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Charkovsky's Underwater Births
and Baby Training
Photogallery
1) Igor Charkovsky with his
followers and their children in the lab;
He was warning parents against vaccinations! He was a pioneer in
waterbirth in the sea with the help of dolphins as midwives;
2) expectant mother and parents
with babies are about to start training with dolphins;
3) and 4) are some
shots from the documentary about work of the researcher Igor
Charkovsky: demonstration of his methods to the medical personel and
the public
5) sleeping baby in the sea is
watched by Igor Charkovsky
6) and 7) Igor Charkovsky is
teaching parents Baby Acrobatics;
8) a demonstration given by Charkovsky, how to watertrain new born
babies;
9a) training of the baby by the mother in icy Neva river in Petersburg;
9b) feeding babies underwater to encourage them not to be
afraid to go underwater;
9c) a father and a baby are swimming underwater;
10) a demonstration of bathing babies in icy water by Charkovsky;
11) a father is doing some acrobatics with his child;
12) and 13) a mother is doing some baby exercises with her baby at home;
14) a combination of water and acrobatics for the babies, demonstrated
by Igor Charkovsky;
15) young Russian mothers are watertraining their babies at home;
16) Russian females acclimatising themselves and their babies in the
snow; and when you think about Global Cooling (not warming), the
ability to withstand colds might become pretty handy; in Russian Army
these morning exercises were compulsory for male soldiers for more than
a hundred years;
17) this is a lovely girl I've met in Moscow, who is very skilled in
her babies watertraining and acrobatics;
18) and 19) these people are called "Seals", because they swim in
winter outside
20) Igor Charkovsky is acclimatising toddler Robert to icy water
21) I am in
the icy pond of Gorky Park with 2 american females, who came to Moscow
to see Igor Charkovsky;
22) These baby exerceses were used in Russian Circus (below left);
23) a mother is watertraining her baby in the swimming pool (below
left);
25) and 26) Igor Charkovsky is training Robert in the swimming pool;
27) Igor Charkovsky is greeting everyone (below, left);
28) Charkovsky is training a baby at sea;
29) One of the Russian "Seals"
(below, left);
30) a group of Russians is
acclimatizing themselves in the countryside in winter;
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It is not difficult to see that New World Order is after creating a
creature, a Super - Human Being, who will combine the best features of
Humans and Dolphins to serve the Negatives. I just hope that the more
balanced forces on higher levels will adjust their unsatiable
appetites. Here is some info about American Dolphin Program written by
the participant whose name is Brice Taylor from her book "Thanks for
the Memory", p. 234, but on Thanks
for the Memory link this material is on p.260-262 :
Point Mugu Naval Weapons
Station and Dolphins
"I remembered being on a
gurney at Point Mugu, with a white sheet over
my body, a white electrode cap over my head and an IV in my arm. I was
hooked up to
electrodes all over my scalp and on my wrists and they were having me
listen to whale and dolphin
sounds
via headsets. Huge banks of audio equipment and big tapes on recorders
were all running. They often
played music or sounds in one ear and tones or word instructions in the
other. Sometimes the sound
was excruciatingly loud in one ear and nearly inaudible in the other.
The words were barely audible but I
often tried really hard to listen to what was being played in my ear,
though it was impossible to hear. The
loudness hurt my ear and the two extremes coupled together nearly drove
me crazy. There were dolphins
in tanks at Point Mugu that were also used in
research. At times, they also had electrodes on their heads. I think
they were attempting to measure
thoughts and telepathic communication. At one point they directed me to
send a message to the
dolphin
with my mind, and then
listen and decode the language of the dolphin's reply.
They tried it
with whale language also. The swim programs that allowed me to swim
long distances without tiring, were
also coupled with the hypnotic suggestion that I was like a dolphin and
could swim forever like one. I think the dolphin
research was a secondary project, and among other
things was a project tofurther U.S. Intelligence technology in
telepathy. The dolphin research
continued because we could
communicate long distance with the dolphins, sending messages, and when
I received them, I was given a number to call immediately to report
what I heard. They paired
this need to report with having to go to the bathroom and once in the
bathroom I would dissociate, switch
personalities and phone in to report, sort of like "ET phone home."
Just a week before my husband and I were getting ready to go on a
sailing trip to the Channel Islands, I remembered performing a
visualization I was taught, where in
my mind, I pictured myself in the middle of a group of dolphins.
I performed this whole process in an
attempt to actually link up with the dolphin on our
trip. Before we left, I told Craig I was going to
have a dolphin experience! Low and behold, way out in the middle of the
Pacific Ocean, a whole pod of
dolphin
swarmed our boat. When I saw them coming I got so excited that I
slipped on my diving mask, and
jumped off the boat into the middle of them. No one on board could
believe my impulsive actions! It
seemed that time stood still and I felt like I was held in a state of
suspended animation as one large
dolphin
seemed to energetically link
up with me. Time seemed to stand still and it was an amazing
experience! After that I began to "see light in everything." I still
don't have an understanding for exactly what
happened, but I began having incredibly prophetic dreams and more
psychic experiences. I believe
this also was part of an experiment. There was extensive "dolphin programming"
done on me. Movies, stills
and motion pictures with beautiful music were shown, administered
together with drugs they
injected into my arm in order to put me in a state of utter euphoria
while I was viewing the dolphin
pictures. These movies and other positive stimuli reinforced good
feelings that emerged in order to deter me from
the Star Wars information. Dolphin
programming covered the Star Wars Project. Whales covered
a
NASA project. This all-powerful
programming was meant to keep me from accessing the information stored
neatly in my brain away from my conscious awareness. There were movies
I felt drawn to all of a sudden leave my family at
night to attend. I went to different new age bookstores or other places
where I was told to go to
see dolphin movies,
some very sophisticatedly created with music. A couple who created and
traveled
to share their dolphin
movie, told the small audience to go into a meditative
state and watch the film in
order to gain expanded consciousness. The movie contained
different geometric shapes shown
along with the dolphins in underground cities. The dolphin theme
was continued when I was living
on the island of Kauai. President Reagan's project, STAR WARS, was
located in my mind files
under Dolphin
programming.
I accompanied Reagan lots of times to Point Mugu and other
military bases, but Point Mugu was the original site where I would
download top secret
information from the mind files, first. Then I was taken to different
bases all over, usually without Reagan,
to deliver the same information, over and over and over again; all over
the world to the major players.
The Around the World In 80 Days movie and song was used to cover this
activity. So I'd think of that
movie and believe I was remembering that instead of my actual
assignment. Other movies were used in an
attempt to cover and intentionally scramble my experiences. As I
retrieved memory of ways I was used, I
sorted through the 'movie
realities' to discover what actually happened. Star Wars was a global
network working together for global control.
This network continued as I was transferred to the island of Kauai
where I reported often to
Barking Sands Missile Base.
Dolphin Programming and
Pornography
Another auxiliary project, one that brought in proceeds, was dolphin
pornography. Dolphin porn was filmed in Malibu and in the dolphin tanks
at Point Mugu. It was
convenient because they had cages already built and so the dolphins could
be housed there for use almost
anytime. Reagan really loved the dolphin stuff.
He watched a porn video of Kelly and I with a couple of
dolphins.
During the viewing he smiled, patted my leg and said, "I'll be with you
later." He wasn't
into sex with children and didn't have sex with my daughter. When the
film was over he said, "Watching you do
underwater ballet is beautiful, but seeing you with the dolphin is out
of this world!" He
laughed and looked up, like he was seeing a missile or shuttle launch.
Lots of dolphin porn
was filmed. I
believe Bob gave copies of it to Prince Charles, Prince Phillip and
Margaret Thatcher, who is a lesbian. Over the years my daughter Kelly
was often programmed next to me. We
would be instructed to both touch our noses at the same time and then a
shock would be
delivered though the electrodes stuck all over our bodies. We both had
IV's in our arms and despite the
trauma, we were giggling like we were both drunk. She was very young
and they continued this over the years.
In addition to all the regular programming, they also programmed us to
be a mother-daughter sex team.
There was lots of programming laid in that made us believe that we were
twin souls, "two
peas in a pod." I was programmed to believe that half of me was in her
and half of her was in
me. There was lots of identity confusion. They programmed us to be
totally synchronous, so we could
flow together and work harmoniously while sexually servicing whomever
they sent us to. Our controllers used the movie ET as a "screen memory"
to cover memory
of these actual experiences by telling Kelly and I that we were like ET
and Elliot, and
if one of us got free the other would die. The message given was, "If
you get deprogrammed or a
hospital frees you, you will get separated from each other for the rest
of your lives. ET almost died
and had to go to another planet away from Elliott. A wilted
Chrysanthemum flower plant will remind you, it
will wither and die if it's off the vine, away from its source."
(This part would
remind the program Igor Charkovsky would follow independently from any
governments.)
"At
three months old Kelly was able to float on her back with no
assistance, and further swimming lessons early on enabled her to be an
excellent swimmer, natural in the
water. She also had programming that enhanced her natural swimming
capabilities, enabling
her to swim long distances. Kelly was good with the dolphins. She was
specially trained this way
from the time she was very small. Years later, in 1993, as I became
aware that my children and I had been
taken to Point Mugu for programming, I returned, trying to get a closer
look in an attempt to
understand what these people were doing. But it was heavily guarded;
now I know why. Interestingly
enough, last year on a plane flight,
I
had the opportunity to sit next to a man from California. I was
spiritually guided to share with him my experience of programming at
Point Mugu Naval Base. When I got to the
part about the dolphin tanks and banks of recording equipment, his eyes
widened and he said, "You
must have been there; no one knows about those unless they have been
there; it's a classified area."
After our conversation he just kept shaking his head. My family and I
bounced from Point Mugu to UCLA for programming often,
and when necessary were taken to Edwards Air Force Base for further
programming."
Dolphins,
Therapy and Autism
http://neurodevelopment.com/en/dolphins.htm
Dolphins, BrainWaves
and Neuro Therapy
During the last past years, alternative medicine is using
dolphins and their special capabilities to enhance healing potential in
people with a physical disability, including spinal cord injury and
dysfunction.
This human -
dolphin connection is historic and ancient cultures speak about
connective links to the dolphins. And even some Australian aborigine
tribe known as the Dolphin People and believe their ancestors were the
souls of dolphins who were slaughtered by sharks and then reborn as the
first humans.
The dolphin
brain is larger than a human brain and more complex in structure.
Scientists
believe that dolphins can view the inside of our bodies similar to a
sonogram performed on pregnant women. Dolphins navigate using a highly
sophisticated sonar system, that emit a focused blast of ultrasound
vibrations that reflect the objects when returns to the animals. Their
powerful sonar that can penetrate up to three feet through sand, with a
resolution significant enough to distinguish between a dime and a
penny.
Dolphin Therapy:
People who swims with dolphincs frequently report euphoric after their
experience, and seems to infuse beneficial healing effects into the
mind and body. Numerous people who have serious illnesses and
depression have reported dramatic, long-term, favorable changes in
their emotional state.
Healing Therapies with
Dolphins
Aqua Trought
provides a list of organizations involved in dolphin-assisted therapy
Why
does swimming with
dolphins help humans heal?
Dolphin Therapy
and Healing
Are Dolphins
Really Teachers?
Echolocation and Dolphin
Therapy
Communication and
Echolocation
(DAT) therapy is abusive
for the captive dolphins
Dolphins Neurophysiology.
An exploration of the sonar system of Tursiops truncatus
Dolphin
Neuroanatomy
The Healing Power
of Dolphins - Natural Magazine
Dolphin
Communication
Dolphins helps
children
with special needs
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DOLPHIN
ASSISTED THERAPY ESSENTIALS
What are your
thoughts on this kind of therapy is the child helped and is the dolphin
looked after? Is it a case that a change in the environment i.e. warmer
weather, new sounds, a change from the normal routine and the extra
stimulation that the adventure gives is the major factors of a person
feeling better, or are we looking at a major break through in assisted
therapy? Children’s progress have been well documented in the
press, but has it lasted? Some go back for more therapy for a period of
time, others have to carry on at home doing a therapy session worked
out by the centre before they leave (this happens at some
centre’s ).
But if its helping, then its worth it, the child comes to no harm, the
family has a well deserved holiday and the Centre gets the reward for
helping. Everyone a winner! Or are they? What about the
dolphins? Can we see any benefit for them, like we can see for the
others? Is it therapy for them too? Lets consider that this is a very
intelligent mammal, which is being housed in a pool and trained to
integrate with humans. Are we happy with that? But some are
born in captivity so they don’t know any better, and anyway
they will surely die if we release them back into the wild. Yes, but if
we were suddenly dropped in the desert to defend for ourselves we would
surely die too. But if we were taught how to survive then we
have a chance don’t we. The same can be said of the
dolphin.
Dolphin
assisted therapy centres are becoming very popular places now, and we
can say that its not cheap to attend one. Prices vary from centre to
centre depending on the length of stay and sessions they have, but
which ever way you go you will need to do some serious
saving. Are we happy with the pricing, do we care, as we will
pay anything to help our child? The centres will know this of
course. They too have their expenses, rent of pools and
dolphins, rates, the costs of staff. Is there a regulator over seeing
all of this, or can they charge what they like? How do you
become a dolphin therapist, or are they jack-of-all-trades?
We may be doing them a disservice, as there must be set guidelines
here. But whichever way you look at this the dolphin comes
off as the poor relation. It does seem to me that dolphins
are being hit from all sides, not only in captivity but in the wild
too. We all must look hard at what we are doing to the
dolphin, there are more and more parks opening up for dolphin shows and
more healing centres opening up too, at the end of the day the only
place to see them is in their natural home, the sea and to view them at
a reasonable distance and let them decide if they want to come and see
us, not the other way around.
DAT claims to help most disorders It is claimed that it
helps the immune system
Dolphins offer love, which triggers humans to heal themselves
Captive
Dolphins are used as a motivational tool
Quantifying the effectiveness of DAT is complex
Much publicity of people being helped
No scientific proof that it works
Many factors to consider, warms, water, sun, etc.
Many questions to answer too?
Is it a good therapy to do, for the Dolphins too?
Does it last?
