Wave Phychiatry

This Text Was Written In Mid May, 2002. Its Primary Premise Is Based Upon The Notion That Matter, Such As The Brain, Is A Wave. For Further Information Concerning This Idea, See The Sister Text: "The Brain As A Matter Wave System" At: http://www.johnkharms.com/wave-brain.htm .

Wave Psychiatry

The Background Radiation Model Of Mental Disorders

The Wave-Brain And Its Interactions With Environmental Electromagnetic Waves

By: John K. Harms

Email: harmsjk3@earthlink.net

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Abstract:

This text proposes a new model for mental disorders. This model is based upon the idea that the common disorders of bi-polar (manic depression), major depression as well as schizophrenia are all consequences of the interaction of our brains with environmental background radiation. In this proposal, the brain is pictured as a matter wave structure that can be positively or negatively reinforced by waves of radiation contained in the physical environment. This idea is an extension of the work of the Nobel winning physicist Louis de Broglie. It has long been known that the vacuum of space is bathed in such radiation, but this radiation was long assumed to be harmless to humans and human evolution and development. So, this model dramatically alters the present picture of reality where mental disorders are concerned. Within this text, there is also a somewhat wider discussion of the effects of drug interactions presently used to treat these illnesses as well as the effects of various other "street" drugs on the wave-brain system. A proposal for mental telepathy is also mentioned as to how such a phenomenon might be plausible. ADHD is also discussed. The probable consequences of this new model are given as well as a proper methodology to test the model. A new model for drug shelf-life has been added to the text in June, 2003.

Key Words: Bi-Polar Disorder (Manic Depression), ADHD, Major Depression, Schizophrenia, Background Radiation, Drug Interactions, Mental Telepathy, Drug Shelf-Life

Introduction

There have been a number of proposals as to precisely how mental disorders arise in human beings. Some of these proposals in the past have been everything from bad parenting, to genetically-based chemical imbalances, to invading viruses and/or bacterial infections of the brain etc.. None of these possibilities has been completely substantiated. So, the question as to the definitive cause of mental disorders still remains largely unanswered.

This text proposes a very different model for brain disorders. The idea proposed here is that the constant interaction of the brain with its surrounding electromagnetic radiation environment leads eventually (and often in maturity) to brain disorders. That our bodies are bathed in a radiation environment is an undeniable fact and is one that is well known to science. So, the idea is that our brains essentially are affected by this background forms the gist of this proposal. To the author, this notion, therefore, is based largely upon well established scientific principles, thus, this proposal does not appear (at least to the author) to be very much of an intellectual stretch.

Manic Depression Or Bi-Polar Disorder

The disorder known as "bi-polar" or (previously called) manic depressive illness is common to all human societies. Bi-polar disorder appears to be a cultural universal among all human societies occurring Worldwide on average in about 1% of the population. Perhaps, with lesser severity, it might even occur in up to 5% of the World's population or, perhaps, even higher. This figure may depend somewhat upon the scope of the definition of this illness.

Bi-polar is in essence a disorder of mood. The afflicted may suffer when their moods swing up to a higher state known as mania, which may then commonly be followed by a lower state, the depressive phase of the illness. While many people may experience high and low periods in their lives, in the bi-polar, such swings can often be vastly wider and of a more cyclical nature. In the bi-polar, such swings may often cause major disruptions in the person's life. Indeed, the lives of many people have been tragically ruined by this illness.

The proposal in this text is that bi-polar illness comes about as a result of the inherent instabilities within the wave-brain structure. In the bi-polar, this instability in the wavelike makeup may lie largely in the frontal lobe of the brain (just above the eyes), the region where much of creativity, a talent for music, mathematics and higher rational thought are presently believed to originate. Hence, this frontal region of the brain may make us most uniquely human. So, the manic depressive frontal lobe may be unstable varying from a resonance and mania followed in turn by cancellation and depression. This may be a recurring cycle.

