In the late 1980s, using microchip technology, Harry Oldfield developed a scanner which could provide a real time, moving image of the energy field. He believed that the future of analysis lay in finding an effective scanner which can ‘see’ imbalances in the energy field rather than disease in the physical body. This system became known as Polycontrast Interference Photography or PIP. Harry thought that the human energy field might possibly interfere with photons – ‘energy packets’ of light – or even what might be called ‘subtle energy photons’ in some way. He decided that ambient (surrounding) light would be interfered with by the field both when the incident ray travelled towards the object and when the reflected ray bounced off the object. In the main, the ‘object’ of his interest was human beings. He devised a computer programme which would analyse the different light intensities being reflected from the person or object being scanned. This system is at the same time deceptively simple and enormously accurate in the hands of people who know both how to operate it and what they are looking at. Harry says: “We believe that we are showing up an energy interaction with light, which is giving us an insight into the energy counter-part, the etheric template on which our physical molecules are strung. On average, every atom in the human body is replaced every seven to nine years. Think of your body not as a physical structure but as a moving fountain of molecules that are constantly being replaced. So what keeps them a coherent recognisable form?We believe it to be an organising template of energy. To see the body’s energy field with PIP, ideally the person is in a room with full spectrum lighting at a controlled output, standing against a white backdrop. The picture is taken with a digital video camera which acts like an artificial eye. A lead from the camera acts like an optic nerve connecting it to a computer which acts like an artificial brain. The program which runs the system is the artificial thinking process which makes sense of all the millions of bits of information. The computer screen then displays the end project of what the ‘brain’ has seen. In effect what we have achieved here is a system which can see the energy field from and around the body in much the same way as people with gifts of vision can. Of course technology cannot match the details and intricacies of these people with gifts, but future developments in the PIP system might bridge some of the gaps. The PIP system shows up many patterns and colours which a trained eye can relate to a person’s energy balance and well being and although some of these things might be connected to health we emphasise that the system does not take the place of medical examination or diagnosis.”...read more...