Effect of Meditation on Ultraweak Photon Emission from Hands and Forehead

Wijk, Eduard P.A. Van; Ackerman, John; Wijk, Roeland Van

doi:10.1159/000084028

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“…Still, the presented experimental data, make clear that these aspects need attention in future research. Among others our group will focus on some of these problems, the results are presented in separate publications [4,22].…”

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“…The blue-yellow ratio increased during the intention mode. Recently, Van Wijk and colleagues [4] investigated the influence of meditation on photon emission from the hands and forehead in 5 subjects. Data indicated that photon emission changed after meditation.…”

Section: Human Biophoton Emission In Consciousness Studiesmentioning

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“…Without discussing it in detail, the authors concluded that photon count statistics had a potential to be used as an indicator of the healthy state, but that additional case studies were required to determine statistically significant diagnostic criteria. Recently, Van Wijk et al characterised photon emission from the hands in the pre-and post-meditation phases by the Fano factor [4]. Data indicated that the Fano factor time curve is useful to quantify the effect of meditation on human photon emission.…”

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An Introduction to Human Biophoton Emission

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2005

Complement Med Res

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Background: Biophoton emission is the spontaneous emission of ultraweak light emanating from all living systems, including man. The emission is linked to the endogenous production of excited states within the living system. The detection and characterisation of human biophoton emission has led to suggestions that it has potential future applications in medicine. Objectives: An overview is presented of studies on ultraweak photon emission (UPE, biophotons) from the human whole body. Methods: Electronic searches of Medline, PsychLit, PubMed and references lists of relevant review articles and books were used to establish the literature database. Articles were then analysed for their main experimental setup and results. Results: The, mostly, single case studies have resulted in a collection of observations. The collection presents information on the following fields of research: (1) influence of biological rhythms, age, and gender on emission, (2) the intensity of emission and its left-right symmetry in health and disease, (3) emission from the perspective of Traditional Chinese and Korean Medicine, (4) emission in different consciousness studies, (5) procedures for analysis of the photon signal from hands, (6) detection of peroxidative processes in the skin. Of each article the main findings are presented in a qualitative manner, quantitative data are presented where useful, and the technological or methodological limitations are discussed. Conclusion: Photon emission recording techniques have reached a stage that allows resolution of the signal in time and space. The published material is presented and includes aspects like spatial resolution of intensity, its relation to health and disease, the aspect of colour, and methods for analysis of the photon signal. The limited number of studies only allows first conclusions about the implications and significance of biophotons in relation to health and disease, or to mental states, or acupuncture. However, with the present data we consider that further research in the field is justified.

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An Introduction to Human Biophoton Emission

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2005

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“…Van Wijk és munkatársai kísérleteikben igazolták 65 , hogy az önkéntesek homloka felett mért biofoton-emisszió intenzitását a meditáció alapvetôen befolyásolja. Azaz a meditáció mint speciális kognitív folyamat direkt módon korrelál az agy biofoton-termelésével.…”

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A Visual Based Proto-Consciousness Model of Human Thinking

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Background and objectives -Here we present our results of many years of research on the visual (pictorial) representation model expanded with some new ideas in a simplified form. Our goal is to make available our new pictorial model for a broader scientific community and to point to its possible importance in the future. Method -Own scientific publications, selective literature analysis and preliminary experiments. Results -Our several scientific publications and preliminary experiments were presented outlining our new molecular visual representation model as brain might be able to generate internal images by regulated biophotons in early V1 retinotopic visual regions. We also proposed that some of symptoms and characteristics of autism and savantism may suggest that visual (pictorial) thinking might be a possible cognitive model in the case of healthy people as well. Our model can present a uniform molecular basis for many visual related phenomena. Conclusions -It is possible that a so-called visual protoconsciousness might be developed in evolution, which is directly related to the retinotopic visual areas, and which has a different cognitive ability from verbal abilities. If our model can be exactly proved it presents a common molecular basis for various visual phenomena such as visual perception and imagination, phosphenes ect. and might open new ways in several fields of science such as visual prosthesis for the blind, artificial intelligence, visual neuroscience, cognitive and autism research.

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“…In der Folge entwickelte sich die Biophotonenforschung, in Deutschland vor allem von Popp [2,3] [4][5][6]. Strittig ist, wie sie zu bewerten ist.…”

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