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The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life by [Arthur Firstenberg]

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Electricity has shaped the modern world. But how has it affected our health and environment?

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

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

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electricity, EMF, EMF'd, diabetes, tinnitus, infertility, extinction, environment, electrosmog, 5G

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"We live today with a number of devastating diseases that do not belong here, whose origin we do not know, whose presence we take for granted and no longer question. What it feels like to be without them is a state of vitality that we have completely forgotten. . . . These are the diseases of civilization, that we have also inflicted on our animal and plant neighbors, diseases that we live with because of a refusal to recognize the force that we have harnessed for what it is. The 6o-cycle current in our house wiring, the ultrasonic frequencies in our computers, the radio waves in our televisions, the microwaves in our cell phones, these are only distortions of the invisible rainbow that runs through our veins and makes us alive. But we have forgotten.

It is time that we remember.

Inside You'll Find

A deep scientific history of electricity
Information on the damage that human-created electrical devices have caused
Information on the links between EMF and diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular disease & tinnitus
Research showing the loss of over 2.9 billion birds in the last few decades
The consequences of electrosmog
The effects the planned 5G rollout will have on us all

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“Few individuals today are able to grasp the entirety of a scientific subject and present it in a highly engaging manner, in plain English, without losing any of the details. In The Invisible Rainbow, Firstenberg has done just that with one of the most pressing but neglected problems of our technological age. This book, which as a medical doctor I found hard to put down, explores the relationship between electricity and life from beginning to end: from the early eighteenth century to today, and from the point of view of the physician, the physicist, and the average person in the street. Firstenberg makes a compelling case that the major diseases of civilization―heart disease, diabetes, and cancer―are in large part related to the pollution of our world by electricity.”―Bradley Johnson, MD, Amen Clinic, San Francisco

“The Invisible Rainbow is wonderful. Firstenberg has done his research thoroughly. His book is easily readable and provocative while being entertaining. A remarkable contribution.”―David O. Carpenter, MD, director, Institute for Health and the Environment, School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany

“I found it to be a mystery unfolding and could not put it down. It shines a new light on diseases that come from electrical development, and addresses current environmental crises that only a few yet realize are the consequence of electrosmog. This book is very, very important.”―Sandy Ross, PhD, president, Health and Habitat, Inc.

“I was stunned by this book. It is an extremely valuable document about an increasingly widespread environmental health risk to which we are all exposed. I am overwhelmed with admiration for what Firstenberg has accomplished.”―William E. Morton, MD, DrPH, professor emeritus, Oregon Health Sciences University

“Firstenberg is a pioneer in the sense that Rachel Carson was a pioneer.”―Chellis Glendinning, PhD, author of When Technology Wounds

About the Author

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

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Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing; Reprint edition (March 9, 2020)
Publication Date: March 9, 2020
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Language: English
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Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2020

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This book is incredible, and I cannot stop recommending it. I have a saying, "The universe rewards the curious", and I believe that this book arrived just in time to appease my curiosity on the link between 5g and the coronavirus.

It is hard for many people to imagine that frequencies can negatively affect the human body, especially at a non-thermal level, but over 10,000 studies have shown they "do".

The book points out that historically, flu outbreaks would occur every 50 years in correlation with peaks in solar magnetic activity. After electricity became mainstream in the late 1880's, outbreaks started to occur annually and have done so since.
Even astronauts can't get a break, as 50-60% come down with herpes due to background cosmic radiation, which measures at 160ghz which is below thermal levels. Is coronavirus dormant in us, as herpes is by the time we are 20, and some how activated by 5g?

This book will open your eyes to the fact that we, and all of life around us, ARE affected by frequency, and if we don't clean up our environment of all this electrosmog, we are in big trouble.

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God loves you so be good to one another and educate yourself!

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2020

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This book is amazing piece of work with 139 page bibliography of doctors and scientists to back up there claims. This book is the real deal! You want to have that ah ha moment and realize that electricity is responsible for the majority of health ailments and you are just not being told the truth. In my opinion the truth is being suppressed so that big pharma can benefit of your ailments while they treat you with meds you don’t need. Yes meds help to relieve your symptoms quicker but it doesn’t address the cause of why you got it in the first place. Always treat the symptoms instead of trying to figure out why you got them in the first place! But it’s not the doctors fault. The doctors are good people It’s just the powers that be who disregarded the finding of the past and swept it under the rug. Then create new guidelines to treat diseases. Here is one for you. If your suffering from something take two saws and cut down a telecommunications pole! Ha ha just kidding. Peace and love to everyone even the people who bash this book. Knowledge is power!!