Two kinds of DAT, captive and wild
Some say that Dolphins have qualities that we love and that this is
part of the healing
Echolocation, is claimed affects the brain wave pattern & human
tissue
No scientific proof that it can scan our bodies?
Ultra sound is used in hospitals for operations, and is more powerful
than the Dolphins
But can Dolphins still help?
Working with Dolphins provides motivation
Dr Betsey Smith worked with Autistic children & Dolphins first
It is claimed that DAT captures the attention, & helps with
concentration
But do Dolphins help with concentration?
Or does the Alpha & Theta (part of the natural relaxation
& creativity in humans) help
Dobbs & depression, Bill Bowell over came depression with the
help of the Dolphin
Dr Berne Graham is not convinced that Dolphins can help everyone with
depression
Biophillia was first coined by Erich Fromm & developed by
Edward Wilson
As I understand it, it is the inherent human affinity for life
& nature
As humans evolved they developed a Biologically based attraction for
nature & life
Dolphin can be aggressive?
Robin Williams was hit in the tummy by a Dolphin
Disease transmission from Humans to Dolphins & vice verse
Sensationalising DAT through the media
Raising the expectation of the venerable is wrong?
Dolphins at DAT centre’s are under pressure
They have a breaking point
Will more Dolphins be captured for DAT?
DAT is not at the reach of everyone
Is it a novelty?
It is an unregulated industry
If the family and the child are helped, does all this matter?
What do you think, please share your own views with me, and tell me of
your experiences.
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Baby
Dolphins Don't Sleep
July 14, 2005
by Emily Hager
In the search to understand why we need a certain amount of
sleep, scientists have discovered that dolphins and killer whales
survive on almost no sleep for the first months of life. This
ScienCentral News video has more.
The
Young and the Restless
Being
a new mother is exhausting, but if you're a dolphin or a killer whale,
you may not be getting any extra sleep-time to recover, in fact you may
not be getting any sleep at all. Scientists in California and Russia
have discovered that both dolphin and killer whale mothers and calves
apparently go with no sleep for the first few months of the new baby's
life.
"These
marine [animals], who are mammals like us, thrive without any extended
periods of sleep for over a month," says lead researcher and
neuroscientist at UCLA's Sepulveda VA Ambulatory Care Center Jerome
Siegel.
Siegel
and his colleagues monitored two killer whale and calf pairs at
SeaWorld San Diego, as well as four dolphin and calf pairs at the
Gelendgick Dophinarium near Russia's Black Sea coast. They reported in
the journal Nature that during the first
postpartum month these animals were awake "24 hours a day," but
gradually increased the amount of time they spent sleeping as the calf
aged.
"We
all feel like, they must be incredibly tired, but they don't seem to
be," says SeaWorld's senior veterinarian Jim McBain, who witnessed much
of Siegel's team's research on the killer whales.
Siegel
says the sleep patterns he and his colleagues observed in the babies
are "just the reverse" of all other mammals, which normally sleep the
most after birth and gradually taper down to adult levels as they age.
"This is a challenge for the idea that sleep is necessary for brain and
body growth, because during this period of very rapid development in
killer whales, and we've also seen it in dolphins," says Siegel,
"There's actually the lowest level of sleep behavior of the animals'
entire life."
The
researchers do not know how the mothers and their babies can live on so
little sleep, though they expect it's a behavior the babies evolved to
keep moving and stay warm and safe in colder, wilder waters. For the
mothers, it is most likely part of their protective nature and also to
create what's called a "slipstream" beneath their bellies where their
calves, who are not very strong swimmers, can coast through the water
easily.
Minimalists
But
dolphins and killer whales — members of what scientists call
the larger marine mammal order "cetacea" — are known for
their minimal sleep habits. In the wild, adult cetaceans sleep with one
eye open. Research by Humboldt State University marine biologist Dawn
Goley and Siegel's colleague Oleg Lyamin have shown that when cetaceans
have their right eye closed, the left side of their brain is asleep,
and vice versa. According to the research, this "uni-hemispheric" sleep
is associated with slow, inactive brainwaves in the sleeping part of
the brain.
Gregory
Stone, Vice President for Global Marine Programs at the New England
Aquarium, says it's similar to lazing in a hammock on a Sunday
afternoon, "When you go half asleep and shut some of your circuits
down."
Stone
says, "We didn't see any eye closure during this early period after
birth in either the mother or the new born, which is what convinced us
that even by the standards of [cetacean] sleep, they're not having the
brain activity pattern seen in sleep."
Cetaceans
sleep this way because unlike humans, they have to make a conscious
effort to breath. Keeping half of their brain awake, allows them to be
alert enough to surface and breathe as well as being aware of potential
dangers.
Though
there are few dangers at places like SeaWorld, the researchers say the
behavior they observed has nothing to do with the animals being in
captivity, and that wild dolphins and killer whales probably behave
similarly.
"The
ocean is a very different kind of environment from land," says Siegel.
"There's no safe place to sleep in the ocean, [and] there's no warm
place to sleep in the ocean, so these two factors may account for the
animals' behavior."
McBain
says, "If an animal is going to have a chance to sleep more, it would
be here at SeaWorld [rather] than it would be in the wild."
Stone
also agrees that this is an evolutionary behavior that "transcends" the
animals' environment. "I can't imagine why they would have a different
sleep pattern in captivity than in the wild," says Stone.
Another
Interpretation
But
there's a different way to interpret these "compelling" findings says
Dawn Goley. "Either they don't sleep or they sleep in shorter bouts of
time," she says.
In
order to better understand their sleep patterns, Goley says the
researchers need to do a neurological, not just a behavioral analysis,
of the animals. She says remotely monitoring the brainwaves of the
animals would help further the understanding of their sleep behavior.
As
their work progresses, the researchers plan to study killer whale and
dolphin brains to see if there is a structural explanation for their
sleep habits, as well as to determine if changes in brain chemistry
might be limiting their sleep after birth. If they can unravel this
mystery, they may ultimately have a better understanding of why we
humans need sleep, what it takes to go without it, and how to treat
sleeping disorders.
Dolphins
- Biology and natural history
COMMUNICATION
AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR OF THE BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN
Dolphin
Dreams - Life Positive
Perhaps
the only species that compares well with Homo Sapiens in intelligence,
dolphins possess an innate gentleness and a mysterious power to trigger
the healing process in humans
Sometimes, things go wrong for the right reasons. That's what happened
when I went on a dolphin watch cruise at Jervis Bay, Australia.
An overcast sky, with intermittent showers, is not the best of time if
you are looking out for wild dolphins. And the guides on our cruise had
all but given up hope of encountering any of these friendly cetaceans.
So, there we were. In the midst of the ocean. Dark gloomy clouds
hovering above. Suddenly, a snout peeked out of the grey water. Then
another, and yet another. In a matter of minutes, there were dolphins
frolicking all around us, jumping in gay abandon, chasing fish, dancing
with the waves. It was as though nature's fury had imbued them with a
reaffirmation of life. The raindrops didn't matter anymore. Nor did the
freezing cold. As we crowded on the deck, watching in sheer
exhilaration, we knew that something of the spirit of these ocean
wonders had rubbed off on us, renewing our inherent belief in the
beauty and the ecstasy of being alive.
Perhaps this applies to almost all wild creatures. But there is
something about dolphins that not only brings out the best in you, it
is known to have healing qualities to cure autism, psychosomatic
diseases and, in rare cases, even cancer.
For
instance, when
Marie-Amandine della Faille, from Belgium, went to the Human-Dolphin
Institute in Florida, she was suffering from leukemia. She had only a
few months to live. "The dolphins behaved in a special way with her,"
says a spokesperson of the Institute. "They seemed to realize her
fragile state. Although they were all over her, they seemed to take
special precaution in their approach." This happened in 1995. And
Marie-Amandine is still alive and enjoying a complete remission of her
symptoms today.
Or take Norma
Graham, an eight-year-old girl from Adelaide. She hadn't spoken a word
since her birth, although there was nothing clinically wrong with her
vocal chords. "She came to us," says Rene Calvet, a dolphin encounter
teacher based in California, "with a countenance that shut her off from
the rest of the world." Norma was put through a therapy that included
playing with dolphins for an hour a day. In three months, Norma was
cooing with the dolphins, and had even begun to utter her first
sentences.
In 1978, Dr David
Nathanson started a dolphin-human therapy at Ocean World in Florida. He
worked on developing language experiments for children with Down's
Syndrome. The concept was simple: if a child makes a correct response,
reward him with a dolphin swim. The results were startling. Children
retained more and learnt four times faster.
"What makes
dolphins exceptional in therapeutical fields," explains Rene, "is the
use of their sonar with which they echolocate their prey. There is
evidence that dolphins trigger the healing process in humans by
boosting the production of T-cells and endorphins. After patient and
dolphin interactions, scientists have measured a far greater harmony
between the left and right sides of the brain." He informs that
dolphins produce an intense amount of echolocation energy, which
resonates in the bones, such as the skull and the sternum, and then
travels up the spine.
Many therapists believe," says
Amanda Green, a marine biologist, "that a dolphin's sonar causes a
phenomenon called cavitation inside the soft body tissue of the human
body. It precipitates a ripping apart of the molecules." So, if sonar
does that with cellular membranes, it could completely change the
biomolecular structure. She adds, "many hospitals already use a
lithotripsy machine that uses low frequency sound waves to break up
kidney stones and gall stones. The physics of that machine are not
different from a dolphin's sonar."
Science apart,
there is a deeper meaning to dolphin therapy. Plutarch, the Greek
moralist and biographer, said: "To the dolphin alone, beyond all other,
nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no
advantage."
When you encounter
a wild dolphin in open waters, something breaks open the conditioned
seals of your heart. "Dolphins make you feel accepted as you are, with
unconditional love," explains Amanda. This, she feels, leads to a
profound inner peace that reaches out to embrace the universe. In
scientific terms, this is biophillia, the transformative power that
links you to nature, and, going by recent research, dolphins could be
the most powerful carriers of this emotion.
Human-dolphin
interaction is not new to history. According to Plutarch's book On the Cleverness of Animals, Odysseus's son Telemachus fell
into the sea and was saved by a dolphin. As requital, his father had
dolphins engraved on his ring and emblazoned on his shield. In
Shakespeare's Twelfth
Night, Arion, a
rich poet and musician, jumps overboard when threatened by pirates. But
he does not drown. A dolphin carries him about 200 miles to shore.
Dolphins interaction is much like
that of humans. In 1965, anthropologist Gregory Bateson discovered that
dolphins live in social groups dominated by a leader. This tie is so
strong that dolphins kept in total isolation will suffer ill health and
possibly die. It has also been observed that dolphins frequently stroke
each other with their flippers, indicating that they require physical
contact as much as humans.
In 1962,
researchers aboard the vessel Sea Quest, 300 miles south of San Diego,
strung vertical aluminum poles and microphones inside the lagoon,
erecting a type of barrier. They spotted five Pacific Bottle-nosed
dolphins about 500 yards from the barrier. Soon, a scout was sent from
the cetacean group. Microphones picked up his sonar soundings as he
closely surveyed the poles. When he returned to the pod, an explosion
of whistles, chirps and Bronx cheer-like noises were recorded. This
strongly indicates a communication system among the dolphins that
closely resembles human interaction.
The brain size of a
bottle-nosed dolphin is comparable to ours at birth and, during their
lifetime, develops close to the maximum size for man—about
1700 gm. A dolphin's brain size increases rapidly during youth and
seems to slow down at nine years of age. In fact, dolphins come closest
to humans in the matters of their brain size.
According to DR
John Lilly, neurologist, neurophysiologist and psychoanalyst, who has
done pioneering research in dolphin behavior and communication, says:
"I suspect that whales and dolphins quite naturally go in the
directions we call spiritual—in that they get into meditative
states quite easily."
Dolphins
also have strong connotations in many pagan religions. In Australian
aboriginal tribes, a dolphin is considered sacred. They believe that
when an aborigine dies, his spirit reincarnates as a dolphin. According
to their philosophy, dolphins span both the physical and spirit worlds,
guiding humans in their journey through life. In fact, the deepest
aboriginal meditation is known as Dolphin Dreamtime.
Presently, New Agers believe that dolphins are a higher life form, who
will lead humanity towards a better future. "Dolphins have no
prehensile extremities," explains dolphin researcher, Daniel McCulloch.
"Hence their intelligence has never gone in the manipulation of their
environment. Their thoughts developed inward. So, their culture would
be totally different from ours. But I do think that there is a large
possibility that dolphins have an intelligence at least equal to ours
even if it is in another direction."
Is it time for us to prepare for a close encounter with the only other
species that might have evolved (or perhaps has evolved) an
intelligence comparable to ours? May be! And so far, they haven't
disappeared with a "...so long and thanks for all the fish". Not for
the time being at least. Which is why, even if Douglas Adams could
think of nothing better, we can say this for him: perhaps he was on the
right track.
Dolphins
produce changes in brain wave patterns
Dolphins, Therapy and Autism
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by Michael T. Hyson, Ph.D.
~ Dedicated to Dreamer Dolphin ~
I have met with a story, which, although authenticated by reliable
evidence, looks very like a fable...- Pliny the Younger (A.D.
62?-c.A.D. 113)
Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical
to the regeneration of life upon our planet. - Buckminster Fuller
Dolphins have new understandings that seem to lie just beyond our
present knowledge. There may be a common thread of consciousness
between man and dolphin. - Joan McIntyre
Most of us are aware of dolphins as loveable, playful animals that
appear in oceanarium shows, on television and in movies. They are
subjects of naval and other research to find out how they use sound to
communicate, navigate in their environment, use Sonar and stun fish.
They are among the most intelligent of all creatures. Throughout
history the dolphins have helped people, taking children to school in
ancient Greece, fishing with us, guiding ships, saving people from
drowning, and recently, escorting Elian Gonzales when he was at sea on
an inner-tube drifting from Cuba to the United States.
Dolphin Self Awareness & Language
The voice of the dolphin in air is like that of the human, in that they
can pronounce vowels, and combinations of vowels - Aristotle
Dr. Ken Marten at Sea Life Park in Hawai'i recently demonstrated that
dolphins recognize themselves in mirrors, which shows dolphins are
self-aware, a trait shared with only humans and great apes. Dolphins
were also taught to recognize some 40 spoken Hawaiian words by Dr.
