Biophotonics & Light Communication - the Science behind

Energy Healing
I'm in a wonderful position: I may witness people's wellbeing improve,
sometimes dramatically, while practicing Reconnective Healing. Watching them
come in with pain and leave without it, dance through the room trying out
movements they couldn't do in months, or get up saying: I'm not depressed
anymore!, move on the massage table so much in response to frequencies of
energy, light and information that I feel compelled to hold the table in place,
speak what seems another language fluently without conscious knowledge of it,
heal from a severe accident a lot faster than predicted - it makes you wonder
what exactly happens to people experiencing this, and what the Reconnective
Healing phenomenon is based on. This holistic process engages frequencies of
energy, light and information which tangibly and visibly interact with a person,
helping them to allow a healing to occur. It is wellbeing centered, powerful,
compatible with other approaches, as good for prevention as for healing and
recovery, offers benefits without risk, and can be life-changing. It addresses
causes rather than symptoms, while creating no dependency on the practitioner I don't see clients more than three times per life situation. Reconnective Healing
is also experiential. No article, book, or live presentation substitutes for a direct
experience of this process. However, these are good beginning points.
While applied in some areas of current medical practice, light frequencies as
curative agents enjoy comparatively little use. Yet, I believe that frequency and
information based healing is the way of the future. Reconnective Healing and
other energy healing modalities exemplify this already, and have been for
centuries in some cases (e.g. Qigong, Tai Chi there are c. 1000 energy healing
modalities). Light frequencies directly impact biology on a systemic level (Levin
2003, Popp 2006, Barbault et al 2009, Han et al 2011), while also being targeted,
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compatible with conventional therapy, harmless, effective, and lasting (Pearl

2001, Barbault et al 2009, Zimmermann et al 2012). How do they do that? And
isn't this a favorable approach to invasive methods? No needles. No pills. No
side-effects. Only feeling better. Brilliant! Is this kind of healing really possible?
The answer is YES. Light frequencies hold a key to wellbeing, and this article
explores why and how. T
What is light?
Before going into how light interacts with biology, it pays to revisit some basics.
What is light? What is this phenomenon that we're so familiar with we almost
forget it exists? Light is electromagnetic radiation. It exhibits what's called waveparticle duality: it posseses properties of both waves (frequency, energy,
information) and particles (= photons). Light waves combine two waves in one
(Fig.1): an electric wave forming an electrical field, and a perpendicular magnetic
wave forming a magnetic field. Both
these fields feed off each other,
creating a self-propagating light wave
in the process. Light has a frequency
(cycles per second, measured in
hertz), contains energy, and carries
information. The speed of light is
defined as 299.792 km/s. In other
words, a photon (particle of light)
travels 8.3 minutes between the Sun
and your skin while basking on a
sunny
Fig 1. Light wave.
Source: www.magnet.fsu.edu

day.

That's

150

million

kilometers in under 10 minutes (by

comparison, the Earth's circumference

is c. 40.000 km)! Another way to think about this: imagine sitting in an airplane,
and traveling around the world seven times in a row in one second. Wouldn't
that be fantastic! Let's just say that light travels very fast indeed. This hints at why
healing modalities that effectively employ it tend to work fast and do not require a
person to come back regularly, week after week, sometimes even years. In
Reconnective Healing, 90 minutes of
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interacting with frequencies of energy, light and information is more than enough
to know whether this works for someone, and felt health differences may occur
within minutes.
The visible spectrum of sunlight which informs and enables our visual sense
represents but one small portion of the entire frequency range coming from the
Sun (Fig 2). One could say we're literally blind to most solar radiation, as we only
perceive a narrow spectrum of what's emitted. However, we invented numerous
technologies that use light and see within other ranges inaccessable to our
senses, thus artificially extending our perception (Fig 2). Use of this light
technology influences (dictates?) our every day experience: TV, radio, GPS,
supermarket scanners, X-rays, and most prominently, cell phones and the
internet. All of these technologies use light frequencies to encode or decode
information, and thus to communicate. And it's everywhere, without getting
esoteric or religious or spiritual. Just scientific will do. Electromagnetic fields
accompany us all day every day.
One of the most important properties of light is carrying information. What
does this mean? Light waves can be changed in different ways to encode
information. AM and FM radio means amplitude and frequency modulation, for
example (amplitude is wave height, see Fig. 1). One can also vary the pulse of
waves (as in on-off). That is what Morse code uses. It is only important for the
recipient to know the code in order to understand the message, otherwise they
will only see seemingly senseless signals and miss the communication. Or take
sending a text message: you punch in letters that make sense. Then you press
'send' and your friend on the other end receives your message, also in letters on
their display. What happens in between? Your phone converts letters to an
electrical signal which it then transmits as a pulsed microwave pattern carrying
your information, until the recipient phone decodes that pattern and, converting it
back to letters, displays it as words on the screen. This, then, is an every day
example of using frequencies of energy, light and information to communicate.
The internet uses fibre optic cables to relay packets of information across long
distances. Same principle: your email is converted into electrical signals and
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Fig 2. The electromagnetic spectrum and its technological applications. Notice how
narrow the visible spectrum is, allowing (and confining) us to perceive the world through our
visual sense. Left scale: frequency; right scale: wavelength. Source: www.essayweb.net

