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are electric
31, 1997 field effects in the atmosphere that affect
your brain? We need to solve the mystery of why it is that your alpha rhythm, a
s measured by detectors sensitive to brain waves, has a frequency equal to that
detected by the study of weak electric field oscillations in the atmosphere. The
frequency is 7.8 Hz, about one sixth or one seventh of the frequency of electri
city supplied to your home. It was Tesla who first discovered those atmospheric
oscillations. He even embarked on research to exploit the phenomenon, aiming to
transmit power to homes everywhere around the world by low frequency 'radio wave
s'. That was deemed to be a venture that could put power companies out of busine
ss. How would they be able to charge for the service? So now we have to concentr
ate instead on the power of our own brain waves to progress in the world of 'fre
e energy'.
It
was Schumann's research reports which gave formal scientific recognition of t
his physical phenomenon of our atmosphere and so it has the name 'Schumann Reson
ance'. When I first heard about this from Tom Valone at a conference I attended
in Canada in 1988 I was mildly interested. I was there to air my views on how on
e might be able to generate power using magnetism as a catalyst in tapping aethe
r energy. I was told not to use the expression 'free energy' in the title of my
talk as that might destroy my credibility! So I was a little restrained in my pu
rsuit of the technological implications of my 'brain child' and atmospheric reso
nance effects were not uppermost on my mind - or so I thought! What I did learn
was that the Schumann resonance was deemed to be a phenomenon occurring as elect
romagnetic waves travelled around the Earth in the concentric spherical cavity b
etween the Earth's surface and the ionosphere. If one takes the circumference of
Earth and compares it with the speed of light then one finds that electromagnet
ic waves travelling around body Earth would set up a kind of standing wave reson
ance effect at 7.8 Hz. This is the alpha rhythm frequency. So we, meaning our br
ains, may be phase-locked in some way with body Earth and its atmosphere. The ex
pression 'phase-locked' means that everything in this merry electrical dance is
in step
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interpretation of this resonance phenomenon? I
leave it to you to judge. Firstly, as background I note that in 1988 my interes
t in aether theory led to contacts between me and Dr. P. E. Rowe of Mashpee, Mas
sachusetts, USA . I had a theory which explained how protons were created from t
he aether. Dr. Rowe had experimental evidence that protons were created inside h
is electrical discharge tubes which he operated at 50,000 volts and he too belie
ved the aether was the source. It seemed to me that he had found a way of focusi
ng the work done by the aether in creating matter so that, in a sense, he was ha
rnessing the power of Creation! I saw in this also the danger of effects on our
bodies if we were near enough to electric power lines to be in the 'proton creat
ion zone', but far enough away not to be electrocuted. I then wrote the paper (a
bstract 1988f in these Web pages). I had forgotten 'Schumann Resonance' because
my mind was on my own theory and protons, deuterons, neutrons etc. There was not
much I could do anyway, even though I was aware that if protons could be create
d inside my body in existing atomic nuclei I might suffer some consequences. I w
ondered about DNA and whether its chemistry took account of isotopes. It may hav
e been A. A. Berezin, an academic researcher in Canada, who pointed out that the
re were more people in the world than possible DNA combinations of atoms in the
DNA molecule but yet we were all different. The implication I saw in this was th
at there
Maybe
thecould
odd deuteron
be different
replacing
isotopic
the proton
combinations
in theinhydrogen
the DNAatom
structure.
in DNA can make
a difference! If so, then the odd proton causing a transmutation to a deuteron
could make the odd DNA molecule a misfit in our composition. Would that promote
cancer? I do not know but I do know that someone somewhere should be researching
that possibility. I may have done no more on this theme if it had not come to m
y attention that an electric blanket manufacturing company had sought certain as
surances from staff members of the Electrical Engineering Department at my local
University. They wanted to be assured that the electrical and magnetic fields p
roduced by their blankets were so weak as to be non-harmful to health. I was a V
isiting Research Fellow in that Department pursuing my own research on energy fr
om a technological viewpoint, but I was not consulted on that question, nor was
there any reason for such consultation. Measuring those electric and magnetic fi
elds is quite straightforward, given the necessary test equipment. In my opinion

