Biophotons: The Human Body Emits,

Communicates With And Is Made From Light

Monday, March 13, 2017 14:43
Increasingly science agrees with the poetry of direct human experience:
we are more than the atoms and molecules that make up our bodies, but
beings of light as well. Biophotons are emitted by the human body, can be
released through mental intention, and may modulate fundamental
processes within cell-to-cell communication and DNA.

Nothing is more amazing than the highly improbable fact that we exist. We
often ignore this fact, oblivious to the reality that instead of something
there could be nothing at all, i.e. why is there a universe (poignantly aware
of itself through us) and not some void completely unconscious of itself?

Consider that from light, air, water, basic minerals within the crust of the
earth, and the at least 3 billion year old information contained within the
nucleus of one diploid zygote cell, the human body is formed, and within
that body a soul capable of at least trying to comprehend its bodily and
spiritual origins.

Given the sheer insanity of our existential condition, and bodily incarnation
as a whole, and considering that our earthly existence is partially formed
from sunlight and requires the continual consumption of condensed sunlight
in the form of food, it may not sound so farfetched that our body emits
light.

Indeed, the human body emits biophotons, also known as ultraweak photon
emissions (UPE), with a visibility 1,000 times lower than the sensitivity of our
naked eye. While not visible to us, these particles of light (or waves,
depending on how you are measuring them) are part of the visible
electromagnetic spectrum (380-780 nm) and are detectable via sophisticated
modern instrumentation.[1],[2]
The Physical and Mental Eye Emits Light

The eye itself, which is continually exposed to ambient powerful photons

that pass through various ocular tissues, emit spontaneous and visible light-
induced ultraweak photon emissions.[3] It has even been hypothesized that
visible light induces delayed bioluminescence within the exposed eye
tissue, providing an explanation for the origin of the negative afterimage.[4]

These light emissions have also been correlated with cerebral energy
metabolism and oxidative stress within the mammalian brain.[5] [6] And yet,
biophoton emissions are not necessarily epiphenomenal. Bkkons
hypothesis suggests that photons released from chemical processes within
the brain produce biophysical pictures during visual imagery, and a recent
study found that when subjects actively imagined light in a very dark
environment their intention produced significant increases in ultraweak
photo emissions.[7] This is consistent with an emerging view that
biophotons are not solely cellular metabolic by-products, but rather,
because biophoton intensity can be considerably higher inside cells than
outside, it is possible for the mind to access this energy gradient to create
intrinsic biophysical pictures during visual perception and imagery.[8]

Our Cells and DNA Use Biophotons To Store and Communicate Information

Apparently biophotons are used by the cells of many living organisms to

communicate, which facilitates energy/information transfer that is several
orders of magnitude faster than chemical diffusion. According to a 2010
study, Cell to cell communication by biophotons have been demonstrated
in plants, bacteria, animal neutriophil granulocytes and kidney cells.[9]
Researchers were able to demonstrate that different spectral light
stimulation (infrared, red, yellow, blue, green and white) at one end of the
spinal sensory or motor nerve roots resulted in a significant increase in the
biophotonic activity at the other end. Researchers interpreted their finding
to suggest that light stimulation can generate biophotons that conduct
along the neural fibers, probably as neural communication signals.

Even when we go down to the molecular level of our genome, DNA can be
identified to be a source of biophoton emissions as well. One author
proposes that DNA is so biophoton dependent that is has excimer laser-like
properties, enabling it to exist in a stable state far from thermal equilibrium
at threshold.[10]

Technically speaking a biophoton is an elementary particle or quantum of

light of non-thermal origin in the visible and ultraviolet spectrum emitted
from a biological system. They are generally believed to be produced as a
result of energy metabolism within our cells, or more formally as a by-
product of biochemical reactions in which excited molecules are produced
from bioenergetic processes that involves active oxygen species, [11]

The Bodys Circadian Biophoton Output

Because the metabolism of the body changes in a circadian fashion,

biophoton emissions also variate along the axis of diurnal time. [12]
Research has mapped out distinct anatomical locations within the body
where biophoton emissions are stronger and weaker, depending on the time
of the day:

Generally, the fluctuation in photon counts over the body was lower in the
morning than in the afternoon. The thorax-abdomen region emitted lowest
and most constantly. The upper extremities and the head region emitted
most and increasingly over the day. Spectral analysis of low, intermediate
and high emission from the superior frontal part of the right leg, the
forehead and the palms in the sensitivity range of the photomultiplier
showed the major spontaneous emission at 470-570 nm. The central palm
area of hand emission showed a larger contribution of the 420-470 nm range
in the spectrum of spontaneous emission from the hand in autumn/winter.
The spectrum of delayed luminescence from the hand showed major
emission in the same range as spontaneous emission.

The researchers concluded that The spectral data suggest that

measurements might well provide quantitative data on the individual
pattern of peroxidative and anti-oxidative processes in vivo.

