BOOKS

Making Waves:
Irving Dardik and His SuperWave Principle
 
by Roger Lewin

The amazing story of Irving Dardik, from the science behind it all, to health and the ups and downs of being a maverick, is NOW AVAILABLE.

Irving Dardik has been making waves for years, promoting his SuperWave Principle as a new understanding of health and disease, and the nature of nature. Why, then, was the medical establishment so threatened by Irving Dardik’s revolutionary approach to health that, 10 years ago, it stripped him of his medical license? And how could the science establishment so dismissively shun his ideas when at the same time, some considered it to be the long sought after Theory of Everything?

Now, different questions are being asked. Why would internationally renowned researchers at Harvard Medical School, Columbia University, Wistar Institute, and St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, agree to test the LifeWaves Program in three separate clinical trials? How did the trials indicate that Dardik’s approach could reverse disease symptoms in victims of Parkinson’s disease and HIV/AIDS; and how did they enhance well being in healthy people?

In MAKING WAVES, Lewin presents a startling case for the SuperWave Principle in weaving together Dardik’s personal progression from vascular surgeon to scientific iconoclast and pioneer; his struggle to convince the scientific community to take him seriously; and the evolution of the Principle itself. It’s a gripping read that will engage those concerned about their own health and vitality as well as those curious about the fundamental workings of nature.

Comments on Making Waves
by Dr. Michael McKubre
Stanford Research Institute, 2005

MAKING WAVES is more than the remarkable book of a remarkable man with a remarkable idea; it is a bridge.  Few who understand the words on these pages will emerge on the other side with their worldview unchanged.  Anticipating the palpitations normally felt when threatened with the need to understand or accommodate a new idea I will hastily add that this idea is well expressed and not difficult to grasp, and it is not mystical or mathematical.  It is simply fundamental. 

In this "centennial year of Einstein" it is particularly appropriate to recall that new ideas are not only possible, they are inevitable and vital to the wellbeing of science.  The outer circumference of applied physics is strong, vibrant and expanding.  The core however remains hollow, inconsistent and possibly unsound.  At the very best it is incomplete, as encapsulated by Sir Arthur Eddington with reference to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle "Something unknown is doing we don't know what".  It is possible that the central idea exposed on these pages will help us understand if not what the unknown is made from, at least what it is doing to create everything we know, life and nonlife.  This would be huge progress towards shoring up the core of physics.

Let me expand on my remarks about man, idea and gateway.  Roger Lewin has crafted a kind, even loving narrative history of Dr. Irving Dardik and the people who influenced and were influenced by him.  The story itself is so engaging and compelling it might seem fiction, but it is fact.  The characters here are larger than life simply because, in life, they are and were that way: Dardik, Godfrey, Kelly, Kimmel; titans all.

What is this simple idea that speaks to the coherence of living systems, of physics and physical science, and of the universe?  What promises to deliver us from the deadening drudgery of entropy, inevitable decay and disorder?  Imagine yourself on the ocean shore.  It is easy to appreciate the periodicity but waves arrive from many sources and directions.  The dashed waves surge out again creating counterwaves.  Waves peaks build and subside, periodicity of the periodicity, waves within waves. It seems complex but it is not arbitrary.  The pattern of waves is continuously connected with every other point and influence of, on and within the ocean.  Here on the distant shore a coherent pattern emerges, a steady rhythm, a pulse that draws order from disorder defying the second law of thermodynamics.  In Dardik's idea the ocean is the universe and everything in it.

Is this like butterflies and chaos theory you ask warily?  Mercifully, the answer is no. Through the medium of waves every point communicates with every other, as one body.  Chaos and disorder are not invoked, statistics and other mathematical abstractions are not involved.  What does this have to do with the fundament of the universe, the nature of life, metallurgy, physics, physical chemistry, reversal of disease, wellness, athletic performance?  You will have to read further here and further again since these connections are still being tested in many reputable institutions around the world, including my own.  But the answer will turn out to be that the wave concepts of Dardik shed new light on all of the issues in question and more.  His idea could turn out to be the most important new understanding of nature in our age.