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Alexander Schauss, Director of the American Institute of Bio-Social Research, believes that electromagnetic energy of colour interacts in some still unknown way with the pituitary and pineal glands, and the hypothalamus, deep in the brain. These organs regulate the endocrine system which controls many basic body functions and emotional responses such as aggression, fear, etc.
Harold Wohlfahrt, a photobiologist and the President of the German Academy of Colour Science, reports after experiments in a private school that light has exactly the same impact on the blood-pressure, pulse and respiration-rates of two blind children as on seven students with normal sight. A report on the above study, published in the Internal Journal of Bio-Social Research says that when the walls of the schoolroom were changed from orange and white to royal and light blue and normal lights were replaced by spectrum lighting, the children's mean systolic blood pressure dropped from 120 to 100. They were better behaved and more attentive. He adds that the minute amounts of electromagnetic energy from light affect one or more of the neuro-transmitters--chemical messengers that carry inessages from nerve to nerve and from nerve to muscle. Experiments have also provided evidence that light striking the retina influences the pineal gland's synthesis of melatonin, a hormone that has been found to help determine the body's output to serotonine, a neurotransmitter.**
Aura
What is aura ?
There are two terms-halo and aura. From very ancient times and in all cultures, pictures of gods, goddesses, **Adapted from an article by Lindsey Gruson, published in Times of India,
Sunday, November 28, 1982.
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