'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 15: How Our Bodies Emit Light
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“Gurwitsch’s theory was that organisms grew in connection with fields of some kind, which he named ‘morphogenetic fields’. He was the first person in history to use the term ‘field’ in connection with biology....”
“The first was a ‘possibility factor’, meaning that the circumstances must become such that cell division was rendered possible. The second was a ‘realization factor’, meaning that the cell division, having become possible, was then somehow triggered. Without this trigger, it simply would not take place. He did not believe that this trigger was chemical. Instead, Gurwitsch decided that the way the organism as a whole triggered cell division for its embryonic cells to divide and grow must take the form of external non-chemical signals of some kind. But what could they be, and how could the signals be detected by the cells?
He decided that each cell membrane must be ‘an organ perceiving signals for cell divisions’. Gurwitsch became the first person in the history of biology to use the term ‘receptor’. He suspected that the cell membranes must contain ‘receptors’ of some kind to detect signals of some kind, to cause cell division, which he called ‘mitotic signals’.”
“Gurwitsch also discovered that the emission of the ultra-violet photons must be coordinated by the whole organism, which he attributed to its morphogenetic field, in line with his pre-existing theories. He was extraordinarily prescient in this, because the work in physics had not yet been done to explain the mechanics of how such a field might work. It was only after his death that the concept of ‘coherence’ (in the specialist sense of waves having the same characteristics, such as phase and frequency, within a spatial area, as distinct from its better-known usage to describe ‘superposition’ in quantum mechanics) emerged in physics, as a result of a paper published by Robert Dicke in America in 1954.
This coherence only became a concept in biology many years later, which then made it possible to put some flesh on the bones of Gurwitsch’s field theory. It is not granted to us all to live long enough to see our theories justified, and Gurwitsch did not have this good fortune. But in trying to figure out the mechanics of the process, Gurwitsch was ahead of his time, and became the first person to suggest the existence within organisms of what we now call ‘collective states’ and ‘cooperative phenomena’, but which he called ‘states of mutual alignment and orientation of molecules’.
“The biophotons themselves are only part of a much larger picture, which took shape largely as a result of studying the biophotons. It was the brilliant Russian scientist Viktor Mikhailovich Inyushin, who pushed the boundary much further in his writings about ‘bioplasma’. This term ‘bioplasma’ was coined in 1944 by the Russian scientist V.S. Grischenko (aka Grishenko). By 1967, Grischenko and Inyushin were working together on bioplasma, and they announced then that they envisaged a plasmatic state within living organisms which, in contrast to inorganic plasma, would be a cold plasma possessing a high degree of order.
This was an interesting idea, for the cold plasmas in space, such as the Kordylewski Clouds for instance, are more likely to be intensively ordered and to show ‘emergence’ and self-organization, and indeed inorganic life. One would not normally think that the human body could contain a cold plasma, which seems counterintuitive, considering how warm the body is.
But Grischenko and Inyushin worked out that this is possible. And what is more extraordinary, as we will see in a moment, they believed that this cold plasma would chiefly be found in the brain. So, to make it clear, bioplasma is the name they gave to that plasma which, they were convinced, joined with the physical body and helped it to operate, or even coordinated and guided its growth and development.”
“This idea was essentially the same as Aristotle’s pneuma (here). Just to remind the reader, Aristotle believed that aether existed beyond the Earth’s atmosphere and was a ‘fifth element’, and that pneuma was a somewhat inferior form of aether that actually was found inside physical bodies and helped to animate them. Grischenko and Inyushin, doubtless without realizing it, have duplicated Aristotle’s reasoning and consider plasma to exist in space, and bioplasma to exist inside our bodies (hence the ‘bio-’ prefix). And one of the manifestations of the bioplasma is the emission of the biophotons.
“A living organism can be described as a ‘biological field’ or ‘biofield’ … we have obtained evidence that a fifth state of matter, bioplasma, exists as a part of each organism’s biofield. Bioplasma consists of ions, free electrons, and free protons. It is highly conductive and provides opportunities for the accumulation and transfer of energy within the organism as well as among different organisms. Bioplasma appears to be concentrated in the brain and the spinal cord. At times, it may extend considerable distances from the organism, raising the possibility of telepathic and psychokinetic phenomena."
“Inyushin’s concept of a bioplasma body accompanying the physical body (which we might also call a ‘dense matter body’) will come back into the discussion in the next chapter. His bioplasma theory follows Gurwitsch’s suggestion that biomolecules in the organism are predominantly present in the ‘excited state’. I am again using the term ‘excited state’ in a quantum physics sense to mean that a system, or an electron, has absorbed energy and entered a state of having higher energy than normal. In Inyushin’s account the energetics of living systems are based on excitation–deexcitation dynamics.