Update: now I was debating about sharing this but I’m going to. When I was younger I was diagnosed with adhd because I was not focused and always falling asleep in school. Granted this could be a lot of kids who are young and could be anything, true. Fast forward to 1990 my junior year in high school. I had a very bad year! I suffered from headaches, passing out and having seizures. Three times this happened. One time I remember I woke up being rushed down in a in a wheelchair with a nurse saying “still no pulse.” Remembering that it felt like I was sucking on a piece of aluminum. They diagnosed me with hypoglycemia. That same year I woke up for school with migraines and I couldn’t move my neck or back. So off I went to hospital again and here comes the spinal tap, the results were nothing. Had tests for my migraines and nothing Constant nosebleed for no reasons and till this day I still have bad tinnitus in both ears. I always had trouble focusing in school and and feeling lethargic and no matter how hard I studied I had troubles. Fast forward again to 2002 I was back in hospital for physical therapy for back and neck spasms again. Now I got to admit in 2010 I really didn’t have to many issues that year and I’m not sure why but I was not in the same area that year. I was in a different state. Now let’s fast forward to Jan of 2020. This year has been bad again for me. In the beginning of year I got real sick again! Cold sweats, insomnia, headaches, fatigue, muscle cramps and pain in muscles. Difficulty breathing, chest pain, nausea, stomach issues, constant backaches and once again still tinnitus. I had bloodwork done, a scope of stomach all came back neg! This happened in Jan and again in March. Now what if I were to tell you that all these dates coincide with the rollout with the next generation of 1g, 2g, 3g not sure about 4g and then now there is 5g. Now in the news and even on this post you are being told that just because you have experiences in your life doesn’t mean causation which is true however, it doesn’t rule it out either. So if everything always comes out negative and the rollout of the next generation of wireless coincides with all your ailments let me ask you something. What would you think it is?? By the way if you haven’t read the book I’ll tell you that these are all symptoms of background radiation. I believe my inquisitive mind and god lead me to this book. I also don’t believe in coincidences like this. Everything happens for a reason.

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Electrifying information!!!

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2019

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Wow!! Astonishing!! Extensive research and very well written. I loved it. A whole different view of health and history and electricity-I never knew any of this. Have already loaned it to my healthcare provider.

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A re-evaluation of the technology that has defined our modern world, from a health perspective.

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2018

This is an amazing book. It is in my top 10 list of general interest non-fiction books that I've ever read. Arthur Firstenberg revisits the technologies of our day that have shaped our lives in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries - from a health perspective. Telegraphy, electricity, radio, radar, satellites, and cell phones / wi-fi. When each of these technologies was introduced the "wow magic" and utility factors dazzled us, it also blinded most of us as to their other damaging effects - which happen over time - to both our physical body, mind, and our environment, animals and trees included. Undesirable health effects - chronic and temporary. Heart disease, chest pain, heart attacks, cancer, diabetes, obesity, and influenza (the flu) take center stage. But you will also learn about haemophilia, strokes, hair loss, auto-immune diseases, and much more and how they relate to the modern technologies that surround us.

It's a classic case of fixing one problem and causing another, many others. (Pandora's box?).

In just a few hundred pages, Invisible Rainbow, will guide you through the history of these technologies and correlate how they each affected our health and environment - using broad population / environmental statistics to individual stories of famous and non-famous people. Literally, hundreds of studies and data points are referenced and provided in the back of the book for more interested readers to investigate further. But, don't be put off by the inclusion of so many studies, they are weaved together very nicely in a story format. Chapters are clearly defined and if you are particularly interested in one health / environmental aspect over another, you could just skip to that without reading the earlier chapters necessarily. Choose your own adventure!

All studies and news stories noted in the book are referenced clearly or with a link to the bibliography, which is separated by chapters, conveniently. Out of curiosity I double checked about 20-25 of these by finding the source articles / stories on the Internet - from scientific journals (like JAMA), news stories, to various newer & older books, to government publications. They all matched -- 100%. Others that I didn't check already concurred with my own knowledge base. The scope of research IS breathtaking and fascinating!

Did you know Guglielmo Marconi, one of the inventors and businessmen behind radio technology suffered from debilitating chest pain (angina pectoris) in his 50s before finally succumbing in his early 60s to a heart attack? He suffered other ill effects (both health and social) well before his 50s - but some biographies of Marconi don't mention this, none of them realize the significance of it. Or that Alexander Graham Bell suffered from and died of diabetes? (Diabetes in the 1920s!!??) Did you know that there were mass bee die offs well before (early 20th century) the recent ones that have been in the media (2000s - Colony Collapse Disorder)? There is another force at work....this book will leave no doubt in your mind. Do you know what event is correlated with the sudden death of track star and Olympic gold medalist Florence Griffith Joyner (Flo-Jo) at the age of 38? Do you know about the rise of sudden cardiac deaths in "healthy athletes?" (Look that up!)

For some further background - you may enjoy a BBC documentary called Shock and Awe - The History of Electricity. Watching the video would be a nice companion to Invisible Rainbow. But, the book goes MUCH further and is more broad-minded. Someday, this profound book will be sought after by millions and millions around our world. Read it now and benefit today!

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I chose this book having spent most of my working life dealing with electric th I was interested in the authors ideas of why it effected our health. What an interesting read. It covered areas that I had not considered.

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