SHROUD OF TURIN An Imprint of the Soul, Apparition or Quantum Bio-Hologram
CHIDAMBARAM RAMESH
2010
Table of conTenTs Illustrations Acknowledgements Disclaimer Foreword Preface PART PA RT - I 1. The Challenge of the Shroud 2. Mystery in its History Hungarian Pray Manuscript Sudarium Christi or the Face Cloth of Christ 3. Shroud under the Microscope 4. Words that the Blood Speaks 5. Mystery, but a Comprehensive Mystery Photonegative Photone gative character Spatial Spati al dimension encr encrypted ypted X-ray like image Superficiality and Minimum viewing distance No directionality Foreign objects endemic to Jerusalem found Anatomical Accuracy and Forensic Examina Examination tion Human DNA Nailing the Wrists Not the Palms 6. Three-Dim Three-Dimensionality: ensionality: An Aura of the Original 7. C14 Dating - Square Peg in a Round Hole 8. Human Radi Radiation ation and Other Theories Scorch Theory Radiation Radi ation Theory Traversable Lorentzian wormhole Nuclear Radiation Dr.. Petrus Soons’ Holographic Findings Dr Isabel Piczek’s Quantum theory Discrete energy values 9. A ‘Snapshot’ of Resurrection?
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PART - II 10. Forgotten Science of Palingenesis Alchemical Palingenesis Paracelsus Parac elsus – First to mention Palingenesis Du Chesne’ account – Proof of Bodily Resurrection Jacques Gaff Gaffarel’s arel’s account of Palingenesis Kircher and the Imperial Secret Disraeli – Veg Vegetable etable Phoenix Browne - Finger of God makes Sensible Structures Ole worm and Langlot’s formula of Palingenesis Ebenezer Sibly’s detailed Account of Palingenesis An Incident of Human Palingenesis Father Fa ther Schott: Sparrow Revived in a bottle Abbe Vallemont: Not a solid body but an apparition Otto Tachenius: Acid-Base Reaction The Monk-a Monk-alchemist lchemist Ferarius Oetinger and Biblical Promise of Resurrection Ice Palingenesis: Imprint of Images in Ice Carl Linnaeus’ encounter with palingenesis Digby’s Palingenesis of Nettles 11. Natural Magic – Practical Part of Science Indian Alchemy: Show of Snakes Pliny’s Catalogue of Wonders and Albert Magnus Moreau de Vautour: House full of Serpents William of Auvergen Auvergene’s e’s Liber Va Vaccae ccae Miscellaneous Folk Folk-magic -magic Accounts 12. Proof for Soul’s Existence – Wa Watters tters
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PART - III 13. Magic of Quantum Reality 14. Holography: How it Articulates the Aesthetic Message 15. Biological Blueprint Blueprintss Dela Wa Warr’s rr’s Images and Benford’s Findings Kirlian phantom leaf effect DNA Phantom Eff Effect ect Holographic transmission of bio-information Morphogenetic fields
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PART - IV PART 16. Shroud Image vis-à-vis Holography Photo-negativity Photo-negativ ity – A pseudoscopic effect Three-Dimensionality: Three-Dim ensionality: a trait of Bio-hologram Superficiality of the image No Directionality Optimal Viewing Distance: Half-tone Half -tone effect and the Dehydration of linen Mechanically Transparent’ Man is a Hologram! 17.. Conclusion 17 Bibliography
