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Wednesday, 4 January 2017

The Nature of Light: Are We Living in a Telepathic Universe?

The Nature of Light

Are We Living in a Telepathic Universe?

World Grid and the Whirled Mind by R. Ayana

by Jonathon

Civilisation has formed around key statements and pivotal moments of collective agreement. Some two hundred years after Christ, Ptolemy the Roman stated that the planets orbit the Earth.

During the Renaissance, Copernicus observed that the Earth and the planets move around the Sun. Since Einstein related everything to the speed of light, consensus science has stated that the Big Bang created all matter and energy – including gravity. Every cosmological theory is now based on that core principal.

However, the nature of light and electricity has almost been entirely ignored by the theoreticians along with “Occam´s Razor”, a scientific benchmark of demonstrable simplicity and yet we are told we will increasingly think in terms of light and electricity (A.Bailey/DK). In the new scientific quest, self-experience is the field of experimental enquiry towards self-knowledge.)

Do Stars Shine in Open Space?

What would you make of the wild idea that the light of the Stars, and our Sun, cannot be seen when viewed far from Earth´s, or any planet´s atmosphere?

Nasa photos of the Moon landing, Jupiter and Neptune

Surprisingly, this is more widely debated than one might think, from ridicule to the more serious thinkers on the frontiers of science. The background space appears to be consistently absent of stars in Apollo Moon shots and NASA photos of the planets (illuminated by reflected light). However, stars can be seen when viewed through the Earth´s atmosphere which includes the Hubble Telescope*. If there is any truth to this how has it escaped our attention and what does it imply regarding the nature of light and how it is propagated?

* While for most intents and purposes the Hubble Space Telescope can be considered to be in space, it actually lies in what is known as the thermosphere: the largest and most tenuous part of the Earth’s atmosphere. The thermosphere is roughly one million times less dense than the atmosphere at sea level, yet it is enough to affect the orbits of satellites that fly within it.

Given that the Science, in essence, seeks the “revelation of truth as it shines through and into physical existence”*, the following can help to shed some light on the physical and esoteric nature and origin of light.

Does light from the Stars including our Sun, propagate with a velocity at all? Is it a function of time and frequency? Is light impulsed without a wavelength by the Stars to take on appearance as travelling wave phenomena? How is the mind involved as observer?

“If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet. Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”

– Niels Bohr

The Spectrum of Light

Goethe progressed our understanding of the spectrum of light from the initial work of Newton. A more balanced view demonstrates the propagation of the full spectrum from white light and the absence of light. The following images illustrate this dual relationship:

Prism of Light Spectrum – Goethe

Prism of Dark Spectrum – Goethe

For a deeper appreciation see the video: Light Darkness and Color – Goethe’s Theory

The implication here is that the “the absence of light” (space) has properties distinctly different from “the appearance of light”.

To get an understanding of the contrast it is helpful to gain an appreciation of:

The nature of light
The geometric harmony of Light, Electricity, Sound and Time
Pebble in a Pond – impulsed and travelling wave light

The Nature of Light

The light that we see with our naked eyes happens to be the 49^th Octave of vibration in the “Electro-Magnetic Spectrum”.

All is vibration. Sound is light at a lower frequency. The absence of light is non-physical.

The following image differentiates between light propagation and appearance and is adapted from the work of Dinshah Ghadiali, (1873-1966) whose Zorastrian background followed on the ether science of light by Edwin Babbit to develop and originate Spectro-Chrome light therapy.

Harmonic Geometry of Light, Electricity, Sound and Time

Plato´s five “platonic solids” represents a view of the elemental building components of the material world. These would appear to have been derived from sacred geometry, a science from the ancient world.

When sound is produced from the geometry of the solids, the harmonics of Pythagorean musical tonation is revealed, in particular the Major Key of F#. For example,

The angles of a Triangle produces 180° which sounds an F#.

The 360° of a Square or Circle also sounds an F# and a perfect fifth.

With the 540° of a Pentagon, an F# Major chord is sounded.

