In the 1930’s and 1940’s, Royal Raymond Rife revolutionized everything that has been done before or since in high resolution optical microscopy.
      He also revolutionized everything before or since in cellular biology. He carried cellular structure far beyond anything ever dreamed of at the time or presently. He revealed the direct connection between organized living energy forms and organized biological systems. He revealed that life itself is organized and dynamic, to a far finer level than anything in the textbooks today. He revealed that our present theory of disease is fundamentally very, very wrong.
      He produced direct, economical, electromagnetic cures of cancer, leukemia, and other such debilitating diseases. His work presages a future mankind could have had, where most debilitating diseases were quickly and economically corrected, and where no poisonous drugs, violent nuclear irradiation, and harsh chemotherapeutic "burning" of the patient would be necessary.
      For such epochal work, he was ostracized, essentially imprisoned in a medical treatment facility, broken, condemned, and rejected by his peers. His findings, though printed in reputable publications and journals, were discredited and ridiculed.
      He literally was reduced to a non-person by the power of the medical cartel.
      Finally escaping from his enforced confinement, he lived out his remaining years and died quietly and unknown.

      With his universal microscope, Rife achieved optical resolution of up to 31,000 diameters and magnification up to 60,000 diameters. His microscope could examine living viruses, living bacteria, and other as-yet-undiscovered living organisms and living energy forms that no other microscope before or since could see.
      Even today, only the electron microscope furnishes such resolution, and it zaps-to-death the objects that are being examined. Further, it will not at all detect or see the "living energy forms" revealed by Rife's microscope.
      To appreciate Rife's accomplishment, let's briefly summarize some of the performance factors of an optical microscope.*

      Several factors are important in the functioning of a microscope: Resolution, magnification, and contrast lead the list.
      By resolution we refer to the ability of the instrument to distinguish a small object. In other words, something like looking at a medical doctor's eye chart, and specifying the smallest print one can clearly see.  Resolution is often referred to as resolving power.
      By "magnification" or magnifying power we mean the ability of the instrument to "blow up" or enlarge the image produced. Roughly, it's the ratio of the apparent size of the object seen through the microscope to the apparent size of the same object seen without the instrument.
      Magnifying power is exactly like enlarging a photograph. It won't improve the resolution or make the photograph any clearer, but may make whatever was captured (resolved) easier for the human operator to see. If you just keep enlarging the photograph, it will get more and more grainy, until no further details can be seen with higher magnification.
      Contrast refers to the distinctness by which the various parts of the object can be distinguished from one another. To enhance contrast of objects under the microscope, staining of the objects is often used. Very often the act of staining will itself kill the living organisms—such as bacteria—that are being examined.

Figure 92.  Royal Raymond Rife in his laboratory.  Courtesy Christopher Bird

Figure 93.  Rife's first virus microscope.  Courtesy Christopher Bird

Figure 94.  Side view of Royal R. Rife's prismatic universal microscope.  Largest and most powerful of five Rife microscopes.  With it, living filterable viruses could be observed.  Courtesy Christopher Bird

Figure 95.  Front view of Royal R. Rife's prismatic universal microscope. Built in 1933 in Rife's San Diego, California laboratory.  Courtesy Chris Bird.

