A “July 4th” Message: Have you declared your Independence?

Independence Day, 2011. For my friends in Canada, my hope and prayer is that you had an excellent Canada Day on the first of this month.

Perhaps it’s more than symbolic that today, of all days, I found the time to truly declare my independence from another source of potentially toxic, high-frequency man-made radiation: Wi-Fi in my house.

A growing number of us have already learned a great deal about “dirty electricity.” That is, the high-voltage transient currents created by the bundles of wires within the walls surrounding our bodies in our homes. According to credible scientific research, these have the potential to produce physical illness. And there is a growing body of evidence that cell phones can be extremely detrimental to human physiology, particularly the nervous system.

But today, roughly 2 years after I retired all cordless telephones from my home, replacing them with the more “retro” plug-in variety of phone, I have succeeded in converting my home back to ethernet.

No longer do I sit with an AirPort wi-fi base station at my feet. (Or LinkSys, etc.) No longer are these high-frequency pulsations penetrating my body and the bodies of my loved ones 24/7. I do not have a wireless router. In order to get on the Internet in my home, you have to plug in the computer with category 5e cable.

I’m counted some difficulties in making this conversion. I will provide a description of these with some quick and easy solutions in my next post. For now, I’m celebrating Independence Day! Independence indeed.