The Unity of Biology and Ecology with Spirit
Mysteries of Magnetism
What it Means to You
by Phil Brennan
a special Wednesday-on-the-Web report
(Author's note: The world is poised on the brink of a scientific revolution that holds enormous promise for all of us. Years of doggedly-pursued scientific experimentation have proven that the application of certain magnetic energies to living systems is capable of diagnosing and curing a host of physical disorders, increasing food production dramatically, cleaning up environmental toxic waste sit es cheaper and faster, and providing humanity with a whole slew of other near-miraculous yet practical benefits. For some years, I have had the privilege of watching this exciting development take shape, both as a journalist and as a friend of one of the pioneers in biomagnetic research. Understandably, my interest quickened after I bought a few shares of stock (30) in the company now leading the world into the age of biomagnetism.)
Its all began with a can of worms.
Albert Roy Davis, a north Florida 16-year-old scientific wunderkind, spent much of his time trying to learn if the application of electromagnetism to small animals had any effect on them. He had a little laboratory in the rear of his dad's electric supply and radio store in Green Cove Springs, Florida, with a work area filled with such now-crude electronic devices as the kind of oscillators used in the long-outdated superhetrodyne radio circuits in use back then in 1936.
On this day, however, he planned to take the afternoon off and go fishing. For bait he had three small, tightly-sealed cardboard containers of phylum anneleda, a common species of earthworms which he put aside on his wooden workbench while he went on with his experiments.
Each container had a handful worms happily wriggling around in rich, moist black soil. There were air holes to allow the worms to breathe.
A large horseshoe magnet rested on the wooden work bench where Davis put the worms, and one of the containers accidentally rested against the magnet's south pole. Another abutted the magnet's north pole. The third container was a short distance away from both poles
Fascination with his current experiment kept Davis at the bench all day, however, and, as a result, he never went fishing. Instead, he spent the afternoon at the work bench and the worms spent the night on it.
The next morning Davis eyes almost popped out when he saw that the worms in one of the containers -- the one resting against the south pole of the magnet -- had eaten their way through one side. Both the other containers, however, remained unchanged.
Intrigued by this apparent demonstration of his theory that magnetism has an effect on living systems, Davis put the remaining worms in new containers and placed them in the same position as the previous ones, believing that if a dose of magnetism had enabled the worms at the south pole of the magnet to eat their way through the side, the phenomenon would be repeated.
It wasn't. The next morning all the worms were securely inside their cardboard prisons.
Disappointed, Davis forgot about the experiment and went on to other research projects. The worms went unfed, unmoistened and unattended.
Three days later, however, he discovered that the worms in the container lodged against the south pole had eaten their way out, and their stiff, dried-out bodies were scattered around the top of the work bench.
Determined to prove that he had finally been able to demonstrate that magnetic energy did affect living creatures, Davis broadened his experiments, using containers of sturdier cardboard, and more powerful magnets.
The results were astounding.
He put worms into much heavier cardboard containers, one marked N for north pole, one S, for south pole, and one marked C for control (the container placed a distance away from the magnet and thus unaffected by it's energies). Davis kept the soil in all three containers fresh and moist, put leaves in each container to feed the worms, and then waited for results.
On the 12th day he opened the containers and found that the south pole worms were not only still alive, but were also a third larger, longer, fatter, sassier, and hyperactive. And they had been busy chewing away at the cardboard. Moreover, there were more worms in the container -- a whole new crop of young worms had been born during the 12 days inside.
In the north pole container, however, most of the worms were dead, and those few that remained were emaciated and listless.
In the control container, Davis found no difference in either the size or vigor of the worms inside.
Davis broadened his experiments, varying the size and strength of the magnets and the time and temperature during exposure. He discovered these factors strongly influenced the time it took for the worms to chew their way to freedom.
One of the customers who often came to Davis' father's store was the famed researcher, Dr. Yerkes, whose Yerkes Primate Laboratory was located a few miles away.
Yerkes had shown interest in Davis' work, and when the youth told him about the experiments and of his conviction that he'd discovered that magnets emitted two distinct forms of electromagnetic energies each of which had diametrically opposed effects on living creatures, Yerkes encouraged him to continue his work.
Davis assured Yerkes he planned to continue his experiments in this area, and he never forgot what Yerkes then told him.
"Well, if you want to spend the rest of your life doing it, go ahead," the famed scientist told him.
And that's exactly what he did. Davis was still at it when he died in 1983. He and Dr. Walter Rawls, who joined him after World War II, solidly established the fact that magnets do indeed emit two entirely different forms of energy -- north pole and south pole forms, and that these energies have dramatic effects on living systems. South pole energy, they proved, spurs growth, while north pole energy retards it.
Davis and Rawls experimented with a host of living systems, as diverse as chickens, rats and seeds. In every test, it was conclusively proven that south and north pole energies not only increased or decreased the subjects' growth and vigor, but had marked effects on their biological systems.
Their work also revealed the serious dangers excess exposure to south pole energy poses to all living systems. Their experiments also demonstrated that south pole energy, properly applied, can dramatically improve the size, growth rate and quality of agricultural crops.
Tragically, their work was largely ignored, and to this day, despite the fact that the existence of unipolar magnetic energy has been scientifically demonstrated, many textbooks, and many researchers continue to insist that the energy produced by magnets is homogeneous. Which, in light of the overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary, is something like saying the world is flat.
As a result, up until now the world has been deprived of the countless benefits Davis and Rawls' discoveries, can contribute to mankind.
But that's about to end. Biomagnetics are about to come into their own.
Spectacularly! Thanks to bugs.
Bugs. It started with worms, and it's taken bugs to make the world sit up and take notice of the startling results of Davis' and Rawls' many years of lab and field work.