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IllUsTRaTIons 1. Ventral and dorsal images on the Shroud of Turin 2. Negative image (frontal view) 3. Negativ Negative e image (dorsal view) 4. A 16th c. painting attributed to Giovanni Battista della Rovere 5. Hungarian Pray Manuscript from the Budapest National Library 6. ‘L ‘L’-shaped ’-shaped holes in the th e Pray Code manuscript m anuscript 7. ‘L ‘L’-shaped ’-shaped holes in the Turin shroud shro ud 8. Face image: Photographic positive and negativ n egative e image 9. Image showing forearms and nailing in the wrists 10. Face image on the Shroud with clear bloodstains 11. Kai’s Bryce software reveals depth-information 12. 3-D image after using a Warp filter 13. First 3-D Shroud image made in 1976 with NASA computer 14. 3-D image of Shroud man 15. Enhanced VP-8 Emulator Relief of Face 16. 3-D relief image of Shroud man 17.. Edward Hall (Oxford testing laboratory) and Michael Tite (British 17 Museum) 18. Picture depicting a wormhole 19. A Laboratory showing how a simple spirit may be extracted to present flowers and herbs in full bloom 20. Animal Palingenesis: A resuscitated sparrow 21. A Resuscitated Rose - from Vallemont’s Curiositez de la Nature 22. Holographic Recording Process 23. Holographic Reconstruction Process 24. Dela Warr image of a foetus 25. Dela Warr photograph was created with the usage of a VP-8 analog analyzer 26. Dela Warr photograph was created with the usage of Bryce4® software 27.. Cut-leaf and its Kirlian image placed side-by-side 27 28. Cut-leaf is positioned directly on top of its first Kirlian photo 29. DNA phantom - the discrete replica like structure of the DNA 30. Picture revealing the 5-fold fine structure of the band like image of DNA v
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acknowledgemenTs Many people have helped bring this book to fruition. Chief among them are: Mr. Barrie M. Schwortz, Ofcial Documenting photographer of STURP, Dr.Marina Shaduri, PhD, Head of the Centre of Bioholography, Tbilisi, Georgia, Dr. Matti Pitkänen of Finland, Nigel Kerner, renowned author,, Paolo Di Laz author Lazzaro, zaro, Chairman Chairma n of the International International Workshop Workshop on the Scientic Approach to the Acheiropietos Images, Italy, Deacon Peter Schumacher, Director, Shroud Exhibit and Museum (SEAM) Inc., Alamogo Ala mogordo, rdo, New Mexico, Dr.Petr Dr.Petrus us Soons of Panama Pana ma and Dr.R.P.Bajpai, Dr.R.P.Bajpai, Vice-Chancellor, Kurukshetra University, India. I record my very sincere thanks to them. I am especially grateful to Joseph Marino, a long-time Sindonologist, who spent his valuable time and expertise to correct and edit the rst manuscript. Also, a note of thanks is due to my friend Bhuvana Bhuv ana Narayanan Naraya nan who provided valuable advice and a nd encouragement encouragement throughout th roughout the preparation prepa ration of this th is book. Librarians at several several institutions institutions aided my efforts patiently. Without listing them all, I must at least thank those at the University University of Chicago Library Service, Ser vice, and those at the Madras Institute of Developmental Studies, Adyar, Chennai. I have, of course, stood on the shoulders of many ancient authors. The works are theirs; I have only collected them and tried tr ied to bring them into the realm of current cur rent science. To all such authors authors whose writings I have made liberal use of, I would once more more express collectively collec tively,, and with all a ll sincerity sincer ity,, my great sense of indebtedness. Last, but not the least, I would like to thank my parents and my sister for all their love and support. They have worked very hard to provide me the opportunity to obtain the best possible education and knowledge.