The more natural tuning of “A”, originally 432Hz rather than the modern international standard of 440Hz, is notable in that 432² = 186,624 close to the accepted universal constant speed of light in Miles per Second, being also an F#. , and 186624 /9 /9 /9 /9 /9 = 3.16 (similar to the value of pi).

As if to indicate that music and light are synonymous, the diameter of the Sun is 432 x 2,000 = 864,000 miles!

See this excellent video:
Sonic Geometry: The Language of Frequency and Form

The underlying harmony between music and electricity has been identified and well explained by Eric Dollard, one of a very few electrical engineer/scientists who can understand the mathematics and the patterns of nature. Eric Dollard is the only electrical scientist to have successfully replicated Nichola Tesla´s “Magnifying Transmitter” that utilises longitudinal (impulsed) properties of electricity, ignored by conventional physics. His presentation of “The Power of the Aether as Related to Music and Electricity” compares the organ music of Sebastian Bach (he designed and had built an organ using original polyphonic tuning) with the Electric Aether Physics of JJ.Thompson, whose science was displaced in favour of Einstein´s theories of Relativity.

“Aether Is both mathematically and concretely engineerable by understanding the work of J.J. Thomson, which shows that there is an aether and matter equivalency. It is a mathematical reality that has remained hidden in plain sight for over a century.”

From Eric´s work we learn that Tesla and others, who were familiar with the concept of the electrical aether, considered the flow of electricity as “positive” in the etheric domain and “negative” in the physical domain, in other words “monopolar”, requiring simply one wire to flow, rather than “bipolar” requiring two wires to flow and return.

In his other work, Dollard extensively describes the impulse or longitudinal and the travelling wave characteristics of dia-electricity (electricity without its magnetic component), these operating at 90° to one another. See: Eric Dollard – Electricity defined.

Pebble in a Pond – impulsed and travelling wave light

Before considering the science, for the sake of illustration, let´s imagine a clear pool of water, undisturbed by any motion. Upon dropping a pebble into the centre, at the point of impact an impulsing motion arises formed by an oscillation of pressure. This pulsation continues for a while, while an enlarging periphery of travelling waves moves ever outward to reach the limits of the pool´s boundary. The one is operating upon an axis perpendicular to the other. The former displays pressure and trajectory while the latter gives the idea of frequency and outer movement from the radiant centre.

Where there are two or more of these impulse phenomena, the characteristics of orbital patterns and rotation or spin of heavenly bodies is suggested. Note also that the axis of the impulsing centre gives rise to the travelling wave which is then experienced as frequency and appearance in space and time.

As to why the Stars may not appear in open space to the naked eye, Tom Brown puts the knowledge together of the properties of light and electricity in this article to offer an interesting theory:

Some Observations on the Relationships between Light & Electricity by Thomas Joseph Brown, http://rainengineering.com/ether/Light&Electricity/light_and_el…

Quoting briefly, he invites us …

“Let us observe the sky. During a cloudless day we see two distinct atmospheric colors, yellow and blue, which we now know Goethe considered as the only true colors. The yellow is the dot of the sun and the blue is the dome of the atmosphere. The red-yellow pole of color formation is observed as the sun moves from overhead towards the horizon… In terms of propagation the yellow light of the sun can be seen as a radial transmission wave, or rays, directly connecting the atmosphere with the solar body itself. This red-yellow pole is a longitudinal, instant direct connection. At night the LONGITUDINAL beam of stars can be seen. It is possible, given this line of thought, to conceive of the probability that the starlight we see is an instant transmission, a direct “real-time” connection to the star we are viewing.”

Thought is Light Before Appearance

A key factor to the question, “Can the Stars be viewed in open space beyond the Earth´s atmosphere?” is the effect of atmosphere. It is suggested that light, as it arises from intentional thought, operates in the etheric medium of Space as an impulse of pressure and that it only “appears” when subjected to or defracted by an atmosphere to then become a travelling wave phenomenon.

As an impulse of pressure, there is no time delay, both sending and receiving are instantaneous. Apparently earlier longitudinal radio and TV transmitters (RCA) displayed this characteristic. In other words, in the quantum like etheric medium the thought is everywhere present.

