Explore the Science of Biophotons & Radiating Your Inner Light

For thousands of years, artists have depicted saints, mystics and awakened beings surrounded by halos and radiant fields of light. In Explore the Science of Biophotons & Radiating Your Inner Light, Dawson Church, PhD, asks whether that radiance might reflect something more than symbolism. The human body does emit measurable light: scientists call these emissions biophotons, particles of light produced by living cells. For Dawson, this emerging science raises an intriguing possibility about the glow that mystics across cultures have described, and about the fleeting moments of peace, light, oneness or unseen presence that many people have known and wondered how to find again.

This is a free online video event from The Shift Network. It goes out live on Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 5:30pm Pacific (8:30pm Eastern), with a final replay on Sunday, November 15 at 11:00am Pacific (2:00pm Eastern). Registration is free on The Shift Network's page, and everyone who registers receives the recording.

Dawson's starting point is that you do not have to choose between scientific rigor and spiritual experience. At the center of the event is EcoMeditation, his approach that combines evidence-based practices including EFT tapping, heart coherence, vagus nerve activation, breath and meditation. He designed it to get past what he sees as one of the biggest obstacles to going deeper: the endlessly distracted mind. During the event he guides an EcoMeditation practice that brings together breath, gentle EFT tapping and grounding, intended to calm the nervous system and quiet distraction. From that receptive state, participants are invited to connect with a guiding archetype, a teacher, master, animal or figure that deeply resonates with them, and to sense its presence as a source of gentle light and inner wisdom.

Alongside the practice, Dawson walks through the science he draws on. He looks at how biophotons may offer a biological basis for the glow or halo that mystics have described for centuries, and what that might mean for understanding your own transcendent experiences. He explores the double-slit experiment and the observer effect, how light and observation interact at the quantum level, and the idea, as he puts it, that consciousness can shape material reality. He also introduces Fröhlich coherence, a scientific theory describing how biological systems can organize energy into coherent patterns, and considers what this area of inquiry might reveal about the body's connective tissue, subtle energy and the experience of inner radiance. In his account, the body may be naturally designed to generate and transmit coherent energy and light.

The aim, as Dawson frames it, is not to escape ordinary life. It is to return to it centered, connected and inspired, bringing the love, wisdom and expanded awareness found in these states into the way you live every day. He also offers a way to begin connecting with the presence and guidance of your archetype in everyday life.

Dawson Church founded the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare to study and implement promising evidence-based psychological and medical techniques, and serves as its executive director. He is the award-winning author of Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience of Remodeling Your Brain for Creativity, Resilience, and Joy; Mind to Matter: The Astonishing Science of How Your Brain Creates Material Reality; and The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention. His research has been published in scientific journals, he edits Energy Psychology: Theory, Research, and Treatment, a peer-reviewed professional journal, and he blogs for HuffPost. Through EFT Universe he shares how to apply the findings of energy psychology to health and athletic performance.

During the event, Dawson also gives details of his 18-week live video training, which continues the work of moving beyond ordinary awareness, accessing expanded states of consciousness, strengthening the connection to inner guidance and cultivating the love, wisdom and radiance within. The free event stands on its own as an introduction to EcoMeditation and to the science of human radiance.