Dark Side of the Brain

by Roger Coghill and Harry Oldfield

Softcover book about Kirilian photography This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852300256
• ISBN13: 9781852300258
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Element Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Way ahead of its time!

This collaboration between Roger Coghill, a Cambridge scientist, and Harry Oldfield, a leading researcher in Kirlian photography and electrotherapy, propose that each organic cell has a unique radio frequency that is determined and controlled by the brain of the organism of which it forms part. They further postulate that diseases can be induced by external electromagnetic waves and also cured by these waves. By using Kirlian photography this process is made visible and on can see the dark side of the brain whose working is not generally perceived. The book thus explores the effects of a hidden mechanism of the brain that works on electromagnetic principles and is becoming ever more prominent in alternative health circles. The chapter Life Energies: The Pioneers, provides a list of early researchers into bio-electric life fields, like Franz Mesmer, Ruth Drown, Wilhelm Reich and others and tells the story of how they were persecuted. Royal Rife, inventor of the Rife Resonator, should be added to the list. This chapter also discusses the work of Edward Bach (of the flower remedies fame) and touches upon the life and inventions of Nikola Tesla. The work of Harry Oldfield is explained in chapter 4 whilst the next chapter looks at morphogenetic fields with special reference to Rupert Sheldrake. Chapter 6 looks at the diagnosis of disease using an instrument developed from the ideas based on the Kirlian method and describes the use of pulsed high-frequency electric currents, amplified by quartz crystals, in the treatment of disease. Nutrition is discussed in chapter 7, especially the beneficial effects of raw fruits and vegetables. The authors propose that ingesting raw food strengthens the existing oscillations o the ingesting organism in a way that cooked foods do not. This section contains the most beautiful color plates demonstrating the Kirlian fields of various fruits, vegetables and the herb ginseng and provides a list of cooking processes in declining order of residual Kirlian corona discharge. Cooking and steaming seem to be the best methods whilst microwave coking comes in at a surprising third place. Oven baking appears to be the worst method. Concerning methods of preservation, raw food is tops, followed by refrigerator cooling for four hours. Gamma radiation and chemical radiation are low on the list. Chapter 8 deals with the birth of electronic medicine with special sections devoted to the treatment of cancer, arthritis, multiple sclerosis psoriasis and AIDS. The final chapter neatly summarizes the promise of electronic therapies. An appendix provides detailed instructions (with illustrations) on how to make Kirlian pictures. An extensive bibliography and a thorough index conclude this very interesting and pioneering work. The text is illustrated with fascinating black and white photographs (including some of Tesla and his machines), explanatory figures and the aforementioned color plates. I also highly recommend Vibrational Medicine by

One of the most important books for the 21st. century

This startling book offers an insight into the biology of life which explains many unsolved problems in biology. Though Oldfield is first named author, the majority of the work comes from Coghill, whose discovery that the brain regulates cell growth by electric fields directly signalling to cell surface glycoproteins is worthy of a Nobel Prize. Coghill's later studies are confirming this and finally getting into the peer reviewed literature. See his latest book "Something in the Air", or visit his website to learn about tyhe incredible Pontypool Project in collaboration with Columbia Univ.