In the 1970s, after many years of research, a team at UCLA including Mitchell May successfully created specialized techniques that captured the Kirlian effect in photographic form. These amazing photographs illustrate the phenomenal life energy in natural healing substances. Displayed here are fascinating photographs of the life force energy found in The Synergy Company's superfoods. Please note that all of the rare Kirlian images used on The Synergy Company's website are copyrighted and have been furnished courtesy of Mitchell M. May and The Synergy Company. They may not be reproduced in any manner without written permission from the copyright holders.

After a near-fatal accident, Mitchell May fortuitously met Jack Gray, a well-known energy healer. It was the beginning of a long and fruitful healing partnership. Jack worked extensively with Mitchell during his long, post accident recuperation and then as Mitchell's mentor and teacher for the next seven years. During this time, Mitchell came to understand that life force energy, also known as chi, ki or prana, is the source of our life spark — it continually nourishes, sustains and heals us. What began as a personal journey towards recovery, became a passionate study of the sources and power of life force energies. Mitchell immersed himself in the healing traditions of ancient cultures, looking for ways to identify and use this life spark to create health and regeneration. In his cross-cultural studies, he found a common thread running through these ancient traditions. Certain nutrient-dense plants, such as algae, berries, sprouts, young grasses, mushrooms, herbs and flowers, were used consistently to spark a therapeutic response.

Mitchell began using Kirlian photography, photomicrography and polarized light fields to produce energy field images of these natural substances. He found that life force energy manifested as specific patterns and structures. Those plants with the brightest, most intricate and most well-balanced energy, such as particular herbs, algae, mushrooms and sprouts, were the same botanicals used by traditional healers. Their unusually radiant and harmonic patterns seemed to be valuable reservoirs of pure life force energy. It became clear to Mitchell that when these healing foods are expertly grown, harvested, prepared and blended together, they transfer their inherent patterns into our energetic fields and greatly enhance our health and well-being. For this reason, Mitchell May has taken extraordinary measures to preserve the life force energies of the ingredients in Pure Synergy and all other Synergy Company products. Dr. Gabriel Cousens further explains this concept in an article for Explore magazine.

In their book, The Dark Side of the Brain, Drs. Harry Oldfield and Roger Coghill suggest that the effect observed in Kirlian photography results from a high-voltage coronal discharge. It is caused by pulsed high-frequency waves (not to be confused with simple high-frequency waves) and can therefore be explained in terms of ordinary physics. William A. Tiller, PhD, of Stanford University, states that every substance and organism radiates and absorbs energy via a unique wave field, which then exhibits certain geometrical frequency and radiation characteristics. There is a measurable, extended force field that exists around all forms of matter, whether animate or inanimate.

Kirlian photographs are created utilizing a metal plate and a generator, or oscillator, to produce a high-voltage field of variable pulse and frequency. There is no light used in this process. Through the action of high-frequency fields, electrons are emitted from the body of an organism, and this energy is dissipated into a photographic emulsion, as light would be. Different colors or shadings appear in a brilliant corona surrounding the object, depending upon the type of film used.