INSTITUTE OF BIOENERGETIC AND INFORMATIONAL

HEALTHCARE

DIPLOMA IN

BIOENERGE
BIOENERGETIC

HEALTH

COACHING

1st Semester
Module BIH 3
The Human Biofield (Body-Field)
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Contents
1.0 Welcome and Introduction ..................................................................................................... 4
2.0 Fields........................................................................................................................................ 5
2.1 Quantum field theory .......................................................................................................... 5
3.0 The Human Biofield ................................................................................................................. 7
3.1 Theoretical perspectives ..................................................................................................... 8
3.11 Rupert Sheldrake ........................................................................................................... 8
3.12 Peter Marcer ................................................................................................................. 8
3.13 Amit Goswami et al ....................................................................................................... 9
3.14 Peter Fraser ................................................................................................................... 9
3.15 Fritz-Albert Popp ......................................................................................................... 10
3.16 Ross Adey and co. ........................................................................................................ 10
3.17 Robert Becker .............................................................................................................. 10
3.18 Beverly Rubik ............................................................................................................... 11
3.19 Ervin László .................................................................................................................. 12
3.20 The HeartMath Institute.............................................................................................. 12
4.0 The Body-Field Theory........................................................................................................... 13
4.1 Energy Collects in Cavities ................................................................................................. 13
4.2 Subdivisions of the body-field ........................................................................................... 14
4.21 Global scaling............................................................................................................... 15
4.3 How the Body-Field Functions .......................................................................................... 16
4.4 Energy Fields and Information Pathways .......................................................................... 17
5.0 Summary ............................................................................................................................... 19
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1.0 Welcome and Introduction

Welcome to Module BIH 3 of the IBIH Diploma. In this Module, we look into the human
biofield or body-field, drawing on the work of some of the leading pioneers in the field.

Most scientists agree that fields and forces, even those which we currently cannot detect, are
causative influences in nature and evolution. Among the well-known advocates of a quantum
field-level view of the body are PhD biologists such as Rupert Sheldrake, James Oschman and
Bruce Lipton; physicists such as Professor Amit Goswami, Dr Peter Marcer, Dr Ervin Lazlo and
former astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell; medically trained visionaries such as Dr Deepak Chopra
and Dr Larry Dossey; and leading researchers such as Peter Fraser and many others.

Human beings are formed from cells, thoughts, emotions, memories, energy and conscious-
ness. All these are holistically interconnected and choreographed to form a functioning per-
son. To discover what so miraculously interconnects and directs the many aspects of our be-
ing, it is necessary to look beyond the bounds of conventional biology and chemistry. We must
consider the human biofield (or energy field), and embrace both ancient healing wisdom and
cutting edge physics.

The science of the biofield is still largely unknown in conventional academic circles and to the
general public, but to those far-sighted individuals with an eye to what is coming next in biol-
ogy and medicine it is an exciting avenue of exploration. It promises to revolutionalise medi-
cine in the next few decades, leading to a complete revamping of clinical practice, making it
more non-invasive, effective, and humane.

Every year, more and more people see the benefits of complementary healthcare as the limi-
tations of the purely biochemical model of the body become more apparent. It is even chang-
ing our view of what constitutes a human being – not merely physical beings driven by chemi-
cal reactions, but bio-energetic and bio-informational beings whose physical form is overseen
by consciousness.
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2.0 Fields

As we saw in the previous module, a field is an area in which a force exerts an influence at
every point. Fields involve a vibration of energy and can carry information.

The concept of a field in today’s quantum physics is different from the old Newtonian model.
In Newtonian physics, fields transmit information through identifiable channels. In quantum
physics, though, information transfer is instant, if not quicker, as if the receiver has received
the message before it has been transmitted.

Matter is created from atoms. Atoms are made of:

• Protons and neutrons, which create the weight within an atom;

• Electrons, which carry charge; and
• Positrons, which represent the antielectrons and link the atom with its antiself.

