Esogetic Colorpuncture

A Complete Aculight Therapy System for Body, Mind and Spirit

Use of colored light as a treatment modality is a rapidly growing area of

experimentation for many acupuncturists. Used either to complement or replace
traditional needling techniques, practitioners are finding that treatment of
acupoints with colored light adds new dimensions to their work.

Light offers a gentle, pain-free, noninvasive therapeutic alternative with no

side-effects. Many light therapies may be continued at home by the patient,
thereby reducing treatment costs. In addition, light exhibits a unique capacity to
effect psychological and spiritual healing while simultaneously supporting
physical healing.
Esogetic colorpuncture is a complete system of aculight therapy developed over
the past 25 years by German naturopath and acupuncturist Peter Mandel. It
combines concepts of acupuncture with the latest research on the way light
functions in the body coming from the field of modern biophysics. Like
acupuncture, colorpuncture presupposes that the balanced flow of energy through
the meridian system will support good health. However, colorpuncture achieves
this by introducing vibrational information into the body in the form of different
colored light frequencies via the meridian system.

For these treatments, a hand-held aculight pen with insertable colored glass tips is
used. The tool emits incandescent light and is battery-operated. Each colored tip is
precisely set at a specific frequency within the frequency band for each color.
Colorpuncture treatment consists of particular sets of points treated in sequence
with specific colors. Treatment points are derived from traditional acupuncture;
other holographic grid systems such as reflexology and applied kinesiology; and
many points discovered by Mandel in his clinical practice.

History and Development of Esogetic Colorpuncture Therapy

Starting in the 1970s, Mandel began integrating theoretical and empirical data on
the effects of color, the philosophy of Chinese medicine and the latest findings of
modern photon physics. A lengthy professional association with German
biophysicist Fritz Albert Popp provided Mandel with the theoretical basis for his
work. In his studies of human cell communication, Popp demonstrated that
normal living cells emit a steady stream of photons (particles of light) called
biophotons. Popp hypothesized that these act as carriers of information in living
organisms, and that a cell will show an increase emission of biophotons (and
disturbed information flow) whenever its functions are no longer in a state of
balance. Further, the change in the biophoton emissions of one cell will eventually
disturb the biophoton emissions in neighboring cells (imagine a pebble dropped in
a pond with its spreading ripples). This change from harmoniously oscillating light
eventually leads to incoherence and disease.1 Mandel went one step further by
suggesting that these cellular changes also eventually affect the electrical
receptivity of related zones and acupoints on the surface of the skin.

Given that human cells exhibit energetic properties of light, and that light and
color have a modifying effect on the body's system of energetic information, it
seemed obvious to Mandel that the informational properties of light and color
could be used to restore coherence and health. Furthermore, given his training in
acupuncture and the existing research indicating that meridians actually channel
light, Mandel felt that the system of acupuncture, with its skin points of meridians,
was the best means of introducing light into the energetic anatomy. Through
extensive experimentation, Mandel determined that certain acupoints displayed a
particular affinity to certain colors. Starting with the basic primary and secondary
colors (red, green, blue, orange, yellow and violet), he developed treatments using
these complementary (warm and cool) colors to balance bipolar acupoints. This,
he said, was the birth of colorpuncture and allowed for a highly differentiated
means of affecting the yin-yang balance between complementary pairs of points.2

Since then, Mandel has continued to explore the therapeutic potential of various
colors. He developed the "soul-spirit" colors (rose, pale turquoise, light green and
magenta), which are used for more psychological treatments. He uses a specific
frequency of infrared light for his pain relief treatments. Most recently, he has
developed therapies using three shades of gray light, as well as ultraviolet light.

Treatment Possibilities Using Esogetic Colorpuncture

Esogetic colorpuncture includes many treatments that are consistent with

concepts of traditional Chinese medicine, e.g., treatments that move stagnation or
build chi in relation to a particular meridian. However, many colorpuncture
treatments do not fit within the Chinese medical framework. Rather, they reflect
Mandel's training as a naturopath in the German system and his interest in
biophysics and esoteric philosophies. For example, colorpuncture includes many
therapies for regulating the lymphatic system as well as treatments designed to
clear energetic interference patterns in specific parts of the brain and nervous
system.

