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The Basic Code of the Universe byCitro
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First published January 1, 2011
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November 12, 2013
This is a very provocative book that is bound to create controversy, discussion and to polarize opinions. Massimo Citro, a medical doctor and researcher in healing through the use of electromagnetic radiation (here begins the controversy), presents an overview of the latest studies, experiments and ideas of how science may explain diverse phenomena such as homeopathy, the structure of water, morphogenetic fields (as in Sheldrake), human fields, and the placebo effect. I was familiar with many of the same ideas developed by researchers back in the 1950s-60s, and was pleased to see that those same ideas are being discussed, now in terms of newer discoveries in quantum physics. I have no doubt that phenomena such as homeopathy and the structure of water are real. If so, how on Earth do you explain them?
Citro is not a physicist, and his explanations are qualitative rather than quantitative. However he refers to physicists who have published reasonable theories, such as Giuliano Preparata, Luc Montagnier
and Ervin Laszlo to explain for example how water might have a “structure”. He devotes much of the book to describing TFF (Transfer Pharmacological Frequency), a healing technique he developed that involves amplifying the natural electromagnetic waves created by a substance dissolved in water, and either applying those waves to a patient, or imprinting them homeopathically on a water sample. He presents many case histories that suggest that there is a phenomenon there to explain. That molecules dissolved in water behave like harmonic oscillators and generate electromagnetic radiation, is not controversial. How coherent that radiation is, is another matter.
As well as presenting some of the latest research, Citro refers to early twentieth century work on the human fields, research by Yale biologist Harold Burr and Alexander Gurswitch. Back then, a field explanation for the development of biological forms seemed to many biologists a reasonable theory. It fell into disfavour mostly as a result of discoveries of DNA coding. In the tug of war between biologists and biochemists, biochemistry gained the upper hand.
On the negative side, Citro presents a smorgasbord of many theories, often too uncritically. All of them cannot be equally valid and some, such as the work and ideas of Pier Ighina stretch one’s credulity. The reader must make up his/her opinion on which theory merits attention, with little guidance from the author.
This book is unlikely to interest or satisfy the skeptic who is more at home in a positivistic approach. Citro is not out to convince anyone, least of all the skeptic. He does however give an interesting account of what ideas are being discussed on the edges of accepted science, the evidence and the possibilities.
Citro is not a physicist, and his explanations are qualitative rather than quantitative. However he refers to physicists who have published reasonable theories, such as Giuliano Preparata, Luc Montagnier
and Ervin Laszlo to explain for example how water might have a “structure”. He devotes much of the book to describing TFF (Transfer Pharmacological Frequency), a healing technique he developed that involves amplifying the natural electromagnetic waves created by a substance dissolved in water, and either applying those waves to a patient, or imprinting them homeopathically on a water sample. He presents many case histories that suggest that there is a phenomenon there to explain. That molecules dissolved in water behave like harmonic oscillators and generate electromagnetic radiation, is not controversial. How coherent that radiation is, is another matter.
As well as presenting some of the latest research, Citro refers to early twentieth century work on the human fields, research by Yale biologist Harold Burr and Alexander Gurswitch. Back then, a field explanation for the development of biological forms seemed to many biologists a reasonable theory. It fell into disfavour mostly as a result of discoveries of DNA coding. In the tug of war between biologists and biochemists, biochemistry gained the upper hand.
On the negative side, Citro presents a smorgasbord of many theories, often too uncritically. All of them cannot be equally valid and some, such as the work and ideas of Pier Ighina stretch one’s credulity. The reader must make up his/her opinion on which theory merits attention, with little guidance from the author.
This book is unlikely to interest or satisfy the skeptic who is more at home in a positivistic approach. Citro is not out to convince anyone, least of all the skeptic. He does however give an interesting account of what ideas are being discussed on the edges of accepted science, the evidence and the possibilities.
August 3, 2014
Great book
March 30, 2013
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February 11, 2016Interesting read
For someone that has never been interested in deep scientific
Topics, I found this book intriguing, entertaining, engaging, and easy to read.
For someone that has never been interested in deep scientific
Topics, I found this book intriguing, entertaining, engaging, and easy to read.
November 21, 2022
A collection of many speculative ideas near science (some would say pseudo-science) which in truth sound no less implausible than many theory of cosmology or particle physics or especially climate science which are purported as truths today. It's up to each reader to indulge in this speculation But I do know of real, serious, science study in morphology of cellular organisms and their collective cognition. To me, a degree of speculation about those systems which are beyond our abilities to understand their complexities is warranted.
June 3, 2020
Read if you dare! If you believe, as I do, that all things are interconnected, and that everything is meaningful, right down to the cosmological ground, then this is a book you must read. Truly transformative!
December 11, 2019
Wow, what a great book!
March 31, 2019
If the reader could give this book a new title, what would it be?
I will try to give it 3 new titles:
"What alchemy is like in the 21st century"
"Mind over matter in Italy"
"Radionics reinvented!"
I will try to give it 3 new titles:
"What alchemy is like in the 21st century"
"Mind over matter in Italy"
"Radionics reinvented!"
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