The author proposes that in the bi-polar at a particular age of development (usually around 20 years of age) the gray matter in the frontal lobe may begin to align itself with the strong background electromagnetic wavelengths. This gray matter may naturally oscillate in its phase slowly first from in-phase, then to out-of-phase and back again. It can be understood from other texts that this shift may be rather like a shift from the matter to antimatter characteristics (of a substance) and then back again. The author pictures the distinction between matter and antimatter as due to changes in wave phase (or the position in the wave cycle). This oscillation can also be understood to be a change in electrical charge at any one point. This is also related to time and its arrow (direction) as well. See the "Antimatter" text at the link below for further details.

In any event, when such a shift of phase normally occurs within the brain and the intense background wavelengths do precisely match, the individual may begin to experience a drastic shift of mood. Hence, when radiation in the background matches the shifting wave-brain, there may be either a precisely positive reinforcement (or a resonance--a full-blown mania) or a precise cancellation (a depressive phase) depending purely upon the frequency match and the shift of wave phase. In this proposal, this would occur exclusively when frequency, wavelength and wave phase all match both in the radiation background and within the wave-brain.

In the non-afflicted, the wave-brain may not be a match with these strong background wavelengths, so these shifts of phase would not lead to either a reinforced resonance or a precise cancellation. In this case, the shift in mood may be of a far shorter duration and of a lesser amplitude. So, the non-afflicted have on average vastly smaller mood swings. Thus, bi-polar disorder is in essence a defect in the wave phase regulation system(s) within the frontal lobe of the brain.

During a manic phase, the bi-polar may experience a total sensory experience where the senses are vastly enhanced, that is, until a crash eventually ensues often driving the person into the depths of depression. Mania is a state of complete hypersensitivity with environmental inputs--a state of high energy and productivity.

But, this resonance and high energy simply cannot be maintained indefinitely, so the resonance state may spiral out of control until chaos and a dampening (perhaps the brains method of defending itself from over use) will bring an eventual halt to the manic phase. The brain's regulatory mechanism may then overcompensate itself, having allowed itself to exist in the manic phase far too long. Moreover, a lack of sleep in the afflicted person can lead to eventual exhaustion and further the crash into depression.

While it is quite normal for regions of the brain to be in resonance when thoughts do occur, in the bi-polar, these resonance's, particularly in the frontal lobe, may be overly reinforced by the external radiation background. Hence, further weight is added to the chaotic spiral out of control ending often in personal disaster.

ADHD

There is a closely related disorder to Bi-Polar known as ADHD or "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Often, individuals who have ADHD in childhood may experience the symptoms of manic depression as they grow older. In ADHD, the brain may be a whirlwind of thoughts and the attention can shift rapidly making focusing on school work or other activities difficult if not impossible. The author views this as the brain wave speed as being out of focus with the environment. Hence, ADHD is primarily a malfunction of brain wave speed, a mismatch with sensory inputs.

The waves that compose the brain are, therefore, moving at a slower wave speed (as you may know all waves must have a speed of propagation) than the incoming sensory waves from the radiation environment. To correct this, a "speed" drug known as Ritalin among others is often prescribed which has the effect of speeding up the brain to better match the wave brain with environmental waves. The person can then function in a relatively "normal" fashion compared with that of other individuals.

So, the selective conscious mind (the consciousness) has a wave propagation (or processing) speed and this wave speed may vary from individual to individual. This operational wave speed may be affected by the intake of certain drugs into the body. As seen in the author's other work, this propagation speed should also have an effect upon the passage of time that a person experiences. See the "Time" text at the link below for further details.

Major Depression

Major depression is a characteristic low swing without a recurring manic high phase. This disorder for unknown reasons tends to be more common among females than in males. The symptoms of depression are (among many other symptoms) an empty mood, lack or too much sleep, a significant loss of energy and often a loss of interest in many normal activities etc. This differs from the "blues" (which is common to many people) in the fact that a major depression may be much more severe in nature lasting many months and even years in some individuals.

The author believes that the frontal lobe of the brain as well as many other regions may all be involved in major (or clinical) depression. It may be the case that the neuron wave structures in the various regions of the brain may be dampened through wave cancellation by the radiation background. This takes place when these wave-brain structures are precisely out-of-phase with the background wave energy. A depression comes on when a dampening of the neuronal waves takes place, and subsides when there is a phase or frequency shift.

