The Creative Light

By Dr Patrick Quanten MD

In other articles we have discussed some important aspects of light and the experiments that have shown that light is a wave. But equally there is very good evidence that light is made of particles, called photons. And the way particles pass through two holes in a wall is very different, according to our everyday experience, from the way waves pass through holes in walls. Today, light is no longer viewed as either a wave or a particle, it is viewed as both at the same time. Whether we come across the wave-like features or the particles-features depends on the way we look at light. In other words, the way we set up the experiment determines the kind of results we are going to see.

New discoveries are showing researchers still more amazing properties of light. Having struggled to come to terms with the notion of wave-particle duality as description of light, we now have to come to terms with the idea that light itself can change into matter and then back into light again. Strange though this behaviour is, it does contribute to the pleasing symmetry between light and matter, waves and particles, that is such a strong feature of the quantum world.

But how do particles of matter, including atoms, behave? We have learned that in some sense they do not really exist as particles, when nobody is looking at them, when no experiment is making a measurement of their position or any other properties. The Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea said that a watched atom can never change its quantum state as long as it is being watched. Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, developed a neat technique for looking at the ions while they were making up their minds about which state to be in. Sure enough, if the ions were ‘looked at’ by a laser pulse at equal intervals, their energy state never changed while they were being watched. By reducing the time in between the ‘looking’ it turned out that the ions never raised their initial level at all, even though the radio waves were doing their best to warm the ions up.

In our everyday reality, we can, on the back of that experiment, pose the philosophical question of whether or not the tree is really there when nobody is looking at it. Now the answer would be that each time someone looks at the tree the tree ions remain in a ‘frozen’ state and the tree remains there in a physical form. There is not enough time for the ions of the tree to all elevate their state of excitement in between viewings so that the physical tree would ‘evaporate’ out of sight.

All strange and fascinating properties of light, but how does light itself create our universe?

The light spectrum itself is divided into seven different colours, each with their own frequency. At the lower end of the visible spectrum, with the longest wave length and therefore the lowest frequency, is the red colour. As we move up the frequency ladder, we go from red to orange, to yellow, to green, to blue, to indigo and violet. An interesting observation is that the band widths of each of these colours correspond to the Golden Ratio. “A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio (golden ratio) when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser.” It turns out that the smallest segment is yellow, followed by the slightly larger segment of violet, then indigo, then orange, then blue, green and finally, the largest is red.

It also appears as if the golden ratio rule, which is found and used in mathematics, physics and art, also plays an important role in nature. Adolf Zeising found the golden ratio expressed in the arrangement of branches along the stems of plants and of veins in leaves. He extended his research to the skeletons of animals and the branchings of their veins and nerves, to the properties of chemical compounds and the geometry of crystals. In these phenomena he saw the golden ratio operating as a universal law. Zeising wrote in 1834: “The Golden ratio is a universal law in which is contained the ground-principle of all formative striving for beauty and completeness in the realms of both nature and art, and which permeates, as a paramount spiritual ideal, all structures, forms and proportions, whether cosmic or individual, organic or inorganic, acoustic or optical, which finds its fullest realisation, however, in the human form.”

The visible light spectrum is created from the small yellow band in the middle. This is the fertile part of creation. It is, so to speak, the genital part of creation. This corresponds with the sexual organs in the human, from which all other tissues will be created. So the yellow colour corresponds to the tissues of the sexual organs. What other tissues are there being formed to create a full human body. According to Ayurveda, the ancient Indian system, all creative cycles consist out of seven tissues that are formed one out of the other. This is the case with plants, animals and humans. As it happens, one could say that the whole universe was created on that basis. God took seven days to do it; Again seven, each day creating a completely different tissue.

The first tissue that manifests out of the sexual organs is juice or plasma. Out of this comes blood, then muscle, followed by fat, bone and finally bone marrow, before the fruit of the whole creation expresses itself once more in new sexual tissue. This sequence has been clearly described.

From the Golden ratio, we know that the colours appear in a fixed order, one after the other created from yellow. The order being: violet, indigo, orange, blue, green and red, then going to yellow again. And as life is being created from light itself in this universe, we can now identify which specific tissue is being created by which part of the visible light spectrum. The violet colour interacting on the human fertilised cell will start the creation of the first tissue that separates the new forming life from the mother’s. The violet colour creates juices or plasma. The next colour that appears from the visible light spectrum is indigo, which is responsible for the creation of blood. Next up is orange, which creates muscle, followed by blue being responsible for the formation of fat. Then it is green, which creates bone, and ultimately red for the formation of bone marrow, before yellow appears again fully developing sexual tissue.

