Bio-photons and electro-magnetics

Since the early 1990’s scientists have taken up again the early work on Electro Magnetic Technology in agriculture in the 1930’s. Their research has confirmed that exposure to EM frequencies has various effects on plant growth, like synthesis of proteins, water uptake and enzyme activity.

The recognition that EM-effects on many biological processes are real, is widely accepted in science. Engineers work with it. Scientists however continue to search for theoretical explanations of this interaction of waves with plants and animals. The cause/effect interactions are not yet easily explained by one single hypothesis. Various interesting hypothesis are suggested.

Bioelectromagnetics is born as a science, and most work is related to animal/human studies, but less is done on effects of magnetic fields on plants. Knowledge on biophotons increases fast. In 2014 the first book ever was published about quantumbiology.

Bio-photons constitute a quantum way of looking at life processes.

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.

An excellent summary of developments -and potential- can be found in Wijk van R., 2014. Light in Shaping Life. Biophotons in Biology and Medicine. An interdisciplinary textbook. Meluna, Geldermalsen The Netherlands. See more on www.melunaresearch.nl

What are biophotons ?

Quotes from Marco Bischof.

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 – and Chinese – 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 two decades 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 Chinese Medicine 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.

Bischof, Marco, 2002. « Tachyonen, Orgonenergie, Skalarwellen, feinstofflichte Felder zwischen Mythos und Wissenschaft. AT Verlag. ISBN 3-85502-786-2. See www.marcobischof.com