The Invisible Rainbow

The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life Paperback (2020)

by Arthur Firstenberg (Author)

4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 2,453 ratings

This book reveals the horrifying history of how electricity is destroying our health and it's a fascinating read.

5g is being rolled out across the country, despite growing evidence that it is disruptive to our health, our safety, and the environment. The Invisible Rainbow is the groundbreaking story of electricity as it's never been told before--exposing its very real impact on the biosphere and human health.

Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is 'safe' for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling the story of electricity in a way it has never been told before--from an environmental point of view--by detailing the effects that this fundamental societal building block has had on our health and our planet.

In The Invisible Rainbow, Firstenberg traces the history of electricity from the early eighteenth century to the present, making a compelling case that many environmental problems, as well as the major diseases of industrialized civilization--heart disease, diabetes, and cancer--are related to electrical pollution.

Few individuals today are able to grasp the entirety of a scientific subject and present it in a highly engaging manner . . . Firstenberg has done just that with one of the most pressing but neglected problems of our technological age.--BRADLEY JOHNSON, MD, Amen Clinic, San Francisco

This seminal bookwill transform your understanding.of the environmental and health effects of electricity and radio frequencies.

Breath

 

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (2020)

by James Nestor (Author)

4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 29,739 ratings

 

 

If this book could be summarized into into a brief overview it might be to make sure you breathe through your nose and avoid all mouth breathing. And that when it comes to breathing, less is more. That sounds very simple but the range of effects that good breathing technique has is remarkable. And the book itself is surprisingly engrossing.

 

A New York Times Bestseller

A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020

Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR
 
“A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe—and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly.

There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.

Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe.

Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is.

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.

 https://www.amazon.com/Breath-New-Science-Lost-Art

 

31 million free ebooks

Anne's Archive is an amazing resource with over 31 million free ebooks online. It is described as the largest truly open library in human history. All their code and data are completely open source, and the way the site is set up pretty much side steps all issues of copyright (they are only sharing download links rather than the books themselves).

The Library Genesis site is even bigger, and the downloads are faster, but it's more complex to use, and the domain names are constantly changing, so the simpler Anne's Archive is a better introduction to the world of eBook libraries for a lot of people. We will do a post about Library Genesis soon but in the meantime here are some current addresses for it:

 https://libgen.gs/

https://libgen.li/ 

 https://libgen.bz/

 https://libgen.la/

 https://libgen.st/

Anne's Archive has 31,603,758 books, and 99,900,496 papers in the database, all available to download. These include a huge range of health books and many WAPF specific titles.

We have been asked how the site works so here are some basic instructions showing how to download the ebooks:

First go to the Anna's Archive website and enter the author or title you are looking for in the search box - https://annas-archive.org/

The results of your search will rapidly appear - now if you want to filter by format tick PDF & EPUB in the file types on the left

After you select the book you want, click on one of the two "slow download" options - If you are new to the site you won't be a paid subscriber but these will still both work fine. Don't get carried away, you can only do about two downloads at a time from each one of the options.

 

There are daily limits on how many books you can download, I'm not sure what they are, (maybe 10?) because I'm not the only one downloading books on one internet connection. But when you do too many  downloads the site stops working. Leave it a a day and try again. Anne's Archive is certainly not the only site to find eBooks, just the easiest on to use. This website describes a bunch of other ebook download alternative sites

Next, remember to hit the "Download now" link to start the book downloading

Save your ebooks in a folder (don't change or rename this folder once you start using them on your ebook reader or your books will disappear from the reader & you will have to add them again) - I do edit the names of the new books before adding them to my ebook reader because the file names of ebooks downloaded through Annes Archive tend to be very long.

On my Windows PC I use Calibre ebook reader which can be downloaded here

I was trying to keep things simple for people new to eBooks and tested some other more basic eBook readers such as Ice Cream reader, but I prefer having all the features of Calibre (which is free anyway) - it's slightly more complex at first but it does everything I want.

For reading books on an Android tablet or phone I use the Read Era app which is really good. It's not set up for all the more complex text editing stuff that Calibre can do, but is great for displaying and reading your eBook collections. Although its not designed for PC use, it apparently can be installed on a windows PC - I'm about to try doing that and instructions for installing it on a Widows PC are here

 

Having access to 31 million eBooks is pretty amazing, and before you know it, you can have your own vast library.