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sage for the other person to read. It's all about encoding and decoding
information carried by waves. That's what our five senses do, too. That's all they
do! We are expert translators of vibration. Only it is so normal and so fast that
we're hardly aware of participating in it.
When

waves

interact,

they

form

interference patterns (Fig. 3). And these

patterns

contain

information.

For

example, in the case of pebbles tossed

in a pond, the resulting waves carry
information about the pebbles, their
size, the time of the event and point of
origin, and their speed. When colliding
waves amplify each other, we see larger Fig 3. Wave interference patterns contain
information. Source: ww.dreamstime.com
peaks
and
troughs
(information
addition); when they interfere destructively, they cancel each other out
(information loss). While interacting in this way, both waves share their respective
information while simultaneously maintaining their integrity: after the interaction
they look just as before. For example: wave A has amplitude A and wave B has
amplitude B. Both travel toward each other. When they overlap (interfere), the
resulting amplitude is A+B during the interaction, and then again A and B
afterwards, once both waves continue on their individual paths (as in A, B, A+B,
A, B). They just passed through each other, and it's as if they never met. Yet the
temporary interference patterns resulting from interacting waves play an
important role.
Light waves, too, produce interference patterns that contain information (Fig. 4).
Notice the semi-circular wave patterns resulting from light passing through two
pinholes. If you would put a detector or light sensitive film somewhere in the
plane where both light waves cross (grey bar), you would attain an interference
pattern resembling a barcode. This barcode contains the information of both light
waves. Look familiar? That's right: every supermarket item shows a barcode with
product specific information. And a scanner (ie laser beam) retrieves the encoded
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king, you can think

of

biological

light

fields as barcodes
holding specific information. Each cell
has

one,

each

tissue

has

one,

each

organ,

and

each person. And

they

Fig 4. Light interference and information.

Source: www.abuss.uoregon.edu

are

change-

able,

not

static.

That's

where

the

analogy ends. The

importance here is that overlapping waves create patterns that allow for
information storage, flow and exchange.
Waves constitute a near endless potential to encode, store and exchange
information. The greatest such medium is what physics calls the Zero Point Field
(ZPF), and Eastern philosophy terms the field of all possibility: a quantum sea
of energy and information that is omnipresent and connects everything with
everything else in this Universe - a possible explanation for why distance healing
works (a 'quantum' is the smallest amount of something, e.g. a photon is a
quantum of light). According to physicist Richard Feynman (1918 -1988, Nobel
Prize 1965), one cubic metre of space (zero point energy) is enough to boil the
oceans of the world. A wonderful book summing up some 30 years of research
into the ZPF is Lynne McTaggart's The Field (2001). It is written in plain English,
so one needn't be a physicist to enjoy it.
Now that we laid the foundation of light properties and wave interactions, let's
see how all of this relates to living systems - us!
One of the fundamental questions in biology is how organisms selfregulate. How do cells manage to carry out some 100.000 biochemical reactions
per second, and how does the body know to manufacture 10 million new cells
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per second, and to also let go of an

equal number in the same time
frame? And how do cells know
when to stop growing? How does
the body know to produce what
protein when and where, and how
does that protein then know where
to go? And why is it that cell
division (mitosis, Fig 5) usually
runs error free? Statistical chance
alone would have c. 100.000 errors
5. Mitosis (celll division) in broad bean root
occur per event. Yet this does not Fig
cells. Chromosomes (DNA): finger-like structures at
eventuate. What controls this the cells' center. Source: Katrin Geist.

