Article nr 1. In a series of three article about the work of professor Rakovic of Belgrade and the new paradigm of biology.

By Dr. Bjorn J Øverbye PhD

Acupuncture is a central part of one of the oldest known healing systems on the planet, still practiced today. Efforts to disprove acupuncture have been in vein, Investigations into the system have given us an increasingly deeper understanding of a holographic system of diagnosis and therapy of unique nature. This system is, however, not properly understood by ordinary physiology and pathology upon which modern medicine is based. It is probably best understood on the basis of information theory! Professor Dejan Rakovic’ latest book on quantum holographic information theory gives us another piece to the puzzle and is probably the best book to date to shed light upon such diverse phenomena as acupuncture, subtle energy medicine, consciousness and the new bio-cybernetic methods of psychology.

Acupuncture on a daily basis.

While the Norwegian community of scientists, including medically educated personnel, studying biophysics and such related phenomena as acupuncture and homeopathy, is small and can be counted “on one hand”, progress is made in several scientific communities around the world towards a deeper understanding of the biophysics of man. The most recent contribution is brought to light by professor Dejan Racovic (University of Belgrade 2009) who has made a breakthrough contribution with his book “Integrative Biophysics, Quantum Medicine, Quantum- Holographic informatics: Psychosomatic Implications “. This highly academic book is meant for those with a level of knowledge in mathematics and especially in quantum physics. Its message is, however, highly important and I shall therefore try to mediate it to those of us for whom it is of a more practical concern.

Working with acupuncture, biophysical measurements and frequency medicine on a daily basis I have tried to extract the essence that is relevant to my daily work as a doctor. First the realities: every acupuncturist knows that the ancient concept of the meridians seems to work well in diagnosis and therapy in a variety of diseases, ranging from headaches to cancers! The curative efficiency ranges from placebo level to 95% range. This makes sceptical doctors mock the practice as just “placebo level” (Dagens Medisin May-2009), which actually is pretty good since cases treated in our office are the so called “impossible cases” finding no cure elsewhere, and where all placebos have been tried already, including some of the pharmaceutical drugs unfit for the situation!

Since the therapeutic community agrees to its efficiency, there must be a reality to it. One of the major contributions to explain the scientific basis of acupuncture practice is the work of the Chinese Department of Health. During the 1970’s and 80’s  they published a series of publications where they offered evidence that meridians correspond to real functional phenomena that can be sensed and identified by test subjects when electrical impulses are fed to certain acupuncture points on each meridian. This phenomenon is called PSC (Propagating Sensation along the Channel). PSC was found in as many as 80-90% of the subjects. The speed of propagation of the sensory experience resulting in a complete meridian phenomenon is  20  cm.  per second.

The works of Jiang Cheng Chuan et al. revealed that while the meridian sensation can be started in the periphery, there is ample proof that the real core of it all is in the brain itself. That is where the interconnected neurons form networks that give rise to the peripheral meridian phenomena. Areas of the brain found to have connections to the peripheral anaesthetic effects of meridian stimulation are:

1)      Septal Nuclei: The 2.metacarpal ECIWO (see later)(Gongdu et al)

2)      Lateral Thalamic Area : general analgesia (Zhang Jiaju et al)

3)      Posterior Thalamic Area, same as pt.2 (Wu Ding Zhong)

4)      Nuclei Raphe: general analgesic effects (Beijing College Group)

The Somatosensoric Area was also found to be involved in the PSC. We can not, however, say for 100% that a certain area is the cause of the PSC, since interconnections exist at several levels between the conscious sensory cortical areas to the deep levels in the pons. Each area or centre has a certain effect on the body connected to the PSC.  Does this mean that the brain is “all” and that the peripheral nervous system that mediates the PSC (the personally experienced aspect of the meridian system), is just a slave? Certainly not: there is a mother child relationship; the mother is the brain, the child is the rest; but as children reflect their parents, they can also modify their mothers.

Yingqing Zhang: ECIWO Biology.

The next step up the ladder in the study of the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nervous system in relationship to the meridian/PSC phenomena is the discovery and theoretical works of Professor Yingqing Zhang. Zhang discovered that along each meridian points are distributed according to a certain order. If one studies closely the effect of each point upon a certain part of the body a small wonder is revealed: Each meridian has a certain axial part (thorax, head and abdomen) and a peripheral part: legs or arms. On the limbs there is a striking repetitive nature of points. If we study the points along the bones of the limbs, each meridian along the bone has points that run from the peripheral towards the axis representing successive cross sections of the axial part of the body: head, neck, thorax, abdomen and pelvis. So if one wants to stimulate the pelvic organs; pick the points representing the pelvic cross section along the meridian most in need of therapy (Which leads to a different discourse: the very nature of each meridian).

The name ECIWO is an acronym for Embryo Containing Information of the Whole Organism. The idea is that the organism is a multilevel mosaic of ECIWOs, and that each ECIWO is a representation of a homunculus with proportions as the embryo. The most complete ECIWO discovered to date, is of course the ear acupuncture system discovered by French MD Paul Nogier, or more correctly rediscovered since the system of ear-acupuncture points was known since Antiquity in Asia and probably also in Egyptian and Greek medicine, although not in the detail later developed by the French, the Russians and then the Chinese.

The ECIWO system according to Nogier and Zhang is of course nothing but a fractal system of repetitive forms, found in all of nature. Therefore even plants have the same system of repetitive forms. Whereas Nogier was a medical doctor trying to explain his discovery of ear acupuncture, Zhang was a biologist out to discover a universal principle. He was probably the first to see acupuncture systems that are successive systems of ECIWO, as an expression of a bio- holographic regulation theory. Dr. Schjelderup in Norway had expressed the same idea when writing in 1974 about the holographic principle upon which natural therapies are built. And the author was the first MD to point to the fact that the proportions of the ECIWO system of the ear points are the same as the location of organs in the embryo at the time of their formation. This was also the them of my paper for the PhD.

