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because his technology was just too success- science division at the Hubble Space B oO oO K Ss ful. Many doctors who had used his "beam Telescope Science Institute and author of 9 ray" device vouched for him, as did many of | The Accelerating Universe) takes the reader Reviewed by Ruth Parnell the patients he cured, but the cards were to the heart of this number, tempting us to ROYAL R. RIFE: Humanitarian — stacked against him even in the courts. John —_ touch on the essence of beauty itself. But Crane, a later associate of Rife, also fell foul rather than giving us just a picture book of Betrayed and Persecuted of the law, and there's speculation as to how —_phi's breathtaking expressions in nature (he by Gerald F. Foye 7 wpe true to Rife's original designs and frequen- does have some great graphics, it should be Rife Technology Plasma Publishing, USA, ies Crane's devices were. 4 said), Livio takes us on an enticing journey 2002 (revised 2nd printing) Foye's treatment is somewhat disjointed into the history of numbers, mathematics ISBN 0-9659613-3-8 (157pp tpb) . and by no means chronological, and in many and geometry and the people who were part Price: US$16.50 inc. s&h in USA; outside instances the events being discussed are not Of it. His perspectives on ancient Indian, USA, add US$3.00 s&h; euro21,90 speci ich is a li ing: Babylonian, Egyptian and Greek under- iivartetie . date-specific, which is a little confusing; . Lg ek unde Availability: USA—Rife Technology also, the overuse of the exclamation mark is _ Standing of divine number are intriguing, as Plasma Publishing, 9856 Old Ridge Road, quite irritating. But these points aside, this are his revelations about Kepler's synthesis Spring Valley, CA 91977-3462, email is a good introduction to the field. of the Golden Ratio in a new cosmology. GFoye@aol.com, website Anyone who has ever marvelled ata loga- http:/Awww rtplasmapub.com; THE GOLDEN RATIO: The Story of} —_‘ithmic spiral will be enthralled by this con- Europe—NEXUS Office Phi, the Extraordinary Number of sidered examination that takes in the won- istory will eventually judge Dr Royal Nature. Art and Beaut ders of human consciousness and the possi- Raymond Rife as one of the 20th centu- by M 7 Livi y bility that God is indeed a mathematician. ry's great scientists, doctors, inventors, Ry, am titin K 2002 Whether you're into Plato, pyramids, platon- researchers and humanitarians—but not until eview/Headline, UK, 200 ic solids, Pythagoras, Ptolemy or prime , orthodox science and medicine accepts his ISBN 0-7472-4987-3 (294pp hc) numbers, there's plenty in Professor Livio's groundbreaking discoveries. In the late Price: A$39.95; NZ$54.99; £15.00; book to excite the brain and imagination. 1920s, Dr Rife developed the Universal euro26,90; US$24.95 ; Prismatic Microscope, which enabled him to Availability: Australia— Hodder Headline, study live micro-organisms, and a "radiant tel (02) 8248 0800; NZ—Hodder Moa plasma resonant frequency emission Beckett, tel (09) 478 1000; UK—Hodder device", which, using specific frequencies, Headline, www.hodderheadline.co.uk; could "devitalise" all sorts of disease agents, Europe—NEXUS, tel +31 (0)228 324076; including the "cancer-causing organism". USA—Transworld Random House, tel Researcher Gerald Foye is one of many (212) 572 2571 involved in rediscovering and preserving all it the Golden Ratio, the Golden Rife's legacy (we've reviewed a few such Mean, the Golden Section or phi (@), the books recently), and here he touches on not never-ending number 1.6180339887... has just Rife's life and work but the people he intrigued humanity since antiquity. This worked with, for good and ill, up until his irrational number holds answers to the death in 1971. Despite devoting his life to secrets of divine proportion, and thus is a the service of humanity, Rife suffered perse- _ key to the essence of creativity and under- cution and vilification particularly at the standing in art, architecture, design, biology, hands of the AMA and its long-time journal _ botany and other disciplines. editor, the notorious Morris Fishbein, Professor Mario Livio (who is head of the science division at the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute and author of The Accelerating Universe) takes the reader to the heart of this number, tempting us to touch on the essence of beauty itself. But rather than giving us just a picture book of phi's breathtaking expressions in nature (he does have some great graphics, it should be said), Livio takes us on an enticing journey into the history of numbers, mathematics and geometry and the people who were part of it. His perspectives on ancient Indian, Babylonian, Egyptian and Greek under- standing of divine number are intriguing, as are his revelations about Kepler's synthesis of the Golden Ratio in a new cosmology. Anyone who has ever marvelled at a loga- rithmic spiral will be enthralled by this con- sidered examination that takes in the won- ders of human consciousness and the possi- bility that God is indeed a mathematician. Whether you're into Plato, pyramids, platon- ic solids, Pythagoras, Ptolemy or prime numbers, there's plenty in Professor Livio's book to excite the brain and imagination. NEXUS * 65 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2003 www.nexusmagazine.com