{"id":3110,"date":"2011-06-11T13:30:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T18:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2011-06-11T13:30:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T18:30:17","slug":"scientific-qi-exploration-8-internal-external-fields-and-qigong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/?p=3110","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Qi Exploration 8- Internal &#038; External Fields and Qigong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scientific Qi Exploration. Part 8. <\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Internal and External Fields and Qigong<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Martin Eisen, Ph.D.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/energy-field.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3125\" src=\"http:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/energy-field.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">1.<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Introduction<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In physics, a <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">field<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> is defined by a scalar (or number) or vector or tensor associated with each point of 3\u2013dimensional space, specified by say a rectangular xyz-coordinate system, and the fourth dimension of time. For example, the gravitational field is a vector field. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Its value at a point in space requires three numbers, the x, and y and z components of the gravitational force acting at that point, which can vary with time.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An electrical field is also a vector field since its value at a point in space also requires 3 components for the force of repulsion or attraction on a charged particle at that point.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A field may be thought of as extending throughout the whole of space. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In Part 7, different electromagnetic effects occurring in the body were described.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The totality of these effects will generate external electromagnetic fields of the body.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In addition, there are external electromagnetic fields which can act on the body.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Their relation to Qigong practice will be studied.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">In addition, an intrinsic field which may determine the shape, method of growth and health has been hypothesized, as explained in Section 2.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Life \u2013fields (L-fields)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Harold Saxton Burr was an anatomy professor at <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yale<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">University<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">From his research on the development of the nervous system, Burr realized that little was known about how the shape of<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">animals and other organisms was controlled.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Molecular biology can account for the manufacture of parts, but cannot explain how cells, tissues and organs are nearly always organized and assembled into a particular form and shape for a given animal or plant.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Burr hypothesized that the electrical field of an organism is the blueprint for its structure.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He called these fields Life-fields or L-fields.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 1932, Burr started an important series of studies of the role of electricity in development and disease (1).<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">During this time most scientists were convinced that energy therapy and \u201clife-force\u201d were nonsense.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Burr showed that the L-field matrix in a frog\u2019s egg outlined the developmental growth of the entire nervous system.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">H<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">e interpreted this as support for his hypothesis that the L-field was the organizing matrix for the body.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">By leaving some trees hooked up to his L-field detectors for decades, he found correlations between readings from the trees and phases of the moon, sunspot activity, and thunderstorms. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Burr\u2019s student, Leonard Ravitz, investigated of the effects of the lunar cycle on the human L-field. He concluded that the L-field reaches a peak of activity at the full moon. Ravitz also studied changes in the L-field in relation to changes in a person&#8217;s mental and emotional states. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ravitz stated that &#8220;Both emotional activity and stimuli of any sort involve mobilization of electrical energy, as indicated on the galvanometer, hence, both emotions and stimuli evoke the same energy. Emotions can be equated with energy.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Emotional energy is utilized in Chinese medicine and there is a qigong method for healing the emotions (2).<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ravitz also discovered that the L-field disappears before death.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Burr\u2019s study of fields for diagnosis is based on the premise that every physiological process in the body also produces electrical changes, as proposed by the physiologist A.P. Mathews in 1903.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It also produces changes in the magnetic field around the body. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Recent research on this topic was summarized by B. Brewitt in 1996 and 1999 (1).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Burr determined the timing of women\u2019s ovulation by daily measurements of the electrical field between one finger of each hand.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Other scientists could not consistently confirm his results, because the detection of the ovulation cycle requires filtering for eliminating interference from other electrical cycles in the body produced by other organs in the body such as the heart and brain.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It was not until 1975 that Friedenberg, Reese and <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reading<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> patented a circuit that could separate the monthly electrical cycle of the ovary from the rhythms of other bodily organs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Burr was convinced that diseases would appear in the energy field before any physical symptoms could be detected.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He thought that if the disturbed energy field could be restored to normal, the pathology could be prevented.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Burr et al. began studying the relation between electrical fields and cancer.