Wayne Batteau, and were taught to imitate English by Dr. John C. Lilly,
M.D. Dolphins currently working with Dr. Louis Herman in Hawai'i can
recognize some 300 hand signs in some 2000 combinations. Dolphins have
done better at language tasks than any other creature. Research in
Russia by Markov and Ostrovskaya concludes that dolphins have their own
language with up to a trillion "words" possible.
Dolphins, along with other Cetacea (dolphins and whales), have acute
senses, which are faster and have a broader bandwidth than our senses.
They have large brains, like the Sperm whale with the largest brain -
9600 grams vs. our 1400 grams. The Cetacean brain is comparable to ours
in complexity and processing capability. With larger brains, they have
more processing capacity -just as a large computer has greater
capability than a small one. The Cetacean brain has expanded most in
the cerebral cortex, where thinking, reasoning, and other "higher"
processes are felt to occur.
The brain of a dolphin, for example, is larger than the human's (at a
weight of some 1700 grams) and has about 40% more association cortex
(where we feel thinking occurs) than a human. In addition, humans use a
large part of their available processing capacity just to deal with
gravity and balance. The Cetacea live in a buoyant environment where
gravity is much less a factor. This leaves large amounts of their
brains free for other tasks. So the Cetacea have greater available
brain capacity than humans.
I conclude that the Cetacea (dolphins and whales) are self-aware, fully
conscious, sentient, and have their own complex language. Because they
have larger brains, more available cortex, and more processing power
available (because of their lives in water) the Cetacea, including the
dolphins, are more intelligent than we are. The Sperm whale has the
largest brain (much of it association cortex) and likely has
proportionately greater processing capacity - making it in all
probability - the most intelligent creature on Earth.
Therefore, when considering dolphin abilities, we are dealing with an
intelligent creature that has capabilities equal to or exceeding our
own.
Dolphins Can Help Restore Us
To speak of lower animals is both arrogant and blasphemous. All
traditional peoples have viewed animals as messengers and mediators of
the divine which is a lesson we need to relearn … that
consciousness takes many forms beyond human. - Larry Dossey, M.D.
Healing Beyond the Body
There are now dolphin assisted therapy (DAT) programs operating in
Florida and elsewhere. Generally a client swims with dolphins and has
on-land lessons. Details vary with the condition being treated. The
swims can occur over days to weeks. Dolphin therapy is still at an
early stage of development and controlled experiments (where one
strives to test single variables while holding all other factors
constant) are rare and our understanding still rudimentary. Some
results are based on anecdotal evidence. Many factors remain to be
sorted out. For example, similar therapy using horses or dogs shows
positive results, so what part of the result is unique to the dolphins?
There may be placebo effects, where expectations determine results.
Understanding all this requires on-going research.
A Dolphin-Assisted Therapy session, Island Dolphin Care, Inc., Key
Largo, Florida
Deena Hoagland, LCSW; Katrina, 13 year old autistic patient; and
Squirt, Therapist
Parents with an autistic child may be looking for, and willing to try,
almost anything to improve their child’s life. While positive
and sometimes remarkable results have been reported, it is beyond our
ability to guarantee results from dolphin therapy. Therefore, evaluate
this and other sources carefully to find if this approach is right for
you.
The reports included here seem valid to me. I am personally convinced
that these results justify greater effort to find out how dolphins do
what they do. In the future, we will be able to apply what we learn,
duplicating dolphin methods to make them widely available.
The Beginning of Dolphin Assisted Therapy
Dolphin assisted therapy began in 1973 when Dr. Hank Truby, a linguist
and acoustic phonetician who worked with Dr. Lilly and the dolphins for
17 years while they were teaching them English, first took autistic
children to meet the dolphins at the Miami Seaquarium in Miami,
Florida.
In this first encounter, two autistic boys who usually had about five
minute attention spans, began to play with the dolphins. There was a
close rapport between the children and the dolphins. While these
children ordinarily showed little interest in external things, they
showed great interest in the dolphins. The children and dolphins played
games for an hour and a half with the children playing the entire time.
By the end of the session, the children were cooperating with each
other and the dolphins, to fill buckets with water to dump over the
dolphins and feed the dolphins fish.
To the parents it was astounding the children maintained interest for
over an hour and cooperated; this was unique. Dr. Truby reported these
results at conferences for some two years and received little interest.
Finally, intrigued by Dr. Truby's results, Dr. Betsy Smith performed
similar studies with positive results and began therapy programs at
Dolphins Plus on Key Largo and Dolphin Research Center at Grassy Key in
Florida.
Currently, Dr. David Nathanson has programs at Dolphin Research Center,
and similar work continues at Dolphins Plus. Nathanson reports that
their program has treated some 450 autistic people, many children with
generally positive results. Nathanson reports that while there is often
improvement with dolphin therapy, dramatic improvement is rare. (See
Nathanson references) Several other facilities are operating in
Florida, the Bahamas and elsewhere. With the interest in dolphins and
the positive results of DAT, more centers are opening. (See Appendix
III.)
My involvement with dolphins began when I read John Lilly’s
works as a child and was privileged to be with dolphins in Texas for a
summer when I was 14. They have been part of my life ever since. Later,
at the University of Miami, pursuing degrees in neuroscience, I met and
worked with Dr. Truby for some 12 years, especially with the Dolphin
Project of the World Dolphin Foundation which Dr. Truby and our team
created.
I have learned a great deal from the dolphins and they are always
fascinating. My experiences led me to later join the Sirius Institute,
now based in Hawai’i, as its research director. With our
founder, Paradise Newland and others, we are establishing a
human-dolphin habitat where we will live closely with the dolphins;
learn from each other; communicate objectively; birth children
underwater with them; and investigate the nature of the
“dolphin effect” on autism, brain trauma, and other
conditions. Since Dr. Truby’s first studies, the field has
expanded. Among other conditions, DAT has improved the following:
Autism (Hank Truby, Betsy Smith, Robert Nathanson)
Joint problems (various reports)
Down's syndrome (Nathanson)
Depression (Horace Dobbs, Operation Sunflower)
Cerebral palsy (Nathanson, Dolphin Research Center)
Improved learning - Children can learn 2-10 times faster around
dolphins (Nathanson);
Angina (Roxanne Kremer)
Acoustic "zap” of a tumor (personal comm.),
Microcephaly [See below]
Dreamer dolphin fixes a neck [see below]
Restoration of partial vision loss [see below]
Some of these reports are expanded below.
A Case of Microcephaly
Scott Taylor of the Cetacean Studies, while at the 2nd International
Conference on Dolphin Assisted Therapy in Cancun, Mexico, reported
about dolphin therapy with a baby that had microcephaly, a rare
disorder where the skull is too small to contain the brain. We have yet
to develop effective ways to correct the condition.
Figure 3. A Child & Dolphin -
Dolphin is sonaring at point blank range (from S. Birch)
The baby was floated in water and attended by 4 dolphins. One dolphin
put its rostrum at the medulla (base of the skull), two others came to
both sides of the neck, with the forth at the base of the spine. The
dolphins made produced sounds or "ensonified" the child for about 20
minutes at a time, a few times per day for about a week. At the end of
this period the skull plates were developing normally.
Mr. Taylor heard in the oral presentation that medical records
confirmed the above results. I recently reconfirmed with Mr. Taylor
that this account is accurate. We expected a full report in the written
proceedings. However, the paper is more cautious and waffled on the
change in the skull growth and its medical confirmation. Mr. Taylor
said after the dolphin therapy conferences "This will change the face
of medicine."
Dreamer Dolphin Heals My Neck
I have a personal experience of Dreamer dolphin improving the state of
my neck. I had injured my neck at age 12 and compressed 6th and 7th
cervical vertebrae. There was always a noticeable "grinding" sound when
I turned my neck. I was swimming with Dreamer at age 42. We were both
underwater, Dreamer was about 3.5 feet from me, when I felt and heard
some 20 very loud, short, sound pulses distributed rapidly, over my
head and neck within perhaps a second. The sounds were louder than
anything I have ever heard from a dolphin. At the time, I thought she
was probably sonaring a fish far away.
I had been with dolphins many times before, and had swum with Dreamer
the year before; yet this time, the sounds were different than any
other dolphin sound I had ever heard or felt. They felt precisely
targeted, powerful, tightly focused. Each pulse felt like a tiny
"explosion" that I could feel were localized in spherical areas about
1/4 cm diameter or less.
About an hour after our swim, the muscles of the left side of my neck
(the most injured side) suddenly relaxed. Right after that, my back got
warm in some 5 new places, apparently because the blood distribution
had changed. Next, I felt and heard at least 3 vertebrae click into new
positions. I then turned my neck back and forth, and the "grinding"
sound was gone! It felt like my neck had been "oiled" and it moved more
smoothly than at any time in 30 years. The improvement has persisted
for 14 years thus far.
Dreamer Dolphin & Pod Relieve Angina
Roxanne Kremer, a dolphin researcher working in the Amazon with the
fresh water dolphins, reports the following. Her mother had had severe
angina (severe pain in the chest) and had two angioplasty procedures to
expand the coronary vessels. Generally, the procedure relieves the
angina. In her case, the angina remained. Roxanne took her mother to
Dolphins Plus where she swam with Dreamer and 3 other female dolphins.
At one point in the swim, Dreamer and the other dolphins put their
beaks on her chest. With that action, the angina was gone, and at last
report, this had persisted for at least 2 years.
Dreamer Dolphin "Zaps" a Tumor
I have learned that a woman swimming with Dreamer thought she had been
rammed. The woman was taken to hospital for examination. The woman had
a large bruise. X-ray revealed that under the ribs, near the center of
the bruised area, there was a small tumor. It is my feeling that
Dreamer likely "zapped" the tumor with a powerful sound pulse, perhaps
to heal it, and the high intensity sound left bruising from hydrostatic
shock. At the least, the bruising called medical attention to the tumor.
Restoration of Vision
NBC's "The Other Side" aired a segment in February, 1998 on dolphin
therapy. They interviewed a man who had had a head injury. The injury
had given him tunnel vision. Months later, he was swimming with the
free Spinner dolphins off Kauai. He felt and heard the dolphins
sonaring him, and while in the water, his peripheral vision returned,
and he was then able to see some 30 dolphins all around him. How this
was done is a mystery. At minimum, the dolphins may have corrected an
ischemic blood flow reduction (this is speculation).
Improvement of Mental Age in Cerebral Palsy
On the same program was a child of 8 with cerebral palsy. Melissa was
from my hometown of Winnebago, Illinois. She had been with the dolphins
and Dr. Nathanson at Dolphin Research Center, in Florida. I arranged
for her to be on the NBC "The Other Side" show that was filmed in
Hawai'i. The parents told me the functional mental age level of their
daughter had improved from 3.5 months to about 3.5 years after about a
week around the dolphins.
Melissa gets a “kiss” during a therapy session
It is important to confirm such results with better studies and
research. It appears dolphins can do remarkable things, and we would be
wise to learn more.
Autism – Description & Causes
Autism is a neurological disorder characterized by impairments in
language, cognitive and social development, usually manifesting in the
first two years of life. Once considered rare with an incidence of 1-3
per 10,000 births, autism is now reaching 20-40 per 10,000 births with
“clusters” of 1 per 150 reported. Autism now ranks
third among childhood developmental disorders, more common than
Down’s Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy or Cystic
Fibrosis.
Immune, gastrointestinal and neurological abnormalities, as well as
heavy metal toxicity, (especially mercury) have been documented in
autistic children. One source of mercury is immunizations. June 1999,
the FDA announced “Infants who receive thimerosal containing
vaccine at several visits may be exposed to more mercury than
recommended by Federal guidelines for total mercury
exposure.” Mercury is the third most toxic substance known
and is the most toxic non-radioactive metal and is known to be
neurotoxic, especially in brains of small infants. Mercury disrupts
cell physiology by binding to sulfur with resulting dysfunction of
enzymes, membranes, and structural proteins.
Symptoms of mercury toxicity in young children mirror those of autism.
Thimerosal, a preservative used in some vaccines, is 49.6% mercury by
weight. Infants vaccinated with multi-dose vials can receive 62.5
micrograms of mercury per visit, about 100 times the 0.1 micrograms per
kilogram of daily exposure considered safe by the EPA. The increased
number of children with autism correlates with the hepatitis B and HIB
vaccine given to infants in the early 1990s. For more on this see
Appendix I. where Dr. Bernard Rimland, (consultant for the film The
Rain Man), discusses mercury as a primary cause of increasing autism.
As of 2003 mercury is still being included in the manufacture of
several vaccines: DPT, hepatitis B, influenza, H. influenzae.
Susan J. Crockford shows that global changes in body structure
(expressed phenotype) can result from changing just a few genes that
control thyroid hormones, especially the patterns of its timed,
pusatile, release. Geographic or breeding isolation of pioneer groups,
say, to a colder climate, change thyroid patterns, and with genetic
drift, the patterns of thyroid timing soon differ from the general
population. This leads to behavioral and physiological changes that
become fixed through further selection. A similar mechanism explains
sexual dimorphism.
Simon Baron-Cohen presents a view of autism based on the observation of
behavior types ranging from empathizing (common in females) and
systemizing (common in males). Extreme autistic and
Asperger’s syndrome people, male or female, have extreme
“systemizing” behavior. This leads to the kind of
obsessive focus on detail, mechanical and other systems often seen in
autistics. He theorizes, following the work of Norman Geshwind, that
the differences in the brain seen here may result from variations in
the amount of testosterone encountered by the developing fetus.
Increased testosterone causes increased growth of the right hemisphere
of the brain, and results in a more “systemizing”
brain, generally lacking in empathy.