process so precisely, and how? To illustrate what a feat it is to divide DNA into
two exact portions for each daughter cell to inherit, imagine a big truck filled to
the brim with peas. Your job is to sort these into two exactly equal piles. No
mistake allowed. If only one pea rolls back crossing into the other heap, you lose.
And you have to be quick. Cells usually take anywhere from a few minutes to
under 24 hours for completing their (perfect) division.
Understanding the regulation of this process represents the holy grail of biology
and medical research. Why? Cancer cells enter into cell division for unknown
reasons, and if one could solve that, cancer therapy would benefit immeasurably.
It would open new avenues of understanding, prevention, and treatment.
How light interacts with Biology: Biophotons and the work of Prof FritzAlbert Popp
Fritz-Albert Popp shared the fate of many an ingenious person: he got fired and
ridiculed for a revolutionary re-discovery: cells contain and emit light. And what
goes for cells also holds true for whole organisms, including humans. Everything
living constantly emits an ultra-weak radiation. Popp called it biophoton emission,
indicating its biological origin. To illustrate how weak this light is: it would equal
still seeing a candle flame at a 20 km distance. This highlights a major challenge
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ment. Popp had long worked on developing a machine sensitive enough to

detect single photon events. Beginning with cucumber seedlings, he measured
low level light emissions (biophotons) coming from these plants when put into his
photomultiplier machine (Fig. 6), a technology based on work by Albert Einstein who
received the Nobel Prize for it in 1921. Popp
noticed that any organism he tested emitted
a weak light, and it is well established today
that this pertains to all life forms (Bischof
1995). What did this light emission mean?
What could its function be? And could Fig 6. Left: leaves in daylight. Right:
biophotn emission of same leaves as
anything of such low intensity really matter to detected by a photomultiplier. .
Source: www.viewzone.com
organisms?
One clue came from his own previous work studying two forms of almost
the same thing: 1,2 benzpyrene and 3,4 benzpyrene. While their structural
difference is tiny, the former is harmless to us, and the latter is a highly
carcinogenic substance (e.g. in cigarette smoke and coal-tar). When shining UV
light on 3,4 benzpyrene, Popp noticed something baffling: the substance would
not radiate back light at the same wavelength, but rather emit a different
wavelength. Normally, and like the harmless 1,2 benzpyrene, things emit back
the same frequency they were exposed to. This didn't. Instead of radiating back
the same UV wavelength, 3,4 benzpyrene emitted light of a different kind. It
absorbed one light form and gave off another. It scrambled light frequencies.
Popp was amazed to learn that 380nm, the wavelength at which his test
molecules reacted as light scramblers, is part of the light spectrum at which DNA
photorepair a well known and accepted yet not fully understood mechanism
operates. One can next to destroy a cell with strong UV light or X-rays, for
example, and then expose it to a weaker dose of UV light to induce cell repair.
Cells recover almost completely within a few hours. This amazing ability is
termed DNA photorepair or photoreactivation, and it depends on light exposure
between 310nm and 400nm. Popp thought nature was too coordinated for this to
be a coincidence could it be that frequency scrambling substances were at the
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cinogenic effects? What if light scrambling molecules interefere with and disrupt
or prevent DNA photorepair, thus leading to mutations? He felt on to something.
Presenting his results at a conference, he was met with much skepticism and
resistance. His results did not fit the mould and stretched attendees' imagination
too far. Despite this disappointing experience, Fritz-Albert Popp persisted with his
inspiring research. Studying 37 more substances (some harmless, some
carcinogenic), a pattern emerged: without exception, every frequency scrambling
chemical turned out to be a carcinogen, absorbing at 380nm, and then emitting a
different wavelength. Popp wondered about the implications of this for cells: the
light absorbing property of carcinogens at 380nm with subsequent scrambling
would block light of that wavelength, thus withholding it from photorepair, and
eventually preventing it altogether. Consistent, long-term exposure (e.g. smoking)
to carcinogens, then, would deprive cells of their repair mechanism and render
