Biophotons

Quantum physics is the study of the behavior of matter and energy at the molecular, atomic, nuclear, and even smaller microscopic levels. It seems the laws that govern macroscopic objects that we can see and hold do not function the same on microscopic molecules.

The next step down from a molecule is an atom. The next step down from an atom are subatomic particles which consist of Photons, Leptons, Electrons, Neutrons, and other particles.  Of concern right now are photons— specifically biophotons.

Photons are quantum particles that can be expressed as particles or electromagnetic waves — depending upon what you are looking for.

If you are looking for a particle it will behave as a particle — matter.
If you are looking for a wave, it will behave as a wave — energy.

Biophotons are photons that emit a very weak light that all living beings have, they are classified as UPEs or ultra weak photon emissions.

Biophotons are stored and concentrated in our DNA.

Biophotons act as communicators in our body (and outside of our body!).  They are connected to vitality as biophotons helps our cells and organs communicate wirelessly and very fast — kinda like wifi.  Normally information and nutrients get in a cell only in a lock and key method, the receptors act as a lock and certain nutrient’s molecular form acts as a key that allow only that molecular form to enter a cell.  

Biophotons bypass this and directly and faster communicate information and nutrients into the cell!  We want biophotons in our body.

Good communication between all the cells and systems of our body is important for health.  This is why alternative therapies are always looking to remove blockages and improve the flow of energy with modalities such as acupuncture, massage, and yoga.  The better your cells and systems of your body communicate the more vitality you have.  For example;

• Our thalamus receives signals from our senses, filters them, then communicates to the brain what it detects.
• Our hypothalamus receives signals from our nervous system, it then responds by sending signals to our adrenals and pituitary glands.
• Our pituitary gland responds to the hypothalamus by secreting hormones that effect thyroid function, reproductive hormones, growth hormones, adrenal hormones, oxytocin, and more — these hormones then act as little communicators turning cells on for growth and regeneration during good times or turning those cells off if stress is being communicated.
• Breathing exercises and other modalities encourage gamma brain waves in our brain — gamma brain waves help all four lobes of our brain communicate faster and better helping us integrate life experiences better.
• Our Brain, heart, and gut communicate between one another sending signals of happiness or stress accordingly.
• Our breath rate communicates to our heart, regulating it and improving “coherence” between heart and mind.
• Communication also happens between food nutrients and cells.

The better and quicker these communications happen the healthier your responses are and the better your body can handle a stressor, cope, adapt, and grow.  For example the better and quicker you can absorb nutrients from the food you eat the healthier your cells are.  

Biophotons improve and hasten how our body communicates.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267444/
“He (Fritz-Albert Popp (1938- ), German biophysicist and cancer radiotherapist) concluded that biophotons appear to communicate with all the cells of the body instantaneously in a synchronous wave of informational energy (Popp et al. 1988). Overall, there is a relatively large amount of literature about DNA and its ability to create photons in a coherent state (Laager 2008; Conference 2013).”

And it’s not just communication between the own cells of our body, but also from our microbial hosts to our body.

More recently there has been some research that our gut bugs, our microbes also communicate to our brain through biophotons. You know that sugar craving you have? It’s not you craving the sugar, it’s the imbalanced gut bacteria making you eat the sugar so it can survive. 

It has been well documented that microbes can travel our vagus nerve to deliver messages back and forth, but there are other pathway as well. In mice studies where they have severed vagus nerves, these messages still get to the brain. It has been theorized that these messages get communicated via biophotons.

Which means that microbe sending you the craving for sugar, can send it at lightning speed through biophotons, sending you to the cupboard or the store for its sugar fix. I think society is slowly starting to understand the importance of our microbial balance. 

Biophotons and Intelligence

Some researchers have reached the conclusion that biophotons are what enabled humans to have greater intelligence — and maybe even why some humans are more intelligent than others. There is even a study showing Biophotons transmit and process messages more efficiently, specifically advanced cognitive functions like language, planning, problem solving, and analyzing. Linear brain processes require a lot of energy and can be slow or inefficient, while biophotons can process the same amount of information at the speed of light.

There are some different theories about how we get biophotons, one is through digestion processes — which might be connected to “light in food”.  Another theory is that we absorb these biophotons from the sun through our skin, eyes/pineal gland, and from food we eat.  

Plants also collect these biophotons, when you eat fresh vegetables from your garden they are loaded with biophotons, once those vegetables are in the fridge the “light” in them or biophotons start to fade.  The longer the vegetable is out of the sunlight the less “light” it carries.  A head of lettuce shipped across the country will have a lot less biophotons than one from your garden or a local farmer.  Another reason to eat local fresh organic produce.