dIsclaImeR This book is intended i ntended to provide provide a scientic explanation ex planation to the mysterious image on the Holy Shroud of Turin and if the explanations offered in the book hurt in any way the religious sentiments of the readers directly or indirectly, I, as the author, apologise to the readers. Use of words like phantom, apparition etc., to connote the resurrected body of Christ is not invidious. If such terms offend, readers are requested to substitute more acceptable phraseology phrase ology in their place. The reproduction of of illustrations, illust rations, or the borrowings of quotations, quotations, does not not necessarily necessar ily mean that the respective respec tive authors agree with the ideas contained in this book. vii
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The isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow eld has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis something toward answering the demand; who are we? Erwin Erw in Schrödinger, Sch rödinger, Science and Humanism Huma nism (1952 (1952))
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foRewoRd Dr.Petrus Soons 3-D Shroud Sh roud Researcher
A year ago Chidambaram Ramesh contacted me by mail asking questions about the 3-D work that we had been doing the last 5 years on the image i mage of Jesus Christ Chri st on the Shroud of of Turi Turin, n, resulting in i n the production of a series of holograms of the body. We have been in regular contact ever since and he sent me the draft of the manuscript of this book and later asked me to write wr ite a foreword foreword to this work. If you take on yourself to write w rite about the image-formation mechanism of the image of the Man of the Shroud, you stand on many shoulders. Many scientists and non-scientists have tried to nd an explanation for the image-causation mechanism, but until now nobody has been able to answer this riddle r iddle.. Mr. Ramesh walks the unconventional path and gives us a solid basis for this by explaining the image formation mechanism to a process that is much like Palingenesis, which is the resuscitation of plant-images from their ashes. In Palingenesis, the decomposed parts of organisms display the corporeal “holo “ hologra gram” m”-like -like phantom image of the entire organism they t hey constitute. It is reconstruction reconstruct ion of the whole from the par parts ts which is very similar to holograms where the parts contain the whole. Going a step further, quantum holography that operates at the atomic level works on the same principle as conventional holography does and is able to explain expla in the t he phenomenon phenomenon of Palingenesis as a quantum holographic pattern that is entirely characteristic of the object in question. The writer gives a series of examples that show unequivocally that all biological organisms are basically quantum holograms and are connected with each other and with a universal holographic quantum eld. In the last chapter of his book, Chidambaram Ramesh gives us his explanation how this holographic 3-D quantum matrix of the body of Jesus Christ could have projected itself onto the surface of the Shroud linen, creating the image of of Our Lord Jesus on the Shroud. Shroud. He gives us ix
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also an explanation of some of the very specic characteristics of the Shroud image, the photographic negativity and a nd the built-in body-to-linen body-to-linen 3-D information in the grayscale of the image that ought to be explained by anybody who proposes a new image-formation mechanism. When you reconstruct a hologram from the master-hologram, it produces a real and virtual image of the object in 3-D. A copy of the virtual image is always positive. A contact copy of the real holographic image however, is a “negative” image as we can observe in the Shroud image. Pho Photographs tographs of of quantum holographic holographic manifestations as recorded recorded for example by Dela Warr’s Warr’s device show spatially spatial ly encoded 3-D information informat ion when subjected to the Bryce Program or VP-8 Image Analyzer, and this is what we we can observe in the Shroud image also. Another series of specic Shroud image qualities like the non-directionality, superciality and the half-tone effect can also be explained with this quantum holographic idea. The ideas in this book are a challenge to our intellects. It is like Chidambaram Chidamba ram Ramesh says in the end of of his book. book. If it is not not the na nall solution to the Shroud mystery then at least it can serve as a feed for further thought on the subject and stimulate a new generation of Shroud researchers.