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They began with mammary tumors in mice and were able to detect large voltage changes in electrodes attached to the chest from 10 days to 2 weeks before the tumors appeared.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">British researches could not duplicate his results.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Brewitt studied some of Burr\u2019s original data in 1996, using statistical methods, and concluded that disease states can be detected early by measuring changes in the electrical conductance of tissues.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some recent successes in using skin surface electric potentials for detecting breast cancer have been reported by Weiss et al in in 1994 and Cuzick and coworkers in 1998.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This non-invasive method is important because it can differentiate between benign and cancerous lumps without surgery.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">References and further details can be found in Chapter 1 of (1).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Using some of the facts in (3) and L-fields the following is a hypothesis on how energy healing works.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Unhealthy tissue does not receive the natural electromagnetic regulatory signals necessary for healing.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Energy from the healer, Qigong practice or other means transfers essential information so that the communication channels open and the healing process is initiated.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The proper type of tissue is formed under the guidance of the L-field. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Copper Wall Experiments (4, 5)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Healing energy and its electrical correlations was studied by Dr. Elmer Green and colleagues at the Menniger Clinic from 1983 to 1995.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A room was constructed consisting of a copper floor, ceiling and walls.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The copper panels were insulated from each other.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Each subject sat on a chair on a glass base facing a copper wall.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Voltmeters were attached to each copper panel to measure he electrical field changes around the subjects.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An electrode on the ear of each subject<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">measured any body potential changes, relative to ground, that occurred during meditation.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">EKG, EEG, finger temperature, skin conductance and respiration were also measured.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sessions were videotaped to rule out spurious electrical readings produced by movement rather than meditation.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All of these readings were taken simultaneously and recorded on machinery in an adjacent laboratory.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At some sessions a bar magnet, with the north or south pole up, was suspended over the meditator\u2019s crown to change the magnetic properties of the room.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Twenty ordinary subjects, with thirty sessions per subject, were used as a control group.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Subjects were told to keep their eyes open and maintain simple awareness, rather than concentrate on a particular object or goal.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There were no large or unusual voltages.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However, when seven male and several female mind-body practitioners were tested, the results were surprising.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">During their meditation, body potentials ranged from 4 volts to 221 volts, with these spikes lasting from .5 to 12.5 seconds, whether or not a magnet was used.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The magnitude of these surges was 10,000 times lager than EKG voltages and 100,000 times greater than EEG voltages.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nine of the fourteen mind-body practitioners were nationally known healers, adept at healing that does not require bodily contact.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They attempted noncontact healing with volunteers who sat in the same room with the healer and also in another room.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Magnets were not used in these experiments.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">During the healing sessions, the healers generated more electrical surges than during mediation.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The voltage surges ranged from 4 to 190 volts.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The next set of experiments looked at the energetic interaction between the healer and a new group of volunteer patients. The same group of six men and three women healers were used, without magnets.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Again there were huge electrical surges registered on the bodiews of the healers and to a lesser extent in the copper walls.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When the patients were in the same room as the healers, they displayed synchronous potential fluctuations of smaller amplitude than that of the healers.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Synchronized electrical activity was not observed when distant healing was attempted and the patient was not in the same room as the healer.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Occasionally, distant patients said they felt \u201chealing energy\u201d or saw images corresponding to those visualized by the healers.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This implies that healing is correlated with more than electrical energy.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to Qigong theory \u201cYi ling Qi\u201d or <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201dIntent guides the Qi&#8221; to produce healing.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However, other texts state that intent alone can cause healing. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The meaning of these electrical surges is not clear.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. W. Tiller, the <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stanford<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">University<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> physicist, analyzed the copper wall data from one healer.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He found that the charged oscillated between the feet and the crown and haqd its source in the lower abdomen.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some Qigong practitioners believe that healing power is generated from the Lower Dan Tian.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. Green, commenting on Tiller\u2019s analysis said that \u201cit is possible that a master healer can generate a charge from any part of his body.