them vulnerable to damage. It would also mean that, in order to carry out
photorepair, cells naturally contain UV light (as it does not penetrate skin very
deeply, and all cells use it), and that DNA interacts with it. Measuring his
cucumber seedlings confirmed that organisms not only emit light, but coherent
light at that (see below). Question remained: where did this inner light come
from?
Popp mused it must come from the live
food we eat. Green plants harness sunlight
and convert it into biochemical energy. When
we enjoy a fresh salad, we also ingest photons
currently held within the plant tissue. There is
good experimental evidence that DNA is a lot
more than just a blueprint for building proteins.
It seems to hold and emit photons (Rattemeyer
et al 1981), allow for coherence (see below)
(Popp 1984), and, recently, was used as digital
information storing device, akin to a flash drive.
Church et al (2012) stored (and retrieved) an Fig 7. DNA as barcode: by anaentire book: 53.426 words, 11 jpgs and one logy, a temporary summary of
current cellular processes..
JavaScript program.
Source: world wide web...
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Also, what has been termed junk DNA (some 95% of it), turns out to be
anything but: remember the barcode? Figuratively speaking, it's a temporary
description of what's going on in a cell, regardless of sequences coding for
proteins (genes) or not (junk). Popp believes that DNA is a light storing
resonator molecule that uses light signals to coordintate intra- and
intercellular processes. (Resonators either generate waves of specific
frequencies or select specific frequencies from an incoming signal. They
temporarily store light.) DNA acts as an antenna sending and receiving light
signals. Popp's research, and that of others, certainly points in that direction
(Popp 2006, Blank & Goodman 2011, Garo & Haener 2012, Meyl 2012).
Since every biochemical reaction requires energy for activation, photons make
perfect sense to provide that, especially because they act like catalysts: without
being used up in the process, they initiate a reaction, and then return to the light
field, ready to repeat the task. In other words, a cell carrying out 100.000 reaction
per second (!) does not require 100.000 photons to kick them off. A handful could
do, since they are reused, and, as light, travel very fast. It's similar to a honey
bee visiting hundreds of flowers instead of only one. In a cell, everything is in
constant flux and exchange, in a most coordinated way. And you consist of some
50 trillion cells. Imagine what's going on at all times!
Also interesting in this respect is that every atom (basic unit of matter) functions
as a resonator for a specific wavelength, and this translates up the scale to
molecules (which consist of atoms), cells, tissues, and organs. What does this
mean? Essentially, that everything is in motion in response to light waves which
excite atoms at certain wavelengths. This excitation has atoms form molecules
and molecules aggregate to larger structures like cell membranes. Photons
provide the impetus for anything to happen. Everything vibrates. Why is this
important? Every atom/ molecule/ cell/ tissue/ organ/ person resonates with
certain frequencies and not with others. That's why we like some vibes or people,
and not others. That's what different tastes are, and different smells different
perceptions. When something resonates with us, we fell really good, in love
even. We can resonate with people, places, foods or ideas. It generally just feels
very good. It also means that every molecule and every cell serves as a potential
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light source, due to the nature of resonators as temporary light traps. This allows
for the formation of three-dimensional light fields throughout the body. One could
say that light glues the body together, as every cell emits and absorbs
electromagnetic force fields (light) in communication with its neighbours.
Biophotons prefer spaces of constructive interference (amplified light fields) and
interact with charged particles (e.g. electrons, atoms, proteins). Therefore, they
influence the body's charge distribution, and thus its energy field.
Coherent light as ordering principle
Coherent light (e.g. a laser beam) is light that originates from a very small source
(e.g. a photon, or by passing through a pinhole, see Fig. 8). A word of many
definitions, in the world of biophotons, coherence denotes 1) a high degree of
order and 2) the ability to form light fields through wave interference
(amplification & attenuation), where biophotons