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PReface
I scantly remember a street magic show I once enjoyed in my boyhood. The performer conjured images of a scorpion on a screen by lighting up an oil-lamp. The images were corporeal and, behold, three-dimensional! Though such street shows were common in those t hose days, they were thought t hought to be in the nature of some sort of trick. Being young, the incident made me curious. Later, after a couple of decades, I came across a vernacular book on folk-magic illustrating a method for exhibiting scorpion images. It explained; a scorpion put inside a coconut coconut and buried in i n horse-dung for forty days, will yield a spirit, which if lighted with a cotton wick, would produce images of scorpions as far as the light reaches. This caught my attention and my mind raced with possibilities. During my second year of graduation in Mechanical Engineering, I got introduced to the wonderful optical phenomenon of holography . Considering the ‘corporeality’ and ‘three-dimensionality’ of the objects displayed under holography, my mind, as quickly as a ash, contemplated a viable holographic connection to the scorpion images displayed in the folk magic . Afterward, the idea of alchemical palingenesis – resuscitating spectral images of plants and owers from their ashes – induced my curiosity further. I made an extensive study of almost all the available literature relating to this strange and marvellous phenomenon. Given the nature of the 3D images as described in i n the processes, I could easily easi ly infer it is a form of holographic eld making a vortex of subtle ash particles, which in turn makes visible the exact pattern of the plant inside the phial. This being so, certain certa in factors reinforced my belief that these ‘miraculous images’ would have scientic signicance. First, how our bodies and other organic entities are formed has always been a bafing question of developmental develop mental bio biology logy . The conventional genetic theory failed to explain satisfactorily how genes code information about the morphology of organism. Structura Struc turall complexity complexity of the genome genome is insufcient insuf cient for for organism development . Ninety per cent of the DNA in humans and mice is the same and there are enormous parallels between human DNA and that of xi
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a housey. Likewise, the amount of DNA in some species of amoebae is about 30 times as large as that in humans . If so, how can the DNA alone account for the complicated structural formation in organisms? Besides the genetic means, there t here should should be some mechanism to guide g uide the physical constitution of organisms . Second is the t he phenomenon phenomenon of regeneration. regeneration. If the t he whole head of a snail snai l is cut off, a new head grows out of the body as complete in all its parts as the previous one. Why have many animals the power of regenerating amputated members? How is that when the tail of a lizard is torn off, a new one sprouts in its place? There should be, I wondered, some sort of pre-existing substratum, as upon a model, to guide the atoms and molecules during the entire process of regeneration, and each cell should be well aware of the blueprint – whole within the parts (a substratum superstratum relationship)! Third, there are umpteen ideas and theories, both ancient and contemporary, to suggest that morphological development of our body is more ‘structu ‘structure-related’ re-related’ than ‘chemistr ‘chemistry-r y-related’ elated’. Starting from f rom the almost forgotten theory of Preformation 1, down to the latest ndings of ‘Hox genes’ which display spatial collinearity 2, there has always been a ‘str ‘structureucturebased concept’ wherever attempts are made to explain morphological development. develo pment. A precise blueprint of the body is hypothesized hyp othesized to guide gu ide the process of bodily bod ily development. These facts fact s led me to believe that there are some s ome subtle subtle morphogenetic eld patterns to guide the architectural development of organisms; and the 3-dimensional images we see in the natural magic and palingenesis are nothing but some form of subtle patterns made somehow visible to physical perception. It was during the course of my scientic pursuit of these wonderful phenomena of nature that I unexpectedly came across the Shroud mystery . I could observe and discover a close resemblance between the phenomenon of 3D image creation in the natural magic (in the case of palingenesis also) and the 3-dimensionally encoded image in the Shroud of Turin. I thought the underlying science of these natural phenomena, if explored, would offer a working hypothesis to coordinate and explain the puzzling image on the Shroud of Turin. Another matter that reinforced my ideas is the nature of the ‘Resurrection body’ of Jesus Christ. Whether the Resurrection body was a materialistic one with ‘esh and blood’ or 1.