Crockford points out that the release of pituitary hormones, and the
cascade of effects from them, including testosterone release, is
controlled by the thyroid hormones. So we now have a general model that
can help to explain speciation, sexual dimorphism, phenotypic
variations, and autism spectrum disorders. Crockford presents a
consistent model of sexual dimorphism and brain-gender-behavioral
complexes that lie at the core of why we have male (systemizing) and
female (empathizing) behavior patterns. Testosterone is controlled by
thyroid hormones that can be changed by genetic, biological, and
environmental factors (such as metal toxicity). Should any of these
factors increase fetal testosterone, it will tend to produce a person
in the autistic and Asperger syndrome spectrum of behavior.
Relevant to vaccines and autism, mercury is some 100 times more toxic
in the presence of testosterone. This may explain why males are more
often affected by autism. Mercury clearance rates were found to often
be less in males, so a given dose of mercury could affect males more
severely. Mercury can poison many systems and this could, in turn,
change thyroid pulse patterns, etc. along the lines suggested by
Crockford.
Careful evaluation of these matters should make the mechanisms clear.
For the moment, we know that mercury can be cleared from the body using
chelating agents and clathrates.
A remarkable story of success treating autism using diet and other
alternative measures is included as Appendix II. Their experience
offers methods to explore what anyone could do.
We also know dolphins often improve these conditions. Let’s
investigate how they accomplish their feats.
Models For Dolphin Assisted Therapy
I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. The reason I call
myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must
also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that
he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see. See
first, think later, then test. Always see first. Otherwise you will
only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that. ... the
other reason I call myself Wonko the Sane is so that people will think
I am a fool. That allows me to say what I see when I see it. You can
only be a scientist if you stop minding that people think you're a
fool. - Douglas Adams in So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
Now we come to the crux of the matter of dolphin assisted therapy. Most
reports show at least some improvement of autistics. Some hug their
parents for the first time; some say their first words soon after
dolphin contact. These cases and others show that dolphins are capable
of profoundly benefiting even severe conditions for which we have
little to offer from extant medical systems. Dolphins are complex
creatures and our knowledge of them far from complete.
The mystery is - What are the dolphins doing to effect these changes?
In what follows, I offer models of how dolphins affect our wellbeing
and who the Cetacea, the dolphins and whales, are on our planet.
Most people like dolphins. Most dolphins like people. Many people
experience great love from them. As a boy of 14, I found the dolphins
accepted me as I was, with all my warts, yet loved me and were very
friendly. They knew and sensed many things about me instantly. They
knew my level of courage, my breath holding time, and my endurance
levels. We swam together and touched a lot. My main impression was one
of love, play, happiness and joy. The dolphins were the first sane
beings I had ever met. The summer I lived with them was a joyous time
for me. We became great friends.
At a fundamental level, please recognize the extreme gentleness and
restraint the dolphins use in their approach to us. They have always,
in my experience, been supremely gentle with children. Lilly concluded
that the single most important conclusion from his work with the
dolphins was that they had clear and consistent ethical behavior toward
humans. Humans were always helped and treated with respect. I have
found this to be true with (only 1-3 exceptions out of many reports for
the last 2500 years or so).
Over time with the dolphins, and later the whales, I came to feel they
are beings from a race far older and wiser than ours. Here is my
personal summary regarding the dolphins and the other Cetacea.
The sperm whale has the largest brain we know of, some 9600 grams vs.
our 1350 or so. They hunt giant squids in abyssal depths of at least
9,000 perhaps 12,000 feet for about an hour’s dive. The
dolphins are their human-scale relatives, with brain sizes of 1600
grams or so, with 40% more association (thinking) areas than in our
brain. They have larger short-term memories than we do.
The Cetacea are always awake. They are conscious breathers –
this means that every breath is a conscious act. Should a dolphin be
knocked out, they will stop breathing and must be artificially
respirated. We, on the other hand, can be knocked out and breathe under
autonomic control. So the dolphins are always awake, either with one
hemisphere of the brain, while the other naps, or with both
hemispheres. The dolphins, as determined by Lilly and associates, have
far more of their behaviors under conscious control than do we.
Dolphins can dive to 1000 feet, jump 25 feet out of the water, and
precisely take a fish from your mouth, stay down 20 minutes on one
breath and swim 18 knots/hr sustained with a top speed of about 35
knots. They have a built in, high power, sophisticated sono-electric
system that can do everything from stun food to perform the most
delicate, focused, targeted, gentle resonant therapy.
If our fossil dating is correct, dolphins and whales have been here
with complete sonar systems and brains equal to or larger than our own
for at least 15 million years and perhaps as long as 30 million years.
For this vast time, something like three times our evolutionary history
as genus Homo (counting from genus Home, e.g. Homo habilis, estimated
at 5 million years or so)
The Cetacea are a planet-spanning culture with multiple species,
communicating across the globe, by acoustic and perhaps radio means,
and communicating in an “open” linguistic system
with a trillion symbols to choose from.
Further, their senses are, in a word, broader band than ours. For
example, their sound interval discrimination ability is 10X better than
a human. Their acoustic system brings in data at something like 40X our
own rate at over 10X our frequency range (maximum frequency heard by
humans, ~20,000 Hz; for the dolphin ~200,000 Hz or better).
So when I am in the water with a dolphin, I am faced with the humbling
truth: compared to the dolphin, I am almost blind, almost deaf, can
hardly swim, have a smaller brain, and a shorter evolutionary history!
I feel I have learned more about their nature than most people on this
planet, since age 13 onward. I know many of the old Greek tales about
dolphins are true because I have lived them. I am a proud inheritor of
the Lilly/ Truby/ Morgane/ Bateson/ Munson et alia tradition of dolphin
research.17 It is from this experience that I now write.
From a scientific point of view, consider this a “preliminary
report” mainly presenting observations suggesting connections
with known data, and directions for further study. I seek the truth,
and I am always open to the truth, should anyone have better ideas or
corrections.
The Cetacea are increasingly coming to contact us. Certainly more
humans than ever before are aware of them and going to meet them and
learn from them. Let us meet the dolphins and other Cetacea with our
finest. I know we will be richly benefited by what we will learn,
especially for our children. Call it their love that they share with
us. It is their gift, and I know it would bode well for the humans to
recognize the magnitude of this gift and respond in kind. Let us now
consider some to the dolphin’s capabilities.
Empathy, Telepathy, Telempathy
Autistic people are “systemizing” and the dolphins
show great empathy and care, especially with children. Perhaps being
around the strongly empathic dolphins helps balance autistic patterns.
We know that touch, affection and love can be deeply healing. Being
with the dolphins can be a deeply spiritual experience. Many of us that
have been with dolphins have experienced profound transformations.
In particular, many of us have experienced a strong connection and
communication with the dolphins that is best described as telepathic or
telempathic. We have yet to know how this works, yet it occurs with
many of us. Patricia Saint-John met the dolphins and had deep
telepathic experiences with them. She was moved to work with autistic
children based on what she learned. She found that by being in the
state of mind she had with the dolphins she was able to telepathically
contact autistic children and had much success in improving their
functioning and communication.18
It is important to evaluate these channels and consider them in any
dolphin therapy, even if they are beyond our consensus science. There
are signs that science is catching up with our experiences. Consistent
physical models are possible for what might be otherwise classed as
“paranormal” events.19
Dolphins also produce acoustic and electromagnetic fields capable of
causing effects such as resonance and entrainment. We discuss these
aspects below to develop models of dolphin therapy mechanisms and
capabilities.
Resonance
All systems have natural frequencies at which they prefer to vibrate.
An external energy of the proper frequency and with the proper timing
or phase near a system’s natural frequency will cause the
system to vibrate with or resonate with the external energy. A simple
example is the common child's swing. To make a swing move in a larger
arc, you must push it at just the right time (phase) and this
corresponds to the swing’s natural frequency. Another example
is two guitars. If a string on one guitar is plucked, the same string
on the other guitar will vibrate, even if the guitars are many feet
apart. Systems driven at resonance can absorb large amounts of energy.
A soprano holding the resonant frequency of a crystal glass can
transfer enough vibrational energy to the glass that it shatters.
I was once swimming with Liberty Dolphin in Florida. In the murky water
I accidentally jammed my elbow into his blowhole area. I think it hurt
him. He came around in front of me, and at about 2 1/2 feet from my
chest, began to put out a high intensity, fairly low frequency sound,
probably less than a thousand Hz. First, at low power, I could feel the
water vibrate. Then his power increased and I felt the water in front
of my chest get warmer. Then, Liberty increased power again and I felt
my chest wall get warm. Then he changed frequency and soon, all my
chest hairs were vibrating - even in the water, so strongly that my
whole chest tickled with an intense buzz. Liberty stopped his sounds at
this point. I had the distinct impression that he was just showing me
part of what he could do, something like: "This is just a
demonstration, I could do a lot more, I'm just warming up"
So dolphins are masters of resonance.
Entrainment
Entrainment can be defined as “ the tendency for two
oscillating bodies to lock into phase so that they vibrate in harmony.
It is also defined as a synchronization of two or more rhythmic cycles.
The principle of entrainment is universal, appearing in chemistry,
pharmacology, biology, medicine, psychology, sociology, astronomy,
architecture and more”
When we are exposed to periodic signals, such as a sound, a light or
electrical signals, our bodies tend to track and match the core
frequency and phase of the applied signals. For example, if you look at
a light blinking at about 4 Hz, your heart rate and EGG or "brain
waves" (electroencephalogram) will tend to match the rate of the light
and shift more of their energy toward 4 Hz. Entrainment causes systems
to vibrate more in phase or move in synchrony. If the phase of two
oscillations match, the most energy will transfer between them. Stephen
Birch showed that entrainment of the human EEG occurred during and
after swims with free dolphins. The EEG of the human subjects reduced
in frequency and increased in power after swimming with free
dolphins.
Dolphin Sounds
To better understand the sound capability of dolphins, it is useful to
review a little of their anatomy and their means of sound production.
The drawing below is a tracing of the midplane of a dolphin. Labeled
areas: 1. Rostrum or “nose”; 2. External surface of
the melon; 3. Blowhole. The skull and upper jaw are black. The airway
passes through the bony nares (“nostrils”) anterior
to the brain (B) in the skull. The food-way (F) starts in the mouth and
passes on each side of the airway (A) at the larynx. (After J. C.
Lilly)
The palatine bones in front of the skull (left of A, above) form a
parabolic sound reflector behind the phonators. The naso-pharynges are
located at the focus of this parabola. Therefore, sounds from the
phonators, reflected from the palatines, go forward as collimated
parallel beams. The sounds transit a structure called the melon, an
oil-filled sack located at the front of the dolphin’s head.
The melon is, in part, an acoustic lens that focuses out-going sounds.
Four sound-producing naso-pharynges (also called
“phonators”) are arranged in left and right pairs
below the blowhole, roughly at point A in the diagram above.
How dolphins make sounds
The naso-pharynges are similar to vocal cords with air sacs above and
below them. The dolphin apparently shuttles air between the top and
bottom air sacs and past the naso-pharnyges to make sounds. The diagram
below shows roughly how sounds are made by the dolphin: Inhaling - the
blowhole is open and the air is sucked into the lungs (top drawing).
Vocalizing - the blowhole closed and air from the lungs is forced into
an air sac near the top to the head. As the air sac fills, the forehead
swells (middle right drawings). Then the dolphin closes the lip of the
air sac and releases air back toward the lungs (bottom drawing). The
air sac lip (one of four naso-pharynges) then produces a sound (much
like releasing air from a balloon).
The sounds reflect off the palatine bones that form a parabolic
reflector in front of the air tract which collimates them through the
melon (dashed line region) which then focuses the sounds. The middle
left drawing shows the deflated air sac. The dolphin may then open the
blowhole and refill the lungs or refill the air sac to make more
sounds. (After Joan Macintyre)
Using their phonators, dolphins can produce high intensity sounds
ranging in frequency from about 500 Hz to at least 280 kHz (or perhaps
as high as 1 MHz). Russian work has measured the peak output power as
some 235 dB, which means that dolphins are capable of sound pulses of
about 1 kW of acoustic power. Roughly, 1 kW is equal to 1 horsepower!
The 4 phonators or “vocal cords” are under
exquisite and separate control. One dolphin can make at least 4
simultaneous sounds that are all different, for example, 4 click
tracks, 4 whistles, or any combination of clicks and whistles. This is
illustrated in the figure below.
Operation of three sound generators:
A) All generators working in the tonal regime; B) All generators
working in the pulse regime; C) Different versions of combined signals;
Vertical Axis- Frequency; Horizontal axis – Time (After
Markov & Ostrovskaya)
The figure shows a sonagram or “voiceprint” of
sounds made by a Bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) showing the
simultaneous production of three separate sounds. The darkness of the
graph is proportional to sound power. Clicks appear as vertical lines
and whistles as more horizontal traces. As you can see, the signals are
complex.
Dolphins have a fifth sound channel with a frequency of 130KHz. It is a
high intensity, narrow beam directed by the teeth acting as a
wave-guide, like an acoustic Yagi antenna. It is likely used for
“private” communication at short ranges. We have
yet to fully understand how this sound is made.
Phase Control, Sound Aiming and Sound Cancellation
If the peaks and valleys of two signals coincide, they are said to be
"in phase". Two signals in phase will reinforce each other and their
power will add; two signals exactly out of phase will cancel. Dolphins
control the phase of their sounds. Lilly showed how dolphins use phase
to steer their sound beams. Microphones were placed on either side of
the blowhole of a dolphin. At times only one microphone picked up sound
while the other showed zero signal. This means that the dolphin was
making at least two sounds such that, say, sounds to the left were
cancelled out, while sounds to the right were reinforced, and
vice-versa. The same principle is used in phased array sonars and
radars. Thereby the dolphins can aim their sounds with the head still.
The figure below shows a dolphin making separate simultaneous sounds on
the left and right. Sometimes the microphones (placed about 6 inches
apart on either side of the blowhole) picked up sounds only on the left
or right (the instances of vertical or horizontal patterns). The
dolphin was generating an anti-phase sound that actively cancelled out
sounds on the “quiet” side.
Dolphin Sound Production on the Right and the Left Side
Hydrophones were placed on each side of the dolphin's blowhole (as
shown). Sounds from the right side deflected an oscilloscope trace
horizontally and sounds from the left side deflected the trace
vertically. The figure shows photographs taken during sound production.
