(12-26-98) WATER POWER: A rarely used Spectro-Chrome accessory was the Irradiator. It was a small box holding five vials (each about an ounce) of water, one for each of the five slide Colors; for secondary and tertiaries, two appropriate bottles were poured together. The box was hung inside the projector so the water became "charged" while a tonation was being taken, the water was drunk at the conclusion. I have not had a bad cold or the flu in many years. Recently, in the middle of the night, I awoke with a very nasty sore throat but rolled over and went back to sleep. I have stopped the process from gaining a "foothold" (as noted above) but only if tonated early enough; in this instance I did not, due to work constraints. As a tonation substitute, I decided to give the "charged water" an honest test. Blue filters [Roscolene filters #866 and 859] were wrapped around a colorless bottle holding about 1 1/2 pints of water, and set on a sunny window sill. By that evening, after having drunk the three glasses of "Blue" water in three doses, there was no apparent helpful effect: eyes running and nose pouring. This was an allopathic dosage compared to the one-ounce Irradiator so I considered it a really disappointing experience. An Indigo tonation was used that night, hoping for at least some alleviation. Came morning: - Lo and Behold - WOW - Hooray - Unbelievable - the eyes' river had dried up, the nose virtually normal, a slight hoarseness was all that remained. I had judged too soon. The water took a bit longer to work and may well have needed the tonation reinforcement; as with duo chrome technique, the sum of one and one may be more than two. Never have I had Spectro-Chrome alone work in this manner. No further remedial effort was made and the symptoms did not return. When anyone now asks me about the power or efficacy of charged-­water therapy, first-hand details are available. I formerly thought it was a weak-kneed cousin to S-C so this was a revelation; nothing like personal experience as a teacher. [Later experience has shown that some cases may need more than one days' water/tonation to maintain the effect, and prevent a relapse.]

DR. BABBITT: Spectro-Chrome is based in good measure on Color therapy as devised by Dr. Edwin D. Babbitt and expounded in his 1878 treatise, Principles of Light and Color. Dinshah and Babbitt both used Color for a starting point but Dinshah virtually stopped there and placed little emphasis on the Irradiator, etc. Babbitt, however, designed and recommended several instruments. Electric lighting was in its infancy so Babbitt relied largely on Sunlight. His charged-water was accomplished by filling a colored lens-shaped bottle (Chromo-Lens) with water, etc., focussing Sun rays through the lens to take a treatment, and then drink the water. The Chromo Disk was without the water. Further, Babbitt used several Colors simultaneously with a Chromolume, and sometimes with heat: Thermolume. Dinshah wrote in his Spectro-Chrome Metry Encyclopedia, "...he was a master-mind, such as is born perhaps once in a century." Dinshah's strongest objection to Babbitt's philosophy was his adherence to the erroneous Red/Yellow/Blue primary Colors theory (it persists to this day) but theory does not usually affect results.

(12-1-99) 1+1=3: A year ago we wrote about the advisability of using Color-charged water as another method of utilizing Light energy. Since then three more reports confirm the surprising effect of the combination of Spectro-Chrome and waterpower; together they can do more than either singly: one and one makes three in this instance, perhaps like two musical notes generating a third. Whether this holds true in chronic rather than acute conditions remains an open question. Why so few are trying it is a mystery; the Roscolene filters most already possess need only be wrapped around a colorless water-filled bottle (cover any open spaces with cardboard) and exposed to Sunlight for an hour or more. Though Dr. Babbitt dosed with only a tablespoonful or so at a time, I have used it by the glassful which may have been far more than necessary but did not cause any side effects which certainly would have resulted from a drug overdose of that magnitude. The flu season is here and the media are again extolling the value in getting a "shot at least for the elderly". In our October 1983 Newsletter we wrote about a US Veterans Administration study which warned that flu shots (no doubt others similarly) reduced the liver's ability to clear drugs from the bloodstream so the result for the elderly who are typically taking many prescription medications may well be a drug buildup, possibly to an overdose level. Use S-C and water-power, skip the shots.

(12-27-01) DIRTY LIGHT?: General Electric TV ad: "Is there anything more beautiful than a baby's face? Well, as a matter of fact, there is. A baby's face lit by the amazing GE Reveal bulb. Reveal filters out dull yellow rays, leaving only clean, pure light. GE Reveal. There's nothing more beautiful than clean, pure light" (10/01 ads, Ch. 6 & 10). Removing "dull" yellow rays leaves pure light? The human eye is easy to fool so the unsuspecting public is expected to swallow this nonsensical/preposterous/absurd claim. GE must think they know better than the Creator who made the full spectrum of frequencies, including yellow, for our benefit. Bah, pure indeed! (See DHS Newsletters #26, 35, 36, 39, 41, 57.) [There are other manufacturers (Chromalux©, GE Enrich©, Bulbrite©, etc.) who make bulbs with similar characteristics: Neodymium to remove yellow light frequencies.]

(3-28-02) PERFECT?: With the high praise piled on soy foods, one could easily conclude that soy products qualify as perfect foods, but before jumping on the bandwagon we would do well to take a look at the other side of the story. Entering "soy dangers" in a Web search resulted in 8219 sites! Near the top of the Web listings was www.soyonlineservice.co.nz which contains an incredible amount of anti-soy information. It is widely recognized that raw soy beans are more or less toxic. Unfortunately, even with considerable processing, which in itself generates other hazards, much remains as undesirable or worse. Infants fed on soy-based formula are ingesting the same amount of estrogen hormone equivalent (phytoestrogen) as an adult would produce. For every benefit attributed to soy there appears to be a possible harmful effect but you would never get that impression from the promoters - a Web search for "soy benefits" gave 46779 sites. After reading of soy dangers, the benefits appear to be far outweighed and that number of Websites is not warranted. Another interesting health-oriented Website: www.davidicke.net/medicalarchives gives the lowdown on Aspartame found in many "diet colas", and many more modern mistakes including a section, Bad Medicine. You may judge its contents' validity. More than ever the old adage rings true, "We dig our graves with our dinner spoons" with the addition of "and beverage glasses".