them with a gathering of all the information about toxic building materials, MCS, mold, pollution and EMF...all the statistics and known dangers and after an hour or so I said to them..."You are the code officials who enforce codes enacted to insure human health. What you've just received is documentation that at least 30% of the homes you approve are injurious to the owner's health. That rate is escalating dramatically. The worst culprit is EMF due to escalating code requirements you know and have said yourself are being enacted because of Union and Manufacturer pressures. My question to you is...what are you doing about this in order to protect human safety." That was years ago. There was not a single answer to that question then and none have come as of today.

Just as bio-energetic concerns now override the medical profession, the same is the case with building safety. The electrical inspectors claim increased occupant safety with more outlets. You pay for them. The price is that with every new outlet there are dramatically higher fields. The consequence is daily exampled in the behavior and health problems of our youth...and now an increasing incidence in adults.

This isn't an easy one. I'm going to stop the discussion here at the point of elucidation because the solutions are myriad and radically dependent on personal values and levels of concern. Good luck. I live in an off grid Micro Habitat with all DC power and sleep at night. The average suburbanite does not.

Don't depend on your inspector or electrician

Many people think if they have an electrical issue the inspector or electrician will be equipped and know. I have yet to meet one who did. We just had testimony in the Ruth Davis case claiming inspection of the premises verifying no fields...when we had submitted a detailed case study documenting levels and locations of hundreds of them. No inspector or electrician I know owns a meter. None of this is contained in any training they receive and there is strong reason to believe it won't soon, since the codes they enforce and conform to...as well as what they're paid...is determined by the manufacturers and related to increasing the wiring in buildings to the maximum extent possible.

Seek a trained and independent EMF analyist and don't hold your breath...they are few and far between. Failing that, acquire your own meters and do your own testing...become a service provider or educator for others in the process....even an electrical inspector...not an electrician...they're daily exposed to elevated fields.

EMF Hypersensitivity

What Causes It

This is a mystery...like so much of physics and medical technology when closely scrutinized. We can understand on a basic level that the nature, structure and behavior of our atomic, molecular, cellular structures are by necessity modified by exposure to man-made and non-native EMF.

There is massive and now fairly long-standing research work in the field of bio-energetics which show that our nerve impulses and glandular functions are triggered and regulated by EMF signals within the body itself...making them vulnerable to outside exposure and influence.

The most credenced and panoramic explanation of this phenomenology, documentable pragmatically with many of us, comes ironically from the 6,000 year old structures of Eastern Medicine...the ones that have given us Tai Chi, Qui Gong, Acupuncture, Accupressure, yoga and many forms of body work.

The Chinese, Japanese and Indian people are not dumb. Smart people do not keep medical technology that doesn't produce profound results around for thousands of years. Dick Nixon found this out on his first visit to China when a touring American diplomat fell deeply ill deep inside China and was cured overnight with acupuncture. As a result, we have a revolution in Chi energy based medical technologies imported from the ancient east and daily integrated into our culture...sometimes not as alternative therapies but by licensed MDs themselves.

Chi energy based physiologies insist that our body produces EMF at varying frequencies and types (some AC some DC) and that that energy system (we call it bio-energy) drives everything else in us...chiefly the endocrine gland system...which secretes all of what we have spent the last 200 years trying to understand as body chemistry or biochemistry. These fields are daily measured, documented and even photographed. They exist. Believe it.

The picture is not whether we are electrical or chemical in nature, but that we are both and the question is which one rows the boat and the answer is the energy.

The average human emits an emf field, measurable, assessable and photographable...to about 3 feet away from the body...at all times and continuously changing. The energy flow is regulated through a system of valves or chakras and controls all of the secretion of our body chemicals...which in turn regulate our brain functions, immune systems, digestion, etc.

Zap this delicate and ever changing master control system with a couple of hours of automobile or computer AC fields and guacamole will ensue sufficient to illicit Wingnut syndrome...or chronic fatigue/ memory loss/ paranoia. I experience this every day. Probably so do you.

The real test of this is whether the remediative Chi energy therapies will cure EMF effects. The answer is that I use them all the time and they work. Like all else, whether they will work for you will need to be seen by work that you do.

Along these lines and that of En Terra Science...the rest is up to you. If EMF is a problem and you want to try this out, get training in accupressure, etc and over time test its effect. It will only work for you if it works for you.