Interestingly damaged DNA can not hold onto biophotons, and leaks about 20% of their biophotons resulting in higher oxidation and free radicals.  Yoga and meditation have been found to reduce the leaking of the damaged DNA — and even help the DNA repair itself and reduce free radicals and the loss of biophotons.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5433113/  By Division of Yoga and Physical Sciences, Swami Vivekananda   “In one experiment, photomultiplier tubes were used along with a charge-coupled camera.[3] Any stress to the skin in the form of exposure to ultraviolet radiation or cigarette smoke enhances the emission of biophotons while topical application of ascorbic acid or antioxidant solutions reduces such radiation. It is thought that studies of spontaneous ultraweak photon emission could be used for assessing aging in humans as well as for determining oxidative processes in humans.[3]. It is known further, that after practice of meditation, biophoton emissions from the body decrease; this could be due to reduced free radicals in meditating subjects.[4] Communication and control are two required activities within and between cells to maintain homeostasis. Normally, it is thought that both these functions are achieved through biochemical and neurological means. The coherent light source is now thought to be another arm through which both control and communication are achieved. This may be true especially in long-range communications in the body.[5]”

If you live near the west coast (and other places) you can see biophotons in action… the phenomenon of bioluminescent waves — which we just had appear in April and May 2020 along the CA coastline

Certain types of plankton make the phosphorescence as a protection — when a predator comes around they use their light to scare them away.  When they are tossed around in waves they also light up. The phosphorescents are BIOPHOTONS

Prana, Chi, and Biophotons

It has been theorized by Swami Vivekananda and other Yogis and Chinese Doctors that biophotons are akin to prana and chi. There has been a lot of debate in yoga circles what prana is in the body. It used to be thought it was breath because when we die prana leaves the body just like breath. However, prana is present in utero so it’s not just breath though it may be present in breath. It was then thought prana flowing was our neurons moving within our nerves, and that may be true as well but prana is not just that, it’s also that. Prana is biophtons in our body. Biophotons are throughout our body.

Biophotons can be in our breathing functions, in our nerve functions, there are a lot of them in our eyes, and throughout our body concentrated in our DNA – biophotons are the prana yogis have been speaking of.

I have also heard biophotons being our aura. Which makes sense, biophotons glow.  There is a lot of talk about auras in esoteric circles, but it is also in science; aura is just a woo woo term for the  electromagnetic fields of our heart and brain. More recently it has been found the electromagnetic fields of the heart can reach at least 3’ around us, maybe even more – it was only  tested up to 3’, while the electromagnetic field of the brain only transmits about 1 inch.

When we are in each others presence our energy fields are mingling, we share these fields with people, animals (especially dogs and horses) and any other living being in our energy field. According to this work by HeartMath our nervous system‘s are picking up on each others electromagnetic fields or auras.  

From HeartMath: “Science has only begun to understand the effects of the electromagnetic fields produced by the heart, but there is evidence that the information contained in the heart’s powerful field may play a vital synchronizing role in the human body—and that it may affect others around us as well.” …  “these heart signals also profoundly impact perception and cognitive function by virtue of the heart’s extensive communication network with the brain. Finally, rigorous electrophysiological studies conducted at the HeartMath Institute have even indicated that the heart appears to play a key role in intuition.”

Intuition may be our aura intermingling and communicating with other auras from all living things.

When we are all mingling together such as in a yoga class our biophoton auras are communicating and intermingling below the level of our consciousness.

The earth has this same electromagnetic field that our body resonates with when we are in nature or standing barefoot on the ground. Our biophotons are exchanging energy with the earth’s biophotons.

And really tis is not new news! Albert Einstein discovered this intermingling of photons, he coined it “Spooky Action at a Distance”, because what he found is that some photons intermingle, and continue to communicate even at great distances. 

Some of those yoga classes where we were all practicing together, chances are some of our biophotons intermingled and we are still communicating below our level of consciousness even while I am 5000 miles away. 

I, myself had an experience with Trixie knowing I was going through a major stressor even though I was about a half hour from home, where she was. She sensed my level of stress and reacted as if it was her going through the stress. Trixie and I were very intermingled <3

Does this happen with everyone? Einstein didn’t say, from what I can find he just said some intermingle. Maybe they all do and we are only aware of it with those we are close to? I don’t know the answer but it’s interesting! Let’s take a look at the science of this beginning with Einstein’s work. 

Biophotons may be responsible for distance healing.

