Hands of Light – Guide to Healing - Soul Circles

also react like a candle flame when subjected to
air currents, suggesting the composition is similar
to a gaseous fluid. These experiments show
the auric field has properties that suggest it to
be both particulate in nature like fluid and also
energetic like light waves.
Von Reichenbach found that the force in the
human body produced a polarity similar to that
present in crystals along their major axes. Based
on this experimental evidence, he described the
left side of the body as a - pole and the right
side as a + pole. This is a concept similar to the
ancient Chinese yin and yang principles mentioned
earlier.
Observations by 20th Century
Medical Doctors
We can see from the preceding paragraphs that
studies up to the 20th century were conducted
to observe different characteristics of an energy
field surrounding humans and other objects.
Since 1900 many medical doctors have become
interested in the phenomenon as well.
In 1911, Dr. William Kilner, a medical doctor,
reported' on his studies of the Human Energy
Field as seen through colored screens and filters.
He described having seen glowing mist
around the whole body in three zones: a) a
quarter-inch dark layer closest to the skin, surrounded
by b) a more vaporous layer an inch
wide streaming perpendicularly from the body,
and c) somewhat further out, a delicate exterior
luminosity with indefinite contours about 6
inches across. Kilner found that the appearance
of the "aura" (as he called it) differs considerably
from subject to subject depending on age,
sex, mental ability and health. Certain diseases
showed as patches or irregularities in the aura,
which led Kilner to develop a system of diagnosis
on the basis of the color, texture, volume and
general appearance of the envelope. Some diseases
he diagnosed in this way were liver infection,
tumors, appendicitis, epilepsy and
psychological disturbances like hysteria.
In the mid-1900s, Dr. George De La Warr
and Dr. Ruth Drown built new instruments to
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detect radiations from living tissues. He developed
Radionics, a system of detection, diagnosis
and healing from a distance, utilizing the human
biological energy field. His most impressive
works are photographs taken using the
patient's hair as an antenna. These photographs
showed internal formations of diseases in living
tissue, such as tumors and cysts within the liver,
tuberculosis of the lungs and malignant brain
tumors. Even a live three-month-old fetus was
photographed in utero.
Dr. Wilhelm Reich, a psychiatrist and colleague
of Freud in the early part of the 20th century,
became interested in a universal energy
that he named "orgone." He studied the relationship
of disturbances of the orgone flow in
the human body to physical and psychological
illness. Reich developed a psychotherapeutic
modality in which Freudian analytic techniques
for uncovering the unconscious are integrated
with physical techniques for releasing blockages
to the natural flow of orgone energy in the body.
By releasing these energy blocks, Reich could
clear negative mental and emotional states.
In the period of the 1930s through the 1950s,
Reich experimented with these energies using
the latest electronic and medical instrumentation
at that time. He observed this energy
pulsating in the sky and around all organic
and inanimate objects. He observed pulsations
of orgone energy radiating from microorganisms
using a specially constructed highpowered
microscope.
Reich constructed a variety of physical apparatuses
for the study of the orgone field. One
was the "accumulator," which was capable of
concentrating orgone energy and which he used
to charge objects with this energy. He observed
that a vacuum discharge tube would conduct a
current of electricity at a potential considerably
lower than its normal discharge potential after
being charged for a long period of time in an
accumulator. Further, he claimed to increase the
nuclear decay rate of a radioisotope by placing it
in an orgone accumulator.
Dr. Lawrence Bendit and Phoebe Bendit
made extensive observations of the HEF in the
1930s and related these fields to health, healing
and soul development. Their work stresses the