Charlie Zhang
College of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310028, China
Fachbereich 4, Siegen University, 57086 Siegn, Germany
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We are already well acquainted with the solid and dense chemical body, which consists of solid bones, muscles, several organs linked together by blood vessels, nervous fibres, and so on, which are all composed of cells, which are in turn made of proteins, DNA, RNA, enzymes, co-enzymes, and numerous small molecules and ions. The chemical body is a solid pattern of particles and has been elaborately studied by the marvellous development of molecular biology in the last half century. Now, it seems that nothing is unknown to us in our bodies. Therefore, the modern medicine based on the study and understanding of the solid and dense chemical body has become a classical one. However, apart from the chemical body, there is at least an electromagnetic body which plays the same important role as, or even a more important role than the chemical one. It is a big unknown kingdom in our bodies, and now within the reach of modern science from the realm of mystical experience, scientific fiction or pure speculation, and becoming a very important area of scientific basic research in biology and medicine.
Brief Description of the Electromagnetic Body
The electromagnetic body is much more complicated than the chemical one. Suppose we had the ability to "see" the invisible electromagnetic body, we would see a completely different picture from the visible chemical body. We would "see" the seven big chakras along the central line of the body and many small chakras in other places with various colours. We would "see" dozens of acupuncture meridians, hundreds of acupuncture points, and numerous micro-acupuncture meridians and points which weave into not only an intricate network but also a continuous interference pattern with the characteristics of holography. Around the body we would "see" the aura, which ancient people had described in many religions and fairy tales, and is now to some extent in the detectable range of radiation of extra-weak light, infrared and microwave by means of modern technology and has become a new area of serious scientific research.
The electromagnetic body is not only very complicated but also extremely dynamic. Unlike the chemical body in which the bones, organs, vessels, and fibres have fixed positions, definite volumes and distinct boundaries, the " electromagnetic organs" such as chakras and the "see" "electromagnetic vessels" such as acupuncture meridians have only some kind of relatively stable position without distinct boundaries and definite volumes. They are permanently flashing with continuous change of strength, colours and shapes like the ocean under a fierce storm, in particular under the violent change of emotion and physiological state.
If we had more ability to "see" the electromagnetic field in detail, we would "see" a tremendously complicated communication process performed at an extremely fast speed by means of electromagnetic waves and photons inside the cell, between cells, between bodies and between the bodies and their surrounding, apart from the communication through nerve fibres, hormones and other molecules. Like wireless communication and the television system, the communication by electromagnetic fields carries much more information and has much wider channels than that through insulated nerve fibres and through the slow interaction between the surfaces of molecules. The communication within the electromagnetic body, therefore, has a more profound and subtle influence on our bodies and health.
The Special Problems in the Study of Electromagnetic Body
Because of the limitation of our sense organs, science and medicine are inevitably developing from the study and understanding of the visible and solid part of the world and our bodies, then treading slowly into the recognition of the invisible and field part of the world and our bodies. However, there are much more special difficulties in studying the electromagnetic body than the studying in the solid and dense chemical one.
First of all, the electromagnetic body is invisible like the tremendous wireless waves in our living rooms. It is well known that our living rooms are full of electromagnetic waves, which are full of information, working for our radios, televisions, mobile telephones etc. But we are unable to perceive them directly. We could only construct the structure and the pattern of these invisible waves in our imagination indirectly except in a very narrow range of the wide spectrum, which we call "visible light". In the same way, we are unable to study the electromagnetic body through naked eyes, microscopes, or chemical analyses as we study the dense chemical body. For this reason, even the existence of an electromagnetic body was once an open problem in biology and in medicine until recently, because it is a too big and too painful challenge for biologists and medical researchers to recognise the electromagnetic body in their imagination indirectly through careful analyses and syntheses from the complicated experimental data instead of perceiving it directly through conventional instruments in biology and medicine.
The situation of biology and medicine nowadays is at a similar stage as physics was in the 19th century when people were forced to recognise the existence of invisible wireless waves. At that time, nobody believed in the existence of the invisible electromagnetic waves and fields although the space around people was full of them, until Michael Faraday discovered the relationship between electricity and magnetism, J. C. Maxwell formulated the dynamics of the electromagnetic field and predicted the existence of electromagnetic waves, and finally Marconi proved the existence of the huge invisible wireless world by the invention of the telegram. Today, nobody would doubt the existence of the invisible wireless wave any more. However, we still have problem to perceive its existence comfortably even when we are watching television, listening to broadcasts or using mobile telephones. Therefore, the invisibility of electromagnetic body would be a permanent problem in the research and recognition of it.
