Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries (44 page)

In all fairness to Fishbein, he did not create the Torquemada mentality—a mindset untroubled by the subtle (or not so subtle) distinction and easy interchangeability between a science of data and a science of dicta. After all, the JAMA before, during and after Fishbein was never the arena to seek the open Lockean dialogue in "the free marketplace of ideas" in which truth would always emerge as the best value. Ridicule as retort and censure by consensus pre-date even Galileo. It could be argued that all of this is part of our collective hardwiring.

The real and ongoing legacy of Fishbein—the apotheosis of the peer review, the institutionalisation (professional, academic, corporate and political) of entities that perpetuate and fuel the reactionary, counter-evolutionary potentials of the human intellect—is not a simple, single bequest. It is rather an annuity that pays out incrementally in pain, indefinitely.

Today, a century and a quarter after Dr. Babbitt and 100 years after Dinshah's empirical confirmation, in most Western-style hospitals all over the world you will find the seriously traumatised post-surgical patient routinely maintained under the arbitrarily bizarre and randomly unbalanced spectra from cool and allegedly "white" fluorescence, while meticulously sustained on FDA-determined minimum daily nutritive requirements. You may sneak in a full-spectrum light; you may sneak in anti-oxidant vitamin megadoses. But here in the United States—the Land of the Litigious where the unholy AMA/FDA annuity is issued—take great care to call the light "only cheerful," the co-enzyme pills "only food." The operative words are "sneak in" and "only." Otherwise apprehension constitutes an inference with the conventions of established (hence, ossified) medical practice; and the consequent shifting of criminal, civil and professional responsibilities (especially monetary liabilities) is quicker than 186,270 miles per second in a vacuum.

This confusion, this melding of the professional proclamations with the proof of the pudding, may, in some Hegelian antithetical manner (the ". . . and one step back" of the historical process), provide some sort of intellectual brake to the evolutionary inevitable. However, as bleak a picture as this is, the flip side of the Hegelian paradigm promises a net gain of one forward step. This could be the philosophical principle that makes Dinshah's motto about defeated truth remaining unconquerable, a feature of the universe rather than mere personal mantric expedient.
At any rate, the work of Dinshah P. Ghadiali, the light of spectrochromology and related phototherapies, although deliberately dimmed for decades has not been extinguished. In fact, SCT endures and modestly thrives under the diligent, dedicated tutelage of Dinshah's son, Darius Dinshah—the accessible and gentle prime-mover for the active work being continued by the Dinshah Health Society.

The Society serves as an active information-clearing centre, holding annual meetings, publishing a newsletter and archiving relevant literature available to an increasingly interested public. Especially recommended, both for historical background as well as for its simple, utilitarian instructional material, is Darius Dinshah's book, Let There Be Light.

Note: The Dinshah Health Society is a non-profit, scientific, educational, membership-based corporation. For further information, contact the Society at: P.O. Box 707, Malaga, NJ 08328; telephone: (609) 692-4686; web: http://www.wj.net/dinshah

About the Author: Stuart Troy, a native of New York City, is a researcher and writer. His first foray into print was in 1978 with a critical article, "Sigmund Freud and the Relevance of a Newtonian Scientist in PostEinsteinian/Heisenberg Age," for APERION: A Journal of Philosophical Inquiry and Opinion, for which he was also an associate editor. His first book, co-authored with Jonathan Eisen, was The Nobel Reader (Clarkson, N. Potter, NY, 1987).

Stuart is currently working with noted historian Monroe Rosenthal on a history of women warriors of the Jews. His other driving passion is the preparation of a detailed report on the various iniquitous activities of Dr. [sic] Morris Fishbein, and he requests Nexus readers with any documentation or anecdotal material on Fishbein to communicate with him care of P.O. Box 5027, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33310, or e-mail him care of [email protected].

SPECTRO-CHROME THERAPEUTIC SYSTEM

The

Neurophone

Patrick Flanagan and Gael-Crystal Flanagan

In the early 1960s, while only a teenager, Life magazine listed Patrick Flanagan as one of the top scientists in the world. Among his many inventions was a device he called the Neurophone—an electronic instrument that can successfully programme suggestions directly through contact with the skin. When he attempted to patent the device, the government demanded that he prove it worked. When he did, the NSA (National Security Agency) confiscated the Neurophone. It took [Flanagan] years of legal battle to get his invention back.

When I was fifteen years old, I gave a lecture at the Houston Amateur Radio Club, during which we demonstrated the Neurophone to the audience. The next day we were contacted by a reporter from the Houston Post newspaper. He said that he had a relative who was nerve-deaf from spinal meningitis and asked if we might try the Neurophone on his relative. The test was a success. The day after that, an article on the Neurophone as a potential hearing aid for the deaf appeared and went out on the international wire services.

The publicity grew over the next two years. In 1961, Life magazine came to our house and lived with us for over a week. They took thousands of photographs and followed me around from dawn to dusk. The article appeared in the 14 September 1962 issue. After that, I was invited to appear on the I've Got a Secret show hosted by Gary Moore. The show was telecast from the NBC studios in New York. During the show, I placed electrodes from the Neurophone on the lower back of Bess Meyerson while the panel tried to guess what I was doing to her. She was able to "hear" a poem that was being played through the Neurophone electrodes. The poem was recorded by Andy Griffith, another guest on the show. Since the signal from the Neurophone was only perceived by Bess Meyerson, the panel could not guess what I was doing to her.