, thinking about the matter privately, it was not sufficient just to measure the
strength of those weak fields and assume that they could do no harm. If the med
icalanworld
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problem!
common. Unl
ike the cables which come into your home and in which the forward current carryi
ng wire is wrapped around the return current carrying wire, the overhead power l
ine and the electric blanket have these wires well spaced. In one case it is to
reduce the risk of bad contacts causing hot spots and so a fire hazard. In the o
ther case it is because the voltages are so high that the wires need to be well
spaced to preclude arcing. The point nevertheless is that, if wires are well spa
ced, they do set up stray pulsating electromagnetic fields at the power frequenc
y. They may be too weak to matter in normal physical terms but they may be too s
trong to be tolerated in biophysical terms! The reason for this is 'resonance'.
Now, I like to think that I am not stupid. I also have an aptitude for understan
ding something new, otherwise I could hardly have spent my working life in the w
orld of invention. As a corporate patent attorney in the high technology world o
f electronics and power engineering one needs to be able to grasp what is new an
d find
So,
theaobvious
rationalquestion,
way of explaining
if resonance
in is
terms
involved,
meaningful
is why
to electric
a patent blankets
examiner.and
overhead powerlines have harmful effects in U.K. and in USA, where the electric
power frequencies are 50Hz and 60Hz respectively. To answer this I asked myself
what was different about the human body versus action in a metallic conductor w
hen it came to reaction to a low frequency alternating magnetic field. Now, alth
ough I was experienced in patent attorney work, I happen to have a Ph.D. for exp
erimental research on the energy anomalies involved when metal reacts to such fi
elds. I was aware of a kind of resonance in copper or iron when subjected to a m
agnetic field, what is termed a diamagnetic reaction which occurs even in a stea
dy d.c. field. In copper or iron there are free electrons moving about and setti
ng up that reaction. In our bodies, in our blood, there are instead ions relativ
ely much heavier than electrons set up that reaction. If there are two types of
reacting ion present then, within a limited range, one can screen the field of t
he other to the extent needed to adjust the effective field to the optimum reson
ance of one or other of the ion masses. I knew this could explain the 50Hz-60Hz
resonance
The
expression
question.
'Aspden Resonance' refers to my suggestion that the field oscilla
tions in the Earth's atmospheric cavity, as bounded by the ionosphere, are encou
raged by cyclotron resonance involving ionized oxygen or ozone. Now, I say cyclo
tron resonance here, but I must qualify that statement. In physics there are two
Larmor formulae. The first, which is called the 'Larmor formula', is the one ap
plied to the cyclotron. It applies to the effect of fields which pump energy int
o the ion motion. The second formula, that termed the 'Larmor precession', appli
es to an action in which the motion in orbit is perturbed, with the result that
the plane of the orbit alters the direction of the axis about which the ion move
s. This sets up a radiated field disturbance at the precession frequency, which
is half that of the cyclotron resonance frequency given by the 'Larmor formula'.
Now, owing to the Earth's magnetic field, the resonant frequency of the ionized
oxygen molecule, which comprises two oxygen atoms, would be about three times t
hat attributed to the Schumann resonance. Also the ionized ozone, which comprise
s three such molecules would imply a resonance that is about twice the frequency
of the Schumann resonance. In short, therefore, there would be harmonics of the
basic cavity resonance set up and the relative strengths of the components obse
rved in the harmonic spectrum of radiation should tell us whether this interpret
ation is viable. To take this further I need to deflect your attention along dif
ferent routes according to choice. You may choose to follow my account of the ba
sic cyclotron resonance theme, which may hold the secrets of the hazards we risk
from using electric blankets or living too close to overhead power lines. Alter
natively, you may be more interested in the question of those brain waves and th
e Schumann resonance and Aspden resonance topics. The latter has a special inter
Aestfeature
from the
of my
viewpoint
theory is
of that
my aether
theretheory.
is a phase-lock throughout domains in space
set by the range of gravity force. The phase-lock merely implies that electric
charges are all moving in a common rhythm, keeping their separation constant and
so not exchanging energy. I predicted long ago that this was an ongoing state i
n the aether. As can be seen also from the pattern of electron field cavity reso

nance illustrated on page 51 of my book 'Aether Science Papers', the phase-lock

action is at work in containing the electron's energy in a way which explains wh
at is known as the anomalous g-factor of the electron. Therefore the Schumann re
sonance theme, which involves a phase-lock having a much smaller frequency than
that of the aether or the electron, has a special significance in defining an en
closing boundary, not just for a weak form of radiation, but also for the aether
system which is carried along by body Earth. See my Research Notes 03/97 on Cyc
lotron Resonance and 07/97 which expands a little on the Schumann Resonance them
e. Alternatively see my Energy Science Report No. 10, which includes both of the
se Research Notes and also the paper I wrote in 1988 on the proton hazard theme
xreferring to Dr. Rowe's research.