Even though he did not have a medical degree, scientific and medical journals referred to Royal Raymond Rife as “Dr. Rife.” Among such journals was the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of 1944, which described major advances in the development of “The New Microscopes”. At the time, the breakthrough technology of using electron beams instead of light to visualize microscopic objects had opened up completely new windows of observation in biology and physics. Alongside the advanced electron microscope, however, Smithsonian authors Seidel and Winter reported on R.R. Rife’s “universal microscope” whose resolution and magnifying power exceeded even the new generation of electron microscopy.
The universal microscope was a mechanical marvel containing 5280 parts and 14 lenses and prisms that allowed for the live and in-motion observation of minute cellular structures and microorganisms hitherto invisible with the optical lens. Quoting from the Smithsonian report:
When the quartz prisms on the universal microscope, which may be rotated with vernier control through 360°, are rotated in opposite directions, they serve to bend the transmitted beams of light at variable angles of incidence while, at the same time, a spectrum is projected up into the axis of the microscope … [I]t is possible to proceed in this way from one end of the spectrum to the other, going all the way from the infrared to the ultraviolet.
Using polarization filters, Rife was able to observe microorganisms and viruses in vivo, and by the use of various prisms could produce “spectrograms” of each observed microorganism that are unique to the specimen.
Now, when that portion of the spectrum is reached in which both the organism and the color band vibrate in exact accord, one with the other, a definite characteristic spectrum is emitted by the organism. […]
A monochromatic beam of light, corresponding exactly to the frequency of the organism (for Dr. Rife has found that each disease organism responds to and has a definite and distinct wave length, a fact confirmed by British medical research workers) is then sent up through the specimen and the direct transmitted light, thus enabling the observer to view the organism stained in its true chemical color and revealing its own individual structure in a field which is brilliant with light.
This unique and individual resonance spectrum of each microorganism and pathogen—its electromagnetic signature—led the way to a new form of frequency therapy by identifying what Rife called the “mortal oscillation rate” of a selected germ. Just as the right resonance frequency of sound can break glass, Rife frequencies and their “coordinative resonance” will only destroy pathogens of exactly the same oscillation spectrum.
Rife’s inventions and curative achievements were reported even in the New York Times. In 1931, Dr. Milbank Johnson, professor of medicine at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, and Dr. Arthur Kendall of Northwestern University in Chicago, a leading American bacteriologist, visited Rife’s San Diego laboratory to see the microscope and frequency treatment firsthand. Later that same year, forty-four of the most respected U.S. medical authorities gathered in Pasadena, California to honor Rife with a banquet announced as “The End to All Diseases.” In 1934, Dr. Johnson conducted a clinical trial using Royal Rife’s technique on 16 “terminally” ill cancer patients, presenting all 16 as “cured” only a few months later.
By 1938, several clinics that applied Rife frequency medicine had opened, and USC had organized a special medical research committee—headed by Dr. Johnson—to oversee Rife’s energy therapy and clinical success with various diseases such as tuberculosis, typhoid, other infectious diseases, and cancer.
However, by 1939, the American Medical Association, the American Cancer Society, and major pharmaceutical interest groups were stepping up with fury, denying and denouncing the efficacy of Rife’s techniques. At the same time, and for unknown reasons, a “mysterious” 3:00 A.M. fire destroyed the leading laboratory for electronic or energy medicine in New Jersey.
With the premature death in 1944 of Dr. Milbank Johnson, all the files relating to Rife vanished. Impoverished and denied access to medical-scientific laboratories, Royal Raymond Rife nevertheless began to develop his energy technologies anew, building various devices that came to be used for experiments and self-therapy. In 1960, the FDA and medical authorities invaded his laboratory and smashed and confiscated Rife’s frequency instruments, alleging that he had applied medical instrumentation without a license.
Royal Raymond Rife invented technologies that are still commonly used today in the fields of optics, electronics, radiochemistry, biochemistry, ballistics, and aviation, among them a heterodyning ultraviolet microscope, the very first micromanipulator, and a micro-dissector. He won 14 government awards for scientific discoveries.
