What a Photo of Myself Taught Me About Energy

What Your Body’s Energy Is Trying to Tell You

Soul Sync with Jason Paul, in conversation with Daniel Zavrel. Listen below, or read on for the full write-up and transcript.

One selfie, and a lot of questions

A few weeks before we recorded this episode, Daniel Zavrel asked me to send him one thing: a photo of myself.

So I sent him a selfie. Nothing special. It was me in a suit, sat in a coffee shop in the City of London, on one of those days when I still owned my legal recruitment agency. I was about to walk into a hectic run of meetings with law firms, so if you want a snapshot of me at my most stressed, that was probably it.

Daniel put that photo into what he calls a quantum resonance device. What came back left me sat there thinking, quite literally, "How?"

It picked up my diabetes. It picked up my nut allergy, along with other intolerances. Daniel didn't know about any of it, and I hadn't told him. Then it went deeper, into the patterns of stress I'd been carrying for years.

Now, I'm a medium. I've spent years learning that everything is energy. But seeing it laid out in black and white from nothing more than a phone photo, a few million pixels, connected a lot of dots for me. So I want to share what happened, where these machines actually come from, and, just as importantly, what the science and the sceptics say about them.

Who is Daniel Zavrel?

Daniel is a Dutch business economist who founded the coaching company Consciouz in 1997. He's also a mindfulness trainer and a certified Iyengar yoga teacher. Few people I've met bridge the corporate and spiritual worlds the way he does.

He's trained more than 2,000 officers, staff and detectives in mental resilience at the Dutch National Police. That one made me smile, as a former police officer myself. He also spent four years as mental coach to the first team at PSV Eindhoven, who won the Dutch league three times in that spell. (source)

These days he works online with people all over the world using what he calls the ConsciouzScan, a body and mind scan. He told me his work used to be about 95% corporate. Now it's roughly half private clients, and I could hear how much he loves it.

Where these machines came from

The idea behind them is that every organ, cell and system in the body has its own frequency, and a device can read those frequencies and spot where they're out of balance. You'll see it called bioresonance, quantum resonance or non-linear analysis (NLS). It sounds brand new, but the roots go back decades.

  • 1950s, Germany. Dr Reinhold Voll combined acupuncture points with measurements of the skin's electrical resistance. Electroacupuncture according to Voll became the forerunner of everything that followed. (source)

  • 1977, Germany. Doctor Franz Morell and engineer Erich Rasche introduced bioresonance therapy, first sold as "MORA" after their two surnames. (source)

  • 1970s to 1990s, the Soviet Union and Russia. In Omsk, Siberia, the Institute of Practical Psychophysics developed NLS scanning devices. Their best-known model, the Metatron, came out of that work. (source)

Daniel told me the technology was first developed during the Cold War, at a time of real espionage between the USSR and the USA. He said the Russians poured huge budgets into it to protect their cosmonauts, trying to catch disturbances in the body's energy field before they became illness in space.

I wanted to check the "secret" part, because I'd heard it too. What's on the record is that the Cold War superpowers really did fund secret research into human energy and consciousness. The best documented example is the US Stargate Project, which began at the Stanford Research Institute in 1972. It studied remote viewing, the psychic ability to "see" distant places, and it stayed classified until the CIA closed it in 1995. (source) Stargate was about psychic ability rather than health scanning. I couldn't find documents confirming that Soviet scanning devices themselves were kept secret, so I'd treat that part of the story as unproven.

As for Germany, Daniel says around 500 to 600 conventionally trained doctors there now use this kind of technology, alongside roughly 800 naturopaths. I couldn't verify those numbers. What I did find is that bioresonance is popular with practitioners in Germany but excluded from what the statutory health insurers will pay for. (source) So it's in use there, but not as part of mainstream healthcare.