Each of these atomic units carries information and is constantly moving and vibrating. Elec-
trons can move out of orbit, generating electricity, which creates magnetic fields. The combi-
nation of electrical and magnetic energies is an electromagnetic field.

Each of these atomic units moves at its own speed and, when combined with other units, cre-
ates a certain oscillation or vibration for the atom. This is a field. Motion produces pressure,
and this creates waves. Many waves (or fields) are given off by a single atom, and the nature
of these constantly changes as the atom is constantly moving.

2.1 Quantum field theory

Quantum field theory is a vast area of study that is steadily revealing the idiosyncrasies of sub-
atomic reality1. For example (and this list is far from complete):

• Mass can change to energy and vice versa.

• The photon (the fundamental unit of light) can behave as a wave or a particle.
• Like light, matter has wave capabilities.
• An electron and its positron will destroy each other if in the same spot at the same
time.
• There are ‘virtual particles’ which do not exist except when they are observed or acted
upon.
• A single electron or proton can move in two or more directions at the same time.
• No two electrons can move with the same motion at the same time.
• The same particle can move in two different directions at the same time.

1
Source: Cyndi Dale, The Subtle Body
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• Having once connected, two particles or wave-particles can continue to affect each
other no matter where in the universe they are.
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3.0 The Human Biofield

The human biofield (or body-field) is a complex set of fields made up of:

• Electromagnetic charges from the central nervous system;

• Low frequency longitudinal waves from the chest cavity, the brain and the lungs;
• Gravity and magnetic fields from the earth;
• Electrostatic fields set up around the charge in the nerves; and
• ‘Source energy’: ‘Source Energy’ is basic to survival. It can be thought of as a kind of
life-force energy. In the human body-field, it is affected by enhancing the function of
the lungs, brain and kidneys (three sets of tubules of different diameters). From a
body-field perspective, Source energy is the prime power source for the body, and is
attracted by and stored in the body cavities.

When the transfer of information is incomplete, nonexistent, or distorted, something goes

wrong with the body-field’s arrangement of energy, and the result is illness and/or disease.

The notion of the biofield is hardly new: hundreds of subtle energy fields generated by the
body have been postulated and identified down the ages, including:

• The auric field: the aura is a set of energy bands that graduated in frequency and col-
our as they move outward from the body. In traditional oriental medicine, each auric
field opens to different energy planes and energy bodies and partners with a chakra,
thus exchanging information between the ‘worlds’ outside and inside the body.
• Morphological fields – these allow exchanges between like-minded species and trans-
fer information from one generation to another. They penetrate the aura as well as
the electrical system of the body.
• Geofields – act upon all living organisms as do energies beyond the earth (e.g. the
moon, other planets and stars).
• L fields and T fields – subtle electrical and thought fields which are acted upon by elec-
trical and magnetic energies. L-fields are subtle physical fields measured electrically; T-
fields are thought-fields. These fields compose the undetected aspects of the electro-
magnetic spectrum
• The universal light field – also called ’zero point field’. This consists of photons or units
of light that regulate every living thing. Our DNA is made of light, and we are sur-
rounded by a field of light.
• The fields of energy that stimulate the body and its physiology arise from the organs
as a foetus develops.

Meridian-like channels coordinate the information that drives millions of chemical processes,
ensuring that the correct information gets to a specific place in the body at the precise time it
is needed.
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3.1 Theoretical perspectives

Specific mechanisms and processes of the human biofield have been explored by various
medical researchers, biologists and physicists. A selection of the most respected theories fol-
lows:

3.11 Rupert Sheldrake

Dr Sheldrake believes the biofield is a morphogenetic field—an aspect of the larger morphic
field that directs evolution and orders nature by imposing organisation on what are otherwise
random and indeterminate activities.2 The morphic field is responsible for formative causation,
not just at the level of the body, but at the species and even societal levels as well. It is not
fixed, but evolves, driven by morphic resonance, which is a quantum ‘non-local field’ reso-
nance. This means that it operates not at the classical level of cause-and-effect but at that of
quantum entanglement and ‘action at a distance.’