These two images may help to illustrate the impulsing nature of energy forming travelling wave phenomena, and the effect upon the etheric field of a sphere such as the Earth.

Formative impulse with travelling wave front.

Etheric wave simulation

If the Spheres are impulsed via the Sun in this way, it may be that the solar system is involved in a process of “cosmic induction” and that the galaxy as a whole is responsible for maintaining the life cycles of a living solar system?

If the Stars are indeed in telepathic communication and of One Mind, could it be that our Soul is such a Star, our humanity the vehicle through which the Universe is becoming conscious of itself? Perhaps the way that lies ahead is in the work of constructing the Antahkarana, more commonly known as the “Rainbow Bridge” that connects our humanity with a much larger galactic family that may eventually realize our freedom to move amongst the cosmos as expressions of One Being.

May the Stars awaken within our humanity!

Jonathan
27 Sept. 2015, Mayan “Galactic Earth” day

References:

EVERYTHING Is Invisible In Space In The Visible Spectrum (Peter Lin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examination_of_Apollo_Moon_photographs
Aether Research by Thomas Joseph Brown
See also http://borderlandresearch.com/aether
Eric Dollard – Electrical Scientist, on the nature of aether electricity and beyond Einstein. http://www.gestaltreality.com/energy-synthesis/eric-dollard/
Eric Dollard – The Power of the Aether as Related to Music and Electricity
download from Dropbox – Video part I, Video part II
The Electric Universe Project,
http://www.holoscience.com/wp/
http://www.thunderbolts.info

On Astrology: “That the fundamental of etheric or longitudinal wave function is illustrated as the formation point of reality and 3d space/time, due to the fact that astrology works and works perfectly well.” (Re: Eric Dollard – A Modern-Day Nikola Tesla, Project Avalon)

* definition of purpose of the Scientific Servers, one of the “seed groups” indicated in the creation of new civilisation by Alice Bailey.

From CoCreator’s World @ http://www.cocreatorsworld.com/science-of-harmony/nature-of-light-1/

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Wednesday, 16 November 2016

Biophotons: German Scientists Discover Light Shatters Cancerous Cells, Other Diseases

by Christina Sarich

“We are still on the threshold of fully understanding the complex relationship between light and life, but we can now say emphatically, that the function of our entire metabolism is dependent on light.”

~ Dr. Fritz-Albert Popp

It has long been held that non-conventional treatments for cancer such as homeopathy, Tai ji, yoga, or acupuncture couldn’t ‘cure’ a disease because medical science simply didn’t understand how these modalities worked. German researchers have proven, with special equipment created for the study of photons stored in our DNA, that there is no need for chemotherapy, or other invasive surgeries to cure the body of cancer. As neurophysiologist, Karl Pribram, has postulated, German experimental physicist, Fritz-Alfred Popp has demonstrated, and many ancient cultures have proven, cancer (along with many other diseases) die in the presence of light.

Biophotonic Science – The History

It has been scientifically documented that every cell in the body emits more than 100,000 light impulses or photons per second. These light emissions, which are not only emanated by humans but by all living things, are called biophotons and have been found to be the steering mechanism behind all biochemical reactions.

Russian scientist and professor, Alexander G. Gurwitsch first discovered biophotons and the morphogenetic field in 1923, but called these bits of light by a different name. Additional research in the 1970s by experimental and theoretical scientists further suggested that biophotons were indeed real. Then, in 1974 the German biophysicist Fritz-Albert Popp, proved their existence, as well as their origin within our DNA and later their coherence, much like light in a laser. From this varied research, biophoton theory has evolved to its present day science.

As an article which recently appeared in Technology Review, presented by MIT quips,

“One of the more curious backwaters of biology is the study of biophotons: optical or ultraviolet photons emitted by living cells in a way that is distinct from conventional bioluminescence. Nobody is quite sure how cells produce biophotons but the latest thinking is that various molecular processes can emit photons and that these are transported to the cell surface by energy carying excitons. A similar process carries the energy from photons across giant protein matrices during photosynthesis. Whatever the mechanism, a growing number of biologists are convinced that when you switch off the lights, cells are bathed in the pale fireworks of a biophoton display.”