If the dolphin clicked only on the left, one sees only a vertical
trace. Clicks on the right form horizontal traces and similarly for
whistles on each side. Whistles coupled between both sides form complex
ellipses on the screen. In a given click train, the dolphin may control
the clicks such that the ellipse patterns shift their axes. [Capital
"S" means stereo, i.e., sound linked on the two sides and "D" means
“double" (or separated) sound production on the two sides
without coupling.] (After J. C. Lilly)
Another time Lilly picked up a whistle as recorded by one hydrophone
(underwater microphone) that appeared to be made by one dolphin.
However the same signal was picked up by a second hydrophone. Analysis
showed the whistle was made by two dolphins. One made the first part of
the whistle and the second finished it. The transition between the two
dolphins was smooth and in phase! This demonstrates exquisite phase
control and phase locking among dolphins.
So the dolphins, singly and in pods are masters of phase control.
What can a dolphin do with these sounds?
Dolphins use high intensity sound pulses to stun fish and other prey.
If their 1KW of acoustic power were focused to a small point, the water
would turn to steam, causing cavitation. This level of acoustic power
focused on a fish could easily stun or kill it. Dolphin sounds are loud
enough to allow communication over a range of at least 36 miles.
When dolphins use their sonar, they direct sounds toward a target and
receive the returning echoes with their ears. The dolphin may perceive
an echo “image” showing density differences in the
target, be it a fish or a human body. For example, gas bubbles in the
stomach reflect sound strongly, while soft tissues with densities near
water are largely “transparent” to the sounds.
Bones, being denser than water, also reflect strongly. Therefore, the
dolphin may have a sort of “acoustic X-ray image”
of us in the water, much like the images formed using medical
ultrasound.
At frequencies of 280 kHz to 1 MHz, dolphins are able to sense quite
small features, perhaps with resolutions under a millimeter. We know
that they can detect and retrieve a 2mm diameter
“BB” shot dropped in the water at a range of 70
feet. Dolphins could also focus sounds into spots under a millimeter.
With 4-5 separate sound sources, use of other techniques like acoustic
interferometry are possible.
Dolphins produce what are called semi-coherent acoustic waves where a
sound’s wavefronts are “in step” or
“in phase” and therefore are, roughly, like an
acoustic “laser”. As we saw they can steer their
sounds using techniques akin to phased array sonars and maintain phase
coupling among two or more dolphins.
Dolphins could use what is called “time reversed
acoustics”. In this technique, incoming sounds are recorded
at several points and then played out in reverse to send an amplified
sound directly back to its source. Such techniques have been used to
break up kidney stones using what is called a self-focusing
lithotryptor.26
From the dolphin anatomy and sound capability, I conclude they are
capable of many such feats. Consider the complexity of the 3-D sound
fields the dolphins could create in groups with each dolphin producing
four sounds each, while maintaining tight phase locking among
themselves. With four phonators plus a 130 kilohertz signal from the
jaw, dolphins can focus their sounds into small areas at high powers.
They can, in principal, break kidney stones, remove bone spurs, cause
cavitation in small regions, etc.
Vortex Ring Production
As one example of dolphin expertise, consider their bubble rings.
Dolphins blow bubble rings, then make them larger or smaller (from
about the thickness of a straw to 1 to 2 feet in diameter). The rings
stay submerged instead of rising to the surface! Dolphins play with the
rings - moving them around with their rostrum, bouncing the rings off a
wall, or elongating them with a flick of their dorsal fins into 15 foot
spirals.
Doing all this requires direct and active control of the vortex rings
through sound. Otherwise, the rings would rapidly break up and disperse
or float to the surface.27
Vortex rings can be formed in water and can contain and transport
acoustic energy for long distances rapidly. Such vortexes could account
for the tightly focused, powerful sounds the dolphins use.
Human High Frequency Saccula Perception
We recently learned the surprising capability of the saccula, part of
our vestibular system, having primarily to do with balance. It is now
demonstrated that the saccula responds to sound frequencies of up to
250 kHz, giving us direct perception of ultrasound well into the
dolphin range. Our ordinary frequency limit of hearing through the ears
is about 20 kHz. It can be shown that people can discriminate high
frequency sounds with the saccula and “feel” the
sounds. We have yet to learn what specific physiological effects this
might have.28
Ultrasound, Sonochemistry & Sonoluminescence
The high frequency sounds made by dolphins can cause the same effects
as medical ultrasound, such as microbubble formation and cavitation. A
bubble is a cavity and the collapse of a bubble can heat the steam
inside it to some 6000 degrees Fahrenheit (near the surface temperature
of the sun!). At such temperatures novel chemical reactions occur
called sonochemistry.
The chemical effects of ultrasound, sonochemistry and sonoluminescence
arise from acoustic cavitation: the formation, growth, and implosive
collapse of bubbles in a liquid. Cavitational collapse produces intense
local heating (~5000 K), high pressures (~1000 atm), and enormous
heating and cooling rates (>10 9 K/sec). Acoustic cavitation
provides a unique interaction of energy and matter, and ultrasonic
irradiation of liquids causes high energy chemical reactions to occur,
often accompanied by the emission of light… Thus, cavitation
can create extraordinary physical and chemical conditions in otherwise
cold liquids.29
Through these mechanisms, ultrasound causes improved healing of bone
fractures and non-unions and improves healing soft tissue injuries etc.
Ultrasound can affect cell membranes, and chemistry and even alter gene
expression.
…exposure of cells to therapeutic ultrasound under
nonthermal conditions modifies cellular functions…[can]
modulate membrane properties, alter cellular proliferation, and produce
increases in proteins associated with inflammation and injury repair.
… these data suggest that nonthermal effects of therapeutic
ultrasound can modify the inflammatory response. Exposure to
… therapeutic doses of US …alter[ed] the
expression of both the ALP and OP genes … in osteoblast-like
cells. The two highest doses showed that ALP and OP expression were
clearly up-regulated, particularly ALP, whereas at the lowest dose of
120 mW/cm2, the OP gene was down-regulated.
…recent reports demonstrat[e] that ultrasound affects enzyme
activity and possibly gene regulation [We]…present a
probable molecular mechanism of ultrasound's nonthermal therapeutic
action. The frequency resonance hypothesis describes possible
biological mechanisms that may alter protein function. [By] absorption
of ultrasonic may…modify…[a protein’s]
3-dimensional structure …and alter [its] functional
activity. Second, the resonance or shearing [caused by] the wave
…may dissociate a multimolecular complex, thereby disrupting
the complex's function. 30
Acoustic Control of DNA
J. Harle & J. C. Knowles show that different power levels of
ultrasound (US) can change gene expression in osteoblasts (bone forming
cells). 31 They state in part:
Ultrasound …is commonly used [to] aid …injury to
soft connective tissues and for fracture healing. However, the precise
effects of therapeutic US on tissue …are not clearly
understood although they are likely to involve changes in key cellular
functions. The …study …examined the effects of
…US on the activity of two bone-associated proteins,
alkalinephosphatase (ALP) and osteopontin (OP)… ALP showed
progressively higher expression with increasing US intensities, whereas
…show[ed] down-regulation at 120 mW/cm2, the lowest US
exposure. …ALP and OP clearly exhibited gene-specific
response profiles. These findings suggest that …US exposure
could …improve repair and regeneration processes…
Ultrasound is known to do the following:
[1]. Improve healing rates and tissue strength.
[2] Benefit soft tissue wound sites and the elbow joint.
[3] US treatment of hard tissue injuries, such as bone fractures,
[show] …markedly improved healing rates …
(approximately 30±40%) while animal studies [show] enhanced
fracture healing …improved rates of bone regeneration and
…suggest …the use of US to enhance tissue repair
and regeneration …it is possible that US exposure
…may modulate gene transcription processes, perhaps by a
mechano-transduction pathway…
So effects similar to those seen with dolphins occur with medical
ultrasound. We infer that dolphins, with intelligent and precise
control of sound could accomplish similar or greater feats.
It is worth noting observations of sonoluminescence where a strange
blue light comes from breaking bubbles acoustically stimulated at about
30 kHz. This light has a unique spectrum and some investigators report
nuclear “cold” fusion events occur in the vibrating
bubble. I therefore speculate, along with physicist Tony Smith 32, that
the dolphins may even be able to generate fusion events!
Piezoelectricity and the Effects of Electrical Signals on the Body
Key to our next discussion is the piezoelectric effect. To illustrate,
if a quartz crystal is bent, it will produce an electric charge. Quartz
is piezoelectric. In phonographs, a quartz crystal needle rides in the
groove of a phonograph record. As the record turns, the groove, cut
according to the recorded sound, bends the quartz crystal needle back
and forth. This creates electrical signals that are amplified into the
sounds we hear. The piezoelectric effect works the other way as well:
if an electric charge is placed across the quartz crystal, it bends.
This aspect is used in current smoke alarms, where a piezoelectric
speaker is used. Electrical energy causes the crystal in the speaker to
deform rapidly and create the alarm’s sound.
Some 60% our bodies are piezoelectric, especially bone. Bone is a
many-layered sandwich of hydroxyapatite (a form of calcium carbonate)
and a protein collagen. Both are piezoelectric, but of opposite sign.
That is, if bending a hydroxyapatite crystal causes a plus/minus
charge; collagen bent in the same way would generate a minus/plus
charge.
So, bone, when bent, creates electrical currents. The bone forming
cells, osteocytes, follow these currents. When bone is stressed it
creates electrical charges which signal the osteocytes to thicken the
bone where there is more load or remove bone where there is less load,
automatically shaping our bones to match the stress on them.
Similar low frequency electrical currents in the body cause many
effects, including directing the pioneer fibers of neurons, causing
changes in reaction times or circadian rhythms, and even inducing limb
regeneration as documented by Cyril Smith 33 and Robert O. Becker,
M.D.34
Dolphin’s sounds vibrate our bodies and create piezoelectric
currents. A key point to remember is that internally and externally
generated electromagnetic signals are the same at the cellular level;
cells respond in the same way.
So dolphin sounds, through their direct acoustic effects of the
micro-currents generated by the acoustic vibration of our piezoelectric
tissues, especially bone, can clearly cause changes similar to ones
already observed in electromedicine and ultrasound therapy.
Cyril Smith35 found that low power electromagnetic signals of the
proper frequency can improve allergic reactions, among other things. He
found a correspondence between the effects of herbal and homeopathic
treatments and electromagnetic frequencies such that the proper
electrical frequency had the same effect as the physical remedy!
We know that electromagnetic fields at the proper frequencies resonate
with specific biological structures. Royal Raymond Rife and his
intellectual descendants have found frequencies that resonate with and
destroy pathogens. To understand how this works, we must briefly
explain nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).
If one stimulates molecules, crystals or tissues with EM fields
(usually in radio frequencies, “RF”) while holding
them in strong, steady magnetic fields, one finds frequencies at which
protons absorb the RF strongly and spin rapidly. The resonant
frequencies differ for protons in water or in fatty tissue, for
example.
Protons absorb electromagnetic energy only at specific combinations of
radio frequency and magnetic field – the point of nuclear
magnetic resonance. For example, in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
system, a person is placed in a strong magnetic field to "lock" the
protons in place. Then a radio signal is scanned through many
frequencies to find the NMR spectrum. Using computer processing,
detailed images of the body, brain and other tissues are created that
reflect differences in tissue chemistry. One can even detect specific
elements, such as calcium
Paramecium undergoing electroporation from a 1150 Hz EM signal
As Rife and others found, some frequencies can disrupt cell structures.
Above we see a Paramecium caudatum, a single celled animal, undergoing
evisceration, electroporation, and disintegration when exposed to a
1150 Hz AC field from a Rife/Bare plasma device.36 What determines the
effective frequency is the 0.5 Gauss magnetic field of the Earth. If we
include the Earth’s magnetic field in our consideration, we
find that the NMR frequencies are lower and that even a 1050 Hz signal
is at the NMR frequency for key elements in the cell wall of the
Paramecium.
Another effect similar to electroporation is known as Voltage Dependent
Ion Gating (VDIG). Ion channels in the cell open in the presence of an
external voltage. By creating a charge differential at cell walls, Rife
generators and other electromedicine devices can give pain relief,
cause relaxation or stimulation. VDIG occurs at an electrical field of
only 1/10 the intensity necessary to produce electroporation and is
thought to produce a flow of ions, like calcium, potassium, and sodium,
across the cell wall.
The above discussion shows that resonances occur which can disrupt cell
membranes and the frequencies are well within a dolphin’s
frequency range and as we shall see, dolphins can create electomagnetic
fields that can cause effects identical to those seen above and in
electromedicine in general.
While the examples given have to do with resonances that kill cells, we
also know from the work of Robert Beck37, Robert O. Becker, Royal
Raymond Rife, and Cyril Smith, et alia, there are many frequencies that
heal and promote well being, and can even cause limb regeneration in
mammals. There is a vast landscape to explore here.
Dolphin Electromagnetic Effects
The dolphin effects go beyond sound alone and piezoelectric effects.
Dean Rollings and Eldon Byrd discovered that the dolphin melon is
piezoelectric. Sonic excitation of the melon will therefore create
electromagnetic fields. The melon in a dolphin contains perhaps
one-quarter gallon of a special oil called valproic acid. Because of
its large volume, the melon could produce quite powerful
electromagnetic fields, especially when vibrated by about 1 kW of
acoustic power. Assuming a conversion efficiency of about 10%, the peak
electromagnetic field generated by the melon would be on the order of
100 Watts. So dolphins are radio transmitters.38
Dr. Byrd measured electromagnetic, magnetic and electrostatic fields
made by the dolphins. He measured EM fields while the dolphins were
swimming with people and found EM fields in the same frequency band of
our EEG or “brain waves”. He felt they were
attempting to communicate with us in the EEG band.
Our human sensitivity limits to electric and magnetic fields are about
seven picowatts electric and 1 milligauss magnetic. Biologically
significant events are affected even at these tiny levels. For example,
changes of respiration, reaction time, navigation in birds, growth and
direction of nerve cell pioneer fibers and changes in circadian rhythms
occur at gradients of 1-2 volts per meter and about 1-3 milligauss
magnetic.
