The dangerous effects of mobile phone radiation

Are mobile phones disconnecting us from our divine birthright?
At Openhand we've long spoken of the dangerous effects mobile phones can have not just on our health but also to our energetic vibration. We've been guided to explore the myriad of ways in which our society - the "matrix" - in which we live, seems perfectly configured to distance us from our divine birthright - the miraculous full blown experience of unity consciousness. Mobile phones have been close to the top of the list of modern appliances that lower our vibration thereby identifying us more with the consciousness of separation. Ironic isn't it that the very gadget designed to connect us, may well be having exactly the OPPOSITE effect!....

I have long worked with biomagnetic energy. Having studied the martial arts since a young boy I was always fascinated by the amazing uplifting effects connecting to universal life energy can really have. It has launched for me countless experiences of multi dimensional living - what it really means to be alive and connected to all things.

It wasn't however until my full spiritual awakening around the age of 40 that I began to truly understand it. At that point the guiding hand of higher consciousness introduced me to a number of leading experts and "gurus" in this exciting field. One such meeting took place on a kibbutz in Israel with an amazing chap called Trond Bjornstadt, a martial artist and doctor who has a deeply profound ability to see and feel biomagnetic energy.

With one glance he was able to see imbalances in my field caused by various sporting extremes I had been engaged in during my life - rowing for example. So wonderful was his sensitivity that he'd turned his martial art practice "Moxite" into a method of healing children with cerebral palsy. As I watched him manipulating and healing deeply disabled children right before my eyes, I was reduced to tears.

Trond helped me increase my sensitivity to biomagnetic energy - universal life energy - by working closely with trees and plants. He also helped me feel the energy coming from the food we eat and also the effects of various electronic gadgets we might have around the home. It was he who brought my attention to mobile phones. Reportedly he'd taken a mobile phone on standby and placed it inside a frozen chicken which then cooked within a week!

Just imagine the effect it might be having on us and our children!

Of course if we are being profoundly honest with ourselves, in our hearts, have we not long suspected the dangers? Is it something we can continue to ignore? I would urge each of you reading this to read our article today in the Openhand Journal about the dangers of mobile phone radiation.

We've chosen extracts from a comprehensive report by Dr George Carlo, one of the world's leading scientists in the field of mobile phone radiation effects, which speak of the dangers and what you can do to protect yourself. It also speaks of the incredible underhand attemtps the mobile phone industry has taken to try to silence and discredit him. So what exactly are they hiding?

Why Cell Phones are Dangerous

A cellular phone is basically a radio that sends signals on waves to a base station. The carrier signal generates two types of radiation fields: a near-field plume and a far-field plume. Living organisms, too, generate electromagnetic fields at the cellular, tissue, organ, and organism level; this is called the biofield. Both the near-field and far-field plumes from cell phones and in the environment can wreak havoc with the human biofield, and when the biofield is compromised in any way, says Dr. Carlo, so is metabolism and physiology.

“The near field plume is the one we’re most concerned with. This plume that’s generated within five or six inches of the center of a cell phone’s antenna is determined by the amount of power necessary to carry the signal to the base station,” he explains. “The more power there is, the farther the plume radiates the dangerous information-carrying radio waves.”

A carrier wave oscillates at 1900 megahertz (MHz) in most phones, which is mostly invisible to our biological tissue and doesn’t do damage. The information-carrying secondary wave necessary to interpret voice or data is the problem, says Dr. Carlo. That wave cycles in a hertz (Hz) range familiar to the body. Your heart, for example, beats at two cycles per second, or two Hz. Our bodies recognize the information-carrying wave as an “invader,” setting in place protective biochemical reactions that alter physiology and cause biological problems that include intracellular free-radical buildup, leakage in the blood-brain barrier, genetic damage, disruption of intercellular communication, and an increase in the risk of tumors. The health dangers of recognizing the signal, therefore, aren’t from direct damage, but rather are due to the biochemical responses in the cell.

