An Investigation Into the Human Energy Field (Christopher John Bradshaw)

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AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE HUMAN ENERGY FIELD.

WHAT IS IT, CAN WE SEE OR DETECT IT AND IF SO WHAT DOES IT TELL US?

by

Christopher John Bradshaw

A thesis submitted pertaining to the requirements for the degree of

Master of Metaphysical Sciences, M.Sc.

from the University Of Metaphysical Sciences

24th

October 2011

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Introduction 1-4

Chapter 2: Review of Literature 5-8

Chapter 3: Methods 9-16

The Different Devices That I Tested 10-14

A Summary of My Results 15-16

Chapter 4: Findings 17-36

The Science behind Energy Fields 17-21

Modern Studies of the HEF 21-25

Levels of the HEF 25-29

Chakras and the HEF 29-32

Health, Diagnosis of Disease and the HEF 35-36

Chapter 5: Discussion 37-50

Chapter 6: Summary & Conclusion 51-56

Bibliography 57-59

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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the Universe, apart limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughtsand feelings as something separated from the rest- a kind of opticaldelusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison forus, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a fewpersons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from thisprison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all livingcreatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able toachieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in

itself a part of the liberation and of a foundation for inner security.

(Albert Einstein, German Theoretical Physicist, N.Y. Post, Nov 28th,

1972)

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Chapter One

Introduction

If you do not expect the unexpected you will never find it

(Heraclitus, Greek philosopher, 600 B.C.)

In this thesis I will demonstrate the personal empowerment and spiritual growth that one may

acquire when becoming aware of human energy fields and the energetic nature of our physical reality.

By presenting both personal, academic and spiritual research, I hope to show the reader how the

knowledge and understanding of human energy fields can revolutionize the way we think about and

deal with our health on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. Furthermore I hope the

information contained in this thesis will challenge our perceptions and beliefs of the environment that

we live in a long with our understanding of what we call consciousness

In 1905 Albert Einsteins famous formula E=mc2

showed that energy contained in matter (E)

is equal to the mass of the matter (m) times the speed of light (c) squared. It is the equation that

helped prove that matter and energy are not separate but different forms of the same thing. Whether

we can see it or not, an open mind must consider that everything is but vibrations of energy.

By being able to vibrate and form patterns energy is able to differentiate itself into different

patterns which we call objects. The interaction of objects is thus the interaction of energy patterns.

This would not just mean material, physical objects but also phenomena such as rays of light, songs,

thoughts and even human minds.

Mass or matter is therefore one form of energy as is light. Matter is compressed energy and

is a general term for the substance of which all physical objects consist and Light or visible

light is electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye and is responsible for our sense

ofsight.

Current Science and Quantum physics (the study of the behavior of matterand energy at the

molecular, atomic, nuclear, and even smaller microscopic levels) suggest that matter and light exhibit

the behaviors of both waves and particles. This puts forward the rather strange but possible notion

that objects can be in two places at once, there is really no such thing as a thing and that nothing in
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nature is absolutely certain! So uncertain that even as I write this very thesis, theories and

understandings of how are universe works are constantly evolving and being updated, as I will

explain in a later chapter.

One thing that may be certain though as Milo Wolff and Geoff Haselhurst purport in their

article Structure of the Electron and Origin of Natural Laws (2005) is that nothing happens in nature

without an energy exchange. Communication or acquisition of knowledge of any kind occurs only with

an energy transfer. There are no exceptions. This is a rule of nature.

So what does this all really mean? Put simply it means energy is not just in the air its

everywhere and seeing is not necessarily believing! Visible light makes up only a tiny part of the

electromagnetic spectrum so through our eyes we are only seeing one piece of a very big jigsaw

puzzle so to speak. In other words if you are looking at something you are only seeing what you can

see and not the entire thing. In truth, there are many amazing occurrences going on in and around us

all the time that we are just not consciously aware of.

Understanding the above information is thus a good foundation for understanding the Human

Energy Field (HEF) which this thesis centers on. We as human beings living on planet earth in the

Milky Way galaxy are literally embedded, attached and plugged into an energy matrix comprised of

interconnecting energy fields that are at present beyond our minds capability of really fully and truly

comprehending.

The HEF (otherwise known as the Aura or Biofield) is quite simply a field of multiple

interpenetrating layers of energy which surrounds our human body much likened by many to the

shape of a candle flame. As Barbara Brennan more aptly describes in both her books Hands of Light

(1989) and Light Emerging(1993),

(The HEF) is the manifestation of universal energy that is intimately

involved with human life..a luminous body that surrounds andinterpenetrates the physical body (and) emits its own characteristicradiation.

An important point to remember that Brennan clearly emphasizes is that the HEF must be regarded

as no less real than the physical body. Indeed, the HEF has often been seen, described and

depicted in religious and spiritual writings dating back to the earliest writings.


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When we look at religious iconography across many cultures, we often see this white, yellow or

golden ring or halo above the head of saints, gods and goddesses. Then there are clairvoyants and

psychics who can see colours and auras around people and make inferences to the state of well

being of the person.

Ancient Biofield Images depicting and symbolising the HEF:

5000 years ago, ancient spiritual traditions of India spoke ofa universal energy called prana

that flows through spinning energy gates in the HEF known as chakras and energy channels called

nadis. This universal energy is thought to be the source of all life, the breath of life that moves

through all forms to give them life. 3,000 years ago, the ancient qigong masters in China were

practicing their meditative discipline to balance and invigorate the HEF. They called this vital energy

that pervades all forms, both animate and inanimate qi that flows through energy channels called

meridians. Vital force was a name associated with this life energy in Europe and in many religions

it was known as spirit.

This subtle energy was thought to balance with the physical, mental and emotional aspects of

life to keep the person well. Interrupt this energy flow through the body and stress or dis-ease will

begin. Brennan clearly agrees with this through her direct personal experiences and notes that the

human energy field is directly connected to and expresses human physical, emotional, mental and

spiritual levels of being. Subtle then it may be but weak it certainly isnt. This energy is very

powerful. We actually bring more energy into our bodies through this field (our HEF) than we do by

eating she notes.

Up until the early 20th century, detection of the HEF remained in the hands of certain gifted

individuals, including clairvoyants whose enhanced range of sight allowed them to detect energy


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fields. However, with modern scientific apparatus we are now able to measure the most subtle and

delicate electromagnetic fluctuations in the body. This provides supporting evidence for our worlds

ancient traditional beliefs and theories.

The HEF is composed of electro-magnetic and bio-dynamic radiations that can be measured

against the Electro-Magnetic Spectrum with a variety of different devices. In the summer of 2011 I

was fortunate enough to actually try out some of these devices and to conduct a practical study on

my very own energy field at the Centre for Human Energy Field Research (CHEFR) in Pune city,

India.

Apart from describing these personal experiences this thesis paper will present published and

documented scientific evidence and famous experiments that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt the

discovery and existence of the HEF. It will also explore the many insights, advantages and benefits

of understanding, using and working with the HEF in the realm of Health and Medicine and life in

general.

Modern medical science continues to ignore the impact or even existence of the chakras,

meridians, prana, qi, vital force, spirit and soul of the human body. Anatomy and physiology manuals

totally ignore energy fields and the classical understanding of the body and therefore doctors,

students and people around the world are seldom made aware of the auras, chakras and meridians.

This needs to change.

Although originally from England I have been lucky enough to live, work and study in both

India and Japan and I am now currently based in Southern China. I have therefore experienced first-

hand 3 cultures which know the HEF to be most important to our health and whose systems are

based on knowledge of these life energy fields. Over the years I have become deeply interested and

passionate about this topic and want nothing more than to share my knowledge and experiences of

the HEF with as many people as possible.

