The general theory of electromagnetic vibrations of Maxwell and inventions of Marconi and Tesla [3] as well as numerous observations of radiation from organisms and separate cells brought about the concept of the cosmic harmony of vibrations and the Universion which carries these vibrations. The Universion, according to Lakhovsky [4], is the synthesis of the infinitely great and the infinitely small.
His threefold principle: “Life is created by radiation,
Maintained by radiation,
Destroyed by oscillatory disequilibrium” [4]


and the studies of animal instinct as well as the geological and geographical distribution of cancer yielded the creation of Multiple Wave Oscillator (generating all fundamental frequencies from 750 kHz to 3 MHz and numerous harmonics which may extend as far as 300 GHz, i.e., the infra-red and visible light regions). It was built by Lakhovsky and Tesla and successfully applied in the treatment of cancer and various metabolic disorders in plants, animals and human patients (some medical reports from the 30s are quoted in [4]).
“The foregoing facts show that in a healthy organism, every tissue must contain, in constant proportions, conducting and insulating constituents which I have named biomagnomobile units.
“It is essentially due to the energy of its own oscillation that the cell is able to summon for its needs all these insulating and conducting substances which are distributed to the location where they are required for the maintenance of the life of the cell itself ”, wrote J.Lakhovsky in the mid 30s [4]. In the late 30s, Wilhelm Reich summarised his studies of sexual functions and bioelectrical experiments with primitive micro-organisms (protozoa) by introducing the concept of the “bion” (a pattern formed in a colloid solution which is so similar to living organisms structure-formation behaviour that it is not clear whether here one deals with the primitive forms of life or with some physical and chemical changes in the solution) and the “Organo” (the subtle biophysical energy which is irradiated by living organisms and bion structures and which permits them) [5].

The study (initially made by W. Reich in the Institute for Botanics at Oslo University) reveals the principle: any substance that is important for cell structure tends to organise itself in a certain manner to form cell-like patterns. What is very important - such patterns are dynamic. The oscillative formula:

mechanical stress - electrical charge  electrical discharge - mechanical relaxation

turns out to be universal. Bions (the smallest units of living matter that arise spontaneously from disintegrated matter thanks to universal life energy - organ) were actually considered as Reich’s chimeras in the major scientific community of his time. Nevertheless Reich’s experiments with pollen and colloid solutions were not only reproduced in the Analytical Laboratory in Nizza and in the Physiological Laboratory in Sorbonne, but also made it possible for Reich to develop a healing device the “organ-accumulator” which he used successfully for treating patients [6]. According to Reich, health is characterised by the vital pulsation of this “basically new cosmic energy” (organ) in all the organs, whereas in a dying organism, “first the organ energy field shrinks, and then the tissues lose their organ” [7].
We do not have in mind to make a deep excursion into the historical background of the holistic viewpoint of health and healing (a brief survey of Reich’s forerunners may be found in [8] and followers - in [6]). These are only two examples of the notion of the “cosmic” and “vital” energy, which is bound to come whenever someone tries to define health and illness in general. Despite the obvious positive results, both inventors had problems introducing their devices into general curative process, to a great extent owing to the failure to directly detect this energy. This energy is supposed to be akin to - however not completely - electromagnetic energy. This incomplete paring, the occurrence of “something else”, is reflected also in the notion of field in biology. For instance, A. Gurvich introduced the notion of the morphogenetic field as a field of a group of cells, which exhibit coherent behaviour in shape-forming processes in order to describe changes in the processes of cell differentiation and morphogenesis during evolution [9]. This concept is used in Wolpert’s theory of positional information [10], according to which, during the evolution of multicellular organisms, the spatial organisation of cell differentiation changes rather than the cells themselves; any further step of development depends on the spatial network of molecules, cells and tissues at the previous step. This theory does not include electromagnetic interactions explicitly because positional information is considered to be determined by the chemical and mechanical relationships between cells. However, both mechanical and chemical changes involve charge rearrangement within a cell or organism and thus give rise to electromagnetic field changes.