Living with mobile phones, part 2

Think back to the last long call you had with the mobile pressed to your ear. After half an hour your ear was warm, your arm had gone stiff, and you may have felt that something had drained out of you, even though you had been sitting down the whole time. It was exactly this quiet feeling of being worn out that the physician Gabriel Cousens tried to measure.

In the first part of this article we looked at the long argument about how phones affect us and at the idea of entropy. A quick reminder of where we left off: seen in terms of energy, every more serious imbalance is a cumulative, entropic process. Any system that goes through it for long enough ends up depleted, and its natural outcome is weakening, breakdown and finally an end. Cousens' philosophy of balance is about the opposite movement, back towards order and rest.

Can mobiles add to entropy?

From a holistic point of view, the question of how mobiles relate to serious health problems is disputed. For Cousens such problems come hand in hand with entropy, the long-term wearing down of a person. So he asks a different question: can mobiles add to entropy? Since 5G networks arrived, more and more people talk about it. Gabriel Cousens, whom the tachyon community regards as an authority on entropy, answers clearly: yes.

Independent science is more reserved here. The exposure limits that the ICNIRP commission updated in 2020 apply to 5G as well, and the 2024 review for the WHO found no link between mobiles and diseases of the brain. Cousens' experiment therefore asks about something subtler: whether our energy changes while we are on the phone. You can read more about how researchers see electrosmog in the article Electrosmog and 5G: what the science says.

Cousens' experiment

For this project Dr Cousens chose a prototype electronic muscle tester, EMT for short, developed by Buryl Payne, the author of the book The Body Magnetic. The device measures muscle strength. In Cousens' reading, a higher value is a negative-entropy response, a shift towards balance, and a lower value is an entropic response, a sign of depletion. The advantage, as he saw it, is that the measurement takes away the subjective impression of the person running the test.

Each person was assessed two or three times so that the result would be reliable. The first measurement was taken before the call and served as a baseline for everything that followed. Then the person started a phone call, holding the mobile to the right or left ear, whichever felt natural. After just under two minutes of talking, Dr Cousens took a second measurement and compared it with the baseline.

In this way he tested 186 people. According to his figures, the second measurement showed that 90 per cent of them went through what he calls relative bioenergetic depletion during the call. Seven per cent were not affected at all, and in three per cent energy actually rose while they talked. Cousens links that last group to a phenomenon he calls energy reversal, which he says a certain part of the population experiences. It is a bit like two people eating the same meal: one of them wants a nap afterwards, while the other feels like going for a walk.

What Cousens took from it

Dr Cousens concludes that mobiles have an entropic effect on most people. The best way to avoid the biological depletion he describes is, in his words, to use them as little as possible. That is the core of his advice, and it is a sentence anyone can do something with. Very few of us can give up the phone altogether. Most of us can easily use it a little less, and above all use it differently in the hours before sleep.

The bedside phone

Go back for a moment to the scene from the first part: the room is dark, the mobile glows on the bedside table, one more message, one more look at the weather. Most of us know that evening well. The phone is the last thing we see at night and the first thing we reach for in the morning, often before we have even opened our eyes properly.

Personally, I find that the evening is where a small change makes the biggest difference. When the phone charges in the hall or the kitchen overnight, the last half hour before sleep belongs to something else: a book, a conversation, a cup of herbal tea, a few slow stretches. An ordinary alarm clock does the job the phone used to do. In the morning you get up to switch it off, and the day starts without a stream of news and messages before breakfast. It sounds like a tiny thing. For me it was one of those changes you notice within a week, mostly because the evenings suddenly feel longer and quieter.

Small habits for the day

During the day a few simple habits help the phone take up less of us.

For long calls, use earphones or the speakerphone. The mobile is no longer pressed to your ear, your arm can rest, and a long conversation feels less tiring. Some people like to take calls while walking, around the flat or round the block, which turns half an hour on the phone into a bit of movement.

When the signal is weak, a phone works harder to stay connected, and you hear it in the call as well. Save longer conversations for a place with good coverage.

Notifications can stay off for everything except calls and messages from people who matter. Fewer buzzes mean fewer moments when your attention is pulled away, and that in itself is calming. Meals without a phone on the table, and a regular hour in the evening when the screen goes dark, give the day a clearer rhythm. In Cousens' language, they are small moves away from disorder and towards order.

A calm corner at home

It is pleasant to have one corner of your home set aside for rest: a chair by the window, a bedside table with a book on it, a spot where the day winds down. Tachyon describes its products as aids for calm and balance in exactly that kind of space.

The manufacturer makes small tachyonized micro-disks, the 24 mm micro-disk and the larger 35 mm micro-disk. David Wagner explains tachyonized material as an antenna for tachyon energy, which in his theory is an organising force that supports a sense of order. It fits neatly with Cousens' picture of negative entropy, the movement back towards balance. If you are buying a disk, it is worth reading the guide on how to spot genuine products first.

Sources

• Gabriel Cousens, M.D., M.D. (H), Tree of Life, www.treeoflife.nu/gabrielshanti.html and treeoflifecenterus.com/gabriel-cousens-m-d/.
• Buryl Payne, PhD: The Body Magnetic, Psychophysics, ISBN 0962856991; electronic muscle tester, www.buryl.com.
• Advanced Tachyon Technologies International, 480 Tesconi Circle, Santa Rosa, CA 95401.
• Elektrosmog Ostrava: Zkoumání EMP a zdraví (Exploring electromagnetic fields and health, in Czech), elektrosmog-ostrava.webnode.cz/news/zkoumani-emp-a-zdravi-/.
• ICNIRP: Guidelines for Limiting Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields (100 kHz to 300 GHz), Health Physics 118 (2020).