Standing in the Light From The Optimist on Johan Boswinkel –
How Johan Boswinkel is using biophotons, the faint light waves emitted by cells, to help the body heal.
Warning: this story is about a man who has developed a groundbreaking new therapy: healing with light. The man is not a doctor. Nor is he an accredited scientist. His proof is rather anecdotal, and, yes, there are countless skeptics eagerly lining up to attack his results and conclusions. Yet Johan Boswinkel might just hold a key to the medicine of the future in his hands.
Why should you read on, after a warning like that? Because modern medicine, despite all its progress, often remains powerless against the many chronic illnesses spawned by our modern lifestyle. Albert Einstein said it well: You can never solve a problem on the same level of thinking on which it was created. My son’s T-shirt puts it more baldly: “It’s usually the oddballs who change the world.”
That’s a description — I say with all respect —that fits Johan Boswinkel to a “T.”
“Oddballs” don’t fit neatly into known structures or frameworks. Boswinkel is the personification of the independent autodidact. He asked questions no one else asked and found a solution no one else found. He built an instrument that can measure disturbances in the body and correct them.
Using that instrument, he and the hundreds of people he has trained in the past 20 years have helped thousands of people banish serious diseases and troublesome ailments. “Our approach should become primary health care. We have a success rate of 80 percent without harmful side effects,” Boswinkel says in his apartment overlooking the Maas River in central Rotterdam.
In the early 1980s, Boswinkel worked as a director of a travel agency in New Zealand. Suffering from exhaustion after a particularly busy period, he visited an acupuncturist at his secretary’s urging. The man treated him, but more important, he asked Boswinkel to translate an article for him from German into English.
That article was written by German physicist Fritz-Albert Popp, and it discussed his research proving Russian embryologist Alexander Gurwitsch’s hypothesis that all cells emit an extremely faint light.
Dr. Fritz-Alpert Popp
Dr Fritz-Alpert Popp
Popp called that light “biophotons” and demonstrated that these biophotons direct the body’s biochemical processes.
That bit of translation brought about a radical change in Boswinkel’s life. He had always wanted to understand more about the way human beings work. He had studied economics but quit the program before completing it, after discovering that “the models never worked in the real world because they never took people into account.” He then studied medicine, only to discover that “people were missing there, too.” Psychology also failed to answer his questions, and he finally went to work for a bank. But his desire to understand what makes us tick kept burning.
Popp’s article got him thinking. “If all the information required to control the body’s biochemical processes is in the light that the body emits, and if disturbances in that light disrupt biochemical processes and cause disease—as Popp claimed—then it must be possible to “examine” the light and remove the disease. Then you return the “repaired” light to the body. If it works, it will have enormous consequences for everything.”
Though he didn’t know it—there was no Internet 30 years ago—Boswinkel was following in the footsteps of several pioneers who, based on the realization that bodies ultimately consist of vibrations, had been experimenting since the early 19th century with instruments to combat disease using electromagnetic frequencies. Independently of one another, American inventor Royal Rife, San Francisco doctor Albert Abrams and British engineer George de la Warr had produced striking results using machines they built themselves.
More recently, in the 1970s, Franz Morell in Germany developed a similar instrument. All these pioneers suffered the same fate: Despite results that invited further investigation, they were zealously attacked in courts by the medical establishment and their work fell largely into obscurity.
Boswinkel dove into Popp’s work, searched in vain for information on biophotons in the physics literature—“There wasn’t any then and there isn’t any now,” he growls—and began studying homeopathy and acupuncture. Using his acquired knowledge, he built his first machine in 1983 to measure and repair a body’s light emissions. His first experimental case involved a terminal liver cancer patient in New Zealand. “I measured and treated, measured and treated, and after about twelve sessions, the man was clearly improving,” Boswinkel recounts. And it was no accident, as his subsequent successes with AIDS patients proved.
Nearly 30 years later, Boswinkel’s instrument is on its sixth generation and he’s done enough “miracle working” that scientific recognition for his therapy is beginning to trickle in. The Medical University of Graz in Austria added Boswinkel’s biophoton therapy to its complementary medicine curriculum in 2007. In Wageningen, the Netherlands, researchers are investigating the effect Boswinkel’s therapy has on growth in plants and fowl. In addition, the first, limited observational studies are being conducted on people, and there are mainstream doctors using Boswinkel’s machine in their practices.