The Story of Royal Rife
Royal Rife was probably one of the foremost geniuses of recent times, and yet he died a penniless alcoholic and his life's work has been expunged from the history books and all evidence of his research and tools have disappeared.
Why?
Royal Raymond Rife Jr. was born in Nebraska in 1888. Not much is known about his early years, but he had a German accent which may have been because his family spoke German at home.
Later, while studying at university, he started to work part-time for Zeiss, a manufacturer of camera lenses and microscopes and he is reported to have also spent some time at their offices in Germany and to have studied there.
He was also a naval commander and possibly because of his ability to speak German, may have worked on assignment for the US government in Europe during World War I.
After the end of the war, he set out to find cures for disease and especially for the most intractable of all diseases - cancer. He felt that some undiscovered microorganism may play a crucial role in the causation of malignancy.
However, over a period of many years examining over 20,000 laboratory samples he and his colleagues became frustrated with the results obtained using standard research microscopes and determined to produce a microscope which would offer higher resolution and magnification.
And so he went on to develop the first of several extraordinary and revolutionary microscopes to better scrutinise the tissue samples.
The Rife microscopeThe first microscope Royal Rife developed came to be known as the Rife microscope and offered extraordinary magnification in excess of 60,000X - which was up to 25X the highest magnification available at the time - also with excellent resolution.
The electron microscope which was also developed in the 1930s offered magnification of 500,000X. However, the limitation was that samples had to be prepared in a vacuum and then blasted with electrons and so this killed any living matter. Whereas, the Rife microscope enabled high magnification of living samples.
At the time there were two major camps with regard to infectious diseases. One camp maintained that viruses but not bacteria were able to pass through a filter in the same way as minnows but not larger fish can pass through a fishing net and they became known as the 'filtrationists'. Those who disagreed with the theory were known as the 'non-filtrationists'.
Rife worked with Dr. Arthur Kendall, of Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois who had developed a nutritive substance known as 'Kendall Medium'. This gel permitted the transformation of bacteria into the forms maintained by the filtrationists.
After a long and fruitless search for the cancer causing agent, Rife hit upon placing specimens in tubes filled with argon gas and passing an electric charge through them, placing the tube in a water vacuum and heating it to near body temperature for 24 hours. He felt that this process brought the causative microorganisms into the visible light part of the spectrum and was thus able to demonstrate the tiny organisms that the filtrationists maintained existed.
To further test his theory, Rife injected rats with the tiny microorganisms he had identified and they all contracted cancerous tumours that when examined contained the causative agent.
Rife was an extraordinarily meticulous researcher and ultimately spent decades perfecting protocols and could spend as long as a day trying to get one specimen into proper focus.
Rife rocks the boatRife's findings shook the foundations of the established science and medical paradigm by stating that:
And this is what happened to Royal Rife.
Others, without using his microscope or following his carefully developed protocols hastily tried to replicate his results and inevitably failed then publicly called him a liar and a fraud.
When required to furnish proof of his claims, he treated 27 people with terminal cancer all bar one of whom (who was in a very advanced stage of the disease) recovered.
As a result, in 1931 forty-four doctors attended a dinner celebrating "The End To All Diseases" honouring Rife and his microscope and Professor Arthur Kendall. During this meeting, moving microorganisms from prepared, diseased tissue were observed, photographed and recorded on cine film.
The Universal microscope
Rife went on to develop his third and most powerful 'Universal' microscope in 1933 which consisted of nearly 6,000 parts and which was highly adaptable to all kinds of light sources and also contained a special device for crystallography. Its entire optical system and illuminating unit were made of crystal quartz and this arrangement could bend and polarise light so that specimens could be illuminated by extremely narrow parts of the light spectrum.
The microscope could not only identify incredibly tiny microorganisms, but was also a frequency generator. He developed a system whereby he had identified the Mortal Oscillatory Rate (MOR) of various pathogenic organisms. This MOR was the specific frequency of the pathogen, which, when fed this frequency would cause destruction of the organism. This occurs in the same way as an opera singer hitting a high 'C' might shatter a wine glass.
So powerful was his microscope according to a 1944 Smithsonian Institution report: "Under the Universal Microscope disease organisms such as those of cancer ... and other disease may be observed to succumb when exposed to certain lethal frequencies."
These mortal resonances were said to be efficient in destroying microorganisms at distances of up to 300 metres. By 1971, Rife had identified the mortal oscillatory rates of 60 microorganisms.
".. these waves or the 'ray' has the power of devitalising disease organisms, of 'killing ' them, when tuned to an exact particular wave length, or frequency, for each different organism. This applies to the organisms both in their free state and, with certain exceptions, when they are in living tissues."
Rife in the San Diego Evening Tribune, 1938
He successfully treated cancer in over 400 experimental rats and other animals in his laboratory. Clinical trials in humans were then undertaken by a special research committee at the University of Southern California under the auspices of Milbank Johnson, M.D.
Sixteen people with malignancies considered hopeless were treated, and within three months, fourteen of these cases were officially signed off as clinically cured by a team of five medical doctors and a pathologist. The two subjects which were unable to be cured were both in very advanced stages of cancer.
