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Gaston Naessens and Somatid biology

The landscape of medical science is on the verge of being radically altered forever by the use of a powerful microscope (the Somatoscope) developed by Gaston Naessens of Quebec, Canada. This incredible device reaches magnification levels of 20,000 to 30,000 diameters - well above the 2,500 diameter limit of conventional microscopes. The sheer magnitude of the difference in performance gives the appearance of either a gross violation of the laws of physics, or fraud. Its radical departure in performance from optical and scanning electron microscopes registers this as a truly great discovery. Unfortunately, in most fields of science, a great deal of effort is put forth into listing why something will not work instead of attempting to duplicate the results. This in turn creates a situation where what was science turns into religion where the orthodox dogma is to be taken on faith, and that which defies dogma is to be persecute as heresy. Establishment of a dogma slows down the rate at which new discoveries can be made. In the medical fields, slow acceptance of new ideas can cause many needless deaths. This is the case with the super-microscope and the discoveries of Bechamp, Rife, and Naessens.

HISTORICAL NOTES

In the 1930s, an obscure and dedicated scientist, Royal Raymond Rife, had successfully developed the Universal Microscope which was able to provide amplification levels of 60,000 times without killing the specimens! Rife was able to observe live viruses and their reaction to certain stimuli. His observation that bacteria could change into viruses and viruses could change form violated the strongest medical dogma - the germ theory of disease. By 1934, after learning how to seek out and destroy the insidious cancer virus, Rife opened a clinic in which he cured 16 out of 16 patients within 3 months! Working side by side with some of the most respected researchers in America, Rife treated patients electronically to kill the virus and then allowed the body's immune system to restore the body to full health. Many prestigious (and competent) organisations and institutions oversaw and verified much of Rife's work during the 1930s. Independent physicians using Rife's therapy were treating and curing as many as 40 patients per day. Other degenerative conditions and illnesses such as cataracts, herpes and tuberculosis were found to be reversible and curable with Rife's equipment. This work was described in various medical journals of the time as well as the Smithsonian Institution's annual report and Science Magazine. Unfortunately, Rife's success attracted the attention and wrath of the American Medical Association (AMA) and the powerful pharmaceutical companies - the organised opposition of the medical fields. Although Rife's work was in direct conflict with the orthodox views of his time, he was supported by many top-rated doctors. Many of these doctors continued using these devices in secret in defiance of the AMA and the US government. The carefully documented records kept by these brave doctors and testimonials by their patients vindicate Rife's theories. Many of these case histories and anecdotes about Rife's treatment can be found in the book "The Cancer Cure That Worked" by

Barry Lynes.

The fascinating work of Rife was suppressed and he - like Tesla before him - joined the ranks of the forgotten inventors of the early part of this century. It has only been in the past few years that the general public has begun to develop an awareness that there is something wrong in the technical world.

THE MODERN UNIVERSAL MICROSCOPE

What Rife accomplished optically in the 1930s with his Universal Microscope, Gaston Naessens accomplished with a combination of optics and electronics in the 1940s in his Somatoscope. Born on 16 March 1924 in Roubaix, France, Gaston displayed a predisposition to be an inventor when at the age of five he built a little moving auto-like toy from a Meccano set and powered it with an alarm clock spring. Later, he built a home-made motorcycle and a mini-airplane! While attending the University of Lille, Gaston nearly had his education disrupted by the German invasion. Fortunately, Gaston and his fellow students escaped to Nice where they carried on their education in exile. He was awarded a diploma from the Union Nationale Scientifique Francaise - a quasi-official institution under whose auspices the education of the displaced students continued. He did not bother seeking an equivalency degree from the de Gaulle government when French rule was restored. At the young age of twenty-one, frustrated by the limitations of conventional microscopes, Gaston set out to build a superior microscope. Technical assistance was provided by German craftsmen from Wetzlar, Germany, who checked out many of Gaston's ideas on optics. Privately, Gaston devised the electrical manipulation of the light source. Once the technical aspects were resolved, Gaston had the body of his microscope constructed by Barbier-Bernard et Turenne, technical specialists and defence contractors near Paris.