Distance healing has been practiced for thousands of years through different traditions; from nuns in churches to Ayurveda to TCM. There have been double blind randomized control studies (such as this one) showing distance healing to be effective.

There is another study showing neurons communicate through biophotons and use biophotons to heal and repair damaged or distressed neurons for themselves or for others. These neurons may also use biophotons to repair cell membranes and restore homeostasis. Reiki is believed to work through biophotons.

Thoughts can carry intensions, through this work it is believed that intensions communicate locally and over great distances through biophotons. You can use distance healing on yourself or send it to anyone you love and care for who is in need. First you do need to destress your body and mind and get clear on your intensions.

There are two streams of biophoton emissions; One is from damaged DNA and free radical oxidation which causes biophotons to be incoherent–these release the bad vibes you sometimes feel when entering a room of someone in stress. However when you walk into a garden or a room full of happy people, or place that just feels warm and inviting you feel good vibes. Those good vibes are biophotons that are coherent and better able to receive and transmit information. 

To create your own distance (or local) healing; first sit quietly. Be aware of the state of your nervous system and physiology. What kind of vibes are you emitting? You can also practice a few breathing exercises to further focus the mind and calm the nervous system. Then hold an image of yourself or the person you want to send healing vibes to in your heart and mind. See healing occurring, send loving thoughts. Meditate on your inner light shining, healing. Yoga philosophy (Sutras of Patanjali, book III) suggest repeating as a mantra “inner light” to become aware of the subtle light in our bodies and how we can project this inner light remotely to great distances.

Spooky Action at a Distance

A strange or spooky aspect of quantum physics is entanglement of photons:  when two photons become entangled and then separated, you can observe one photon in one place, and the other photon particle somewhere else —even if it’s light-years away—if you change one of them the other will instantly change its properties to match, as if the two are connected by a mysterious communication channel — that can communicate faster than the speed of light. Scientists have observed this phenomenon in tiny objects such as photons, atoms, and electrons. 

I have been following some research on this and then discovered, what these biophotons emit, communicate what is in our thoughts and intentions.

This took me into a research rabbit hole on quantum physics and Albert Einstein’s spooky action at a distance theory — these photons that are entangled communicating wirelessly at very fast rates over great distances, what gives them this ability?  It goes against other theories about not being able to travel faster than the speed of light.  The answer seems to be in this new understanding of biophotons — that can travel even faster than the speed of light.

And furthermore what makes photons entangle? Do some entangle and others not?  Maybe they don’t have to get entangled instead they use biophotons and emit their communication.

Biophotons as I explained, help our body and its cells communicate — now researchers are starting to describe a phenomenon where not only cells in an individual body communicate via biophotons— it seems whole animals communicate with each other through emission and reception of biophotons; and even from species to species communication happens energetically through emissions of the low level light coming from our biophotons. 

Many of us have all had experiences when we felt or sensed something that turned out to be happening the moment we felt it. That is an example of this type of communication. 

Turns out we have known about biophotons since 1984 when they were first discovered and named by a German biophysicist. Full study is here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267444/. Excerpts below from this study:

Fritz-Albert Popp (1938- ), German biophysicist and cancer radiotherapist, discovered a wider spectrum of ultra-weak photon emissions (∼10−3 eV) from 200 to 800 nm emitted from living cells. He coined the term ‘biophoton’ for them (Bischof 2003). According to Popp et al. 1984, a biophoton is a photon of non-thermal origin in the visible and ultraviolet spectrum emitted from a biological system. A comprehensive review of the field of biophotons has been provided by Ted Nissen (Nissen 2006). Popp found that biophotons were coherent and suggested that they may regulate all life processes of an organism (Popp et al. 1988). Biophotonic signaling may be used in the reception, transmission, and processing of electromagnetic data perhaps with some of the same transmission features of fiber optics. Popp believed that biophotons may represent a wide variety of frequencies which seem to originate from DNA and be concentrated in DNA of the cell nucleus; accordingly light can be stored in DNA and released over time (Popp et al. 1984). He concluded that biophotons appear to communicate with all the cells of the body instantaneously in a synchronous wave of informational energy (Popp et al. 1988). Overall, there is a relatively large amount of literature about DNA and its ability to create photons in a coherent state (Laager 2008; Conference 2013).

Biophotons may represent a complex cell-to-cell communication that relies upon speed of light transmission. The physics of light seems to fit the biological observations. Light is the most efficient and fastest mediator of information in the world. The coherent property of biophotons may have a profound effect on their ability to influence information transfer. Frequency coding gives light a capability of encoding information from DNA in biophotons.