My main aim in this thesis is thus to increase the awareness of the HEF and help change our

belief systems surrounding this metaphysical science. In my humble opinion this is hugely important

because it will completely change the way we look at health and medicine and indeed may possibly

change our whole perception of our environment and how we live in it!


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Chapter Two

Review of Literature

The Centre for Human Energy Field Research (CHEFR) otherwise known as The Centre for

Biofield Sciences (CBS) is located in India and has been conducting pioneering research at the

UNESCO Chair-holding World Peace Centre at MITs Pune Campus for over a decade. Their

speciality is tracking human health with Biofield imaging devices that measure the changes in the

bodys biophotonic emissions. I visited CHEFR in the summer of 2011 and carried out a small study

using some of their HEF devices. Their dedicated team of doctors, researchers and scientists can

provide vast amounts of scientific literature on the HEF and I thank them wholeheartedly for the

support and assistance they gave me during my visit.

The Ancient Secret Of The Flower Of Life (1999) by Drunvalo Melchizedek presents in text

and graphics both parts of his The Flower of Life workshop, illuminating the mysteries of how we

came to be, why the world is the way it is, and the subtle energies that allow awareness to blossom

into its true beauty. Drunvalo Melchizedek is an author, spiritual teacher and world traveler who has

given workshops, seminars, and lectures on sacred geometry, human energy fields, spirituality,

meditation, and living in the heart in forty-five countries so far to date. From the pyramids and

mysteries of Egypt to the new race of Indigo children, Drunvalo presents the sacred geometries of the

reality and the subtle energies that shape our world. We are led through a divinely inspired labyrinth

of science, stories, logic, and coincidence on a path of remembering where we come from and the

wonder and magic of who we are.

Barbara Brennans books Hands Of Light: A Guide To Healing Through The Human Energy

Field(1988) and her follow up book Light Emerging: The Journey Of Personal Healing (1993) are a

must read if you want to learn to see and read auras and understand the human energy field. They

are both educational textbook style masterpieces. Barbara Brennan is considered an authority on

the subject of chakras, auras, aura viewing and healing by adjusting the aura. An ex-NASA physicist

she is the first to write two textbook level books on the subject and is a trained scientist holding Ph.D.

degrees. Being able to see auras she has approached the subject with a true scientists point of view

and with the necessary spiritual wisdom and understanding. She has even founded her own school


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in New York City, NY, and has trained many teachers and healers in the use of chakra and auric

diagnosis and healing.

Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis (2000) by James Oschman PhD, is a well written book

by a well known scientist with a degree in biophysics and a PhD in biology, which brings together for

the first time evidence from a wide range of disciplines which begins to provide an acceptable

explanation for the energetic exchanges that take place in all therapies. "Energy Medicine" provides

an exciting and challenging read for anyone who may be interested in or curious about the

therapeutic aspects of energy. It provides a stimulus to discussion among both the sceptics and those

who are already convinced of the healing potential of body energy. James Oschman is one of the

few academic scientists to explore the relationship between complementary and alternative

medicines and is one of the leading authorities on the scientific understanding of hands-on healing.

His extensive background as a scientist and his experience and understanding of holistic healing

place him in a unique position to bridge the gap between the academic/medical world and the healing

community

The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles (2005)

by Bruce Lipton is a groundbreaking book in the field of New Biology. Author Dr. Bruce Lipton is a

former medical school professor and research scientist. His experiments, and those of other leading-

edge scientists, have examined in great detail the processes by which cells receive information. The

implications of this research radically change our understanding of life. It shows that genes and DNA

do not control our biology, that instead DNA is controlled by signals from outside the cell, including

the energetic messages emanating from our positive and negative thoughts. Dr. Lipton's profoundly

hopeful synthesis of the latest and best research in cell biology and quantum physics is being hailed

as a major breakthrough showing that our bodies can be changed as we retrain our thinking.

Harry Oldfields Invisible Universe (1999) by Grant and Jane Solomon provides a good

overview of Harrys early work with Kirlian photography, crystals and electro-crystal therapy. Harry

Oldfield is an extraordinary scientist and healer who has spent the last 25 years proving that mystical

emanations such as visions and psychic manifestations have a basis in science. A pioneer of the

Kirlian photography, Oldfield has developed a photographic scanning method known as Polycontrast


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Interference photography (PIP) that can diagnose illness and photograph the chakras. He has also

discovered an Electro-Scanning Method (ESM) which can ascertain a full medical history from a fully

clothed patient in just two minutes and has founded a school teaching students his electro-crystal

therapy techniques.

The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life (1987) by Robert Becker, a

U.S. orthopedic surgeon and 20th

century pioneer of research in bioelectric phenomena, does a

masterful job of leading the reader into the invisible yet profound world of electromagnetism and its

effect on all living organisms. Colourful and controversial, this is a tale of engrossing research,

scientific and medical politics and breakthrough discoveries that offer new possibilities for fighting

disease and harnessing the body's healing powers.

Matrix and Matrix regulation, Basis for a Holistic Theory in Medicine (1991) by Alfred

Pischinger is a book about connective tissue: histology, biochemistry, biophysics, and how it is

clinically related to human health and disease. Alfred Pischinger was one of the first scientists to fully

study and explain the importance of the connective tissue, which he referred to as the "Ground

Regulation System," or "Extracellular Matrix." The book is based on extensive basic science and

clinical research done by the author and a multitude of other European (largely German and Austrian)

physicians and scientists in the 1950's through 1980's. In other words, this is where European

Medicine stood twenty years ago. Unfortunately, as of 2011, it still remains a ground-breaking eye-

opener for most physicians!

A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance (1995)by Rupert Sheldrake

describes a process known as Morphic Resonance. Thepast forms and behaviors of organisms,

the author argues, influence organisms in the present through direct connections across time and

space. Calling into question many of our fundamental concepts about life and consciousness, the

regularities of nature are reinterpreted as being more like habits than immutable laws.

Rupert

Sheldrake is a Cambridge-trained research biologist and author of more than 80 scientific papers and

ten books. If you are science reader and interested in biology, physics and evolution, then this book

is a must to read.
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Wholeness and the Implicate Order(1980) by David Bohm is a superbly written exposition of

intriguing ideas on the nature of reality. David Bohm was an American-

born British quantum physicist and a tremendously exciting thinker. This awe-inspiring book explores

a deceptively simple and very old idea that everything in the universe that we can observe, measure,

describe, and come to understand is connected, even if we cannot observe, measure, describe and

come to understand that connection. This book confronts you with a devastatingly beautiful

philosophical insight that completely undermines our post "enlightenment" western tendency to

divide, conquer, fragment and isolate everything we attempt to understand.

The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes (1982) by Ken Wilber is a truly diverse and

informational book, which includes essays from such important theorists as physicist David Bohm and

neuroscientist Karl Pribram about the holographic theory of consciousness. Ken Wilber is an

American authorwho has written about mysticism, philosophy, ecology, and developmental

psychology and is one of the most comprehensive philosophical thinkers of our time. This is an

extremely useful book for becoming acquainted with various scientists/theorists in consciousness

studies as the author has compiled a rare and exquisite collection of information that connects all

branches of current research into human consciousness.

