The place that was once credited as one of the greatest whaling stations on Earth is once again making big headlines.
In the South Atlantic, South Georgia and the Sandwich islands may not have any human habitation, but they are now thriving with wildlife, thanks to the penguins, seals and whales making their way back to this once deserted place.
The south of Sandwich Islands and South Georgia is a favorite spot for mammals drawn by the abundant krill and fish in the waters. Wherever you look, you can easily spot a seal, a penguin or a whale – an incredible sight to watch.
Visitors and tourists to the islands are often the center of attention of the very curious baby seals and the penguins. Even though tourists are not allowed to go close to the wildlife, the baby animals will rush to them for a closer look.
The history of this place is worth knowing too.
Chiropractic doctor Carolyn McMakin's book "The Resonance Effect" - North Atlantic Books - adds an interesting dimension to the hidden in plain sight world of microcurrent, that could, according to the author, possibly be the way to change the face of medicine with Frequency Specific Microcurrent, (FSM): The subtitle of her book"The Resonance Effect, How Frequency Specific Microcurrent is Changing Medicine" somehow implies that the physics of resonance easily translate into healing for her and her clients.
The list contains mysterious pairs of frequencies, one for body tissues and parts, and the other for different ailments. For years, Carolyn applies these frequencies to establish their efficacy in a scientific way, and to test which pairs of frequencies work for certain conditions in specific tissues, in a scientific way. But mostly, she is "intuiting" her own technique, initially.
Starting in 1995, she combines her chiropractic treatments with the frequencies list and microcurrent and eventually is able to establish their efficacy. Over Guinness in a pub, together with her naturopath assistant, they create the branding "frequency specific microcurrent", short FSM, and a logo to go with. And having successfully tested which pairs of frequencies work for certain conditions in specific tissues and having developed them into protocols, she publishes her first paper. She presents her protocol for myofascial pain at the national meeting of the American Back Society, in 1997. Also, early in her career, she realizes that she has to spread the word among the next generation of health professionals and organizes her"Interdisciplinary Health Care Symposium", bringing together medical school, chiropractor college, and naturopathic college students in her area. She then lectures in England, speaks at the NIH Grand Rounds as the first chiropractor ever in its history, presents at the IFM Symposium, and, starting in 2001, with George, teaches her sponsored FSM core seminars in Australia, and that for seven years straight. She has conquered doctors in numbers, won over chiropractors, naturopaths, dentists, scientists, massage therapists, even equine massage therapists and olympic sports trainers and athletes to believe in her system. And she states, that over 2000 licensed practitioners in eleven countries are using FSM now, although I read on the internet, it's a much smaller number, and that might be an outdated number. Beyond a doubt, she gives her trainees solid advice, to stay below the radar of medical inquisition, and to play the game of "evidence-based medicine" in chapter 7 "How do you do that". She tells them to "just follow the rules" (of the FDA) which certainly is not going to change medicine but will surely will keep them in practice, with that prudent attitude.
The facts lead us to look at the subtitle of her book "How Frequency Specific Microcurrent is Changing Medicine" more closely. Is this actually the case? Is the medicinal cesspool going to be changed that way? Or is Carolyn's desire a dream and her work doomed before it even gets going beyond her thousands of case histories? Has her job not been, so far, to pick up the broken pieces our medical system leaves behind? Does Carolyn have to do the mop up work, and business goes on as usual in medicine?
When teaching her first class in FSM, she afterwards bitterly regrets that she spent too much time on "historical, nonspecific microcurrent and not enough on frequency effects". Was that the reason she now skips microcurrent history altogether in her book? But yes, in the beginning, the book goes into the history of electrotherapy a bit, just a little bit. So bear with me when I'll add some history on my own. Carolyn tells, that in the early 1900s electrotherapy was big in Europe as well as in America, and that electrotherapy had become hugely popular with doctors who used electricity to successfully treat an amazing range of different diseases. I remember a friend telling, living in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and on his almost daily visits to the hot springs seeing inside the bath houses displays of old electrotherapy devices (since then removed) hanging there from the early 1900. It is tempting to make the connection to Carolyn McMakin's work, how it is based on just one of these old machines going back to 1922. And connecting to the spirit of those times back then when all that, what we now call modalities, were all accepted ways to cure and coexisted peacefully in helping people, when these old ways were not coined "woo-woo" but employed for helping to heal, when "Mother Nature" was still part of it, with walking barefoot in wet grasses, putting people high up in the Swiss Alps into sunshine and fresh air to cure lungs, and so on. The book explains, the demise of electrotherapy started in 1910 when the Flexner Report outlawed electrotherapy, and it was final around the Fifties when all electric equipment had ended up in back rooms with sheets put over them. Doctors would loose their licence when practicing any of it.
That brings up the idea, that even Hollywood was employed in the Flexner demonizing electricity, with the “Frankenstein” movies to infiltrate and manipulate popular beliefs about electricity by giving it shock value, a jolt of horror to create fearful associations with electricity and electrotherapy to this day. This indoctrination is still in effect when friends and family show objections to trust the healing power of electricity, or even hesitate to try out a microcurrent device on their arm. How difficult it must be to market these to a mainstream audience I can only imagine.
Apart from what successes she can claim in her doctor’s practice, Carolyn McMakin still operates within a system where the doctor-patient or therapist-patient dependency is fully intact. But then there is that ideal vision where patients are not getting sicker and sicker but are empowered to take charge of their own health, becoming independent of the medical system, by stepping out of the deadly medical treadmill altogether. People who are better informed about healthy lifestyle choices, trained to work with microcurrent devices they own. People fully aware of how their bodies work, using microcurrent in a responsible way, including the inevitable healing crises, and caring for their body's electrical needs with their handheld devices. And just as intended by the Russian microcurrent inventor Dr. Karasev, these are aimed at bringing the patient from dependency on the medical system to medical sovereignty, getting him off the medical treadmill to take charge of his own health and well-being.
It appears from these facts that it's not her aim to be a team player in the microcurrent world. It's more that “my frequency or the highway” kind of approach. And that has happened, too, in other areas like in homeopathy. There seems to be, in medical science, this temptation to separate disease from the body. Instead, the body is a holistic vibrating system with cascades of microcurrent frequencies that have a wide homeostatic effect, from brainwave patterns to neurogenic secretions from nerve fibers, that's what research says and proved to be the reason for SCENAR being so highly effective, and much easier to apply, with the Russian clinical trials back in the 1980 ties. All achieved simply with the same basic frequencies. And the many people who had life changing healing success with the early banana shaped DENAS SCENAR which has only two specific microcurrent frequencies! And thanks to SCENAR inventor Dr.Alexander Karasev, who, as an electrical engineer, must have understood more than anybody about the healing powers of electricity, which, as newest electric engineering (Eric Dollard) attests, is sourced from outside of what was commonly believed, from out of the etheric realm.