Gary is also taking part in research with Dr Harry Oldfield, which involves various tests including work on brain functions.

"When I worked with him, my brain produced multiple waves which is evidence of spirit," he [Gary] claimed...”

SCIENCE WEEKEND - SOUND HEALTH IN A NEW LIGHT
8th - 10th August 2008.

Sound and light are intrinsic to our make-up at all levels of our being, and mental, emotional and ultimately physical dis-ease is a result of our discordance or disharmony with Nature and our Divine Self. As humankind sees dissolution of the old scientific paradigm in favour of the reintegration of science and spirituality, healing techniques based upon sound and light as once practiced in Ancient Egypt are again coming to the fore. While today's pioneers are applying modern technology to researching and utilising these underlying Cosmic Principles, our innate ability to heal is also being increasingly recognised.

Once again we welcome Dr Harry Oldfield Dip. Ed. D.Hom. (Med). Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society and Member of the Queckett Society based at the Natural History Museum. He is author of "Harry Oldfield's Invisible Universe" and co-author of "The Dark Side of the Brain".

Harry has been an invaluable friend and enthusiastic supporter of Hourne Farm since its inception. He will be speaking on "Sound and Light Application to Healing" and on "Intimate Dimensional Reality".

Other speakers include Gary Mannion the 20 year old indigo child with amazing psychic and healing abilities. Gary will give demonstrations of psychic surgery.

http://elaine-thompson-soundtherapy.com/events_hournefarm.php

“Harry Oldfield, DHom (Med), qualified as a homoeopathic physician in 1982 and received an Honorary Doctorate (Citation of Honour) from the World Peace Centre in Pune, India, in 2000. He was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Medicine at Grenada University in 2001, is a Professor Honoris Causa in the Department of Alternative Medicine, Zoroastrian College, Mumbai, India, and is a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, Oxford. He is a regular speaker at international conferences....

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia imagingtechnologies.html

We are not at liberty to release any information, please provide me with more details why you are asking for information?

Bob Ryan
Associate Dean for Enrolment Planning
St. George's University
Grenada, West Indies

I have no recollection of any Dr Harry Oldfield during my tenure as Vice Chancellor (1998-2002). There is no Grenada University and it would seem strange that he would get the name wrong if he had actually taught there (at St. Goerge's). The department of medicine is entirely a clinical department and students do all of their clinical work at hospitals in either the US or the UK. The department of medicine conducts no instruction in Grenada itself. From the way you describe him I think it highly improbable that we would have considered him suitable to teach medical students.

“More than 100 articles have been published on Dr Harry Oldfield's research in the UK and overseas, including in publications such as the British Medical Journal, Medical News Weekly, the Times, Guardian, Daily Mail and New York Times and in all the major complementary medicine and healthcare magazines. His work has been featured in television programs in the UK and overseas, most recently in a 15-part television series on complementary medicine, shown worldwide on the Discovery Health channel in 2001.”

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_imagingtechnologies.htm

“Note that the quote says “ON his research”. I have searched the British Medical Journal’s online archive, which goes back to 1994, for the name Oldfield, both as author and within the text of articles. Twenty-seven occurrences of the name Oldfield were found, but none with the initial H. I cannot find a current publication called Medical News Weekly.”

http://evidencebasedonly.blogspot.com/2008/05/crystal-healing.html

Electrocrystal Therapy (EleCT) is a late 20th century extension of Crystal Therapy. It was developed by British biologist Harry Oldfield in the 1980s. Working outside his original field of expertise, he extended Kirlian photography into a computer imaging technique he calls Polycontrast Interference Photography (PIP). This creates images of the body's "energetic field".

Following PIP and Electrocrystal Scanning:

"A rebalancing session consists in placing various tubes of crystals on the subject's body, while he/she is comfortably seated and relaxed, for about one hour. After the first appointment, sessions are usually given once a week, and the scanning is repeated once a month or more frequently if necessary.

There is no standard length of time required to complete the rebalancing program; each person is unique and responds differently, depending on his/her history. However, immediate benefits are almost always felt. The degree of balance achieved largely depends on one's commitment towards a long-term energy realignment and maintenance."

Apparently the treatment involves an electromagnetic generator attached to conducting tubes filled with specific types of crystals. These tubes are applied to the body, and some sort of energy is transmitted through them. As with Crystal Therapy it is purported that various types of crystals have different effects on the body. Exactly who decided which crystals do what and how is a mystery. But Electrocrystal Therapy aims to achieve better health by rebalancing the energy fields.

There is absolutely no evidence that:

1. We have an aura or energy fields apart from the four fundamental and measurable forces of physics
2. If we do have energy fields that they can get out of balance
3. Crystals can rebalance these theoretical energy fields

As usual with this type of pseudo-science, the proponents unquestioningly accept the traditional physics, chemistry and medicine that suits them, and reject the bits that don't.

http://apothdrawer.blogspot.com/2005/01/pseudocolour-gives-you-pip.html

Polycontrast Interference Photography (PIP), a technique with a growing presence on the alternative health circuit. Devised by Harry Oldfield, inventor of various alternative diagnostic and therapeutic devices, PIP is described as an energy field imaging system that can show the body's aura, chakras, congestion and blockages in the meridians, and so on. But the technology can be explained far more tersely: it's a composite false colour image showing brightness levels in a photo of the subject taken against a strongly illuminated wall.

