The world population is currently estimated to be around 6.7 billion. Of these, over 3 billion people use mobile phones. That’s around 45% of humanity involved in what some experts call the greatest human experiment ever conducted.

The link between nicotine and cancer still has not been completely proved, but so much circumstantial evidence now exists that governments around the world have simply had to accept that cigarettes are not good for us. I predict it will be the same with mobile phones, although hopefully it won’t take so many years for the hazards to be accepted as fact. While some studies find a causal link between mobile phone usage and health problems and others do not, the pervasive effects are totally obvious to anyone who has developed the ability to perceive and read energies. I can FEEL microwave radiation when using a mobile phone, or even standing near someone who has one turned on.

In some of the workshops I teach there is a little demonstration I often give to participants, which graphically illustrates the effect of mobile phones on us all. I first make sure that everyone in the room has their mobile phone turned off and then have a volunteer come out to the front of the class. Holding their mobile phone by their side in one hand, I have them extend their free arm out at shoulder level so that it is parallel to the ground and then I press down on their wrist with my hand, asking them to resist my pressure. This is a very basic form of applied kinesiology or muscle testing. Having established their muscle strength with their phone turned off, I have them turn it on and then we test again. Even big, strong men cannot keep their arm up. They become significantly weaker, which surprises the heck out of them.

But I’m not finished yet. The next thing I do is give the phone to someone in the audience to hold, two or three rows back, and then I test again. Usually there is some improvement in muscle strength but not to the original level with the phone turned off. So we continue in this way, passing the phone back a few rows each time until the volunteer tests strong again. In some instances the phone is passed all the way to the back of a class of 200 people and then one of my assistants has to take the phone and leave the room before the volunteer tests strong again. And if I were to test everyone in the room, I would come up with similar results. A single mobile phone, when turned on, can affect that many people for that wide a radius.

You may be interested to know, by the way, that there are two substances I’ve so far found that everyone tests weak for in this way – mobile phones and coffee. If I substitute the mobile phone for some coffee beans, the volunteer will become just as weak. The difference is that if I pass the coffee beans back through the audience, the effect is not perpetuated. Coffee is an inert substance. It does not constantly radiate microwaves as a mobile phone does.

Now I know very well that this little demonstration I do in workshops would not in any way pass as a credible scientific experiment, but boy, does it get people's attention in a way that cold facts and figures do not. And anyone can do this test. Just grab a friend with a mobile phone, make sure all other mobile phones in the vicinity are turned off, and muscle test the person in the way I’ve described. Then have them do the same with you. It’s pretty stunning to feel your arm go so inexplicably weak when you are trying so hard to keep it strong. It certainly makes you wonder what the mobile phone is doing to the rest of your body too.

So am I suggesting that everyone stops using their mobile phones? In an ideal world, yes. Experts say it can take 10–20 years for brain tumours to develop, so they expect us to start seeing the full effects of mobile phone use in the next 5 years. But brain tumours are already the most common form of cancer in young people under 19 years old (children’s skulls are thinner than adults so much more susceptible to microwave radiation), and it doesn’t take a genius to look at the steep increase in the number of children using mobile phones in recent years to ponder if there might perhaps be a correlation. Other documented side effects are concentration problems, memory loss, DNA damage, breast cancer (in men and women), and fertility problems.

More worrying still is the suspected link between mobile phone usage and DNA damage, which Dr Henry Lai, professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, who has been researching the effects of  this type of radiation for 24 years, warns can lead to degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and cancer. I’ll leave you to discover for yourself the endless experiments that have been done on mice, rats and all kinds of other creatures except humans. We are unwittingly running our own massive experiment involving 45% of the human race, with the other 55% currently acting as a control group.

And do I own a mobile phone myself? Yes, and you’ll no doubt laugh when I tell you the make and model. It’s a Nokia 6100, which is practically antique and definitely not cool. But I find it far less invasive than the new souped-up models, and that’s more important to me than owning a fashion item.

And do I use it? Well, there are only 2 people in the world who know my mobile phone number so I only turn it on once or twice a week to check for messages, and I use it at most 5 minutes per week for making calls and sometimes not at all for months on end. It’s not that I’m fearful or trying to be saintly. I just don’t like the way it blasts my head and makes me feel dizzy and nauseous.

So if you absolutely can’t live without your mobile phone, do I have any suggestions for how to limit the effects? For this I refer you to a report published in February 2008 by Vini Gautam Khurana PhD, FRACS, entitled Mobile Phones and Brain Tumours – A Public Health Concern. Available as a download at www.brain-surgery.us, it is the result of 14 months’ objective research by the author, encompassing over 100 sources of recent scientific and medical studies on the topic. In the final pages, he gives his recommendations, which I have summarized here and added some comments of my own in brackets:

1) Always use a landline phone to make calls if you have a choice (and be considerate enough to call people on their landline rather than their mobile phone if possible).

2) If you must use a mobile phone, use it in speakerphone mode and keep it at least 20 cm (8 inches) away from you.

3) Minimise the use of Bluetooth devices and unshielded wired-earphones for mobile phones (Bluetooth devices transmit radiation much more deeply into the head than regular mobile phones, and unshielded ear-pieces and headsets can put more microwave raditation into your head than the mobile phone itself).

4) Adults need to minimise the time spent using mobile phones.

5) Children should only use mobile phones in situations of real emergency.

I would also add to this list that the worst place to use a mobile phone is inside a car, because the microwave signals bounce around inside the metal shell, making the effects much worse. You can therefore imagine how unthrilled I am to hear that many major airlines are soon planning to enable mobile phone use within aircraft. People want it, so they will give them what they want. Then again, they used to allow smoking on airplanes, didn’t they?

Copyright © Karen Kingston, 2008

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