from

spatially

different sources interact

to

weave

ordered

an

(coherent)

light field. It is these

standing

waves

that

enable information exchange

in

biological

systems. A standing Fig 8. Coherent vs incoherent light. Source: www.ryerson.ca

wave keeps the same
form over time. It is subject to boundary conditions (as given by a cell membrane
or a river channel) which maintain and determine its shape. Change only one
boundary condition, and the entire wave (system) changes: light fields are
holistic. That is why coherence is so important, as it buys cells time to carry out
tasks until coherence erodes, thus changing the quality of information exchange
possible. For example, healthy people emit coherent biophotons with periodic
patterns, whereas ill people show little coherence and disturbed or no periodicity
(Cohen & Popp 1997). The ability of biological systems to achieve coherence
exceeds that of modern lasers by orders of magnitude (Popp 2006).
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So by analogy, think of a packed rugby stadium. Photons are like people: they
spontaneously and temporarily connect and cooperate as one to create order
and meaning while keeping their individual identity. La ola, the wave, goes
around the stadium with people participating in a cooperative pattern that carries
meaning: that's coherence. No single person could bring it about. But cooperative
interaction can. Likewise, photons weave a tapestry of information in biological
systems, thereby transmitting and communicating information about the state of
the system. Forget the barcodes: think la ola! It's more like a dance anyway.
Popp's brilliant move was to calculate possible resonator wave patterns
(light fields) for cells. The trouble with research of this kind is that one cannot
directly measure cellular light fields cells are too small for inserting probes
directly, and that very act would also immediately alter the boundary conditions
(by disturbing the cell membrane), and thus the result. So scientists resort to
indirect approaches which involve measuring biophoton emissions to infer
standing wave patterns (light fields) present in cells, and to theoretical
calculations such as: what biophoton wave interference patterns (light fields)
are possible within cellular boundary conditions? In cells, boundary
conditions largely depend on the cell membrane: its shape, molecular
composition and electrical charges, for example. A standing wave in a river may
depend on channel width and depth, log jams and water flow. If only one
boundary parameter changes, the resulting wave changes, too, whether that's
water or light.
Fig. 9 summarizes Fritz-Albert Popp's genius and the foundation of his life's
work. This, surely, should see the Nobel Prize, as far as I'm concerned. Amazing
to think that this knowledge is....at least 35 years old. People all too often die
over their great contributions without recognition. One can only hope that they
make up their minds soon.

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Fig 9. Popp's revolutionary discovery: mitotic pattern (left) and biophoton light field
(right) match perfectly! Source: Popp (2008).

What do we see here? The left side shows a light microscope image of a classic
mitotic pattern (called anaphase, see also Fig. 5) of a fish cell, where the dark
double band at the center is DNA, and the bushy bits that radiate out from each
side are microtubule proteins that attach to DNA and eventually pull it apart to
separate chromosomes (DNA) into two equal portions (like pea sorting, only
much more elegant). The right figure shows the corresponing, calculated light
field (resonator wave). They are a perfect match.
So an immaterial, standing electromagnetic wave pattern (light field)
directs physical molecules towards their respective sides. Notice the central
line: this hinders molecules to transgress. They literally cannot cross that
boundary, as their own charge, which interacts with the light field's electrical
forces (indicated by single lines and arrows), prevents it. Molecules literally get
repelled and sent back. This is mindblowingly beautiful. To think that cells life!
- resonate with (sun)light. And once you see it like that, it seems so obvious!
Popp, and by now many others, as pioneers before them (e.g. Gurwitsch,
Prirogine, Froehlich), provides a theoretical framework to understand and explain
the fundamental processes of life. And of course there's more to it still, yet I will
spare us the mathematics here, which are readily available from the literature.
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Suffice to say that Popp and colleagues veryfied their findings, for example by
matching calculated light field patterns such as that from Fig. 9 to film footage of
dividing cells and to spectral colors emitted by cells undergoing cell division the
light field pattern in Fig. 9 emits biophotons at a wavelength of 350nm, for
example, and cells undergoing mitosis emit light at that wavelength, thus
confirming calculated values. It all added up.
A summary of what we know from biophotonics today (Popp 2006, unless
noted otherwise):
All organisms emit biophotons (light fields). Their importance and intensity
vary with the level of organisation: humans radiate less light than algae,
and the more complex a life form, the more important biophotons seem to
be (more complex organisms tend to retain their biophotons, as they need
them to activate metabolic processes and to maintain order within the
system).
Biophoton emissions occur within the visual spectrum of light (from
ultraviolet to near infrared, 200nm - 800nm) and range between a few
biophotons to a few thousand biophotons per square centimeter surface
area (e.g. skin) per second. They also seem to be species specific, i.e.
species exhibit characteristic biophoton patterns.
Biophoton emissions differ from the bioluminescence of fireflies or deep
sea fish (which is much stronger and not present in all life forms).
Organisms exchange biophotons.
Biophotons within cells likely originate from DNA. DNA absorbs and
radiates light between ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths. It is thought to
function as a resonator, orchestrating cellular function.
Biophotons carry information within & between cells, between body parts
and organisms, and between organisms and the environment (e.g. Galle
et al. 1991, Fels 2009, Dotta et al 2014).
Humans emit most biophotons through their hands (A. Popp 2011, video
presentation available from the HHG/Reconnective Healing youtube
channel), which is very interesting in regards to energy healing.
Stress usually increases biophoton emissions (van Wijk 1992, Slawinski,
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et al 1992).
Biophoton emissions show periodic rhythms (e.g. daily, seasons) (Jung et
al 2005).
Meditation decreases biophoton emissions (van Wijk et al 2006).
Healthy people emit 8-10 biophotons/s/cm2 coherent light with periodicity.
Sick people emit incoherent light and lose their periodicity: cancer patients
shine less than normal (are too dim; tumors absorb light); MS patients
shine too bright (one could say this degenarative disease causes patients
to lose photons as the body increasingly struggles to keep an ordered
state); stroke patients lose their left-right balance between both hands
(Han et al 2011).
Some carcinogens scramble light at 380nm, the wavelength of DNA
photorepair could this explain their detrimental effects to the body
through disrupting cell repair?
When cells die (e.g. through centrifugation, toxins, heat, ionizing radiation,
or freezing), their light emissions increase, sometimes dramatically (factor
1000), before ceasing altogether at point of death.
Coherent light fields connect everything with everything else, and there is
no single, separate light source as such; while light fields direct
biochemistry (molecules), molecules in turn influence the light field in a
constant, dynamic feedback loop. Both levels (light & biochemistry) are
essential, and neither exists without the other in the life process.
Consciousness influences biophotons: it is the transformation process
between potential information and actualized information (Akin to tossing a
coin: when it flies in the air, it has the potential to land on either side; once
landed, the actualized choice is apparent, and gives meaning to a tosspreceding question as when asking questions of the I Ching).
Implications of biophotonics
The above invites to rethinking a few well engrained definitions. Those of
health and illness, for example. Viewing illness as a biochemical imbalance or
sick molecules of sorts falls incredibly short of identifying the real issue: disturbed
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coherent and elevated or reduced biophoton