THEORY OF OPERATION

The Somatoscope mixes light from two orthogonal light sources - a mercury lamp and a halogen lamp. The light from both sources enters a glass tube at 90 degrees from each other. As the light waves beat against each other, a strong carrier wave of light emerges and travels down the light tube. (It should be noted that two electromagnetic fields superimposed on each other at 90 degrees is a classic scalar formation!) As the light travels down the tube, it passes through a monochromatic filter which forms it into a monochromatic ray. The ray is then passed through a large coil that surrounds the tube. The coil's magnetic field divides the ray into numerous parallel rays that are then passed through a Kerr cell which increases the frequency of the ray before being injected onto the specimen. The light, which contains the carrier and a mixture of selected signals in the UV range, stimulates the biological material in the Somatoscope to the point that the specimens give off their own light. (Rife referred to this as luminescence.) This is the key to the ultra-high resolution that has been achieved by Gaston Naessens. Conventional microscopes pass light through the specimen which theoretically limits the resolution of optical microscopes to the wavelength of light. The finest optical microscopes have achieved magnification levels of 2,500 diameters. At levels above this, the resolution is limited by the wavelength of light and further magnification merely creates a blur! Higher resolutions have been achieved by microscopes that do not use lenses, but instead use apertures which are smaller than the wavelength of light. One such microscope engineered at Cornell University has achieved a resolution of 400 angstroms - a far cry from the 150 angstroms achieved by

Naessen's Somatoscope.

The Somatoscope does not attempt to illuminate the specimen by passing light through two small objects. Instead, the illumination source is actually stimulating the specimen to the point where it generates its own light. The light itself expands as it moves outward and because the specimen itself is generating the light, the physical restrictions encountered by regular optical microscopes no longer apply. By converting the specimen into a light source, Gaston Naessens has converted the magnification problem from one of resolution to that of light detection! At magnification levels above 5,000 diameters, light levels drop off to the point that film is necessary, but the resolution is there. To further research along the lines he has pioneered, Gaston has developed junior models of his Somatoscope for field use. These field units allow researchers to obtain illumination and stimulation of the specimens of the larger unit. The field units are capable of magnifying 6,000 - 7,000 diameters, although routine work will usually be at 3,500 - 4,000 diameters. The lower light levels of the higher magnification requires that a lower level of magnification be accepted for field use in order to maintain portability in the smaller units. One such unit will be in use in Colorado Springs at

Clifford and Associates.

The Somatoscope has enabled researchers to discover the importance of colour and its relationship to the material being observed. The wavelengths of light generated are related to the size of the object and the health of the cell. For instance, the red blood cells vary from yellow/green to orange (540 nm to 580 nm) and white blood cells are rich in blue/violet (490 nm to 510 nm). Exposure to toxic materials, even in minute amounts, causes significant shifts in colour. Even 'safe' amounts of toxic materials like mercury and the aluminium in toothpaste cause significant degradation to red blood cells as I was able to witness from specimens on a videotape produced from the Somatoscope.

THE SOMATID CYCLE

In a long lost chapter in the history of science, a violent controversy took place in France between the illustrious Louis Pasteur and Antoine Bechamp, a noted professor of physics, toxicology, medical chemistry, and biochemistry. Bechamp's work led him to discover "microzymas" (tiny ferments), which were characterised by a host of small bodies in his fermenting solutions. After years of study, Bechamp came to the conclusion that these microzymas were more basic to life than cells. Even with his crude equipment, he was able to observe that the microzymas underwent dramatic transformations during their life cycle. This caused Bechamp to champion the idea that the cause for disease lay within the body. Pasteur's germ theory held that the cause came from without. Pasteur's outspokenness helped the germ theory win out and it has dominated medical thinking for the past century. Now, a hundred years later, Gaston Naessens has discovered an ultra-microscopic, subcellular, living and reproducing microscopic form which he christened a "somatid" (tiny body). This new particle could be cultured outside the bodies of the host. Naessens also observed that the particle had a pleomorphic (form-changing) life cycle, which has sixteen stages. Only the first three stages of the somatid's life cycle are normal. Naessens discovered that when the immune system is weakened or disrupted, the somatids go through the other thirteen stages. The weakening of the immune system could be brought about by a number of causes, such as exposure to chemical pollution, ionising radiation, electric fields, poor nutrition, accidents, shock, depression, and many more. Incredibly, Naessens' research has resulted in the association of degenerative diseases (rheumatoid arthritis. multiple sclerosis, lupus, cancer and Aids) with the development of various forms in the sixteen-stage pathological cycle. The ability to associate the disease with specific stages has enabled Naessens to 'prediagnose' conditions in advance of when they would clinically appear. This discovery puts Gaston Naessens at odds with the orthodox medical philosophy of today which has embraced Pasteur's germ theory wholeheartedly. Naessen's work is repeatable. The ability to culture somatids is a bell-wether to the rewriting of micro-biology!