      We may state the resolution of an optical microscope in terms of the diameter of the smallest object resolved: for example, so many nanometers. Or we may just simply and loosely speak of so many thousands of diameters.
      The resolution of an optical microscope depends upon the illumination conditions, its optical system, and the fact that the object viewed diffracts and spreads the light. A wide variety of mechanisms for illuminating, resolving, contrasting, etc. are used in optical microscopes.
      According to standard Rayleigh theory, normal optical microscopes are limited in resolution to about half a wavelength. That corresponds to about 250 nanometers for visible light illumination. One can do a little better than that by using ultraviolet light and quartz optics. The UV has a higher frequency than visible light and hence a shorter wavelength. However, beyond 240 nanometers the resolution of an optical microscope quickly disappears.
     A few researchers—notably in the 30's and 40's—remarked about other factors, such as "quality of the lenses," affecting resolution. Some of them reported results to about a tenth of a wavelength. Loosely, that translated to somewhere in the order of 5,000 to 6,000 diameters. The dependable upper limit seemed to be—and still is—about 3,000 diameters, however .
     Normal optical microscopes simply are almost useless for trying to look at viruses. They will not resolve any but the very largest viruses, and will not resolve the internal features of even those few giants.
     Much of today's knowledge of virus structures and shapes comes from the use of electron microscopes. They bombard the object viewed with a fierce rain of energetic electrons. These instruments see nothing of the functioning of the virus, for they kill it instantly in trying to view it.
     With Rife's universal microscope, the dynamic living functions of the virus could be observed without killing it.
     With Rife's microscope, a whole range of complex organisms and structures below the size of bacteria was revealed. Many of these organisms are still not known to present science, even though some of them were written about at the time. Filterable forms of bacteria—forms which readily passed through filters supposed to easily block their passage—were discovered and reported by Rife and his medical colleagues.
     In addition, Rife's microscope—which contained block-quartz prisms and lenses and interference stages—revealed halos around living organisms that other microscopes could not see, even though the object was within their resolving power. Further, it revealed the existence of entire organisms and forms which other microscopes could not see—even though, again, the size of the organisms was within their resolving power .
     In other words, Rife's microscope not only revealed smaller physical forms than any other microscope could see, but it also revealed sizeable "living energy" forms which no other microscope could see.

*E.g., see T. Sato et al, "Application of evanescent waves to microscopic observation," Bull. Tokyo Inst. Technol. (Japan), No.125, 1974. p. 35-41. See also G.A. Massey, "Microscopy and pattern generation with scanned evanescent waves," Appl. Opt. (Poland), 13(3),1983. p. 247-255.

      Shortly we will briefly give an "ad hoc" explanation of such evanescent waves.
      Electromagnetism has been shown by Kaluza-Klein theory to actually exist in the fifth dimension. In other words, EM itself is hyperdimensional. It flows in the fifth dimension, which is "wrapped around" each point in our ordinary space. It is—to the first approximation—the external environment of every normal point in our 3-space.
      Let's say that again.
      The electromagnetics "medium" itself is totally external to each point in our space. Each of our points is surrounded in higher space by the electromagnetic medium.
      We live inside a totally electromagnetic medium. It's not just an "electromagnetic environment" in our own space; instead, it's an electromagnetic environment in hyperspace.

      Everything already is just the internal structure of the electromagnetic medium!

     That's what the "vacuum" is.
     That's what "spacetime" is.
     That's what the "virtual state" is.
     That's what physical matter is.

     And it's all alive. Totally and completely alive. Everything is alive. There is nothing but life. The electromagnetic medium is alive.
     Except within a locally-organized biopotential area, it's just "equally alive in all directions." So it appears inert, where by "inert" we mean not singly preferential.
     Every biopotential change, at any level in a biopotential, extends "decaying-expotential-wise" to infinity, by standard theory. Part of that potential change exists at every point in the entire spatial universe. And there at that point, so do the biopotential changes for every other biosystem in the universe.
     Everything's alive. There is nothing but life. Anywhere. Any time.
     An interchange between this "living, surrounding electromagnetic medium" and each particle of mass in our 3-space continually occurs. This exchange involves the so-called virtual particle flux.
     If we model higher dimensions, such as are necessary to include the "particle zoo" discovered by modern particle physics, each of these "higher dimensions" corresponds to a "successively deeper" internested level of virtual particle flux—of the vacuum, or of this electromagnetic medium that surrounds us.
     The living system orders, structures, and dynamically functions and interchanges electromagnetically throughout many higher "dimensions"—throughout many such internested levels of virtual- state/vacuum/spacetime .
     Except for the first layer of virtual state (the 5th dimension in Kaluza-Klein theory), gross (classical) electromagnetic theory totally ignores the infolded, ordered deeper structure of electromagnetism (of the EM medium).
     Using such gross electromagnetics, orthodox science thus can only detect and grasp the gross results of the living organism's functioning. Further, it can only detect and grasp those gross results that actually move 3-space matter—observable particles.
     So it only detects the grossest interchanges between "mind" or "life" and matter. Specifically, it only detects the final results of that interchange the gross movement of material particles themselves.
     The first hypernumber—"i," the square root of minus 1—is used to model another dimension at right angles to our normal three. An electromagnetic wave thus is modeled to have two parts: the first is the part that affects or moves a material particle, and that's called the "real" part or "observable" part. The second part of the EM wave is the component that lies in this "imaginary" (unfortunate standard term!) dimension. That imaginary part does not of itself move charged particles, so it is considered to be "something other than real."
     Note that what's really done in this sort of orthodox modeling is to define observation as the movement of observable charged particles.
     The human "conscious mind" is a functioning part of the overall human mind that has been specifically fitted to function almost totally with our gross bodily detection of the photon interaction.
     We thus consciously detect and "are aware of' only the first level of reality:  the interface between the first layer of virtual-state/ vacuum/spacetime/ and the 3-space of observable particles of mass.
     Since the physicist must be "conscious" of his observation or instrumental detection, the detection process ultimately has to have a final stage that produces a photoelectric interaction with his body—for that is all the conscious mind detects and processes.
       Everything chemical, electrical, etc.—according to quantum mechanics—will involve at its root level only the photoelectric effect.