Here’s what happens:

Cellular energy is now used for protection rather than metabolism. Cell membranes harden, keeping nutrients out and waste products in.

Waste accumulating inside the cells creates a higher concentration of free radicals, leading to both disruption of DNA repair (micronuclei) and cellular dysfunction.

Unwanted cell death occurs, releasing the micronuclei from the disrupted DNA repair into the fluid between cells (interstitial fluid), where they are free to replicate and proliferate. This, says Dr. Carlo, is the most likely mechanism that contributes to cancer.

Damage occurs to proteins on the cell membrane, resulting in disruption of intercellular communication. When cells can’t communicate with each other, the result is impaired tissue, organ, and organism function. In the blood-brain barrier, for example, cells can’t keep dangerous chemicals from reaching the brain tissue, which results in damage.

With the background levels of information-carrying radio waves dramatically increasing because of the widespread use of cell phones,Wi-Fi, and other wireless communication, the effects from the near and far-fields are very similar. Overall, says Dr. Carlo, almost all of the acute and chronic symptoms seen in electrosensitive patients can be explained in some part by disrupted intercellular communication. These symptoms of electrosensitivity include inability to sleep, general malaise, and headaches. Could this explain the increase in recent years of conditions such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, and anxiety disorder?

“One thing all these conditions have in common is a disruption, to varying degrees, of intercellular communication. When we were growing up, TV antennas were on top of our houses and such waves were up in the sky. Cell phones and Wi-Fi have brought those things down to the street, integrated them into the environment, and that’s absolutely new. The recognition mechanism, where protein vibration sensors on the cell membrane pick up a signal and interpret it as an invader, only works because the body recognizes something it’s never seen before.”

As to increases in brain tumors tied to cell phone use, it’s too early to tell due to a lack of hard data, says Dr. Carlo. “We’re never going to see that in time to have it matter. Here in the US, we’re six years behind in getting the brain tumor database completed, and currently the best data are from 1999. By the time you see any data showing an increase, the ticking time bomb is set.”

Epidemic curve projections, however, indicate that in 2006, we can expect to see 40,000 to 50,000 cases of brain and eye cancer. This is based on published peer-reviewed studies that allow calculation of risk and construction of epidemic curves. By 2010, says Dr. Carlo, expect that number to be between 400,000 and 500,000 new cases worldwide.

“This means we’re on the beginning curve of an epidemic, with epidemic defined as a change in the occurrence of a disease that is so dramatic in its increase that it portends serious public health consequences,” says Dr. Carlo. “This is what’s not being told to the public. One of the things that I suggest to people who use a cell phone is to use an air tube headset. If you use a wired headset, the current moving through the wire of the headset attracts ambient informational carrying radio waves and thereby increases your exposure.”

Cell Phone Radiation: What You Need to Know


Originally developed for the Department of Defense, cell phones devices were never tested for safety. They entered the marketplace due to a regulatory loophole.

Questions about cell phone safety arose in the early 1990s, when a businessman filed a lawsuit alleging that cell phones caused his wife’s death due to brain cancer.

To address the questions surrounding cell phone safety, the cell phone industry set up a non-profit organization, Wireless Technology Research (WTR). Dr. George Carlo was appointed to head WTR’s research efforts.

Under Dr. Carlo’s direction, scientists found that cell phone radiation caused DNA damage, impaired DNA repair, and interfered with cardiac pacemakers.

European research confirmed Dr. Carlo’s findings. Studies suggest that cell phone radiation contributes to brain dysfunction, tumors, and potentially to conditions such as autism, attention deficit disorder, neurodegenerative disease, and behavioral and psychological problems.

Dr. Carlo brought safety information about cell phones to the public through his book, Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age, and by creating the Safe Wireless Initiative and the Mobile Telephone Health Concerns Registry.

The best protection against cell phone radiation is keeping a safe distance.

Always use a headset to minimize exposure to harmful cell phone radiation.