In our latest Intention Experiment on January 18 with Russian physicist Konstantin Korotkov, we successfully changed the light signal coming from water. We truly made the water 'glow' and 'glow' and the result was highly significant. Here's why this result has profound implications for healing.

Some 30 years ago, while investigating a cure for cancer, German physicist Fritz-Albert Popp stumbled upon the fact that living things emit tiny packets of light, which he called 'biophoton emissions'. He came to believe that living systems maintain a delicate equilibrium of light—too much or too little indicates disease. He also discovered what he called 'delayed luminescence': when light was shone on living cells, the cells would take this light and, after a certain delay, shine intensely. Popp considered this a corrective effect; in this instance, when a living system is bombarded with too much light, it rejects the excess.

Popp has been studying these light emissions for many years at the International Institute of Biophysics. One of Popp's most recent investigations concerns the change in light production after medical treatment. In one experiment, he and his colleagues applied medicated ointment to a spot on a patient's right arm, and then measured the light emissions from the treated area as well as a number of untreated parts from all over the body.

Similarly, in a patient with psoriasis affecting both arms, Popp applied a standard treatment for psoriasis, shining a UV (ultraviolet) lamp on both the psoriatic portion of one arm and a healthy portion for five minutes. After a few minutes, Popp measured the photon emissions from both parts of the arm.

When taking these measurements, Popp and his colleagues used exacting equipment that can count the light emissions, photon by photon — and they discovered something remarkable. If the number of emissions in one part of the body increases or decreases, so do those in other parts of the body.

In his first experiment, Popp found a large change in the number of light emissions not only from where he'd applied the ointment, but also from distant parts of the body. Furthermore, the size of the changes correlated all over the body: even from those places where no ointment had been applied, Popp recorded the same increase in light emissions as from the spot where the medicine had been used.

In the case of the psoriatic patient and the UV-light treatment, the emissions roughly quadrupled after using the light from both healthy and unhealthy regions of skin, regardless of whether or not they'd been exposed to the UV lamp.

An hour later, all parts of the body — treated and untreated, healthy and unhealthy — had reverted to identical light emissions, although the healthy regions of skin showed twice the amount of delayed luminescence as the unhealthy regions. This may be because healthy skin doesn't 'need' the light and so 'gets rid' of it, whereas the psoriatic regions did have a need for it and so retained it.

Popp believes that he has uncovered a new communications channel within the body that uses light as a means of instantaneous, or 'non-local', signalling to the rest of the living organism. "These signals contain valuable information about the health state of [the body] as well as of therapeutic effects," he says.

Popp's research takes us one step closer to understanding how our body communicates with itself and with the rest of the universe. Parts of the body tell each other about the state of things with these tiny messages of light. It also tells us why the tools of modern medicine often have such blunderbuss effects. Even if a therapy is intended for a specific location, this non-local communications channel will cause it to have a global effect.

That human thought can change the signalling of water, as we did in our latest series of Intention Experiments, suggests that our intentions can affect the light signals in a human body, 80 per cent of which is water. Popp's work — and now our Intention Experiments — also show us why healing intention is likely to have a global 'corrective' effect.

Popp has also researched the signalling and exchange of photons that constantly carries on between living things. Popp believes that if we pick up the photons of other living things, we also might be able to use the information from them to correct our own light if it goes awry.

Popp has carried out experiments showing that certain plant extracts can change the character of biophoton emissions of cancer cells, so that they begin to communicate again with the rest of the body. In one of numerous cases, Popp came across a woman in her thirties with breast and vaginal cancer. Popp tried mistletoe and other plant extracts on samples of her cancerous tissue and found that one particular mistletoe remedy created coherence in the tissue similar to that of the body. After a year, all her laboratory tests were virtually back to normal. A woman who was given up as a terminal cancer case had her proper light restored, just by taking a herb.

Now it's time to begin experimenting with the best healing thoughts.

Lynne McTaggart

Lynne McTaggart is the author of five books, including the bestselling The Field and The Intention Experiment. To participate in her next Intention experiment in March, please log in to the Intention Experiment website (www.theintentionexperiment.com), register in advance and follow the instructions. In 2008, Lynne is running Living with Intention seminars in Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland and Boston/Cape Cod. Click here for more information or to book your place.