All living organisms, from cells to people, that belong to a certain group tune into the morphic
field and through morphic resonance develop according to the programs within that field.
Resonance only occurs between forms that are similar, so an elephant would not take on the
characteristics of a tree. According to Sheldrake, these fields serve as a database as well as a
field.

Sheldrake sees DNA as a recipient of information from morphic fields, which instructs it to act
in certain ways.

The morphogenetic field is the organising field for most organisms, including human beings. It
interpenetrates the human body and not only influences our physical and psychological selves,
but may be at the foundation of so-called ‘paranormal’ abilities, such as telepathy and hands
on healing. Sheldrake also believes that past life memories could be passed down through the
morphic field, being located neither in the brain nor a particular life.

3.12 Peter Marcer

Peter Marcer, along with Edgar Mitchell3 and Walter Schempp, the father of the magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI and fMRI) machine, believe that we are essentially quantum beings,
sensitive to quantum fields.

The world is awash in phase waves that encode the characteristics of each entity. So, for in-
stance, an oak tree’s phase waves differ from a maple tree’s phase waves, even though they
are alike in class (both part of the class of ‘tree’ phase waves). We, too, have both a species-
level phase signature - a body-field - and a personal one. Our personal phase waves encode
our unique characteristics and make us recognisable as individuals.

2
www.sheldrake.org
3
www.noetic.org
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We are bombarded with millions of phase waves every second, and we extract information
from them both consciously and unconsciously, via sensory and non-sensory channels. Mar-
cer’s theory4 arises from the standard model of quantum mechanics, and he applies it mostly
to explain the mechanisms of consciousness rather than those of health.

3.13 Amit Goswami et al

Dr Amit Goswami, like Deepak Chopra, Larry Dossey and others, takes the reality of the human
biofield as a given. They are less rigorous in exploring its specifics in detail, and more inter-
ested in exploring the therapeutic consequences of healing via quantum fields and forces.
Through their research, lecturing and writing, they are taking healthcare outside the box of
biochemistry and into the realm of the spirit-mind-body influences. While they delve into the
quantum ‘non-local’ aspects of healing, they are—with the possible exception of Goswami—
more interested in being physicians than physicists.

In his book, The Quantum Doctor - A Physicist's Guide to Health and Healing5, Goswami identi-
fies four key features of the quantum universe which directly impact the human biofield and
hence the body:

1. Downward causation – atoms and molecules do not organise themselves into living
beings; an organising intelligence (consciousness) is at work.

2. Nonlocality – all objects are interconnected without any signal passing between them,
instantaneously, and without passing through the intervening space.

3. Discontinuity – information and energy take instantaneous ‘quantum leaps’, i.e. do not
always move through physical, observable, measurable channels.

4. Quantum entanglement – cause and effect are not one-way, but work in all directions
simultaneously. A causes B and B causes A at the same time, together.

3.14 Peter Fraser

Many traditional and non-traditional healers and complementary healthcare practitioners

claim to work with the human energy field, either as a series of chakra-like fields or as a perva-
sive whole-body energy field. Most, however, have not conducted research into the biofield.
Among the notable exceptions is former acupuncture professor, homeopath and TCM practi-
tioner Peter H. Fraser.

For more than 25 years, Fraser has explored the human biofield/body-field, and has formu-
lated a comprehensive theory that reveals the biofield as a complex, structured network of
fields that interpenetrates the physical body and underlies all physiology. Fraser’s theory inte-

4
See Marcer, ‘A Quantum Mechanical Model of Evolution and Consciousness.’
5
Hampton Roads Publishing (2004), ISBN: 978-1571744173
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grates physics and biology, and updates traditional Chinese medicine by correlating it to mod-
ern biology in great detail.