History of the Neurophone

The first Neurophone was made when I was 14 years old, in 1958. A description was published in our first book, Pyramid Power. The device was constructed by attaching two Brillo pads to insulated copper wires. Brillo pads are copper wire scouring pads used to clean pots and pans. They are about two inches

inserted into plastic bags that shock when applied to in diameter. The Brillo pads were acted as insulators to prevent electric the head.

The wires from the Brillo pads were audio output transformer that was attached to a hi-fi amplifier. The output voltage of the audio transformer was about 1,500 volts peak-to-peak. When the insulated pads were placed on the temples next to the eyes and the amplifier was driven by speech or music, you could "hear" the resulting sound inside your head. The perceived sound quality was very poor, highly distorted and very weak.

I observed that during certain sound peaks in the audio driving signal, the sound perceived in the head was very clear and very loud. When the signal was observed on an oscilloscope while listening to the sound, the signal was perceived as being loudest and clearest
driven and square waves were
when the amplifier was overgenerated. At the same time,

the transformer would ring or oscillate with a dampened wave form at frequencies of 40-50 kHz.

The next Neurophone consisted
vacuum tube oscillator that was
output signal was then fed into a
that was flat in frequency response
of a variable frequency amplitude-modulated. This

high frequency transformer in the 20-100 kHz range. The electrodes were placed on the head and the oscillator was tuned so that maximum resonance was obtained using the

connected to a reversed

As a result of the Life magazine article and the exposure on the Gary Moore Show, we received over a million letters about the Neurophone.
The patent office started giving us problems. The examiner said that the device could not possibly work, and refused to issue the patent for over twelve years. The patent was finally issued after my patent lawyer and I took a working model of the Neurophone to the patent office. This was an unusual move since inventors rarely bring their inventions to the patent examiner. The examiner said that he would allow the patent to issue if we

human body as part of the tank circuit. Later models had a feedback mechanism that automatically adjusted the frequency for resonance. We found that the dielectric
skin is highly variable. In order to achieve
constant of human

maximum transfer of energy, the unit had to be retuned to resonance in order to match the "dynamic dielectric response" of the body of the listener.

The 2,000 volt peak-to-peak amplitude-modulated carrier wave was then connected to the body by means of two-inch diameter electrode discs that
films of different thicknesses.
were insulated by means of mylar The Neurophone is

signals from

of the skin

really a scalar

wave device since the out-of-phase
mix in the non-linear complexities
the electrodes dielectric. The

signals from each capacitor electrode are 180 degrees out of phase. Each signal is transmitted into the complex dielectric of the body where phase cancellation takes place. The net result is a scalar vector. Of course I did not know this when I first developed the Neurophone. This
when we learned that the human
knowledge came much later

nervous system is especially sensitive to scalar signals.

The high frequency excellent sound clarity. perceived as if it were lished quite early that hear with the device. But for some reason, not all nerve-deaf people hear with it the first time.

We were able to stimulate visual phenomena when the electrodes were placed over the occipital region of the brain. The possibilities of Neurophonic visual stimulation suggest that we may someday be able to use the human brain as a VGA monitor!

I wrote my own patent application with the help of a friend and patent attorney from Shell Oil Company and submitted the application to the patent office.
amplitude-modulated Neurophone had

The perceived signal was very clearly coming from within the head. We estabsome totally nerve-deaf people could

could make a deaf employee of the patent office hear with the device. To our relief, the employee was able to hear with it and, for the first time in the history of the patent office, the Neurophone file was reopened and the patent was allowed to issue.

After the Gary Moore Show, a research company known as Huyck Corporation became interested in the Neurophone. I believed in their sincerity and allowed Huyck to research my invention. They hired me as a consultant in the summer months. Huyck was owned by a very large and powerful Dutch paper company with offices all over the world.

At Huyck I met two friends who were close to me for many years, Dr. Henri Marie Coanda, the father of fluid dynamics, and G. Harry Stine, scientist and author. Harry Stine wrote the book, The Silicon Gods (Bantam), which is about the potential of the Neurophone as a brain/computer interface.

Huyck Corporation was able to confirm the efficacy of the Neurophone but eventually dropped the project because of our problems with the patent office.

The next stage of Neurophone research began when I went to work for Tufts University as a research scientist. In conjunction with a Boston-based corporation, we were involved in a project to develop a language between man and dolphin. Our contracts were from the U.S. Naval Ordinance Test Station out of China Lake, California. The senior scientist on the project was my close friend and business partner, Dr. Dwight Wayne Batteau, Professor of Physics and Mechanical Engineering at Harvard and Tufts.

In the Dolphin Project we developed the basis for many potential new technologies. We were able to ascertain the encoding mechanism used by the human brain to decode speech intelligence patterns, and were also able to decode the mechanism used by the brain to locate sound sources in three dimensional space.. . . These discoveries led to the development of a 3-D holographic sound system that could place sounds in any location in space as perceived by the listener.

We also developed a man-dolphin language translator. The translator was able to decode human speech so that complex dolphin whistles were generated. When dolphins whistled, the loudspeaker on the translator would output human speech sounds. We developed a joint language between ourselves and our two dolphins. The dolphins were located in the lagoon of a small island off of Oahu, Hawaii. We had offices at Sea Life Park and Boston. We commuted from Boston to Hawaii to test out our various electronic gadgets.

We recorded dolphins and whales in the open sea and were able to accurately identify the locations of various marine mammals by 3-D sound-localization algorithms similar to those used by the brain to localize sound in space.