Naessens has stated:

"I've been able to establish a life cycle of forms in the blood that add up to no less than a brand new understanding of the basis of life. What we're talking about is an entirely new biology, one out of which has fortunately sprung practical applications of benefit to sick people, even before all of its many theoretical aspects have been sorted out."

714X

The research of Gaston Naessens has culminated in the discovery of 714X - an enzyme which helps the immune system do its job. 714X is a derivative of camphor and is injected interlymphatically - a process that the medical fraternity holds to be impossible. Yet the fact remains that many people have learned how to administer the medication through the lymph nodes. When properly administered, 714X stabilises and strengthens the immune system in most cases. This allows the immune system to go about its normal business in ridding the body of disease. In other words, cancer is treated like an infection, not a state of cells. Like Bechamp and Rife before him, Gaston states unequivocally that "germs are not the cause, but the result, of disease." 714X will not help everyone - especially where there has already been extensive use of chemotherapy and radiation. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy wipe out the immune system and other bodily resources.)

THE SECOND CHANCE

The cancer death toll between 1970 and 1986 (in the U.S.?) was approximately 6 million. Sadly, the conventional treatments of chemotherapy and radiation are nothing more than slow death sentences that enrich the cancer industry. Possible miracle cures are quickly quashed by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and the various medical societies around the world. It is a sad commentary that in a country that prides itself on freedom, terminally ill patients cannot make an informed decision to participate in experimental treatments that may save their lives. 714X is available in the United States. "Writers and Research" is one organisation working closely with the FDA and the IRN (Institution Review Board) to do work with 714X legally and ethically. 714X is an injected medication and must be prescribed by a doctor. For a list of doctors prescribing 714X or an information packet, contact:

WRITERS AND RESEARCH 4810 St Paul Boulevard Rochester NY 14617 USA   Phone: 1 800 448 4332 [ Tech ][ Sumeria ]

By Stephanie Hiller

Summary: A new way to battle cancer and other degenerative diseases
Keywords: Cancer,alternative,treatment,non-toxic

Thirty-nine year old Jacques Viens had gone home to die. Seven-eighths of his stomach had been removed, and the cancer had already spread to the lymph. Since there seemed to be no hope of recovery, his doctor offered him a new, experimental treatment called 714X. He tried it. Four months later he was healthy enough to go hunting, and not long after that he resumed his job.

Fifty-one-year-old Marcel Caron suffered from intestinal cancer, but he refused to have his intestine removed. His wife's breast cancer had been successfully treated with the same experimental medicine Viens had used; Caron wanted to try it too. Sixty-five days after he started reatment, no cancer was to be found in Caron's body. Eight years later, he was still healthy.

These are just two among hundreds of case histories of patients who recovered using a little-known approach to cancer and other degenerative diseases that proponents claim could revolutionize medical practice. The first person to use it--more than 20 years ago--is still alive. What would happen if an effective treatment for cancer were finally found--a nontoxic, natural, and inexpensive treatment that could be self-administered at home with a success rate of 75 percent?

It sounds like a dream come true, a miracle. We would all breathe a little easier, that's for certain. Many lives would be saved. And a multibillion-dollar enterprise--the pharmaceutical-medical-insurance complex, the most profitable industry in America today--would be forever transformed. Dozens of giant pharmaceutical and medical supply companies would be forced out of business. The "cancer industry" would be no more.

Little wonder, then that we have heard so little about a 69-year-old French microbiologist who says he's discovered such a treatment. His name is Gaston Naessens, and he calls his immune-system therapy 714X.

When Naessens' unorthodox treatment methods began yielding dramatic successes in his native France, French medical authorities closed his lab, confiscated his equipment, and heavily fined him for practicing medicine without a license.

Naessens went to Canada, where, with the help of the prestigious MacDonald Foundation (which for years has funded cancer research), he set up a small laboratory outside Montreal.

There he and his wife, Francoise, continued their careful research until 1989, when Naessens was again brought to trial by the medical authorities, accused of contributing to the death of a woman who did not recover after using his treatment.