The Celestine Prophecy (1994) by James Redfield is a novel that discusses various

psychological and spiritual ideas which are rooted in many ancient Eastern Traditions and New Age

spirituality. The main character of the novel undertakes a journey to find and understand a series of

nine spiritual insights found on an ancient manuscript in Peru. The book is a first-person narrative of

the narrator's spiritual awakening as he goes through a transitional period of his life. James Redfield

is an American author, lecturer, screenwriter and film producer and I recommend this book to anyone

who wants an introduction to the idea of energy fields and all things of a more spiritual nature.
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Chapter Three

Methods

In one cubic centimeter of empty space the amount of energy ismuch greater than the total amount of energy of all matter in theknown universe.

(David Bohm, British Theoretical Physicist, 1917-1992)

Have you had the experience of directly seeing with your own eyes parts of the energy fields

that we are connected to? I am truly fascinated on days where the sun is shining down and small

strands of white particles can be seen flickering and moving all around me. They move and wiggle so

fast that I can never actually see one standing still. Anyone can see these amazing squiggles of light,

you just need to perhaps blur your eyes a bit and be patient! When I started seeing them and

realized it was not a figment of my imagination I wanted to understand more and more about the vast

energy matrix that we find ourselves embedded in. And so I did.

In the summer of 2011 I visited the Centre for Human Energy Field Research (CHEFR)

located in Pune City, India. CHEFR has been conducting pioneering research at the UNESCO World

Peace Centre at Maharashtra Institute of Technology Pune Campus for over a decade. It is an

integrated health education and training organization with a focus on bio-energetic research. CHEFR

promotes a sustainable preventative healthcare model where preventative naturopathic information

medicine is selected as a preferred approach. It researches and trains in technologies and techniques

designed to analyse and rebalance the disharmony found in the human energy field (HEF) that will

eventually lead to disease.

Whilst visiting CBS I carried out a simple research experiment using myself as the test case.

The study employed 4 commercially available technologies comprising Polycontrast Interference

Photography (PIP), Gas Discharge Visualisation (GDV), Resonant Field Imaging (RFI) and Electro

Scanning Method (ESM) that are currently used by researchers and practitioners to measure the

energetic parameters of participants. Each device has its own unique way of tapping into the

electromagnetic properties of the HEF providing information which can be used as an indicator for a

subjects physical, emotional, mental and spiritual state of health.


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You might be thinking what a load of rubbish or no way is that possible and to be honest I

was quite sceptical. So thats why I wanted to put them to the test, give them a go and see what they

could tell me about myself and my health. The analysis of data was qualitative in nature and carried

out single blind so that the doctors had no knowledge of any of my identified issues when analysis

took place.

The Different Devices That I Tested

1. Polycontrast Interference Photography (PIP)

Pictures of PIP

PIP is a revolutionary computer imaging system developed by Dr Harry Oldfield, a British

scientist, and co-author ofThe Dark Side of the Brain (1988). PIP is three-dimensional imaging which

can show the state of the HEF where energy is blocked and where it is moving freely. This can be

determined by the patterns and colors shown on the photographs.

Basically PIP is a light-based scanning method that analyses interactions between ambient light and

a participants energy field. The field is represented indirectly through its interaction with the

surrounding light. The information detected is light intensity, which is coded by the PIP computer

software and assigned a specific colour. With this system it is the patterns of absorption and reflection

in and out of symmetry that are of most interest. In order for PIP to be most effective undergarments

must only be worn for this scan.

The PIP provides instant energy patterns around and within the patient and is most useful

when analyzing the body itself for congestions that appear on the surface above the specific organ or

part of the body being investigated. Typically it is understood that the body will absorb more or less

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PIP is surprisingly simple. First of all the subject is placed against a white background with a

full spectrum, four-foot fluorescent light above his or her head. A video camera is then focused on

the subject and, if need be, the lighting is adjusted so that it is consistent with all previous scans, in

effect setting a light intensity benchmark. Behind the camera lenses is a semi-conducting or charge-

coupled device (CCD) that turns light into electrical signals. In a normal camera the CCD has three

different types of light-sensitive cells that pick up each of the primary colours red, green and blue and

in this way a colour image can be conveyed.

These electrical signals then enter the computer, which first of all changes them into numbers.

All the signals are assigned a value between 0 and 255 depending upon intensity. The brighter the

light hitting a particular cell in the camera the higher the number assigned to it in the computer. As no

account is taken of the allocated primary colour of any particular signal, the image is effectively

reduced to black and white. Finally, on the computer display colours are substituted for each number

from 0 to 255. A particular number (for example 144) always has a particular colour (for example

dark blue) assigned to it. In this manner an image is therefore displayed on the screen in false colour

representing the fine gradations of light intensity of the image entering the camera.

Overall then the system is a very sophisticated light-meter that is displaying tiny gradations of

light intensity by assigning colours to them. In this manner, light intensities are distinguished that

would otherwise be impossible to the unaided human eye.

2. Gas Discharge Visualisation (GDV)

Pictures of GDV

GDV also known as Electronic Photonic Imaging (EPI) is an advanced form of

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a phenomenon known as corona discharge whereby a high-frequency electric field stimulates ionic

gas emissions from an object being scanned. The GDV Camera creates a high intensity electric field

(10 kV, 1024 Hz, 0.5 sec) around a fingertip placed on the special fiber-optic plate of the instrument.

The electric field produces a visible gas discharge glow around the object and the image is captured

instantly onto a computer. The GDV stimulates and records 40 ms of the electro-photonic glow

around all ten fingertips, one at a time.

Basically the GDV pulses a high voltage (very low current) electrical charge through a charge

couple device upon which each finger of the hand is placed. The glow of each finger discharge is

transformed by optical and CCD system into a computer file. On the basis of the calculated

parameters and diagnostic hypothesis, a certain conclusion or diagnosis is made. The image from

each finger is compiled using Indian and Chinese medicine theories to generate an image of the HEF.

The image is then correlated to organ system function, which can be extrapolated to show general

health of the subject.

The picture formed after processing and transformations reveals a two-dimensional

amplitude-modulated fractal image. Fractal, matrix and probability analysis are then used to correlate

the image. In brief, stress and other negative factors seem to disrupt the uniformity, coherence and

the magnitude of the human electro-photonic glow measured with the GDV instrument. GDV

therefore illuminates the energy leaks which are a result.

The GDV aura is the model of field distribution around the human body. A healthy, positive

state would be illustrated as vibrant and symmetrical, where as a negative energy state would be

seen as dull and asymmetrical. The field of a healthy active person is dense, uniform, has smooth

changes of colour from blue to orange and yellow. Heterogeneities, holes, and outbursts are

indicators of energy field distribution disorder, which point to disorders on the mental, functional or

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3. Resonant Field Imaging (RFI)

Pictures of RFI

Invented by Matthew Greene an American scientist, RFI combines frequency analysis with

computer software. The frequencies are detected with a frequency counter around specific areas of

the body. The software then interprets this information into colours, which relate to the bio-energy of

the body, which in turn can be linked to the physical and psychological health of the individual. The

RFI can be considered a passive device in that its detecting frequencies with no external energetic

input.

Basically, as a result of physiological processes including cellular activity but especially

nervous transmission and associated polarization, electrical activity generates electric fields.

Dysfunction tends to lead to reduction on the field strengths detected. However there are exceptions

to this such as with pathogens associated with an illness which emit their own frequencies that may

increase the field strength in a particular area. Increases can also be observed over sites of

inflammation or where there is an immune response taking place.

The frequency counter is capable of detecting a wide range of frequencies (1MHz 1GHz).

However the RFI software assigns these frequencies one of 16 colours. Red is the primary colour of

imbalance that has been observed, yet there are a few other colours including burgundy, orange,

yellow, and black that have been shown many times as areas of known (or yet symptom less)

physiological anomalies. All other colours appear to relate to sites that are generally healthy.