Many believe that Royal Raymond Rife may have been the most brilliant, gifted, and undaunted scientist in American history.
Related:
“The New Microscopes” by R.E. Seidel and M. Elizabeth Winter in: Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 1944. See pages 207ff.
“Rife and His Microscopes” by Brian Bracegirdle in: Quekett Journal of Microscopy, 2003, 39, pp. 459-473.
Presentation by Steven Ross at the GlobalBEM Conference 2013
Documentary here: https://tube.solari.com/videos/the-rise-and-fall-of-a-scientific-genius-the-forgotten-story-of-royal-raymond-rife-0/
Just jumped in to fix the video link… ?
I was somewhat irritated by this article, on account of not having heard of this microscopist. I did search around the net a bit, but even the two papers to which you link are negatively convincing. The first paper is just a huge mash of words. The second paper surely nails it : “(Professor) Cowden … Rife 3 was similar, but more complex, to the extent of appearing complex for the sake of complexity … a flawed design at best.” “Rife 4 : … As with every other matter connected with Rife, half truths and untruths abound”. “Head of Mayo clinic … implored Rife to “take the necessary time to describe how you obtain what physicists consider the impossible as regards magnification and submit your paper to a suitable journal for publication … Rife never did any such thing of course”.
In the ’90s / ‘00s I worked as an engineer in the Light Microscopy Group at the European Molecular Biology Lab. The job was to supply the biologists with the best machines possible, on a very generous budget, unconstrained by any industry control. We could build anything our chief wanted, regardless of whether someone had a patent (or some other claim) on any aspect of a device. So, we designed and constructed high-speed laser scanning confocal microscopes, a number of multi-objective interference microscopes, orthogonal plane illumination microscopes, optical tweezers. etc. If a Rife machine had ever been any good (but not been on the market), we’d have had to build it, then improve it. The biologists just wanted the best instrumentation. One of the guys in the group, Stefan Hell, went on to be awarded the Nobel Prize in 2014 for cracking the usual resolution limit in light microscopy. ( https://nanobiophotonics.mpibpc.mpg.de ) Certainly, the advancements in resolution offered by Stefan Hell’s techniques come with trade-offs and draw-backs. Nevertheless, the overriding principles can be clearly described. Hell provides an extensive list of his publications which illuminate this area of research. A large number of living people are using his machines and techniques. Examining Rife just throws up a pile of question-marks and uncertainties.
We are currently dealing with an epidemic of lies, serviced by a science establishment which (in some areas) enforces orthodoxy, where good solutions are suppressed and unwanted people expelled. etc. But charlatans, quacks and con-merchants have always existed both inside and outside the orthodoxy. The lies have to be called out, regardless of where they appear, else people end up conned by whatever next quack remedy comes along and we swim through life on a sea of “nothing means nothing”. Rife’s microscopy looks totally flakey. I’d bet his cancer work is similar. My guess is that there are far better areas to study. e.g. In the area of cancer : GcMAF.
Nicholas:
I am with you on everything you are saying in terms of frustration with charlatans. Would be curious what you think after watching the documentary as I believe the evidence of Rifes accomplishments in terms of experience are real and significant and the opposition he drew would argue in support. This is important as it points to areas where real solutions for grassroots health care are available. See review of Dispenza’s book this week.
Catherine
Dear Catherine.
The fact that you’re out in the comments-section adds immense value to the Solari experience. Thanks! I enjoyed taking a really good look through the documentary and searching around associated information. The first half of the 20th century was arguably the most exciting period of technological development in the history of the planet.
My summary:
1: Rife certainly “did something”.
2: Claims about his microscope are almost certainly hyperbolic.
3: Applying EM radiation as therapies is certainly interesting. Today, it must be possible to hypothesise what effects might occur, based on a modern knowledge of physics, which was only just emerging when Rife was performing his experiments. But Rife is not a reliable source.
