Colorpuncture uses light with pure color on the acupuncture points, meridians, and other points particular to the Colorpuncture system, to effect healing in the cells and systems (endocrine, lymphatic, coordination system, etc) of the body. It is the name of the treatment that has arisen from the research of Peter Mandel. It uses Energy Emission analysis (Kirlian photography) for diagnosis. Kirlian photography enables the practitioner to record energy imbalances in the patterns of energy emitted by the patients fingers and toes. They are also used to measure the results of the Colorpuncture treatments.

Peter Mandel coined the term "esogetics" refering to a combination of esoteric intuitive knowledge, with energetics, or the Western models of energy and biophysics to describe his basic tenets for Colorpuncture. Mandel refers to Man's "Program" - as in each man and woman's individual potential in life. This "Program" or potential must be intuited, sensed, understood, and finally manifested if Man is to be fulfilled. That fulfillment of his potential is done via the body and mind, and fuels the manifestation of health in the individual.

Esogetics is a combination of esoterics and energetics. Based on the Hermetic precepts, esoterics represents the teachings of the cosmic truths and laws, governing this world, and energetics describes the informative energetic processes of life itself. Through energetics, the spiritual content of esoteric wisdom is manifest on the physical plane. Esogetics teaches there is a sense and nonsense to sickness and pain by presenting a path that can, via the physical body, influence human existence in a holistic way and further an active process of realization.

Health therefore according to Mandel, is related to and dependent on this intuiting, and manifesting of potential, individual blue print. It is similar to the Chinese approach to health which says that a person must find the right espression in life in order to be healthy. Dysfunction and dis-ease comes from many directions, but not understanding, seeing, and manifesting one's personal potential over the long run weakens the organism. In that way it is a completely holistic method.

The treatments come in many forms, from brain wave stimulation and balancing, to treatments in sound, to treatments in light. The light and color treatments involve the application of colored light to the skin with an instrument that resembles a simple pen light (left). (see light sets) In spite of its name it does not use needles or pierce the skin. Rather the color sensitivity of acupuncture receptors in the skin is used. Acupuncture meridians, among others, then channel healing information encoded in the light to targeted cells and dysfunctional organs where it is needed. "Color," says Mandel, "is life energy carrying information.... The information heals and the energy carries that information through the cells." The method is based also on the photon light research of Fritz Popp, who uncovered the photon (light particle) communication between the cells.

the seven colors from the P117 light set pictured above -

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