      Rife's Microscope Used Evanescent Waves
       However, it is certainly possible to build an instrument which is multi-staged, and one in which higher stages interact primarily with deeper internested levels of vacuum virtual state. That is, an instrument that interacts with higher dimensional phenomena. That is, one that interacts with deeper internested levels of electro- magnetics. If these stages interact causally in a vertical manner , then the final interaction with the human body and nervous system can still be "normal electromagnetics" and yet indicate a higher dimensional phenomenon, event, or function.
      That is precisely what Rife did: His universal microscope penetrated to a much finer level of reality because its multiple stages used evanescent waves.
      Here's what we mean by that.
     An electromagnetic wave consists of a "real" part and an "imaginary" part, as we have discussed. It's possible, however, to have the real part become zero, and still have the "imaginary" part remain and dynamically vary .
     This sort of wave—containing only the "imaginary" part—is said to be one type of complex wave, or an evanescent wave.
     In advanced EM waveguide and optical theory , such evanescent waves can function to guide or determine the real parts of the EM waves. That "real part" is the part that is then going to interact with electrons and move them, and give us a "detection."
     In other words, the "real" part of the EM wave will be moved and guided by the "higher dimensional" or evanescent part, or even by separated evanescent parts—pure evanescent waves.
     So one can build a device or instrument that utilizes such an effect to reveal what's going on in a whole dimension beyond what we normally see. Waveguides in certain RF radars already do that.
     Such instruments are not limited to the resolution determined by the "real" part of the EM wave (such as the "real part" of light).
     Such a microscope would not necessarily be limited in resolution by the wavelength of the light it used to illustrate the observed object.
     Indeed, if one uses a higher dimensional Kaluza-Klein model (which particle physics of necessity has to consider), one could build a "repetitive stages" instrument which could view many more higher dimensions. That's exactly the same thing as viewing many more deeper internested levels of virtual state.
     That is precisely what Royal R. Rife did: He developed a microscope using multiple stages, special interferences, etc. He built a multistaged evanescent wave instrument that could see into higher dimensions and deeper levels of virtual state.
     Rife's microscopes were thus startlingly different from normal microscopes. That is why he could see phenomena and organisms, ostensibly within the size capability of normal microscopic resolution, which ordinary microscopes could not see.*

*However, Rife's microscope was extraordinarily difficult to focus. Rife often
spent 24 hours straight at his universal microscope, just in focusing it.

     Evanescent waves penetrate the virtual state (hyperdimensions) and interact with what to us is "dimensionless" (what does not spatially intersect our 3-space). Interfering multiple evanescent waves reflected from/having interacted with these (to us) nonphysical forms can again reproduce ordinary electromagnetic "light." Thus the evanescent wave microscope, if properly built, allows one to directly "see" (and photograph) what is to us living forms of energy , nonphysical, and without 3-space matter bodies.**

**If one is going to accept the many-dimensional theories necessary to explain particle physics, one must accept the possibility of higher dimensional living things, which we would "see" as living energy forms or as thought forms. These would appear nonphysical to us—as is time itself—but would be real and interactive nonetheless.