4: Maybe, Medium-Wave / Long-Wave signals (i.e. Rife’s frequencies) can be used to create some interesting therapy, but I doubt it. Absorption in water is low, and I’ve no idea if it’s possible to focus such immensely long wavelengths.
4: I’ll do some more research. This is not an area where I claim great experience (other than a fossilised degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering).
(Hopefully) always prepared to eat my own words if proved wrong 😉
Regards,
Nick
There’s a lot of “fast and loose” in this documentary. Rife seems to have a talent for “tall stories”, and for putting out a lot of information in a slightly vague, ambiguous and complicated way. Thus, the credulous can be taken on a nice ride, hopping on and off the stream-of-consciousness, and even people with more technical experience might have a hard time putting their finger on what exactly doesn’t stack up. In such situations, even experts, sensing that something isn’t right, will just walk away, for sake of politeness and avoiding some sort of conflict. Sure, Rife clearly paid attention to bona-fide state-of-the art science and engineering. In the 1850s to 1930s, German science was extraordinarily successful, particularly in the field of optics. Rife used Zeiss components in his instruments. He claimed association with these revered sources, yet, curiously, he situated himself a maximum distance away from them. It would have been hard for someone in San Diego to check his “credentials”. I very much doubt he gained a Doctorate from Heidelberg University. (…and the picture of Zeiss (@2:26) shows the Jena works in Germany, not New York.)
Example of typical Rife rhetoric: From 25:35
Rife is asked: “How do you explain the high magnification?”
He answers: “The separation … the power of the light and also the control of the illumination, because you cannot stain those particles with your acid aniline dye stains now. As I’ve stated a thousand times, that the particles are smaller than the molecular portions or the granular structure of your acid aniline dye stains, so the mouse he cannot swallow the elephant. They can only be stained with a frequency of light, and the polarised light proves that. You look cat an ordinary specimen ….. With a polarised light we know what chemicals is in that damn onion skins. We can check ‘em out by the angle of refraction, the colour, the index, the amount of degrees it takes them to change from one to the other , and ??? from one to the other, But you can’t use polarised light, you use a monochromatic light, because the monochromatic light IS a portion of the spectrum, So there you are. But, it’s impossible, like I’ve said it thousand of times, you cannot ??? through this interference band of refraction where your image crosses the same as it does in a camera, an amplitude and magnification which is greater than about 1400 times with resolution. But why stay with it. We’ve got the equivalent in the big microscope of 449 mm of tube length, with the greatest distance of separation is 30mm, but we don’t let it cross. We take it back and forth through 21 Bends, but it doesn’t cross … because it’s an interference band of refraction.”
Rife’s assertion about being unable to stain particles he (claims to see) on account of the relative sizes of particle and dye stains is surely just wrong, (although in modern microscopy, tagging a biological protein with an antibody conjugated to (say) GFP Green Fluorescent Protein in order to track it may well significantly affect the behaviour of the protein to be tracked.)
Goodness only knows what the rest of Rife’s answer means.
He piles on:
48:55 “I completed the cycle from virus to cancer and back 104 times”.
49:35 “I sectioned over 20,000 of those”.
But they admit that in the “clinic” tests, no decent records were taken.
… sure
At 50:25 Rife says that “BX is less than 1/20th of a micron” (I.e. 50nm) He gives the distinct impression that it could be seen with his microscope. No way. Extraordinary claims (about the resolving power of his microscope) require solid evidence. There is none, and no patents (although even a novel configuration of standard components would surely have been patentable?) He just turned the knob up to 11.
