Preface to F. Sanches book

We are entering new Century, new Millenium. This is not change of calendar dates only, but a step to a new stage of Humankind Development. Our world is in the process of global transformation, we can see impact of this process on our everyday life. Crash of Communist System - bloodless, instant and totally unpredictable neither for CIA nor for Gorbachev; ban of genetically modified food in Europe - victory of natural ways of living over disastrous artificial constructions based on mechanistic understanding of Nature Laws; trend of social focus to natural ways of nutrition, healing, healthy life-style; slow, but steady trend from chemical drugs to alternative methods of correction - all these and a lot of other examples demonstrate shift from materialistic approach to life to more complex, more holistic and spiritual, combining Body and Soul, Matter and Consciousness. We are coming to a new Great Revolution - not in social life, we are fed with social revolutions in XXth Century - but to Revolution in our attitude to life, to health, to ourselves. New generation of people is coming - generation of yang people with the same bodies as in Ancient Greece or in medieval Europe, but with modified brains. We can see this trend to modification in children of 2-3 years old. They are slightly different from us, and as was demonstrated by study of their brain activity, they have statistical trend to more coordinated operation of both hemispheres with partial domination of the right lobe parts.
And of course, we are coming to a New Paradigm in Science. Every Century, every Millenium formulated its own vision of Reality - model, describing our world and its functioning. This set of ideas and laws is known as Paradigm . In particular, scientific paradigm - is a set of widely accepted views and experimental data, describing Reality. In a broadest sense, a paradigm can be defined as a constellation of beliefs, values, and techniques shared by the members of a given scientific community. Some paradigms are of basic philosophical nature and are very general and encompassing, others govern scientific thinking in rather specific and circumscribed areas of research . Looking back to the last five Centuries, we can see the shift of scientific paradigms practically simultaneously with beginning of a new century.
During the last three centuries, Western science has been dominated by the Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm, a system of thought based on the work of the genius British scientist Isaac Newton and the French philosopher Rene Descartes. Using this model, physics has made astonishing progress, gaining great reputation among all other disciplines. Newton's mechanistic universe is a universe of solid matter, rested in an absolute empty space. The distinction between matter and empty space is clear and unambiguous. Time is absolute, autonomous, and independent of the material world; it shows a uniform and unchangeable flow from the past through the present to the future. The laws of mechanics and initial conditions totally describe behavior and life pass of any object - would it be atom, particle or planet. The resulting image of the universe is of gigantic and entirely deterministic clockwork.
Another impact on Western way of thinking comes from ideas of Rene Descartes, who formulated concept of the absolute dualism between mind (res cogitans) and matter (res extensa), resulting in a belief that the material world can be described objectively, without reference to the human being. It was clear boundary line between Physical World with its objective Laws and human beings with their psychology, personal and social behavior. Humans were claimed to be independent observers, living in the universe with their physical bodies and participating in its functioning as some mechanical subjects.
In XX-th century physical paradigm changed dramatically. Works of world genius Albert Einstein and later development of quantum paradigm not only created the new vision of reality, but proved their adequacy in tremendous success of technology revolution, from which results we benefit in our everyday life . Another great shift came with the works of Nobel Price winner Ilya Prigogine and other thinkers, who created the vision of our world as combination of changeable communicating systems, open to exchange of energy and information with each other and with the unlimited universe. It was demonstrated, that the model of independent objects, interacting only due to the gravity and collisions, is the first stage of understanding, glance from far away, and the nearer we are approaching the object, the more subtle details of its complicated behavior we can see, and the more difficult describing these details in scientific terms.
The most difficult of all is the understanding of a Human functioning and a Human Consciousness. XX-th century was a century of Revolution in Physics, XXI-st century will be the century of Revolution in consciousness study, study combining ideas of physics, biology and spirituality.
For both founders of the "Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm" - Newton and Descartes - the concept of God was an essential element in their philosophies and world views. Newton was a deeply spiritual person who had great interest in astrology, occultism, and alchemy. He was "the last of the great magicians, rather than the first great scientist" . Newton believed that the universe was material in its nature, but he did not think its origin could be explained from material causes. In Western paradigm a direct logical extension of the Newtonian-Cartesian model has been kept and developed, but the image of divine intelligence that was in the core of the speculations of these two great men disappeared from the picture. Very pity, but to the biggest extend it concerns modern biology and biophysics.
For physicist ideas of probability character of any developing process, of the process existence in a wave and particle form simultaneously, of non-locality and of bifurcation - jump-like - development, are quite common and understandable. In biology all these new ideas only recently were the realm of some advanced thinkers, some outsiders2,3 . But now in biological science we are facing the process of emerging interest to the new ideas, to a new vision of reality - to a new paradigm. And first of all it concerns science of humans.
