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The AMA's Charge on the Light Brigade The Charge AMA' Brigade the Light The pioneer of a coloured light therapy able to cure a vast range of diseases, Dinshah was victimised for decades by the American medical establishment, but his ‘underground’ research is quietly resurfacing. he evils of some men have a karmic momentum that extends beyond the grave, undiminished by their deaths. If you could somehow quantify and accurately ascribe human pain and needless suffering, then the pernicious legacy of Morris Fishbein, MD (1889-1976) of the American Medical Association (AMA) would exceed in villainous ignominy the legacies of Hitler and Stalin combined. While a more subtle and quiet offence which may pass unnoticed in the historical moment, ideocide is ultimately, in its continually expansive accumulative enormity, a far more pernicious crime against all humanity than any 'simple' genocide. When a genocide indictment is finally issued, it contains specifics: dates of onset, locations, duration, victim identity lists. But who can name the victims or measure the pain that marks Fishbein's ideocidal career? Indeed, when can we even end the tally? If the only adduced instance of Fishbein's ideocide were the persistent, obsessive perse- cution of Colonel Dinshah Ghadiali, MD, DC, PhD, LLD, from 1924 to 1958 and the attempted eradication of his Spectro-Chrome Therapy (SCT) both from practice and from print, it would tragically suffice to make my point. Popular history would have us believe that the (now scandalously) shocking FDA-insti- gated incineration of the printed works of Dr Wilhelm Reich was an unprecedented and isolated event in these United States of alleged First Amendment protections. However, the dubious distinction of having been the first Federal book-burn victim belongs to Dinshah. Ten years previously, in 1947, in compliance with a Federal Court order, he had to "surrender for destruction" his unique library and all printed material per- taining to coloured light therapies to US marshals in Camden, New Jersey. All during those years he remained steadfastly dedicated to truth in the healing arts, and to his per- sonal vision of an earnest, energetic, open America (a vision he formed some 50 years earlier on his first visit). The source of this resiliency is found in part in his often-repeat- ed motto: "Truth can be defeated, never conquered." In the better-known case of Dr Reich, the very barbarity of the assault itself added to his mystique, imparting a legendary martyrdom and ensuring an elevated niche in history independent of the content or validity of his science. In contrast, very few, even among practitioners of the alternative disciplines, know the story of SCT despite the uninterrupt- ed efforts of the Dinshah Health Society, established and run by his son Darius Dinshah on the original 23-acre Malaga, New Jersey estate. Operating under the strict confines of the final 1958 FDA (Food and Drug Administration) injunction, which is still in effect, SCT has somehow survived to enjoy the modicum of legitimacy conferred by the 1994 recognition and listing (as an information source only) of SCT by the US Office of Alternative Medicine. Fortunately for us, the core of the system (any projected light source except fluorescent, plus 12 coloured filters) is so low-tech, and the "tonation" application formulations— laboriously determined and charted by Dinshah—are so simple that the ease of home assembly and utilisation allows for convenient acc ility. Unfortunately for Dinshah (the "Ghadiali" was dropped in America), it was precisely this low-tech accessibility and therapeutic efficacy which made him an irresistible and inevitable target for Fishbein and the healing-for-money establishment. Born in Bombay, India, in 1873 to a Parsee watchmaker of Persian descent (the Zoroastrian faith to which he adhered is often referred to as "the Faith of Light"), Dinshah's special genius and industry soon became apparent. He began primary school at age three, and high school at eight. By his 11th year he was an assistant to the Professor by Stuart Troy ©1997 For further information, contact: Dinshah Health Society PO Box 707 Malaga, NJ 08328, USA Telephone: +1 (609) 692 4686 Web: htttp:// www.wj.net/dinshah For further information, contact: Dinshah Health Society PO Box 707 Malaga, NJ 08328, USA Telephone: +1 (609) 692 4686 Web: htttp:// www.wj.net/dinshah NEXUS - 37 by Stuart Troy ©1997 DECEMBER 1997 - JANUARY 1998