*The following studies below were taken from a lecture by Kevin Spelman at the National Ayurvedic Medical Association.  I did not look up these studies and include their references.

*In another study: white blood cells were taken from a woman who had been through trauma, and put in a different room.   The woman then told her story of the traumatic event — while she was speaking of the story, her white blood cells (the leukocytes) – which had been removed from her – responded showing stress to her retelling her event. A cell shows stress by closing up and becoming tight or rigid.

They replicated this study with the same woman retelling an amorous event … the leukocytes in her white blood cells responded accordingly, opening up and and relaxing showing signs of happiness.

*This study was repeated again with cheek cells and violent movies.  This time the researchers took the cheek cells of the participants 50 miles away (thinking just in the other room could be a “local” communication) — at the moment of violence in the film the cheek cells responded simultaneously even 50 miles away.

What researchers are figuring out is that biophtons communicate in a wave of synchronous information at the speed of light.  

And furthermore it seems biophotons carry intention that can manipulate or change matter — physiological changes, and these photons can interact and carry information over vast distances faster than the speed of light. 

Taking this a step further biophotons can carry our intentions and thoughts — they are literally charged with our intentions.  

While researching biophotos I did learn something cool:  

Biophotons are responsible for our visualizations!  Biophotons create what we see in our mind’s eye.

• Interestingly what I also learned is the images you see when you rub your eyes or put pressure on your eyes — you know those fluorescent orbs floating behind your eyes? I used to get into creating and watching in my mind’s eye as a child, they are a result of the biophotons in our eye.  The eye is one of the areas on the body with the most biophotons.

Visualizations we create in our mind are made with biophotons that carry information emitting what we are visualizing. I spoke about the power of visualizations and they effect they have on our healing capacity; these mental images are created in our brains by biophotons influence our body to change. 

These biophotons create biophysical images in our brains — charged with the intention of what we are imagining. Meaning biophotons may be the avenue to manifesting.

It seems biophotons can manipulate or change matter — physiological changes. This can explain distance healing, groups of nuns praying together and healing occurring, and other “healers”.

I heard Bruce Lipton, PhD in a podcast talking about his book “The Biology of Belief”, he was talking about the power of our thoughts, he explained mental images; these biophysical images in our brain actually get “painted by hormones and chemicals” in our body.  

Like a paint by numbers in reverse; you create the image in your mind (with biophotons), your body and brain turns the image into colors of hormonal chemicals — and your body behaves ‘as a canvas’ and becomes the image.

When you set an intention the biophotons you emit carry those intentions. According to Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance” theory our biophotons that are “related” or entangled as Einstein referred to it interact with each other’s biophotons at great distances; entangled biophotons change instantaneously together no matter where they are.

Here is a link from another little piece regarding biophotons and mental images, its called Bokkon’s Hypothesis, I found this “whilst” searching for studies on biophotons and mental images, basically it is saying what we see in our minds’ eye –imagery (aka cortical induced phosphene lights) is due to biophotons, and furthermore our mental images mimics corresponding events in the world.  Meaning what we see in our minds eye we tend to create.

And interestingly I came across this study following up on Bokkon’s Hypothesis:

Our mental images effect reality.

Back to Einstein:  A particle or a wave = matter or energy

Einstein had figured out the photons and biophotons can be both a wave and a particle — 

A particle is matter

A wave is energy

It depends whether photons will be a wave or particle depending on the consciousness of who’s asking the question.

If you are looking for a particle (matter) the photon becomes a particle.

If you are looking for a wave (energy) the photon becomes a wave.

So it is dependent upon our perception.  Just thinking the photon is matter made it matter — and just thinking photons were energy made it so.  Our perception is so powerful we can change the reality of the photon to be matter or energy.

Another way I read Einstein’s spooky action explained as:  “Observation eliciting a change in what is observed instantly and over extremely large distances.”

• Photons are at the junction between physical and non physical — physical representing the particle and non physical representing the wave. 

Meditation may do the same thing — change or heal the body simply because we are self-observing it with a positive intention.

Pulling this all together, Quantum physics on a particle level — The small particles make up a whole and while changing a few small particles does not change the whole, it can start to change the whole, at some point so many particles will change that it does change the whole.

While you may not see immediate change in your total physical body, at a cellular level change is happening that you are not even aware of.

Although this may be particle thinking … changing one particle at a time to effect the whole is laborious work, but it is one of the the valid ways to start this work.  Wave thinking would change the whole in the split second — instantaneously.