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In the early 1800s, Baron Karl von Reichenbach, the German chemist who invented paraffin and creosote, spent a number of years investigating what he called “OD” (Odic Force) in an attempt to measure the life force. Among other things, he reported that sensitive individuals who had visually acclimated to a totally dark room could see a faint glow coming from the pointed ends of large quartz crystals. Dr. Claude Swanson, in his book, Life Force, The Scientific Basis, states that he himself has seen this as well. (For a detailed look at the contents of Dr. Swanson’s fine book, see Appendix A.) According to von Reichenbach, these talented individuals could also see a faint light given off by many objects after adequate time of adaptation to the dark. Moreover, they were able to see a light issuing from the poles of a strong magnet. Unfortunately, neither Dr. Swanson nor Baron von Reichenbach were able to photograph this light. Von Reichenbach also reported that subtle energy occurs in different colors with reddish-orange being positive and bluish energy being negative. This energy is given off not only by quartz but all living objects.

Von Reichenbach actually demonstrated that a highly sensitive individual could make a pendulum swing by barely touching a fixed point on the string with no movement of the fingers. He also concluded that any metal on the body very strongly dampened the effect of heart energy. The left hand and left side of the body are positive, he suggested, and the right side negative. Thus, odic, pranic, or Life Force can have the effect of a mechanical force.

Dr. Swanson repeated one of von Reichenbach’s experiments in which he removed all metal from his body and placed five charcoal briquettes in his left hand. He held a business card atop the five fingers of his right hand. He found that the card rotated slowly up to 180 degrees. With Odic Force, like polarities are tracked, in contrast to magnetism in which opposite poles are tracked.

Von Reichenbach found that when the sharp tip of a large quartz crystal was placed over water, the water tasted “cool and refreshing,” whereas the blunt end of the crystal placed over water took on a “warm, prickly, mawkish” flavor. Associated with positive OD experiments, von Reichenbach placed a wire in sunlight and the other end of the wire in a totally darkened room. Obviously, according to physics, light cannot travel on a solid copper wire. Von Reichenbach reported that sunlight transmitted this way at approximately 1 meter/second (much slower than light and heat). Instead of it producing heat in the darkened room, it produced cool. Although there have been other studies attempting to measure the Life Force, pranic energy, etc., those of von Reichenbach appear to be among the best to date.