Meditation and Herbs Affect Biophoton Output

Research has found an oxidative stress-mediated difference in biophoton

emission among mediators versus non-meditators. Those who meditate
regularly tend to have lower ultra-weak photon emission (UPE, biophoton
emission), which is believed to result from the lower level of free radical
reactions occurring in their bodies. In one clinical study involving
practitioners of transcendental meditation (TM) researchers found:

The lowest UPE intensities were observed in two subjects who regularly
meditate. Spectral analysis of human UPE has suggested that ultra-weak
emission is probably, at least in part, a reflection of free radical reactions in
a living system. It has been documented that various physiologic and
biochemical shifts follow the long-term practice of meditation and it is
inferred that meditation may impact free radical activity.[13]

Interestingly, an herb well-known for its use in stress reduction (including

inducing measurable declines in cortisol), and associated heightened
oxidative stress, has been tested clinically in reducing the level of
biophotons emitted in human subjects. Known as rhodiola, a study
published in 2009 in the journal Phytotherapeutic Research found that those
who took the herb for 1 week has a significant decrease in photon emission
in comparison with the placebo group.[14]

Human Skin May Capture Energy and Information from Sunlight

Perhaps most extraordinary of all is the possibility that our bodily surface
contains cells capable of efficiently trapping the energy and information
from ultraviolet radiation. A study published in the Journal of
Photochemistry and Photobiology in 1993, titled, Artificial sunlight
irradiation induces ultraweak photon emission in human skin fibroblasts,
discovered that when light from an artificial sunlight source was applied to
fibroblasts from either normal subjects or with the condition xeroderma
pigmentosum, characterized by deficient DNA repair mechanisms, it induced
far higher emissions of ultraweak photons (10-20 times) in the xeroderma
pigmentosum group. The researchers concluded from this experiment that
These data suggest that xeroderma pigmentosum cells tend to lose the
capacity of efficient storage of ultraweak photons, indicating the existence
of an efficient intracellular photon trapping system within human
cells.[15] More recent research has also identified measurable differences
in biophoton emission between normal and melanoma cells.[16]

In a previous article, Does Skin Pigment Act Like A Natural Solar-Panel, we

explored the role of melanin in converting ultraviolet light into metabolic
energy:

Melanin is capable of transforming ultraviolet light energy into heat in a

process known as ultrafast internal conversion; more than 99.9% of the
absorbed UV radiation is transformed from potentially genotoxic (DNA-
damaging) ultraviolet light into harmless heat.

If melanin can convert light into heat, could it not also transform UV
radiation into other biologically/metabolically useful forms of energy? This
may not seem so farfetched when one considers that even gamma radiation,
which is highly toxic to most forms of life, is a source of sustenance for
certain types of fungi and bacteria. More on melanin-mediated energy
production here.

Gerald Pollack, PhD, who wrote The 4thPhase of Water has identified water
molecules, which constitute 99% of the molecules in our body by number, as
capable of storing the energy of sunlight like batteries and driving the
majority of processes within our body as a primary, non-ATP-based source of
energy. Dr. Pollack wrote a guest article for us on the topic here, Can
Humans Harvest The Suns Energy Directly Like Plants?

The Bodys Biophoton Outputs Are Governed by Solar and Lunar Forces

It appears that modern science is only now coming to recognize the ability
of the human body to receive and emit energy and information directly from
the light given off from the Sun. [17]

There is also a growing realization that the Sun and Moon affect biophoton
emissions through gravitational influences. Recently, biophoton emissions
from wheat seedlings in Germany and Brazil were found to be synchronized
transcontinentally according to rhythms associated with the lunisolar tide.
[18] In fact, the lunisolar tidal force, to which the Sun contributes 30 % and
the Moon 60 % of the combined gravitational acceleration, has been found to
regulate a number of features of plant growth upon Earth.[19]

Intention Is a Living Force of Physiology

Even human intention itself, the so-called ghost in the machine, may have
an empirical basis in biophotons.

A recent commentary published in the journal Investigacion clinica titled

Evidence about the power of intention addressed this connection:

Intention is defined as a directed thought to perform a determined action.

Thoughts targeted to an end can affect inanimate objects and practically all
living things from unicellular organisms to human beings. The emission of
light particles (biophotons) seems to be the mechanism through which an
intention produces its effects. All living organisms emit a constant current
of photons as a mean to direct instantaneous nonlocal signals from one part
of the body to another and to the outside world. Biophotons are stored in
the intracellular DNA. When the organism is sick changes in biophotons
emissions are produced. Direct intention manifests itself as an electric and
magnetic energy producing an ordered flux of photons. Our intentions seem
to operate as highly coherent frequencies capable of changing the molecular
structure of matter. For the intention to be effective it is necessary to
choose the appropriate time. In fact, living beings are mutually synchronized
and to the earth and its constant changes of magnetic energy. It has been
shown that the energy of thought can also alter the environment. Hypnosis,
stigmata phenomena and the placebo effect can also be considered as types
of intention, as instructions to the brain during a particular state of
consciousness. Cases of spontaneous cures or of remote healing of
extremely ill patients represent instances of an exceedingly great intention
to control diseases menacing our lives. The intention to heal as well as the
beliefs of the sick person on the efficacy of the healing influences promote
his healing. In conclusion, studies on thought and consciousness are
emerging as fundamental aspects and not as mere epiphenomena that are
rapidly leading to a profound change in the paradigms of Biology and
Medicine.

So there you have it. Science increasingly agrees with direct human
experience: we are more than the atoms and molecules of which we are
composed, but beings that emit, communicate with, and are formed from
light.

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