A POSSIBLE PHYSICAL BASIS FOR THE HEALING TOUCH (BIOTHERAPY) EVALUATED BY HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY

We performed a series of experiments to examine the possibility that a theoretically proposed and indirectly empirically confirmed form of e lectromagnetic field emission from living beings appears to modify phy sical characteristics of water. We pursued three types of experiments. In the first one, we tried to examine whether and in what way water e xposed to growing and dying spruce seedlings through a quartz test tub e (therefore with no chemical contact), influences the germination of seeds and the growth of seedlings of the same species. The second type focused on the issue of whether and in what way distilled water, equa lly exposed to growing and dying spruce seedlings as well as to differ ent ontogenetic phases of mealworm beetle, can be modified and this mo dification later on reproduced through a specially developed method of electrophotography. The third type of experiments presented here atte mpts to find out whether an emission from human hands can non-chemical ly modify the physical characteristics of distilled water. Their stati stical analysis revealed the existence of two different groups of peop le: those capable of imprinting some form of highly reproducible radia tion into water and those at most capable of imprinting only some sort of highly variable radiation. In the future this line of research cou ld provide a scientifically based testing of the actual capabilities o f the so-called biotherapists to perform this kind of unconventional h ealing. The present experiments also represent further indirect eviden ce for a form of electromagnetic emission from living beings and that such emission alters water in an as yet unknown way.