A Dr Arthur W. Yale of San Diego, hearing of Rife's work acquired and started using a frequency emitter to treat cancer patients. After a decade he wrote that "the treatment and results have been so unique and unbelievable" and that Rife's findings constituted an "entirely new theory of the origin and cause of cancer".
Rife's discoveries caused a furore within the medical and microbiological world and he was effectively put on trial by the U.S. medical authorities. This proved so traumatic to the highly sensitive inventor intent on relieving the suffering of humanity that he had a total nervous breakdown. With his life's work in tatters and abandoned by his former colleagues he turned to drink ultimately to die to a heart attack in 1971 aged 83.
In 1987, publication of the book The Cancer Cure That Worked by Barry Lynes reignited interest in Rife's work. Further to this revival of interest, a variety of devices which probably were nothing like Rife's Universal microscope were marketed using his name and some of these were then subject to legal proceedings by the US Food and Drug Administration for making fraudulent claims.
Only five Universal microscopes were ever manufactured and it seems that violence and misfortune have followed the owners of these microscopes who have often met with untimely endings including dying of strontium 90 poisoning. The thousands of still pictures and hundreds of feet of cinefilm made along with the Rife microscopes have disappeared without trace.
Support for RifeIn fact, Royal Rife was not alone in maintaining that microorganisms arose from within the body and could change form from viruses, to bacteria and yeasts - a theory known as pleomorphism. Although many of these researchers never knew of the existence of each other because of their era, geographical separation and suppression of their findings, they all produced confirmatory research as detailed below.
Royal Rife was probably one of the foremost geniuses of recent times, and yet he died a penniless alcoholic and his life's work has been expunged from the history books and all evidence of his research and tools have disappeared.
Why?
Royal Raymond Rife Jr. was born in Nebraska in 1888. Not much is known about his early years, but he had a German accent which may have been because his family spoke German at home.
Later, while studying at university, he started to work part-time for Zeiss, a manufacturer of camera lenses and microscopes and he is reported to have also spent some time at their offices in Germany and to have studied there.
He was also a naval commander and possibly because of his ability to speak German, may have worked on assignment for the US government in Europe during World War I.
After the end of the war, he set out to find cures for disease and especially for the most intractable of all diseases - cancer. He felt that some undiscovered microorganism may play a crucial role in the causation of malignancy.
However, over a period of many years examining over 20,000 laboratory samples he and his colleagues became frustrated with the results obtained using standard research microscopes and determined to produce a microscope which would offer higher resolution and magnification.
And so he went on to develop the first of several extraordinary and revolutionary microscopes to better scrutinise the tissue samples.
The Rife microscopeThe first microscope Royal Rife developed came to be known as the Rife microscope and offered extraordinary magnification in excess of 60,000X - which was up to 25X the highest magnification available at the time - also with excellent resolution.
The electron microscope which was also developed in the 1930s offered magnification of 500,000X. However, the limitation was that samples had to be prepared in a vacuum and then blasted with electrons and so this killed any living matter. Whereas, the Rife microscope enabled high magnification of living samples.
At the time there were two major camps with regard to infectious diseases. One camp maintained that viruses but not bacteria were able to pass through a filter in the same way as minnows but not larger fish can pass through a fishing net and they became known as the 'filtrationists'. Those who disagreed with the theory were known as the 'non-filtrationists'.
Rife worked with Dr. Arthur Kendall, of Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois who had developed a nutritive substance known as 'Kendall Medium'. This gel permitted the transformation of bacteria into the forms maintained by the filtrationists.
After a long and fruitless search for the cancer causing agent, Rife hit upon placing specimens in tubes filled with argon gas and passing an electric charge through them, placing the tube in a water vacuum and heating it to near body temperature for 24 hours. He felt that this process brought the causative microorganisms into the visible light part of the spectrum and was thus able to demonstrate the tiny organisms that the filtrationists maintained existed.
To further test his theory, Rife injected rats with the tiny microorganisms he had identified and they all contracted cancerous tumours that when examined contained the causative agent.
Rife was an extraordinarily meticulous researcher and ultimately spent decades perfecting protocols and could spend as long as a day trying to get one specimen into proper focus.
Rife rocks the boatRife's findings shook the foundations of the established science and medical paradigm by stating that:
- Germs arose from within the body itself and were the result and not the cause of disease.
- He identified microorganisms that were up to one hundredth the size of bacteria (0.05 microns as opposed to 0.5 - 5 microns).
- Depending upon the terrain, these microorganisms could morph into a bacterium, virus or fungus. He identified 16 different states that could arise in this way. He had also captured the metamorphosis from one form to another on cinefilm typically recorded over a period of about 36 hours.
- Tiny changes in the culture medium (2 parts per million) could produce a change in form.
- Some of these microorganisms became larger and unable to pass through a filter and with successive changes became visible under an ordinary light microscope.
- He identified specific tiny microbes in the blood of over 90% of cancer victims.
- At great magnification he could identify that cells were not the ultimate building blocks of living matter, but were actually composed of smaller cells, which themselves were made up of even smaller cells. In total, he identified sixteen levels of what we would now call the cell fractal or hologram.
