Boswinkel’s approach reaches far beyond the boundaries of medicine. Similar to a predecessor, George de la Warr, who drove ravenous Colorado beetles from a potato field by surrounding it with transmitters that produced the appropriate counter-frequency, Boswinkel had success fighting a plague of locusts in Morocco in the 1990s. The opportunities for ridding agriculture of chemical pesticides are evident. When we spoke, Japan had just been hit by the severe earthquake, and the danger of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant dominated the news. Boswinkel reached out to his contacts in Japan and offered help. “Every frequency can be inverted,” he says.
Biophoton Light
We stroll into Rotterdam’s city center on a sunny spring day, where people are walking down the street wearing sunglasses. “You shouldn’t do that,” Boswinkel says. “The eyes are precisely where the solar radiation that feeds life enters the body.” Nor is he a fan of sunscreens that cover up those other important windows to the sun, the acupuncture points. Johan Boswinkel knows that without light, there is no life. Not only are our food sources dependent on the sun, but our bodies cannot thrive without daily exposure to sunlight.
It’s generally accepted that a lack of daylight causes seasonal affective disorder, or “winter depression.”
Blind people whose pineal gland does not transmit the light entering their eyes to the brain can exhibit significant disturbances in their physiological and emotional stability.
The late Hungarian biochemist Albert von Szent-Györgyi said in his 1937 Nobel Prize acceptance speech for discovering vitamin C, “A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure. Without energy, life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse. The source of this energy is the sun’s radiation.”
Sunlight may be healthy and vital, but the artificial lighting in which so many of us spend so much of our days undermines health. Sunlight offers a balanced spectrum; in contrast, artificial lighting—depending on the type—provides only a limited portion of the spectrum. That limitation disrupts the body’s harmony, which is the start of all disease. That is: Disease begins with a lack of light. Johan Boswinkel’s message is that light is also the remedy.
We arrive at an outdoor café for lunch. Boswinkel chooses a table in the shade, and I raise my eyebrows.
He laughs. “I already produce so much light.”