What are biophotons

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At 12:18 25/04/01 -0400, you wrote:

Many, many thanks for your post, Lobster. I read it having just returned

from a board meeting of my synagogue where we tried to deal with ongoing

conflict between the rabbi and the administrator. Ours is a warm,

"alternative" community, but we, too, have to struggle to bring enlightened

mind to institutional issues. I understand there are now mediators who

specialize in spiritual communities! Holly

 

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Hi Holly,

:-)

I am glad it was of some interest :-)

One of the (many) things that is unusual about human behaviour is that

things that can not be proven to be true

are often believed (faith) to a much stronger degree than what can be

proven. It is sometimes useful to realise that

rational 'proof' is not always the requirement. By trying to understand

what someone wishes to hear (or the mode they are utilising) we can often

resolve a situation.

So for example an argument taken to an illogical extreme may be more

conducive to resolution than reasonable behaviour.

 

 

On a different topic I enclose something that may be of interest as it is

info on the scientific discovery of what may lead to an understanding of

'prana'.

 

 

 

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What are biophotons ?

 

Biophotons, or ultraweak photon emissions of biological systems, are weak

electromagnetic waves in the optical range of the spectrum - in other

words: light. All living cells of plants, animals and human beings emit

biophotons which cannot be seen by the naked eye but can be measured by

special equipment developed by German researchers.

 

This light emission is an expression of the functional state of the living

organism and its measurement therefore can be used to assess this state.

Cancer cells and healthy cells of the same type, for instance, can be

discriminated by typical differences in biophoton emission. After an

initial decade and a half of basic research on this discovery,

biophysicists of various European and Asian countries are now exploring the

many interesting applications which range across such diverse fields as

cancer research, non-invasive early medical diagnosis, food and water

quality testing, chemical and electromagnetic contamination testing, cell

communication, and various applications in biotechnology.

 

According to the biophoton theory developed on the base of these

discoveries the biophoton light is stored in the cells of the organism -

more precisely, in the DNA molecules of their nuclei - and a dynamic web of

light constantly released and absorbed by the DNA may connect cell

organelles, cells, tissues, and organs within the body and serve as the

organism's main communication network and as the principal regulating

instance for all life processes. The processes of morphogenesis, growth,

differentiation and regeneration are also explained by the structuring and

regulating activity of the coherent biophoton field. The holographic

biophoton field of the brain and the nervous system, and maybe even that of

the whole organism, may also be basis of memory and other phenomena of

consciousness, as postulated by neurophysiologist Karl Pribram an others.

The consciousness-like coherence properties of the biophoton field are

closely related to its base in the properties of the physical vacuum and

indicate its possible role as an interface to the non-physical realms of

mind, psyche and consciousness.

 

The discovery of biophoton emission also lends scientific support to some

unconventional methods of healing based on concepts of homeostasis

(self-regulation of the organism), such as various somatic therapies,

homeopathy and acupuncture. The "ch'i" energy flowing in our bodies' energy

channels (meridians) which according to Traditional

regulates our body functions may be related to node lines of the organism's

biophoton field. The "prana" of Indian Yoga physiology may be a similar

regulating energy force that has a basis in weak, coherent electromagnetic

biofields.

 

 

Background

 

First discovered in 1923 by Russian medical scientist Professor Alexander

G.Gurvich (who named them "mitogenetic rays") and in the 1930s widely

researched in Europe and the USA, biophotons have been rediscovered and

backed since the 1970s by ample experimental and theoretical evidence by

European scientists. In 1974 German biophysicist Fritz-Albert Popp has

proved their existence, their origin from the DNA and later their coherence

(laser-like nature), and has developed biophoton theory to explain their

possible biological role and the ways in which they may control biochemical

processes, growth, differentiation etc. Popp's biophoton theory leads to

many startling insights into the life processes and may well provide one of

the major elements of a future theory of life and holistic medical practice

based on such an approach. The importance of the discovery has been

confirmed by eminent scientists such as Herbert Froehlich and Nobel

laureate Ilya Prigogine. Since 1992, the International Institute of

Biophysics, a network of research laboratories in more than 10 countries,

based in Germany, is coordinating research in this field which promises

rapid development in the next decade.