Perhaps most interesting, colorpuncture emphasizes the interplay of body, mind

and spirit by addressing the deeper causes of illness. In addition to relieving bodily
symptoms, many treatments gently "unwind" and release any traumas, emotional
scars and negative beliefs that are held in the subtle energy body and contribute to
a constant state of imbalance and ill health. One example is therapy to clear
traumatic imprints from the prenatal period of life - imprints which Mandel
believes often set the patient up for health problems later in life. Another example,
conflict solution therapy, is designed to bring up and release the unprocessed
emotions of past conflicts, which Mandel believes are often imprinted in the lower
recesses of the brain and can, over time, severely weaken the immune system.

Esogetics: A New Paradigm of Healing

Mandel coined the term esogetics to describe his holistic paradigm for healing.
The term refers to the "merger of esoteric wisdom of life with the energetic
principles of life's processes." Mandel's concept of esogetic medicine is a synthesis
of ancient esoteric doctrines (e.g., the ancient hermetic doctrines) with the
thinking of modern energetic scientists and the bases of Chinese medicine.

A common theme in many esoteric doctrines is that each human being, as a soul,
comes to this life to manifest a unique potential or life path. In Mandel's esogetic
paradigm, illness and pain are seen as signals that the individual may be blocked
in their ability to manifest their potential or may have become distracted from
their life path. From this perspective, lasting healing results require not only the
elimination of symptoms, but that the patients be brought back in touch with who
they are and why they are here. This is why esogetic colorpuncture focuses
extensively on expanding consciousness, clearing traumatic imprints and
supporting the evolution of the individual. To quote Peter Mandel, "Esogetics is
intended to help remove existing blockages and disorders, so one can travel one's
life path freely and lightheartedly."

Esogetic Colorpuncture Is a Work in Progress

Peter Mandel continues to develop esogetic colorpuncture and other therapies

from the perspective of the healing paradigm of esogetics. Most recently, he has
developed tools to regulate brain waves as a way to support the body's healing
processes, and tiny crystals that adhere to acupoints after treatment to continue
harmonizing these points, as well as therapies using different shades of gray light
and ultraviolet light. As he has often said, Mandel's aim is to use all of the modern
technologies available to support the holistic healing and evolution of the
individual.

References

1. Popp FA. Biologie des Lichtes (Biology of Light). Berlin: Verlag Paul Parey, 1984. In German.
2. Mandel P. Practical Compendium of Colorpuncture, vol. 1. Bruchsal, West Germany: 1986, Energetic
Verlag.

Other Works

1. Bohm D. The implicate order and the super-implicate order. In: Weber R (ed.) Dialogues with Scientists
and Sages: The Search for Unity. London and New York: Routledge and Kegan, 1986.
2. Croke M, Dass R. A brief introduction to esogetic colorpuncture therapy - a system of wholistic aculight
therapy: theory and case studies. American Journal of Acupuncture 1996;24(2/3).
3. Mandel P. Esogetics: The Sense and Nonsense of Sickness and Pain. Energetik-Verlag GMBH,
Sulzback/Taunus, 1993.
4. Croke M, Dass R. A review of recent research studies on the efficacy of esogetic colorpuncture therapy - a
wholistic aculight system. American Journal of Acupuncture 1999;27(1/2).
 Colour and Light Healing ;

"And God said Let there be Light"

