Editors' Note: This article, which Vibration first published in 1999, has a brand-new author's update added to the end.
The essence made from full spectrum light (e.g. sunlight or artificial light sources with all the frequencies found in sunlight) has so many uses, I consider it nearly to be an essence generalist. A generalist is any essence with such a wide range of action that it can be thought of as an emergency tonic, and as a general-all-'round helper. Examples of generalists are Bach's Rescue Remedy and Whole Energy Essences' Master Harmonizing Mixture. But Full Spectrum Light (FSL) has some additional talents which are worth exploring in more depth.
Saints Preserve Us!!
The question of how to preserve essences so they don't go bad has occupied
essence makers, practitioners and users for years. The traditional method --
using alcohol -- is troublesome to many, especially those who have a
difficult history with alcohol or who are sensitive to its properties.
Another method -- using glycerine -- goes bad rather quickly, and many dislike
its somewhat slimy feel and overly sweet taste; it isn't widely used. Vinegar is another approach, but it can be a bit hard to take taste-wise. It is even more difficult to find essence makers who bottle in vinegar than it is for glycerine.
I mulled over the difficulty myself for a number of years, and when it came time to make the Whole Energy Essences, I was intuitively guided to make and use an FSL essence as their preservative. I understood it was to be "light" alone that would preserve the energy of the essences, as well as to guard against physical intrusions (such as bacteria, etc). The idea of "being kept in the Light" was very appealing to me, and a good metaphor for the best that healthcare has to offer. FSL is now used in all the Whole Energy Essences as their sole preservative, making them alcohol free.
As a consumer and practitioner using both essences and homeopathy, I have found that their energies (both in the bottle and in the person) may be negated when exposed to a variety of energy sources. X-ray machines used to examine luggage in airports are a prime example. Airport personnel are rather puzzled by requests to hand-check essences and remedies. In fact, I once seemed to have so alarmed and confused an airline employee with my questions about luggage exposure to X-rays that I found I had a security escort throughout the airport until I boarded my plane. My explanations about vibrational healing did not do a thing to assuage their concerns.
But once the FSL was added to the essences, all
trips through airport X-ray machines have left the remedies unaffected. When diluting homeopathic remedies or other
makers' essences, adding a few drops of FSL to the bottle means that they, too, make it through the airport unscathed.
I have found that bottles of Whole Energy Essences have not grown bacteria, gotten stale, or gone off taste when preserved solely with FSL in the 13 years since its introduction (see the update below for the single exception to this otherwise pristine habit). However, once a user
contaminates the bottle (most commonly through touching the dropper to their mouth), it may grow bacteria if not refrigerated.
While Whole Energy Essences first developed this method of preservation, I have noticed some other essence makers using their own versions for similar purposes. This demonstrates to me how much the essence world is still developing and learning and growing and I say: "Bully for us!!"
The Right Light
FSL is made from the light of a very finely crafted full spectrum light bulb. I used an artificial source instead of sunlight because the balance of the spectrum from the sun has become distorted due to pollution, ozone depletion, presence of artificial light sources, etc. Outdoor light is not the light we as organisms evolved under.
Given that it has been discovered that light affects our internal time clock, I theorize that a distorted sunlight spectrum may do distorted things to our biology. This is like having a bad stereo speaker, one which emits only some of the tones played by an orchestra -- it might be music, but it certainly doesn't give the effect intended by the composer. FSL for some people can help them get the right stimuli from a balanced spectrum of sun-like light.
There are many implications to this idea. I first think of folks who are exposed to very little actual sunlight but instead get a steady diet of artificial light all day and evening. They therefore are not receiving a full range of stimuli from a wide variety of light frequencies. In particular, the many people with sensitivities to florescent lighting (including those with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, where the effect may be extreme and debilitating) lead me to think that light, like any form of nourishment, must be varied and full of ALL the right nutrients (frequencies) in order to promote good health.
Quantity of sunlight is an additional issue. In thinking about essences to help with symptoms arising from lack of sunlight, certainly the first one that comes to mind is FSL. This essence can give reminders of sunlight to both animals (human and otherwise) as well as to plants. For an article on essences and lack of sunlight, see here.
Gentle Amplification
The addition of FSL does more than protect the energies of the essences. It seems it gently but significantly amplifies them, so they
more readily address deeper levels of the user's being. Some methods by which essence energies become magnified can seem somewhat harsh, but FSL always strikes me as harmonious and smooth.
I also find FSL, when used in conjunction with other therapies, may similarly enhance their effect or potency. This essence can of course be combined with other vibrational essences as well for a similar effect.
Author's Update, 2006
There has been a very interesting development in this essence since the above article was written in 1998. Sometime in August of 2001, I was contacted by an essence customer who said the essence she had recently purchased from Whole Energy Essences was growing bacteria. It was freshly bottled before we mailed it to her, yet it had turned cloudy and smelly, and this almost immediately after she received it. We had NEVER had this happen before. In fact, my personal kit of the WEE essences dates from 1993, and none of them had ever gone bad.
Of course, I asked her to discard it, and I sat and meditated on what to do, since I didn't want to send her another bottle that would go just go bad . As a result, I was guided to remake the Full Spectrum Light mother essence. Or, to remake some ASPECTS of it.
FSL is an essence made in four parts, with 4 different exposures to full spectrum light. Two are combined with one another, and then some diluted mixture of all of these are put into the stock bottle. Very complicated, but it seems to work... or it did, up until that point. I remade parts of the mother essence, and re-sent the customer her order. I was guided also to add this FSL mixture to ALL of the WEE mother essences, even though the old FSL mixture was already present. (We've been using this "updated" version of FSL ever since, and we've never had another bottle go funky on us!)
In a way, I wasn't entirely surprised. For the month prior, as I made up stock essences to be to fulfill orders, I was guided to add a little more mother essence than I had in the prior years. This had never happened before, so I knew something was changing, but I didn't take the time to sit and ask about it. That is, not until the situation was right in my face with the spoiled bottle of stock essence.
Now, you remember August 2001, right? It was just a few weeks before September 11th occurred. The shock of that event brought about a large shift of consciousness for many. I have always felt that the FSL essence needed to be "updated" in response to the changing times. Now it is again in harmony with its purpose and the work it facilitates. It will, no doubt, need updating some time again in the future....
(Note: Full Spectrum Light essence is available bottled on its own: information here.)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Deborah Bier, PhD, is the maker of Whole Energy Essences
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The essence made from full spectrum light (e.g. sunlight or artificial light sources with all the frequencies found in sunlight) has so many uses, I consider it nearly to be an 
As a consumer and practitioner using both essences and homeopathy, I have found that their energies (both in the bottle and in the person) may be negated when exposed to a variety of energy sources. X-ray machines used to examine luggage in airports are a prime example. Airport personnel are rather puzzled by requests to hand-check essences and remedies. In fact, I once seemed to have so alarmed and confused an airline employee with my questions about luggage exposure to X-rays that I found I had a security escort throughout the airport until I boarded my plane. My explanations about vibrational healing did not do a thing to assuage their concerns.
The Right Light
Of course, I asked her to discard it, and I sat and meditated on what to do, since I didn't want to send her another bottle that would go just go bad . As a result, I was guided to remake the Full Spectrum Light mother essence. Or, to remake some ASPECTS of it.