The second problem is that unlike the stable dense chemical body which is as solid as a building and therefore easy to observe, to study and to measure, the electromagnetic body is as dynamic as the ceaseless ocean, sometimes under strong storm; therefore, it is difficult to observe, to formulate, even difficult to measure. Moreover, the more precise measurements we make, the more unstable values we get. The electromagnetic body is not only permanently flashing with the change of strength and colour (frequency) , but also with the change of shape, even with the change of location, in particular in various pathological, physiological and psychological states. Therefore, the picture and concept of electromagnetic body is completely different from that of the dense chemical body described in our textbooks of anatomy and cytology, which we are so familiar with and used to that we take the stable picture of chemical body for granted and, therefore, have considerable difficulties in recognising the extremely dynamic electromagnetic body. In addition, it is also a great challenge to establish a theoretical system to mathematically formulate the characteristics and movement of such a highly dynamic structure.
The third problem is that we are unable to study the electromagnetic body by the conventional way of separation and isolation in anatomy, or using the electron-microscope, chromatography. The electromagnetic body is not only inseparable, but also untouchable. Even by only approaching the body, the dissecting knife may greatly disturb the refined structure of the electromagnetic body through the strong electromagnetic interaction between the knife and the body. If the dissecting knife cuts into the body, it can cause even greater damage to the original structure of the electromagnetic body. The more we cut a body or a cell into pieces, the more we damage the electromagnetic body. When we approach the bottom of the so-called molecular level of biology by the conventional way of research, we would completely destroyed the refined structure of the electromagnetic body. Therefore, it is understandable that the conventional way of reductionism which has been so successful in the study of the dense chemical body and the molecular biology does not work at all in the study of the electromagnetic body. It is not only impossible to use a knife to cut into the body, but also impossible to insert any detecting probe into the body without strong disturbance in the subtle electromagnetic body. Thus, the study of electromagnetic body becomes even more difficult.
The last problem is that electromagnetic waves travel so fast, a million times faster than the movement of molecules and nervous pulses. In such a case, the so- called "ergodic phenomenon" occurs because electromagnetic waves travel so fast that they can cross the body numerous times and collect all information from all parts of the body. For this reason, no event in the electromagnetic body can be isolated from the rest of the body, and the information from every event can be found in the whole body. Therefore, it is completely holistic and holographic. In such a case, it is impossible to study the electromagnetic body in the analytic way which was once so successful and has played such an important role in the history of development of science. However, because of the inertia of our thinking, it is not only hard to enter a new field, but also painful to give up the conventional way of separation, isolation, even analysis, in order to look for a completely new framework and related methods to study the new area of science and medicine.
Practical Solutions for These Problems
Nevertheless, we have to find some practical way to solve these special problem in the research of electromagnetic body. First of all, it depends on the development of technology. Since the electromagnetic field in a body is very weak and disturbable, we have to develop very sensitive detection systems in order to detect its subtle structure. A remote detection system would be preferable in order to reduce unnecessary disturbance. Perhaps, passive detection systems would be the best. Fortunately, in the last five decades, many very sensitive detection technologies, for instance, these used in satellites, have been developed and can now be used in the study of medical and biological problems, so that the technological basis for a serious study of the electromagnetic body is ready now.
On the other hand, we have to develop some new theory and methodology for data analysis, or, more precisely, for data synthesis to cope with the extremely dynamic and unstable measurement values from the ceaselessly fluctuating electromagnetic body. Obviously, it is much simpler to work in a reductionism way in order to go into more and more detail of a stable structure than to work in a holistic way to handle a more and more holistic, complicated and dynamic structure. Fortunately, in the last two decades, the study of non-linear problems has offered a lot of new methods, such as bifurcation theory, catastrophe theory, chaos theory, fractals, coherence theory and many new theories of statistics and other mathematics. Meanwhile, the fast development of computer technology offers a powerful tool to deal with many data which we could not imagine to cope with before.
However, the most important thing is, perhaps, that we should always keep in mind that biology and medicine are now in a similar stage as physics was one hundred years ago when it changed from classical physics to electrodynamics and quantum physics. It is, of course, very painful to change from a familiar research area of solid objects with a visible and reliable picture into an unknown area of untouchable objects with an invisible and doubtful picture which is imperceptible and created only by our imagination. We are already used to the image-created picture of atoms and subatoms, even the horrible black hole in physics, for a long time, however, we are still not used to imaging the invisible part of our bodies. To overcome this problem, it is necessary to reinforce the education in mathematics and modern physics for students in medical college and in the biology departments of our universities, in addition to the big amount of education already offered in chemistry and biochemistry. Meanwhile, more physicists and mathematicians should be invited into the teams of biological and medical research, because much of the theoretical basis for the study of electromagnetic body is already ready in mathematics and modern physics, but has not yet been introduced into the study of biology and medicine.
Electromagnetic Body as a Common Base for Complementary Medicines
In the light of the electromagnetic body, many puzzling problems and mechanisms in the complimentary medicines become easy to understand. For instance, the substance of acupuncture meridians and points, the mechanism of homeopathy, and the holistic view, even the many mysterious experiences in many ancient medical traditions.
It is well known that there were many failures in the study of the substance of acupuncture meridians and points by means of anatomy in the last half century. The reason of so many failures is that the structure of acupuncture does not exist in the dense chemical body.
