Inside the interior of a football-sized laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley, Graham Fleming and his colleagues in the biology department have set up the scientific equivalent of a pinball machine.

Numerous precision lasers, which pulse out light at millions of a billionth of a second, are placed in various strategic points, trained onto an obstacle course of mirrors and glass lenses, themselves aimed at a tiny solitary black box.

Once the lasers are switched on, the light generated by these ultra-fast light beams will careen off each mirror and lens before shooting inside and alighting on the box’s contents: a tiny sampling of a green sulfur bacteria.

The light from the lasers is supposed to mimic the sun, for this type of bacteria, for all intents and purposes, is a plant, with the same extraordinary photosynthetic ability to convert sunlight into energy inside its cells.

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This is a story about a largely unsung hero who changed the face of medicine from a tiny village in the English East Midlands.

For us, the story began in 1995 when Bryan’s 78-year-old mother Edie was diagnosed with end-stage breast cancer. Privately her doctor told us, “If I were you, I’d get her affairs in order.” When he’d examined her, he’d been shocked: her breast, he told me, looked like raw meat.

In fact, so advanced was the cancer, he said, that it was too late to try chemotherapy or any other intervention. She had three months to live, at the very outside, we were told.

Because of our work, we’d heard of Dr Patrick Kingsley, a medical pioneer in Leicestershire. We didn’t know how successful he’d be with a case of terminal cancer, but we were encouraged to hear that he had a local cancer group consisting of many others who apparently were beating the odds.

A simple way to beat cancer

His regime for her was simple: a modified healthy diet, removing all foods she was allergic to, a vitamin supplement program tailored to the purse and tastes of someone reared on standard British fare, plus high doses of vitamin C and other nutrients delivered intravenously several times a week.

And that was it.

Several months later, Edie’s GP, who’d delivered the original death sentence came to examine her. He was rendered utterly speechless. The cancer which had

ravaged her breast, which he was so sure was beyond hope or treatment, had completely disappeared.

A variation of this story has been played out thousands of times with Patrick Kingsley’s patients, virtually all of whom were so-called no-hopers, whose visits to him represented their last-ditch efforts to find a cure. He saw at least 9,000 patients with multiple sclerosis and thousands more with cancer who’d largely been abandoned by conventional medicine. Yet, like Edie, the vast majority of these patients lived on for many more years.

A country doctor works miracles

After qualifying in obstetrics, Patrick carried out fieldwork and pharmaceutical research, then general practice, before setting up his own practice in nutritional and environmental medicine in 1981 in the sleepy village of Osgathorpe, near Leicester.

During all those 25 years of practice, Patrick claimed to have never needed to prescribe a single drug. The taxi drivers ferrying his international patients back and forth from Leicester station to his unassuming surgery referred to him as ‘the miracle worker.’

Patrick looked upon his job as detective work, uncovering the cause of the patient’s condition. Overwhelmingly, that cause had to do with something they were or were not eating, although sometimes it had an emotional or spiritual cause, which he also saw as his job to heal.

Some years ago, Patrick retired. He wrote books and set up a website, hoping to spread his message to the wider medical community. He contacted medical schools and even the General Medical Council, requesting that they take a look at his results.

But no one in the mainstream community was the slightest bit interested in his extraordinary batting average with cancer or MS patients considered to be hopeless cases. No matter how hard-pressed the British National Health Service, or how poor the prognosis for most cancer patients given the standard ‘cut–burn–poison’ treatment, the door of the Medical Establishment remained firmly shut.

Death of an unknown soldier

Patrick never did get them to listen to him, and he died in August of this year, still largely unsung to those outside his patient community. This is nothing short of a double tragedy—the loss of a medical genius and the indifference of the

Medical Establishment, which could learn so much from non-conventional doctors like Patrick Kingsley.

Perhaps the greatest lesson has to do with Patrick’s steadfast refusal to characterize the likely path of illness—to make a judgment call about how long the illness would linger or how long patients like Edie could expect to live.

I was in the room during his first meeting with Edie, and he didn’t flinch when he saw her breast. “I think we can handle that,” he said with offhand confidence. That attitude and the hope it inspired is the medicine that saved Edie’s life and the lives of his thousands of patients.

Hope, in fact, is the most important medicine there is.