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Other Qigong practitioners believe that external Qi can be projected from any part of the body.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Auras<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3127\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tornleaff2jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3127\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3127 \" src=\"http:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tornleaff2jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirilian photograph of a leaf, all torn away except the central stem, still shows the shape of whole leaf<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since antiquity, spiritual adepts have claimed an aura, or a field of subtle, luminous <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">radiation surrounds a person or <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">object (like the halo of religious art) that some mystics are capable of observing.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In Qigong theory, three external Wei Qi fields supposedly surround the body.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The first external energy field extends about one or two inches outside the body.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is related to the Lower Dan Tian and serves as a holographic energy template for the body.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The second field extends a foot or more outside the body.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is related to the Middle Dan Tian and the emotional energy body.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The third field extends a few feet to several hundred yards depending on the person\u2019s spiritual evolution.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is related to the upper Dan Tian and the spiritual energy body.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The dominant color of the aura surrounding the Qigong practitioner depends on which of the Dan Tians is dominant.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The most powerful healers are considered to be those in which the Upper Dan Tian is dominant and the color will be white.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scientific research has attempted to find devices that will form pictures of the aura. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 1911, Walter Kilner, M.D. of <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">St. Thomas<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Hospital in <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">London<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, saw a human aura, by looking through glass screens stained with dicyanin dye. It appeared to be a glowing mist around the body in three distinct layers: a 1\/4 inch densest layer closest to skin; a more vaporous layer, 1 inch wide, streaming perpendicularly from the body, and a delicate exterior luminosity with indefinite contours, about 6 inches wide.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. Kilner\u2019s book, The Human Aura, published in <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">New York<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, 1965, describes how the appearance of the aura differs from person to person, depending on their physical, mental, and emotional states. He developed a system of diagnosis based on the consistent differences in the aura in persons suffering a particular disease. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some researchers claim that Kirilian photography (KP) gives a picture of the aura.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is named after, Semyon Kirilian, who in 1939 accidentally discovered that if an object on a photographic plate is connected to a source of high voltage, an image would be created on the photographic plate. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. W. Tiller does not believe that aura is seen and the photograph has a physical explanation (6, 7).<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When a Kirlian photo is taken, the object is placed either on a metal electrode or between two parallel metal plate capacitors that are separated by a small distance from a photographic film plate. An electrical current passed through the electrode or the capacitors produces a separation of charge, freeing valence electrons from the object and creating a small electric field that ionizes the molecules in the air around the object. Once this electric field is large enough, electrical breakdown of the air occurs and conducting paths in the visible light range can appear as the electrons recombine with the ionized molecules, emitting photons in the process.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Different colors are generated based on the elemental composition of the object, since each element in the periodic table gives off it own unique color spectra.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is called a corona discharge by physicists and is not emanations of the supposed human aura.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In addition to living material, inanimate objects such as coins will also produce Kirlian photographs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the 1970\u2019s, Dr. Thelma Moss did extensive research in Kirlian photography when she led the UCLA parapsychology laboratory.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One experiment designed to show the presence of energy fields generated by living entities involved taking Kirlian contact photographs of a picked leaf at set periods.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Its gradual withering corresponded to a decline in the strength of the <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">aura<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. However it may simply be that the leaf loses moisture and becomes less electrically conductive, causing a gradual weakening of the electric field at the drier edges of the leaf. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In another experiment, a section of a leaf was torn away after the first photograph.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A faint image of the missing section remained after a second photograph was taken. The Archives of American Art Journal of the Smithsonian Institute published a leading article with reproductions of images of this phenomenon.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However, this effect might have beeen due to contamination of the glass plates, which were reused for both the &#8220;before&#8221; and &#8220;after&#8221; photographs.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The effect was not reproduced in later better, controlled experiments.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. Moss correlated fingertip coronas with emotional states. Healthy subjects exhibit a blue-white corona with a deep blue band-from one sixteenth to more than a quarter of an inch wide, just beyond the boundary of the fingertip. States of relaxation lead to a blue-white corona.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">states of arousal, tension, anxiety, or excitement, a red blotch consistently appears superimposed on the fingerprint.