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thousandth of the electric field. No compass would ever show such a small field. If th e body had an appreciable magnetic aura, compasses would not work properly and people would be forced to rely on the Sun and stars for navigation. The SQUID Within the last two decades, a very sensitive instrument has been developed which can detect the very small magnetic fields around the heart and brain, where busy neural activity also makes a tiny magnetic field. The instrument used to detect these fields is called a SQUID, an acronym for "superconducting quantum interference device". The measured magnetic fields from the head and heart are less than one-millionth of a gauss (a term used for magnetic field strength). While data from the SQUID are now providing information, to say that the body has a magnetic aura is like saying the body has a gravitational aura. We don't walk around attracting objects such as paper clips and rusty nails to our body by our magnetic field. However, just because people don't have any appreciable magnetic field does not mean that they are not affected by small magnetic fields. Figure 1 The frame has been made of common materials—wood, plastic, Animal Magnetism metal—and in a variety of shapes. It is suspended by a nylon There is another type of field around the body which is neither _ filament (e.g,, fishing line). When a person sits under a hanging electric nor magnetic and is very frame of any shape, the frame will much larger than either of them. It is rotate a few degrees. To measure the indirectly related to magnetism, and degree of rotation, a mirror is glued eople lacking a suitable term have A on the nylon filament. A wall- often chosen to use the term This force may be what mounted spotlight will produce a "magnetic" to describe it. Mesmer called "animal reflected spot on an adjacent wall In the 1500s, the alchemist 7 where a scale serves to provide Paracelsus believed that humans magnetism’. It shows up as accurate measurement of movement ue a os fore" which surrounds a spin or rotational force on of the spot. it lady's compact mirror. the body like a "luminous sphere". . . which slightly focuses the spot of Anton Mesmer, in the late 1700s, a frame which IS suspended light, works better than a flat mirror. also believed this and used the overa person's head. In the apparatus shown in figure 1, concept in his work. In the s, ring magnets are placed such that pt inh k. In the 1800: g mag placed such th: Baron Karl von Reichenbach called this luminous sphere "animal apex. magnetism". Figure 2 shows a different version Mesmer believed there is a fluid-like energy around the human of the device, which uses a hanging scale. their north poles point towards the body which is highly charged in healthy people and weak or Other versions of the device have included a spiral helix nearly absent in ill people. He recognised that this force is fashioned from quarter-inch copper tubing, three-sided pyramidal somehow related to magnetism, and he thought that magnets forms, large rings, and a pyramid hanging inside a bottle (figure 3). could conduct it. He called this force "animal magnetism" to differentiate it from ordinary iron magnetism. He found that he could produce "magnetic-like" effects in his patients by stroking the space around them with magnets or his hands. His formulation was similar to what Reich later called "orgone energy". Detecting the Biofield In 1978, when the author was investigating the possible existence of pyramid energy, he accidentally discovered a force around the body, which can be detected and measured with a simple device he developed, which he calls the Biofield Meter. This force may be what Mesmer called "animal magnetism". It shows up as a spin or rotational force on a frame which is suspended over a person's head. Figure 1 shows one form of the device used to detect and measure this force. Although a pyramid frame was initially used, the force has no connection with so-called pyramid energy, the This force may be what Mesmer called "animal magnetism’. It shows up as a spin or rotational force on a frame which is suspended over a person's head. Detecting the Biofield In 1978, when the author was investigating the possible existence of pyramid energy, he accidentally discovered a force around the body, which can be detected and measured with a simple device he developed, which he calls the Biofield Meter. This force may be what Mesmer called "animal magnetism". It shows up as a spin or rotational force on a frame which is suspended over a person's head. Figure 1 shows one form of the device used to detect and measure this force. Although a pyramid frame was initially used, the force has no connection with so-called pyramid energy, the supposed force occurring inside a pyramid shape. Figure 2 46 = NEXUS JUNE — JULY 2008 www.nexusmagazine.com