Physical Degeneration free online

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration is available to read free online

Thanks to Gutenberg.net.au for sharing it

New Expanded 8th edition with new photos and text. An epic study demonstrating the importance of whole food nutrition, and the degeneration and destruction that comes from a diet of processed foods. 

For nearly 10 years, Weston Price and his wife traveled around the world in search of the secret to health. Instead of looking at people afflicted with disease symptoms, this highly-respected dentist and dental researcher chose to focus on healthy individuals, and challenged himself to understand how they achieved such amazing health. 

Dr. Price traveled to hundreds of cities in a total of 14 different countries in his search to find healthy people. He investigated some of the most remote areas in the world. He observed perfect dental arches, minimal tooth decay, high immunity to tuberculosis and overall excellent health in those groups of people who ate their indigenous foods. He found when these people were introduced to modernized foods, such as white flour, white sugar, refined vegetable oils and canned goods, signs of degeneration quickly became quite evident. Dental caries, deformed jaw structures, crooked teeth, arthritis and a low immunity to tuberculosis became rampant amongst them. 

Dr. Price documented this ancestral wisdom including hundreds of photos in his book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. 

Blogging in 2025

  BEST WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR

We originally set up this new WAPF Wellington Chapter blog all ready for the start of 2024 and planned to regularly add new content to it throughout that year.

But things didn't entirely go to plan, and apart from posting some WAPF related images, and a bunch of fluoridation posts for Fluoride month in July, it wasn't really a great year of blogging. 

New Year is always a good time to start over again, and our plan for 2025 is to start over again, update and re-post the best of those 2024 posts, delete any out of date content, and this year to post more WAPF related resources, recommendations, and research, along with any other interesting new content.

Blogging is not as popular as it was a decade or so ago, but we still think it's an excellent way to present information, and for anyone who likes to read, a much faster and more efficient way to learn than watching videos.  So we are aiming to go back to our roots and have an old fashioned blog.

 

 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A Price is free to read online here

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration is available to read free online

Thanks to Gutenberg.net.au for sharing it

New Expanded 8th edition with new photos and text. An epic study demonstrating the importance of whole food nutrition, and the degeneration and destruction that comes from a diet of processed foods. 

For nearly 10 years, Weston Price and his wife traveled around the world in search of the secret to health. Instead of looking at people afflicted with disease symptoms, this highly-respected dentist and dental researcher chose to focus on healthy individuals, and challenged himself to understand how they achieved such amazing health. 

Dr. Price traveled to hundreds of cities in a total of 14 different countries in his search to find healthy people. He investigated some of the most remote areas in the world. He observed perfect dental arches, minimal tooth decay, high immunity to tuberculosis and overall excellent health in those groups of people who ate their indigenous foods. He found when these people were introduced to modernized foods, such as white flour, white sugar, refined vegetable oils and canned goods, signs of degeneration quickly became quite evident. Dental caries, deformed jaw structures, crooked teeth, arthritis and a low immunity to tuberculosis became rampant amongst them. 

Dr. Price documented this ancestral wisdom including hundreds of photos in his book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. 

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration - free online copy

Objectives of the Weston A Price Foundation

To restore nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research, and activism.

To support organic farming, community-supported farms, honest and informative labeling, prepared parenting and nurturing therapies

To establish a laboratory to test the nutrient content of foods

To harness modern technology as a servant to the nurturing traditions of our ancestors, rather than as a force destructive to the environment and human health, and to scientifically demonstrate the value of those traditions.

To publish a quarterly journal, "Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts", dedicated to exploring the scientific validation of dietary, agricultural and medical traditions throughout the world

To advocate the legalistion of the sale of clean certified raw milk

To alert the public to the dangers of soy products, trans fats, "low fat" diets, aspartame, fluoridation, and other government approved toxins

For a full overview of all the areas the foundation covers, their website is a great place to start

To restore nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism.

To support organic farming, community-supported farms, honest and informative labeling, prepared parenting and nurturing therapies

To establish a laboratory to test the nutrient content of foods

To harness modern technology as a servant to the nurturing traditions of our ancestors, rather than as a force destructive to the environment and human health, and to scientifically demonstrate the value of those traditions.

To publish a quarterly journal, "Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts", dedicated to exploring the scientific validation of dietary, agricultural and medical traditions throughout the world

To advocate the legalistion of the sale of clean certified raw milk

To alert the public to the dangers of soy products, trans fats, "low fat" diets, aspartame, fluoridation, and other government approved toxins

For a full overview of all the areas the foundation covers, their website is a great place to start.