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Other observations were that meditators had brighter and wider coronas and that a<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">cupuncture increased the corona width and brightness, depending on the specific point being treated.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. Konstantin Korotkov of the St. Petersburg State Technical University of Informational Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, has devised a GDV (Gas Discharge Visualization) instrument based on the Kirlian Effect, for <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">direct, real-time viewing of the human energy field (aura).<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The GDV uses glass electrodes to create a pulsed electrical field excitation (called &#8220;perturbation technique&#8221;) to stimulate objects <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">so that they shine millions of times more intensely than normal.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sophisticated technology is used to capture the tiny pulses of emitted photons and<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> measure their electro-photonic glow.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">This technology claims to capture, by a special camera, the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual energy emanating to and from an individual, plants, liquids, powders, inanimate objects and translate this into a computerized model.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Korotkov method is used in some hospitals and athletic training programs in <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Russia<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and elsewhere as preventative measurements for detecting stress.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Another method for studying auras is called Aura photography.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is completely different from Kirilian photography.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In aura photography a colorful image is produced of a person&#8217;s face and upper torso by interpreting galvanic skin responses and adding color to the photograph using a printer. The images made with an Aura camera do not result from coronal discharge. In aura photography, no high voltage is involved as with the Kirlian technique, and no direct contact with the film is made.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the late 1980\u2019s, Harry Oldfield (8) developed a scanner which he thought would provided a real time, moving image of the energy field.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">His system became known as Polycontrast Interference Photography (PIP).<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He speculated that ambient (surrounding) light would be interfered with by the energy field both when the incident ray traveled towards the object and when the reflected ray bounced off the object.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To see the body\u2019s energy field with PIP, ideally the person is in a room with full spectrum lighting at a controlled output, standing against a white backdrop. The picture is taken with a digital video camera.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A lead from the camera acts connects it to a computer. The sophisticated program analyzes the different light intensities being reflected from the person or object being scanned.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The computer screen then displays the end project seen. Harry Oldfield believes that his PIP can see the energy field from and around the body in much the same way as people with gifts of vision can.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">His belief is based on the fact that some clairvoyants and mystics with their gifts helped him develop some of the filters in PIP which simulate what they see, including the colors.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The photographs cannot be used automatically.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Experience and training is required to interpret them.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Certain colors indicate illnesses.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When a healer projects energy the colors indicating illness can be seen to change to colors indicating health.<strong><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Tim Duerden<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u2019s<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> paper (9) explores the claims of aura producing devices.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It argues that the images produced can be explained using concepts from the physical sciences. It is suggested that techniques such as KP, GDV or PIP currently offer insufficient reliable research evidence concerning their use as diagnostic or imaging alternatives. Consequently their clinical use is debatable.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kirlian photography and its derivatives may however be useful as a research tool by providing visual records of complex bodily responses to experimental situations, such as, responses to physiological or psychological stressors.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some medical Qigong doctors base their diagnosis and treatment on the aura\u2019s appearance and colors (10).<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Aura colors and patterns constantly change depending on the patient\u2019s physical, mental, emotional, energetic, and physical health.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A simple test for the ability to see auras, the \u201cDoorway Test\u201d, appears in (11).<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A subject with a large aura is behind a wall so that he cannot be seen by the aura reader.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He approaches the doorway and stands so that his shoulders are at the edge of the doorway and his body is not visible.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The reader attempts to detect the subject\u2019s presence by his aura, which will protrude into the doorway. Some people, who claimed to see auras, were correct in detecting peoples\u2019 presence, only a small number of times, as if they were guessing. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some skeptics believe that there is no aura.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rather, the mystic suffers from synaethesia, especially if the ability is inborn.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span>Synaesthesia is a condition found in 1 in 2000 people in which stimulation of one sense produces a response in one or more of the other senses. For example, people with synaesthesia may experience colors with tastes or smells with sounds. It is thought to originate in the brain.\u00a0 Some scientists believe it might be caused by a cross-wiring in the brain, for example, between centers involved in emotional processing and smell perception.\u00a0 Synaesthesia is known to run in families.<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">5.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Schumann Resonance<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Effects of external Qi fields of the earth, sun, moon and stars and time varying Qi effects were discussed in previous articles on<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Scientific Exploration of Qi, Parts 4, 5(a) and 5(b) which appeared in Qi Dao from Nov.