And this is what happened to Royal Rife.
Others, without using his microscope or following his carefully developed protocols hastily tried to replicate his results and inevitably failed then publicly called him a liar and a fraud.
When required to furnish proof of his claims, he treated 27 people with terminal cancer all bar one of whom (who was in a very advanced stage of the disease) recovered.
As a result, in 1931 forty-four doctors attended a dinner celebrating "The End To All Diseases" honouring Rife and his microscope and Professor Arthur Kendall. During this meeting, moving microorganisms from prepared, diseased tissue were observed, photographed and recorded on cine film.
The Universal microscope
Rife went on to develop his third and most powerful 'Universal' microscope in 1933 which consisted of nearly 6,000 parts and which was highly adaptable to all kinds of light sources and also contained a special device for crystallography. Its entire optical system and illuminating unit were made of crystal quartz and this arrangement could bend and polarise light so that specimens could be illuminated by extremely narrow parts of the light spectrum.
The microscope could not only identify incredibly tiny microorganisms, but was also a frequency generator. He developed a system whereby he had identified the Mortal Oscillatory Rate (MOR) of various pathogenic organisms. This MOR was the specific frequency of the pathogen, which, when fed this frequency would cause destruction of the organism. This occurs in the same way as an opera singer hitting a high 'C' might shatter a wine glass.
So powerful was his microscope according to a 1944 Smithsonian Institution report: "Under the Universal Microscope disease organisms such as those of cancer ... and other disease may be observed to succumb when exposed to certain lethal frequencies."
These mortal resonances were said to be efficient in destroying microorganisms at distances of up to 300 metres. By 1971, Rife had identified the mortal oscillatory rates of 60 microorganisms.
".. these waves or the 'ray' has the power of devitalising disease organisms, of 'killing ' them, when tuned to an exact particular wave length, or frequency, for each different organism. This applies to the organisms both in their free state and, with certain exceptions, when they are in living tissues."
Rife in the San Diego Evening Tribune, 1938
He successfully treated cancer in over 400 experimental rats and other animals in his laboratory. Clinical trials in humans were then undertaken by a special research committee at the University of Southern California under the auspices of Milbank Johnson, M.D.
Sixteen people with malignancies considered hopeless were treated, and within three months, fourteen of these cases were officially signed off as clinically cured by a team of five medical doctors and a pathologist. The two subjects which were unable to be cured were both in very advanced stages of cancer.
A Dr Arthur W. Yale of San Diego, hearing of Rife's work acquired and started using a frequency emitter to treat cancer patients. After a decade he wrote that "the treatment and results have been so unique and unbelievable" and that Rife's findings constituted an "entirely new theory of the origin and cause of cancer".
Rife's discoveries caused a furore within the medical and microbiological world and he was effectively put on trial by the U.S. medical authorities. This proved so traumatic to the highly sensitive inventor intent on relieving the suffering of humanity that he had a total nervous breakdown. With his life's work in tatters and abandoned by his former colleagues he turned to drink ultimately to die to a heart attack in 1971 aged 83.
In 1987, publication of the book The Cancer Cure That Worked by Barry Lynes reignited interest in Rife's work. Further to this revival of interest, a variety of devices which probably were nothing like Rife's Universal microscope were marketed using his name and some of these were then subject to legal proceedings by the US Food and Drug Administration for making fraudulent claims.
Only five Universal microscopes were ever manufactured and it seems that violence and misfortune have followed the owners of these microscopes who have often met with untimely endings including dying of strontium 90 poisoning. The thousands of still pictures and hundreds of feet of cinefilm made along with the Rife microscopes have disappeared without trace.
Support for RifeIn fact, Royal Rife was not alone in maintaining that microorganisms arose from within the body and could change form from viruses, to bacteria and yeasts - a theory known as pleomorphism. Although many of these researchers never knew of the existence of each other because of their era, geographical separation and suppression of their findings, they all produced confirmatory research as detailed below.
- The American bacteriologist Dr. Edward C. Rosenow had asserted that bacteria were not unalterable and had also identified small bodies that were not visible under normal laboratory microscopes around the 1920s.
- Dr. Wilhelm Reich discovered 'bions' in the late 1930s which he maintained spontaneously proliferated in matter.
- The Swedish Ernst Bernhard Almquist made hundreds of observations of pleomorphic bacteria in his laboratory as did researchers in France, Italy, Germany, Russia and the United States and probably other countries.
- The Frenchman, Gaston Naessens also confirmed the existence of tiny microorganisms in the 1940s using his somatoscope.
- Another Frenchman, Dr. Georges Lakhovsky developed a multiwave oscillator (the Lakhovsky coil) with which he cured cancer as well as other diseases and which has also subsequently been banned by the FDA.
- The Italian born, Antoine Priore later developed a system of treatment using electromagnetic radiation combined with a plasma of noble gases to treat various diseases.
- A Danish biophysicist named Scott Hill reports that a Russian book written by two researchers at the Kazakh State University addresses the healing of various disorders as being accomplished by the use of ultraweak, monochromatic laser light.