Back to the seven parts of the light spectrum. Each colour is, of course, composed of a combination of all the colours, only in different proportions than the combination of them all that constitutes white light. Green light will have for the main part the green colour in it and less of the others. The main colour has the largest proportion. The two colours either side of it, for green those are yellow and blue, support the main colour the most. The least input comes from the counterpart colours, which for green are red and violet. Each of these sub-colours then split up again in their respective combinations, and so on.

This can be done for each colour and that shows us how much each part contributes to the making of that particular colour. Remember that each colour also creates specific tissues when interacting with a human embryonic cell and you are well on the way to understand the creation of the human body, or at least the blue print of it.

As you may have noticed, the tissues, as they are being created, become denser and denser. From a thin fluid (juice), we go to a thick fluid (blood), to muscle (creates movement), to fat (binds things together), to bone (gives structure), to bone marrow (creating stability to the structure). We tend to have a bit more trouble with the concept of bone marrow, but we mustn’t forget that bone marrow also contains the tissue that produces the components of the blood, such as the red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. It also allows for lightness to be created inside the otherwise dense heavy bone. It forms the underlying stable basis on which bone can provide the structure and it feeds all the tissues above it.

The embryo forms out of a water sack and after five weeks it has its first shape. It is the plant part of evolution, showing itself in the shape of a bean. At six weeks we see a primitive animal shape, which changes by week seven into a fish. By week eight the foetus has little stumps where the arms and legs will grow, which has altered the fish shape and people start to recognise a type of monkey in the foetal features. Week nine shows, for the first time, the human form. One could say that God had just recreated his universe in miniature, all in the making of the tissues of one human being. And then, from week ten, sometimes felt a bit later, movement starts within the foetus. All of the sudden the tissues come alive. How does that happen?

Well, living beings all have energy centres known as chakra. There are seven main chakras that correspond to the human body. These chakras deliver energy to the system and, in effect, set it in motion. Now, again seven chakras. Seven colours of the visible light spectrum; seven tissues. These chakras can only become functional as separate energy centres once the foetus has stretched out enough, has grown enough, because they occupy a specific place in the human energy field. And guess what? Their places are on the crossover points on a line between crown and pelvic floor, in a ratio that corresponds to the light spectrum frequenties. Traditionally each chakra has also been given a colour and they follow the sequence from the rainbow. From the top down, violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red.

According to the universal laws of creation, we can now deduce that the sequence in which these chakras appear is the same as it was for the colours of the light spectrum and as it was for the tissues: first violet (nr 7 top chakra), then indigo (nr 6), followed by orange (nr 2), then blue (nr 5), green (nr 4) and red (nr 1), before yellow appears (nr 3). These chakras feed the tissues with energy, non-material information that will create the non-material stuff cells of living beings live on. Traditionally, each chakra is known to stand for particular parts of the non-material input, and when we put those words into the equation of the sequence in which these chakras were created then it is amazing to see how, even here, the sequence displays a flow from light to dense.

The seventh chakra, first one to be created, stands for insight (some see it as Nirvana). Then comes the sixth chakra, which is mind (includes imagination). From that originates the second chakra, known to stand for desire (part of the mind), followed by the fifth chakra which functions has a holding together (the togetherness of the Self). The next chakra is the fourth one, giving information about balance (love is the basic balance of life) and then comes the first chakra, which is about grounding and survival, before we create the third chakra, giving us individual power and feeling. And now the tissues are alive with the energy of the individual that is making these tissues his/her own.

This outlines the basic pathway that the light follows to create every living thing in the whole of our universe, from the cosmic dance to the amoebe. The splitting of the visible light into its components and the influence of each of those components on a living seed creates the variation we encounter in nature. Ultimately, it is, of course, a vary complex system, but the principle on which it is built is simple. It’s light.

We live in a Light Universe. Light sets the boundaries of our Universe. Think about it: nothing can live without light the influence of the electromagnetic light spectrum (there is life in total darkness but the electromagnetic waves still penetrate), and nothing can travel faster than light. Everything within those boundaries is determined by light.

Light is the creative force of our Universe.

October 2008