\/Dec., 2008 to March\/April 2009. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">The research of Wever et al 1968 at the Max Planck Institute is cited in (1).<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> They monitored hundreds of subjects over many years that lived in two underground rooms shielded from external influences of light, temperature, sound, pressure and so on.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> One room was also electromagnetically shielded so that the effects of geomagnetic rhythms were reduced by 99%.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">All of the subjects developed longer, irregular, chaotic, or desynchronized physiological rhythms.<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Those in the magnetically shielded room suffered worst.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> This result has been verified by more modern researchers.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Artificial electric and magnetic were pulsed into the shielded room.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Only the 10 Hz electric field restored normal patterns to biorhythm measurements.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Brain waves exhibit time variations in frequency.<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> The system controlling this variation is called the thalamic rhythm generator or pacemaker.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> During \u201cfree-run\u201d periods, when the brain waves are not paced by the thalamus, the brain\u2019s field can be entrained by external electromagnetic rhythms (1).<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> One of the most influential rhythms is caused by Schumann resonance, a phenomenon discovered by W. O. Schumann, an atmospheric physicist, in 1952. Schuman signals can resemble alpha brainwaves.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Schumann resonance is caused by lightning strikes.<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> There are about 200 lightning strikes per second worldwide.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Lightning pumps energy into the earth-ionosphere space and causes it to vibrate or resonate creating standing electromagnetic waves that are reflected from the ionosphere, back to earth, back to the ionosphere, and so on. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> As electromagnetic waves, Schumann resonance can be detected as electric or magnetic micropulsations.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Schumann pulses are easier to detect in fair weather and bursts occur more often during the day than at night. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">The average frequency of this resonance is 7-10 Hz.<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Rhythms from earth and space can alter the properties and height of the ionosphere and so alter the Schumann frequency. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> For example, if the height of the ionosphere increases the cavity gets bigger and the resonant frequency drops.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Thus, the Schumann frequency ranges from 1-40 Hz.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> The strength and frequency of the signal depend on global lightning activity, local weather conditions, and the conductivity of the earth\u2019s surface at the observation point.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Other confounding factors are solar and lunar position, planetary positions, sunspots, solar storms, and so on (1).<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">The following might be a plausible explanation for the biomagnetic field projected from a therapist\u2019s hands.<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Schumann resonances cause geomagnetic pulsations which are detected by the pineal and magnetite-type tissue in the brain.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> During the \u201cfree-run\u201d period the Schumann resonance can serve as the pacemaker, especially if the person is meditating, since the Schumann signal is thousands of times stronger than brainwaves.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> The electrical signals from the brain are conducted through the body by the perineural and vascular systems.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> The projected biomagnetic signal can be at least one thousand times stronger than brainwaves.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Alternatively, the body might simply act as an antenna for the Schumann micropulsations.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Note that the projected frequencies are those that are useful for \u201cjump-starting\u201d tissue repair, as indicated in Table 2 in (3).<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">In 1969, Robert C. Beck started a decade of study on the brain wave activity of healers from many different cultures.<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Though having diverse beliefs and training methods, all healers EEG brain wave activity averaged about 7-8 Hz, while they were in their healing state.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> This might be due to the entrainment of their brain by the Schumann resonances.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Also many healers are not as effective as usual on certain days and also after treating many patients.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> The major factor to account for these observations might not be depletion of their Qi, but the weakening of the strength of the Schumann resonance.<\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">References<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">1.<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Oschman, J. L.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Energy Medicine.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Churchill Livingstone 2000.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">2. <span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Cohen, K. S.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> The Way of Qigong:<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing. Ballantine Books, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">New York, 1999.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">3.<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Eisen, M.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scientific exploration of Qi.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Part 7: \u00a0Effects of Qigong practice on the body.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Qi Dao, May\/June, 2009.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Green, E. E. et al.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Anomalous electrostatic phenomena in exceptional subjects, Subtle Energies 2:3, pp 69-94, 1991.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">5.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Green, E. E. et al.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gender differences in a magnetic field, Subtle Energies 3:2, pp 65-103, 1992.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">6.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tiller, W. A.