Everything is energy, and a photo is no exception

Psychometry is a psychic skill, and it's one I'm genuinely fascinated by. It means feeling the energy held within an object, a photo or a place. People book me with all sorts: photos of loved ones, photos of buildings and locations, you name it. I'm even asked to sense the energy of a business, or of someone a client is thinking of hiring.

The way I understand it, everything we touch, live in and spend time around takes on something of our energy. Think of it like a fingerprint left behind. A ring worn every day for 40 years, a family home, a photo taken on a stressful day in the City: they all carry a resonance of the people and the moments connected to them. When I tune in psychically, that's what I'm reading.

You don't have to be a psychic to feel it, either. Walk into a building and you can often sense the atmosphere straight away, whether it feels warm, heavy or tense. Nowhere do I feel it more than in mediumship. Get a group of people into a room to sit for trance and you can feel the energy of that room change. The Victorians wove the hair of the people they'd lost into lockets to keep them close, and I think they sensed the same thing: a part of us stays in what we leave behind. At the end of the day, everything is energy.

Daniel explains it through the idea of quantum entanglement. In his words, particles that have once been connected stay connected, whatever the distance. He says a strand of hair, or a photograph, still carries your information. He even mentioned the old fear among some Native American people that a camera could steal your soul. "No, their soul won't be taken," he told me, "but their information 100% will."

I should be honest here. To physicists, quantum entanglement is a very specific effect between tiny particles. It isn't accepted as a way that photos or hair stay linked to a person. So I don't hold that up as proof. What I can tell you is what I experienced: a picture sent over WhatsApp gave Daniel a way into me that I didn't expect.

Science does show that our bodies are more electric and luminous than we feel day to day. Your heartbeat is electrical, which is why it can be traced on an ECG. According to the HeartMath Institute, the heart produces the strongest rhythmic electromagnetic field in the body. Its magnetic field is more than 100 times stronger than the brain's and can be picked up by sensitive instruments about three feet away from you. (source) So the feeling that you can sense someone before they've said a word may not be as fanciful as it sounds. In the 1970s and 80s, German biophysicist Fritz-Albert Popp championed research into "biophotons", the extremely faint light given off by living cells, and he coined the term in 1984. Cells really do give off this light, although the bigger theories about what it means are still unproven. (source)

For me, it all comes back to what spirit has taught me over the years: that we're energetic beings first, and physical second. This experience didn't create that belief. It just held a mirror up to it.

Healers have been reading the body through energy for a long time

What struck me most is that none of this is new. Long before anyone built a machine, mediums and healers were reading the body through the energy of spirit.

  • Edgar Cayce (1877 to 1945), often called the "Sleeping Prophet", gave readings in a trance state in which he diagnosed the causes of people's symptoms and suggested simple remedies. More than 14,000 of his readings were written down and preserved, and the organisation he founded in 1931, the Association for Research and Enlightenment, still holds them in Virginia Beach. (source)

  • George Chapman (1921 to 2006) was a fireman from Aylesbury who became one of Britain's best-known trance healers. In trance he worked with the spirit of Dr William Lang, an eye surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital who had passed in 1937. People who'd known Lang, including his former student Dr Kildare Singer, said they recognised his manner and speech when he came through. Through Chapman, Lang would gently examine patients and describe old operations and current problems. (source)

To me, Daniel's machine and a healer in trance may be two doors into the same room. One uses technology. The other uses the spirit world. Both start from the idea that the body holds information beyond what we can see.

The energy we carry shows up in the body

The deeper part of my scan wasn't about allergies at all. It was about the stress I'd been holding, the pace I'd been living at and the patterns sat underneath. That's the part that has stayed with me.