“Inyushin describes bioplasma as a ‘cold’ plasma of highly structured collective excitations produced by the polarization of biological semiconductors. In other words, the energies in bioplasma bodies are dynamic grids of excitations – which interact with fields outside the body.”
“According to the bioplasma studies of Inyushin and Sedlak, the plasma particles constituting the bioplasma in the body set up highly structured waves of excitation, that, as we have just seen, serve as an energy network. The energies stored in the network form an internal ‘biological field’. Remarkable as it may seem, this ‘biological field’ has a complex broadband wave structure of great stability that stores holograms.
In exploring the complexities of plasma in the body and its connections with consciousness and images in the brain Inyushin and Sedlak are here leaning on the work of Professor Karl H. Pribram (1919–2015) who originated the ‘holonomic brain theory’ to explain consciousness, using the idea of holographic memory.12”
“Bioplasma is understood as a dynamic system in an organic semiconductor … The total energy of the bioplasma consists of thermal motion, kinetic energy of particles, floating particles, the electric field, the magnetic field, and solitons.14
We can see how like so much else these studies draw heavily upon the early pioneering work by Albert Szent-Györgyi, who was the first person to insist that the body contained organic semiconductors, as I have already described. Just as the work of Alfvén and his followers has revealed the complex, living reality of outer space, and the interactions there of plasma and electromagnetism, so his fellow Nobel laureate Szent-Györgyi and his followers have revealed the immensely and astonishingly complex operations of electromagnetism and plasma within the human body, and outside it too.
Returning briefly to the subject of biophotons, when they are seen being emitted from acupuncture points and meridian lines, they are not a sign of cancer at all, but rather an indication of the normal heightened activity in those key regions of the body. Biophoton scans actually give clear visual images of the mysterious flowing body energy (doubtless a flowing plasma) known as qi (pronounced ‘chee’) in Chinese acupuncture.
These streams inside the body, which have been detected frequently, are known as ‘light-piping’, more technically described as ‘channels of light emission’. Such channels form a meridian network. This is one of the most important areas for research, since its findings clearly validate the Chinese system of acupuncture points and meridians in the body. The light pipes and the traditional acupuncture meridians are the same.”
“As we build up a picture of the role of plasma within human bodies and consider the idea that plasma may provide a medium for interaction with universal fields, we see again that ancient wisdom anticipated cutting edge discoveries in modern science.”
by Robert Temple
Chapter 15: How Our Bodies Emit Light
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“Gurwitsch’s theory was that organisms grew in connection with fields of some kind, which he named ‘morphogenetic fields’. He was the first person in history to use the term ‘field’ in connection with biology....”
“The first was a ‘possibility factor’, meaning that the circumstances must become such that cell division was rendered possible. The second was a ‘realization factor’, meaning that the cell division, having become possible, was then somehow triggered. Without this trigger, it simply would not take place. He did not believe that this trigger was chemical. Instead, Gurwitsch decided that the way the organism as a whole triggered cell division for its embryonic cells to divide and grow must take the form of external non-chemical signals of some kind. But what could they be, and how could the signals be detected by the cells?
He decided that each cell membrane must be ‘an organ perceiving signals for cell divisions’. Gurwitsch became the first person in the history of biology to use the term ‘receptor’. He suspected that the cell membranes must contain ‘receptors’ of some kind to detect signals of some kind, to cause cell division, which he called ‘mitotic signals’.”
“Gurwitsch also discovered that the emission of the ultra-violet photons must be coordinated by the whole organism, which he attributed to its morphogenetic field, in line with his pre-existing theories. He was extraordinarily prescient in this, because the work in physics had not yet been done to explain the mechanics of how such a field might work. It was only after his death that the concept of ‘coherence’ (in the specialist sense of waves having the same characteristics, such as phase and frequency, within a spatial area, as distinct from its better-known usage to describe ‘superposition’ in quantum mechanics) emerged in physics, as a result of a paper published by Robert Dicke in America in 1954.
This coherence only became a concept in biology many years later, which then made it possible to put some flesh on the bones of Gurwitsch’s field theory. It is not granted to us all to live long enough to see our theories justified, and Gurwitsch did not have this good fortune. But in trying to figure out the mechanics of the process, Gurwitsch was ahead of his time, and became the first person to suggest the existence within organisms of what we now call ‘collective states’ and ‘cooperative phenomena’, but which he called ‘states of mutual alignment and orientation of molecules’.
“The biophotons themselves are only part of a much larger picture, which took shape largely as a result of studying the biophotons. It was the brilliant Russian scientist Viktor Mikhailovich Inyushin, who pushed the boundary much further in his writings about ‘bioplasma’. This term ‘bioplasma’ was coined in 1944 by the Russian scientist V.S. Grischenko (aka Grishenko). By 1967, Grischenko and Inyushin were working together on bioplasma, and they announced then that they envisaged a plasmatic state within living organisms which, in contrast to inorganic plasma, would be a cold plasma possessing a high degree of order.
