THE BASIC CODE OF THE UNIVERSE

We are often encouraged to think of the world in terms of vibration, and this seminal book explains how this is true in terms of physics, biology and communication. It reports ground-breaking research validating the work of the late Jacques Benveniste and providing a coherent theoretical explanation for homoeopathy while shedding light on animal and plant intelligence, the power of thought and intention, emotional fields and the special properties of water. It links the work of Ervin Laszlo's Akashic Field, Rupert Sheldrake's morphic fields, the vibrational medicine of Richard Gerber and the research by Masaru Emoto on water.

The starting point is pure matter, an idea that goes back to the Greeks - Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle and Heraclitus - with their distinction between being and becoming, unmanifest and manifest, invisible and visible. Pure matter is a continuum, while mass is the rhythmical manifestation of this matter in particular forms with their own signature or vibration. This is what we perceive with the senses, which construct and represent our apprehension of waveforms. This pure matter is also an information field, a continuum linking everything and enabling nonlocal communication. The field or vibration is primary, and informs matter; as Aristotle put it, the soul is the form of the body. The basic code of the title 'is a set of essential data that define the field of substance, then the form.' It regulates homoeostasis in the body and gives matter a rhythm, 'making the space around it vibrate' and sending out a corresponding vibration that can communicate with other cellular organisms. The function of the code is to form the shape, organise, regulate and control the system, and communicate by exchanging information between fields.

Since the 1990s, the memory of water has become a popular hypothesis, although not among molecular biologists or critics of homoeopathy who dismiss experimental results on the basis that there is no adequate explanatory model. This is no longer true. The work of Del Giudice and Preparata proposes that the molecular rhythms of the solute are impressed on the water, after which they begin to fluctuate in phase in accordance with the coherence of water's fundamental state, which then enables it to convey information. The Nobel prize winner Luc Montagnier demonstrated in a 2009 paper that water in homoeopathic dilutions not only keeps the memory of the solute, but also limits specific low-frequency electromagnetic signals that are both recordable and reproducible. His experiments show that homoeopathic dilutions emit frequencies that do not exist either in the initial undiluted solutions or in low dilutions. This is an extraordinary finding that reinforces the work of earlier scientists such as Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Harold Saxton Burr and Fritz Albert Popp. This kind of explanation gives priority to formative fields rather than molecular substance.

Citro then describe some of his own experiments on Transfer Pharmacological Frequency (TFF) based on information transmitted on electromagnetic waves propagating variations in the field. It is fascinating to discover that medicines can be transmitted either through molecules or through the signals they send to the cells 'since the chemistry and physics are the molecular signals follow parallel paths.' The result is informational rather than biochemical medicine; and because the organising system of the cell is able to discriminate among the range of frequencies, it seems to resonate only with useful ones, hence the lack of an unpleasant side-effects found in the molecular equivalent of this informational medicine. TFF is likened to recording the singing of molecules onto the magnetic recording tape of water.

Citro describes the work of Per Luigi Ighina, who was a young man worked with Marconi and discovered what he called magnetic atoms. He found experimentally that by varying the vibration of one kind matter it could be transformed into another. In one experiment he discovered the vibrations of the atoms of an apple tree and of a peach tree, then he exposed a peach tree to the vibrations of an apple tree for 16 days, gradually observing the peach tree transformed into an apple. In another experiment with a rabbit, he found that healthy bone had a different vibration to the part affected by osteomyelitis. By exposing the infected area to the healthy vibration, he was able to heal the bone, and the vibration of that part went back to normal. This has astonishing implications for healing, some of which were explored by Georges Lakhovsky in the 1930s. The implication is that a transfer of code leads to the transformation of matter through field interaction. These codes set the rhythms by which things are differentiated.

This model also has profound implications for communication. Work on psychometry shows that it is not only water that can retain information, but also places and objects through what is called a transgressing interaction. A sensitive person is then able to read information out of these objects through field interaction, translating the impressions into mental images. Research has shown that thoughts and emotions also have signatures and field effects, for instance on plants and animals; again, much of this research has been dismissed owing to a lack of a coherent theoretical framework that Citro provides here. It looks like the experimenter effect in parapsychology is another instance of unacknowledged field interaction. The same applies to placebos and the power of belief to alter physical conditions, including the appearance of stigmata. Telepathic communication is mediated through the nonlocal continuum of pure matter (parallel to what David Bohm called the intricate order) and strong morphic fields that operate on affinity rather than distance. This framework can also account for radionics.

Many readers will be familiar with research in some of these areas, but the brilliant aspect of this book is that its theory of pure matter provides an underlying link and matrix for understanding subtle aspects of reality and consciousness that are currently dismissed or ignored by scientific models based on molecular action to the exclusion of field interaction. This provides a new slant on the history of science and the way forward to a more comprehensive understanding based on the fundamental role of a universal information field.