But I believe...by process of elimination... that the gateway to our understanding and dealing with EMF issues productively lies in the documentation and remediation attributable to a causal paradigm based around the Chi energy systemology. Ironically, this system is also the cheapest, simplest, most individualistic and immediately applicable anywhere...you have it on the tip of your fingers (literally) everywhere you go. I can stop an EMF reaction in seconds with the right fingers on the right Chakra. One for the humanoids.

 

Why do Some Have it and some don't

It shouldn't really be a mystery why some of us are hypersensitive to EMF and some are not. Greg and Adi sleep and work in nearly identical atmospheres and have for years. Adi is deeply EMF Hypersensitive (Alpha Two Level). Greg thinks we're all wing nuts and shows no effects.

If I line up 10 people and take them to a party with cold viruses in the room, 3 will get sick and 7 won't. Why?

Some credit it to immune condition. Why would your immunity to EMF work any differently. Some attribute it to environment...some were closer to the source than others...why would Greg and Adi be any different.

Almost everyone I know goes through..."if I have it why don't they" in discounting the information. It is not obviously a viable argument. It is unavoidable as far as my experience stretches.

If you're hypersensitive its because you are. That's the reasonable end of the consideration, isn't it?

The real sleeper here, however, is the possibility proffered by many of us in the E.I. community...which is that we are not the weakest in the culture who simply buckled quicker because of sickliness, victim mentality or depletion or elevated exposure...but that we are indeed, the healthiest and most evolved of the culture and that the real issue, which is that of the now mandated and survival determinant invective that we either get rid of the pollution or die...that we are the canaries...we are the harbingers...we are the predecessors...we are the leaders...we are those somehow chosen to take on allergic states responding to environmental anomalies which now make it physically imperative for us not only to find safe places for ourselves to live but to turn around and demand the changes in others and find the ways to clean up our messes.

I don't know about you...but if this is the case...I'm not one to sit quietly while I drown in my own shit...or anyone else's.

The future of the canary and their function

I base my ideology, actions and hope on what was just said. That being said I address the question of what I do today. The first is to discovery. A canary...or an E.I. leader...first needs to discover fully what's wrong and correct it. This is never a one time job, but an ongoing, lifetime discipline...part of our lives. We then need to inform others. This is best done with local citizen groups...or cat herding...whatever. Pressure on owners, public space janitors, cell phone users, perfume wearers...etc is necessary as we change our self perceptions from that of the disabled victim to the informed authority with a responsibility to insist on change and public health. The willingness to first accept help from other E.I.s and then...often despite dire financial and energetic impairments...pass that help along to newcomers is tantamount. It is also incredibly empowering though often counter intuitive. It's like pulling on your bootstraps with a mastodon in your backpack. Problem is there are also sharks in the water...so what's it gonna be, Charlie?

We will come to see the day when we are the venerated leaders, we are the criterion of safety, we are the research objects, we are the centers of legislation, we determine the reconstruction standards of responsible regulation and we are the hope of generations to come.

Along with that and everyday...I personally make sure that I am not just a force to contend with but one you'd best think twice about crossing. This is hardball and I've learned the hard way to play for keeps or don't play at all. Whimps and geeks get ignored. For an E.I....that is to die.

 

The Alpha States

Years of work with E.I.s has led to a clear classification system of levels of sensitization. This is discussed thoroughly in the Treatise on Alpha States you will find in the Smart Shelter Web Site Resource Files and currently posted with the Ruth Davis Case. It describes the thresholding phenomenon and evaluation severity to enable clearer and easier communication.

Belief Systems, Coming into Awareness and the Focusing Effect

There are those who will contend that all reactivity is original and therefore remedial to our Belief Systems. This is a hard one because it goes so deep and we really know so little.

Caroline Metzler, after years of working with hundreds of E.I.s (including herself) said, " Gary, do you know that every single one of the EIs I've worked with has a victim mentality?"

That's a stopper...especially if you are one...and I am. About a year later I finished swallowing that one. It may indeed be true.

So if I think I'm affected by (a victim of ) EMF...will I be? Hmmm.

Wanna try proving or disproving that one? Much less developing a treatment and remediation system around it??? Not to say we shouldn't.

For the time being and after much and many years deliberation I have arrived at the following conclusion...not as fact...but as the best possible recommendation available today for consideration. It's this:

Our belief systems are a function of our higher level biological/ species function.

Those functions govern our biological systems...nerveous, immune, etc.

The primary effect of EMF is at the atomic and molecular levels.

These levels are beyond the domain of our beliefs and they do not function, create or prevent interactions there.

For that reason, on some lower levels, the living entity that is not effected by EMF does not exist.

