LET THERE BE LIGHT DARIUS DINSHAH, S-C N. Eleventh Edition Practical Manual for Spectro-Chrome TherapyFULL-SPECTRUM ILLUMINATION olor illustrations below relate to pages 21 ‘paragraph A-9, and 33/paragraph t 2. This book concerns itself with the use of selected parts of the visible spectrum to cause specific physiologic or emotional effects. Each treatment session (tonation) of a spectral segment (color) is normally for one hour which could be termed a minimum exposure compared to the artificial illumination under which most of us live almost exclusively for the remaining hours of cach day and night. 3. Since civilization virtually mandates that we live in some form of simulated Sunshine, it would be sensible to use lamps which emitted a reasonable semblance of a complete spectrum, without any frequency gaps or large peaks of energy. 4. Before the first edition of this book was published (1985), we made a costly but unsuccessful effort to photograph the spectrum of different types of bulbs and fiuorescent tubes, The problem was in photographic film: they did not give even an approximation of one color blending into the next. Our 1993 video (My Spectro-Chrome) contains demonstrations but we were unable to make printed renditions from it, Technology came to the rescue in this manner: A camcorder views the Light source through a spectroscope (Light analyzer); the image is processed through an interface to a computer where errors in its rendition can be at least partially corrected; then out toa color printer, and process-color screened for the book printer. 5. This convoluted arrangement gives reasonable representations bu the technical limitations involved present printed images with little of the brilliance seen through the spectroscope. Nonetheless, the following illustrations (fluorescents with missing frequencies at the Red end and peaks so high they cannot be adequately represented, etc.), should allow an informed judgment to be made regarding the relative value of each Light source. 6a, Sunlight, noon, sunny May day in NJ (standard household, and halogen bulbs spectra are visually very similar to this, though weighted more toward the Red end): 6b. So-called “full spectrum” neodymium 60-watt incandescent bulb such as: Chromalux, Bulbrite. etc. Enrich is also a neodymium type. Note the virtual absence of Yellow frequencies: some advertisements label Yellow a “dulling” (?) color | fluorescent tube (note large energy peaks in Yellow, Green and Violet ar 1. The full: 6d, So-called “full-spectrum” fluorescent Ott-Lite (note many large energy peaks, and weak energy areas.) Many “hi-tech” fluorescents have similar emission characteristicsSPECTRO-CHROME COLOR WHEEL ‘hroughout this book the terms infra-Green, ultra-Green, circulatory Colors and opposites re used extensively. The diagram below aids in visualizing the meaning of each of those terms. 's ink-on-paper rendition is not intended to represent radiant tonation Colors which have multiple nergy frequencies. Chapters three though seven have complete details of the 12 Spectro-Chrome ‘olors, their production, 78 physiologic attributes, and practical applications. GREEN Median Color Phsycial equilibrator INFRA-GREEN COLORS: ig ULTRA-GREEN COLOR: Lemon Turquoise Yellow Blue Orange Indigo Red s P $ PURPLE SCARLET PL. Stimulant M Depressant MAGENTA, Equilibrator Circulatory/Reproductive/Emotional Colors