Work being conducted currently at the Rhine Bio-energy lab is advancing biophotonic knowledge in such a way as to recognize this previously unidentified source of energy and information in human beings, animals, plants, and other living organisms.

Biophotons as Chi

The Rhine lab is proving what chi masters, martial artists, yogis, and others have claimed for centuries, that the flow of “energy,” “prana,” or “chi” can be manipulated, with established physical evidence that this energy or chi exists in the form of bio-photons.

Sifu Cicero, an instructor of chi generation, had the opportunity to have her bio electromagnetic energy (bioenergy) measured by the scientists at the Rhine Research Center using a multiphasic ultra-violet light detector which is designed to measure individual photons produced per half second.

Rhine researchers have been able to measure dramatic increases in the number of photons in a light-proof room when certain people were meditating, performing healings, or claiming to manipulate Chi.

The photon produced by the energized electron falling back to its regular orbit coincides with a specific wavelength. The photon’s color is a direct correlation to its energy; this is the photon’s wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum and thus, the color of visible light.

When Sifu Cicero’s biophotonic energy was measured, the researchers found her biophoton levels were very high, in the ultraviolet spectrum.

Extreme Coherence

Biophoton theory postulates that within the nuclei of DNA molecules in cells of every living thing, biophotonic light is stored. This light is constantly absorbed and released into every nook and cranny of our bodies affecting our tissues, organs, and physiological processes. This network of light is the main way in which a biological organism maintains coherence, or equilibrium, and just as the Pythagoreans postulated, all of life, from bees to entire planets, is organized according to divine geometry, with a signature that best fits each living thing.

Biophotons of a Passion Flower

This is observable as a weak electromagnetic field within organisms, but this is only within the viewable spectrum of light available to the naked eye. Special equipment can measure the strength of biophotons and observe their presence in organisms to a degree which is much more profound than the seemingly weak level of energy as we would normally observe it.

The processes of morphogenesis, growth, differentiation and regeneration are also explained by the structuring and regulating activity of the coherent biophotonic field. Not only does the biophotonic field affect the physical body including the brain and nervous system, but it may even be the basis of memory and consciousness, as postulated by neurophysiologist Karl Pribram and others. (Source)

The consciousness-like coherence properties of the biophotonic field are closely related to its base in the properties of the physical vacuum researchers call simply, the ‘field,’ and ancients called Brahma, the Dao, and other names. The intelligence of the biophotonic field even indicates a way for us to communicate with the non-physical realms of mind, psyche and consciousness.

How Biophotons Cure the Human Form

Given this information, we can start to understand how biophotons cure cancer as well as a host of other diseases.

As Dr. Fritz-Popp has explained, biophotons have a very high degree of coherence, whereas heat, does not. When a substance like biophotons is so highly organized, it can act as a very strong conveyer of information. It is this incredible coherence that allows so many fantastic things to happen in every single cell in our bodies.

Fritz-Popp uses the example of research conducted by physicists at Berkeley, wherein the process of photosynthesis was observed. The coherence, or the organization of the photons taken up by the plant from the sun is so high that very few of the photons are changed into heat. The majority are simply directed into the plant as energy to help it ‘eat’ light. (Source)

It is interesting to note that conventional methods of treating cancer such as chemotherapy and radiation, use heat to kill cancerous cells, thus causing the death of not only sick cells, but perfectly healthy cells also. This could be part of the reason that biophotonic light is so useful for healing a biological organism. We were designed to interact with this energy directly, since it makes up everything in the Universe. (Source)

When Fritz-Popp was asked exactly how biophotons are able to communicate with our cells he stated that our biological system has a much higher level of coherence than we would imagine. The very best lasers have about a tenth of a second of coherence, but the human biological form has a coherence level of days or even weeks.

Instead of relying on chemical messengers or some other sort of modality, we are healed with “the speed of light” since this is the level of communication with which biophotons are interacting with us – and in fact ARE us. Fritz-Popp explains that this speed and coherence is how cancer and other diseases are eradicated from the body. In essence, the biophotons read the form, know exactly what is awry within it, and reorganizes the information (to health) at the speed of light.