emissions. That is the basis of illness, not
biochemistry. We even call it so-and-so disorder.
Exactly! One could say illness is scrambled or
distorted information. Remember, biochemistry
carries out what light fields guide it to do (as in
DNA photorepair or the cell division example, Fig.
9). If the light field is disturbed, biochemistry Fig 10. Pill-down-man and the
follows, and the body functions at sub-optimal old paradigm: improving
illness through biochemistry to
levels until the light field rights itself again. I regain health. While warranbelieve that any physical ailment has an energetic ted in acute situations, regular,
long-term pill consumption
(information) component as its root cause, and may not be the best choice.
that when the energy field is helped by offering Source: www.zenshaman.com
access to the correct information, the physiology
follows. It has to. Remember that standing light wave? It is holistic. So when the
wave changes back to normal, it allows the body to express normally, too. I
believe that that is part of what I witness when people show dramatic (and often
lasting) improvements of their ailments during and after Reconnective Healing.
Human health, then, is a coherent light field with low biophoton emissions. Health
is being in synch: we feel very well when light fields and biochemistry resonate in
harmony and quantum communication flows freely throughout the body.
Essentially, biological systems represent quantum mechanical processes: every
atom, every molecule, every cell, tissue, organ, and person possesses a
signature frequency. As does our planet and the Universe at large. We're all
linked in. As Nikola Tesla (1856-1943, 20 th century genius inventor) said: If you
wish to understand the Universe, think of energy, frequency and vibration.
Everything is energy. All things exhibit wave/ particle behavior.

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Now imagine what this new definition

means

to

how

we

live:

all

the

technologically created electromagnetic

pollution everywhere in form of wireless
hotspots/ modems/ appli-ances, smart
meters, cell phones, etc it is part of
why I'm not fond of wireless access
points everywhere, nor of using a cell
phone.

