James Barry traces anxiety back to urban electrification in the late 1800s and argues wireless technology today creates similar stress. He suggests testing life without your phone and grounding yourself, and references Arthur Firstenberg's book The Invisible Rainbow.
Do you know that the diagnosis of anxiety didn't come about until the electrification of our cities? In other words, when cities in the late 1800s and early 1900s started putting up lampposts, people started getting anxious and they didn't know why. So they put it in their psychology book that this is a diagnosis, anxiety, but he suspects it's linked to this condition of being around. And notice that wasn't even electromagnetic frequencies in terms of unwired. It was all wired at the time, but now we've got wireless stuff around us all the time. I invite people to test on themselves what it feels like to be away from the phone or getting your feet on the ground, making these small shifts. And I did read The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Furstenberg, and in there he said