Fraser and others are exploring cavity physics as it applies to large scale structures, such as the
brain, heart and lungs, and to micro structures, such as microtubules and nanotubes in the
body. This research is heavily influenced by quantum phenomena such as electron tunnelling,
entanglement and non-local fields.

Fraser’s body-field is a highly dynamic entity, a hologram, ever-changing, reacting, responding.

It takes in, and emits, light and sound (see Section 4).

3.15 Fritz-Albert Popp

Germany’s Fritz-Albert Popp is often considered the father of biophoton research, although he
was not the first to discover that living things emit very weak electromagnetic light signals6.

Popp’s work in the 1970s revealed that cells produce and use ultra-weak coherent light and
that this light has important influences on cell function and on a person’s overall state of
health. Their very existence implies the existence of the body-field.

3.16 Ross Adey and co.

W. Ross Adey, Robert Becker, and other medical scientists have shown that external fields and
forces, such as electromagnetic fields, impact health and well-being7. According to Adey, the
modern environment has sharply changed with introduction of a vast and growing spectrum of
man-made electromagnetic fields. He concludes that, far from being harmless, they are affect-
ing such physiological functions as the binding of hormones, antibodies, and neurotransmit-
ters to their specific binding sites.

Adey’s studies ‘support new concepts of communication between cells across the barriers of
cell membranes; and point with increasing certainty to an essential physical organisation in
living matter, at a far finer level than the structural and functional image defined in the chem-
istry of molecules.’ In other words, the evidence indicates that quantum phenomena such as
the nonlinear, discontinuous transfer of information across cell membranes are at work, not
merely the exchange of heat in tissues as believed by mainstream biologists.

3.17 Robert Becker

Dr Robert Becker, a pioneer of electromagnetic medicine, suspected that geomagnetic forces

might play a role in physical and psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, arthritis and
cancers. His research into the repair of broken bones in humans and the regeneration of limbs

6
Alexander Gurwitsch discovered in the 1920s that living things emit very weak electromagnetic light
signals in the ultraviolet range which peak at two specific frequencies. His findings have subsequenctly
been validated many times.
7
E.g. see W. Ross Adye, Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields, Journal of Cellular Biochemistry
51:410-416 (1993)
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in lower animals led him to conclude that electric fields or currents could stimulate regenera-
tion, and that some sort of field encompassed the body which governed and stimulated re-
generation. Becker described his studies in his book The Body Electric8, and in the first part of
his later book, Cross Currents: Perils of Electropollution, the Promise of Electromedicine9.

Having discovered the importance of electricity in the environment, Becker was deeply con-
cerned with both the positive and negative effects of these influences on human life. Western
scientists generally believed that electromagnetic fields and waves influenced living tissues
only through heating them, but Becker was certain that also non-thermal effects are harmful.
He also took an interest in the use of weak electric currents in healing.

3.18 Beverly Rubik

Since the early 1980s, biophysicist Beverly Rubik has published research papers and articles on
topics including subtle energy and energy medicine, healers and other complementary medical
interventions. Her 1995 paper, Energy Medicine and the Unifying Concept of Information10,
was one of the first to discuss information in this context. ‘Experimental data clearly shows the
presence of a ubiquitous, ultraweak biological light,’ she wrote. ‘Although evidence is accumu-
lating that would support the notion of a coherent, organising field that conveys bioinforma-
tion, further research is needed to substantiate this concept.’

She first became interested in these subjects in the 1970s after a personal experience with a
spiritual healer. Later, she was one of the first to use the term ‘biofield’, which she defined as
the energy field-with-information within and around the body (human and non-human), the
active organising field of life.

The body radiates energy - an estimated 100 watts of infrared light (which is used in surveil-
lance devices); it is also like an antenna, sensing extremely low level energies. What we radi-
ate, Rubik points out, goes out into the universe and has no boundaries. Extremely small fields
can carry bio-information which sensitive sensing equipment can detect. Biological effects can
be observed even when the signal is smaller than molecular noise11.