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4. Electro Scanning Method (ESM)

Pictures of ESM

The ESM is another passive device that was the simplest in terms of its use and function

when compared to the other three devices that I studied. It was invented by Dr Harry Oldfield who

also developed the PIP and involves detection of variations in energy field strength around a subject

using a method similar in nature to that of the RFI.

Through applying a high pulsed frequency to the participant via an electrode (held by the

participant) a resonant field is set up around the body. Deviations in the resonant field are identified

using a standard sound level meter that gives a measure of signal strength (amplitude) compared to a

control (quiet) site such as the forearm. Basically it's a technique which measures the sound waves

of certain points in the HEF.

For the purposes of my study readings were taken at seven reference points, which

corresponded to the classical chakra locations as well as the major endocrine glands of the body.

According to Oldfield the overall energy states at these sites are a good indicator of the energetic

states of organs and other physical anatomy in that area. For example, a reading at the brow centre

(middle of forehead) may give indication as to the relative health of the eyes as well as areas of the

brain. Positive + readings tend to indicate over excitation of that region and can indicate stress or

acute pain in that region. On the other hand minus - readings tend to indicate areas of lower energy

and can indicate areas of past or chronic disturbances.


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A Summary of My Results

Please note: The full results and images of each device that I tested are shown in the

appendix section (available on request).

The results that each of the devices provided certainly indicated their effectiveness at

identifying imbalances in my body. It is clear that there is something non-visible supporting,

surrounding and interconnecting with the physical body and these devices seem to be tapping into

various patterns within it. They thus strongly suggest the existence of a subtle biological field around

the body that reflects the physical internal states of the body.

The results of my personal study therefore indicate a link between the energy fields identified

by these diagnostic technologies and my state of health. Of the four devices used each showed

some capacity to detect imbalances around sites of known physical imbalance in varying detail.

In short, each of the systems appeared to give some indication of overall health which was

nice to hear! Furthermore some good identification of my specific issues was clearly seen. Old

problems areas such as my knees, ankle and lower back injuries from playing sports were detected in

my field as well as imbalances in my digestive system and neck region. These clearly reflected the

recent stomach bug I had picked up and the muscle I had strained a few days before in my

neck/shoulder region. Heart chakra imbalances were also clearly shown by each device indicating an

increased immune response and my brow chakra seemed to be also over stimulated suggesting

mental fatigue.

This wasnt a study to see which machine was better but to get an a ssessment of my health

using non invasive bio medical technology. However, exploring the validity of each device by

comparison with each other, relationships were identified with PIP, GDV and RFI although less so

with ESM which is a much simpler device in terms of its function and the results data it can provide

you with.

As I have already mentioned a relationship was certainly evident between all four devices

and my perception of what they told me. Every individual result may not always have been right but

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from the results of each individual device. Using more than one device therefore provides a more

complete view of your energy field and subsequent state of health.

It was obviously a very small study but still there is clear qualitative evidence that these

devices can go some way to identifying areas of psychological and energetic imbalance in the HEF.

In my mind this can only support the development of a more integrated and non-invasive approach to

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Chapter Four

Findings

Life is too rapid and subtle to be explained by slow moving chemicalreactions and nerve impulses.

(Albert Szent-Gyrgyi, Hungarian Nobel Prize winner, 1937)

The Science behind Energy Fields

In 1820 Hans Christian Oersted accidentally discovered that passing a current through a wire

would cause nearby compass needles to rotate. This showed that electricity can give rise to

magnetism. In 1831Michael Faradayshowed the opposite of the Oerstedeffect by proving that a

magnetic field can induce a current flow in a conductor. Thus a fundamental law of electromagnetism

was born, FaradaysLaw of induction.

Electricity gives rise to magnetism Magnetism gives rise to electricity

The circulatory system found inside the human body is an excellent conductor of electricity.

According toAmperes Law discovered in 1826, the flow of electricity through the blood vessels and

other fluid compartments in the body must therefore create a magnetic field in the space around the

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Electricity gives rise to magnetism. Magnetism gives rise to electricity. Bioelectricity should

therefore give rise to biomagnetism, and vice versa.

In 1906, Einthoven recorded the electricity from the heart using a sensitive galvanometer. He

received the Nobel Prize for his discovery in 1924. In 1906, the electrical field of the heart seemed so

minute that detecting it was a challenge although nowadays every physician has used

electrocardiograms (ECGs). Using a machine called a Superconducting Quantum Interference

Device (SQUID) Magnetometer to measure the space around the body the heart has been found to

generate the bodys largest biomagnetic field.

We now know that the ionic currents set up by the heart, brain, muscles, the retina, and by

other tissues and organs give rise to vibrating electrical fields that are measurable at the surface of

the body. Aside from the ECG these fields are also used as medical diagnosis in devices such as the

Electroencephalogram (discovered by Berger in 1929) and the Electromyogram (discovered by

Jasperin 1942).

All the physiological processes of the human body therefore constitute a number of

processes involving some degree of electrical activity. Robert Becker in his book The Body Electric:

Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life (1987) describes electrical activity taking place during

muscular action (including the heart) where as James Oschmannin Energy Medicine: The Scientific

Basis (2000)talks about the electrical nature of cell depolarisation during nerve signal transmission.

In Matrix and Matrix regulation, Basis for a Holistic Theory in Medicine (1991)byArthur Pischinger,

electrical activity throughout the body is also shown to happen in the deformation of the complex

collagen fibre network.

Such charge separations and electron flows generate associated electric and magnetic fields.

These energy fields further influence the helixical molecules of the body (DNA, keratin, collagen, actin

and myosin) because they are semiconductors. In Process & products involving cell modification

(1985), Robert Becker shows that as semiconductors they display the transverse Hall effect,

changing current and electro flow as directed by magnetic fields.

All the above electromagnetic activities feed into what is known as the living matrix, which

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(hyaluronic acid, chondriotin sulfate, keratin sulfate etc.), cytoskeleton (microtubules, microfilaments,

microtrabeculae, actin, myosin), the nucleus (DNA, histones) and integrins. Integrins are seen to be

very important molecules as they link the extracellular matrix with the cellular matrix forming a

communication bridge between the inside and outside of each cell. The extracellular matrix is hard-

wired to the cytoskeleton and nuclear matrix and these links are both mechanical and energetic. The

living matrix system therefore extends throughout the body and is a semiconducting electronic

network.

Integrins The living matrix An electronic network

In a 1981 publication titled Water structure-dependent charge transport in proteins (Gascoyne

et al) the collagen molecule, which is the most abundant protein in the world and the basic building

block of the human body, was thought to be structured in a crystalline alignment and was compared

with the model of an integrated electronic circuit. Unsurprisingly, water content was also found to be

very important in the semiconducting property of each collagen molecule.

In addition to the electromagnetic fields generated by physiological processes occurring

within the body, Oschmann says there are also various emissions including Infra Red radiation,

Microwave, Radio, Sound and light. Each of these are constantly reacting and interacting with the

pyroelectric and piezoelectric properties of the skin and the collagen fibres of the body.

As Dr Bruce Lipton explains in his book The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of

Consciousness, Matter and Miracles (2005) the phospholipid molecules of a cell membrane (the skin

of a cell) behave in a liquid crystal like fashion. Their fluid crystalline organization allows the

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supple membrane barrier. This all basically implies then that are physical body (through are skin)

and our HEF our constantly acting and reacting to changes occurring in both our inside and outside

environments and electrical and magnetic signals seem to have a very big part to play in the

communication process.

