From the very debut of my paranormal odyssey, I have set out to find and use scientific research to prove the inimitable link between light and life. Why? Because if life is to truly continue after the death of the flesh and blood body, then it must be connected to energy—electromagnetic energy, of which the wavelengths of both visible and invisible light are an integral part. The fact that people who see ghosts, or have taken photos of ghosts as I do, are seeing/photographing a hologram of light, often just white light, just adds to this postulation that light and life are inexorably linked. So if we have, as physicist Janus Slawinski theorizes, an electromagnetic consciousness, then it would be an intelligent energy—and energy cannot be destroyed—it can only change form. So if all of our thoughts, memories, personality—yes our consciousness—are tied to energy, then we cannot die, but live on in a different kind of paradigm. So I was absolutely fascinated to find research that establishes that link as a scientific fact:

So if ghosts give off photons of light, enabling them to appear as semi-transparent apparitions of their former human bodies, do human beings give off photons of light? The answer is an unmitigated Yes! Kobayashi, Kikuchi, and Okamura (July 16, 2009)¹  were able to successfully photograph the light given off by the human body—although our eyes are not sensitive enough to see it. Ponder that for a minute; scientists were able to successfully prove that the human body emits light, and even though we can’t see it, the camera can! Now is it that much of a stretch to believe that the camera can capture something else that the naked eye cannot see—ghosts! Our electromagnetic consciousness, or ghost, or soul, or spirit emits light at such low levels—most of the time—that the naked eye cannot see it, but the camera can.

But even more astounding connections have been found between living organisms and light, and I just want to highlight some of the discoveries collected by writer Dan Eden in his article Is DNA the next Internet? ² For example, Russian scientist, Pjotr Garjajev used a laser beam to intercept the transmission of ultraviolet photons from DNA molecules. He then transferred this light message from one organism (a frog embryo) to another organism’s DNA (a salamander embryo), with the end result that the salamander embryo developed into a frog! Can you imagine the implications of being able to change the whole development of an organism with just a coded message of light—especially if scientists start to experiment with human embryos? This same scientist suggested ultraviolet light communication may not only occur within every organism, but may occur between organisms—communication that is invisible to the human eye that may explain telepathy and ESP.

In another little known but stunning discovery, Dr. Fritz-Albert Popp, a theoretical biophysicist at the University of Marburg in Germany, discovered that the human body uses photons of ultraviolet light to switch on the body’s processes At different frequencies, they perform different functions. He may have inadvertently discovered a cure for cancer all the way back in 1970: he found that compounds (or chemicals) that entered the human body that cause cancer have the ability to absorb the cell’s ultraviolet photon signals and scramble them. The rogue chemical sends out a different frequency of light, causing cells to mutate. All the way back in 1970 we had a way to determine if a chemical causes cancer, and it had to do with coded messages of light! He even discovered an extract from the mistletoe plant that would return the mutant cell’s scrambled signals back to normal light frequencies—actually curing numerous cases of cancer. Dr. Popp would later exclaim, “We now know, today, that man is essentially a being of light.”³

It seems that everything from the smallest cellular processes to even higher thinking, including communication with other organisms, and consciousness itself has been scientifically connected to light. For every second that passes about 100,000 chemical reactions occur in each cell in the body—and every one of those reactions require a photon of light. Where do we get the photons for all of these processes? When we eat plant foods, we are actually eating light—ultraviolet light stored from the sun via photosynthesis in the molecules of the plant. A tiny super computer within the cell—the DNA—is able to take these stored photons and convert them into signals to direct each of those 100,000 reactions within the cell. A student under Dr. Popp discovered that when you use a certain chemical to unravel DNA, it gives off light. He then discovered that the DNA uses that stored ultraviolet light to send out a range of frequencies of light—each linked to certain intercellular processes.

But the body uses light emissions outside of individual cells as well—to repair wounds; however they had to be low intensity signals because these communications took place on an intracellular, albeit quantum level. Higher intensities would generate too much “noise” to be effective. There is a strange relationship between a creature’s complexity and the amount of photons emitted by it: You would think the more complex, the more light released—but just the opposite is true. So humans, at the top of the evolutionary scale, release the least amount of photons; perhaps that’s why ghosts are so hard to see or photograph. Dr. Popp not only studied healthy human light emissions, but also those that had cancer and other terminal illnesses. He found that these people were losing their internal means of communication within their own body because the light frequencies were scrambled, their rhythms were off—they were losing their light—along with their life.