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Are psychoenergetic pictures possible? New Scientist 62(895), April 25. pp. 160 \u2013 163, 1974.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">7.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Boyers, D. G., &amp; Tiller, W. A.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Corona discharge photography. Journal of Applied Physics 44(7), July. pp. 3102 \u2013 3112, 1973.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">8.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Solomon, J. and G.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Harry Oldfield\u2019s Invisible Universe, Campion Books, 2003.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">9.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tim Duerden, T. A<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">n aura of confusion Part 2: the aided eye\u2014\u2018imaging the aura?\u2019, Complementary Therapies in Nusing and Midwifery, Vol. 10, (2)<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, pp 116-123, 2004. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">10.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Johnson, J.A.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chinese Medical Qigong Therapy.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Int. Institute of Medical Qigong, <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pacific Grove<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, Ca, 2000.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">11.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tart, C. T.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Concerning the scientific study of the human auras, <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">J. of the Soc. for Psychical Research<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">46<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, No. 751, pp 1-21, 1972. <\/span><\/span><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><div style=\"padding-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold;\">Do you like this? Please share it:<\/div><div class=simplesocial><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-url=\"https:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/?p=3110\" data-text=\"Scientific+Qi+Exploration+8-+Internal+%26%23038%3B+External+Fields+and+Qigong\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div><div class=simplesocial><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fyang-sheng.com%2F%3Fp%3D3110&layout=standard&show_faces=false&width=450&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=35\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:25px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div><div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><a class=simplesocial onclick=\"return simplesocial(this,500,400)\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" style=\"background:url(http:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-social-sharing-widgets-icons\/icons_16\/facebook.png)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyang-sheng.com%2F%3Fp%3D3110&t=Scientific+Qi+Exploration+8-+Internal+%26%23038%3B+External+Fields+and+Qigong\"><\/a><a class=simplesocial onclick=\"return simplesocial(this,812,420)\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" style=\"background:url(http:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-social-sharing-widgets-icons\/icons_16\/twitter.png)\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=https%3A%2F%2Fyang-sheng.com%2F%3Fp%3D3110\"><\/a><a class=simplesocial onclick=\"return simplesocial(this,435,500)\" title=\"Email a Friend\" style=\"background:url(http:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-social-sharing-widgets-icons\/icons_16\/email.png)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freetellafriend.com\/tell\/?heading=Share+This+Article&bg=1&option=email&url=https%3A%2F%2Fyang-sheng.com%2F%3Fp%3D3110\"><\/a><a class=simplesocial onclick=\"return simplesocial(this,750,500)\" title=\"Share on Blogger\" style=\"background:url(http:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-social-sharing-widgets-icons\/icons_16\/blogger.png)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blog_this.pyra?t&u=https%3A%2F%2Fyang-sheng.com%2F%3Fp%3D3110&n=Scientific+Qi+Exploration+8-+Internal+%26%23038%3B+External+Fields+and+Qigong&pli=1\"><\/a><a class=simplesocial onclick=\"return simplesocial(this,750,500)\" title=\"Share on Google\" style=\"background:url(http:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-social-sharing-widgets-icons\/icons_16\/google.png)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/bookmarks\/mark?op=add&bkmk=https%3A%2F%2Fyang-sheng.com%2F%3Fp%3D3110&title=Scientific+Qi+Exploration+8-+Internal+%26%23038%3B+External+Fields+and+Qigong\"><\/a><a class=simplesocial onclick=\"return simplesocial(this,812,420)\" title=\"Share on Myspace\" style=\"background:url(http:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-social-sharing-widgets-icons\/icons_16\/myspace.png)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/Modules\/PostTo\/Pages\/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyang-sheng.com%2F%3Fp%3D3110&t=Scientific+Qi+Exploration+8-+Internal+%26%23038%3B+External+Fields+and+Qigong&c=https%3A%2F%2Fyang-sheng.com%2F%3Fp%3D3110\"><\/a><a class=simplesocial onclick=\"return simplesocial(this,750,500)\" title=\"Share on StumbleUpon\" style=\"background:url(http:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-social-sharing-widgets-icons\/icons_16\/stumbleupon.png)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyang-sheng.com%2F%3Fp%3D3110&title=Scientific+Qi+Exploration+8-+Internal+%26%23038%3B+External+Fields+and+Qigong\"><\/a><a class=simplesocial onclick=\"return simplesocial(this,812,500)\" title=\"Share on Technorati\" style=\"background:url(http:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-social-sharing-widgets-icons\/icons_16\/technorati.png)\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/faves?sub=favthis&add=https%3A%2F%2Fyang-sheng.com%2F%3Fp%3D3110\"><\/a><a class=simplesocial title=\"RSS Feed\" style=\"background:url(http:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-social-sharing-widgets-icons\/icons_16\/rss.png)\" href=\"http:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/?feed=rss2\"><\/a><\/div><div style=\"clear:both;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific Qi Exploration. Part 8. Internal and External Fields and Qigong Martin Eisen, Ph.D. 1. Introduction In physics, a field is defined by a scalar (or number) or vector or tensor associated with each point of 3\u2013dimensional space, specified by &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/?p=3110\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[465,469,463,462,466,459,458,467,461,460,468,166,1616,464],"class_list":["post-3110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qi-exploration","tag-auras","tag-brain-waves","tag-cancer","tag-copper-wall-experiment","tag-diagnosis-kirilian-photography","tag-electric-dan-tian","tag-fields","tag-gas-discharge-visualization-gdv","tag-l-fields","tag-magnetic","tag-polycontrast-interference-photography-pipschumann-resonance","tag-qi","tag-qigong-2","tag-tumor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yang-sheng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}