biophoton

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NW biofield measurement

Biophoton Detection Technology: Measuring the Light Your Body Emits

At this very moment, as you read these words, your body is emitting light. Not metaphorical light.

16 min · 5 researchers · 8 concepts
NW biofield measurement

Measuring the Electromagnetic Fields of the Human Body: From Burr's L-Fields to Modern Bioelectromagnetics

You are an electromagnetic being. This is not a New Age metaphor.

17 min · 2 researchers · 9 concepts
NW biofield measurement

The Future of Biofield Instruments: Quantum Sensors, Wearable Biophotonics, and AI-Enhanced Consciousness Measurement

In 1900, Lord Kelvin famously declared that physics was essentially complete — that only a few minor problems remained to be solved. Five years later, Einstein published special relativity, and within two decades, quantum mechanics had demolished the classical worldview entirely.

18 min · 17 concepts
NW biofield measurement

Gas Discharge Visualization and Kirlian Bioelectrography: Photographing the Human Energy Field

In 1939, a Soviet electrician named Semyon Kirlian was repairing equipment at a research hospital in Krasnodar when he noticed something peculiar. A patient undergoing high-frequency electrotherapy treatment produced a visible glow between the electrode and the skin.

19 min · 2 researchers · 14 concepts
SC consciousness

Brain Biophotons Detected: The Human Brain Emits Light

In May 2025, researchers at the University of Calgary published a landmark paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters reporting the first detection of biophotons emitted by the living human brain from outside the skull. Using ultra-sensitive single-photon detectors cooled to near...

17 min · 2 researchers · 24 concepts
SC consciousness

Consciousness Science at the Crossroads: From the Hard Problem to the Engineering Era

In 1994, David Chalmers stood before an audience at the first Tucson conference on consciousness and articulated what he called the "hard problem" — why does subjective experience exist at all? Why is there something it is like to see red, feel pain, taste coffee?

17 min · 10 researchers · 20 concepts
SC consciousness

Ten Mind-Blowing Brain Discoveries of 2025: A Synthesis

The year 2025 may be remembered as the year consciousness science crossed from philosophical speculation into engineering-grade empirical investigation. Inspired by Scientific American's tradition of year-end discovery roundups, this synthesis examines the ten most consequential brain and...

13 min · 2 researchers · 24 concepts
SC consciousness

The Golden Ratio in DNA: Fractal Antennas, Emotional Braiding, and the Geometry of Life's Code

When James Watson and Francis Crick published the structure of DNA in 1953, they described a double helix with specific measurements: 34 angstroms per full turn, 21 angstroms in diameter. They noted these numbers as geometric facts.

9 min · 4 researchers · 9 concepts
SC consciousness

The Consciousness Bridge: How Eastern Medicine IS Consciousness Medicine

Here is the thread that connects everything — the insight that changes how you read every acupuncture point chart, every dosha description, every meridian map. Eastern medicine systems were never primarily about treating physical symptoms.

12 min · 7 researchers · 25 concepts
SC consciousness

Mentalism and Vibration: When Ancient Hermeticism Meets Quantum Physics

Two of the seven Hermetic principles sit at the foundation of the whole system like twin pillars holding up a temple. The first — Mentalism — says that consciousness is the fundamental substance of reality.

10 min · 7 concepts
SC consciousness

Plants as Teachers: The Shamanic Science of Botanical Intelligence

Here is a question that has haunted me for years: How did indigenous people in the Amazon, with no laboratories, no chemistry, no peer review, figure out that combining the bark of one specific vine (Banisteriopsis caapi) with the leaves of one specific shrub (Psychotria viridis) — out of...

11 min · 3 researchers · 17 concepts
SC consciousness

Quantum Consciousness Heart Fields Vagal Tone

Welcome to the Deep Dive, the place where we don't just scratch the surface, we take your sources, we go deep, and we give you that essential shortcut to being, well, profoundly well-informed. And today, wow, we are plunging right into the biggest question of them all.

33 min · 2 researchers · 29 concepts
SC consciousness

Translate Shamanic Healing for Science

Welcome back to the Deep Dive. So today you brought us to, I think, one of the most fascinating and

28 min · 4 researchers · 32 concepts
SC consciousness

Water and the Human Body: The Liquid Architecture of Consciousness

The most radical truth about your body is also the most obvious one: you are mostly water. Approximately 60-70% of your body weight is water.

15 min · 1 researchers · 19 concepts
NW electromagnetic hygiene

Biofield and EMF Interaction: The Signal-to-Noise Problem of Living in an Electromagnetic Soup

Before we can understand how external electromagnetic fields (EMF) interfere with biological function, we need to establish a fact that mainstream biology has been slow to embrace but that physics has never disputed: the human body generates, transmits, and receives electromagnetic signals as a...

