swimming with dolphins and rife technology

[Guest guest]

Hi,

I read an article online that says swimming with dolphins has theraputic and

healing effects on the body because of the dolphin's sonar. So does this

mean that the dolphins are and in fact can do and have the same or similar

effects as a rife machine, either a contact pad device or a plasma system

device? And if the dolphins effects are similar to a rife machine or the

same, then why don't the writers of these articles say something like...if

you want the benefits of dolphin sonar on your body go and get yourself a

good rife machine and amplifier and heal yourself or greatly enhance your

immune system to allow your body to heal itself. The article I read is

pasted below.

Josh

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Source: http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1995/01/blow.html

Dr. Dolphin

News: Why does swimming with dolphins help humans heal? A computer-wielding

" neurohacker " may have found the answer.

By Blow

January/February 1995 Issue

Cole knows that people consider him a little odd. Cole spends much of

his free time swimming with dolphins, and he has enough perspective to

realize

that this makes him, by most people's standards, eccentric. He doesn't mind.

Cole, a 28-year-old computer scientist, lives about half an hour south of

Los Angeles. With excitable gray eyes and long brown hair in ringlets, he

looks

a little like a youthful Bolton. Cole works for a computer hardware

manufacturer, but in his spare time he heads the AquaThought Foundation, a

cadre of computer wizards, doctors, and naturalists researching

" dolphin-assisted therapy. "

For about two decades, physical therapists and psychologists have argued

that swimming with dolphins can help the sick and handicapped.

Dolphin-assisted

therapy seems to accelerate the vocal and physical development of autistic

and mentally retarded children, for example. Some researchers claim that

dolphin

swims also boost the human immune system. Most proponents of the therapy say

it helps patients' psychological well-being; the dolphins distract them from

their suffering.

But Cole doesn't buy this conventional wisdom. He rejects the idea that

dolphins make humans feel better simply by making them happy. That's what

clowns

are for. Cole believes that swimming with dolphins can have a profound

physiological effect on humans. The health of your immune system, the state

of your

brain, the makeup of your cells--these things, Cole believes, can be

radically altered by dolphins.

To the layperson, all this might sound a little nutty. (Acquaintances who

knew I was working on this article kept making " Flipper " jokes.) But then,

black

holes and cloning and artificial intelligence seemed nutty, too--except to

the people who believed in them, and who turned one day from daydreamers

into

visionaries.

A self-described " neurohacker, " Cole is a new kind of scientist: a layperson

who studies dolphins and neurology not with a degree in marine biology or

medicine

but with a computer. Like any scientific novelty, Cole isn't always taken

seriously. He gets a lukewarm and sometimes hostile reception from the

practitioners

of orthodox medicine. " It's way too esoteric for a lot of them, " he admits.

On the other end of the spiritual spectrum, Cole has to deal with New Agers,

some of whom argue that dolphins are really angels or extraterrestrials sent

to enlighten humans. " When you look at alternative medicine, " Cole says,

" New Agers have always been there, drawing discredit to everything in that

realm.

But there's no replacement for scientific method. "

With that, Cole asks me to try Cyberfin, a " virtual reality interaction " he

invented to simulate swimming with dolphins. Eventually he hopes to make

Cyberfin

realistic enough to substitute for the real thing, helping humans who can't

afford a dolphin swim and obviating the need for captive dolphins.

Cole has fashioned his prototype from a converted flotation tank in his

garage. Three-D goggles strapped around my head, I lie down on a water

mattress

inside the tank. Directly overhead is a television monitor; ambient, surreal

music pulses from speakers. I feel a little silly, like I'm about to fight

the Red Baron, but I try to keep an open mind.

The screen lights up, and suddenly I'm floating in a pool. Two dolphins

cavort in the water, zipping by one side of me, a stream of bubbles in their

wake.

Their whirs and clicks surround me. As I watch, my skepticism fades into

curiosity and wonder. One of them swims directly up to my face, and

instinctively

I shake my head, thinking I'm about to be bumped. Then, with a flip of its

tail, the dolphin disappears.

Ordinarily, I would never admit this. But I find myself hoping that it will

come back soon.