The Quantum Holographic Basis for the Nervous System.

Much more could and must be said about bio-holography and the ECIWO discovery, but now the time has come to discuss the major work of professor Rakovic. As already told: the points of the meridian system are expressing a holographic system of body regulation involving the brain – spinal cord –peripheral nervous system and autonomic nervous system.

Rakovic starts his discussion with the fact that the whole human body is an open resonance system. There are numerous scientific data that show that men, animals and plants are influenced by both strong and weak external fields. Not mentioned by Rakovic, the Meridian Resonance Therapy (MRT) system developed by John and Kim Hetlelid ( www.spesmedico.no) works with direct measurements of nanoAmper currents generated in acupuncture points. The equipment they use, is the most sensitive registration unit for biologically generated electrical potentials of its kind made for the commercial marked. By the MRT technique one can measure the tiniest variations in the human holographic system and show that signals as low as below the -120 dB noise floor of the electronic circuits are capable of starting self healing processes in the body, reflecting a normalisation of acupuncture points of the 14 meridians (12 bilateral + 2 unilateral). These energies are at the quantum level and far below what is currently called electro-acupuncture that operates on the Milli Volt and Micro Ampere level. In the MRT system we deal with signals that can be coded into water and later given to patients as a sort of “frequency medicine”, where signal strength is of the magnitude of nuclear spin resonance of atoms. (The authors Power Point Presentation : Storing Homeopathic signals in Water can be obtained from www.arendalhelsesenter.no on request).

The facts that we now have ample proof of a regulation system of man operating at the quantum level and based on a bio-holographic principle, acting as a  self regulatory system, provides the basis for a new medicine: quantum-bio- holographic medicine. True; Rakovic is not the first to have this idea; but he is the first to my knowledge to put it to paper in one book at a level where most academically trained persons can grasp it if they have 4-5 years of mathematical physics behind them. I will try to condense some of these ideas according to my level of understanding (3 years of physics + 7 years of medicine)

Hopfield Networks.

The function of the nervous system, especially in the brain, has the nature of a multilayered parallel neural network. Such a network can be approximately described by the Hopfield classical neural network algorithm that expresses the free energy of the system (a notion borrowed from thermodynamics and later adopted in classical statistical mechanics, the theory of energy states in solids, fluids and gases). Hopfield equations are mathematically simple entities, but once applied to a certain problem they grow in complexity. Various scientists have added their ideas to the Hopfield equation, like dynamical behaviour over time and the ability of real neuronal networks to oscillate; that is vibratory nature of nerves (Haken ). When using ideas from quantum physics one arrives at a description of a network that has holographic properties (Sutherland) and even at a mathematical formalism (system of equations obeying certain allowed rules) where neuronal networks with oscillatory nature have holographic quantum like nature. And from there leads a bridge to a system of mathematics that is homolog to quantum physics!!

This has deep implications for how we view the mind–body relation and the nature of the brain. Conclusions derived from this mathematical formalism give us a general idea how to explain some disturbing consequences of ordinary hard-wire medical thought, where the nervous system is viewed as a simple  programmable computer that have lead to systems of therapy such as behaviourism and conformal thinking systems of older schools of psychiatry. In Norway the hard-wire viewpoint lead Norwegian politicians in the 1960’s to implement psychology in the science of sociology with its prime goal to educate controllers of the mind. The mind in Norway was, according to professor Grennes, best to be understood as a sociological phenomenon and healing as an adaptation of the mind to a socialist model. Norwegian psychiatry thus developed into a very rigid system of behaviourism, and Norway is today the country in Europe where forced mental hospitalization is most frequently used and where forceful means,  like isolation, electroshock, forced medication and  the use of tying patients to beds and chair to conform, are still in common use.

It is thus most paradoxical for a medical doctor in Norway, year 2009, to discover that a country we came to regard as a communist dictatorship during the cold war, actually has produced thinkers who create theories that lead to more humanistic and natural ways of treating the mind, while Norway that claimed to be  a democracy and the home of free thinkers during the same period, has developed a psychological school of thinking where force and brutalism still is a practical paradigm of the day. Reading Rakovic’s work we feel we have much to learn from the best of men in the former Eastern Europe.

Holography and Open systems.

Like quantum physical systems, the quantum holographic model of the brain leads to implications of quantum like behaviour of carbon based entities. We are an open system as previously explained; reacting to such various influences as earth and solar energies (electro–magnetic-gravitational) to LASER beams, mobile networks, human touch, even thought fields. Some of these signals are ultra weak, previously coined subtle energies, since they are known to exist but escape ordinary measurement techniques.

--to be continued-----

References.     

1)      Advances in Acupuncture and Acupuncture Anaesthesia, The Peoples Medical Publishing House, Beijing, China,1979

2)      Yingqing Zhang: ECIWO Biology &Medicine, Neimengu Peoples Press. Beijing, 1987

3)      Roger Penrose: The Road to Reality, Jonathan Cape, London, 2004

4)      Vilhelm Schjelderup: ’Legekunsten på nye veier’, Cappelen, Oslo 1974 and ’ECIWO Biologi – et nytt grunnlag for akupunktur og soneterapi”, Høyskoleforlaget, Kristiansand 1998.

5)      Dejan Rakovic: Integrative Biophysics, Quantum Medicine and Quantum Holographic Informatics: Psychosomatic Cognitive Implications, IASC & IEPSP,  Belgrade 2009

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