Nice

idea,

unforseeable

consequences. In light of what we just

Fig 11. Cell phone use and radiation.
Source: www.superhumancoach.com

said, people

need to

be

aware

of

where technological developments can

lead and how they potentially affect them

(Becker & Selden 1998, Blank & Goodman 2011). Without getting paranoid, I
tend to limit my exposure to electromagnetic radiation of technological origin
where I can, as it certainly has the potential to mess with biofields (Cifra et al
2011). And since I believe that the energy field is primary, it pays to look after it.
If frequency scramblers exist, are there substances that reinstate order?
Popp wondered whether plant extracts could change light emissions of cancer
cells, so that they would again communicate with the rest of the body. He
examined a number of non-toxic substances purported to be successful in cancer
treatment. All but one increased biophoton emissions, thus making matters worse
rather than better. The one exception: mistletoe, which seemed to guide tumor
cell emissions 'back to normal'. Experimenting with tumor cells of a so-called
terminally ill patient and a variety of mistletoe extracts, he found one that induced
coherence similar to that expressed by the patient's body. Within a year, this
woman (a 'lost case' by conventional standards) healed fully through taking an
herbal remedy that restored her light field (McTaggart 2001).
Popp is convinced that thoughts influence biophoton emissions, and thus
the body's regulatory systems (ie our health). This isn't exactly new. Marcus
Aurelius, Roman Emperor, said Our life is what our thoughts make it. Many
others before and since adhered to similar view points, as reflected by the readily
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available literature. Only Popp is among the pioneers who provide an explanation
of the mechansim behind this notion in regards to the body. His laboratory also
documented people consciously changing their hand's biophoton emissions (A.
Popp Youtube clip, 2013). To me, the mind-body connection is a fact. Try this:
think about something very pleasant or joyous or funny. Put all of your attention
on it and make it vivid in color and sound. Then just notice how your body feels.
There is a direct link between thoughts and feelings. Good thoughts feel good,
not so good thoughts feel well, not so good...imagine loving each and every
one of your thoughts!
Another aspect I won't go into detail here is that of water memory &
homeopathy, which directly link in with biophotonics: light waves as a means to
imprint water with a message. We are 70% water. Our cells swim in light and
water. It pays to remember that. What message does your (tap, drinking, city,
river, rain) water carry? And what do your cells make of it? And what do you
make of it, by virtue of your thoughts? Are you helping or hindering? Big
questions. Care about the quantity and quality of water that you consume. Your
50 trillion cells will thank you for sufficient hydration with high qualtiy (clean &
structurally intact) water. They also appreciate healthy, life affirming thoughts. I
point you to the works of Dr Masaro Emoto, Dr Jaques Benveniste, Dr Bernd
Kroeplin, and Viktor Schauberger.
Applications of biophotonics
Food quality
Whole foods show higher coherence than processed foods, inclu-ding effects of
cooking and freezing (Fig 12). The quality of eggs from free range hens eventually exceeds that of caged hens by 100%. That is, the hens' experience matters
and translates into the quality of its egg, and thus its offspring - or your omelette.
Biophotonics allow to predict the germinating ability of grains, and enable a
quality check of agricultural produce in terms of freshness, contaminants, origin,
sun exposure, fertilizer type, and more. A positive development is that Rewe, a
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supermarket chain in Germany and Austria, now uses Popp's machines to

measure the quality of their produce. Great trend! While I'm not sure to what
degree they do this, it seems an excellent start down the right track.
Another note on food: its
real value to us is not the
molecules

and

energy

content: rather, it is the

information content! The
light storage capacity of a
food equals its nutritional
value:

the

more

light

(information) is stored, the

more

can

transferred

also
to

be

another

system (e.g. you). Human

beings constantly seek to
maintain

order

(ie

a Fig 12. Kirlian images of raw (top left) and steamed (top
coherent system), as the right) broccoli & raw and briefly cooked tomato (bottom
left & right) Sources: www.healthandlight.com and
natural
tendency
of www.livingfoodforafrica.com
anything in this Universe is
falling into chaos. So we need to constantly expend energy to counteract that
tendency, and to keep order. Live foods help us do that. And dead foods don't.
Throw out your microwave and potato chips. Time to get gardening and to eat
fresh! Or at least buy organic whenever possible.
A word on the above image: while Kirlian photography does not measure intrinsic
light alone (as it applies a high voltage source to objects), the images are still in
line with illustrating biophotonic principles and findings. In other words, biophoton
emission measurements yielded results similar to those shown in Fig 12, which
serves as a nice visual to illustrate a difference in 'shine' between raw and
cooked foods.

