Quote:Prayer Hands Decoded: The Science Behind Humanity's Most Sacred Gesture


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Press your palms together right now.
Feel that warmth spreading between them? That subtle tingling, as if something invisible is gathering in the space between your skin?
You've just created what researchers in bioelectromagnetic medicine call a 'coherent field node'—a zone where the measurable electromagnetic emissions from your left and right hands create an interference pattern. The HeartMath Institute has documented that when you bring your hands to your chest and press them together, you're positioning them at the peak intensity of your heart's electromagnetic field, creating measurable increases in heart rate variability coherence—a state associated with optimal physiological function.¹
But here's where the New Biophysics gets interesting—and admittedly controversial.
The Scalar Wave Bridge: Where Measured Meets Mystery

When two coherent electromagnetic waves meet in perfect opposition (what physicists call 'destructive interference'), the standard model says they should cancel out. But researchers like Tom Bearden and Konstantin Meyl propose something else happens: the transverse electromagnetic components cancel, yes, but the energy doesn't disappear. Instead, it transforms into what Tesla called 'longitudinal waves' and what modern researchers term 'scalar waves'—a different form of electromagnetic potential that mainstream physics is only beginning to acknowledge.²
According to this model, documented in peer-reviewed journals like the International Journal of Applied and Advanced Scientific Research, when your hands—each carrying opposite bioelectric charges due to hemispheric brain dominance—come together, you create the precise conditions for scalar wave formation: two coherent biological oscillators meeting in phase opposition.³
Whether we call these measured effects 'scalar waves,' 'longitudinal waves,' or simply 'coherent biofields,' the phenomenon is real and measurable. Thermographic imaging shows palm temperature can increase by 1-3°C during prayer mudra, beyond what simple circulation changes would cause.⁴ SQUID magnetometers have detected changes in the biomagnetic field during qigong 'energy ball' exercises between the hands.⁵ The debate isn't whether something happens when you press your palms together—instruments clearly show it does. The debate is about the exact mechanism and whether it represents a new form of biological information transfer that conventional electromagnetic theory doesn't fully explain.



A More Honest Framework

Let me be clear about what we're exploring here: The 'New Biophysics' isn't a rejection of conventional biology—it's an expansion. Just as quantum mechanics didn't invalidate Newton's laws but showed they were a special case of something larger, researchers in biofield science are suggesting that our current understanding of bioelectromagnetics might be incomplete.
The scalar wave hypothesis is one attempt to explain measurable phenomena that don't quite fit the standard model:

• Distant healing effects that aren't blocked by Faraday cages⁶
  
• Biological responses to extremely weak fields that shouldn't be detectable above thermal noise⁷
  
• The persistent organization of living systems that seems to violate thermodynamic predictions⁸
  
• The documented effects of intention on random number generators and biological systems⁹
  

We're in the position of 19th-century physicists observing the photoelectric effect before Einstein—we can measure something happening, but our theoretical framework hasn't quite caught up. The prayer hands phenomenon sits right at this intersection of the known and unknown, the measured and the mysterious.

(08-15-2025, 10:47 AM)FCD Wrote: In pure theory, and taking into consideration the laws of conservation of momentum, it makes sense that opposing waves at precisely the opposite frequency might appear to cancel each other out.  This is a pretty common understanding.  However, down at the absolute level (no matter how infinitesimal) the collision of two objects will not simply discard all of the energy and inertia which was propelling them to begin with.  This energy has to go somewhere, and while much of it is dissipated in the form of heat, there is still likely some residual energy which needs to find some mechanism to dissipate, albeit tiny in comparison.  This is one of the problems I have with media reports of some "revolutionary" finding like the one being addressed here.  They always fail to put these forces into perspective and/or meaningful terms.  So, the common reader is left no way to understand the different magnitudes of these resultant forces in real-world terms.  Thus, the conclusion then appears to become some profound new discovery, but when you distill some of these things down, it's just people wrapping fancy technical terms around already understood basic concepts of physics.  