Cole grew up in Winter Park, Fla., not far from NASA. After graduating from

the University of Central Florida in 1988, he founded a software company

called

Studiotronics. A year later, Cole hooked up with a group that was conducting

dolphin-assisted therapy with cancer patients. They told Cole that the

dolphins

seemed to have a profound effect on the mental states of their patients;

Cole offered to perform neurological tests to see what was going on.

" At first I thought our equipment was not working, " Cole remembers. " We were

using a fairly conventional statistical evaluation of EEG--'This is your

brain,

this is your brain on dolphins.' The level of change was like nothing I'd

ever seen. "

Essentially, Cole found a far greater harmony between the left and right

sides of the brain after a subject swam with dolphins--a crude suggestion

that

the brain is functioning more efficiently than normal.

When Cole studied the medical literature to try to explain this phenomenon,

he couldn't find anything. So in 1991 Cole sold Studiotronics to a Japanese

company called Chinon, moved to California, and founded AquaThought with a

colleague. Though he now works for Chinon, the company gives him all the

time

he needs to pursue his dolphin research. To facilitate that research, he and

a colleague invented a device called MindSet. Looking like a bathing cap

with

electrodes attached to it, MindSet translates brain waves into real-time

images; the fluctuating brain waves are projected onto a computer screen,

and

the resulting picture bears some resemblance to a lava lamp. The pair

created the device because they couldn't afford a $75,000 EEG.

Three years after founding AquaThought, Cole thinks he has figured out why

dolphins have beneficial effects on humans. He warns, however, that a lot of

people aren't going to believe what he has to say.

Cole isn't the first freethinker to be obsessed with dolphins. He's a

disciple of futurist writer and scientist Lilly, who in 1975 founded

the Human/Dolphin

Foundation to explore the possibility of interspecies communication. (Lilly

himself believed he was following in the footsteps of Aristotle, who had an

interest in dolphins.) The dolphins he was studying, Lilly wrote in his 1978

work " Communication between Man and Dolphin, " " would do anything to convince

the humans that they were sentient and capable. "

The field of dolphin-assisted therapy was probably started by Dr. Betsy

, an educational anthropologist at Florida International University. In

1971

, who was researching dolphin-human interaction, let her mentally

retarded brother wade into the water with two adolescent dolphins. " They

were pretty

rough dolphins, " remembers. But not with her brother. " The dolphins

were around him, still, gentle, rubbing on him. " Somehow, they knew he was

different.

There are now 150 dolphin-assisted therapy researchers worldwide, and there

seems little doubt that dolphin swims can help humans with disabilities such

as Down's syndrome, autism, depression, attention deficit disorder, muscular

dystrophy, and spinal cord injuries. Mentally retarded children who swam

with

dolphins, for example, " learned their lessons two to 10 times faster than in

a normal classroom setting, " says Harre of the Dolphin Research Center

in Grassy Key, Fla.

Other researchers have found that swimming with dolphins boosts the

production of infection-fighting T cells. The generally accepted theory is

that swimming

with dolphins increases relaxation, which helps stimulate the immune system.

Such vague psychological explanations drive Cole crazy; he calls them

" horseshit, " though he's not a very good swearer. Cole doesn't deny that

relaxation

helps T cell production. ( " I could send you to Tahiti for a week, and your T

cell count would probably go up, " he says.) But Cole believes that

relaxation

can't explain the changes in brain waves and blood chemistry in humans

who've swum with dolphins.

Cole thinks these changes are caused by dolphins' sonar, which they use to

scan the water around them. The sonar is incredibly precise; dolphins can

" echolocate "

a shark half a mile away in the ocean and determine whether its stomach is

full or empty--and, consequently, whether it might be feeding.

" The dolphins produce an intense amount of echolocation energy, " Cole says.

" It resonates in your bones. You can feel it pass through you and travel up

your spine. "

Cole's theory is too complicated to do justice here, but it goes basically

like this: A dolphin's sonar can cause a phenomenon called cavitation, a

ripping

apart of molecules. (You see it in everyday life when, for example, you

throw the throttle of a speedboat all the way down, but the boat doesn't

move;

for that second, the propeller is cavitating the water.)

" It's very possible that dolphins are causing cavitation inside soft tissue

in the body, " Cole says. " And if they did that with cellular membranes,

which

are the boundaries between cells, they could completely change

biomolecules. " That could mean stimulating the production of T cells or the

release of endorphins,

hormones that prompt deep relaxation.