The electromagnetic fields produced by dolphins are sufficient to
affect our biology and could even deliver a sizable shock! This opens
many possible mechanisms that we can only cover briefly here. Dolphins
generate fields similar to those found effective in electromedicine,
such as extremely low frequency (ELF) fields, and can cause effects
similar to Rife generators or similar devices.
Changing Gene Expression
The acoustic and electromagnetic fields of the dolphins may change our
gene expression. According to theoretical biologist Jeremy Broner39 the
best models for the operation of DNA are based on Irene
Cosic’s resonant model of biomolecular recognition.40
According to this model, control of DNA is done by sound, light and EM
resonances. This is key to dolphins’ effect on our wellbeing.
Active or “puffed” DNA (that DNA which is being
read or used) is in resonant coupling with the protein or products
being produced. This suggests that the entire cell is under tight light
and sound-based resonant signals. Further, according to Dr. Broner,
phonon or sound energy in the DNA sets up standing waves along the DNA
- a musical chord - that determines what areas of the DNA become active
or are “turned off”. DNA absorbs in acoustic,
magnetic, electromagnetic (microwave) and visible light bands. Should
all this be so (and this whole field in great flux) we surmise that
electrical, magnetic, acoustic and light energy all affect the state of
DNA in complex ways. (See also Appendix IV.)
We explore below the control of DNA by microwave and sound and relate
this to dolphin capabilities.
Microwave Control of DNA
In 1987, Dr. Ross Adey, M.D., then at Loma Linda University in southern
California, told me that particular frequencies of microwaves, pulsed
at rather low rates could change brain state. For example, a signal
consisting of 150 MHz microwave pulsed at 10 cycles per second will
change calcium levels in isolated brain slices plus or minus some 20%
or more. These results were obtained about 1970. Dr. Adey went on to
discover that there are combinations of frequency and pulse rate that
will trigger "oncogenes”.
Oncogenes are genes in our chromosomes which, when triggered, cause
cells to become cancerous. Dr. Adey said proper EM signals could
trigger ANY gene.41 Therefore, the sound and electromagnetic field
around DNA determines, in part, its pattern of gene expression. For
this to occur, DNA must absorb and radiate energy in these bands and we
know DNA absorbs and emits sound, light, other electromagnetic
frequencies. Adey’s work shows that these bio-photons and
phonons (a quantum unit of sound) can change gene expression.
Dolphin sounds can affect the DNA directly and by piezoelectric effects
generate micro-currents in our bodies, so dolphins may be capable of
regulating aspects of our gene expression.
Changing the Structure of Water
Dr. James Clegg, University of Miami, (who studied the structure of
water in cells) showed that all proteins, chromosomes, etc, in cells
have a layer of bound water about 10 molecules thick. Therefore, when
an enzyme reacts with a substrate, the only substance that actually
touches the substrate molecule is water. Since other substances in the
cell are also coated with packed water, the chemical reactions in the
cell are mostly interactions of shaped layers of water molecules.
Clegg found that water in our cells is similar to a semiconductor,
virtually solid, and usually bound to a surface, except where ongoing
chemical reactions occur and even there, only a few molecules at a time
are involved.42 The structured or packed water in cells is stiff and
approximates the qualities of water ice. Structured water has clusters
and long strings of ordered molecules that conduct electricity more
easily.
Any water we drink must be conditioned to match our blood's surface
tension of 42 dynes/cm. Structuring water lowers surface tension (to at
least 68 dynes/cm^2 versus distilled water at 72 dynes/cm^2) and has an
effect on the water similar to adding soap. Substances dissolve more
easily in water with lower surface tension. Boiling water, for example,
has a surface tension of about 68 dynes/cm and easily dissolves many
things. Structured water at room temperature with 68 dynes/cm surface
tension has the same "dissolving power" as boiling water! Therefore,
drinking structured water allows the body to "wash" itself more
effectively.
The water in the areas where people have the longest life spans all
share characteristics like lowered surface tension indicative of being
structured.43 For example, the Hunza mountain water has a surface
tension of some 68 dynes/cm.44
According to Igor Smirnov (who works with structured water, in part, as
a way to improve the health of people exposed to Chernobyl) the nucleus
of the cell has two layers of membrane which makes it difficult to
introduce agents to modify, say, gene expression. Yet, structured water
easily reaches the nucleus and can carry information and change the
gene state.45
Structured water packs along the DNA backbone and forms the tensile
part of the DNA structure. The molecules themselves are compressive
members. Thus the structure of DNA is like Buckminster
Fuller’s tensegrity mast, in which tensile and compressive
forces are balanced. Such structures are flexible. The state of each
part affects the whole. If you play with a tensegrity mast you find
that any change in the tension of any of the cables will twist or bend
the whole mast. Tensions and lengths must be balanced for the mast to
be straight. Similarly, the packing of water in DNA is important to
maintaining its proper shape.
DNA and its protein scaffold assume many information-carrying shapes.
We know that acoustic and electromagnetic fields change the structure
of water and this in turn changes the DNA. EM and acoustic fields in
the range of 0-30 Hz can structure water. One of the best signals
mimics the geomagnetic field.46 Steven Birch found the average
frequency of sound emitted by dolphins when swimming with people was 26
Hz, an effective frequency for structuring water.
Effects of Structured Water
Structured water can encode patterns. We know this from the work of
Cyril Smith. Briefly, Smith found frequencies, idiosyncratic to each
patient, which would improve their allergic symptoms. Simply holding a
vial of water that has been exposed to "calming" frequencies would damp
their allergic reactions. The water in the vials was exposed to very
low power electrical fields in the Extreme Low Frequency (ELF) range
(below ~1000 Hz). He showed that water so exposed had measurably
different light absorption spectra, especially in the UV range. This
shows that a pattern was impressed on the water that was maintained, or
“remembered” by the water. So, when we can impress
water with the correct patterns, it can enter the cell nucleus,
affecting the packed water around the DNA and change its state leading
to different patterns of gene expression.
Overall Summary
We now see that sound and electromagnetic fields can change gene
expression and water structure. We have determined that the proper EM
and perhaps acoustic frequency can trigger any gene. We have seen how
the packing of water affects the DNA. We further see that the
dolphin’s sound and electromagnetic fields are well suited to
cause such effects.
We now know the dolphins can cause micro-bubbles in tissues with their
ultrasound signals and likely speed bone break healing.
There exists experimental data that unifies the effects we have been
exploring. Berkshire Labs (Appendix IV.) has shown, among other things,
that acoustic and electromagnetic fields can profoundly alter
chemistry. They have found, for example, that the effects of a platinum
catalyst can be duplicated by introduction of only the energy spectrum
of the platinum! This suggests that energy fields are paramount,
superceding mere matter.
Dr. Stephen Birch has demonstrated that free dolphins swimming with
people generate a fundamental tone on average of about 26 Hz. This can
cause a piezoelectric effect in our bodies which can cause a cascade of
effects that lowers the frequency of the electroencephalogram and
increases its power. This is consistent with his model and indicates an
increase in the levels of endorphins. We would also suggest that
compounds new to us may be released as well. We propose to call them
EnDolphins as coined by Paradise Newland.
Dr.Birch developed an electro-acoustic-endorphin model consistent with
his results. To quote from the abstract of his thesis "Dolphin-Human
Interaction Effects:
Dolphin assisted therapeutic effects include alleviation of pain in
spinal patients, improved learning in neurologically impaired children
and alleviation of depression." Some of these effects are specifically
neurological, for example: "Following dolphin contact, noticeable
changes in subject EEG activity are observed. These are characterized
by a decrease in frequency and an increase in amplitude, with some
evidence of hemispheric synchronization. In this study, 85% of subjects
displayed these modifications following dolphin contact, these findings
correlate with findings by other research groups. A hormonal mechanism
has been postulated... which cause[s] analgesia, improved learning and
potentiate[s] psychological self-reward mechanisms.
His overall model of dolphin-human interactions is summarized the
figure on the previous page. There is a vast territory to be explored
here. We see that dolphin therapy has the potential to improve many
conditions.
The dolphins can likely do the following:
· Change body structures with tightly focused, high-power
"beams"
· Change brain states
· Stimulate the saccula up to frequencies of 250 kHz
· Stimulate the entire body causing acoustic and electrical
effects
· Create electromagnetic fields and thereby change things
such as calcium levels, reaction times, circadian rhythms and gene
expression.
Dolphins can closely observe our internal structures, with their sonar
and then focus their sounds and electromagnetic fields to specific
locations or immerse the whole body in a myriad of electromagnetic,
magnetic, and electrostatic fields corresponding to their sounds
created either singly or in pods.
So we find that dolphins have at least the following therapeutic
modalities:
· Dolphin sounds have direct acoustic effects
· Electromagnetic fields generated by the dolphin melon
· Micro-currents generated by the dolphin sounds vibrating
of our body’s piezoelectric tissues, especially bone
Imagine the fields a pod of 20 or more dolphins might create with all
of them singing their songs with up to 5 unique sounds each, all of it
blended into a harmonious and in phase symphony, with their
electromagnetics combined with their acoustic fields, all changing
dynamically with the pod’s underwater ballet. A milieu of
such richness can easily duplicate and surely go far beyond current
ultrasound therapy and electromedicine. The dolphins have yet to show
us all they know. Their potential goes beyond what we have observed.
Some of these are summarized in the figure below.
So we come to the end of the beginning of our tale. Dolphins can change
us in many ways, through their love, joy, empathy, and touch, or
produce sharply focused, precisely targeted, high-intensity sound and
ultrasound capable of changing bones and joints, resonating specific
structures, entraining brain waves and the heart. Through
piezoelectricity, electromagnetic fields are generated that can affect
tissues, neurons, behaviors like circadian rhythms and, ultimately,
gene expression. These results correspond with known effects of
ultrasound and electromedicine.
The dolphins are masters of all these realms and more yet to be
realized.
Dolphin sounds vibrate our bodies, creating piezoelectric
micro-currents resulting in a cascade of events that cause release of
endorphins [and EnDolphins] which reduce pain, increase learning,
reduce EEG frequency and increase EEG power. (After Birch 1997) 47
The Future
Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come
when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict
the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to
others: The Constitution of this Republic should make a special
privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom. - Dr.
Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence
With increased experience, knowledge, better communication and
communion with the dolphins, therapeutic results will improve and
expand. We need a Dolphin-Human Habitat where we are free to explore
all this together with free dolphins that choose to be with us. I feel
current DAT is too structured and mainly uses dolphins as
“rewards” in behavioral modification programs. This
minimizes the time clients have in the water with the dolphins and
forces the dolphins to perform stereotypical behaviors on cue. This
minimizes the chance the dolphins can apply the capabilities we have
reviewed here.
Dolphin therapy is best approached by letting the clients become
friends with the dolphins and to permit this, one should allow as much
time as possible in the water with them over as many days as possible.
There should be more study of the acoustic and electrical environment
produced by the dolphins as part of the therapy and interaction. This
will move us to an era of documented results and eventually to
extensive interaction with M.D.’s (Medical Dolphins).
Some of our progress is currently hampered by laws based on obsolete
views of the Cetacea that still consider them lowly animals. This
currently leads to whaling, destructive fishing practices, military
operations that threaten the Cetacea and an overall lack of concern for
their home, the waters of the Earth. In reality the Cetacea are members
of a vast, ancient culture that have been and are always offering us
their assistance. We have only to realize this, respect the Cetacea and
rejoin our age-old partnership. It is we who must remember our
connection with the waters of the planet and their loving inhabitants.
For the benefit of all of us, especially the children, let us go to the
essence of the Cetacea, learn to communicate fluently, then the humans,
dolphins and whales can move forward together as co-species, in mutual
love and respect and joy, as we have done for eons before.
In the spirit of Aloha,
Michael T. Hyson, Ph.D.
Research Director
Sirius Institute
Puna, Hawai’i
November 23, 2003
Acknoledgements
To all the dolphins who taught me to pay attention, have offered so
much and been my friends, especially Liberty, Florida and Dreamer. To
my Mom, Dad, & family who tolerated and even encouraged my
dolphin adventures; to John Lilly who inspired much of my life; to my
mentors - Thorne, Hank, Howard, Derek, and many others; to Paradise,
Tiger and the rest of our extended pod; to Jeremy Broner who patiently
re-explained current biology; to Dr. Stephen Birch whose work is so
well done I wish I had written it; to Len Horowitz who invited me to
write the chapter and Andrew Lehman who graciously helped to support
the research & writing; and to the many others too numerous to
list here… Thank you all! Mahalo nui loa!
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Appendix I. Bernard Rimland on Autism
The Autism Epidemic Is Real, and Excessive Vaccinations Are the Cause
Statement by Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.
July 14, 2003
The vaccine manufacturers, the Center for Disease Control, the FDA, and
the various medical associations have failed miserably in their duty to
protect our children. Rather than acknowledge their role in creating
the immense, catastrophic rise in autism, these organizations have
resorted to denial and obfuscation. They stand to lose their
credibility, and billions of dollars in liability suits will soon reach
the courts.
As a full-time professional research scientist for 50 years, and as a
researcher in the field of autism for 45 years, I have been shocked and
chagrined by the medical establishment’s ongoing efforts to
trivialize the solid and compelling evidence that faulty vaccination
policies are the root cause of the epidemic. There are many consistent
lines of evidence implicating vaccines, and no even marginally
plausible alternative hypotheses.
As the number of childhood vaccines has increased 700%, from 3 in the
‘70s to 22 in 2000, the prevalence of autism has also showed
a parallel increase of 700%.
Late onset autism, (starting in the 2nd year), was almost unheard of in
the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s; today such
cases outnumber early onset cases 5 to 1, the increase paralleling the
increase in required vaccines.·
Thousands of parents report – and demonstrate with home
videos -- that their children were normal and responsive until
suffering an adverse vaccine reaction. (The Autism Research Institute
has been tracking such autism-related vaccination reactions since 1967.)