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a spiritual one has been a long-lasting and great difference of opinion in Christendo Chris tendom. m. Many contend that the body of Jesus was the spiritual spiritu al body – and, though most real of all substantial substanti al things, thi ngs, it was an ‘appearance’ from the physical standpoint. Thus, the Resurrection of Jesus Christ has close palingenesis – the spectral resurrectio linkage with the phenomena of palingenesis resurrection n of plants. Now, one might be tempted to ask whether these play-like phenomena, even if assumed to have scientic basis, can c an resolve the long-lasti long-lasting ng mystery that enshrouds the Shroud of Turi Turin. n. I will wi ll not say this thi s would put to rest the mystery wrapped w rapped in the t he Turi Turin n Shroud. A non-professi non-professional onal like l ike me should not rush to conclusions on issues on which experts in the elds are still unclear. Nevertheless, I trust my propositions would certainly give a good start in i n the right direction. Then again, there t here is a fear in a corner of my heart that my propositions propositions in this book could easily be thrown out in no time by a group of people who arrogate themselves as the sole representatives of the ofcial science, and who would be pleased to regard what others speak spea k of as ‘unscientic’ ‘unscienti c’,, or simply lable it as ‘pseudo-science’. Yet, the strength of my belief goads me to think that science has a real surprise for the skeptics! As Einstein rightly said ‘ the most beautiful and the most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical ’. Natural magic is nothing other than unexplai u nexplained ned phenomena phenomena of of science . This, supercially viewed, may appear to be impossible and hallucinatory, but should to be considered in a scientic perspective. Phenomenon of natural magic is a manifestation of science. In the words of Francis Bacon, ‘ natural magic is the science which applies the knowledge of hidden forms to the production of wonderful operations; and by uniting activities with passives, displays wonderful works of nature .” As regards the mysterious image on the Shroud, it is a common proposition that no ancient artistic technique could have been able to imprint the 3-dimensionally encoded human gure on the Turin Shroud with anatomical and circumstantial exactitude. Recent discoveries in quantum science come in as a potent aid in elucidating remarkable facts on the subject. I theorize that the formation of 3D images of plants and palingenesis is also the work of animals in the magnicent phenomena of palingenesis quantum holographic processes and that these evidential proofs can help in the unravelling of the mystery wrapped in the Shroud. The principal objectives of this book are: To provide a concise form of Shroud history To outline some of the important importa nt characteristic character istic features of Shroud image that warrant scientic analysis
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To provide several evidences largely drawn from the alchemical and natural magic genre, in support of 3-dimensional image formation from the bio-matter of decomposed animals and plants To make a scientic analysis of the phenomenon of 3-D image formation in nature with regard to the latest ndings in the quantum realm And to correlate it to the 3-dimensionally 3-dimensional ly encoded image imprinted in the t he Shroud of Turi Turin. n. The chapters of this book can be broadly grouped under four main parts. The rst part makes a brief survey of the documented history of the Turi urin n Shroud, how the Shroud got its scientic lure, major tests conducted on it and results thereof, and nally the astonishing characteristics of the Shroud image revealed to the world thanks to major scientic studies and researches. Part two takes the readers to an entirely different eld of knowledge – the forgotten science of resuscitating spectral plants from their ashes ( palingenesis) and natural magic. They are full of amazing ‘hard-to-nd’ information relating to visual manifestation of 3D images of plants and animals from their decomposed phlegm. Part three serves to explain how the various discoveries of science, especially those in the quantum realm, are pointing more and more to a ‘holographic eld’ where matter is guided by commonly invisible energy templates. It also offers to explain in a simple way what a hologram is, its optical opti cal characteristics etc., as per classical science. Finally Final ly,, in Part Pa rt four, attempts have been made to to make a proper synthesis sy nthesis of all the t he three, viz., viz ., Shroud Shroud image, 3D images forming out of decomposed decomposed parts of plants and animals and the idea of quantum holographic eld patterns . The theory is simple: the spectral 3D images manifest from the decomposed phlegm of animals and plants are nothing but their ‘quantum holograms’ and similar quantum holographic manifestation of physical body was responsible for the imprint of the mysterious image on the Shroud of of Turi Turin. n. A detailed comparison comparis on between the characteristics characteris tics of Shroud of Turi Turin n and those of holograms is made out in chapter 16. 16. The hour is close upon us when we shall commence our retrospect of one of of the most wonderf wonderful ul theories t heories of the past – the theory of palingenesis , and the investigation of one of the oldest oldest mysteries of humanity humanit y – the image on the Shroud . If you’d like to write wr ite to me, my home home and e-mail addresses are on the back of the title page. I promise to respond to all of you who communicate. In the meantime, I hope you nd this book informative and interesting and I thank you in advance for taking the time to read it . Do enjoy the book!