Building on all of Fritz Popp’s discoveries, Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose wrote a groundbreaking paper with a convoluted title that essentially describes the brain as a quantum computer that uses a system of cytoskeletal microtubules between the brain’s neurons (cells). These microtubules have a crystal-like lattice structure, with a hollow inner core—ideal for the transmission of photons of ultraviolet light. In less esoteric terms, our brain is a super computer with a fiber optic network for the transmission of thoughts—our thoughts are in essence coded messages of ultraviolet light. Taking it a step further, the two scientists believe that this crystal-like lattice structure is the seat of human consciousness, and what we once believed to be a metaphoric reference to our “inner light” is no longer symbolic, but a literal reference to our consciousness, our thoughts, our DNA, and quite literally the control of every cellular function that we have. We are truly, as Dr. Fritz Popp stated, “beings of light”, and remember energy, including light, cannot die—it can only change form. (For more detailed information about the light/life connection, read Dan Eden’s article Is DNA the next Internet? found here http://www.viewzone2.com/dna.html ) 4

Being that all of these inner light functions are so dependent on ultraviolet light, you would think that ghosts would only appear in UV light. But given the number of people that have witnessed a “lady in white”, do they only appear in white light? (That said, did you know that white light is actually a combination of all the colors in the visible light spectrum?) From all of the thousands of photographs I’ve taken, I’ve discovered that ghosts will appear in different colors of light, but in many cases it seems as if they are using the surrounding ambient light, giving their appearance the shades of color from their surroundings. The most frequent appearance is white, with shades of ultraviolet as well as infrared light, but there are exceptions. The full-bodied apparitions that I have captured outside any home or building will usually appear in full color, including their clothing. Faces in the windows will usually take on the color of their ambient surroundings, but again there are always exceptions. I feel compelled to return to the Peyton Randolph House to show you some of my best examples of ghosts showing up in just one color of the visible light spectrum, and neither color was part of the surrounding ambient light. If you have seen the color of the Peyton Randolph House during the daylight, it has a dark reddish brown color which at night is quite foreboding, and the lights reflecting in its windows have an amber color. So to assume the surrounding ambient colors, a ghost would be in amber and red, which they often have appeared in those colors (See the 1st photo). But when I captured two ghosts in the same window, different windowpanes, one in green (2nd photo) and the other in blue (3rd photo), I knew that color wasn’t necessarily a rule, so perhaps it’s a choice. I just wonder what the colors had to do with the people these ghosts once were—was it just a favorite color, or does it go deeper than that?

Here’s the face of a phantom at the Peyton Randolph House that is taking on the ambient colors from the house (dark reddish brown) and the surrounding lights (amber):

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Another apparition at the Peyton Randolph House takes on a different color (green) from its ambient surroundings:

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Finally, in the same photograph as above, yet another ghost appears in a different windowpane (in the same window) clothed in a different color of light, as if projected from a blue and white orb: 

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At the Geddy House, this apparition appeared with a kind of yellow and white orb, but the face nevertheless assumed the color of its ambient surroundings. 

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Here’s an example of a “lady in white” that I photographed on the market square green:

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At the Guardhouse, I captured a male face that almost appears to be projected from a bright white orb of light. 

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Another face in white light from Shield’s Tavern that looks other-worldly . . . 

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1 Kobayashi M, Kikuchi D, Okamura H (2009) Imaging of Ultraweak Spontaneous Photon Emission from Human Body Displaying Diurnal Rhythm. PLoS ONE 4(7): e6256. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0006256  (Accessed March 4, 2020)

2 Eden, Dan Is DNA the next Internet? (No date) Viewzone. http://www.viewzone2.com/dna.html (Accessed March 4, 2020)

3 Ibid.

4 Stuart Hameroff & Roger Penrose, In: Toward a Science of Consciousness – The First Tucson Discussions and Debates, eds. Hameroff, S.R., Kaszniak, A.W. and Scott, A.C., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 507-540 (1996) Orchestrated Objective Reduction of Quantum Coherence in Brain Microtubules: The “Orch OR” Model for Consciousness https://www.quantumconsciousness.org/sites/default/files/1996%20Orchestrated%20Objective%20Reduction%20of%20Quantum%20Coherence%20in%20Brain%20Microtubules%20-%20A%20Model%20For%20Consciousness.pdf (Accessed March 4, 2020)

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Check out other ghost photo blogs including the following: the ghosts that came out to see the fireworks, the ghost of a small child and others attracted to what is familiar to them, the ghosts in the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, VA; the ghosts in Julep’s Restaurant in Richmond, Va; ghosts in a Las Vegas casino; dark hooded apparitions in Colonial Williamsburg, the ghosts of Merchant Square, Williamsburg, the ghosts of Jerome, AZ P1, Jerome, AZ P2, the ghosts of Relics Restaurant, Sedona, AZ, the ghosts of the Red Garter, Williams, AZ P1, the ghosts of the Red Garter, Williams, AZ, P2, ghosts in the Barnes & Noble Bookstore that featured my book, Williamsburg’s most haunted: the Peyton Randolph House, the ghosts of Antelope Canyon in Page, AZ, one of America’s most haunted roads: Crawford Road, near Yorktown, VA, Civil War ghosts in my house, Civil War ghosts at Edgewood Plantation, photographic proof that ghosts are attracted to children, the story of how one of my ghost photos was positively identified by a group of friends, and other paranormal posts.

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Tim Scullion is a published author, photographer, and musician. He is a graduate of the College of William and Mary, with a bachelor’s and a master’s degree Cum Laude. In addition to the book mentioned above, Tim has written a novel, a series of instruction books on the guitar, a children’s book (all available on Amazon) and has a photo-essay published by the University of Virginia in the book Troubled Times Companion, Vol. III.

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