It is only when these brain structures grow to a state of development of being precisely out-of-phase where frequency and wavelength are matched with the background radiant energy, that this wave dampening may occur. So, depression (as mentioned above as well) may be a state of the generalized dampening of the neuronal wave structures within the brain. Again, in clinical depression, this may be a long-term suppression of the neuronal waves and not simply a short-term mood swing.

Schizophrenia

Whilst bi-polar is largely a "mood" disorder, schizophrenia is considered (generally speaking) more of a "thought" disorder. The afflicted may often experience delusions, hallucinations and, sometimes commonly hear voices. While a bi-polar's manic phase can often spiral (when left to its own devices) into similar type symptoms as in a schizophrenic individual, schizophrenia is not usually as cyclical in nature and often may not be accompanied by a severe depressive phase.

In this proposal, where background radiation is pictured as being the cause of mental disorders, it is the interaction between neuron "wave" cells and electromagnetic waves in the environment that may give rise to such symptoms. In a schizophrenic individual who may hear voices and/or experiences sensory hallucinations of some kind, this may be due again to an interaction of electromagnetic radiation with the neuronal wave-brain.

For example, the hearing of voices by a schizophrenic individual may be caused by environmental radio waves or other electromagnetic frequencies positively reinforcing the nerve cells in the regions of the brain associated with hearing. So, the regions of the brain involved in hearing may traverse into an "artificial" resonance state due to a reinforcement by background radiation which then may alert the selective conscious mind. The person may then be aware of hearing voices that aren't environmentally present. So, the sensory experience may be actual, but the stimuli that is being imitated is in essence artificial.

It has been the author's working hypothesis that what we understand to be consciousness is simply the brain's overall system involved in the monitoring of neuron wave amplitudes within the brain i.e., neurons that have a high wave amplitude may alert the individual's selective conscious mind. Hence, an individual only becomes aware of high wave amplitude systems when these neuronal structures go into a resonance state (each with a high associated amplitude). See the "Brain As A Matter Wave System" for more concerning this hypothesis at the link below.

To digress for a moment, in the dream state, one commonly hears or has visions of sensations that do not exist in the room where one is sleeping. Schizophrenic individuals simply do this while in the waking state--they experience dreamlike states in the daytime! Thusly, the dream state may overlap as selected resonance's that occur when awake. So, in the schizophrenic, particular neurons can be focused to be in resonance even when there is an absence of external stimuli i.e., even when awake. Yes, in the schizophrenic individual, sensory inputs during the daytime appear to be overpowered by higher amplitude waves generated internally from other (unwanted) parts of the brain itself!

Therefore, when a schizophrenic hears voices in his or her head that do not come from an external source (and that individual may not be able to distinguish the difference), these voices may be in large part due to background radiation that by pure chance positively reinforced the neurons in the hearing regions of the brain. The same may be true for visual hallucinations as well. But, in this case, it is the background radiation that may be increasing the wave amplitudes in the visual cortex of the brain (V-1) or other vision associated regions. So, the increase in amplitude generated internally may then be picked up by the selective conscious mind and the symptoms may recur.

Drugs And Waves

It should be noted that "brain medications" are the least well understood artificial substances that have been introduced as treatments into the body. This is largely because the brain is the least understood organ in the body. So, what the author is proposing here are his own ideas as to how these medications may affect the brain. In this case, picturing the brain as a waveform system and brain medications as being the means of shifting the neuronal wave patterns in the brain may be the physical process of how these drugs do their job. This remains the author's viewpoint. This explanation is a proposal and is this viewpoint a substantial departure from present reasoning on the subject. This "radiation model" will nonetheless be put forth here.

As in the section above, medications such as the neuroleptic drug Haldol may work (in the case of hearing voices above) by changing the frequency or (perhaps more likely) the phase of the neuronal waves in the hearing regions of the brain. So, environmental radiation may now be out-of-phase (or be of a different frequency) with the hearing regions, so the voices and resonance's might be halted. Other anti-psychotic medications may work in a similar fashion.