Within each cell hundreds of thousands of reactions are taking place every second that we are alive. Behind this action is an electromagnetic pattern of energy, carried by the photonic light. It is a pattern in the locality of ‘us’ as well as a pattern in time. It tells a cell what to do at what time and what place. This is also how cells communicate non-physically and non-chemically with each other.

In a paper titled Emission of Mitochondrial Biophotons and their Effect on Electrical Activity of Membrane via Microtubules it is explained how cells ‘see’ the light in one another, and take up biophotons just like plants in photosynthesis.

“. . . So far we have not been able to find an exact relation between the EEG diagrams and the fluctuation function, but the synchronous and coherent vibrations of billions electric dipoles of biomolecules cannot be ignored in the EEG diagrams.”

Even more fascinating is the speed at which photons are ‘processed’ by the body’s cells. The photon is taken up in less than a nanosecond, conveys the information needed to the biological form to achieve the greatest level of coherence, and then is given back to ‘the field’ as Fritz-Popp describes it, from whence it came. In essence, that energy is recycled right back into the ether. When we are in coherence, the same kind of healing that chi masters and yogis have used for centuries, is at our disposal – in other words, the form is self-regulating and heals itself.

Carcinogens Block the Coherence of Biophotonic Energy

Here’s where things get really interesting. At 260 nanometers, the message which a biophoton can transmit to a biological form becomes scrambled. This is the signature of a carcinogen. Comparatively, Chi, Prana, or the generation and biophotons restores the divine geometry or coherence of the human form, within which cancer cannot live.

To wit, in the aforementioned paper scientists explain:

“. . . This arrangement provides the cell with a primitive ‘‘eye” that allows it to locate the position of other cells within a two to three degree accuracy in the azimuthal plane and with respect to the axis perpendicular to it [2]. He further showed that electromagnetic signals are the triggers for the cells’ repositioning. It is still largely a mystery how the reception of electromagnetic radiation is accomplished by the centriole. Another mystery related to these observations is the original electromagnetic radiation [biophotons] emitted by a living cell [94].”

In fact, this cell-to-cell, non-physical communication, which happens via the biophotonic field is what keeps all organisms alive, and healthy. As Charles L Sanders writes in the scientific journal, Dose-Response,

“Mothersill and many others during the last hundred years have shown that cells and now whole animals may communicate with each other by electromagnetic waves called biophotons. This would explain the source of the bystander phenomena. These ultra-weak photons are coherent, appear to originate and concentrate in DNA of the cell nucleus and rapidly carry large amounts of data to each cell and to the trillions of other cells in the human body. The implications of such a possibility can be wonderfully important.”

Humans as Spiritualized Light

As such the ages-old scientific battle between vitalistic and mechanistic trends in biology and medicine can finally be put to rest. We are light, and thus, light heals all cancer (or any other disease) within us.

As Paramahansa Yogananda has stated,

“When modern science will discover how to go deep into the subtle electromagnetic constitution of man, it will be able to correct almost any medical condition in ways that would seem almost miraculous today. In the future, healing will be effected more and more by use of various types of light rays. Light is what we are made of—not gross physical light, but the finer spiritualized light of prana, intelligent life energy. That light is the real essence of everything. This earth is not “earth” as you see it; it is light. But you cannot perceive that until you know the underlying astral world.”

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Doctors Can Now Use Light to Fight Cancer!

by Kirsten Cowart

Doctors have found an exciting new non-evasive light therapy that can help the body’s own cells fight cancer! Supporting our own bodies in fighting disease, aka immunotherapy, is one of the most popular and growing areas of cancer research. Let’s face it, people are tired of chemotherapy and would prefer to avoid dangerous surgeries if they can help it. Now, with new therapies such and this new light technology we can boost the body without harming it.

Assistant professor Yubin Zhou, Ph.D. from the Center for Translational Cancer Research located at the Texas A&M Health Science Center Institute of Biosciences & Technology is actively studying how light can be used to control our body’s immune system and use it to fight cancer.

“Although neuroscientists have been using light to stimulate neurons for years, this is the first time the technique, called optogenetics, has been used in the immune system,” Zhou said.