Rubik published her biofield hypothesis in 200212. She proposed that the biofield consisted of
electromagnetic and other more subtle fields inside and around the organism. It carries vital
information throughout the body at high speeds, and is central to its integration. It regulates
the biochemistry and physiology of the body, superseding any particular molecular reactions.
For example, improvements to the biofield correlate with autonomic nervous system im-
provements too.

8
Robert O. Becker and Gary Selden, 1998, The Body Electric, William Morrow; 1st Ed, ISBN: 978-
0688069711
9
Jeremy P Tarcher; Reprinted 1990, ISBN: 978-0874776096
10
Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, 1995, v.1 #1: pp34-39
11
Background noise due to the motion of air molecules.
12
The Biofield Hypothesis: Its Biophysical Basis and Role in Medicine, J Alternative and Complementary
Medicine, Vol 8, No 6, 2002, pp 703-717
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The biofield aligns with geo-cosmic fields. It is not a closed system, and cannot be separated
from circadian rhythms, the earthly environment and beyond.

The biofield is a global measure of health and wellness, unique to each individual. According to
Rubik, small energy ‘nudges’ such as the use of light, sound, magnets, acupressure, qi gong,
Reiki, yoga, the laying on of hands and so on, if repeated over time, can strengthen and bring
better balance to the biofield. Her research into various Eastern energy practices and some
biofield technologies has shown that such improvement is possible.

Who or what conducts this ‘symphony’? According to Rubik, the mind, through intention,
awareness and the emotions.

3.19 Ervin László

Engineers and systems theorists such as the late Herbert Fröhlich and Ervin László, have pro-
posed that the body displays evidence of being influenced by or actually creating coherent
quantum fields, which they believe are crucial to explaining biological information processing.

His 2004 book, Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything13 László sug-
gests that the substance of the universe is a field of information which he termed the ‘Akashic
field’ or ‘A-field’. He describes how such an informational field can explain why our universe
appears to be fine-tuned as to form galaxies and conscious life forms, and why evolution is an
informed, not random, process. He believes that his hypothesis solves several problems that
emerge from quantum physics, especially nonlocality and quantum entanglement.

3.20 The HeartMath Institute

The California-based HeartMath Institute has conducted pioneering research into heart-brain
coherence and revealed communication pathways between these two vital organs. For exam-
ple, we now know that the heart has its own ‘mini-brain’ which sends ten times more informa-
tion to the brain than vice-versa. The heart communicates with the body through sound, elec-
tricity, vibration, hormones and the red blood cells (which, having no DNA, carry no informa-
tion of their own). The HeartMath website, www.heartmath.org/, is a must visit for IBIH stu-
dents.

13 nd
Inner Traditions; 2 Rev Ed (2007) ISBN: 978-1594771811
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4.0 The Body-Field Theory

‘Body-Field’ is the term given by Peter Fraser to his theory of the human biofield, probably the
most comprehensive theory of its type to date.

4.1 Energy Collects in Cavities

Cavities include hollow structures such as the sinuses and blood vessels, and relatively solid
structures such as the lungs and bones. The body contains a large number of cavities, including
a number of major organs (heart, lungs etc.).

Cavities have four primary functions within the biofield:

1. Collecting energy from space: The body needs both real energy (e.g. from metabolis-
ing carbohydrates) and virtual energy. The cavities are the primary means of gathering
and storing virtual energy from space.

2. Storing virtual energy: cavities act like rechargeable batteries. Healthy people have
well charged cavities; in illness, they carry a diminished charge.

3. Information exchange: Source energy sets up a supportive environment within a cavity

that facilitates information exchange. If the Source energy within a cavity becomes
depleted, its static field is reduces and its ability to communicate is impeded.

