In the world of so-called viral disease, there’s an old debate about whether these are caused by viruses or by an unhealthy “terrain” – that is, the environment of the body itself.

For instance, could pollutants in the air compromise our nasal passages, throat, and lungs, leading to conditions like the common cold? Could this happen without a “cold virus”? Is this more likely to occur when we lack certain nutrients, such as vitamin D, which our body produces in response to sunlight exposure, explaining why we get colds in the winter?

Meanwhile, if viruses exist, are they the cause of the disease or are they part of the body’s response? Scientists now believe that there are countless trillions of viruses in the body at any given time, meaning they are not necessarily foreign to the body – a “virome” that is part of us, much as our bacterial “biome” is. Are they, as some have posited, nothing more than a type of exosome – a message produced in one cell that travels to other cells? Might we see an increase in the number of a particular virus in response to a specific disease that is actually caused by a toxic terrain?

We’re not here to settle this debate or claim that diseases are exclusively caused by one factor over the other. Whether a disease is caused by viruses or not, however, the health of our terrain contributes to the development of symptoms.

It’s essential to note that while we primarily discuss this from a viral perspective, the terrain concept also plays a crucial role in defending against other pathogens like bacteria and fungi.

Understanding the Energetic Terrain

In bioenergetics, we focus on the energy aspect of health and disease. In bioenergetic theory, the body-field – an underlying blueprint for communication within the body – governs all bodily functions. When distortions occur in this blueprint, it leads to communication errors within the body. This not only affects our daily well-being but also our response to pathogens and the healing processes that follow disease.

So in bioenergetics, we not only acknowledge the biochemical terrain – the state of our tissues, nutrient levels, and toxins – but also recognize an energetic terrain.

Everything in nature is built from energy, which has a wave or frequency nature. When fundamental energies combine into molecules and proteins and DNA and cells, their frequencies interact and create unique combinations of frequencies. We refer to these as “space resonances,” or more simply “biosignatures.”

Every virus, then, has its own biosignature. Since the body operates on an energy level using resonance, viruses are only attracted to tissues that are in a specific energetic state.

While the body has an overall energetic terrain, bioenergetics identifies specific terrains associated with particular body tissues. When a terrain field is distorted, it indicates a problem in the related tissues. These tissues then resonate with specific pathogens, becoming more susceptible to the presence of those pathogens.

The distortion of an energetic terrain field does not necessarily indicate the presence of a pathogen or its related disease. Instead, the distortion points to an energetic breakdown of defenses, providing greater opportunity for the presence of a given pathogen.

You can visualize this with two magnets. Imagine a healthy terrain is like the positive force of a magnetic field, and its related pathogens are also like the positive force of a magnet. The pathogens could approach that terrain but, through the mere presence of the magnetic field, they would be repelled. If the terrain were distorted, however, and its polarity were flipped, it would then become attractive to those pathogens. It doesn’t mean the pathogens are present to be attracted; but if they are present, they will be attracted.

This is a grossly simplistic view of the topic, as biosignatures are far more complex than the bipolar “yes” and “no” of a magnet. And the body-field is not only magnetic in nature. But since many people have played with magnets and understand this concept, it provides a sense of how non-physical fields can exert defenses or allow infection to take place.

Specific Tissues, Specific Pathogens

In the world of biochemistry, we already recognize that certain pathogens affect certain areas of the body – viruses causing a cold mainly affect the respiratory tract while hepatitis viruses affect the liver.

Similar to the biochemical view, bioenergetics recognizes matches between pathogens and  specific tissues, when an energetic terrain is distorted. Remember, terrain distortion doesn’t guarantee the presence of a pathogen; but it does suggest a vulnerability due to bioenergetic attraction.

For example, if the central nervous system terrain is distorted, there’s greater vulnerability to certain viruses, like togaviridae and matonviridae families (including rubella), due to their bioenergetic matches. But if the stomach terrain is distorted, there is greater susceptibility to bacteria like E. coli.

Pathogens, however, can hide from the immune system in a variety of ways, making it appear as though an infection has cleared when it hasn’t. In this case, the body may suffer from a slow continuation of the infection or a recurrence of it down the line.

Bioenergetics introduces another possibility: that the biosignature of a virus can imprint itself on the field of a terrain, causing a persistent infection or later infections while entirely evading the chemical immune system. This provides an explanation for why some people appear to have the symptoms of a microbial-related disease but lab tests cannot detect the actual disease-causing agent.

Once the terrain field is corrected, however, the viral signature is removed and the field is once again able to defend against infection.

Finally, we should note a link between energetic terrains and DNA, which can be damaged by radiation. Because of this, there are times when we may need to go beyond correction of terrains and look to correcting radiation damage in the body-field before the terrains themselves will heal. 