The postulated mechanism is that the body's 'biofield' - a unproven form of energy - interacts with light. Mr Oldfield's own explanation is just about recognisable as a description of PC-based false colour processing. You'd not guess this from the descriptions of vendors, who have adopted this as a claimed scientific demonstration of several forms of alternative diagnosis and therapies to "balance the energy field" (whether Mr Oldfield's own electro-crystal therapy or longer-standing systems such as reiki).

Typical shots show the difference between images before and after treatment.... But even some believers in such techniques point out that PIP is extremely sensitive to position and ambient light.
http://www.bion.si/DVB03/detection_biofield_ambient_light_ijs03.htm has a candid technical description of the process, with images showing how even a few millimetres of movement between photos can give colour differences of the type that PIP practitioners would ascribe to changes in energy field. Such distances are well within the scope of breathing, minor differences in stance, how much you suck your belly in for the photo, etc.

None of the sites promoting PIP offer peer-reviewed studies, show any consideration of the possibility of such artifacts, or show evidence of consistency of multiple scans taken with the client (after stepping briefly away and back to the apparatus) in the same condition. Whatever is different in the 'after' scan is invariably interpreted as an improvement.

The simplest hypothesis: PIP is wishful interpretation of the brightness levels in a picture due to ordinary optics. I think its appeal, like that of the Kirlian photography that preceded it, lies in its gloss of objective science and its ability to produce an attractive image that matches believers' expectations of what an aura or energy field might look like.

I encourage the reader to examine Lovelidge's article. In the first few sentences, we discover that Lovelidge believes that thousands of years ago in India there were special people ("sensitives") who discovered energy fields known as chakras and that a modern homeopath in England (Harry Oldfield) can measure these energies with his invention called Polycontrast Interface Photography (PIP). Mr. Oldfield is also the inventor of electrocrystal therapy, which allegedly diagnoses and heals diseases by stimulating crystals with high frequency electro-magnetic waves. His theory seems to be based on some sort of sympathetic magic, e.g., low frequencies are calming and high frequencies are stimulating. He thinks cancer is a low energy state and should be treated with high frequencies, while pain is a high energy state and should be treated with low frequencies. He claims he has proof that this electrocrystal therapy works, but his evidence seems to consist of testimonials...

http://skepdic.com/comments/ttcom.html

Oldfield was also an early believer in the diagnostic utility of Kirlian photography, but has now moved on to the invention which Lovelidge thinks is proof that chi or spirits can be measured and that energy medicine is truly scientific. PIP uses a digital video camera and a computer to generate colorful images of people, plants, doorknobs, whatever. People like Oldfield and Lovelidge think these images reveal chakras, diseases, healing, etc. Look at the images from Oldfield or from another Oldfield follower Mark Lester or at Lovelidge's own images and you will see that they bear an uncanny resemblance to thermographic images. The images do reveal different energies, but they are electromagnetic, not chakras.

Tim Boettcher looked at Lester's images and wrote:

I examined the photographs of Chakras ... and I noticed that the walls of the room and the chair seem to have their own energy fields, very similar to those of humans. This raises some questions:

o Does that mean that these inanimate objects are alive?
o Was the red congestion of the patient in picture one transferred to the back of the chair in picture three?
o Does the chair feel congested?
o Should we form a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chairs?
o How come the Chakras disappear right at his underwear line?
o Would "The Congested Chairs" be a good name for a rock band?

If I didn't know better I'd think they were measuring minute differences in temperature.

Apparently, Tim does not take this stuff as seriously as Mr. Lester, who, in addition to PIP, also practices "Electro-crystal therapy, Rife treatment, Bowen technique, Nutrition [??], Remedial Massage and Oxygen/Ozone Therapy."* He is quite the multi-tasker. He, like many other "alternative" scientists, is quite fond of quoting Schopenhauer: "All truth passes through 3 stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." He's forgotten the fourth stage, however. "Fourth, while the rest of the world recognizes that it wasn't truth at all, pseudoscientists open a clinic or write a book based upon it."

I recently visited the Exploratorium in San Francisco and went through an exhibition called Revealing Bodies. There were several exhibits demonstrating the application of technology to understanding health and disease, but no mention was made of Mr. Oldfield's invention. There was, however, one exhibit which seems to be very similar to PIP. A video camera films visitors and projects large images on a screen. The images look very similar to those Oldfield and Lovelidge think are images of chakras. I suppose I was misled by the stupid scientists who put together the exhibition. They think the images depict different light and heat frequencies, not chakras! What a bunch of dummies!

According to Lovelidge, in PIP photos

...chakras are visible in various detail depending on the subject’s mental and physical condition. Also visible are the meridians used by acupuncturists.

Lovelidge seems to have an unquenchable gusto for gullibility. He seems to believe everything Oldfield claims, though Oldfield has published nothing of note in any reputable journal and is only taken seriously by people ignorant of the known laws of physics and the dynamics of various types of photography and imaging. His greatest gullibility is revealed, however, in accepting at face value Oldfield's claim that he has photographed "discarnate energy forms", i.e., ghosts, in graveyards and elsewhere.

http://skepdic.com/comments/ttcom.html

“We are now looking to take this test further into a Faraday cage, which blocks all outside electromagnetic fields. If we can get the same results in there it should convince nearly all scientists.”