START SAFEGUARDING THE ENERGETICS OF AMERICA'S HOMES

                         Jeff Smith



     The growing, and very welcome, attention the energetics
of biologic systems has received lately has in turn led to a
growing recognition of the effects the energetics of our
surroundings are, almost certainly, having on us.

     Science has long known the effects of standard
radiation, X-rays and the like.  What is being discovered
today is that a large number of energy products formerly
considered generally harmless may have, if anything, far
more damaging effects than ever considered possible.

     When, for example, an audio system is in use, what in
fact is happening is that the listener(s) are placing
themselves, in the final analysis, in an energy field.

     While it has so far received little attention in media
circles, sound systems emit a range of energetic products
including RF (radio waves), pulsed magnetics and current
carrying electrostatic fields...all of which is well known
to have strong bioactive and in some cases psychoactive
effects.  In fact, it is becoming clear that many appliances
in our homes and workplaces are emitting energies which have
profound effects on humans in such diverse areas as
resistance to disease and mental awareness.

     In the mid-seventies, a number of researchers found
that differing types of audio equipment tended to affect
people very differently.  In New York, where a number of
programs for the elderly began collecting and repairing
sound equipment--to give to the elderly--it was soon found
that tube equipment of the mid- to late-fifties had the
apparent ability to have a general positive effect on the
overall vitality of elderly listeners.  Those involved say
that solid state units up to about 1965 were either neutral
or less positive.  While the sharpest response came when a
well known importer began offering the modern equipment of
post '75 manufacture.  The "modern" equipment, mostly
compact stereo systems, caused, many of those involved say,
a general marked decline in such areas of vitality as mental
alertness, strength and resistance to disease.

     In New York and on the west coast, a number of audio
equipment salons which are aimed at the serious listener
market noticed that, given the same music source and
speakers, if they switched from a solid state to a tube
amplifier often noticeable changes occurred in the
listeners.  After about a half hour, those involved recall,
the persons exposed to the solid state equipment often felt
weak and restless while the same person exposed to tube
equipment felt rested and well.

     In both cases researchers modified the circuits of the
equipment so the audio product of the solid state and tube
units were almost exactly alike--so as to eliminate or very
greatly reduce the psychoacoustic response.  But in both the
cases of the elderly and the audiophiles the difference in
response remained largely unaffected.

     What this suggests is that there is an important class
of non-sound energies at work here.  A group of bioactive
energies of such a nature certainly are, to say the least, a
fit subject of concern on a national level.

     But as far as the luminaries in Washington and many
major science quarters thinketh, as long as a device does
not produce ionizing radiation or interfere with a
neighbor's TV, an atmosphere of "no further questions"
applies here.

     No good, gentlemen...

     With the rise of energy medicine in Europe and
the beginnings of a long overdue domestic research community
here, the sobering truth has begun to come to light.

     Today, growing recognition is developing on the
bioactivity of the systems we live with every day.  We have
had access to the research findings, and they make for the
kind of unsettling reading which, in our opinion, should
have the attention of every American.  Research in this area
clearly shows that many of the energetic products of such
standard items as sound systems, TV's, lighting systems and
business related equipment are, in fact, heavily bioactive.

     In this regard it is worthy of noting that when the
Japanese visit these shores they can be found at used audio
dealers attempting to buy tube equipment.  Just ask any
salesman handling tube McIntosh or 195O's GE audio equipment
what his sales are to clients in the far east.  Further,
although it is little known, there is a whole class of audio
electronics in Japan which is not for export.  Much of this
equipment, even if solid state, acts as tube circuits do.

     Sure, they know all about bioactivity...

     Since the Trilateral agreements of the early seventies
resulted in the exporting of electronic production, many of
the most important elements in this picture have origins
external to the United States.

     What we now have is a condition in which we are
allowing a number of foreign nations, some with significant
histories of hostility to the United States, to set the
energetic environment of the American home.

     That's quite enough, gentlemen...

     First of all, there should be a serious investigation
of the bioactivity of what is being allowed into this
country, along with the relatively few systems still
produced here.

     Then, there should be a scale assigned to systems
showing not only how bioactive but also in what direction.
We would suggest a simple scale of plus ten descending to a
negative ten (with a zero at center) showing the system to
be biopositive or bionegative.

     In addition, a no-nonsense program of evaluation of
methods to make systems secure from questionable energetics
should be initiated.

     We should also be giving strong attention to offering
methods to reduce some of the possible hazards in already
existing units.

     It certainly IS the business of government and science
to inform and protect in an area such as this.  It certainly
IS NOT the business of those in positions of authority to
allow America to become a dumping ground for anything and
everything the world market sees as fit to import here.^Z