Whether or not a living entity displays reactions to exposures on the nervous, digestive, immune levels is certainly within the controls of their beliefs.

This may be why some people react and other do not.

However, all the belief system control you can muster will not correct the effects on the atomic and molecular level.

All of this may help elucidate the Focusing Effect explained below.

The focusing effect...there is a recovery program of long standing which has a book. In that book are many stories. One of those stories is by a man in recovery who is also a doctor....one in fact who I have met. That story describes the "magic magnifying mind". What it says is that its owner has noticed that whatever he focuses on becomes not only real, but also larger and more powerful, often crowding out all other things on the periphery.

Diagnose someone with possible EMF reactions on a certain level of power. Educate them and give them the meters. If they concur and survive the denial, a couple of months later their reactions will be several times clearer and more powerful.

What happened?

The Magic Magnifying Mind amplified the reactions. Were they there all the time at that level and simply repressed because there was no supporting belief system? Or did they grow because of belief system changes and mental focusing. Want to chase your tail around a humdinger of a tree??? Try this one on with 30-40 clinical cases constantly in crisis for 3 or 4 years.

We're right on the fringes or even well into the placebo effect here...and like so many other juicy topics...that one could take us on long sojourn.

My caution is this...and it is the result of sincere and scrutinizing and analytical trials attempting to prove or disprove this phenomenon. If you feel the effect at a certain level today (or not) it is real...believe it...then get on with the solution. If you feel the effect (or not) at a different level tomorrow...believe it and get on with the solution.

The changes in your perception and levels of reactivity are every bit as real as the meter readings themselves. They are a part of you and the phenomenon and cannot be separated from them. It is suicidal for you to buy into someone else's discounting what you feel as a figment of your mind.

Is it in your mind??? You're damned right it is. It's in your body and your mind is in your body and so the EMF is in both. But trying to get rid of it by pretending it doesn't exist is about like trying to trim your fingernails with a Buddhist mantra. Mantra is very good. Try nail clippers. Buddha did.

Expect mental magnification as your research and knowledge increase. They are as natural as the changes in your breathing. But don't victimize yourself into disastrous toxification by thinking you can make yourself bulletproof with a paint bucket. Your hypersensitivity is for a reason and it is real and you are not wrong.

Their Effect on Pets

This one came to light in the Ruth Davis case graphically. She had three cats in the apartment for three years with a 15 milligaus net current magnetic field in a water pipe running the length of the floor in the entire apartment passing 1.24 amps of AC...150 watts..from sources as yet unknown...perpetrating her complete disability. Ruth is 5'2" and walks errect...at least at last sight. (EMF can do some pretty weird stuff). The three cats stand about 4-6" and as yet still walk horizontally...several feet closer to the water line fields.

Edgar was a mess...falling fur, bloodshot eyes, lethargic, I gave him about a year and he was still a young cat.

Bear was all right for a snarling, neurotic tom...but had hair blotches he scratched constantly.

Sneffles was a reclusive female with no apparent problems.

Ruth collapsed, the apartment was abandoned, the cats were farmed out.

A month later, in lower field digs...Edgar was the zenith of life, healthy, sleek fur, playful and ready to romp.

Two or three months later and in verified zero electrical fields (what we would expect as the culprit for skin disorders) Bear's itching and splotches disappeared, his coat sleek up. He still snarls and is defiantly neurotic.

Sneffles is unchanged.

How can you be affected by an EMF anomaly and not the pets? Can the pets and their behavior and health be a harbinger or verifying indicator of suspected problems?

Field strength is related to distance.

No doubt in my mind....especially if they get better with removal. You may be able to remove them for a test easier and more quickly than yourself.

Other miscellaneous considerations and concerns

Disability

Disability qualification on the basis of EMF remains in development and problematical. MDs have no training in these fields and are usually required as a disability certifying entity. Courses of action are to get them up to speed...good luck. Or to get more progressive Naturopaths or healing practitioners dealing in bio-energetic fields qualified to certify.

The long term advisability of pursuing disability is problematical. What confronts us is not how to curl up and die, but how to reconstruct our lives and environment...including work...to be healthy. Better to move forward and create the job place safety allowing us to remain mainstream as to become a ward of the state.

The other side many of us face is how to eat in the mean time.

The hurdles...medical certification, 2-3 year hearing battles, survival in the interim...are prolific.

I consider my own situation (never having pursued disability) and survival through now 14 years on the miracle scale in terms of logistic viability. The same is true of every other EI I know.

But there are those who win.

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