Very few doctors have the humility to recognize that no scientist, no matter how learnèd, can predict how any given patient will respond to the challenge of illness and healing, and say with certainty who will live and who will die.

As Patrick Kingsley well understood, when it comes to healing, hope is never audacious.

No case——not Edie’s, not anyone’s—is ever hopeless.

This blog is NOT about who should become the next President of the United States. It’s a tale of two campaigns, about the way in which we Americans have elected to choose our leaders, compared to the way in which Great Britain chooses theirs.

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Even better vibrations

For all aspects of life, molecules have to speak to each other. If you’re excited, your adrenals pump out more adrenaline, which tells specific receptors to get your heart beating faster.

The standard theory about how this happens is that two molecules that match each other structurally exchange specific (chemical) information, which happens when they bump into each other, a bit like a key finding its own keyhole.

But if these occurrences are due to chance, then there’s very little statistical hope of their taking place, considering the universe of the cell.

Tennis balls in swimming pools

In the average cell, which contains one molecule of protein for every 10 thousand molecules of water, those molecules jostle around the cell like a handful of tennis balls floating about in a swimming pool. The theory can’t begin to account for the speed of the biological processes that create anger, joy, sadness or fear.

It was the Russian scientist Alexander Gurwitsch who first discovered what he called ‘mitogenetic radiation’ in onion roots in the 1920s. Gurwitsch postulated that an energy field, rather than chemicals alone, was probably responsible for cell communication, particularly about the structural formation of the body.

Although Gurwitsch’s work was largely theoretical, later researchers were able to show that a weak radiation from tissues does indeed stimulate cell growth in neighboring tissues of the same organism.

Other early studies of this phenomenon—now repeated by many scientists—were carried out in the 1940s by neuroanatomist Harold S. Burr at Yale University, who discovered electrical fields around all sorts of organisms—from molds to salamanders and frogs and humans. Changes in these electrical charges appeared to correlate with growth, sleep, regeneration, light, water, storms, even the development of cancer.

Current of injury

Orthopedist Robert O. Becker carried on this work with experiments published in the medical literature demonstrating a ‘current of injury’—where animals like salamanders with amputated limbs develop a change in electrical charge at the site of the stump, the voltage of which climbs until a new limb appears.

Many biologists and physicists since those days have advanced the idea that radiation and oscillating waves are responsible for sending chromosomal instructions around the body.

Perhaps the best known of them, Herbert Fröhlich, of the University of Liverpool and recipient of the prestigious Max Planck Medal, was one of the first to introduce the idea that some sort of collective vibration was responsible for getting proteins to cooperate with each other and carry out the instructions of DNA and cellular proteins.

Fröhlich even predicted that certain frequencies could be generated just beneath cell membranes by vibrations in these proteins.

Wave communication was supposedly the means by which the smaller activities of proteins—the work of amino acids, for instance—could be carried out, as it was a good way to synchronize activities between proteins and the system as a whole.

Sadly, most of this research has largely been ignored. Any notions of the use of radiation in cell communication were utterly swept aside in the middle of the 20th century by the discovery of hormones and the birth of biochemistry, which proposed that everything could be explained by those ‘chemical messengers’ and their reactions.

Only a few heretics had the temerity to challenge the prevailing view.

More than three decades ago, the late French biologist Jacques Benveniste discovered that each molecule has its own signature frequency, and that its receptor or molecule with the matching spectrum of features tunes into this frequency, much as your radio tunes into a specific station, even over vast distances, or one tuning fork causes another tuning fork to oscillate at the same frequency.

This, rather than accidental collisions, would better explain how to initiate a virtually instantaneous chain reaction in biochemistry.

The latest energy medicine

Some of the promising therapies available today fall under the umbrella term of ‘energy medicine’, and one of the most promising of all is SCENAR, a handheld device invented by the Russians during the space race to offer cosmonauts a way to tackle illness while in orbit.

Subsequently, the device began to get noticed for more earthbound applications and, while originally used to relieve pain, it’s now being applied for everything from gut problems to depression. In fact, it’s the device most responsible for healing the recent tendonitis in my knee.

The success of SCENAR, which is now being documented in medical studies, attests to one basic fact, which medicine is finally waking up to. At our essence, we are an energetic charge, and the path to healing may be a matter, most fundamentally, of getting us back on the right wavelength.