4. Heat control: The human body needs to maintain a precise temperature. Heat comes
from carbohydrate oxidation and virtual energy. The cavities of the body have the abil-
ity to convert virtual energy into thermal energy – excess heat is vented partly through
perspiration, and partly by radiating excess heat to the environment as virtual infor-
mation.

The idea of energy collecting in cavities is not as strange as it may at first appear. There are
many instances in electronics where energy collects in a tuned space: these cavities are called
coaxial resonators. There is something very like them in quantum physics too. The energy they
collect from space has been described by a large number of physicists, but they have difficulty
in measuring it, so it remains in the realm of theory so far. But, according to Fraser, the idea
fits well with what happens in practice in clinical work with the body-field. The Chinese also
believed that the organs of the body acted as a power source for the meridians that bear the
organ’s name.
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4.2 Subdivisions of the body-field

There are many subdivisions in the body field. Here are the main ones:

Tuned Circuits

Electrical

or

Spatial

Large Organs – 3 shapes

Brain and Cranial Cavity

Lungs in Chest Cavity

Uterus and Bowel in Abdominal

Cavity

There are smaller organs too, such as the ovaries, eyes, ears, testicles etc. and another field at
cell level.

The three primary cavities, shown in the above diagram, are the cranial cavity, chest cavity and
abdominal cavity. In TCM, all three are linked by one energy channel:
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1. The cranial cavity is almost entirely covered with a thick layer of bone, and has nu-
merous cavities within the cranial space – the meninges, large venous sinuses, two
lateral ventricles, osseous sinuses and so on. However, a cavity is ineffective without a
port. In the cranium there is an exit hole at the base of the skull, entry pints for energy
behind the nasal cavity, eye sockets and the auditory canal. The cranial cavity extends
its influence into the bone cavity of the spinal column.

2. The chest (or thoracic) cavity includes organs which contain cavities within the major
cavity, such as the heart and lungs and their pleural and pericardial sacs. This cavity is
surrounded by the ribs, cartilages, intercostals muscles and the spine. The openings
are the trachea at the top, and at the bottom, where the muscular diaphragm links it
to the abdominal cavity.

3. The abdominal cavity has a soft shell formed by the diaphragm, the back muscles, the
spine and the multiple sheaths of the abdominal muscles.

4.21 Global scaling

Fraser’s picture of the human body-field is consistent with the idea of Global Scaling: Global
Scaling is a theory developed by Dr Helmut Müller. Contrary to the linear scales used in science
for many physical properties, the theory of Global Scaling assumes that the natural scale is not
linear but logarithmic14.

The basic assumption of the theory of Global Scaling is very simple. Rather being linear as pre-
viously supposed, the natural scale which describes many different physical properties is in
first approximation logarithmic, and in second approximations fractal and hyperbolic. Global
Scaling is logarithmic scale invariance. It produces fractal structures, which are a basic creative
function found in nature. Global Scaling explains how fractals are related to the size and mass
of objects in nature generally, including biology.

With the aid of the so called Müller fractal, it is possible to formulate comprehensive hypothe-
ses about such naturally occurring things as the mass distribution of the universe, the cause of
forces like gravitation, electromagnetism, etc., the essence of time, preferred and avoided
dimension ranges of nature (e.g. for lengths, frequencies, temperatures, etc.), and the distri-
bution of prime numbers.

Global Scaling theory goes back to the 1960s. Between 1967 and 1968, Richard Feynman and
James Bjorken discovered Logarithmic Scale Invariance as it is applied to high energy physics15.
Also in 1967 a Russian physicist by the name of Simon E. Shnoll discovered a global scaling
phenomenon in the fine structure of histograms related to chemical processes, and in physical
processes like radioactive decay and thermionic emissions16.

14
For further information, see the paper Global Scaling for Quantum Health by Rainer Viehweger.
15
Bjorken J.D. Phys.Rev. D179 (1969) 1547.
16
Shnoll S.E., Oscillatory processes in biological and chemical systems. Moscow, Nauka 1967.)
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In 1981, L L Chislenko published work on Logarithmic Scaling Invariance in the fre-

quency distribution of biological species17.

