Cross Currents : The Perils of

Dr. Becker tells of the emergence of electromagnetic medicine, which promises to unlock the secrets of healing, and the growth of electromagnetic pollution, which poses a clear environmental danger. He explains the effectiveness of alternative healing methods that use parts of the body's innate electrical healing systems, and warns that our bodies are being adversely affected by power lines, computers, microwaves and satellite dishes.

Prologue

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Part One: Life Energy: The Hidden Dynamic in Medicine

The History of Life, Energy, and Medicine

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The Origins of Energy Medicine

Medicine in Greece: The Beginnings of Western Medicine

The Renaissance: The Beginnings of Scientific Medicine

The Scientific Revolution Under Way

The Triumph of Technology

The New Scientific Revolution: The Electrical Connection

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Understanding Growth and Healing

The Mystery of Regeneration

Discovering Acupuncture

The Missing Link: The Internal Direct-Current Electrical Control System

Cancer: Growth Out Of Control

The Morphogenetic Field: Blueprint for Growth

The Dual Nervous System Uncovered: Analog and Digital Controls

Uncovering the Hidden Cellular-Communication System

The New Scientific Revolution: The Magnetic Connection

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(18)

Magnetic Fields and Biology

Linking Biological Cycles to the Earth's Magnetic Field

Magnetic Sense Organs in Living Things

The Dual Nervous System Completed

Part Two: Electromagnetic Medicine

Turning On the Body's Electrical System: Minimal-Energy Techniques

85

(31)

The Scientific Basis for Electromagnetic Medicine

The Human Electrical Control System

Linking Hypnosis to the Electrical System

The Three Types of Energy Medicine

Minimal-Energy Techniques: The Use of the Mind

How Minimal-Energy Techniques Work

Unraveling the Healer Phenomenon

Building Up the Body's Electrical System: Energy-Reinforcement Techniques

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(19)

Homeopathy and the Law of Similars

A New Angle on the Scientific Basis for Homeopathy

Homeopathy and Traditional Pharmacology

Acupuncture: Traditional versus Electrical

Other Energy-Reinforcement Techniques: Vitamins, Trace Elements, and Physical Manipulation

Adding to the Body's Electrical System: High-Energy Transfer Techniques

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The Rise of Modern Electrotherapy

The ``Black Box'' Treatment: Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS)

Electrotherapy for Drug Addiction

Electricity and the Healing of Bone Fractures

Linking Electrical Currents and Cancer Growth

How Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields (PEMFs) Work

The History of Electrotherapy and Cancer

Modern Electrotherapy for Cancer

Magnetic-Field Therapy for Cancer

Electrochemical Growth Stimulation

Electrochemical Therapy for Cancer

Microwaves and Cancer

High-Voltage Therapy for Snakebite

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging: The Biological Effects

High-Energy Techniques: Where We Are Today

Part Three: Electromagnetic Pollution

The Natural Electromagnetic Field

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The Earth's Geomagnetic Field

Magnetic Storms and Human Behavior

Magnetic Reversals and Species Extinctions

The Geomagnetic Field and the Origin of Life

The Geomagnetic Field and Life Today

Man-Made Electromagnetic Fields

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Our Abnormal Electromagnetic Environment

The Question of Health Hazards

The History of Microwave Fields and Their Biological Effects

The First Thermal-Effects Safety Standard

The $5 Million Experiment That Went Wrong

The Second Thermal-Effects Safety Standard

Microwaves and Genetic Effects

Microwaves and Brain Tumors

Extremely Low-Frequency (ELF) Radiation from Electrical-Power Lines

Early Power-Line Studies

The New York State Power-Lines Project

Linking Low-Frequency Fields and Cancer

Linking Low-Frequency Fields and Neurological Behavior

The Battelle Study: The Utility Companies Respond

More Developmental-Defect Reports

The Genetic Effects of Power-Frequency Fields

The Spectrum between Microwave and ELF

The Hazards Are Real

The Role of Abnormal Electromagnetic Fields

ELF and the Mind/Brain Problem

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(11)

Electrical Stimulation of Brain and Behavior: The Question of Free Will

Low-Frequency Magnetic-Field Stimulation of Brain and Behavior

Low-Frequency Radiation and Altered Consciousness

Linking Up Inner and Outer Fields: Mechanisms of Action

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(19)

Ionizing Radiation, Nonionizing Radiation, and Heat

The ``Antenna'' Theory and Heat Effects

Biological Effects of Radiation Without Heat

Enter the Resonance Concept

Biological Resonance: How It Works

Magnetic Resonance and the ``Healer Phenomenon''

Magnetic Resonance and Extrasensory Perception

Magnetic Fields and Cell Division

The New Plagues

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Electromagnetic-Hypersensitivity Syndrome

Chronic-Fatigue Syndrome

AIDS

Autism

Fragile X Syndrome

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

Changes in Preexisting Diseases: Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, Cancer, and Mental Diseases

Where Do We Go from Here?

The Risk and the Benefit: What You Can Do

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Risk/Benefit Ratio

Dose-Rate Considerations: Electric Razors and Electric Blankets

The Ambient Field

Personal Actions: Television Sets, Personal Computers and VDTs, Fluorescent Lights, Electric Clocks, Hair Dryers, Electric Heaters, Microwave Ovens, Personal Radio Transmitters

How to Make Your Own Field Measurements

Ambient Environmental Fields: TV, FM and AM Radio, Microwaves

The Long-Term Radio Frequency/Microwave Solution

The Long-Term Electric-Power Solution

Risk/Benefit Analysis: Industry's View and Citizen Action

Epilogue

295

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Appendix: The Hidden Hand on the Switch: Military Uses of the Electromagnetic Spectrum

297

(8)

Glossary

305

(3)

Resources

308

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Index

327

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