Part of a cell membrane (the skin of a cell)

Now as I mentioned in the introduction light is electromagnetic radiation that is visible to

the human eye and is responsible for our sense ofsight. However, based on my research, it seems

that light plays a much bigger and more important and complex role than just making us see things.

Indeed the many electromagnetic fields created in and outside the body (described above)

that seem to make up a large part of the HEF are now known to be constantly interacting with

photons, 'energy packets of light or basically weak electromagnetic waves.

The breakthrough research of Nobel Prize nominee Fritz-Albert Popp in the 1970s

established that all natural organisms emit light energy at the cellular level, which he termed

biophotons, and that all organic life absorbs light and processes it internally. He concluded that faint,

colour-coded broadcasts of the light energy that cells emit is the basis of intercellular communication

in all living organisms. Recently, this renowned biophysicist had the following to say about light:

We know today that man is essentially a being of light. And themodern science of photobiology ... is presently proving this. In termsof healing ... the implications are immense. We now know, for

example, that ... light can initiate, or arrest, cascade-like reactions inthe cells, and that genetic cellular damage can be virtually repaired,within hours, by faint beams of light. We are still on the threshold offully understanding the complex relationship between light and life,but we can now say, emphatically that the function of our entiremetabolism is dependent on light.

This is quite a statement but clearly there are obvious connections. Two mechanisms in

classical physics tell us that photons or biophotons are affected by electric and magnetic fields. They
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are the Faraday effect (1845) entailing the rotation of polarized light in magnetic fields and theKerr

effect (1875) that describes a similar effect with regard to electric fields. One could therefore

understand that any photon movement in the connective tissues of the body, such as the skin or its

associated structural proteins such as collagen, will influence both electrical and magnetic fields in

and around the area of movement.

All of the above information then lends support to Einsteinsnotion that we are indeedbeings

of light. Not only is our body and its trillions of cells producing electricity and electromagnetic fields

they are also emanating photons of light. In my opinion, whether its electric fields, magnetic fields or

biophotonic fields it really doesnt matter. They are all one and the same. They are all manifestations

of the same thing, electromagnetic radiation. They are all vibrating, all interconnected and are all

affecting each other. Put simply, all these energy emitting processes make up the Human energy

field, a complex lattice of electromagnetic energetic emanations or vibrations that are constantly

interacting with the visible or invisible fields in our environment and creating in and outside of our

bodies what we know as life!

Modern Studies of the HEF

As I have previously mentioned, studies of the Human energy field (HEF) have been going on

all over our planet for thousands of years dating as far back as 5,000 BC. Describing all of them

would easily fill a whole book so for the purpose of this thesis I will mention some of the most famous

and prominent studies that have been conducted within the past century.

1. HEF Photography:

Around 1911 Dr Walter Kilner from St. Thomas hospital in London reported on seeing the

HEF or aura as he called it. Using coloured glass screens stained with dicyanin dye to create

different filters he saw glowing mists around a persons body in three distinct layers. A inch layer

closest to the skin, a more vaporous layer 1 inch wide streaming from the body at right angles and a

luminous layer with indefinite contours about 6 inches wide. He found that the appearance of the

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Around 1939 a technique known as Kirlian photography was developed by a Russian

electrician Semion Kirlian. It worked by passing a high frequency high voltage (low current) pulse

through an object placed upon a photographic plate. As this pulse was administered there was a

subsequent ionic discharge around the object that could be captured on a photographic plate. Using

a special optical instrument Kirlian was able to show a difference in the HEF of a person harboring a

disease that had not yet manifested any symptoms! The GDV device which I used in my study is

basically an advanced digital version of Kirlian photography that eliminates the need for a

photographic plate and uses glass electrodes instead.

Around 1940 in England Dr George De La Warr developed a system of detection, diagnosis

& healing from a distance using the HEF called radionics. He detected radiation from living tissues

by photographing a patients hair for example, which was used as an energy field antenna. These

photographs then showed internal formations of diseases in living tissues such as tumours and cysts

within the liver and cancers inside the brain.

2. HEF Microscopes:

From 1930-1950 Dr Wilhelm Reich an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst

studied the universal energy field which he called orgone. He studied the changes or imbalances in

the orgone flow in relation to physical and psychological disease. Reich experimented with these

energies using the latest instrumentation of that time to observe the energy fields of animate and

inanimate objects. He used a high power microscope to observe the energy field of microorganisms

and human blood cells in the laboratory.

In the early 1990s French microbiologist Gustave Naessens observed in the blood tiny

dancing light particles too small to identify and properly study with conventional microscopic

equipment. He therefore invented a microscope called the somatascope, which has a magnification

of 30,000 times and a resolution of 150 angstroms, to study these particles of dancing light.

Interestingly enough, these so called particles of dancing light seem very similar to the squiggles of

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Naessens theory printed inA New Answer to Cancerin 'Well-Being', September/October

(1993) states that cell division cannot take place without the presence of this tiny life force or energy

particle that he calls the somatid. Naessens believes that the somatid is the original spark of life,

the pinpoint where energy condenses into matter" representing the manifestation ofcosmic energy in

a tiny, moving dot of physicality."

3. HEF Light Emissions:

From 1970-1980s in America, Greek born Dr John Pierrakas developed a system of

diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders based on visual and pendulum-derived

observations of the HEF. The information from these observations combined with body

psychotherapeutic methods eventually developed into Bio-Energetics, otherwise known as Core

Energetics. His work suggested that the light emissions from the human body are closely related to

health.

In 1978 Dr John Pierrakos, Dr Richard Dobrin and Barbara Brennan published Instrumental

Measurements of the Human Energy Fieldwhich correlated clinical energy field observations with

emotional response and low light level darkroom measurements were correlated to human presence.

Light levels were taken in a darkroom before, during, and after there were people in that room and

results showed an increase of light when people were in it. Amazingly light levels dropped when

someone tired or emotionally sad was in the room.

From 1970-1990 Hiroshi Motoyama from Japan managed to measure low light levels coming

from people who had practiced yoga for many years using a movie camera in a darkroom. He

electrically measured the acupuncture meridians and used them for treatment and diagnosis of

disease.

In this same period Dr Valorie Hunt and colleagues at the University of California

electronically measured the frequency and location of the biofield on human subjects and correlated

the results with aura readers. They did this by placing electrodes on the skin of a subject to record

the low millivoltage signals from the body duringrolfingsessions (a type of soft tissue manipulation

technique). The resulting frequencies were correlated with the colours and patterns that the aura


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reader was seeing in the therapist and the subject. The experiments were repeated on many

occasions with different aura readers and on every occasion the auric colours that were seen

matched the frequency wave patterns being measured on the skins surface.

4. HEF Electromagnetic Fields:

From 1930-1960, Harold Saxton Burr a Professor of Anatomy at Yale University, showed that

all living things had a life field which he was able to analyse and measure with his own special

electronic instruments. He showed that these life fields (he called them L-Fields) could be used to

predict illness by noting variations within them. He described the state of the energy field as being

able to indicate the presence of cancer and was able to demonstrate that the presence of cancer

caused significant changes in the electromagnetic field around an organism.

Burr also made an immensely important discovery when he found that the L-Fields exist by

themselves before there is any trace of the physical formation to which it corresponds. Burr

concluded that the L-Field is the organising principle behind the physical structure or program of the

body. This organises the atoms and molecules into cells and organs and transforms them into

performing specific forms and functions.

From 1970-1989 Dr Robert Becker of Upstate Medical School mapped a complex electrical

field on the body that was shaped like the body and the central nervous system naming the field "The

Direct Current Control System." He found that this field changed shape and strength with

psychological and physiological changes and that particles the size of electrons were making up

some part of this field.