Mercury, one of the most toxic substances known, is used as a
preservative in many vaccines. Some infants have had 125 times the
maximum allowable limit of mercury injected directly into their
bloodstreams, in one day, in vaccines. (People vary enormously in their
sensitivity to mercury, because certain genes predispose to mercury
sensitivity. The highly-touted New England Journal of Medicine Danish
study failed to mention the very convenient fact that none of the
Danish children had prior exposure to mercury, since Denmark, unlike
the U.S. had, banned mercury from childhood vaccines in 1992, the year
before the birth year of the children in the study.)
There are numerous scientific studies showing large differences in
clinical laboratory measures of blood, urine and biopsies which compare
autistic children with normal controls. Such findings, pointing
directly to vaccines as the cause of the group differences, are
conveniently overlooked by those attempting to conceal the strong
connection between the autism epidemic and excessive use of unsafe
vaccines.
The truth must – and will – emerge. It is long
overdue.
Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.
Director, Autism Research Institute
Editor, Autism Research Review International
Founder, Autism Society of America
The Autism Increase: Research Needed on the Vaccine Connection
Testimony of Bernard Rimland, Ph.D. Before
House Committee on Government Reform
April 6, 2000
My name is Bernard Rimland. I am a research psychologist (Ph.D.) and am
Director of the Autism Research Institute, which I founded in 1967. I
am also the founder of the Autism Society of America (1965), and the
editor of the Autism Research Review International. My book, Infantile
Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implication for a Neural Theory of
Behavior (1964) is widely credited with changing the field of
psychiatry from its claim that autism is an emotional illness, caused
by destructive mothers, to its current recognition that autism is a
biological disorder. I have lectured on autism and related problems
throughout the world, and am author of numerous publications. I served
as primary technical advisor on autism for the film Rain Man.
My son Mark was born in 1956. It was obvious from birth that this
perfectly normal-looking infant had something drastically wrong with
him. I had earned my Ph.D in experimental psychology 3 years earlier
and had never encountered the word autism. Our pediatrician, with 35
years of experience, had never heard of autism either. Autism was
extremely rare then – it is extremely common now.
Some supposed experts will tell you that the increase reflects only
greater awareness. That is nonsense. Any pediatrician, teacher or
school official with 20 or more years experience will confirm what the
studies tell us: there is a real increase in autism and the numbers are
huge and growing. The epidemic is serious and worldwide.
Soon after my textbook on autism was published in 1964, I began to hear
from other parents. Many parents told me that their children were
normal until getting a triple vaccine – the DPT shot. In 1965
I began systematically collecting data on the symptoms and possible
causes of autism: In 1967—33 years ago—I began
querying the parents, specifically about the child’s response
to the DPT shot. Many had reported marked deterioration.
During the past few years the Autism Research Institute has been
flooded with an upsurge in pleas for help from parents throughout the
world – from wherever the World Health Organization vaccine
guidelines are followed. The majority of these parents say their
children were normal until getting the MMR – another triple
vaccine. Let me dispel several myths promoted by those who deny the
autism-vaccine connection:
1. They claim the vaccines are safe, but physicians are indoctrinated
to disbelieve claims of harm and are not trained to recognize nor
required to report any adverse reactions. From 90% to 99% of the
adverse reactions reported to doctors are never reported by those
doctors to the government’s extremely lax Vaccine Adverse
Event Reporting System, known as the VAERS.
2. They say that the suspected linkage between the MMR vaccination and
autism has been disproved by a study conducted by Brent Taylor and his
colleagues in London, and published last year in The Lancet.
The Taylor study is seriously flawed in many ways, as had been noted in
a number of letters to the editor of The Lancet and in a number of
additional letters on the subject which have been posted on the
internet. It was subject to strong attack at a recent meeting of the
British Statistical Society. I have been a full-time researcher my
entire professional life, for almost 50 years, and I respectfully asked
Dr. Taylor for a copy of the data so that I could reanalyze them. He
refused this ordinary professional courtesy, and I have subsequently
written to the editor of The Lancet requesting that an impartial
committee be asked to reexamine Dr. Taylor’s statistical
methods. If he refuses again, I urged The Lancet to retract his paper.
3. They say that autism has a large genetic component, and therefore
vaccines must play a minimal, if any, role in the causation of autism.
My book Infantile Autism, published in 1964, was the first systematic
attempt to marshal the evidence for genetics as a contributing cause of
autism, so I am certainly not hostile to that idea. However, genes do
not begin to account for the huge increase in the incidence of autism,
ranging from 250% to 500% in various places.
I might add that we have just reviewed all of the recent genetic
studies for the next issue of the Autism Research Review International,
which I edit. The results are spectacularly inconsistent. The best
guess is that there are at least 20 different genes involved in the
causation of autism. Gene therapy is decades off, and may be infeasible.
4. They claim that autism naturally occurs at about 18 months, when the
MMR is routinely given, so the association is merely coincidental and
not causal. But the onset of autism at 18 months is a recent
development. Autism starting at 18 months rose very sharply in the
mid-1980s, when the MMR vaccine came into wide use. A coincidence?
Hardly! See the graph below.
Autism is not the only severe chronic illness which has reached
epidemic proportions as the number of (profitable) vaccines has rapidly
increased. Children now receive 33 vaccines before they enter school
– a huge increase. The vaccines contain not only live viruses
but also very significant amounts of highly toxic substances such as
mercury, aluminum and formaldehyde. Could this be the reason for the
upsurge in autism, ADHD, asthma, arthritis, Crohn’s disease,
lupus and other chronic disorders?
As a parent and as a full-time professional researcher, I am bitterly
disappointed with the medical establishment’s dismal record
with regard to autism over the past 60 years. The medical schools, as
well as the governmental agencies, have consistently supported
outmoded, unproven and even disproven theories from the very beginning,
and have actively opposed the most promising approaches for the
treatment of autism. They supported the psychoanalytically based
theories which held the mother responsible for causing autism through
her supposedly hostile attitude toward the child. They opposed the use
of behavior modification, the most uniformly beneficial treatment for
autism, by claiming that it neglected the deep-seated emotional blocks
that were supposedly at the root of autism. They have ignored, and
continue to ignore, the long series of studies conducted both in the U.
S. and Europe showing that the elimination of foods containing gluten
and casein from the diet brings about marked improvement in many
autistic children. They have consistently ignored the series of 18
consecutive studies, conducted by researchers in 6 countries, which
showed that almost half of all autistic children and adults respond
favorably to high doses of vitamin B6 and magnesium, with no adverse
effects. Eleven of these studies were double-blind placebo-crossover
experiments. There is no drug that comes close to B6/magnesium in terms
of safety, efficacy and positive research findings.
Tens of millions of dollars have been spent on non-productive lines of
research, while virtually no money at all has been given to research on
the methods of alternative medicine, which are far more promising in
terms of both safety and efficacy.
The most interesting questions are not being asked: Why does the
majority of the population survive such epidemics as autism, the
bubonic plague, Legionnaires’ disease, polio and AIDS, while
relatively few succumb?
The answer is that the survivors have a healthy, effective immune
system. Would enhancing the immune system decrease the likelihood of
adverse reactions to vaccines (including the anthrax vaccine
– DOD please note!)? Very probably.
It is well known that the immune system must be adequately supplied
with many nutrients if it is to function properly, including especially
vitamins A, C, E, B6 and a number of minerals, including zinc,
magnesium, and selenium. Nutritional levels of these substances are not
only harmless, they are essential to good health. Since people do not
change their diets readily, I believe that foods should be fortified
with these nutrients – especially foods that will be consumed
by infants and children. Research along these lines – as well
as on the safety of the vaccines – is desperately needed.
As a parent and a researcher, I believe there should be a marked
redirection of effort and funding, along the lines suggested above.
Appendix II. A Successful Treatment of Autism
By Karyn Seroussi
Copyright © 2000 Karyn Seroussi
When the doctors said our son would be severely disabled for life, we
set out to prove them wrong.
When the psychologist examining our 18-month-old son told me that she
thought Miles had autism, my heart began to pound. I didn't know
exactly what the word meant, but I knew it was bad. Wasn't autism some
type of mental illness -- perhaps juvenile schizophrenia? Even worse, I
vaguely remembered hearing that this disorder was caused by emotional
trauma during childhood. In an instant, every illusion of safety in my
world seemed to vanish.
Our pediatrician had referred us to the psychologist in August 1995
because Miles didn't seem to understand anything we said. He'd
developed perfectly normally until he was 15 months old, but then he
stopped saying the words he'd learned -- cow, cat, dance -- and started
disappearing into himself. We figured his chronic ear infections were
responsible for his silence, but within three months, he was truly in
his own world.
Suddenly, our happy little boy hardly seemed to recognize us or his
3-year-old sister. Miles wouldn't make eye contact or even try to
communicate by pointing or gesturing. His behavior became increasingly
strange: He'd drag his head across the floor, walk on his toes (very
common in autistic children), make odd gurgling sounds, and spend long
periods of time repeating an action, such as opening and closing doors
or filling and emptying a cup of sand in the sandbox. He often screamed
inconsolably, refusing to be held or comforted. And he developed
chronic diarrhea.
As I later learned, autism -- or autistic spectrum disorder, as doctors
now call it -- is not a mental illness. It is a developmental
disability thought to be caused by an anomaly in the brain. The
National Institutes of Health estimates that as many as 1 in 500
children are affected. But according to several recent studies, the
incidence is rapidly rising: In Florida, for example, the number of
autistic children has increased nearly 600 percent in the last ten
years. Nevertheless, even though it is more common than Down syndrome,
autism remains one of the least understood developmental disorders.
We were told that Miles would almost definitely grow up to be severely
impaired. He would never be able to make friends, have a meaningful
conversation, learn in a regular classroom without special help, or
live independently. We could only hope that with behavioral therapy, we
might be able to teach him some of the social skills he'd never grasp
on his own.
I had always thought that the worst thing that could happen to anyone
was to lose a child. Now it was happening to me but in a perverse,
inexplicable way. Instead of condolences, I got uncomfortable glances,
inappropriately cheerful reassurances, and the sense that some of my
friends didn't want to return my calls.
After Miles' initial diagnosis, I spent hours in the library, searching
for the reason he'd changed so dramatically. Then I came across a book
that mentioned an autistic child whose mother believed that his
symptoms had been caused by a "cerebral allergy" to milk. I'd never
heard of this, but the thought lingered in my mind because Miles drank
an inordinate amount of milk -- at least half a gallon a day.
I also remembered that a few months earlier, my mother had read that
many kids with chronic ear infections are allergic to milk and wheat.
"You should take Miles off those foods and see if his ears clear up,"
she said. "Milk, cheese, pasta, and Cheerios are the only foods he'll
eat," I insisted. "If I took them away, he'd starve."
Then I realized that Miles' ear infections had begun when he was 11
months old, just after we had switched him from soy formula to cow's
milk. He'd been on soy formula because my family was prone to
allergies, and I'd read that soy might be better for him. I had
breast-fed until he was 3 months old, but he didn't tolerate breast
milk very well -- possibly because I was drinking lots of milk. There
was nothing to lose, so I decided to eliminate all the dairy products
from his diet.What happened next was nothing short of miraculous. Miles
stopped screaming, he didn't spend as much time repeating actions, and
by the end of the first week, he pulled on my hand when he wanted to go
downstairs. For the first time in months, he let his sister hold his
hands to sing "Ring Around a Rosy."
Two weeks later, a month after we'd seen the psychologist, my husband
and I kept our appointment with a well-known developmental pediatrician
to confirm the diagnosis of autism. Dr. Susan Hyman gave Miles a
variety of tests and asked a lot of questions. We described the changes
in his behavior since he'd stopped eating dairy products. Finally, Dr.
Hyman looked at us sadly. "I'm sorry," the specialist said. "Your son
is autistic. I admit the milk allergy issue is interesting, but I just
don't think it could be responsible for Miles' autism or his recent
improvement."
We were terribly disheartened, but as each day passed, Miles continued
to get better. A week later, when I pulled him up to sit on my lap, we
made eye contact and he smiled. I started to cry -- at last he seemed
to know who I was. He had been oblivious to his sister, but now he
watched her play and even got angry when she took things away from him.
Miles slept more soundly, but his diarrhea persisted. Although he
wasn't even 2 yet, we put him in a special-ed nursery school three
mornings a week and started an intensive one-on-one behavioral and
language program that Dr. Hyman approved of.
I'm a natural skeptic and my husband is a research scientist, so we
decided to test the hypothesis that milk affected Miles' behavior. We
gave him a couple of glasses one morning, and by the end of the day, he
was walking on his toes, dragging his forehead across the floor, making
strange sounds, and exhibiting the other bizarre behaviors we had
almost forgotten. A few weeks later, the behaviors briefly returned,
and we found out that Miles had eaten some cheese at nursery school. We
became completely convinced that dairy products were somehow related to
his autism.
I wanted Dr. Hyman to see how well Miles was doing, so I sent her a
video of him playing with his father and sister. She called right away.
"I'm simply floored," she told me. "Miles has improved remarkably.
Karyn, if I hadn't diagnosed him myself, I wouldn't have believed that
he was the same child."
I had to find out whether other kids had had similar experiences. I
bought a modem for my -- not standard in 1995 -- and discovered an
autism support group on the Internet. A bit embarrassed, I asked,
"Could my child's autism be related to milk?"
The response was overwhelming. Where had I been? Didn't I know about
Karl Reichelt in Norway? Didn't I know about Paul Shattock in England?
These researchers had preliminary evidence to validate what parents had
been reporting for almost 20 years: Dairy products exacerbated the
symptoms of autism.
My husband, who has a Ph.D. in chemistry, got copies of the journal
articles that the parents had mentioned on-line and went through them
all carefully. As he explained it to me, it was theorized that a
subtype of children with autism break down milk protein (casein) into
peptides that affect the brain in the same way that hallucinogenic
drugs do. A handful of scientists, some of whom were parents of kids
with autism, had discovered compounds containing opiates -- a class of
substances including opium and heroin -- in the urine of autistic
children. The researchers theorized that either these children were
missing an enzyme that normally breaks down the peptides into a
digestible form, or the peptides were somehow leaking into the
bloodstream before they could be digested.
In a burst of excitement, I realized how much sense this made. It
explained why Miles developed normally for his first year, when he
drank only soy formula. It would also explain why he had later craved
milk: Opiates are highly addictive. What's more, the odd behavior of
autistic children has often been compared to that of someone
hallucinating on LSD.
