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Biofield Hypothesis by Beverly Rubik, Ph.D.

Bioenergetic, Energy Medicine, Energy Therapies, Powerpoints

The Biofield Hypothesis: It's Biophysical Basis and Role in Medicine.

1. Global regulatory processes of life rather than the physical structure of the body 2. Chaos Theory 3. Biophysical 4. Non-equilibrium thermodynamic of open systems 5. Field 6. Particle 7. Waves 8. Particle 9. Linear and non-linear systems

1. Complex 2. Non-linear 3. Dynamic 4. Self-organizing (at a global or holistic level)  Based on Principles of Non-equilibrium, Thermodynamics of open systems, and Chaos Theory.

1. Constantly exchanging energy with information at multiple levels of organization with their surroundings in order to maintain themselves. 2. They also have emergent properties such as higher order relationships – dependent on context and meaning that have effects on health, disease and healing.

1. Conventional biology provides a reductionistic, analytical view of life based on molecules and on structure – functional relationships. 2. Emerging biophysical view is a dynamic one that addresses the whole organism, its field interactions, and its integral flow of information in relation to the environment (epigenetics). a) Biophysical view of life provides the basis as a scientific foundation for CAM modalities (involves the transfer of bioinformation carried by a small energy signal)

1. Principles of complimetarity (Katsunami, 1998) 2. Particle-Wave Duality applies to all matter in quantum physics 3. Need to consider Particle-Wave Duality for the constituents of life. 4. One one hand, life is made of complex, biomolecular structures – on other hand, it is dynamic waves with information.

A system is a number of different and interacting things that display collective behavior as an integrative whole, such as a cell, nucleus, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, family, etc. 1. The living domain of nature can be regarded as a hierarchy or network of nested systems of organized complexity. 2. Linear systems express behavior that is strictly proportional; a lot of response, versus stimulus is a straight line. Linear systems comprise modules that can be taken apart and put back together and still behave exactly the same. 3. Conventional biology and medicine often utilize linear thinking in the causal scheme of relationships in living systems. For example, linear thinking underlies gene therapy.

4. Non-linear systems express relationships that are not strictly proportional and, in general, they can not be reduced to distinct modules that can be taken apart and put back together again to yield the same behavior. 5. As a result of feedback loops, even the simplest nonlinear system can display bizarre and unpredictable dynamic behavior such as unexplained fluctuations and irregularities. 6. The control theory of non-linear systems shows that feed back processes and other numerous pathways of information flow serve to regulate behavior (Weiner, 1948).

1. Living systems are open systems exchanging energy, matter, and information with the environment in order to develop and maintain themselves; 2. Open systems such as organisms that orchestrate flows of matter, energy, and information through themselves are self-organizing systems, far from equilibrium; 3. Such systems dissipate energy in order to maintain themselves (dissipative structures) as quasi-stable macroscopic structures in space- time; 4. Open systems typically display dynamic steady states that are quasi-stable or oscillate around steady-state values; 5. Significant perturbations in living systems’ dynamic can lead to disease and eventually death.

Self organization through continuous flows of matter, energy, and information is the bio-physical basis of life’s autoporesis, or self-maintenance and renewal. Self organizing systems may undergo spontaneous internal fluctuations in their dynamics that, if near a critical point, may cause them to bifurcate to another dynamic state exhibiting new patterns of greater order or disorder. Self-organizing systems are also subject to external fluctuations or environmental signals that can also affect system behavior. Similar to internal fluctuations, changes in the environment can produce bifurcations in behavior and generate completely new modes of behavior. One important feature of living systems distinguishing them from the nonliving domain, including machines is the large number of intricate pathways along which information flows between all levels of organization, both ascending (“bottom-up”) and descending (“top-down”).

By the 1920’s, the chaos theory was born, to explore the behavior of the non-linear dynamic systems throughout nature. Chaos theory goes a step further in addressing the dynamics of complex, nonlinear systems in showing that they display fundamental unpredictability. Chaos theory uncovered the universality of all non-linear dynamic systems in physics, biology, mathematics, and engineering. Non- linear systems may exhibit precisely the same dynamics, even though they may consist of vastly different subcomponents at different scales of order.

1. Homeostasis, however, is based on classic physics, not modern biophysics. It is modeled in terms of mechanical feedback cycles similar to that by which a thermostat regulates temperature by switching a heater on and off. However, it is now recognized that there is no single or ultimate hemostatic balance point in biologic systems because they are self-organizing systems with many more possibilities than a single steady state. 2. The principle of homeodynamics states that physiological and bio-chemical processes help maintain the internal systems of the body (e.g., blood pressure, temperature, pH, etc.) in a dynamic equilibrium, despite continuous environmental challenges and internal fluctuations I the natural dynamics of life. However, the dynamic range of what is considered optimal health is not a unique balance point, but varies, depending on the individuality of the organism – its unique bio-chemistry, history, and biologic age. Moreover, homeodynamic processes exhibit characteristic oscillations or periodicities, and there are a large number of these in an organism, each with different temporal features.

3. In homeodynamics, the processes that render dynamic stability proceed simultaneously at multiple levels of organization, from the molecular level to that of the whole being, and with various time scales. 4. The point here is not to prove or refute the existence of the subtle bodies of ancient medical systems. Rather, it is to point out that vitalistic concepts remain central today in virtually every indigenous system of medicine, including Oriental medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, modern chiropractic, classic osteopathy, homeopathy, and many other forms of CAM. It is the author’s goal to introduce a field concept consistent with contemporary biophysics, the biofield, which may provide a unifying scientific foundation for CAM modalities resting on diverse vitalistic principles.

1. The biologic field is seen as a holistic or global organizing field of the organism by all these authors. Similar to the way a holographic plate distributes information throughout the hologram, the biologic field conveys information throughout the organism an dis central to its holistic integration. 2. The human biologic field is an organizing field within and emanating from the body, which hypothetically regulates the biochemistry and physiology of the body. The proposed biologic field is also a conceivable solution to the problem of how the information in an organism is stored beyond the genome. 3. This paper takes only a first step in proposing a biofield hypothesis based on known scientific concepts from bioelectromagnetics and bio-physical systems theory. The biofield is defined here as the endogenous, complex dynamic electromagnetic (EM) field resulting from the superposition of component EM fields of the organism that is proposed to be involved in self- organization and bioregulation of the organism.

3. The components of the biofield are the EM fields contributed by each individual oscillator or electrically charged, moving particle or ensemble of particles of the organism (ion, molecule, cell, tissue, etc.), according to principles of conventional physics. 4. The biofield hypothesis offers a unifying hypothesis to explain the interaction of objects or fields with an organism, such as are used in certain CAM interventions.

Electrodermal testing and treatment. The biofield may be related to the system of acupuncture points and meridians, which have eluded anatomic approaches to locate them. A patient is assessed via electrodermal testing for acupuncture meridian and organ dysfunctions by measuring the variations in the electrical resistance of the acupuncture points. Applied kinesiology. This method of diagnosis and therapy purportedly determines health imbalances in the body by identifying weaknesses in specific muscles, and by means of activating or relaxing these muscles, health problems may also be resolved (Walther, 1988). Reflexology. Stimulation of the reflex points and areas of the body allows them to send and receive specific information to and from other regions of the body. This stimulation may interact with the biofield, a holistic property of the body that conveys bioinformation. The specificity of action in reflexology may relate to boundary conditions of the biofield at certain tissue interfaces (Rubik, 1955b).

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