The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life

This book is excellent and I cannot recommend it enough. After having read it once, I intend to read it again and keep it for reference. I bought it several months ago on the advice of my doctor and only had the time to read it last month while on vacation. I say this because for me in any case, I had to have some downtime wherein it was actually possible to absorb the information. Firstenburg does a really excellent job of writing engagingly about what is essentially a complex problem that has evolved in a convoluted fashion over the last 150 years. At the end of his very carefully researched book I was just marveling at this newfound knowledge revealed to me. Who could have known the damage that is caused by harnessing electricity?! Or that our bodily functions happen thanks to electricity? Or that there is a constant electric exchange between the earth and the skies?! I, for one, had no idea, and this book really opened my mind - including to the damaging effects of electro-magnetic pollution on our bodies. Incredibly I was able to join the dots in terms of my own life and connect health crises I’ve suffered in the last two decades to times in history that I was exposed to higher levels of electro-magnetic radiation. I had a burnout in my mid-20s while working 100 metres from a 60 metre high radio pylon, for example. Had never made the connection before now. Also developed chronic inflammation in the body around 2011-2012 which corresponded with the widespread rollout of WiFi. Coincidence? Then, was able to trace the rollout of electricity to the remote village my father was born in to the early 50s, which was the same time a member of the family got sick with a sort of epilepsy, another got sick with MS, and another member took his own life. Was there a connection or was it a coincidence? I will never know but the information in this book has really caught my attention. The one downside is that Firstenburg is really focused on the problem and offers no solutions whatsoever. At he end of the book he describes how the various multinationals will be sending thousands of satellites into space in preparation for the rollout of 5G from 2020 to 2023 and he says simply that “this must not happen”. Well, I write in October 2020 when it is most definitely happening and we ordinary punters can’t do a thing to stop it!! While the author doesn’t mention it as a solution, I started “earthing” after I read this book. I have found that has helped my chronic health conditions subside, and I am sleeping much better. I don’t know if it will still help once 5G is fully rolled out but I am hoping it’s a step in the right direction. Short of getting these satellites down from the skies, what else can we do?!

One of the best books I have ever read this year and particularly on the subject of harmful radiations and their history. How humans as well as all other species and our beautiful planet become ill (if not die) from electromagnetic pollution. The book is full of interesting references. I resisted buying this book for quite some time but it was a big mistake. Fabulously enjoyable.

There are already a lot of good reviews describing The Invisible Rainbow and its contents. The book wholeheartedly feels like one written with a huge amount of work and care - for the purpose of communicating a deeply-felt, experienced and researched subject. When people (and the rest of the World's inhabitants) are being subjected to massively higher and increasing levels of electromagnetic fields/radiation than we evolved with, it is important for people to consider and read around this subject themselves - and to form their own judgements. A lot of good research suggests that there are very big costs in terms of health (to everyone - and not just the growing percentage who are, or have become, electrosensitive). It is interesting to compare some of the emerging symptoms being associated with the current pandemic with those of non-ionising radiation poisoning, as described in this book. It is not necessarily as ridiculous as many so aggressively "shout" that our immune and other systems are being compromised by more than just the virus. The argument that we should "wait for irrefutable proof of harm" before slowing down our microwaving of the planet seems unbelievable. (There feels a similarity there to the long-fought argument against human-induced global warming!) Remembering that we cannot, for example, put thousands of people in lab-controlled studies for several years, where different groups live identical lives except for their exposure to non-ionising radiation, we have to look at a collective of evidence from different studies. There is plenty to find if you look around that gives considerable cause for concern. This book makes for very interesting and worrying reading - and is a great book to lend others.

Vår elektromagnetiska miljö började förändras så snart vi lärde oss framställa elektricitet i större mängder. Utforskningen av påverkan på människor började redan på 1700-talet och då fanns en miljö utan konstgjord elektromagnetisk påverkan att jämföra med. Från den tiden får vi följa utvecklingen fram till idag.

This book is a mine of information compiled from a thorough review of available information that most of us would never come across. For example most members of the public won't seek out information about how electricity was used by medical people in the last few centuries. Nor compare health records before electric power was introduced versus after the various stages of electrical power generation and distribution. Similarly for before and after the rolling out of various radio frequency transmissions. The author has made a very thorough job of mining information, which he does in a very readable fashion. He has medical qualifications but I don't think that he understands electromagnetism in any depth. Despite this fact he has done such a good job of assembling empirical data and scientific papers that his deductions are still sound. In any case the reader can ponder upon the data and decide whether or not to agree with some of the conclusions. One fascinating part for me was the description of how the ear works and the fact that its size does not vary greatly from mouse to human to whale. It's worth getting the book just to read about the description of the ear. As an aside I remember speaking to somebody that had walked through a very strong static magnetic field and had a headache after. Such a field is never experienced in normal life but basic electromagnetism would show that he would have generated a significant voltage across his head. I read, probably an engineering publication, that some unfortunate did some maintenance work on a radar dish whilst unaware that the radar was in operation. He felt warm whilst working on it and as far as I recall died hours later after completing the job. So you can be fatally injured without feeling any really obvious discomfort from electromagnetic radiation. In nature when you get killed from heat radiation (which is electromagnetic) the torment must be terrible. Our eyes close to avoid blindingly bright light. Nature has endowed us with warnings against natural dangers from very high frequency electromagnetic radiation like heat and light. But we don't have any natural warning mechanisms warning us against for example X-rays or radio frequency waves: because formerly these have been at such low levels that there was no evolutionary pressure to evolve such sensing. This book gives us reason to doubt whether the safety guidelines given out by "responsible bodies" are in fact adequate. It would appear that enough data and empirical evidence has been amassed to justify a thorough investigation of multiple aspects of exposure to man made electromagnetic fields. Highly recommended.

The only book worth reading about EMF.

I bought the audio version of this wonderful informative book and had to get the soft cover for my library. This is packed full of history and combines it with global studies and research provided on anatomy and wellness from and during all the changes we experienced in the days of lighting our world to modern day... connecting the dots. Highly recommended reading or listening.

Ignore the 1-star reviews that shout “Bogus! Unproven! Correlation doesn’t mean causation!” This book has references that fill 1/4 of its volume. Support your hysteric “bogus” claims with this much amount of reference, then maybe I will believe that you’re not just parroting ignorant “facts” you learned from Wikipedia. This book is very well written, talks about the history of vitally important subjects, facts about electricity, radio, its relationship to human body and life that none of us even the well educated ones ever heard about, because our education is not based on real science but on dogma and perverted knowledge that’s convenient for money and power seeking agencies. This book provides quotes from the 19th century doctors and scientists that exemplify true scientific method and questioning, gathering of data and building of hypothesis that is not dependent on profit seeking. That kind of environment is almost completely gone today, hence you have the “debunked!” “Fake science!” and such voices from the ignorant crowd kept in ignorance by their masters. Shame! This book is a must read for any person who likes to use his/her brain! We must know the truth. The truth will make us stronger.