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The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life Paperback – July 22, 1998

by Robert Becker (Author), Gary Selden (Author)

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The Body Electric tells the fascinating story of our bioelectric selves. Robert O. Becker, a pioneer in the filed of regeneration and its relationship to electrical currents in living things, challenges the established mechanistic understanding of the body. He found clues to the healing process in the long-discarded theory that electricity is vital to life. But as exciting as Becker's discoveries are, pointing to the day when human limbs, spinal cords, and organs may be regenerated after they have been damaged, equally fascinating is the story of Becker's struggle to do such original work. The Body Electric explores new pathways in our understanding of evolution, acupuncture, psychic phenomena, and healing.

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July 22, 1998
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Robert O. Becker, M.D., lived in upstate New York. Gary Selden is a writer who specializes in scientific topics.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Morrow Paperbacks; 1st edition (July 22, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0688069711
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0688069711
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.92 x 9.25 inches

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David Z

An Extremely Important Read

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2019

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A wildly fascinating book filled with honesty and intrigue. Whether you are just interested in personal health, the effects of bio-electricity, or a student of the occult laws of nature, this book will provide invaluable knowledge -- that I suspect most already know to be true in the deepest corners of their mind. For those not so intimately familiar with the intricacies of either cellular biology or electro magnetism, don't be bogged down by the very technical explanations, because while they are important mechanical descriptions, there are just as important lessons to be learned from the implications of the outcomes of Becker's research and experiments, both macro and microcosmically.

My only advice is to take the second-to-last chapter with a pillar of salt. It's easy to understand from where the author speculates about such doom and gloom, and there are important points that can be learned from it, but keep in mind that the human being is ever growing, evolving and adapting, and the power of the mind can overcome all adversity.

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Filler Joe

What David Later Said About Goliath

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2013

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I bought this book after extensive research in occult teachings, namely Jewish mysticism. Western and Eastern Esoterisicm for centuries has taught, both subtly and obviously, that our bodies, our planet, our solar system, and our universe are essentially circuits. Although The Body Electric is a scientific journey, the writer ends up reaching the same conclusions the ancients understood long-long ago. We still have a long ways to go to recapture that ancient knowledge. (Afterall, the writer eventually starts studying acupuncture, which just further supports my point.)

I love this book because it speaks our modern-day language and brings ancient, esoteric conceptions down to a level most people can at least attempt to grasp. Otherwise, you would have to spend a lot of time, research, and soul searching to come to similar conclusions about our physical and spiritual composition.

Here are the areas of the book that stood out for me:

1) The writer found that you can put an animal to sleep by running a current through its head. There's no need for anesthesia. You just flip off the current to wake the animal up. The animal literally feels no pain during the time the current is being used, and there are few to no side-effects once the animal wakes up.

2) The military industrial complex has been gobbling up fringe research like what is found in The Body Electric for completely different purposes. Imagine putting to sleep an entire legion with a giant ray gun? It sounds like science fiction now ...

3) Peer review is flawed and riddled with sleazy people who steal ideas and find ways to back stab. This really isn't new information if you work in the "publish or perish" workforce, but it's refreshing to see another brave soul blow the horn on this bureaucratic creature from the black lagoon that repeatedly gets love letters from universities across the globe. In today's world with GMOs even insects won't eat, rapid rates of cancer (namely brain cancer from cellphones), so-called "genetic pandemics" of autism, and rising cases of infant mortality in our "advanced" society, you have to be a complete idiot not to see that our technology is killing us. The Body Electric spells it out for you.

4) Kirlian photography was debunked. The aura you're seeing around plants, hands, people ... is created by the machine itself. What I love, though, about the book is that it doesn't take that fact as an opportunity to condemn auras and say they are all folklore and mythology. The author makes a very open-minded observation that auras are still very real and he produces other research and investigations to show just how that's possible.

5) What happened to the author of the book is still going on today. Yes, the book was originally published in the 1980s, but researchers are being blacklisted far more today. If you stand outside the status quo in your thinking, you are thrown out, your research is stolen, and somebody privately uses the results to produce things for self-serving industries. The world was a scary place; it's even scarier now. It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better, and people centuries from now are going to look back at 21st century societies and wonder how we could ever be so-so-so stupid.

Science without philosophy is a dangerous thing. That statement sums up the spirit of The Body Electric quite well.

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Weatherby Williams

If you are interested in Energy Medicine....Read This!

Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2018

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What’s going on while we are focusing on other things and things that don’t matter? A lot a whole world of wonder. We don’t think about it but when you start paying attention and focusing your mind on your inner world, you can begin to sense and be aware of the Lee tribal world within and without you. I bought this while researching Pulsed Electro magnetic Frequency ( PEMF) and its ability to address disease processes and halt them.

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Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2020

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The power of energy is just as profound in humans as in nature. What if the link between electromagnetism and electricity could enable us to heal ourselves through self-regeneration? Such is the premise of this fascinating book by renowned medical researcher Robert O. Becker, a pioneer in regeneration experiments. His books should be required reading for anyone hopeful about our future health and a willingness to think outside the box about our bodies and what we currently know and/or believe about medicine and healing.

This book mesmerizes with revolutionary ideas in human biology and medicine -- a theory based on the author’s extensive lab experiments in regeneration that have led to some radical thinking about human healing, health and longevity. As lives are longer and diseases ever rampant, such thought-provoking concepts about the potential for “self-healing” offer an alternative to life and longevity as we know it. Becker makes compelling arguments about the bioelectric nature of humans and the essential nature of “electricity” to human life. Harnessing these elements in targeted ways means the possibility of self-healing. It’s hard to deny the sense this eye-opening information makes, and also the establishment forces opposed to it. For me, it redefined how I look at the treatment for every illness, infection, disease and injury. If a star fish can grow new limbs, or salamander grow two heads where there was only one … why can’t humans harness bioelectricity for basic healing, curing cancer, or regenerating limbs?

The experiments are complex, the information detailed but readily understandable, and I came away as a mind-blown convert to the potential of a radically different way to look at human healing and longevity that seems within arm’s reach.

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Ethan

Brilliant Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 30, 2020

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Well researched, alternative? Er, nope!!! ALL studies point to this "old" knowledge becoming more and more true in the world we now live in of quatum this and that. Brilliant.

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An alternative veiw of the workings of the body neglected by conventional medicine

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 27, 2017

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Fully explored the concept of the human body as an electro chemical dependent organism which exists after thousands of years of development relying on the earth's magnetic field and internal cell energy for health and repair. We depend on electricity and not just on complex chemistry the FDA and conventional medicine supports.

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Night Ranger

Great book. Well-written, with fascinating information about organisms' electrical fields.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 7, 2019

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Great book. Well-written, with fascinating information about organisms' electrical fields.
I love first-person narratives of scientists' thinking and engagement with experimentation. It addresses the historical research and the newer work.

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Catherine coney

How to heal using electrical frequencies.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 3, 2016

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Everyone involved in the medical profession should read this book. The experiments detailed within are truly groundbreaking and offer deeper insights into the cause and effects of electrical frequencies in the body.

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Niall Kennedy

Meh

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 27, 2019

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I give 4 stars for the seller because it arrived on time and as described, but I’ll be honest I couldn’t make it far in this book...it’s all hypothetical and kind of silly in my opinion. Maybe if I had made it farther I would have a different opinion, but...can’t do it...I checked out of this book and will donate it.

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