Curiously, searching for “coordinated resonance” (another confusing Rife explanation at 15:30) yields very little, except a patent application from 2002, citing chapter and verse from Rife, yet the application was abandoned in 2006, (perhaps after some magic “pat.pending” machines had been sold somewhere?) https://patents.google.com/patent/US20040068168A1/en
Overall, I found the documentary frustrating, not least because there is this repeated talk of “frequencies”, but it’s disconnected from information about power, amplitude, duration. It’s also often not clear whether this talk refers to sound waves or EM waves etc.. At one point : “Rife found that the frequency needed to be within one tenth of a meter to work.” Frequency is NEVER meters. Frequency = cycles PER SECOND, Wavelength is meters. It’s kinda fundamental …
After a while, I was guessing that Rife’s “frequency machine” was something like an AM radio transmitter, but we’re the best part of an hour into the documentary before he mentions “carrier wave”. A (higher frequency) carrier wave, whose amplitude is modulated by an audio (lower) frequency wave = Amplitude Modulated AM radio, which would have been common from the early 1900s. This is pretty much confirmed at 1:51:25 … but the description of the machine is garbage … and then, yes … there’s suddenly a list of frequencies which are basically medium wave MW (typically AM) radio frequencies. Hilarious. No wonder there was nothing to patent, anybody who realised what he was up to could just build their own box (with different frequencies having different claimed effects), and a more recent implementation of Rife’s ideas had problems. Any wire between Rife’s box and the patient would act as an aerial, and free-range transmitters are not popular with the airwave police. And, actually, I’m still not sure how “the frequencies” were used. Was the patient part of the circuit, or were there coils? Sorry. Nevertheless, I liked the impressive mahogany case and shiny dials to boot. Stuff like that moves money in the world of Doctors, patients and HiFi.
So, sorry, I have very low confidence in Rife’s claimed knowledge, although perhaps in the 1950s I’d rather have been wired up to a low-power medium-wave transmitter, than some of the other cancer “treatments” which were dreamt up. Sometimes, a placebo might be a lucky escape.
Obviously, putting EM-waves into organic tissue can have an effect.
3.0 x 10^16 Hz x-rays
2.4 x 10^9 Hz microwave oven
27 x 10^6 Hz physiotherapy megapulse (heating) https://www.hce-uk.com/EMS-Physio-Megapulse-Senior-265-Shortwave-Unit
(would a hot bath be better?)
Rife’s frequencies were 130 x 10^3 Hz to 1.4 x 10^6 Hz
And then there’s modern stuff like this, which is super-low frequency:
https://bemergroup.com/de_DE/human-line/home
3700€ gets you a spiffy electronics box and a magic mat to lie on ( which allegedly produces a magnetic flux density which just happens to be exactly the same strength as the earth’s! ) In 2011, a doctor I encountered was really pushing this equipment, and gave me a few “free” sessions. My gut reaction was that it was junk, and I’d rather roll over in bed a few times or sit on my office chair and swivel ‘round to get (presumably) the same effect. At that time, there were no scientific papers on this thing, and quite frankly, the doctors pushing it looked totally flakey, (and what’s the deal with Liechtenstein?) However they now claim FDA approval (so it MUST be good) and there’s now at least one paper purporting in-vitro effects, and upon which a whole host of (supposedly) reputable institutions have put their names. I’m slightly baffled:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5154536/
Thanks, Nicholas. Appreciate your insights on this. Will do a review of Dr. Dispenza’s book, Becoming Supernatural. I believe you will find it interest. Among other things informs the power of the placebo effect.
GcMAF is definitely an important study.
Hi Ulrike,
I just posted a reply to Catherine. My collected thoughts about the Rife stuff. Hope all is well with you.
Greetings from Speyer 🙂
Nick
True Rife in Kalamazoo, MI, makes devices.
Go to http://www.TrueRife.com. I don’t have any affiliate relationship.
Ownership just changed hands and I hear the new owner is a real piece of work in his own right. Maybe I should go buy the company and treat people with dignity. I can vouch for the device however, and the frequencies do effect change within the body. My family has used this for all sorts of maladies (even chemtrail detox) the last four years and are believers.
This documentary was excellent and just viewed it for the first time. Thanks for that CAF. Cheers.
Awesome documentary about Rife. I have been in pharmaceutical R&D for many years, and I have seen how “scientific” societies have been formed to basically shut out opposition to accepted views.
Wow, I’d heard the name but never before had I seen a concise bio, thanks for the information.
