Illuminated Physiology and Medical Uses of Light
ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to bring a broader understanding to the physiology of light metabolism in the human body and to present novel techniques of utilizing light diagnostically and therapeutically. Much work has been done to use light to achieve altered states of consciousness, and there is much research documenting the presence and activities of light within the body. However, this paper seeks to promote the utilization of light as a primary treatment. A brief explanation of the author's novel diagnostic technique, BioResonance Scanning™, and novel treatment technique called NeuroPhotonic TherapyTM is detailed with clinical gems and case review
The Theory and Practice of Syntonic Phototherapy: A Review
The article provides an introduction and basic overview on the theory and practice of Syntonic Optometry. Syntonics is derived from “syntony,” which means to “bring into balance”. It is believed that specific light frequencies entering the eye can balance the autonomic and endocrine systems. These systems serve as the neuro-physiological foundation to visual motor function. The pathways of ocular light stimulation will be reviewed, as well as current scientific models of how light effects physiology. Examples will be provided of other professions using phototherapy. The basic diagnostic and therapeutic protocols of syntonic optometric therapy will be discussed. The application of colored light for healing dates back to the earliest times of recorded history , including Egyptian and Mayan civilizations. The modern use of color therapy can be found in the works of Edwin Babbitt M.D., Carl Loeb, M.D., and Dinshah Gadiali’s Specta-Chrome system. These pioneers in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s used colored light shown directly on the body to treat hundreds of physical and psychological conditions. Optometric use of color began with the field of chrome orthoptics developed by William Henning in the 1920’s. His instrument exposed patients to colored light along with lenses and prisms to train a myriad of functional vision problems. He achieved excellent results as can be seen in the books he published. 1 The breakthrough research in the ocular application of specific frequencies of light was conducted by Harry Reilly Spitler, M.D. DOS, who published his seminal work ,The Syntonic Principle, in 1941. Spitler was the first to detail the biology of the non optic tract showing ocular light stimulation results in changing the physiology of the thalamus, hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Syntonics, derived from the word “syntony”, means to bring into balance, specifically the autonomic and endocrine systems which serve as the major support neurologically to vision. Spitler concluded that imbalances in the nervous and hormonal systems caused many bodily, mental/ emotional, and visual ailments. Spitler detailed how specific light frequencies effect cell biology, inherent electrical systems in the eye and brain, eye physiology, ocular functions, and emotional centers. This also includes light frequencies have the ability to affect EEG patterns. It is believed that certain color frequencies can build or discharge electrical potentials between cell walls and between organs such as the brain and liver. This also includes electrical ionization in both the brain and retina. Emotional balance is impacted by light’s effect on the heart rate variability and the hormones affecting emotions. 2
Law as Palimpsest: Conceptualizing Contingency in Judicial Opinions (forthcoming 2009)
Metaphors create conceptualizations, and for decades legal academics have employed metaphors to shape understandings of legal problems. But no metaphor in current use successfully conceptualizes the contingency of judicial opinions and the complexity of the relationship between opinions and precedent. This Article seeks to fill this void by introducing a new metaphor, the palimpsest, into the realm of legal analysis. A palimpsest is a writing surface that can be cleared away for reuse, like a personal blackboard. What distinguishes a palimpsest from other writing surfaces is that its removed contents do not disappear, but remain, obscured yet recoverable: A writing on a palimpsest never goes away. This Article argues that thinking of judicial opinions as being part of a shared, ever-evolving palimpsest underscores the fact that they are ultimately contingent and serves as a reminder of the multiple levels of interconnectedness between them and the cases they cite. Precedents—like the underlayers of a palimpsest—never go away, and they inform and shape the application of opinions in ways far more significant than simply serving as points of reference. A palimpsestic approach to understanding judicial decisionmaking also helps to explain why even the oldest, most reviled cases remain part of our national psyche—like underlayers of a palimpsest, they can never truly disappear, and their continued presence forces us to grapple with their existence. Finally, considering judicial opinions as part of a shared palimpsest reminds us that even the most troubling opinion is ultimately contingent, its application subject to reexamination and revision by future courts and future generations. Just as such an opinion replaces its precedents, it too will one day be replaced, like each of a palimpsest’s layers. 2 Law as Palimpsest [Vol. __:__ Law as Palimpsest: Conceptualizing Contingency in Judicial Opinions