Do Schumann Resonance Machines Really Work?
By Ginny Silcox
After spending years as an advanced R&D technician in the field of medical electronics, I thought it would be easy to fabricate a small device that could mimic the earth’s natural electromagnetic environment in a localized area. A friend asked me to do this because he lives in a city, and he thought filling at least one room in his house with beneficial waveforms might help him improve his health and feel better. Though doctors are no longer trained in the Hippocratic Oath (“First, do no harm”), the time I’d spent testing the interaction of medical device design with the realities of the hospital setting convinced me that a thorough understanding of naturally occurring Earth signals would be needed before attempting a design. The more I studied, the more frustrating it became to realize the level of misunderstanding that exists in the general public… and it isn’t being helped by companies that are claiming to sell you magical instruments that bring the sweet songs of Gaia into your home.
Let’s talk about those Gaia songs. Lots of very smug people are spreading vast quantities of misinformation about the natural electromagnetic environment and its effect on the human body and mind. Back in the ’60s, people were all excited about negative ion generators that could provide the wonderful feeling you get when you sit by a rushing waterfall. There is actually some solid science behind those effects, but keep in mind that when you’re sitting by that waterfall, you are probably out in nature; far from power lines and airport radar installations. But if you’re talking on your cell phone, its negative effects will overwhelm the health-giving effects of the waterfall. Negative ions actually can change the electrical potentials used by cells to keep out invaders and allow the transport of nutrients through. Of course, these effects primarily work on your lungs, but negative ion generators in the home use high voltages and the AC grid in the walls to produce those ions. So the negative effects can counteract the positive ones. Even those fascinating water mist machines use a focused high frequency sound to turn liquid water into water vapor, and the circuitry involved is exposing you to a sustained high frequency electrical signal.
Thomas Valone, in his book Bioelectromagnetic Healing: A Rationale for Its Use, provides a very complete summary of the reactions of human cells to the presence of wideband electromagnetic signals. According to Valone, “Much research has been done to show the profound EEG entrainment that the earth’s ‘micropulsations’ (Schumann resonances) cause in the human body, as long as the person is isolated from stronger EMFs.”[1] The book is fairly technical, but it contains a very comprehensive survey of the existing research and various devices that have been used for at least the last 100 years. During his experiments on high voltage, high frequency electricity, Tesla found that short-term exposure to the fields produced could be energizing and healing. When sensitive measuring equipment became available, scientists like Schumann became aware that the large sphere of atmosphere down to the surface of the earth resonates selectively to a composite mix of signals caused by lightning, seismic movements, ice cap changes, ocean currents, air movements, and other electrical phenomena like auroras and atomic bomb blasts.
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