In 1981 another important development occurred when logarithmic scaling was linked with
the processes of embryological development in biological systems. Not only this but applica-
tion was also made in Ontogenesis, as well as in geo-local history18.

It was not until 1982 to 1984 that Hartmut Müller discovered the same scaling phenomenon in
the frequency distributions of elementary particles. In astronomy this was applied to the or-
bital positions and relative masses of heavenly bodies19.

Again in 1984 the theory was applied to biology, in the respect of synthesis and metabolic
processes by organisms, by a scientist named Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, and found to be valid20.

4.3 How the Body-Field Functions

The human body-field is an intelligent, self-organizing, self-correcting, self-maintaining ener-

getic and informational structure that, says Fraser, functions at the level of QED21 and quan-
tum holography. It is an information management system responsible for ensuring correct
communication and integration between all the aspects of a human. It is in continual flux as it
goes about its job of overseeing the vast number of intimately linked processes required of a
functioning individual.

With correct information, these processes can be ordered and synchronised in a healthy way
and allow a person to adapt and react to environmental changes. But where there is poor
communication, these processes will not function well and a person’s ability to adapt is com-
promised.

The body-field and physical body are interdependent. Chemistry drives the physiology of the
body, allowing everything from DNA and cells to the nervous system and brain to perform the
work that keeps us alive and healthy. This same cellular activity gives rise, at least in part, to
the body-field, which in turn directs and organizes the information that drives our biochemis-
try. It’s a chicken-and-egg paradox, and an example of how the real and virtual are both neces-
sary for life processes. On the one hand, real chemical processes drive physiology, giving rise
to the bioenergetic reality of the body-field; on the other hand, the body-field is responsible
for directing the information that maintains that biochemistry.

17
Chislenko L .L., The structure of the fauna and flora in connection with the sizes of the organisms.
Moscow University Press. 1981.
18
(Zhirmunsky A.V. Kuzmin V.I., Critical scaling levels in the development of biological systems. Moscow.
Nauka. 1982.)
19
Global Scaling // Munich, 2001 to 2006.
20
(Schmidt-Nielen K. Scaling. Why is the animal size so important? Cambridge University Press. 1984.)
21
QED – Quantum Electro-Dynamics
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Everything that happens at a biochemical level in your body is mediated by information. The
body has to know what to do, when to do it, how much to do, and where the activity should
take place, and it has to carry out millions of actions accurately in milliseconds. Body and
body-field are like two sides of a coin; both biochemistry and bioenergetics mutually contrib-
ute to its homeostasis.

An example

Consider the digestive system. When you take a bite of the food the teeth physically break the
food up. The mouth also secretes saliva which starts the initial chemical breaking down of
food. The food then enters the stomach and its acidic environment which kills off bugs and
continues the chemical digestive processes. The small intestines form a long tube that leads
from the stomach, and the food passes along this where digestive enzymes from the pancreas
and bile from the gallbladder are introduced to complete the chemical digestive processes.
Finally, the beneficial nutrients are absorbed through the small intestine’s wall, they enter the
blood stream to nourish the body and the waste enters the large bowel.

The above describes the physical and chemical processes of digestion but let’s now look at the
digestive process from an information perspective. Firstly, you need to be able to distinguish
food from other things: you need information on what food is. Once you have taken a bite of,
say, an apple, the salivary glands need information on when to start secreting and how much
to secrete. The body needs to pre-empt the arrival of particular foods in the small intestine so
the correct digestive enzymes can be produced. These need to be secreted at the right time, in
the right quantity - which all requires information.

Conventional bio-chemistry looks at the digestive process as some sort of reflex action, an
automated sequence of events which the body somehow intuitively knows what to do. They
reduce the process down to the smallest chemical reactions and look at it from that perspec-
tive, and for sure these documented chemical reactions do happen.