This was an interesting idea, for the cold plasmas in space, such as the Kordylewski Clouds for instance, are more likely to be intensively ordered and to show ‘emergence’ and self-organization, and indeed inorganic life. One would not normally think that the human body could contain a cold plasma, which seems counterintuitive, considering how warm the body is.
But Grischenko and Inyushin worked out that this is possible. And what is more extraordinary, as we will see in a moment, they believed that this cold plasma would chiefly be found in the brain. So, to make it clear, bioplasma is the name they gave to that plasma which, they were convinced, joined with the physical body and helped it to operate, or even coordinated and guided its growth and development.”
“This idea was essentially the same as Aristotle’s pneuma (here). Just to remind the reader, Aristotle believed that aether existed beyond the Earth’s atmosphere and was a ‘fifth element’, and that pneuma was a somewhat inferior form of aether that actually was found inside physical bodies and helped to animate them. Grischenko and Inyushin, doubtless without realizing it, have duplicated Aristotle’s reasoning and consider plasma to exist in space, and bioplasma to exist inside our bodies (hence the ‘bio-’ prefix). And one of the manifestations of the bioplasma is the emission of the biophotons.
“A living organism can be described as a ‘biological field’ or ‘biofield’ … we have obtained evidence that a fifth state of matter, bioplasma, exists as a part of each organism’s biofield. Bioplasma consists of ions, free electrons, and free protons. It is highly conductive and provides opportunities for the accumulation and transfer of energy within the organism as well as among different organisms. Bioplasma appears to be concentrated in the brain and the spinal cord. At times, it may extend considerable distances from the organism, raising the possibility of telepathic and psychokinetic phenomena."
“Inyushin’s concept of a bioplasma body accompanying the physical body (which we might also call a ‘dense matter body’) will come back into the discussion in the next chapter. His bioplasma theory follows Gurwitsch’s suggestion that biomolecules in the organism are predominantly present in the ‘excited state’. I am again using the term ‘excited state’ in a quantum physics sense to mean that a system, or an electron, has absorbed energy and entered a state of having higher energy than normal. In Inyushin’s account the energetics of living systems are based on excitation–deexcitation dynamics.
“Inyushin describes bioplasma as a ‘cold’ plasma of highly structured collective excitations produced by the polarization of biological semiconductors. In other words, the energies in bioplasma bodies are dynamic grids of excitations – which interact with fields outside the body.”
“According to the bioplasma studies of Inyushin and Sedlak, the plasma particles constituting the bioplasma in the body set up highly structured waves of excitation, that, as we have just seen, serve as an energy network. The energies stored in the network form an internal ‘biological field’. Remarkable as it may seem, this ‘biological field’ has a complex broadband wave structure of great stability that stores holograms.
In exploring the complexities of plasma in the body and its connections with consciousness and images in the brain Inyushin and Sedlak are here leaning on the work of Professor Karl H. Pribram (1919–2015) who originated the ‘holonomic brain theory’ to explain consciousness, using the idea of holographic memory.12”
“Bioplasma is understood as a dynamic system in an organic semiconductor … The total energy of the bioplasma consists of thermal motion, kinetic energy of particles, floating particles, the electric field, the magnetic field, and solitons.14
We can see how like so much else these studies draw heavily upon the early pioneering work by Albert Szent-Györgyi, who was the first person to insist that the body contained organic semiconductors, as I have already described. Just as the work of Alfvén and his followers has revealed the complex, living reality of outer space, and the interactions there of plasma and electromagnetism, so his fellow Nobel laureate Szent-Györgyi and his followers have revealed the immensely and astonishingly complex operations of electromagnetism and plasma within the human body, and outside it too.
Returning briefly to the subject of biophotons, when they are seen being emitted from acupuncture points and meridian lines, they are not a sign of cancer at all, but rather an indication of the normal heightened activity in those key regions of the body. Biophoton scans actually give clear visual images of the mysterious flowing body energy (doubtless a flowing plasma) known as qi (pronounced ‘chee’) in Chinese acupuncture.
These streams inside the body, which have been detected frequently, are known as ‘light-piping’, more technically described as ‘channels of light emission’. Such channels form a meridian network. This is one of the most important areas for research, since its findings clearly validate the Chinese system of acupuncture points and meridians in the body. The light pipes and the traditional acupuncture meridians are the same.”
“As we build up a picture of the role of plasma within human bodies and consider the idea that plasma may provide a medium for interaction with universal fields, we see again that ancient wisdom anticipated cutting edge discoveries in modern science.”