So, the concept discussed here is real (again, in absolute terms), but the reality of what is presented is not as significant as it might appear.  And then to wrap words like "peer reviewed" around these things to lend an air of legitimacy (like you should pay attention), only makes matters worse.  Of course they are peer reviewed, because the original concepts were heavily challenged and peered reviewed back in the day.

Ultimately, the underpinning message here, in very simplistic terms, is yes, there is some residual energy given off by act of placing your hands together to pray (this is ultimately what point they are trying to drive home).  However, on the scale of human life and consciousness it is likely to the point of near insignificance.

These types of things are pretty common in today's day and age.  On a somewhat related note, I get a special kick out of reading technical white papers which make similar claims of revolutionary 'new' discoveries by simply re-packaging Einstein's Special and General Theory of Relativity as if they've come up with some new and improved version of those theories.  Often times, if you read these carefully, you see that there is really nothing new being presented, it is rather just an application of some element or elements of the original theories in practice.  Einstein, for his part, never really wasted much time making such analogies.  He had far more important objectives to see to.  In fact, he was often just validating one of his ideas so he could build on those for future developments.  It was things like this which, to me, signaled a new direction in the field of physics, and the path it would likely take in the future.  Not all of it, but some.  This was one of the things which caused me to step away from the consideration of further graduate studies in physics back in the late 80's.  To me, that was more about stroking ego's than science.  But I digress.

I do appreciate reading these types of things though, although I'm not 100% sure I understand why.  In some weird way, it must help my mind justify my decisions long ago.

Thanks for posting, Kenzo.

Quote:...creating fascinating discoverys / theorys is sometimes to easy, as not all can digest/understand them in required depth,...

(08-15-2025, 11:56 AM)FCD Wrote:

Quote:...creating fascinating discoverys / theorys is sometimes to easy, as not all can digest/understand them in required depth,...

Well, maybe you did it unknowingly (possibly), but you very clearly understood the gist of what I was saying because you just hit the nail precisely on the head!!  This is exactly the point I was trying to make!  There are people who throw this stuff out there under the name of science (presumably so they can take credit for some new discovery) when the underpinning concepts are nothing new at all.  So, you were precisely correct!  

The message here is also wholesome enough.  I find no fault with looking for ways to suggest praying has more power than might meet the eye.  No issue with that at all.  I think where my issue comes in is where they turn around and start saying things like whatever they are claiming has been "peer reviewed" in an effort to further justify their findings.  It's not technically a lie, in fact it is actually the truth, if you examine these things at their literal value.  However, I firmly believe that some (not all) do this with the full knowledge that their readers will likely over interpret what is being claimed to feel good about their actions.  For something like prayer, as I said, I can't really find fault with the underpinning message, but they didn't present it like that.  Instead, they seemed to take it a step further and attempted to justify it to the scientific community at the same time.  This, in my opinion, is where they went astray.  

I also meant what I said at the end of my post; I do appreciate your posting this.  And, you have my apologies, in that my reaction would have been the exact same regardless of who posted it, or where I saw it.  In this particular case, you were just the messenger, but as I noted previously, it wasn't directed at you personally.

And, I hope you really do realize, my statement wasn't directed at you personally at all!  It was merely a reaction to the article presented, nothing more.  I honestly hope you can accept this.

P.S. Further, I don't think my previous statement falls under the category of "debunking" per se at all really.  I would put forth that it is more of a "clarification" of what was presented, or maybe the manner in which it was presented.

(08-15-2025, 12:29 PM)FCD Wrote: Damn aliens!!   

They screw everything up!!

(08-16-2025, 07:58 AM)F2d5thCav Wrote: An interesting sensation is to sit with your hands open and palms facing up.  It almost feels like the hands are acting as antennas and collecting a mild energy.

I note priests, during mass, lead prayers with their arms stretched out, palms open and facing the congregation.