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FEBRUARY -MARCH 1995 On 5th February 1994 at the Sydney World Trade Fair, advanced instrumentation for the eady identification of disease, including cancer and AIDS, was-ihtro duced to the public by Sydney-based !aubert Teclmorogies Pty Ltd. The Dielectric Diagnostic Analyser (DDA), developed by eminent biophysicist, Dr Sergei Barsamian, director of S&S Biophysics !Laboratory, is the only one of ,its kind' in the world employing sensitive computerised techniques to reveal electromagnetic (EM) disturbances in the cytoplasm (the protoplasm outside the nucleus) of liv1ing cells. Information obtained from electrode sensors is fed to a device that automatically moni tors the energetic condition of the cell which is then presented for assessment on a, com puter readout. The tenn 'dielectric' refers to a non-conductor of electrical currents. Cells, being dielec tric in nature, are ltherefore non-conductors of currents but are controlled by EM fields. As information-carrying EM fields direct and organise all molecular or chemical activities in the biophysical system, the DDA is thus able to determine the very beginning of the development of a disease even before its' c1ini:cal or physical appearance, which should be seen as a secondary effect. THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FiElD AS PRIMARY In order to gain a clear picture of the pFiRciples underpinning the DDA's me~hod, it is best to look first at some earlier aj. well as current concepts and findings relating Ito EM energy fields and their role in the process of morphogenesis, or the evolutionary develop ment of an organism. A field is to be understood as a region of space characterised by a physical property. The idea of 'fields of influence' laid down by Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950), a founder and one-time prime minister of the Union of South Africa, in his book, Holism arul Evolution (1926), proVides one of the earliest insights into energy fields and holism to arise mthis century. He writes: "Every 'thing' has its field. Every concept has likewise its field. It is in these fields only that things really happen. It is the intermingling offields which is creative or causal in nature. The hard, secluded concrete thing or concept is barren, and but for its field it could never come into real contact or into active or creative relations wi'th any other thing or concept. Things, ideas, animals, plants, persons; all these, like physical forces, have their fields, arul but for their fields they would be unintelligible, their activities impossible, their relations barren and sterile. In isolating things and ideas apan from their fields, arul treating the latter as non-existent, has made the world of matter and life inexplicable. "The organism and its field is one continuous structure, and in this continuum is con tained all of the past which has been conserved arul still operates to influence the presen't and the future of the organism; in it is contained all that the organism is and does in the present; and finally, in it is contained all that the organism vaguely points to in its own future development arul that of its offspring. The whole is there carrying all its time with it. " An almost identical concept in relation to 'morphic' fields is being projected today by British biochemist, Rupert Sheldrake. That any living entity, e.g., a cell, exhibits an EM field was experimentally discovered over 40 years ago by the Russian scientist Deveyatkov. A further body of scientific evi dence, showing that electrodynamic fields organise and control physical structure, came NEXUS • 47