For example, the other anti-psychotic medications such as the older Thorazine-based substances utilize chemical means to perhaps cause a more generalized dampening of neuronal waveforms. The side effects were extremely severe in these drugs, however. Side effects may be due to unwanted harmonic "overtones" that create resonance's throughout the brain in regions that are of no benefit whatever to the recipient. Superior drugs may only target the intended resonance's of the brain, without these unwanted overtones that may reverberate in unintended areas of the brain.

The more recent (as of 2002) medications such as Zyprexa or similarly formulated substances also (but through somewhat different means) can create a more generalized dampening in the "up" waves in the frontal lobe of the brain. In this sense, they work oppositely to that of the medications for depression.

The Zyprexa-family of drugs can be more focused on the problem (with fewer harmonic overtones) than the past medications for psychosis. As in the earlier anti-psychotic medications, both substances are considered tranquilizers, as they tend to dampen-out any upward swings in mood. Both the newer and older medications accomplish this by shifting the wave phase of the neurons in the frontal lobe so as to be 180 degrees out of phase with incident radiation, but leaving unaffected any downward swings that might occur.

In the case of depression as well, older medications have been replaced by the newer and better drugs with generally fewer side effects. These newer drugs, which include Prozac and Zoloft among many other brands, fundamentally work by the inhibition of cell receptor sites. This has the effect of a chemical dampening of downward movements of the neuron wave resonance's within the frontal lobe (and perhaps throughout the brain).

Not surprisingly, the use of antidepressant medications on a bi-polar can sometimes induce manic episodes. So, the wave shift in these neurons is such that upward movements are indeed encouraged, whilst downward movements of the waves are not. Again, this is generally opposite to that of anti-psychotic medications.

Anti-anxiety medications which are often related to depression drugs may work by reducing the height of the amplitude of "up" waves--a dampening effect. Some antidepressant medications do have an effect upon anxiety levels as well. But, there is also some commonality with anti-psychotic medications as well, a tranquilizing effect.

A more generalized dampening of both up and downward movements of mood is provided by mood stabilizers. Such medications include Lithium, Tegretol and Depacote as well as several others now on the market. These drugs may work by dampening both upward and downward swings in mood at the same time. If one were to use the analogy of light waves, one would say that mood stabilizers dim the overall light emitted. Perhaps, this takes place by a generalized shift in the phase of the neuron waves (so as to be 180 degrees out of phase) with any intensive incident radiation band. By using a mood stabilizer, an out-of-control resonance state (a mania followed by a depression) may, therefore, be avoided.

It is worthy of note that Tegretol and Depacote are both anticonvulsants, the same medications used for the treatment of epilepsy. The connection may be that epilepsy may arise from an out of control resonance state, an electrical storm of sorts in the brain. Tegretol and Depacote work by dampening out these resonance's, which may be the same benefit that they provide to the bi-polar. So, manic "highs" and epileptic seizures may be of a similar origin in that they both arise from an out of control resonance state that can be controlled by the dampening of upward as well as downward waveforms in the brain.

Left untreated, bi-polar and other mental disorders can be increasingly debilitating. That is, the progression of these diseases only becomes worse when there is no on-going treatment. This may be because the resonance states that exist in the wave brain during (for example) a manic episode may do physical and irreversible damage to the brain if they are not treated in time. Hence, extreme resonance states may do some physical damage to the material neuronal tissue of the brain if allowed to wildly resonate for extended periods.

Hallucinogenic "street" drugs (such as LSD, for one example) might work then (as one might have expected) by bringing the brain regions into phase and frequency with the available environmental radiation. So, the amplitudes are increased in the visual and hearing regions (and perhaps other associated regions as well). They are brought into a resonance state. Often, these street hallucinogens can bring about drug induced mental illnesses--the result of artificially inducing resonance's to the neurons and doing physical damage to the wave-brain system. Indeed, the treatment for drug induced mental illnesses is often with anti-psychotic medications which may then dampen out the resonance states.