For a period of 30 years 1960-1990, American Dr Andria Puharich measured life enhancing

alternating magnetic fields (8 Hz) from the hands of healers finding that lower frequencies were

detrimental to life. This work was followed by another American Dr Robert Beck who correlated

magnetic pulses emanating from healers with pulsations from the earths magnetic field, the

Schumann waves. This type of investigation was also performed in the 1990s by Dr Zheng

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a biological detector made from a leaf vein connected to a photo quantum device.

5. HEF Bioplasma:

From the 1950's onwards Dr Victor Inyushin at Kazakh University in Russia has been

conducting extensive research on HEFs. He believes the energy field to be bioplasmic in nature

comprising itself of ions, free protons and electrons. He also goes as far as to say that the bioplasmic

energy field should be classified as a fifth state of matter. His work shows that the particles making

up this field are constantly being renewed by chemical processes in the cells and are always moving.

A severe shift in the balance of particles contained within the bioplasma seems to cause a change in

the health of the patient or organism.

Levels of the HEF

Although getting to grips with the existence and understanding of the HEF is complex enough

it seems that the energy field itself is made up multiple fields, layers and levels that connect to and

penetrate each other both inside and outside of the body. As you can imagine an analysis of every

field, layer and level of the HEF is a huge subject in itself and is one that is still not perfectly

understood. As it is not central to the main aim of this thesis but still very relevant and important I will

provide a summarized report on what we seem to know. This will also include the interpretation of

energy chakras that will follow this section.

A leading expert on the various parts of the HEF is Barbara Brennan, a longtime practitioner

and teacher of energy healing. Her knowledge of the HEF is not abstract or coming from second

hand information. Instead, it comes from many years of practice at entering into an expanded state of

awareness in which she can literally "see" the energy field that surrounds and interpenetrates all

things. This includes humans, animals, cells, and even microscopic DNA. A large part of the below

interpretation has thus been sourced from her two books Hands of Light (1989)and Light Emerging

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Brennans research describes four aspects of the HEF that she has perceived during many

years of practice:

1. The Physical Body:

The familiar physical world

Held intact by underlying worlds of energy and consciousness

2. The Aura or Biofield:

The energetic framework or grid structure upon which the physical world rests

Has seven levels of structured and unstructured fields, each with seven main

chakras or energy vortices located along the human spine

3. The Hara Line:

According to Brennan is a solid pole of intentionality that runs vertically through

the center of the human body (up the spine and inside the auric vertical power

current) connecting us upwardly to the sky and downwardly to the center of the

earth.

Located inside the layers of the HEF and the chakras on another dimension

producing a zero-point energy field that apparently lacks magnetic polarity.

Associated with human intentionality and our souls incarnational task to be

accomplished in this body and lifetime.

4. The Core Star:

According to Brennans observations this inner Divine Core is located within the

foundation of the Hara line

It is our connection to the Eternal Divine, our inner source or localized divinity

within us

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As our modern day scientific instruments can only directly view the physical body and

indirectly detect the different parts our HEF (aura or biofield) the 3rd

and 4th

aspects described above

by Brennan will not be further elaborated on.

In her books, Brennan begins by pointing out that many cultures have made references to

something that lies beyond and below the human physical body. According to her observations, the

human aura has at least seven levels, and although she has seen many more, in her books she

focuses on the lower seven.

Of these seven levels (see table & pictures on pg 28), every other one is structured (1st, 3rd,

5th, and 7th), meaning they have a specific pattern to them. These levels look like standing beams or

avenues of light in which particles are flowing. The even numbered levels are unstructured and

Brennan sees in them types of energetic bio-plasma composed of fluid light. The different levels of

the fields are like frequency bands that encircle and penetrate the physical body. When she is feeling

them, the fields feel like currents of wind or energy. They look like colored streams of bio-plasma of

different consistencies, which vary depending on their particular level.

For Brennan, the fields are both "deeper" and "higher" than the physical body. While most

scientists try to explain energetic phenomenon, such as acupuncture meridians or the HEF as

secondary processes of the physical body, Brennan in contrast sees the physical body as being

secondary to the HEF itself. In short, the energy-body comes first and the physical-material body

comes second.

As is seemingly proven in Kirlians famous phantom leaf experiment (where a corona

discharge was still present even when a part of the leaf had been removed) Brennan informs us that

every cell and organ inside our physical body is wrapped in layers of light. They flow through all

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1.The Etheric Body

Physical sensations

2.The Emotional Body

Emotions with respect to self

3.The Mental Body

Rational Mind

4.The Astral Body

Relation with others

Distance of each Layer

from the Physical body:

1. Up to 2 inches

2. 1-3 inches

3. 3-8 inches

4. 0.5-1 foot

5. A template/blueprint

form of the Etheric body

6. 2-2.5 feet

7. 2.5-3.5 feet

5.The Etheric Template

Level - Divine will within

6.The Celestial Body

Divine love, Spiritual ecstasy

7.The Ketheric Template

Level Divine mind, serenity

The different layers of the HEF

Drunvalo Melchizedek, an author and spiritual teacher who can also see and read auras,

provides us with another insight into the HEF in his book The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life

(1999). He describes the different layers of the HEF in similar ways to that ofBrennanand he adds

that the first layer of the field is associated with our breath. He refers to the first energy field that

comes off the body (the etheric body) as the prana or chi (qi) field and like Brennan he describes it as


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being a soft, white-blue light. He goes on to say that this bluish light is the prana or the life-force

energy of the body.

Beyond this first prana field he talks about a second field of energy (the emotional body) that

is not associated directly with our breath but with our thoughts and emotions. Importantly he carries

on to say that our thoughts emit electromagnetic fields from our brains and our emotions also send

out electromagnetic fields. Like Brennan he notes that most people have tuned them out so we dont

know they are there.

Brennan also emphasizes that the energy that she sees in the HEF is never separate from a

persons thoughts and feelings. For example, when someones mind is feeling calm and positive this

will be reflected in their HEF. In fact, everything a person experiences has a correlation in their HEF.

Every thought, feeling, sensation and emotion can be seen in the field. It is robust with information

and activity.

Chakras and the HEF

The Centre for Human Energy Field Research (CHEFR) in Pune, India has been

investigating the anatomy and physiology of the HEF for over 15 years, which was judged to have

first been investigated by the Rishis (seers) and written in the ancient Indian Vedic texts. These texts

describe the Nadisystem which is closely correlated to the Meridian system of Traditional Oriental

Medicine.

CHEFRs research has shown that with subtle energy biofield imaging equipment seven

major centres of activity can be measured within the HEF. These centres are referred to as chakras

from the Sanskrit word for wheel and correspond to the torsion field produced by the repeated firing of

nerves in the nerve plexus. CHEFR goes onto say that each chakra is linked to a physiological

endocrine gland via the nerve plexus and directly affects the gland with which it is connected, thus

affecting the hormones secreted by each (see table on pg 31). A specific wavelength is also

associated with each chakra which corresponds with the colors of the rainbow. The frequency of

each chakra increases from base to crown chakra, and from red to violet on the electromagnetic

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In Brennans work she also clearly indicates that the human chakra system has been referred

to by ancient Indian religious texts as well as by Western esoteric traditions, such as Jewish

Kaballistic teachings and alchemical texts. According to her observations, these texts confirm what

she herself can see that there are 7 main or major chakras, which look like swirling funnels of energy

that align themselves vertically up the human spinal cord and interconnect and link into the different

levels of the HEF.