Someday, Cole says, scientists may be able to replicate dolphin sonar and

use it in a precise, targeted way to bolster the immune system. But for now,

he

says, " the dolphin is a part of the experience. "

In the cloudy water, I hear thedolphins before I see them: whirs, clicks,

and buzzes fill the water.

To find out what it's really like to swim with dolphins, I have come to

Dolphins Plus in Key Largo. It's a family-run place, surprisingly small, a

suburban

house that borders a canal with several large holding pens fenced off. (The

dolphins can swim in the canal, but they always return to the pens.) Half an

hour in the water costs $75, but before we can take the plunge we are given

some guidelines. We are asked not to touch the dolphins; if they want to,

they

will touch us. We should swim with our hands at our sides, and avoid

swimming directly at or behind the dolphins, which they might interpret as

hostile.

Dolphins generally like children best, women after that, and men last.

Equipped with flippers, mask, and snorkel, I slide off the dock. I can see

only a few yards in the murky water. I am so nervous that I worry I won't be

able to breathe through the snorkel, but my breath eventually settles into a

steady rattle.

Quickly come the dolphin noises, seeming to feel me out. Still, I see

nothing. Suddenly, there is a flash of white and gray to my side; a few

moments later,

a dolphin passes below me. It looks even larger in the water than it does on

the surface.

The next time one passes, I dive down. As instructed, I try to make eye

contact; for a few seconds the dolphin and I are swimming eye to eye,

looking at

and--I would swear to it--thinking about each other. These are not just

cute, lovable puppy eyes; there's an intelligence here.

More dolphins swim by me, moving too fast for me to keep up. As they swim,

huge yet graceful in the water, I am acutely aware of my human clumsiness,

and

grateful that these animals are letting me swim with them. I can't resist

the temptation to wave slowly, hoping that they'll understand the gesture.

(This

is not so bad: One woman sang " Happy birthday, dear dolphin " through her

snorkel for her entire half hour.)

The dolphins swim so close that I'm convinced I'll bump into them, but

somehow they always keep an inch, two, three, between us. The temptation to

touch

them is great, yet resistable. Corny as it sounds, I want them to like me.

To touch them would be like coughing at the opera.

At one point I am swimming with a mother and calf; the mother makes eye

contact with me, and suddenly I feel it: the zap of the dolphin echolocating

me,

almost like an electric shock. This, I decide later, is what telepathy must

feel like: You hear a sound in your head, but it didn't get there through

your

ears. It startles me, and I stop swimming. The dolphin opens her mouth,

seeming to smile, and she and her calf dart away.

When I get out of the water after 30 fleeting minutes, I feel an incredible

calm. I wonder if there is a purely psychological explanation--the magic of

the experience affecting me. But it feels deeper than that. Somehow, my body

feels different. At this moment, I think Cole is right.

A woman who was swimming with me sits down. She puts her face in her hands

and begins sobbing quietly. " I thought I would be all right, " she says to a

companion.

I never do find out what she means.

Not everyone likes the idea that swimming with dolphins helps humans. Animal

rights groups are concerned that such a theory could lead to an explosion in

the number of captured dolphins. " We don't feel it's right, " says

Woods of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. " The animal has to be

caged

for the program to work. "

Cole and other dolphin researchers share this concern. Betsy , for

example, has given up swimming with captive dolphins and now only swims with

dolphins

in the wild. (One concern of 's is that echolocation is less common

among captive dolphins. When I tell her that I was echolocated, she says the

dolphin

must have found something about me interesting. " That's flattering, " I

remark. " Not necessarily, " she says. " It may have been a tumor. " )

For his part, Cole is trying hard to perfect Cyberfin, so people can

virtually swim with dolphins.

and Cole may be racing against time. As more and more people hear of

dolphins' therapeutic effects, the desire to exploit the animals for a quick

buck will spread.

But to Cole, this is not a reason to stop working with dolphins. He wants to

establish a permanent dolphin research facility, something that doesn't

exist

right now. " We're not looking for a magic bullet, " Cole says. " We're looking

for ways of interfering with the progression of disease. It's virgin

territory. "

And if it means that people think he's a little odd--well, Cole can

live with that.

Blow is the editor of Regardie's magazine.