‘Optogenetics (from Greek optikós, meaning “seen, visible”) is a biological technique which involves the use of light to control cells in living tissue, typically neurons, that have been genetically modified to express light-sensitive ion channels.’ -Wikipedia

Typically in neuroscience, the scientists will engineer cells that will produce microbes that are light-sensitive. When exposed to different frequencies of light these microbes will produce proteins that can tell our nerves to send or stop sending nerve impulses.

“Neuroscientists have learned a lot about brain circuits using the technique,” Zhou said, “and now researchers in many other fields are giving it a try.”

Optogenetics and the Immune System

Zhou and his team have found a way to modify the technique in order to help the immune system. The work wasn’t easy: unlike nerve cells, your immune system’s cells don’t use known electrical impulses to communicate. Another challenge is that our immune system cells are deep inside the body and are constantly moving around making it hard to hit with the right amount of light.

They had to use some out of the box thinking and team work to figure out.

“We collaborated with Dr. Gang Han at the University of Massachusetts Medical School who does bionanotechnology and photomedicine development,” Zhou said. “Together, we were able to combine state-of-the-art optogenetic approaches with cutting edge nanotechnology.”

The new nanotechnology known as optogenetic immunomodulation was recently published in an article in eLife.

“This work was driven by talented scientists in the lab: graduate students Lian He and Peng Tan and postdoctoral research fellow Guolin Ma, Ph.D.,” Zhou said, “who fearlessly undertook this daunting project and overcame all the challenging obstacles to make this technique into reality.”

Doctors can use Light to Direct Immune System Cells

With this new technique, the researchers were able to control immune system cells and ‘instruct’ them to kill cancerous tumor cells. Using a near-infrared laser beam that is able to penetrate a few centimeters into your body the scientists can use nanoparticles to turn blue and direct the engineered immune cells to fight specific cancer cells. Just imagine a general and his

Just imagine a general and his troops about to go into battle and once they get the light signal from central command they team up and destroy the cancer cells.

“We are able to wirelessly control the action of immune cells buried deep in tissue,” Zhou said.

The researchers found a way to modify the immune cells so that their calcium gate-controlling protein was light sensitive. When they are exposed to blue light which is emitted by the nanoparticle they ‘open the ion gates’. Once the light is turned off the gates then close. Researchers can increase the flow of calcium into the cells by increase the flow of light.

They are still working on fine tuning the calcium-dependent actions of our immune cells so that they can better target tumor cells and invading pathogens that our body would otherwise not notice or be focused on fighting.

When animal tumor tests were conducted they were able to boost the immune system response which aided in the bodies ability to kill the cancer cells.

“The technique reduced tumor size and metastasis, so there are lots of applications,” Zhou said.

One of the biggest advantages of this method is that it only actives a specific type of immune system cell, the T-cell, and only in the area of the body where the light is being shined. When you get chemotherapy the immune system response is bodywide which can be a miserable process. With this non-invasive light tunable technique, they can focus the immune response only on and around the area of concern.

“Other scientists will likely use the technique to help them study immune, heart and other types of cells that use calcium to perform their tasks,” Zhou said. “It’s quite a cool technology. With these tools, we can now not only answer fundamental questions of science that we never could before but also translate it into the clinic for disease intervention.”

Zhou’s lab has been using this technique in order to see how effective specific cancers drugs will even have on people.

“If successful,” Zhou said, “all these efforts would remarkably improve the current cancer immunotherapies by personalizing the treatment to exactly where and when it is needed, while reducing side effects.”

What possible issues do you see with this new light therapy and the genetically modified immune cells? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

Sources -

Texas A&M University. “Harnessing the power of light to fight cancer.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 21 January 2016.
wikipedia.org
Image Credit: hands-to-heart.com

From The Mind Unleashed @ http://themindunleashed.com/2016/10/german-scientists-discover-light-shatters-cancerous-cells-other-diseases.html and http://themindunleashed.com/2016/03/breaking-doctors-can-now-use-light-to-fight-cancer.html

For more information about biophotons see http://nexusilluminati.blogspot.com/search/label/biophotons