This sounds interesting. Will definitely take a look.
I’ve recently read A world without cancer by G Edward Griffen and also saw a documentary on another type of alternative treatment recently, which name I forgot now.
It really makes me question the status quo of using radiation by thé medical establishment. I’ve lost family to cancer. They all had chemotherapy and I really wonder if that didn’t make it worse instead of helping..
I watched Majid Nawaaz interviews recently on Midazolam and other heavy drugs used in the UK on patients… and wonder if the medical establishments in our western societies are actually becoming dangerous places. Not just with the whole covid drama, but with all complex diseases they are attempting to treat people on.
DANGEROUS. I had a brain stem stoke when 43 which could have been prevented with existing allopathic knowledge. I was mis-diagnosed on all of the sequela to this and suffered needlessly for 25 years afterwards, with 12 years barely able to speak or walk. I am still trying to achieve homeostasis at 70 years old. (I’m a tough old bird but thankfully also understand when it is time to surrender and beg for grace.) The only help I’ve received has been through alternative treatments. The only knowledge I’ve received and then acted upon has been through alternative reading material. I’ve since written a book under a pen name (Emily Jean Entwistle) to try to help others, and my emphasis is on prayer, meditation, journaling, EFT, a safe and natural water and food supply, etc. I tell people to be the CEO of their own health enterprise, and to hire and fire based on performance of their providers. Now, as a senior, I tell everyone to stay away from Medicare because its “standard of care” is IMHO designed to commit euthanasia without the individual or family knowing that it is occurring. Gee, that sounds familiar, doesn’t it. . .
The late Dr. James Bare, DC of Albuquerque, NM spent his life furthering Royal Rife’s work, updating his frequency generators, etc. Because the work is outlawed in the US for medical treatment (inexpensive and effective!), he gave his entire life’s research efforts to a company in Canada to pursue. That company is Resonant Light Therapies. It’s a very interesting journey for research. I knew personally three cancer victims (two with stage 4 leukemia, and 1 with terminal brain cancer) who lived successful and relatively normal lives thanks to Dr. Bare’s updates. It is a total mystery why the FDA thinks this is dangerous, particularly since I understand they have licensed known medical institutions in the US to do “research” with it to date.
It is dangerous because it makes a major contribution to ending central control
Resonant Light can ship their equipment outside of the Canadian border under the auspices of it being “for research purposes”, BTW.
Once again the Deep State destroys the life of a genius because it would interfere with their PROFIT STREAM.
With the help from John Trump, Electrical Engineer from MIT (On orders from Vanavar Bush) they did the same thing to Nicola Tesla. Vanavar formed Ratheon that then profited from the Stolen Tesla Papers!!
Anyone here ever used a Spooky2? I have been eyeing one but haven’t had the time to fully understand how it works and buy it.
I haven’t used it but have friends who do. They give it good reviews. A bit of a steep learning curve. Spooky2 has a Facebook page you can join to learn from people who are using it.
Infopathy.com also uses Rife frequencies.
The decisions come down to the (1) quality and track record of the manufacturer. BTW, Spooky2 is a data set of treatments that many providers utilize, but there are other data sets whom I’d like to think Royal Rife would have approved of in concept, as well. (2) Customer service and tech support and (3) the delivery system ie. do you want to place sticky patches on yourself and be tethered to the machine, or do you want it delivered as an energy field for perhaps 30 ft from the antenna? I’ve even seen some that claim to work through sound instead of the original Rife concept although I can’t speak to the efficacy of this. My thought is to stay as close as possible to the original Rife design, but that’s me.
Self care is the way to go now, even if you happen to be a Senior and feel you should use your Medicare insurance and work within the system. I’m convinced the system is trying to kill us, based on several decades of trying to work within it. You, too, can have a Rife machine, although one can’t really call it that as they aren’t allowed legally in the U.S. Search it out – there are ways around this and it is worth it.
WE LOVE DR. RIFE! Way to go naming him hero of the week. 😀