The energy fields around the human body are created by themovement of energy and consciousness within the chakras

(D. Melchizedek)

Each major chakra on the front of the body is paired with its counterpart on the back of the

body and together they are considered to be the front and rear aspects of one chakra. The frontal

aspects are related to the persons feelings, the rear ones to h is or her will and the three on the head

to a persons mental processes. Brennan importantly also mentions that when a person is healthy,

their chakras spin clockwise, pull in energy, and are in alignment vertically up and down the spinal

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Energy Centre/

ChakraEndocr ine Gland Hormo nes

General Gland & Hormon e

funct ion

Crown Pineal Serotonin, MelatoninRegulates diurnal rhythms;adrenal functions

Brow/Third Eye PituitaryControl hormones:

ACTH, TSH, FSH, LH & PRL, STHMaster gland: regulates activity ofseveral endocrine glands

Throat Thyroid/Parathyroid Thyroxin, Calcitonin/ParathormoneRegulates general rate of

metabolism

Heart Thymus Thymosines,Regulates immune system anddefends against infections

Solar Plexus Pancreas Insulin, GlucagonRegulates glucose to produce andmaintain stores of energy

Navel/Sacral Gonads/OvariesTestosterone, Oestrogen,Progesterone Regulates sexual hormones

Base/Root Adrenals Aldosterone, Adrenaline, Cortisone

Regulates water balance in thebody, response to stress,metabolism, the immune systemand influences digestion andurinary system

The 7 major Chakras and their associated Gland and Hormone Functions

CHEFRs work also shows that the chakras functionality has been linked to the health of all

the systems of the body. According to their observations the structure, surface area and symmetry of

the biofield and chakras allows them to identify areas of health, including psychological, emotional,

and physical health.

In her books Brennan tells us that the chakras of the HEF have 3 main functions. To vitalize

each auric body (or level) and thus the physical body. To bring about the development of different

aspects of self-consciousness and to transmit energy between each auric layer as each layer of the

HEF has its own set of 7 major chakras each located in the same place as detailed in the images

above.

As CHEFRhave found in their research, Brennan also agrees that as the chakras serve to

vitalize the body they are directly related to any pathology in the body. She also agrees that each

chakra is associated with an endocrine gland and major nerve plexus. Both Brennan and CHEFR

adhere to the basis notion displayed in the metabolic pathway (see next page) of how our HEF,

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Rosalyn Bruyere writes in her book Wheels of Light (1994) that there are 122 smaller

secondary chakras that have the same characteristics as the major seven chakras although they are

much smaller. They are located primarily wherever there is a joint in the body and they relate to

acupuncture points and openings for energy to flow into and out of the HEF. As Brennan states we

are like sponges in the energy sea around us. However, for the purposes of this study the seven

main chakras will be solely focused on.

So, whats the precise function and relationship of the 7 major chakras to the HEF? As you

can imagine, although there is a lot of literature about this in books and on the internet there is many

varying opinions. I have therefore decided to collate the first hand evidence that CHEFR have

directly observed and collected over their many years of practical research and summarized it in a

clear, easy-to-read format below.

The Seven Major Chakras

*Please note: CHEFR states that no disease is related to just one chakra

1. First Ch akra

We must balance this chakra before moving on to the others. Otherwise our growth will be withoutroots (i.e. ungrounded)

Other Names:Root, base, muladhara, Kundalini (Sanskrit)Situated:Base of spine and the pubic bone (but encompasses genitals and reproductive organs)

Chakra

(Energy Vortices)

Nadis

(Energychannels)

NervousSystem

EndocrineSystem

Blood

Outgoing HEFSecondary Energies

Incoming HEF

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Colour :RedElement:EarthArea of conscious ness:Physical body. This includes all physical sensations such as pain,sensuality, pleasure and power. Also our survival (as an individual and as a planet), our need forworld peace and environmental balanceKey Words:Stability, solidity, unity and formRelationship:To the solid part of the body, especially the bonesGoverns/Funct ions:Spinal column, bladder and kidneys. The parasympathetic and sympatheticnervous systems and affects reproduction and physical willRelated Diseases:Arthritis, rheumatism, spinal problems, blood ailments & allergy, broken bones &slow healing, growth problems, cancer, leukemia, low vitality, heart ailments, brain ailments, sexualailments

2. Second Ch akra

Here we encounter change, for without change we cannot grow

Other Names:Sacral, sexual, svadhisthana (Sanskrit)Situated:Behind and just below the navelColour :OrangeElement:WaterArea of conscious ness:Emotional. Change in that we now moving beyond our understanding ofourselves and realize the awareness of others - desire arises and with it our emotions and sexuality.Key Words:Difference, separation, change, duality, and movementRelationship:Corresponds to the liquid part of the body - circulation, urinary elimination, and sexualbody fluidsGoverns/Funct ions:Lower back, feet, legs and reproductive system. This affects physical, sexualand mental energy, relationships and self worthRelated Diseases:Urinary problems, impotency, sterility, enlarged prostrate glands, sexual ailments

3. Third Chakr a

Transformation to a new state occurs through this chakra's basic dynamic energy and our ability to

find a balance between extremes

Other Names:Solar Plexus, manipura (Sanskrit)Situated:Solar plexus, in the V formed by the ribcage, above the navelColour :YellowElement:FireArea of conscious ness:Mental or intellectual body. This includes thoughts, opinions andjudgements.Key Words:Combustion, fire, energy, action, power, and willRelationship:Responsible for the regulation and distribution of metabolic energy throughout thebody, as in digestionGoverns/Funct ions:Spleen, liver, gall bladder, stomach and digestive system and has an effect ondesire, personal power (the ego) and the origins of emotions

Related Diseases:Constipation,

loose bowel movement,

poor digestion and energy assimilation,

appendicitis, intestinal ailments, low vitality, difficulty in breathing, diabetes, ailments of the pancreas,digestive ailments, hepatitis, ailments of the gall bladder, high cholesterol, dirty blood & blood ailments

4. Fourth Chakra

The task of this chakra is to integrate and balance the realms of spirit and mind with our physicalbody (matter)

Other Names:Heart, anahata (Sanskrit)


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Situated:Midway between shoulder blades (over the sternum)Colour :GreenElement:AirArea of Conscious ness:Astral body. This is the first level beyond 3-dimensional matter. Here wehave the bridge between the dimensions of matter and the dimensions of spirit. Although we mayrefer to the "lower chakras" as being concerned with mankind, and the "upper chakras" as beingconcerned with spirituality and God, each chakra is no less important than the otherKey Words:Love, compassion, balanceRelationship:To the heart - to love as a state of beingGoverns/Funct ions:Heart, breasts, blood, vagus nerve, circulatory system and affects self-awareness, love, humanitarian acts and compassionRelated Diseases:Immunity disorders

5. Fifth Ch akra

Here we have the realm of consciousness where communication occurs, whether that be withinourselves or to and from another

Other Names:Throat, visuddha (Sanskrit)Situated:Throat area

Colour :BlueElement:SoundArea of conscious ness:Etheric body. This etheric body is the template for the physical body, andrepresents our potential for perfectionKey Words:Sound, vibration, communication, and self-expressionRelationship:The throat area where sound is createdGoverns/Funct ions:Lymphatic system, hands, arms, shoulders, mouth, throat,Bronchial and vocalapparatus, lungs and alimentary canal. It affects communication, creativity and self-expressionRelated Diseases:Throat ailments, asthma

