We All Emit Light

I was reading an article in Ode Magazine the other day titled "No Such Things as a Thing" by Lynn McTaggart. In the article, there's a section of it that really got me thinking, got me tripping on a concept.

You see, we all emit light--biophoton emissions to be exact.

The force is with us.

I'm going to quote the article at length since the author does a better job of explaining the concept than I could:

• McTaggart relates, "In 1970, while investigating a cure for cancer, German physicist Fritz-Albert Popp stumbled on the fact that all living things, from single-cell plants to human beings, emit a tiny current of photons, or light, which he labeled 'biophoton emissions.' Popp immediately understood that a living organism makes use of this faint light as a means of communicating within itself and also with the outside world" (38).
• Since then, Popp and over forty scientists have researched this phenomenon, and "They maintain that this faint radiation, rather that DNA or biochemistry, is the true conductor of all cellular processes in the body. They have discovered that biophoton emissions reside within DNA, setting off frequencies within the molecules of individual cells" (38).
• After years of experiments, "Popp recognized that he had uncovered the primary communication channel within a living organism, which uses light as a means of instantaneous, or 'non-local,' global signaling. Popp also discovered that these light emissions act as a communications system among living things. In experiments with a number of organisms, including human beings, he discovered that individual living things absorb the light emitted from each other and send back wave interference patterns, as though they are having conversations. Once the light waves of one organism are absorbed by another organism, the first organism's light begins trading information in synchrony. Living things also appeared to communicate information with their surroundings--bacteria with their nutritional medium, the inside of an egg with its shell. These 'conversations' also occur among different species, although the loudest and best dialogues are reserved for members of the same species" (38-9).

The connection that many folks will make after reading that infrormation is the how biophoton emissions sound similar to "the force" within the Star Wars movies even though Lucas took that concept from Maori mythology/religion--the idea that there is a life force that interconnects all beings/Nature, a more interesting Oversoul from my perspective that predates Emerson anyway.

I don't know how respected this view of living systems is though. I'm no scientist. But it's certainly interesting.

If biophoton emissions are indeed true, if that's how this all works, the Maoris were on to it before the folks in lab coats got to work.