However, in the light of electromagnetic body, we may immediately understand that the acupuncture system is the main part of an interference pattern formed by superposition of invisible electromagnetic standing waves. In this point of view, many puzzle problems like the shape, size and stability of acupuncture points and meridians, the relationship between organs and acupoints, the relationship between anatomic structure and distribution of meridians and acupoints, the effect of needling without remedy, the transmission of signal along meridian and its speed, the phenomena of bio-holograph and statistical self-similarity of values of conductivity measurement and so on, would be easy to understand.
Homeopathy was also a great myth in medicine. Smith spent a whole lifetime in serious and systematic research in the mechanism of homeopathy. He pointed out that the solution of mechanism could only be found in the viewpoint of electromagnetic structure in the water. Therefore, if we take the viewpoint of electromagnetic body, the mechanism of homeopathy is becoming easy to understand since it can work by means of the resonance effect in electromagnetic body. It is well known that there are numerous electromagnetic oscillators in a human body. They are the sources of the numerous electromagnetic waves which construct the extremely complicated, dynamic and subtle structure of the electromagnetic body through infinite reflection and superposition of these waves. Obviously, there are many interaction between the electromagnetic structure in the water of homeopathy remedy and the structure of the electromagnetic body by means of weakly coupled oscillators through the electromagnetic field. The coupling and the energy transfer between them fits into the similar principle and the potency rule of homeopathy.
Therefore, the only problem remained is how to detect such a weak resonance effect by means of some extremely sensitive instrument. It seemed that this problem had to wait for the further development of technology. Fortunately, human body itself is the most sensitive detector for the extra-weak signal from homeopathy remedy as Smith has demonstrated with very good reproducibility by means of some subjective methods like dowsing and swinging of pendulum. However, it is hard for scientific community to accept the subjective dowsing and swinging of pendulum. Again fortunately, the human body is also a good amplifier, the structure or the pattern in the electromagnetic body is very sensitive to any electromagnetic disturbance. Therefore, it is easy to objectively detect the significant change of the interference pattern in the electromagnetic body caused by the extra-weak disturbance.
In the traditional Indian medicine, there is the concept of chakras which means the "light rings" which are related to the psychological and physiological state of a body. In the viewpoint of electromagnetic body, the chakras are the focal points of various waves, in particular the electromagnetic waves in the body. Therefore, the chakras belong to the interference pattern of electromagnetic waves which strongly connect with the psychological and physiological state of the body.
In the traditional Chinese medicine, emotion is regarded as the main cause of a majority of diseases; whereas, in classical western school-medicine, the human body has been considered as a complicated machine and the medical doctor has been regarded as a sophisticated expert to repair it when it is out of order. There is obviously no emotion in this picture. However, in the last two decades, psychosomatic medicine has become more and more important and psychology plays now a more important role in health care and medical insurance. For a long time, psychologists have made great efforts to look for explanations of psychological states in terms of physiology and other branches of biology, however, without clear success. The problem is that the dense chemical body has only a very limited and indirect connection to psychological states. But, the state of the electromagnetic body, in particular the communication through the electromagnetic field, has more closer connection to psychological states and emotion, therefore is much more sensitive to emotion and environmental influence than is the dense chemical body, so that it would change long before any substantial pathological change of the dense chemical body would take place. Therefore, the evaluation of the state of the electromagnetic body is very important in health care and medical insurance, in order to keep people away from hospital, instead of repairing it in hospital after some substantial change has already happened in the dense chemical body.
Nowadays, we are facing a new epoch. We have to bid farewell to the old research world of dense chemical body and allopathic medicine which is now already a beautiful edifice built by a large number of elaborated research works and clinic experiences in the old days, and has made great contributions to human society by saving so many lives from infectious diseases and accidents by means of surgical knife, antibiotics and many other killing remedies. Now, we have to venture into the new world of the electromagnetic body and regulation medicine in order to help people improve "life quality" and prevent people from so called "modern diseases" by means of self-regulation methods such as physical exercise, meditation and many others.
Of course, we discriminate here between the electromagnetic body and the dense chemical body only for the sake of giving a simple and clear picture for description. As a matter of fact, there is no separation between the two bodies at all. They are interconnected and interact permanently.
At this point, it would be interesting to recall the theory of the seven levels of body in Indian philosophy. The dense chemical body, which has been well studied by means of anatomy, cytology and molecular biology, may be only the first level of seven bodies. The electromagnetic body, which has been so far neglected by biological science and allopathic medicine and may well be the main thrust of biological science and regulation medicine in future, may only constitute the second level in such a range of seven bodies. Of course, it is, at this moment, too difficult to say definitely whether there are any other bodies or not beyond the dense chemical body and the electromagnetic body before we have clear scientific evidence. However, compared to the long history of human being, the 300-year-old science is only a baby. We have grown up from the understanding of the world of dense matter to the world of fields. We are now going to grow up from the understanding of the dense chemical body and of allopathic medicine to that of the electromagnetic body and regulation medicine, which is the task of our generation. Will we grow up further beyond this? We are sure we will.
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