6. Sixth Chakr a

The essence and function of this chakra is to "see" in the sense that we accept that complete vision

will include both darkness and light

Other Names:Third Eye, Brow, ajna (SanskritSituated:Centre of head, behind foreheadColour :VioletElement:LightArea of consciou sness:Celestial body. It is here that we have "sixth sight", or the ability to "see"by way of clairvoyance. We use this chakra for visualization, receiving insight or inspirationKey Words:Intuition, imagination and clairvoyanceRelationship:The storehouse and viewing screen of all visual input from our two physical eyes andour "third eye" (the etheric organ of psychic perception)Governs/Funct ions:Lower brain, left eye, ears, nose and nervous system. It has an effect on theintellect, perception, intuition and comprehensionRelated Diseases: Diseases of the endocrine glands, eye ailments, cancer

7. Seventh Ch akra

This chakra represents our belief systems, both conscious and unconscious

Other Names:Crown, sahasrara (Sanskrit)Situated:Top of headColour :WhiteElement:Thought


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Area of Conscious ness:Ketheric body. This chakra is associated with the spiritual realm. Here iswhere we merge with God, the All That IsKey Words:Enlightenment, knowing and cosmic consciousnessRelationship: Not of the material world but as a gateway to worlds beyondGoverns/Funct ions:Upper brain and right eye. Affects spiritual mattersRelated Diseases:Pineal gland ailments, physical or psychological illness

Health, Diagnosis of Disease and the HEF

CHEFRs main focus of research is in identifying the stages for the onset of each disease

state. They provide information, education and training and they endorse natural and complementary

treatment methods and equipment that are non-invasive and work in accordance with the bodys own

bio-energetic healing mechanisms.

CHEFR can provide evidence to show that the HEF is the interface for effective medical

diagnosis and efficient noninvasive treatment. This is achieved through utilisation of new scanning

techniques (such as PIP and GDV) that provide an early warning systemof possible disease. This is

due to the fact that the HEF shows energy imbalances before the physiological disease manifests.

This allows corrective measures to be taken before the onset physical symptoms and the subsequent

expense of hospitalization.

One of the greatest benefits of CHEFRs work and people like Brennans ability to see the

human energy field is its implication for revolutionizing health care. Common diseases, such as

cancer can be detected before they take on physical form, which would of course change the whole

medical paradigm from one of healing and curing to preventing and empowering. Diagnosing

illnesses that have not even formed yet physically is surely the way forward.

On the other side of the coin, healers work to restructure and balance the chakras and the

HEF of people who are sick or emotionally upset. Brennan for example has frequently used voice

toning to remove blockages from unhealthy chakras and the HEF. When observing her clients she

has noticed that emotional traumas appear as frozen energy. Good energy healers help this energy

to flow again.

When looking at the HEF of cancer patients Brennan has seen the adverse effects of

chemotherapy upon a persons field. For example, the normally flowing and healthy energy of the

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transplants be much more successful by cohering the energy that surrounds the transplanted organ

with the new body. She believes that energy healers can also speed the recovery of common injuries.

For example, when working with someone with a sprained ankle, Brennan re-builds the energy lines

and help the bio-plasma or bio-energy start to flow again. She has seen this reduce the level of

swelling and speed up the healing process to 30 to 45 minutes, rather than two weeks on crutches!

Aside from everything else, a hugely important point that is fundamental to Brennanssystem

of healing is that human intentionality has a direct influence on our ability to heal. This of course lies

solely with the sick individual. Amazingly however, Brennan also reports that from her years of direct

healing experience, the physical presence of the patient is not even necessary to conduct a healing

session! The work can be conducted non-locally as well as locally. So, understanding the HEF really

does open our minds up to a new way thinking and a new way of doing. Energy medicine in my mind

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Chapter Five

Discussion

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed astrivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

(William James, American Psychologist, 1842-1910)

There is now huge amounts of evidence both of a scientific and non-scientific nature that

proves the existence of human energy fields. All matter is indeed energy but instead of thinking that

energy is just something that matter produces we need to look it in a reverse way by understanding

that energy is what creates matter and all our physical world objects. We need to think of physical

matter as being the by-product of energetic reactions.

In my opinion the existence and more importantly the belief in and understanding of the

human energy field (HEF) can play the perfect role of acting as the link between science and

spirituality. The HEF can be the bridge to finally reconnecting what are seen as two separate ways of

thinking, feeling and understanding.

I think spirituality in the west is still seen as something very wishy washy and not concrete

or black and white enough. Something lovey dovey and hippyish or a little too deep to talk

about. Surely however, even the small amount of recognized, professional, scientific information that

I have introduced in this paper can go in some way to perhaps changing this perception? Surely

understanding the HEF in a scientific manner allows us (even for perhaps only a few minutes) to

explore ourselves, our lives and how we interact with others and our environment in a new and

exciting way?

As I mentioned in my findingsHarold Saxton Burr (around the mid 1900s)discovered that

what he termed life fields was what directed the development of an organism. Scientific thinking is

then effectively turned on its head because it demonstrates that its the energy fields (or shall we say

spirit energy) that controls the trillions of cells that make up our physical body. Consequently does

this not also tell us how the healing energies from a healer may affect the physical body of a patient?


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Burr could detect energy field changes that diseases like cancer emitted. This was a logical

conclusion with the knowledge that every cell type emits a different frequency. However, it has not

been until recently that sensitive devices have become readily available for exploration of these

emissions.

James Oschman in Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis (2000)shows us that recent work

using the SQUID magnetometer has found that measurements of physiologically generated fields

outside the body (biomagnetic fields) are often more indicative of events taking place within the body

than are standard electrical measurements taken at the skin surface (such as EEGs or ECGs).

Each charged particle creates a disturbance or a condition in the space around it so that the

other charge when it is present feels a force. This was surmised by Faraday and Maxwell in the early

1800s! They proposed a new type of physical electromagnetic phenomena that could not be

described by Newtonian physics, which looks at our universe as only made up of solid objects. This

led to their Field theory, the concept of a universe filled with energy fields that create forces that

interact with one another. By looking at the world through the eyes of energy fields I am to able

comprehend and understand much more easily how healers or even ourselves can affect other

people from a distance.

A buzz word at the moment seems to be quantum entanglement and by visualizing a load of

energy fields (or spider webs as I like to think of them) interconnecting and effecting each other all at

the same time (whether they are in the same place or not) seems to make sense to me. I hope it

does to you too!

Bruce Lipton in The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and

Miracles (2005) furthers our understanding of field theory and quantum entanglement by explaining

that each atom has waves of frequency energy therefore each atom vibrates at a frequency both

emitting and absorbing energy. In short he says that energy fields act as signals in our environment

that then turn on various switches in our cell membranes that then turn on and produce various

proteins that in turn create life and what we call behavior. Our behaviors he then states our

happening 95% of the time totally unconsciously! This is certainly food for thought.


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So when thinking about energy fields (that most of us cant see) affecting our behaviours

through various levels of energetic and then molecular reactions through our cell membranes, it

makes me wonder whether we are really on the inside or actually on the outside of what we call

ourselves. Barbara Brennan in Light Emerging: The Journey Of Personal Healing (1993) describes

the human body as a derivative of the HEF which would thus coincide with Liptons idea of energy

fields acting as signals to create physical matter and behavior.

We (as in our consciousness which creates our thoughts and feelings and gives us an

identity) may actually really be part of this outside energy field or the energy field that acts through

the surface of our skin (through sensations) with the physical body. To me this would certainly make

me understand life after death and reincarnation much more easily, by explaining that after we die it is

only our physical bodies which vanish where as our energy field, our energy template or our

consciousness continues and perhaps always will continue!

When considering field theory (this ultimate energy matrix soup of interconnected energy

fields of which the HEF is one) the theory of reductionism and determinism, tr

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