Traditional Chinese Medicine and DNA

So bioenergetically speaking, where do the fields of these terrains arise from?

In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), there is a concept called divergent meridians. These are separate from the 12 primary meridians of acupuncture, but every bit as important. Some consider them to be sub-pathways of the primary meridians. In any case, they are said to be involved in the body’s response to pathogens – effectively buffers of the body’s “yin” nature, they store pathogens until they are full and begin spilling over into the body’s organs.

Interestingly, as Professor Peter Fraser (who developed the body-field theory) explored the bioenergetic nature of the immune system, he came upon a complex version of the divergent meridian theory. He was considering the role of divergent meridians in disease, but at first he couldn’t find any bioenergetic matches to support this idea

It’s only when he began testing unique patterns of divergent meridian relationships that he started finding bioenergetic “matches” to tissues and pathogens. In other words, the way the meridian fields related to one another allowed them to speak, via resonance, with tissues to maintain their health; and when these field patterns were damaged, they would speak with pathogens and more easily allow for infection.

“The so-called divergent meridians,” wrote Fraser, “are the key to immunity but only, as I found, when they are combined in a certain order. This ordinality I am sure originates in the arrangement of the genome, which is also ordinal.” In the end, he realized that divergent meridians themselves are simply patterns within the overall human body-field, which represented a concept he could use to study the terrains.

Fraser theorized that the cell’s centrosome, involved in cell division, communicated with DNA via light (photons) when exposed to magnetic influences. This exchange could create “informational images,” forming energetic terrains related to specific tissues and organs. This suggests a genetic connection to bioenergetics. When terrains are corrected, there’s the potential to correct DNA through resonance.

How Terrain Fields Are Created

This leaves us still asking, what gives rise to the actual terrain fields? Fraser found what he believed to be a cellular process producing them. His research showed that the cell’s centrosome – involved in cell division – communicated with the cell’s DNA when exposed to magnetic influences. (Some aspects of the body-field appear magnetic in nature, but of course we’re exposed to external magnetic influences as well.) He believed the centrosome spoke with the DNA via light (photons).

He theorized that this exchange could project “informational images,” creating what amounted to energetic and informational structures in space. When similar cells all project the same information structure, they create energetic terrains. Since similar cells cluster to form tissues and organs, the individual terrains fields are related to specific tissues and organs.

Importantly, this provides us with a genetic connection for bioenergetics. Fraser’s testing led him to believe that the energetic terrains were effectively manifestations of the body’s own DNA interacting with external fields via the centrosome. Thus, when there is any form of genetic damage, we end up with distorted communication with the centrosome, producing faulty terrains. If we’re able to correct these terrains, we have the potential through resonance to correct the DNA.

This is theoretical until proven, of course, but it is the working bioenergetic theory.

From a clinical standpoint, Fraser spoke often of geopathic stress and how it could distort the body-field. He believed this had an impact on centrosomes and thus DNA and the terrain fields. In the face of geopathic stress, he spoke of the need to support the centrosome by correcting the cell driver field while mitigating the impact of geopathic stress by correcting the liver integrator field.

How Energetic Terrain Distortions Occur

Generally speaking, serious distortions to the energetic terrains take much longer to develop than distortions to energetic drivers and integrators. This explains why advanced disease can take so long to manifest, often displaying later in life after years of unhealthy behaviors or habits. When the body-field is well energized (related to the drivers) and communicating properly (related to the integrators), it is better able to respond to the influences that would damage the terrains.

But as the field loses energy, efficiency, and accurate communication, it becomes more susceptible to such damage. Poor diet or sleep, lack of exercise, inadequate exposure to sunlight, lack of grounding, and more can all contribute to poor energy levels. Additionally, chemical toxins, emotional stress, non-native electromagnetic fields, geopathic stress, and more can distort the information of the field. And eventually, as genetic damage takes place, we get distorted projected images (explained above), which give us damaged terrains.

This is why it’s often useful to try correcting driver fields and integrator fields before addressing terrains, though this is not a hard and fast rule. In fact, Fraser felt that terrains became a priority when drivers themselves proved hard to correct. Also in cases where many terrain fields are distorted at once, especially if all the “immune” terrains (numbered 1-3 in the body-field theory) showed as priorities together.

In spite of this general rule of terrains distorting more slowly than other fields, there are still severe impacts that can distort them quickly. This includes the influence of shocks and traumas, excessive toxic load, and potentially even the overwhelm of pathogen exposure.

We should finally point out that, while depletion or distortion of other fields creates vulnerabilities for terrains, a distorted terrain can also compromise the organs and their fields. In other words, the effects are bi-directional. A depleted driver field may affect a terrain, which in turn affects a driver, leading to an unhappy spiral downwards in health.

The following shows which drivers Fraser believed were most likely to be affected by problems in each energetic terrain: