CHAPTER 9 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION INSIDE A BODY

When we magnify our physical matter very much, we find that we are mostly of void permeated by oscillating fields. This is what objective physical reality is composed of. —ITZHAK BENTOV

Living systems like our bodies are complicated and require well-developed communication systems to maintain homeostasis, to keep coherence between organs, and to produce appropriate reactions to external disturbances and to changeable surroundings. The many kinds of communication systems inside a living organism can be divided into three categories.

Postal Communication: Chemical Substances

The first category of communication within living systems is similar to postal communication. Perhaps civilization’s oldest communication system, it requires substantial carriers of information, such as letters, postcards, and parcels, as well as a clear address for the recipient. Our bodies employ chemical compounds to facilitate internal communication in an essentially similar manner.

Chemical communication inside living organisms can be described in the context of a key-and-lock model (fig. 9.1). Information is issued by a gland, the sender, and is carried by a hormone, the messenger, via blood or tissue fluid to a target cell, the recipient. In this system, the address of the recipient is encoded on the messenger by the sender, ensuring that the messenger can only be received by a specific recipient. This is achieved by encoding the address in the form of a chemical pattern so that it interacts with the receptor in a manner similar to a key in a lock.

Figure 9.1. Postal-style communication in the body: the key-and-lock model of chemical communication.

Figure 9.2. Telephone-style communication in the body: signals in cables.

This mechanism is employed by the endocrine system, the immune system, and many medications. Being relatively mechanical in nature, this model is conceptually straightforward and understandable. It serves as the classical model that currently dominates the thinking of people in general, medical doctors, and, of course, the pharmaceutical industry.

Telegraph and Telephones: Signals in Nerve Fibers

The invention of the telegraph by Samuel Morse (1791–1871) and more significantly the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) introduced humanity to a second communication system. People’s voices and other information were transported directly over long distances by wires. Scientists found a system corresponding to telegraph or telephone communication in our bodies: the nervous system (fig. 9.2).

Wireless Ethereal Communication

Marconi’s invention of the wireless long-distance telegraph had profound implications, opening the possibility of communicating through ethereal fields and waves. As discussed in chapter 3, ancient societies believed in the existence of ghosts more than contemporary people do, but today we believe in the existence of electromagnetic fields, even though they are invisible, and the existence of electromagnetic waves, even though they are inaudible.

There is no essential difference between ghosts and electromagnetic fields, except that fields can be quantified by mathematical formulas, the Maxwell equations, which quantitatively describe their actions. This enables us to manipulate electromagnetic fields by means of electronics. As yet, we have not found mathematical formulas to describe the behavior of spirit, so no standardized technique currently exists to manipulate it.

In essence, electromagnetic fields possess ethereal qualities. Perhaps people in ancient times were somehow sensing electromagnetic fields and waves that existed outside the range of everyday perception. Not having access to science and mathematics to describe them or the technology to manipulate them, their worldview might attribute the experience to ghosts.

The realization that the electromagnetic waves that facilitate our communication in a sense represent a domesticated ethereal realm can be somewhat disconcerting. Even when our TVs, radios, and mobile phones are switched off, our space is haunted and completely occupied by these entities. Invisible and silent, these apparitions permanently inhabit our rooms, beds, and desks. They even occupy the space between people in direct conversation. While we never see or hear them, they are constantly moving and making noise.

Ancient beliefs held that ghosts sometimes kept silent and sometimes spoke, sometimes were invisible and sometimes became visible. Today, modern technology makes these electromagnetic entities audible and visible.

Wireless Communication in Living Systems

Scientific research into wireless communication in living systems lags far behind the development of wireless communication technology. While lots of children use mobile phones and wireless internet surrounds us most of the time, scientists in biology and medicine are still fixated on the body’s postal communication—through molecules—and on telephone communication—through nerve fibers.

There are, of course, technical challenges in this kind of research, but the biggest problem is conceptual. For instance, in chemical communication, the interaction between an actual messenger, such as a hormone molecule, and a receptor, the surface of a target cell, is not mechanical at all but rather is electromagnetic (fig. 9.3). The key-and-lock model gives the misconception that the interaction between the messenger molecule and the receptor molecule occurs through mechanical force. At such a microscopic scale, mechanical force does not play a significant role; the interface occurs through electromagnetic interaction. The dominance of the mechanical key-and-lock model impeded our understanding of the wireless communication occurring between messenger and receptor. As such, it can be argued that it has misled the direction of medical research and obstructed development in medicine.

Figure 9.3. Selective electromagnetic interaction between “key” and “lock” molecules.

Research into wireless communication between living organisms actually started very early. In 1922, Russian biologist Alexander Gurwitsch (1874–1954) performed the renowned “onion experiment” (plate 13 in the color plate section). Two onions each have all but one of their roots removed. The remaining roots are then placed in glass tubes. The glass tube holding onion 2’s root, which acts as the receiver, is sheathed inside a metal tube in order to shield the root from disturbance by outside electromagnetic waves. As shown at right in figure 9.4, there is a hole in the metal and glass tubes where the tip of the root of onion 1 is located. Gurwitsch found a greater rate of cell division on the side of onion 2’s root facing the hole than on the side facing away. This showed that there was some signal triggering cell division being transferred from the tip of the root of onion 1 to the skin of the root of onion 2. Upon further investigation, Gurwitsch found that this effect did not occur when ordinary glass was placed between the two roots but did with quartz glass between them. Quartz glass does not block ultraviolet rays, while normal glass does, leading him to postulate that the communication occurring between roots might be in the ultraviolet range.

This experiment served as the first step in proving the existence of wireless communication and providing the approximate frequency range of electromagnetic waves that carry the signal. Plenty of work remained to be done in determining the precise band of electromagnetic frequencies utilized and how signals were encoded among and inside living systems.

Unfortunately, this avenue of research was interrupted by the two world wars. After World War II, development in biology directed at exploring particles and molecular biology flourished. Biologists of the last half century have focused their attention on the postal and wired communication systems in living entities and completely overlooked the existence of wireless communication.

As discussed in chapter 7, the development of molecular biology is already past its zenith. A huge amount of parallel supplementary work is still required, but there remains little chance of major breakthroughs, like the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA half a century ago, in this area. There is also a growing awareness among medical doctors of the limitations and weaknesses of contemporary molecular medicine. Consequently, more attention is being paid to the energetic aspect of medicine, including therapies such as soft-laser stimulation, colored-light stimulation, extra-weak microwave stimulation, and electric pulse puncture. These work by introducing various electromagnetic signals into the body to regulate and harmonize patients’ dissipative structure.

Similarly, there is also a growing awareness of the limitations of contemporary molecular biology among biologists. This is reflected in increased use of terms such as morphogenetic field and biofield. The concept of a morphogenetic field was suggested after biologists discovered that the process of embryonic development is not solely dependent on genes but is also guided or controlled by invisible factors. The existence of these factors is particularly apparent in the wound-healing process. For instance, in salamander tail regeneration, it is easy to see that an invisible fine blueprint had predetermined not only the shape of the salamander tail but also its fine structure. Biologists called this invisible fine blueprint the morphogenetic field or biofield.

Increased consideration of fields has seen more scientists, particularly physicists, venture into biology. In some ways this is reminiscent of the 1960s, when chemists became involved in biology and greatly advanced biochemistry and molecular biology. Generally, physicists are averse to introducing the concept of new fields and will not do so unless it is unavoidable. From the viewpoint of physicists, the number of factors should be reduced to a minimum. What is being referred to as the morphogenetic field or biofield is likely to be a mixture of many different interactions, including instances of chemical interaction, mechanical interaction, temperature interaction, and electromagnetic interaction. Serious study of the field aspect of living systems should study each of these interactions individually. Among the four categories, electromagnetic interactions play the most important role in the energetic aspect of living systems.

Understanding the chemical aspect of living systems is undeniably important and arguably deserved to be the first aspect to be thoroughly investigated. Now that this investigation is nearing completion, we should consider how to progress to the next step. This involves venturing into a more complicated and possibly more important aspect, that of the electromagnetic interaction in living systems.

Electromagnetic Body versus Chemical Body

To clarify the present situation and to visualize the next step, an artificial and conceptual separation between the chemical body and the electromagnetic body will be made.

The Chemical Body

We are already well acquainted with the chemical body, which consists of solid bones, muscles, and organs linked together by blood vessels and nerve fibers. All of these are composed of cells, which are in turn made of proteins, DNA, RNA, enzymes, coenzymes, and countless small molecules and ions. The chemical body is a solid pattern of particles and has been elaborately studied during the marvelous development of molecular biology in the last half century. It seems that no physical aspect of our bodies is unknown to us. As such, modern medicine based on the study and understanding of the solid chemical body can be considered classical.

The Electromagnetic Body

In addition to the chemical body, there exists an electromagnetic body, and in my opinion, it plays a role of equal or possibly greater importance. It represents an unknown territory in our bodies that now lies within the reach of modern science. Having moved from the realms of mystical experience, science fiction, or pure speculation, it is becoming an important area of basic scientific research in biology and medicine.

The electromagnetic body is much more complicated and dynamic than the chemical one. If we were able to see it, it would appear completely different to the visible chemical body. We would observe the seven major chakras along the central line of the body and many small chakras in other places emanating various colors. We would see dozens of acupuncture meridians, hundreds of acupuncture points, and numerous micro-acupuncture meridians and points weaving into an intricate network—a continuous interference pattern that is holographic in appearance. Around the body we would discern the aura, as described in ancient beliefs. It exists to some extent in the detectable range of extra-weak light as well as in the infrared and microwave parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. Modern technology has seen this become a new area of serious scientific research.

In addition to being highly complex, the electromagnetic body is also extremely dynamic. Unlike the chemical body, where the bones, organs, vessels, and fibers have fixed positions, definite volumes, and distinct boundaries, the electromagnetic “organs,” such as chakras, and some invisible “vessels,” such as acupuncture meridians, exhibit only a relatively stable position with nebulous boundaries and variable volumes. They are continuously flashing and exhibit continuous changes in intensity, color, and shape, like the surface of the ocean in a fierce storm. This turbulence is particularly evident when the person is experiencing an intense change of emotions and psychological states.

If we were able to perceive the electromagnetic field in greater detail, we would witness tremendously complicated communication processes being performed at extremely fast speeds. Electromagnetic waves and photons facilitate communication inside the cells, between cells, between bodies, and with the surroundings. All this occurs in addition to the communication occurring through nerve fibers, hormones, and other molecules. As with wireless communication and television broadcasting, communication through electromagnetic fields carries much more information over much wider channels than can be transmitted through insulated nerve fibers and the slow interaction between the surfaces of molecules. Thus, communication within the electromagnetic body has a more profound and subtle influence on our bodies and health.

Unique Challenges of Studying the Electromagnetic Body

The scope of our senses inevitably dictated the course that science and medicine took in investigating our bodies. Starting with the visible and material aspects, it later began to slowly venture into the invisible and field parts. This latter exploration poses unique challenges that exploring the solid physical realm did not.

Firstly, like the radio waves that continuously enshroud us, the electromagnetic body is invisible. Apart from the narrow range of electromagnetic waves that we can perceive as visible light, we can only visualize their structure and pattern in our imagination. We are unable to study the electromagnetic body using our eyes, microscopes, or chemical analyses. For this reason, even the existence of an electromagnetic body was, until recently, an open question in biology and medicine. Compared to the accessibility of the chemical body to direct perception, the challenge of inferring the existence of the electromagnetic body through meticulous analyses and synthesis of complex experimental data is daunting.

The current situation in biology and medicine is similar to that of physics in the nineteenth century, when people were confronted with evidence of the existence of invisible radio waves. People did not believe in their existence even though the world was full of them. It took Faraday discovering the relationship between electricity and magnetism, Maxwell discerning the formula to describe the relationship and thereby predicting the existence of electromagnetic waves, and finally Marconi inventing long-distance radio transmission to convince people that they existed. While their existence is established in today’s world, we are still unable to perceive them directly. The invisibility of the electromagnetic body poses an enduring challenge to its research and recognition.

The second problem is that the electromagnetic body is highly dynamic, sometimes like an ocean in a storm, making it harder to observe, measure, and formulate laws of its behavior. Also, the more precise the measurements become, the more unstable the resulting values are. In addition to continuously fluctuating with varying intensity and frequency, the electromagnetic body also changes shape in response to a change of location, and it is modified especially by various pathological, physiological, and psychological states. The images and the concepts of the electromagnetic body are fundamentally different from those of the material chemical body. Its dynamic, variable nature, at odds with the ingrained notion that we have a stable solid body, make it more difficult to recognize. In addition, formulating a theoretical system to mathematically describe the characteristics and movement of such a highly dynamic structure poses a great challenge.

The final challenge is that electromagnetic waves travel more than a million times faster than the movement of molecules and nervous system pulses. Consequently, the ergodic phenomenon occurs—where, given a sufficiently long time, a system can travel through all possible states. In the case of the electromagnetic body, it arises because electromagnetic waves travel so fast that they can cross the body numerous times and share all information through all parts of the body. For this reason, no event in the electromagnetic body can be isolated from the rest of the body, and the information from every event can be found in the whole body—it is completely holistic.

It is impossible to study the electromagnetic body using the analytical methods that have been so successful and important in the development of science. Our habitual modes of thinking make it hard to enter a new field but also to move away from the conventional mode of separation, isolation, and analysis. That being said, moving on is required if we are to search for a completely new framework and its related methods to study this new area of science and medicine.

Practical Solutions for These Challenges

Technological development plays a key role in furthering our understanding of the electromagnetic body. Since the electromagnetic field in the body is very weak and prone to disturbance, a sensitive detection system is required to discern its subtle structure. In order to reduce unnecessary disturbance, a remote detection system is preferable. This passive detection system would not introduce anything to the body, such as electrical current in the case of resistance measurements. Fortunately, the last five decades have seen the development of many sensitive detection technologies—for example, technologies originally developed for satellites have been applied to solving medical and biological problems. This implies that the technological basis required for a serious study of the electromagnetic body is already in place.

On the other hand, new theories and methodologies for data analysis, or more precisely, for data synthesis, are required to cope with the extremely dynamic and unstable measurements of the ceaselessly fluctuating electromagnetic body. Holistically investigating a complex, highly interrelated dynamic system is inherently more challenging than the relatively straightforward approach of reducing a stable structure into finer and finer components. Fortunately, in the last two decades, the study of nonlinear problems has offered many new methods, such as bifurcation theory, catastrophe theory, chaos theory, fractals, coherence theory, and new theories of statistics and other mathematics. Meanwhile, the continued rapid development of computer technology offers a powerful tool to deal with a quantity of data that previously would have been unmanageable.

On a side note, perhaps the most important thing to bear in mind is that, in my opinion, biology and medicine are currently in a similar stage as physics was a hundred years ago when it progressed from classical physics to electrodynamics and quantum physics. It is disconcerting to change from the familiar research into solid objects, with their visible and reliable properties, to an uncharted area of intangible objects that are inconstant and inferred from data. We have become familiar with the initially disturbing concepts of subatomic particles and black holes over time but are not yet used to imagining the intangible part of our bodies. To address this problem, it is necessary to reinforce biology and medical education in mathematics and modern physics in order to complement their already strong education in chemistry and biochemistry. Also, more physicists and mathematicians should be involved in biological and medical research teams. This will help introduce the theoretical basis for the study of the electromagnetic body, which is established in mathematics and modern physics, into the study of biology and medicine.

The Electromagnetic Body as a Common Foundation for Complementary Medicines

In light of the electromagnetic body, many puzzling problems and mechanisms in the complementary medicines become understandable. These include the nature of acupuncture meridians and points, the mechanism of homeopathy and other holistic therapies, and even the mysterious experiences that feature in ancient medical traditions.

The many failures in the search for acupuncture meridians and points by means of anatomy in the last half century have already been discussed in detail. The reason behind these failures is that the structure of acupuncture does not exist in the chemical body. However, in light of the electromagnetic body, the acupuncture system can be understood as the prominent areas of an interference pattern formed by superposition of invisible electromagnetic standing waves. In this context, many puzzling problems can be understood, including the shape, size, and stability of acupuncture points and meridians, the relationship between organs and acu-points, the relationship between anatomic structure and distribution of meridians and acu-points, the effect of needling without remedy, the transmission of a signal along meridians and its speed, the phenomena of bio-holography, and the statistical self-similarity of conductivity measurements.

Homeopathy, which is based on the principle of similarity and the potency rule, has also been a great mystery in medicine. The principle of similarity means a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people will cure similar symptoms in sick people. The potency rule means that remedies are prepared by repeatedly diluting a chosen substance in alcohol or distilled water, followed by forcefully striking it on an elastic body, called “succussion.” Each dilution followed by succussion is said to increase the remedy’s potency.

British physicist Cyril W. Smith spent much of his life engaged in serious and systematic research into the mechanism of homeopathy. He asserted that the solution for the mechanism could only be found by considering the electromagnetic structure within the water. If we consider the electromagnetic body, the mechanism of homeopathy can be understood in terms of the resonance effect in the electromagnetic body. As discussed, there are numerous electromagnetic oscillators in a human body. These act as the sources of the numerous electromagnetic waves that construct the extremely complicated, dynamic structure of the electromagnetic body through infinite reflection and superposition. There are many interactions between the electromagnetic structure in the water of a homeopathy remedy and the structure of the electromagnetic body by means of weakly coupled oscillators through the electromagnetic field. The coupling and the energy transfer between them fits into the principle of similarity and the potency rule of homeopathy.

Given this workable explanation, the only challenge remaining is to find an extremely sensitive instrument capable of detecting such a weak resonance effect. The human body itself is the most sensitive detector for the extra-weak signal from a homeopathy remedy. Smith demonstrated this with very good reproducibility through subjective methods like dowsing and swinging a pendulum, but it is difficult for the scientific community to accept techniques as subjective as these. The human body is also a good amplifier of electromagnetic interaction, and the structure or pattern of the electromagnetic body is very sensitive to any electromagnetic disturbance. Therefore, it is possible to objectively detect the significant change in the interference pattern in the electromagnetic body that is caused by an extra-weak disturbance.

The concept of chakras, which means “light rings,” is central to traditional Indian medicine, which holds that the condition of the chakras is related to the psychological and physiological state of the body. From the viewpoint of the electromagnetic body, the chakras are the focal points of various waves, in particular the electromagnetic waves in the body. Therefore, the chakras belong to the interference pattern of electromagnetic waves, which is strongly connected with the psychological and physiological state of the body.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, emotion is regarded as the primary cause of the majority of diseases. In contrast, classical Western medicine considers the human body to be a complicated machine, and the medical doctor a sophisticated mechanic. This view leaves little space for emotion. However, the last two decades have seen psychosomatic medicine becoming more important while psychology now plays a more important role in health care and medical insurance. For a long time, psychologists have taken great efforts to find explanations of psychological states in terms of physiology and other branches of biology without clear success. The problem is that the dense chemical body has only a very limited and indirect connection to psychological states. The state of the electromagnetic body, in particular communication through the electromagnetic field, has a closer connection to psychological and emotional states and is much more sensitive to emotion and environmental influences, changing long before any substantial pathological change would occur in the chemical body. Effective evaluation of the state of the electromagnetic body promises many advantages for the health care and medical insurance industries, because problems appear in the more dynamic electromagnetic body before any substantial changes occur in the chemical body. Consequently some conditions could be diagnosed and rectified earlier, thereby alleviating the need for hospitalization later on.

In my opinion, we are currently at the dawn of a new era that requires progressing from the old world of research, with its focus on the chemical body and allopathic medicine. It has a formidable legacy earned through saving countless lives through surgery, antibiotics, and other drugs, but to improve quality of life and counter so-called modern diseases, we have to venture into a new world that considers the electromagnetic body and regulation medicine. Greater awareness and understanding of the electromagnetic body will facilitate more effective use of self-regulation methods such as physical exercise and meditation.

The distinction being made here between the electromagnetic body and the chemical body is to facilitate a simple and clear depiction of the situation. There is in fact no separation between the two—they are interconnected and interact perpetually.

Indian philosophy holds that people are composed of seven levels, with each level progressively less dense and harder to see. From this viewpoint, the chemical body may only represent the first level, and the electromagnetic body the second level. At this point there is no clear scientific evidence to definitively state whether or not there are any other bodies beyond the chemical body and the electromagnetic body. However, in comparison to the long history of humanity, science, at three hundred years old, is only in its infancy. It has graduated from theorizing a world comprised of dense matter to one including fields; the next step is for our generation to progress from a biological understanding based on the chemical body and pharmacological medicine to that of the electromagnetic body and regulation medicine. Will there be progress beyond this? It seems certain.