There have been thousands of years of human experience and experiments,

including all religions, practices and perceptions; they have all come to the same
fundamental truth that the human is created out of light. Indeed the word human
in its etymological form means the colour of the mind, hue = colour and man =
mind. Treatment with colour and light can take many forms dependent on the
system and the practitioner, including Yoga, Kabbalah as well as Energy healing.
Filling the system with light and dispelling darkness, illness and stagnant energy.
Although some colour frequencies are not detectable by the human eye, such as
infra-red and ultra- Violet, both vibrations are recognised for their healing
abilities by conventional western medicine. Pavllou uses her experience as a
Kundalini Yoga teacher and in Energetic Healing including Harmonyum and Reiki
as well as training in other forms of Colour and Light healing. Colour can be
applied to the skin via a light torch with the chosen correct frequencies of colour to
key points on the body that are linked to the Chinese meridian system; the
acupuncture points and the reflex zones. This system was developed in 1978 by the
scientist and healer Peter Mandel who has focused the ideas of previous pioneers
into a contemporary healing modality. Colour is a non invasive treatment that can
help a number of imbalances in the system with its frequency and vibration.
Unresolved emotional conflicts that have created physical blockages can be treated.
Even deep seated inherited patterns or old traumas can be encouraged to lift away
from the cellular level of body. Treatment is usually carried out with the patient
either lying or sitting while colour is beamed onto key points on the body. Dr. Fritz
Popp, said to be the father of Biophoton research has proved that the cells of all
living things radiate light which exerts an influence on the body¹s biochemical
processes. Cells, both animal and plant, possess the ability to communicate with
each other, something already recognised in advanced scientific knowledge. "Light
is the Language of the cells" demonstrated Dr. Popp, showing how cells
communicate almost in a similiar way to morse code with long and short pulses of
light. Hence if a balancing message is transmitted to the cells via light through the
skin it can be communicated to the other cells (indeed our whole world
communicates with light, transmitting voice, video and data through light
impulses in fibre optic cables). This has been recognised from the early
civilisations such as the Egyptians who had healing chambers of coloured light, the
Chinese who were able to correlate colour with the 5 elements and the vibration of
sound along with the Aztec, Romans and Indian cultures. The Sun was the bringer
of Life and Healing and a powerful Deity. Other modern pioneers include Rollier
with his work on Phototherapy and Finsen who won the nobel prize in 1903 as
well as other key scientists provided research and a body of work that is the basis
of medical light therapies today. The philosopher and writer Goethe called colour
³the children of the light² and his hypotheses influenced Rudolph Steiner who was
convinced that colour would play a major theraputic role in the coming age.
Colour is a vibration which contains pure information. The eye can discern around
169 colour variations which come from the 3 basic colours; red, yellow and
blue.Some of the effects on the biosystem have found to be: Red- increases blood
pressure, breathing frequency, energy, the colour of life, anger, rage and relates to
the heart and lungs Blue - colour of peace, antiseptic and decongesting effect. Blue
can reduce spasm. Yellow - relaxed happiness, colour of the intellect and glandular
and lymphatic systems.
 Light Is Life: Using Light & Color
to Heal the Body, Mind, and Spirit

The idea that our repressed or unlived emotions and our disconnection from our
deeper life purpose could actually affect our physical health may be new to some
people. Perhaps newer is the idea that colored light applied to the body can be a
powerful key to unlock the mysterious interactive connection between body mind
and spirit. We've often read in spiritual or religious writings about light as a
metaphor for the highest potential in human development (enlightenment] or a
symbolic destination in all our lives (toward the light). The possibility that light
and color can actually assist wholistically with our personal evolution, as well as
our physical healing, is motivating new developments in the field of light therapy.
In fact, light and color are being used in many of today's foremost mindbody
healing technologies.
The use of light and color for healing is not new. History records their use in many
ancient medical systems. Egyptians designed special healing temples which
captured and split the sun's rays into its component colors which were focused
into light-bathing rooms used by Egyptian physicians. Indian healers and
spiritualists identified specific energy centers in the body called chakras which
were thought to be stimulated by exposure to different colors. The ancient Chinese
Taoists believed that perfect health and spiritual enlightenment could both be
achieved when one mastered the art of internally circulating the "golden light".(1)

In the late 1800s and early 1900s there was renewed interest in using color and
light for healing purposes. In the healing systems developed at this time, light was
used primarily to relieve physical symptoms without as much consideration for its
emotional and spiritual impact. In 1920, an Indian immigrant to the U.S. named
Dinshah Ghadiali pioneered a system of healing in which precision color filters
were placed over a light source and used to irradiate specific areas of the body
according to set color prescriptions. Ghadiali proposed that the body is
surrounded by an electro-chemical emanation or aura which interacts with the
body's cells.(2) He believed that when the aura is strengthened with colored light
radiation, it actually transmitted this strength to the cells' Around the same time,
another pioneer, optometrist Harry Spitler, developed his color therapy system
using a visual screen device to focus different colors of light into the eye in order to
effect the brain and restore balance in the autonomic nervous system. Another
researcher. Dr. Edwin Babbit, used a method of focusing colored light on areas of
his patients' bodies and prescribed curative solar elixirs of water that had been
irradiated with sunlight (3).

Over the centuries, methods for applying light have included bathing the whole
body in sunlight or colored light, irradiating specific areas of the body with specific
colors in prescribed patterns, drinking elixirs infused with light, wearing colored
cloth or gems, and more. Today's most advanced light healing technologies also
include specialized equipment which projects colored light into the eyes or focuses
this light on acu-points on the skin.