After a long trial, in which numerous testimonies were offered by patients and physicians using his approach, he was finally acquitted. (The full story of the trial is told in Christopher Bird's book The Persecution and Trial of Gaston Naessens.) Now, a handful of doctors are struggling to make Naessens' controversial treatments readily available in the United States.

Born in northern France in 1924, the young Naessens was a precocious inventor who built a small, functioning automobile-type vehicle when he was only five, followed by a homemade motorcycle. By the age of 12 he had constructed a plane that could fly. (His mother burned it to prevent him from flying it, however.)

When his university studies of physics, chemistry, and biology were interrupted by World War II, Naessens earned an unofficial diploma from the Union Scientifique Francaise in Lilles, where most of his university professors had fled to escape the Nazi invasion. (He never bothered to pursue its formal equivalent after De Gaulle restructured France, a decision that would later lead to accusations that he lacked a college degree.) With his mother's support, Naessens continued his studies on his own. While pursuing the study of hematology, he observed "something moving in the blood," but the particle was too small to be identified by the optical methods he had at his disposal. Fascinated, Naessens enlisted the help of optical specialists in Germany in developing a stronger microscope.

Called the somatoscope, the microscope itself was a significant scientific achievement. Using a unique combination of incandescent and ultraviolet rays, it allowed him to look at living blood (without first fixing and staining it, which is the usual method) at a magnification of 30,000 times with a resolution of 150 angstroms--a capacity that has not been exceeded to date.

Using this unique method of microscopy, Naessens was able to study what he had glimpsed previously but could not identify: motile microorganisms in the blood plasma. Naessens observed a number of different forms of these microorganisms but came to the conclusion that they were all stages of the development of one subcellular entity he named the "somatid."

Naessens found these somatids everywhere--in the sap of plants, in the blood of animals, even in apparently lifeless organic matter like ashes. Culturing them and observing the somatid cycle, he discovered that somatids are resistant to acids and bases as well as heat and that they cannot be cut with a diamond.

For example, they withstood 2 megarads of radiation capable of killing any living thing, as well as carbonization temperatures of more than 200! C. He concluded that they are indestructible. Recently, a faculty member of the University of California at Davis, showed me the somatids in my own blood on a TB screen, using Naessens' "condenser," an attachment he developed that converts a regular microscope into one resembling his invention.

Lots of bright little bodies were busily circulating around the red blood cells, platelet, and lymphocytes in my blood, their motion not unlike that of swarming bees. Cell division cannot take place without these busy, glowing bodies, Naessens postulates, because in the course of its cycle the somatid releases the growth hormone trephone, which enables cells to divide and multiply.

Naessens goes even further--he believes the electrically charged, luminous somatid is the original spark of life, the pinpoint where energy condenses into matter. According to Naessens, the somatid represents the manifestation of cosmic energy in a tiny, moving dot of physicality. The pleomorphic cycle of this tiny entity is what explains how degenerative diseases occur, Naessens says.

Such diseases, which include not only cancer and AIDS but rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, and any viral or degenerative disease such as chronic fatigue, are the least understood of all the illnesses of modern times. While doctors' prescriptions may ease the pain, modern medicine has been unable to truly cure any of them.

In these diseases, the immune system apparently malfunctions. It either weakens and becomes unable to resist opportunistic disease, as in cancer or AIDS, or it doubles its vigilance, attacking the body itself and producing diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. Holistic medicine urges that we approach these diseases, which are frequently attributed to environmental toxicity, by rejuvenating the body's defenses. Holistic treatments, like the traditional methods from which they evolved, consist of appropriate diet, exercise, and support plant medicines to replenish our depleted reserves and restore strength.

Naessens' theories align with the tenets of holistic practice. But unlike most holistic healers, Naessens is able to provide scientific documentation and evidence of what traditional and Naturopathic approaches have suggested all along--that disease represents imbalance in the ecology of the whole organism.

In healthy individuals, says Naessens, the somatid moves through a three stage cycle that produces the right amount of the growth hormone trephone to keep cells reproducing at the appropriate rate. (This growth hormone was first identified by Nobel laureate Alexis Carrel, who did not, however, link it to a subcellular entity in the blood.) When the body is stressed or weak, however, the somatid shifts into a longer macrocycle that features 13 additional stages, including forms that resemble bacteria, viruses, and yeast cells.