It's also where the mainstream research is strongest. The Adverse Childhood Experiences study, published in 1998, surveyed more than 9,500 adults. It found a strong link between painful experiences in childhood and many of the leading causes of death in adult life, including heart disease, cancer and lung disease. (source)

Two books have shaped how a lot of people think about this:

  • The Body Keeps the Score (2014) by psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk argues that trauma isn't only stored as a memory. It lives on in the body and nervous system, so healing has to involve the body too. (source)

  • When the Body Says No (2003) by Dr Gabor Maté explores how hidden stress and buried emotion can play a powerful part in chronic illness. In his words, when we've been prevented from learning to say no, our bodies may end up saying it for us. (source)

This is where I feel the East and the West have so much to learn from each other. Ancient traditions have always talked about a life force: prana in India, chi in China, mana across the Pacific Islands. Western medicine is brilliant at emergencies, surgery and treating symptoms. But it can be slower to ask why someone became unwell in the first place.

Daniel's view is that within 10 or 20 years, a lot of healing will involve sound, light and frequency. I don't know if he's right. I do believe the future lies in looking at the whole person, and in getting under the bonnet of how we live, what we believe and the energy we carry.

What the sceptics and the science say

You deserve the full picture, so here's what the other side says. Mainstream medicine doesn't accept these devices as a way to diagnose illness.

  • Allergy testing. In a 2001 double-blind trial published in the BMJ, experienced practitioners used an electrodermal device to test 30 volunteers for allergies. It couldn't tell the allergic people from the non-allergic ones. (source) Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center says clinical trials show bioresonance doesn't succeed in diagnosing allergies. (source)

  • Advertising. In the UK, the Advertising Standards Authority has found that none of the efficacy claims for bioresonance it looked at were supported by evidence. (source)

  • The biggest risk. Most health professionals worry that people will use a scan instead of proper medical tests and treatment.

So where does that leave my own scan? I'll tell you plainly: it was accurate. From a photo, it named my diabetes and my allergies, which I've lived with for years and which Daniel didn't know about. A sceptic would say I'd already been diagnosed, so nothing new was discovered. That's fair. But for me, what's mind-blowing isn't the discovery. It's that the information was there at all, held within the energy of one picture. Also, many other things came up in the session with Daniel regarding my medical history, so without going into my full medical history, it was very accurate and certainly left me with a lot of food for thought.

I sit with both of those things. As a medium, I know that evidence doesn't always arrive the way a laboratory wants it to. And as someone who wants you to stay safe, I'd say this clearly: see a scan like this as a mirror for reflection and wellbeing. It isn't a replacement for your GP. If something comes up that worries you, take it to a doctor.

What I'm taking from it

I went into this curious and came out with more questions than answers, which is often where the best growth starts. Whatever you make of the machine, the conversation with Daniel reminded me that we are far more than what we can see.

For me, that's where a scan like this can be so helpful. It can shine a light on things you need to be aware of, and on the parts of how you live your life that might need to change. It doesn't take away from seeing your doctor. But it was genuinely illuminating, and it made me sit and give a lot of thought to how I live, and to just how much energy we carry.

When I mentioned I fancied getting one of these machines myself, someone said something I loved. "Jason, you don't need one of those," she said. "Spirit will tell you." She's got a point.

SPIRITUAL TAKEAWAYS

  1. You've been reading energy your whole life. Think of walking into a room and feeling the tension before anyone speaks. That's you sensing energy.

  2. What we carry shows up somewhere. Stress, grief and old beliefs don't just sit in the mind. Notice where your body is asking you to listen.

  3. Stay curious and keep your feet on the ground. You can explore energy work with an open heart and still keep seeing your doctor. The two aren't in competition.

  4. Look for causes, not just symptoms. Ask what's beneath the tiredness, the tension or the pattern that keeps repeating.

  5. You are an energetic being first. Your body, your thoughts and your spirit are all part of the same whole.

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Jason Paul is a psychic medium based in Bristol, giving private readings online to clients across the UK and around the world. He is the grandson of medium and healer Eddie Paul, and came to mediumship after careers as a police officer and the founder of a legal recruitment business. Jason hosts the Soul Sync podcast and teaches online psychic and mediumship development classes.

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