How do color and light affect the human body?

One way that light and color enter the body is through the eyes. The different wave
length frequencies of light (or colors) entering the eye are immediately
transformed into electrical nerve impulses by the eye's light sensitive
photoreceptors. These impulses are then relayed along the optic nerve to various
parts of the brain where they have widespread influence on its functioning. For
example, light impulses travel to the hypothalamus, a small portion of the
midbrain which is involved in the regulation of our autonomic nervous system, as
well as our endocrine or hormonal system. The light sensitive hypothalamus
converts light signals into neurochemical substances which are then sent out to all
its areas of regulation. Via the hypothalamus, light appears to influence the body's
life sustaining functions, regulation of moods, the onset of puberty, sexual
functioning, aging, the immune system and more. Light generated nervous
impulses received by the brain's visual cortex also travel to the limbic system, a
primary emotional and learning center in the brain. Here we find one explanation
as to why light may activate the release of feelings, as it so often does when used to
heal the body.

Light also enters our bodies through the skin. According to Dr. Orm Bergold, M.D.
"the human photoreceptor molecules are not limited conveniently to the retina {of
the eye] but rather are ubiquitous, being found in virtually every tissue." Like the
eye, Beigold believes that the skin converts the light vibrations that touch into
electro-chemical impulses.(4) More recently, Russian researchers at the Institute
of Clinical and Experimental Medicine demonstrated that acupuncture points on
the skin are sensitive to light and that light vibrations are transmitted along the
acupuncture meridians. The flow of chi or energy through the meridian system of
the body can thus be influenced with light.

The research of a German biophysicist. Dr. Fritz Albert Popp comes closest to
proving that we are, as the spiritual teachers have always told us, light beings.
Popp has proven in a number of experiments that all the cells in our bodies are
always emitting low level light radiation which he called "biophoton emission."
Popp's experiments further suggest that this light emission is the way in which
cells communicate. Accordingly Popp has concluded that "light can initiate or
arrest cascade-like reactions in the cells, and that genetic cellular damage can be
virtually repaired within hours by faint beams of light. We are still on the
threshold of fully understanding the complex relationship between light and life,
but we can now say, emphatically that the function of our entire metabolism is
dependent on light." Popp's findings further prompted an associate. Peter Mandel,
a German naturopath, to theorize that "Light is life... Specifically, light is present
in the communication between the cells in the body and disease occurs when this
communication is broken, when the cells can no longer speak the same language.
Giving light has a resonance effect, bringing the cells into the same language again
and healing the body."
Lighting up the frontiers of the body-mind.

Today, most light practitioners are taking a more whole person approach to
healing and new light therapy technologies are addressing the relationship
between the body, emotions, and spirit. This has come about because many people
who undergo colored light treatments report that old memories and feelings gently
surface and release, or that their thought processes and dreams are enhanced even
as their bodies are healing.

"Light has a way of bringing up to the surface old, unresolved, unexpressed

emotional trauma, which I feel are the roots of the weed we call disease," says
optometrist, light therapist and author, Jacob Liberman. Using a device to shine
color into the eyes, Liberman intentionally evokes subconscious material as a way
to promote improved vision. Psychotherapist and light practitioner, Stephen
Vasquez, found that colored light acted as a catalyst to bring unconscious material
to the surface. In his therapy sessions treating psychological issues, he regularly
combines colored light (shone in the eyes) with more traditional psychotherapy to
enhance and quicken the healing process.

The renowned physicist. Dr. David Bohm speaks of an all-encompassing

background or field out of which all life and consciousness unfold, a field of light
vibrations. Bohm reminds us that we, like all material forms, are made up of light
and that "light is energy and it is also information - content, form and structure. It
is the potential for everything." In the light healing work of practitioners like Peter
Mandel, the spiritual or soul development potential of light is strongly emphasized.
Mandel believes that light and color can be used to support personal evolution or
unfolding and that colored light systematically applied to acu-points on the skin
can facilitate the exchange of information between the person's conscious,
unconscious and superconscious. "On the level of the material world," says
Mandel, "we humans, in our wholeness, are light beings. We must and always will
develop toward the absolute light, which we call God. In this process, we are
accompanied by light on the outside and, if we allow it, light on the inside."(8) For
each of us, the journey toward our healing and self-discovery will be unique.