15 min · 5 researchers · 31 concepts
UP energy medicine

Biofield Science and Research: The Electromagnetic Body

Every living organism generates electromagnetic fields. The human heart produces an electrical field measurable by electrocardiogram (ECG) from meters away.

14 min · 5 researchers · 22 concepts
UP frontier consciousness researchers

Beverly Rubik: The Woman Who Named the Biofield

In 1992, Beverly Rubik sat at a conference table at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, and proposed a word. The word was biofield.

16 min · 1 researchers · 9 concepts
UP frontier consciousness researchers

Fritz-Albert Popp: The Light Inside Living Cells

In 1975, Fritz-Albert Popp was a theoretical biophysicist at the University of Marburg in Germany, investigating the carcinogenic properties of certain chemical compounds. He was studying benz[a]pyrene, a potent carcinogen found in coal tar, cigarette smoke, and grilled meat, when he made an...

16 min · 4 researchers · 10 concepts
UP frontier consciousness researchers

Harold Saxton Burr: The Yale Professor Who Discovered the Electric Blueprint of Life

In the 1930s, at a time when molecular biology was in its infancy and the structure of DNA was still decades from discovery, a professor of anatomy at Yale University School of Medicine was making measurements that, had they been taken seriously, might have redirected the entire trajectory of...

15 min · 6 researchers · 7 concepts
UP frontier consciousness researchers

Itzhak Bentov: The Engineer Who Found Consciousness in the Pendulum

Most people who investigate consciousness come from one of two backgrounds: they are mystics seeking scientific validation, or scientists reluctantly confronting anomalous data. Itzhak Bentov was neither.

17 min · 5 researchers · 20 concepts
UP frontier consciousness researchers

Mae-Wan Ho: The Organism as a Liquid Crystal Rainbow

In 1993, Mae-Wan Ho pointed a polarizing microscope at a living fruit fly larva and saw something that should not have been possible according to conventional biology. The entire organism glowed with brilliant, iridescent colors -- like a living rainbow.

16 min · 3 researchers · 10 concepts
UP frontier consciousness researchers

William Tiller: The Stanford Professor Who Proved Intention Changes Physical Reality

William A. Tiller was a professor emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University.

15 min · 1 researchers · 7 concepts
UP indigenous science systems

Vedic Cosmology and Modern Physics: How Ancient India Mapped the Architecture of Reality

In 1935, Erwin Schrodinger — the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who formulated the wave equation that describes quantum mechanical behavior — gave a lecture at the University of Cambridge in which he described his intellectual debt to Vedantic philosophy. "This life of yours which you are living...

16 min · 6 researchers · 14 concepts
HW functional medicine

Energy Medicine & Biofield Therapies: The Evidence Base

Every living cell in your body is a tiny battery. The membrane potential of a healthy cell sits at approximately -70 millivolts — a voltage differential maintained by ion pumps consuming roughly 30% of your total ATP production.

14 min · 3 researchers · 24 concepts
HW photobiomodulation

Biophotons: Your Body Is a Light-Emitting Organism and DNA Is the Antenna

As you read these words, your body is emitting light. Not heat radiation — that is infrared, and every warm object emits it.

19 min · 4 researchers · 22 concepts
HW photobiomodulation

Light Fasting and Darkness Retreats: How the Absence of Light Activates the Brain's Inner Pharmacy

Every article in this collection describes what light does to the body — how photons charge mitochondria, synthesize vitamin D, set circadian clocks, release nitric oxide, and power the neurochemical pipelines of consciousness. But there is a complementary practice, known across cultures and...

20 min · 3 researchers · 36 concepts
HW photobiomodulation

Melanin: The Biological Semiconductor, Light Harvester, and Consciousness Molecule

There is a molecule present in your skin, your eyes, your inner ear, your adrenal glands, your heart, and — most significantly — in specific nuclei deep within your brain, that possesses properties so remarkable that material scientists are studying it as the basis for next-generation...

19 min · 17 concepts
UP spiritual practice

Energy Medicine: A Practitioner's Guide to the Luminous Energy Field

Before you had a body, you had a blueprint. Before the blueprint, you had light.

11 min · 5 researchers · 16 concepts
UP spiritual practice

The Science of Prayer, Intention, and Healing

In the coronary care unit of San Francisco General Hospital in 1988, 393 patients were randomly assigned to two groups. One group received standard medical care.

11 min · 8 researchers · 12 concepts