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17. Conclusion I admit there is mystery in the resurrection; but there is no impossibility. I do not see one bit more difculty in bringing a resurrection body out of a dead and corrupt body in the grave, than in bringing the bright fragment blossom of a rose out of a dry, dr y, ugly, ugly, and repulsive repul sive root John Cumming (1855)
We have now come to the end of our inquiry, our survey of the problems connected with wit h the puzzling puzzl ing Shroud image, and the attempts to solve it. It It may be helpful at this juncture just to draw a few threads together. It has been pretty rmly established by various researchers that the Shroud is not a painting in any known sense of the term. When taken in concert certai cer tain n conclusive facts about the Shroud – it conforms conforms to the Gospel accounts, anatomically perfect, light and dark are reversed, extremely supercial, there is no mark of paint or brush strokes, bres of the cloth were not cemented together by any foreign material, depth information of the image has been encoded three-dimensionally, occurrence of high level of bilirubin in the bloodstains, abundance of microscopic dust in the foot-area of the imprint, to name a few – these are enough to make even a skeptic believe in the natural natura l causes of Shroud image. But science does does not rely on ‘collaborative evidences’ but requires empirical tests and concrete results of proofs. The clear recognition of this fact fac t will wi ll enable one to avoi avoid d certain dialectic confusions. The study on the Shroud image made so far offers clues in plenty to arrive at its cause. At any rate, the Shroud cannot be a hoax. In order for this inscrutable image on the Shroud to be a fraud, the prankster could not have managed with any mammal blood, but would have had to use real human blood to bring realism. He would have had to possess a high degree of not only anatomical and medical knowledge but also of great Gospel knowledge to defraud. These factors, though not likely, are of course feasible, and the hands of a fraud could not be ruled out on these grounds alone. But the 165
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balance of probabilities leads us to the solid and irrefutable conclusion that the image cannot be a fake . Why would a forger take tremendous pains and be clever and ambitio a mbitious us to produce a fake image on the Shroud is a million dollar question that nobody has yet been able to explain. Did he opt to strain every nerve just for the sake of fooling humanity? No faker would have foreseen that his work ought to have met anatomical exactitude, biblical narrations, scientic inquiries etc., for no intellect of his time would have been able to comprehend such latent details. Even assuming he attempted this out of passion, how could he have envisioned the idea of ‘negative image’ or a painting painti ng with reverse shade, and executed it as back as in the 14th 14th century? centur y? How could he have incorporated the image intensity versus distance correlation into the Shroud image? How could he have ensured that the impression of the image did not penetrate a depth less than 1/100th of a hair? Now,, even assuming Now assumi ng all these t hese queries can somehow be explai explained, ned, there are still questions hanging over such an assumption of a faker. How could he have been able to bring in the X-ray effect amazingly in the case of hands, where one could easily observe metacarpal bones and phalange bones of each nger? What could have made the pollens grains, endemic to Palestine region, appear on the Shroud? Who could have brought the samples of limestone on the Shroud from Jerusalem? And, as Stevenson commented, if the Shroud was a creation of the Middle Ages, then its forger must have ordered the mites to go with it! Hence, by no stretch of imagination imagi nation can it be concluded that the Shroud image was a human object d’art . Having arrived at the fact that the Shroud could not be a work of human, there are some questions in connection with wit h it that one may fairly ask . How did the Shroud image happen or what caused it to happen? Is it a candid work of Nature or work of Providence? If a work of Nature, is it governed by the known laws of Nature or science? Or, if it relates to the recondite regions of current science, can it be understood with the aid of contemporar contem poraryy science? Many researchers have attempted to connect the Shroud image to the Resurrection of Jesus. But such assumptions, if viewed in isolation, are totally speculative views of theology. A parallel phenomenon of Nature which could be able to attest the resurrection phenomenon is the resuscitation of plants from ashes, or palingenesis . It, as we have seen thus far, is a marvelous phenomenon of Nature, capable of revealing to the world the three-dimensional, otherwise imperceptible, subtle body underlying the material body of organisms. Palingenesis makes it more 166