But from a bio-informational perspective we are interested in how the body knows what to do
and what controls, organises and synchronises all the millions of events required to essentially
reorganise atoms of the food into beneficial nutritious arrangements for our survival. And as
has been pointed out, organising events takes information, and rearranging arrangements of
atoms is a very organised process.

4.4 Energy Fields and Information Pathways

Peter Fraser’s model of the body-field distinguishes between the fields of energy that stimu-
late the body, and the information pathway that directs information to enable the body to
function correctly.
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He labels the fields of energy that stimulate the body and its physiology as, ‘Energetic Driv-
ers.’22 Driver fields impart constitutional energy and information to the body-field, and hence
to the body. One of the major drivers of the body-field is the heart. Heart rhythm also has a
role in regulating information in the body.

Fraser calls the information pathway (or communications network) that directs information to
the right place in the body at the right time, ‘Energetic Integrators.’ These meridian-like chan-
nels coordinate the information that direct millions of chemical processes, ensuring that the
correct information gets to a specific place in the body at the precise time it is needed. He has
identified at least twelve Integrator fields, each handling dozens of specific kinds of informa-
tion, including how elements are used in the body, specific cellular functions and data on par-
ticular parts of organs or body systems.

The body needs energy and information. Energy ensures physiological action, but information
underlies what the body does, why it does it and how. Every cell in the body must work with
astonishing precision and exquisite timing, efficiently managing millions of chemical reactions
and molecular activities every second. It can do only because of the information fields that
direct it at the sub-cellular – i.e. quantum - level.

When something goes wrong with the body-field’s arrangement of energy, the transfer of
information is incomplete, nonexistent, or distorted, and ill health/disease ensues. The clinical
manifestation of any of these information errors is tiredness, the symptom of all diseases, bar
none!

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‘Energetic drivers’ and ‘energetic integrators’ are registered trademarks.
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5.0 Summary

Bioenergetic healing has a long and proud history, but rapid progress has been made in the
past few decades by scientists exploring the connection between biology and physics. Today, a
wide range of non-material phenomena that were once considered ‘non-scientific’ have been
shown to be real. For example, the scope and power of the human mind and its ability to tran-
scend physical boundaries is constantly under investigation. And central to it all is our ever-
growing understanding of the quantum processes that underlie biology, chemistry and medi-
cine.

Conventional science says that, although everything in the universe is built from quantum
building blocks, we cannot see or detect the signature of the quantum realm in our macro-
scopic world. This belief is especially true in biology, where the warm, wet matter of the body
and the body’s intricate interactions with the environment are said to drown out quantum
signals. ‘The body is classical,’ proclaim traditional biologists, ‘and is ruled by molecular bio-
chemistry!’

But frontier scientists across the board, from physics, biology, systems theory, medicine,
mathematics, philosophy and other disciplines say this is not so, that we are quantum beings.
They are discovering new ways to identify and measure the quantum nature of the body, and
have shown how fields and forces, even those we cannot easily detect, are causative influ-
ences in nature and evolution.

The Chinese, of course, knew that energy flows were crucial in understanding the human body
and, despite almost total rejection by western doctors; their insights have provided a starting
point for many of the contemporary approaches to BIH. Also important has been the work on
the cell by researchers such as James Oschman and Fritz Albert Popp, and numerous studies of
the biofield by the likes of Rupert Sheldrake, Beverly Rubik, Robert Becker and Peter Fraser.
The boundaries of knowledge are continually expanding, especially into the role of information
pathways in the human body-field.

Research into the human biofield is rapidly bringing about a shift in thinking, from regarding
ourselves merely as physical beings to seeing ourselves as bio-energetic and bio-informational
beings. When we see ourselves in this light, our perspectives on many things change, not least
who and what we are, and how human beings fit into the quantum universe. That’s quite a
thought, isn’t it?
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