As mentioned previously, the wave speed of the brain may be affected by "speed" drugs such as Ratalin. Other "street" speed drugs such as Cocaine or Crystal Meth (sometimes called "Crank") may have an affect upon overall brain wave speed (or of a particular sensory region) as well.

Hence, by picturing the brain as a wave system and as being interactive with the available background wave energy, one can draw completely a new hypothesis concerning these well-known brain disorders. The introduction of drugs into the body can restructure the phase, frequency and speed of these matter waves.

(The Following Comments Added; 15 June, 2003): "It is notable that most all of these medications have a limited shelf-life. That is, these kinds of brain medications must be ingested by a given date or they have significantly less effectiveness. This text suggests that these drugs work by a successful interaction (either cancellation or positive reinforcement resonance) with background wave radiation.

The author believes that the phenomena of shelf-life comes about as a direct result of entropy. It is proposed here that these drug are composed of substances that can focus material waves to counteract or positively reinforce (resonate with) background radiation. As in all waves, as time passes these waveforms will tend to spread out and, therefore, grow out of focus with the radiation they are intended to interact with. Hence, entropy may be primarily responsible for shelf-life, because all waves will spread out over time and will grow out of focus with the target background.

The author believes that this explanation of shelf-life adds weight to the hypothesis that these drugs work by a precise interaction other waves of some kind (whatever form these waves may take). So, a limited drug shelf-like is explained well by the wave picture."

Personality Disorders, Radiation And Culture

Particular personality disorders that are not technically classified as mental illnesses (such as antisocial behavior for one example), might actually be created by the relationship of the wave-brain with the environmental background radiation. Indeed, much of unusual and unpredictable human behavior may not be related only to the effects of culture, but also due to the relationship of the wave-brain with the environmental radiation background.

The reason that people may be so difficult to understand and predict from place to place might be that the radiation background is so varied in its flow. The background may fluctuate so widely, creating resonance's within the brain that may vary somewhat from place to place on the Earth.

For example, are differences in the cultures around the World somewhat due to the differences in the radiation environment from place to place? The author does not wish to answer this question for now, as it would be vastly beyond the scope of this text, but only to suggest it as a possibility for further research by an enquiring researcher.

This hypothesis in this text being valid and considering the increase in the usage of radio, TV, cell phones, pagers and many other such electronic devices that rely upon electromagnetic signals, the author wonders what effects do the drastic increase of all this energy being dumped into the electromagnetic field have upon the mental states of the human beings on the Earth? This is simply something to ponder for now as it is difficult to answer with any kind of precision.

With regard to culture, the shape of the brain (with its wave structure) may be fundamentally genetically determined. Thus, what we call culture may be to a degree genetically determined, the relationship of the wave-brain with the background radiation environment. Both the waveform structure of the brain and the radiation background are the "nature" aspects of human thought development. The other factor may be the sensory inputs--the nurture aspects of thought development.

With regard to nurture, what we call "culture" may arise as a result of the resonance's within the brain that may be gathered by the localized sensory inputs. This could have an effect upon the wave-brain as it develops as well, determining the shape of further brain development. Hence, the senses gather information in the form of resonance's and this might in-turn partially determines how the brain grows and develops.

So, there may be three essential factors at work here:

1) Genetics--the development of the wave-brain as determined by genetic growth factors and nutrition.--Nature.

2) Environmental Radiation--the localized radiation background which positively resonates or negatively reinforces the wave-brain system directly through the head. This may vary somewhat locally.--Nurture via the local radiation environment.

3) Culture--the "localized" sensory inputs that resonate the wave-brain system as it develops. Culture may be a powerful aspect of this. Thus, resonance's create harmonic pathways in the brain which affects future expansion and development of the brain. See also; "The Brain As A Matter Wave System" at the link below.--Nurture via cultural resonance's.