     The same scheme can be used to develop instruments capable of directly revealing the living nonphysical world around us -such as the human biopotentials, their internal structures (including "thought forms"), etc. What the Soviets call bioplasma can be directly observed and photographed in this fashion. We have only to develop the necessary instruments; the science required is difficult,   but it is already in the literature.
       That is what Rife's microscope did. It was a forerunner of the instruments we need to develop in electromagnetic healing, and Rife was a truly great and unappreciated pioneer.
      In one swoop medical science could have jumped a century ahead. The ruthless suppression of Rife and his fantastic scientific breakthrough was one of the most dastardly deeds ever perpetuated by the orthodox scientific establishment.

      Rife Revealed a Far More Fundamental, Living Biology
      With Rife's powerful universal microscope, it was also possible to view the interiors of the so-called "pinpoint" cells situated between normal tissue cells and just barely visible to ordinary microscopes.
      Here is the astonishing living world inside those "pinpoint" cells, as revealed under Rife's powerful instrument: When one of the "pinpoint" cells was magnified, still smaller cells were revealed within its structure. When one of these still-smaller cells, in turn, was magnified, it too was seen to be composed of even smaller cells.
     With Rife's microscope, this process could be repeated 16 times. An astonishing internested series of organized levels of a living cell was revealed, far more fundamental than anything that exists in present biological theory.
     The present author points out most strongly that these levels correspond electrically to, and are in virtual particle flux pattern exchange with, the electromagnetic potentials of their environment. This includes their own biopotentials that are centered in the atomic nuclei of the atoms comprising the physical material of the cells, and that charge up with specific internal patterns.
     The biopotential itself is organized into a corresponding virtual-state series of internested levels and functions. The structured biopotential of the cell is a living, organized, functioning thing, and its internal functioning literally constitutes the "spirit" or "true nonmaterial deep mind" of the organism.

    All the internested levels are in constant electromagnetic ex change "up and down" with each other, particularly with respect to organized virtual particle flux patterns.
     In addition, all the cells are in constant electromagnetic ex change "across" with each other, at all levels. This provides a dynamic, structured, living biopotential for the entire bio-organism (the entire body). Within this potential, dynamic interchange on all levels is continually occurring. This is the basis for the master cellular communication system that Dr. Fritz Albert Popp discovered.
     Rife's powerful microscope had revealed nonmaterial function ing life forms (structured, dynamic, living biopotentials) connected to material bodies.
     He could follow "filterable" forms of bacteria—actual living biopotential forms of the organisms that could not be separated out by filters, but which would easily pass through any filter. * He could observe interactions of these forms, changes of forms, translations and transmissions of forms, etc.—none of which is detectable by present biological theory or medical science.

*More precisely, they would easily flow around the 3-dimensional filter, since they were hyperdimensional.

     Rife had advanced biology and biophysics a century in one jump. As always, orthodox scientists—most of whom in their scientific paradigm are self-admitted materialists—were quite unready to tolerate such heresy.
     Obviously the materialistic dogma of the science of his day—and of the science of today—reacted most hostilely to such hogwash. Contrary to the prevailing mystique, most scientists are dogmatically attached to materialism and to the dogma of their present paradigm. Faced with a conflict provided by experiment, most will uphold the dogma and reject the experiment -the exact opposite of the scientific method they espouse.
     Rife's revolutionary work was no exception. He incurred the unending, total opposition of powerful individuals controlling the direction of biology and medical science for their own personal gains.
     Rife was hounded into court on trumped up charges. Though he was acquitted, he emerged a shaken, broken man and an alcoholic. His work was suppressed. His equipment was left to gather dust. He was also forcibly committed to a medical treatment facility.
     Finally escaping from his "prison," Rife lived out his remaining years quietly. He died without ever being vindicated for his marvelous, world-shaking discoveries.
     But at least he left us a legacy. Persons are still alive who knew Rife and his work, to one degree or another. Some of his microscopes are still in existence, though non-operable due to missing or stolen parts. With proper funding, an enlightened team of scientists and researchers can be assembled to quickly repair Rife's remaining instruments and duplicate his incredible work.
     With concentrated effort, Rife's work will yet play a primary role in the development of a direct electromagnetic cure for AIDS. As a byproduct, it will play a role in rapid development of cures for cancer and other debilitating diseases.
     Royal R. Rife's contributions may yet help save half of humanity, and prevent a Soviet takeover of the world.