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Estimating health status

Apparently, by using a biophoton scanner, one can easily evaluate the state of
one's health and the likelihood of developing diabetes, cancer, macular
degeneration, and heart disease. Wow. This totally harmless process is based on
the excitation of carotinoids (plant pigments) in your skin and measuring the
subsequent biophoton emission. The score informs about where on the scale of
healthy eating and thus sufficient carotinoid/ antioxidant content you fall. You
are put into the position of changing dietary habits and monitoring the effect of
your action through harmless and informative biophotonics. No prickly blood
tests.
Another harmless yet effective diagnostic tool comes from real-time infrared (IR)
measurements. Brizhik et al (2009) found that a person's physiological and
psychological state of health reliably reflects in their IR readout. The system also
distinguishes between acute and chronic disease. As with the biophotonics
machine above, this allows for easy evaluation of a person's state, including
monitoring the efficacy of a particluar treatment. Popp also found a way to
evaluate the efficacy of a treatment by measuring the experience of the patient,
say while receiving energy healing. If the experience registers logarithmically, the
healer influences a patient's light field in a meaningful way. If it registers as a
random distribution, the healer created some ineffective noise that passes right
through without beneficial consequence. This method is based on the WeberFechner law which states that our perception is a logarithmic (not linear)
experience of reality: our senses buffer reality down to a bearable degree,
otherwise we would be overwhelmed by the intensity of stimuli around us. In
other words: environmental signals are a lot more intense than we perceive them
to be. This law comes in very handy, as it allows to detect whether or not a
person responds to a process. Skin conductivity testing also uses this principle.
In that case, it is a way of testing for coherence without even measuring
biophoton emissions.
A new point of view
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tally different perspective from the solid, separate subject/ object world we're so
used to operating in. Re-interpreting our world as a vibrant, harmonious,
resonant, energetic, frequency based phenomenon is very exciting. It puts us
back in the driver's seat of our lives. Don't like the vibe? Change it! It's up to us,
not someone out there. Effective energy healing practitioners, then, help people
to change their frequency and information field. However, I believe nobody needs
a practitioner of any sort! We have the power to heal ourselves it's just that
we're so used to giving it away, not to mention the societal conditioning that
suggests we need something outside ourselves to deal with illness. Doctors,
healers, pills, tinctures and crystals are all just props we think we need to heal. In
truth, we need none of that. In my view, their only function is to allow people to
come into alignment with their own beliefs about healing: If I have ____, I'll feel
better. The healing agent is not the thing or person they turn to it's the belief in
that thing or person and the conviction that it helps. This engages the body's self
healing capacity. Your BS (belief system) is vitally important in your life.
Remember the mind-body connection. You can direct your light field (i.e. your
body's regulatory systems) by virtue of thought. That is the real secret and key to
regaining wellbeing, vitality and joy in your life. Electing people, books, DVDs and
other resources as props along the way is totally fine. Do whatever you have to
do in order to line up with an honest conviction of I can, or better still, I am this
and that. When you're getting really good at this, you don't need anything outside
yourself to accomplish anything. And until you get there, enlist people, pets,
methods, anything or anyone you feel contributes positively to your journey.
Summary & Conclusion
Biological systems resonates with light. Light orders and coordinates life
processes. It does so through coherent light fields which orchestrate
biochemistry. Molecules in turn influence light fields through a constant feedback
loop between biochemistry and electromagnetic (light) force fields, which
themselves depend on (changeable) boundary conditions. Coherent light fields
connect everything with everything else. They allow for communication within
cells, between cells, between body parts, and between organisms by performing
different functions at different frequencies. Thus, biology is a quantum
mechanism, rather than the biochemical machine it is still commonly thought of.
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Effective energy healing does nothing more - nor less - than helping a person to
reset their light field by providing access to the right frequency-based information.
Once received by the body, it knows exactly how to process this information. And
that is also why effects last and no recurring sessions are required: the root
cause is addressed, not some symptom patched up, which indeed would require
ongoing treatment. Not the case. Few people give back their healing. Most
continue joyously, fully appreciating their newly gained perspective of a partial or
complete healing and the knowingness that one can affect change outside the
confines of our medical model, either in addition to or in lieu of it (consult with
your physician before making drastic changes).
It is time for a paradigm shift in biology and medicine. Away from life defined as
randomly interacting hormones and enzymes, and towards understanding it as a
complex, highly cooperative, ordered exchange between immaterial light fields
and physical molecules: both light and biochemistry are equally required in this
perpetual, versatile interplay of resonant frequencies orchestrating the dance of
life so perfectly expressing as YOU.

About the author

Katrin Geist loves exploring the mysteries of life. Originally
doing so as a biologist, she now devotes her time to helping
clients

regain

Reconnective

and

maintain

Healing

and

their

wellbeing

holistic

health

through
coaching.

Biophysics taught her the importance and far reaching

implications of a truly holistic approach to wellbeing, and to
life at large. More and more, she begins to understand how
energy, frequency, and information shape our lives knowingly or not.
Katrin holds a BA from the University of Montana, USA, and an MSc in biology
from Berlin University (FU). This science background enables her to
communicate scientific subjects in accessible ways, so that everyone can benefit
from information otherwise often confined to technical experts.

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Katrin has held international wellbeing clinics in several countries and currently
works as Reconnective Healing practitioner and holistic health coach from her
New Zealand office in Dunedin. She feels privileged to serve in this capacity and
invites you to experience something different. Take back the reins of your health!

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