The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life

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.

WOW! I recommend this book to everyone! The author explains things in a way that is easily understandable. There's a ton of information. He provides a large index to cross check his hundreds of sources. Most of all, the author will open the readers eyes to the modern-day dangers saturating every part of our world. Are your flu symptoms really coming from a virus? Heart disease? Diabetes?

PHENOMENONAL. I have 6000 books in my personal library and this one is on my shelf as a favorite to be passed on to future generations. I would love to see an updated version especially with current controversial issues. Covid symptoms are identical to radiation poisoning and the lockdowns were used as an excuse to install thousands of cell and Gwen Towers that bypassed density regulations without any safety studies. HAARP, SMART everything, phones, electric cars and other military industrial complex tech are turning the planet into a big microwave oven and we wonder why cancer and neuro-inflammation diseases are rampant. This book should be required reading of every healthcare professional and high school student.

Firstenberg's 'Invisible Rainbow', in addition to being a fascinating read from a historical perspective, is much more than a mere telling of the history of electricity. Stunning in it's scope, it constitutes an absolutely devastating, paradigm-shattering critique of man's obsession with modern technology, right up there with Jerry Mander's 'In the Absence Of the Sacred'. The book is extremely well researched and copiously referenced with an index of over 145 pages of cited source material. In it you'll learn of the well documented but heretofore untold links between electromagnetic pollution and the 'big three' killers – diabetes, cancer, and heart disease, which as the author notes, barely warranted a reference in pre-industrial medical texts. You'll also learn about the last country to adopt an electrical grid – Bhutan, whose populous was still traveling mostly by horseback as late as the 1990's, and the profound effect this sudden adoption on a wide scale of the countries electrical infrastructure has had on it's people's health in just a few short decades. You'll see how and why it is the ever-growing sea of artificial electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs) the world is now swimming in, and not climate change as it is assumed, that is the greater culprit behind the growing loss of biodiversity, including phenomena such as bee colony collapse disorder. One only hopes enough people are ready to hear and comprehend that in order to save the bees, along with perhaps all life on the planet including ourselves, it will be necessary to temper if not altogether abandon the love affair with our electronic gadgets, even as society is hurtling toward 'Smart Cities' and the 'Internet Of Things'. It's a stark reality, but one that must be confronted, and now. Just as ignorance can no longer be claimed over the dangers of Big Tobacco or toxic pesticides, so too must society as a whole come to grips with this. The Invisible Rainbow stands out as a giant contribution toward that end and deserves to be as widely read as possible.

*"The Invisible Rainbow" by Arthur Firstenberg is a fascinating exploration of the history of electricity and its profound effects on living beings and the environment. Thought-provoking and meticulously researched, this book connects the dots between technological advancements and their unintended consequences. A must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of science, health, and nature.*

Fascinating book that brings attention to a much needed field of study. Very educational and historical which was enjoyable. However, there are some wild claims that lack evidence. The author may have an ideological bend that skews some of his perspectives leading him into confirmation bias a bit. Still, a thoroughly enjoyable and well-written book, but some claims need to be verified or discarded completely.

I am electrically sensitive and this book helped me to realize that I an not alone! sensitvities to light, sound, EM fields, skin problems etc. This book sheds light on the problems of 5g on oir health.

Very easy to read ( reads like a novel). Inlcudes 100 pages of links to the sources ( so no space lost in the book itself of about 400 pages ). This proves a lot of research was done before writing it. The content is mind boggling and you will find a lot of facts and science from the 19th century and even before, that was deleted from schoolbooks and 20th century science and 'common knowledge' ( on purpose? ) . A must read for anyone who looks outside the narrative of mainstream science.

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?!

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.

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.