My husband also told me that the other type of protein being broken
down into a toxic form was gluten -- found in wheat, oats, rye, and
barley, and commonly added to thousands of packaged foods. The theory
would have sounded farfetched to my scientific husband if he hadn't
seen the dramatic changes in Miles himself and remembered how Miles had
self-limited his diet to foods containing wheat and dairy. As far as I
was concerned, there was no question that the gluten in his diet would
have to go. Busy as I was, I would learn to cook gluten-free meals.
People with celiac disease are also gluten-intolerant, and I spent
hours on-line gathering information.
Within 48 hours of being gluten-free, 22-month-old Miles had his first
solid stool, and his balance and coordination noticeably improved. A
month or two later, he started speaking -- "zawaff" for giraffe, for
example, and "ayashoo" for elephant. He still didn't call me Mommy, but
he had a special smile for me when I picked him up from nursery school.
However, Miles' local doctors -- his pediatrician, neurologist,
geneticist, and gastroenterologist -- still scoffed at the connection
between autism and diet. Even though dietary intervention was a safe,
noninvasive approach to treating autism, until large controlled studies
could prove that it worked, most of the medical community would have
nothing to do with it.
So my husband and I decided to become experts ourselves. We began
attending autism conferences and phoning and e-mailing the European
researchers. I also organized a support group for other parents of
autistic children in my community. Although some parents weren't
interested in exploring dietary intervention at first, they often
changed their mind after they met Miles. Not every child with autism
responded to the diet, but eventually there were about 50 local
families whose children were gluten- and casein-free with exciting
results. And judging by the number of people on Internet support lists,
there were thousands of children around the world responding well to
this diet.
Fortunately, we found a new local pediatrician who was very supportive,
and Miles was doing so well that I nearly sprang out of bed each
morning to see the changes in him. One day, when Miles was 2 1/2, he
held up a toy dinosaur for me to see. "Wook, Mommy, issa Tywannosauwus
Wex!" Astonished, I held out my trembling hands. "You called me Mommy!"
I said. He smiled and gave me a long hug.
By the time Miles turned 3, all his doctors agreed that his autism had
been completely cured. He tested at eight months above his age level in
social, language, self-help, and motor skills, and he entered a regular
preschool with no special-ed supports. His teacher told me that he was
one of the most delightful, verbal, participatory children in the
class. Today, at almost 6, Miles is among the most popular children in
his first-grade class. He's reading at a fourth-grade level, has good
friends, and recently acted out his part in the class play with flair.
He is deeply attached to his older sister, and they spend hours engaged
in the type of imaginative play that is never seen in kids with autism.
My worst fears were never realized. We are terribly lucky.
But I imagined all the other parents who might not be fortunate enough
to learn about the diet. So in 1997, I started a newsletter and
international support organization called Autism Network for Dietary
Intervention (ANDI), along with another parent, Lisa Lewis, author of
Special Diets for Special Kids (Future Horizons, 1998). We've gotten
hundreds of letters and e-mails from parents worldwide whose kids use
the diet successfully. Although it's best to have professional guidance
when implementing the diet, sadly, most doctors are still skeptical.
As I continue to study the emerging research, it has become
increasingly clear to me that autism is a disorder related to the
immune system. Most autistic children I know have several food
allergies in addition to milk and wheat, and nearly all the parents in
our group have or had at least one immune-related problem: thyroid
disease, Crohn's disease, celiac disease, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic
fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, or allergies. Autistic children are
probably genetically predisposed to immune-system abnormalities, but
what triggers the actual disease?
Many of the parents swore that their child's autistic behavior began at
15 months, shortly after the child received the MMR (measles, mumps,
rubella) vaccine. When I examined such evidence as photos and
videotapes to see exactly when Miles started to lose his language and
social skills, I had to admit that it had coincided with his MMR --
after which he had gone to the emergency room with a temperature of
106°F and febrile seizures. Recently, a small study was
published by British researcher Andrew Wakefield, M.D., linking the
measles portion of the vaccine to damage in the small intestine --
which might help explain the mechanism by which the hallucinogenic
peptides leak into the bloodstream. If the MMR vaccine is indeed found
to play a role in triggering autism, we must find out whether some
children are at higher risk and therefore should not be vaccinated or
should be vaccinated at a later age.
Another new development is giving us hope: Researchers at Johnson and
Johnson's Ortho Clinical Diagnostics division -- my husband among them
-- are now studying the abnormal presence of peptides in the urine of
autistic children. My hope is that eventually a routine diagnostic test
will be developed to identify children with autism at a young age and
that when some types of autism are recognized as a metabolic disorder,
the gluten and dairy-free diet will move from the realm of alternative
medicine into the mainstream.
The word autism, which once meant so little to me, has changed my life
profoundly. It came to my house like a monstrous, uninvited guest but
eventually brought its own gifts. I've felt twice blessed -- once by
the amazing good fortune of reclaiming my child and again by being able
to help other autistic children who had been written off by their
doctors and mourned by their parents.
Appendix III. Dolphin Therapy Locations and Organizations
Some of the Facilities or locations used for DAT and known to exist
Note: Some programs are run in non-managed situations, using free
Dolphins. Other programs provide access to dolphins by arrangement with
other facilities.
Florida
Dolphin Research Center
Theater of the Sea
http://www.gulfarium.com/jfdolphin.htm
Water Planet
Tel: (850) 230-6030
Phone Toll Free: (866) 449-5591
E-Mail: info@waterplanetusa.com
5605 Sunset Ave. Unit B
Panama City Beach, FL 32408
http://www.waterplanetusa.com/programneeds.htm
Mexico
Mexico City (Delphinarium)
Bahamas
Grand Bahama (UNEXO)
Bimini (Spirit of the Dolphin and Dolphin Swim)
Israel
Eilat (Dolphin Reef Eilat)
Article on Eilat and therapy with an autistic child
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0drd0
Russia
Ukraine, on the Black Sea (Kazachya Bay Naval Base)
Hawaii
Big Island (Dolphin Connection)
Maui (POD Centre)
Australia
Sydney/Port Stephens (Dolphin Within)
Bunbury, WA. (Dolphin Discovery Centre)
Perth (UnderWater World)
Southport, Qld. (Sea World)
Coff's Harbour (Porpoise Pool)
Cooperating Organizations:
AquaThought, Miami, Florida
Dolphin Discovery: Fundacion Brewer, Mexico
Dolphin Connection, Hawaii
The Dolphin Society, Australia
The Dancing Dolphin Institute, Hawaii
Dolphin Reef Eilat, Israel
UNEXSO, Grand Bahamas
Upledger Institute, Florida
Dolphin Research Center, Grassy Key, Florida
Theater of the Sea, Little Duck Key, Florida
Dolphin Human Therapy
Others
Dr. Horace Dobbs, M.D.
http://www.idw.org/html/home.html
Dr. David Nathanson, Ph.D.
http://www.dolphinhumantherapy.com/Welcome/WelcomePage.htm
Dolphin's Plus (Island Dolphin Care, Inc.), Key Largo, Florida;
http://www.linknet.com.au/dolphin/DAT2.html
Clearwater Aquarium, Clearwater, Florida
Interspecies Technologies, Melbourne, Australia
Xcaret and Xel-Ha (Via Delphi), Cancun, Mexico
Delphinarium, Mexico City
Dolphins Down Under, Suffolk Park, Australia
Dolphin Human Therapy
13615 South Dixie Highway, #523
Miami, FL 33176-7252
(305) 378-8670
Fax: (305) 233-6383
Contact: David Nathanson, Ph.D.
Program consists of a 40 minute session each day Monday through Friday,
for two weeks, at a cost of $6,200.
JF Dolphin Project
1010 Miracle Strip Parkway, SE
Ft. Walton Beach, FL 32548
(800) 247-8575 & (850) 243-9046
Contact:
Janet Flowers, CCC-SLP, Ed.S.
Project Manager/Therapist
(850) 217-0099 for program costs
E-mail: jfdolphinproject@gulfarium.com
1 SOund Navigation And Ranging – use of projected sounds and
analysis of the resulting echoes for navigation.
2 Herman, L. M., D. G. Richards and J. P. Woltz, Comprehension of
sentences by bottlenosed dolphins, Cognition (16) 129-219, 1984.
3 Vladimir I. Markov and Vera M. Ostrovskaya, Organisation Of
Communication System In Tursiops Truncatus Montague, A. N. Severtsov
Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Ecology of Animals, USSR
Academy of Sciences, 33 Leninsky Prospect, Moscow 117071, USSR. From
Sensory Abilities of Cetaceans: Laboratory and Field Evidence, Edited
by Jeanette A. Thomas and Ronald Kastelein (Harderwijck Dolfinarium),
NATO ASI Series, Series A: Life sciences Vol.196.
The number of such [signal] blocks in a [dolphin’s] signal
[is] from 1 to 24, averaging to 5-7. The number of structural types of
blocks has [yet to be] established definitely, but it is well over one
hundred. Using this data and standard formulas from Games Theory, one
can calculate easily that 10^12 signals [that is, a trillion unique
signals!] could be produced by means of free combining. …
All this makes it possible to think that the communicative system of
bottlenose dolphins is ‘open’ in terms of
vocabulary formation. This conclusion is indirectly supported by the
fact that dolphins use hundreds of structural types of signals for
communication.
4 See: www.planetpuna.com/Projects.htm and www.planetpuna.com/si.htm
5 An extensive listing of treated conditions is at Dr.
Nathanson’s website: http://www.dolphinhumantherapy.com/.
6 Institute (http://www.linknet.com.au/dolphin/home.html, Email:
dolphin@cybermesa.com)
7 Roxanne Kremer, Personal Communication, 1989.
8 Dolphins Plus, Personal Communication, 1989.
9 NBC, The Other Side, television program aired February 1998.
10 NBC, The Other Side, television program aired February 1998.
11 Personal Communication with Melissa’s parents, 2003
12 See: http://www.autism-mercury.com/
13 ibid.
14 Susan J. Crockford, Thyroid rhythm phenotypes and hominid evolution:
a new paradigm implicates pulsatile hormone secretion in speciation and
adaptation changes, in: Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A
135(2003) 105-129, 2002.
15 Simon Baron-Cohen, The Essential Difference - the truth about the
male & female brain, Basic Books, New York, New York, 2002.
16 Dolphin short term memory size is about 12 units; ours is 5 + or
– 2, i.e. a maximum of 7 units (which is why telephone
numbers have 7 basic numbers).
17In fond acknowledgement of Communication Research Institute
including: John C. Lilly, M.D., Hank Truby (linguist, acoustic
phonetician, etc.), Peter Morgane (neuroanatomist), Gregory Bateson
(biologist), George Munson (Bell Labs Electronics Research) et. alia.
18 Patricia St. John. The Secret Language of Dolphins, New York Summit
Books, 1991.
19 Elizabeth Raushcher & Russell Targ, The Speed of Thought: An
investigation of a Complex Space-time Metric to Describe Psychic
Phenomena, Bay Research Institute, 1010 Harriet St., Palo Alto, Ca.,
94301.
20 www.rifetechnologies.com
21 Steven Birch, Dolphin-Human Interaction Effects, Monash University,
Melbourne, Australia, 1997.
22 John C. Lilly, M.D., The Mind of the Dolphin, Doubleday &
Co., 1967.
23 Joan McIntyre, Mind in the Waters, Charles Scribner’s
Sons, 1974.
24 Vladimir I. Markov and Vera M. Ostrovskaya, Organization Of
Communication System In Tursiops Truncatus Montague
25 J. C. Lilly) Stereophonation & Double Phonation in the
Dolphin [manuscript, 1966].
26 Mathias Fink, Time-Reversed Acoustics, Scientific American, November
1999.
27 http://planet-hawaii.com/earthtrust/delrings.html
28 G. Patrick Flanagan, FlanTech, Personal Communication
29 Suslick, K. S.; Didenko, Y.; Fang, M. M.; Hyeon, T.; Kolbeck, K. J.;
McNamara, W. B. III; Mdleleni, M. M.; Wong, M., Acoustic Cavitation and
Its Chemical Consequences, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London A, 1999, 357,
335-353.
30 Lennart D. Johns, Nonthermal Effects of Therapeutic Ultrasound: The
Frequency Resonance Hypothesis, J Athl Train. 2002 September; 37 (3):
293–299
31 J. Harle & J. C. Knowles Effects Of Therapeutic Ultrasound
On Osteoblast Gene Expression, Journal of Materials Science: Materials
in Medicine 12 (2001).
32 http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/TShome.html
33 Cyril Smith & Simon Best, Electromagnetic Man: Health and
Hazard in the Electrical Environment, Macmillan, 1989.
34 Robert O. Becker, M.D., Selden, G., The Body Electric, Morrow, New
York, 1985.
35 Smith & Best, op cit.
36 www.rifetechnologies.com/
37 http://www.quantumbalancing.com/who.htm
38 Eldon Byrd, The "Hello, Dolphin" Project, International Symposium on
Dolphin Assisted Therapy, Melia Turquesa Hotel, Cancun, Mexico
September 8-10, 1995
39 J. Broner, personal communication
40 Birch, S. & Cosic, I., Expansion of the Resonant Recognition
Model to Incorporate Multi-variable Analysis, Australian Physical
& Engineering Sciences in Medicine 18(4) 1-12.
41 Ross Adey, Personal Communication
42 James Clegg, University of Miami, 1973, Personal Communication
43 G. Pat Flanagan, Flantech, Scottsdale, Arizona.
44 Flanagan, ibid.
45 Igor Smirnov, www.elixer-health.com/mret/mret_mretr.htm
46 Igor Smirnov, Personal Communication, 2002
47 Steven Birch, Ph.D., Dolphin-Human Interaction Effects, Monash
University, Melbourne, Australia, 1997.
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Energy Ball of New Consciousness I pictured is in my room, 16 Apr. 2010
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The mixture of Sun and the Ball of Advanced Thoughts, pentagon shaped, is in our backyard, 16 Apr. 2010
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(30 min. after Sunset, 18
Jan 2010)
Invisible to the eye
Energy of the
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