L-Field

The L-field is a name proposed by the Yale Professor of Anatomy Harold Saxton Burr [Harold Saxton Burr, "Blueprint for Immortality", Neville Spearman, 1972] for the electomagnetic field of any organism. Burr held that the study of this field offered great promise for medicine since it exhibited measurable qualities that might be used in prognosis of disease, mood and viability. The voltage measurements he used are not in doubt, but "the scientific community has all but ignored" Burr's term, and his interpretation of the field as a "blueprint-like mold for all life". Those having produced notable research along the same lines include Becker, Marino and Selden, [R.O.Becker and G.Selden, "The Body Electric - Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life", William Morrow 1985] Lund [E.J.Lund, "Bioelectric Fields and Growth", Austin, University of Texas, 1947] and Athenstaedt. [H. Athenstaedt, "Permanent Electric Polarisation and Pyroelectric behaviour of the Vertebrate Skeleton", Z Zellforsch 1969] However, progress is currently being made in the use of electromagnetic therapy to aid the healing of broken bones. [A.R.Liboff Ph.D., "Toward an Electromagnetic Paradigm for Biology and Medicine." Retrieved May 2008 from www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/107555304322848940]

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Beginning in the 1930s H.S. Burr's seminal work at Yale aimed at a gradual accumulation of hard data to support the hypothesis of the bio-electric field as having emergent, unexplained qualities and acting as a causal agent in development, healing, mood and health. Burr set up a series of experiments, later repeated by other researchers, which demonstrated some properties of these EM fields which he called Life-fields (L-fields).

He showed that changes in the electrical potential of the L-field were associated with changes in the health of the organism. By leaving some trees hooked up to his L-field detectors for decades he was able to demonstrate that such things as the phases of the moon, sunspot activity, and thunderstorms substantially affected readings from the trees. He found the axis of EM polarity in a frog's egg could predict the spinal axis of foetal development, suggesting that the L-field was the organizing matrix for the body. This insistence that the L-field is primary to the physical, would eventually have Burr accused of "wishful vitalism".

In his work with humans, he was able to chart and predict the ovulation cycles of women, to locate internal scar tissue, and to diagnose potential physical ailments through the reading of the individual's L-field.

Student and colleague Leonard Ravitz carried Burr's work forward. Ravitz focused especially on the human dimension, beginning with a solid demonstration of the effects of the lunar cycle on the human L-field, reaching a peak of activity at the full moon. Through work with hypnosis he demonstrated that changes in the L-field directly relate to changes in a person's mental and emotional states. "Both emotional activity and stimuli of any sort involve mobilization of electrical energy, as indicated on the galvanometer, hence, both emotions and stimuli evoke the same energy. Emotions can be equated with energy." Most intriguingly, Ravitz showed that the L-field as a whole disappears before physical death. [ G.K.Playfair and S. Hill, "The Cycles of Heaven," Pan 1979]

References

ee also

* Biophysics
* The Body Electric
* Biophotonics
* Prana
* Qi
* Orgone
* Vitalism
* Kirlian Photography
* Rupert Sheldrake
*Walter Kilner