Low-Frequency Radiation and Altered Consciousness

This DC system contains ELF oscillations that seem to be associated with information flow, and its operations are sensitive to external low frequencies. The overall level of consciousness is regulated by a DC current flow in the primitive, midline structures in the brain. Loss of consciousness can be produced by nulling out or reversing this flow with properly applied external DC currents or strong, steady magnetic fields. There appears to be a roughly linear relationship between the extent of consciousness loss (as judged by the EEG pattern) and the amount of electrical current applied.

In the 1960s, I studied the effect on consciousness of the addition of various ELF frequencies to a baseline DC current. I found that for any current level, a greater loss of consciousness could be produced if I added a very low-strength 1-Hz frequency on top of the DC current. (The 1-Hz frequency alone had no effect on consciousness, and the same strength of DC current produced much less loss of consciousness. Together, the two produced a greater effect.) I later found that any frequency between 1 and 10 Hz had about the same effect. Above 10 Hz, however, the enhancement decreased linearly with the rise in frequency, until at between 20 and 30 Hz, the effect was no better than with the DC current alone.

This experiment produced two significant conclusions. First, the DC electrical system in the brain that is related to consciousness is sensitive to very low levels of ELF. Second, only the ELF frequency range that makes up the naturally occurring micro pulsations is effective.

The concept of a dual nervous system with a primitive DC analog system and a superimposed, sophisticated , digital nerve-impulse system is strengthened by the observation of these ELF effects. The DC analog system is influenced by ELF fields. In fact, the interception o the natural ELF fields appears to be one of its functions.

The capacity of ELF fields to alter consciousness and behavior indicates that the interface between the analog and digital systems may be involved in some of the higher nervous functions that we have difficulty explaining with the hard-wired model.

If the digital nervous system--by which we see, hear, smell, taste, feel, and move--is the child of a more primitive system by which we grow, heal, and obey the physical rhythms of our world, then there must be an intersection, a meeting place between the two. Is this the home of the mind, the site of memory, logic and creativity?

Earlier in this book, we saw how we can consciously cross over this interface and gain access to our own DC systems in order to heal ourselves. By the same mechanism, we may gain control over our thought processes and behavior as well. However, it appears certain that ELF electromagnetic fields, both natural and man-made, can address this same interface and produce significant changes in the total operation of the brain.

The duality of mind and brain has been a philosophical challenge to science for centuries. The dual nervous system and brain, described in this book, can provide us with a new way to view this age-old challenge.

The implications of this work are considerable. It would seem that we may not be the free agents we like to think we are. Our thoughts and actions are, at least to some extent, determined by the electromagnetic fields in the environment that we cannot sense and that we remain unaware of to our peril. The darker side of the problem, the ability to control the human mind, now assumes far greater importance than when Jose Delgado first proposed this possibility in 1969. The political and military implications cannot be, and apparently have not been, ignored.