Other scientists have seen some of these forms in the blood of cancer patients and have posited a bacterial and, later, a viral cause of cancer. However, according to these theories (which have not been confirmed by scientific evidence), the disease carrier has always been thought to enter the body from somewhere outside, as germs do.

In Naessens' view, these microbial forms are simple phases of the somatid in its extended cycle. In this amplified cycle, the somatid produces excessive quantities of growth hormone, creating the abnormally rapid cell growth we call cancer. Naessens is not the first scientist to describe polymorphic entities in the blood.

In the early 1800s, Antoine Bechamp, like Guenther Enderlein and many other pioneers, using far more primitive microscopes than Naessens', perceived microzymas, or "little bodies," which were thought to be fundamental elements of cells and whole living organisms. When the organism is disturbed by a serious event, Bechamp theorized, the symbiotic relationship between the microzymas and the body becomes imbalanced, leading to disease. In this view, illness originates within the body.

The scientific establishment rejected Bechamp's work in favor of that of Pasteur, who was convinced that disease is caused by bacteria entering the body from without. Pasteur's work, which had wide application to a host of infectious diseases, led to the important discovery of immunization.

Bechamp's theory was rejected, and germ theory became a sacred tenet in medicine, despite the fact that a number of diseases do not appear to conform to that pattern.

On his deathbed, Pasteur was said to disavow his own theories and exclaim, "He is right. The terrain is all. The microbe is nothing!" (He was referring to French physiologist Claude Bernard, who had disputed Pasteur on the basis that the microbe meant much less than the condition of the whole.)

In Naessens' theory, the microcycle of the somatid is held at three stages by blood inhibitors, which consist of certain digestive enzymes, hormones, and minerals. Poor diet and stress apparently reduce the number of blood inhibitors, allowing the somatid to commence its extended 13-phase macrocycle. The presence of these extra somatid forms signifies the beginning of degenerative disease before it has manifested itself in the body.

Lingering Questions

How is it that biologists and physicians, other than Kendall and Rosenow, did not rush to investigate it? Why haven't physicists looked into the effects Rife achieved with electromagnetic waves of specific frequencies upon disease, including cancer?

Similar effects were observed by Dr. Georges Lakhovsky in Paris, who developed a wave emitter called a multiwave oscillator with which he cured cancer as well as other diseases in plants and humans. The multiwave oscillator is today banned by the FDA as quackery. They have also been noted in Bordeaux by another inventor, self–taught as was Rife, Antoine Priore, whose apparatus combines the use of electromagnetic radiation with a plasma of helium or noble gases reminiscent of Rife's method used in detecting and devitalizing BX.

Are the strange blue, motile forms that Dr, Wilhelm Reich discovered in the late 1930s and for which he coined the word bions related to the foregoing? Reich observed the bions to spontaneously proliferate from specially treated organic matter and even from coal and sand! Spontaneous generation of life was supposed to have been laid to rest in Reich's time, as it is in ours, and he was accused by fellow scientists of confusing Brownian movement of subcellular particles or debris in his cultures with the new subcellular forms he claimed to have discovered.

In cancerous patients, Reich observed the bions to degenerate into what he called T–bacilli (the T coming from the German word Tod, meaning death). When injected into mice, they caused cancer just like Rife's BX forms.

In Copenhagen, a biophysicist named Scott Hill reports that a new book written in Russian by two researchers at the Kazakh State University in the U.S.S.R. deals with a whole new branch of medical science in which "healing" of various disorders is being accomplished by the use of ultraweak, monochromatic laser light. Shades of Rife!

The Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research in Milwaukee, Wisconsin maintains that Rife, his microscope, and his life work were tabooed by leaders in the U.S. medical profession and that any medical doctor who made use of his practical discoveries was stripped of his privileges as a member of the local medical society.

Rife himself died three or four years ago. Considerable digging has not established what happened to his estate. The remarkable instrument he conceived and developed and its photographic evidence may still be in existence. They are worth looking for.

The assistance of NAJ readers is solicited.*
[ *After the above article was published, further investigation located Rife's "Universal Microscope" in a sorry state of disrepair in the San Diego home of John Crane. Efforts to rebuild it have so far been unsuccessful. A fascinating book on Rife's saga, The Cancer Cure That Worked, by Barry Lynes, was published in 1987 by Marcus Books, Toronto, Canada. ]

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