Coming Century in science will be the era of scientific comprehension of the deep inner laws of human life and its transformations. In the XX-th century people came to understanding that material wealth, high money income is desirable, but not the only condition for happy life - "wealthy people are crying as well". There are so many other big and little issues: love, death, health, family, marriage, children, and taxes … It is very good to be healthy and wealthy, but this is not the only condition of being happy. And the new science will come to study of inner terms of art and biology of happy life.
Very important step in this direction was made in XX-th century by developing technique of scientific studying Human Aura. By the word Aura we mean complex of physical fields and informational relations, associated with physical body of a human. This is a multilayer shield, that exists around the body, accepts matter and information from environment and reflects all processes of physical, psychological, mental and spiritual levels of particular person.
It was always people gifted with ability to comprehend Auras (we can't name this ability seeing - they accepted information by all their organism). They were and are able to make diagnosis of a physical body, understand psychological situations and problems, and even forecast the future. But these people are quite rare. Some spiritual schools advertise lessons in "Reading Auras". They claim that it is possible to learn seeing auras after some training. That is true, but to some extend only. Sometimes, following example of my friend, Australian professor Dr. Tom Chalko, I offer this type of training at my workshops. From my experience, most people can see auras with their eyes after some training, but without special everyday exercise this weak ability will be lost soon. Even more than that: as products of our own time, we rely more on technical devices, than on our own feelings. Most people of the modern western society can't imagine their practical activity without technical devices, such as computer, fax, diagnostic tools in medicine. This is an important part of our technological civilization. And every new device creates new vision of reality.
Now a new device came to being- BEO GDV Camera - instrument for reading Auras. (BEO GDV means: Biological Emission and Optical Radiation Stimulated by Electromagnetic Field Amplified by Gaseous Discharge with Visualisation by Computer Processing.)
This is a first instrument in the world, that combines precise scientific processing and spiritual approach, modern technology and freedom in interpretation, being based on ideas of Eastern Philosophy and Western technology . Gas Discharge Visualisation (GDV) Technique is based on Kirlian effect - physical phenomenon, first discovered by German physicist Lichtenberg in 1777, then intensively studied in XIX century by German and Russian scientists, and accepted by modern world through the work of Russian researchers family Kirlian. It was demonstrated big potential of this approach in medicine , , biology and technique. Due to the modern technology and computer processing this approach became practical and easy for use.
We have met with Fernando Sanches last year, when he came to Saint-Petersburg for participation in the International Congress "Science, Information, Spirit 99". After some days of communication all our team was impressed by his deep knowledge, understanding of both western psychology and eastern holistic approach. In a short time he became a specialist in using GDV Camera and interpretation of results. (By now development of GDV Study, creating of the new results, devices and programs comes much faster than written explanations of existing techniques). One of the advantages of Fernando - his ability to explain comprehensive ideas in simple words. This book is a brilliant example of combination of philosophy, theory and practice.
GDV Technique has deep scientific foundations , . It allows to see in real time individual instant reactions to medical treatment , exercise , stress , and - very important - to psychological attitudes and thoughts. You can see how aura of a person reflects the state of consciousness. This feature opens gates to wide application of the GDV Technique in different areas, in particular in psychology. (Fernando Sanches offers his own approach to interpretation of the GDV data.) New technique, based on GDV, has been developed in sport medicine, allowing select perspective yang people and prepare top-level athletes for the competitions. In medicine, both school and alternative, GDV Technique helps not only in express-diagnosis of all systems and organs, but creates some prognosis conclusions. Comparing with other techniques such as Foll, AMSAT, etc., GDV has some advantages as follows:
· Does not depend on practitioners skill;
· Creates holistic information on all body systems and organs in their interconnection;
· Allows to get information on the physical and psychological state;
· Reflects real-time state of a person and individual reaction to environmental influences;
· Presents information in visual attractive form (soon a new interactive program with detailed diagnosis will be available);
· Safe, sterile, hygienic, needs only fingers for measurement.
· Save and process information in easy way.
At this stage of scientific development these features contribute to the common trend in biophysics from the comprehension of biological objects as solid stable structures to the perception of their dynamic spatial field essence. That is why we see our task not as a development of one more diagnostic instrument, but as a step to a new understanding of Reality. A lot of scientific institutions, conventional and alternative medical practitioners from Australia, England, Finland, Germany, India, Russia, USA benefit from using this technique now. There are GDV Technologies branches in London, Madrid, Munich and Chicago. In three years more than 200 instruments are sold to different countries. We are sure, that the book of Fernando Sanches will create a new step in acceptance and popularity of the new holistic instrumental approach: BEO GDV Technique

Konstantin Korotkov, Ph.D., Prof.
Saint-Petersburg Federal Technical University "SPIFMO"
Vice - president of the International Unit for Medical and Applied Bio-Electrography
President of the "Kirlionics Technologies International"

Saint-Petersburg, February 2000