The process is called bioremediation. Hailed as the answer to the problem of toxic waste removal that's been vexing large areas of the world for years, the basic concept has been around for quite a while.
It's quite simple; voracious little microbes with an absolutely disgusting appetite for toxic slime are introduced into sites poisoned by a witches' brew of contaminants where they are expected to gobble up all the pollutants, leaving the sites clean.
The idea is sound, but it can be a time-consuming process, and it doesn't always work, often because many sites are contaminated by a multiple of different toxins, each requiring a different approach.
So, while there's been much ado about toxic waste cleanup and bioremediation, and billions of dollars have been set aside to detoxify tens of thousands contaminated sites around the world, most remain uncleansed.
Moreover, a multitude of companies set up to detoxify the countless waste sites have gone belly up, thus frightening off many other would-be toxic waste eliminators.
This, however, does not doom the concept of bioremediation. There is a method that breathes new life into the method -- biomagnetics.
You begin with this: south pole energy enhances growth. Zap microbes with bursts of south pole electromagnetism, and you get superbugs -- big, fat sassy critters with mighty appetites for slime and an ability to eat their way through mountains of contaminants in record time.
And this is no mere concept. It's been tried and tried again, and it works!
The June, 1995 issue of Pollution Engineering magazine reported on the latest developments in the toxic waste clean-up field. Here's what they wrote about unipolar treatment of a waste site:
"When aerobic bacteria are exposed to a unipolar magnetic fields under the right conditions, they reproduce more quickly, grow larger and attack recalcitrant organic contamination more aggressively.
"In one demonstration project sponsored by the EPA, 10 cubic yards of hazardous wastes at a coke plant were treated by conventional and magnetically enhanced bioremediation. EPA stipulated a demonstrable degradation rate of 10 percent annually would be statistically significant. Conventional bioremediation yielded no statistically valid results. After five months of magnetically enhanced bioremediation, a whopping 25 percent of the contamination was degraded. The demonstration project is now being scaled up to treat 2,000 cubic yards of soil. This technology may prove to be the long awaited breakthrough in treating coal tar residues at MGP sites."
In other words, a site estimated to take as long as 10 years to detoxify was a quarter detoxified in a mere five months. At that rate the site would be sparking clean in less than two years, thanks to biomagentics!.
It's no surprise, then, that the United Nations has officially endorsed unipolar bioremediation as the method of choice.
Bulletins distributed by UN officials at meetings in Nairobi and Amsterdam noted: "According to laboratory and field tests, it [biomagnetic bioremediation] is far more complete than the alternatives, such as incineration or carting toxic wastes to proper disposal sites....Because of its speed, smaller space requirements, and flexibility, this revolutionary technology can be applied to land farming and in situ cleanups, eliminating the liability associated with hauling toxic wastes."
The UN's UNEP-IETC Newsletter's Summer, 1995 edition commented on the unipolar bioremediation process, noting that:
"it causes bacteria and other microorganisms to perform much faster than they would under normal conditions.
"This could be of particular importance for biodegrading polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), especially those found at old and shut-down gas manufacturing plants. There are more than 2,000 of these sites in the U.S. alone, but also numerous sites in countries with economies in transition. Sites contaminated with carcinogenic PAH are frequently found to contain a wide variety of by-products, including coal tars, oils, sludge, various types of ash, ammonia and lime."
As this is written, Rawls' company is preparing to apply its patented unipolar bioremediation process to a number of different contaminated sites, and lab tests on samples from one site showed they have been completely decontaminated.
This first commercial application of unipolar bioremediation will at last open the door for the science of biomagnetics to come into its own.
Here are just a few of the benefits we can reap from this exciting new science:
Diagnostics: In tests, prototype models of a device developed by Rawls and Davis pinpointed both the cause and results of medical problems earlier and more efficiently than X-rays, MRIs and cat scans. The device proved capable of locating and diagnosing physical problems in a mere five minutes.
The diagnostic device is small, portable, requires little maintenance and could be manufactured for less than $1,000 in comparison to the current diagnostic machines which cost as much as $2 million. Because of its size and low cost, every doctor could afford one of these machines in his or her office.
Cancer: A paper presented to the 9th Annual Convention and Scientific assembly of the National medical Association held in Orlando, Florida in July, 1989 Drs. Arthur Trappier, and L.P. Johnson, and researcher Philip Lorio reported:
"According to Davis and Rawls 'The North Pole (negative polarity) slowed, controlled and arrested further development of an active cancer site' " and " 'the South Pole (Positive Polarity) caused the cancers to become more advanced and then develop, grow, and speed at an accelerated rate.' "
"In an attempt to verify the effects of magnetic fields on cancer, an experiment was performed using human lung carcinoma cells (A-549). The results indicated that a significant decrease in the growth of these cells occurred between 6 and 144 hours when placed in close proximity to the north field of a 3.5 kilogauss magnet (written personal communication, Philip M. Lorio, February, 1988). This experiment verified the statement that different magnetic polarities produce different effects; when one polarity produced a decrease in the growth curve, the opposite produced an increase."
These findings came as no shock to Davis and Rawls. In 1974 they reported on the results of 18 years of experimenting with biomagnetism and its effects on cancer cells. In their book, Magnetism and Its Effects on the Living System the two researchers revealed explained that in over 300 experiments on lab animals they found that "when magnetic energy of the negative N pole is applied to the cancer site, a remarkable reduction in the condition and also a marked arrest in further development of the cancer condition takes place."
Davis and Rawls research showed that biomagnetics could be successfully applied to everything from arthritis and broken bones to tumors and ulcers.
Stay tuned.