As mentioned above, # 2 and # 3 may be entwined. Indeed, its difficult to say what relationship # 1, # 2 and # 3 all may have with each other. Indeed, to the author, these borders are blurred in shades of gray. Thus, all three factors have effects upon the wave-brain system as it evolves and develops. The brains of human beings as well as other animals may in essence be the end products of these three primary factors.

Mental Telepathy

Since (in this proposal) brains are affected by the radiation environment, it would not be surprising that communication from brain to brain via electromagnetic energy over distance might be possible. When electrons are excited and change energy states (vibrate or accelerate), they may emit radiation. This energy, which is fundamentally a disturbance of the electromagnetic field, travels at the speed of light.

Brain resonance's would essentially be these vibrations (accelerations) of the electrons by each brain. Communication between two brains, which may operate at very similar frequencies of vibration, might possibly cause a harmonic resonance with each other. That is, like a tuning fork, one fork in vibration may cause another to resonate at a distance.

So, one brain may cause another to resonate at a distance (although this time via electromagnetic field energy and not compressions of the air) if the frequency of both of the wave-brains are in tune with each other. Thus, a human skull may act similar to the inside components of a wooden piano. A piano has a sounding board, which (like the skull) may enhance any and all the resonance's that take place within. The skull, thus, aids in the transmission of resonance signals from one brain to another.

The so-called intuitive notion of "chemistry" between people might be due in part to this phenomenon. Breathing rhythms (that two people close together may sometimes breath in unison) between two people in close proximity might be due to two brains being in "electromagnetic" unison with each other.

Admittedly, this section is a bit more speculative than in previous sections, but the author believes that these ideas are all consistent with each other and, thus, follow from the previous sections.

It is worthy of note that the author's previous work on "Gravitation" as well as "Color" both involve environmental waves of radiation and their interactions with matter. See these text links below for further information.

In the "Brain As A Matter Wave System" text, resonance's (at the neuronal level) in the brain can be understood to be due to long-term potentiation, whilst dampening may be largely an effect called long-term depression. Thus, both the dampening and resonance's that have been discussed within this text may likely be taking place at the quantum level of individual photons and the minutely small neuron cells within the brain. See the text link below for further details.

Conclusion

1) One strategy of testing this idea might be to construct a Faraday cage around a number of mentally afflicted individuals and see if there is some significant improvement or change in behavior. This cage (first discovered by Michael Faraday) is essentially a metal cage made of wire that can block incoming electromagnetic wavelengths. It may be the case that the radiation wavelengths in this proposal responsible for these illnesses are not affected by a conventional Faraday cage, but may require a specially designed apparatus to block these specific frequencies of environmental radiation.

The author suspects that this radiation cannot easily be blocked due either to its high or low frequency range. Since office buildings apparently have little effect upon the mental states of the occupants within (or perhaps they do!), the radiation responsible for these disorders may not easily be blocked. Perhaps, also, the quantum vacuum radiation (which is also thought to be significant) is the radiation responsible for these disorders.

Such radiation may be the so-called virtual photons that arise from the vacuum itself. Indeed, this should be difficult to block, perhaps only blocked by very closely spaced metal plates, the so-called Casimir effect. To the author, this does not appear to be a very practical experiment as the plates may be too closely spaced for a human head to be placed within.

2) Mental telepathy may also be blocked by a Faraday cage as well. Perhaps, the failure to replicate telepathy experiments may be due in part to the blockage of electromagnetic energy by physical obstacles such as the metal structures of buildings. However, this remains only the author's speculation at this point.

3) Human behavior may vary so much based upon both the wide fluctuations in the background as well as the wide variation in the genetic makeup of the wave-brain from individual to individual. Culture (or nurture) may be mostly all from local environmental sensory inputs both through the senses as well as through the head via radiation resonance's of brain regions, where as natural forces may be the progression of the genetic development of the brain.

Relevant Links

The Brain As A Matter Wave System: http://www.johnkharms.com/wave-brain.htm

Antimatter: http://www.johnkharms.com/antimatter.htm

Color: http://www.johnkharms.com/color.htm

Gravitation: http://www.johnkharms.com/gravitation.htm

Time: http://www.johnkharms.com/time.htm

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