Syntonic Bibliography

These important references are listed here to help guide the practitioner through the years of clinical applications and research that have demonstrated that certain selected light frequencies (colors), applied by way of the eyes, can produce beneficial results in the body.

Avetinsov ES. et.al., Applying lasers to accommodative disorders. Moscow Helmholtz Res Inst of Eye Dis. Laser Physics 1995; 5(4):917-921.

Babbitt, Edwin: The Principles of Light and Color: The Healing Power of Color 1878

Breiling B, & Hartley L (Editors), Light Years Ahead. Berkeley: Celestial Arts, 1996.

Campbell ss & Murphy PJ. Extraocular circadian phototransduction. in humans. Science 1998; 279:396-399.

Chang J, Fisch J. & Popp FA (Editors), Biophotons.; Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers; 1998.

Crile, G. The Phenomena of Life: A radio-electric interpretation. Ney York: W.W. Norton & Co. 1936.

Dinshah, Darius. Let There Be Light, Practical Manual for Spectro-Chrome Therapy.  Dinshah health Society. Malaga, NJ.  Ninth Edition, 2007. 

Douglass, W.C., MD. Into the Light: The exciting story of the life-savingbreakthrough therapy of the age. Second Opinion Publishing, Inc. Atlanta, Georgia, 1993.

Eames TH. Restrictions of the visual fields as handicaps to learning Jrnl of Edu 1936; 2.

Gimbel, Theo.  Healing Through Colour. The C. W. Daniel Company Limited, Great Britian. 1980

Goldstein, Kurt – The Organism:A Holistic Approach to Biology Derived from Pathological Data in Man 1939, American Book Company, New York

Gottlieb, R. & Wallace, L, Syntonic Phototherapy, J. Behavioral Optometry 2001; 12(2):31-38.

Hollwich, F., The Influence of Ocular Light Perception on Metabolism in Man and in Animal. Springer-Verlag: Ny, 1979.

Ingersoll S. Syntonics as reading enhancement techniques at the Livingston Developmental Academy (presented at 66th Annual Conference Light and Vision, Vancouver, CN, 1998). Journal of Optometric Phototherapy 1999.

Kaplan R. Changes in form visual fields in reading disabled children produced by syntonic stimulation. International Journal of Biosocial Research 1983; 5(1):20-33.

Karu TI. Mechanisms of low-power laser light action on cellular level. In Zimunovic Z., ed. Lasers in Medicine and Dentistry. Rijeka: Vitgraph, 2000:97-125.

Karu TI. The photobiology of low-power laser therapy. Chur, London, Paris, New York: Harwood Academic Pub, 1989.

Karu TI. The Science of Low Power Laser Therapy. London: Gordon and Breach Sci. Publ., 1998.

Liberman J. The effects of syntonic colored light stimulation on certain visual and cognitive functions. Journal of Optometric Vision Development 1986; 17(June).

Liberman, J. Light Medicine of the Future, Santa Fe NM: Bear and Co., 1991.

Martel, Anadi Light Therapies: A Complete Guide to The Healing Power Of Light.  Healing Arts Press, Rochester, Vermont, 2018

Oren DA. An investigation of ophthalmic function in winter seasonal affective disorder. Depression 1993; 1: 29-37.

Oren DA & Terman M. Tweaking the human circadian clock with light. Science1998; 279:333-334.

Oschman, J. Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis. Churchhill Livingstone,, an imprint of Harcourt Publishers Limited. 2000.

Oschman, J. Exploring the biology of phototherapy. Journal of Optometric Phototherapy 2001;1-9.

Ott J. Health and Light. Old Grenwich: Devan-Adair 1973.

Pancoast, S., Red and Blue Light. 1877 US (publisher unknown)

Park, D. The Fire within the Eye: A historical essay on the nature and meaning of light. Princeton: Princeton Univeristy Press, 1997.

Searfoss J, & Garzia R. Tunnel vision, a loss of visual sensitivity in school age children. Journal of Optometric Vision Development 2000; 21(3):117-130.

Spitler HR. The Syntonic Principle. Eaton, OH: College of Syntonic Optometry 1941.

Valadimir V. Shkunov and Boris Ya. Zel’dovich S, “Optical Phase Conjugation” — Sci. American, Dec, 1985 pp. 54-59 “Applications of Optical Phase Conjugation” David M Pepper Sci American January 1986, pp. 74-83

Wade. P.D, et al. Mammalian cerebral cortical tissue responds to low-intensity visible light. Proc Natl Acad Sci (U S A) 1988; 85(23):9322-9326.

Wolken, J.J. Light and Life Processes. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. 1986.

Young, Arthur, The Reflexive Universe: Evolution of Consciousness. Delacorte Press 1976.

Zajonc, A. Catching the Light: The entwined history of light and mind. New York: Bantam Books 1993. Tracing the spiritual/scientific history of light with special emphasis on Goethe and Steiner.