SHROUD OF

TURIN
An Imprint of the Soul,
Apparition or
Quantum Bio-Hologram

CHIDAMBARAM RAMESH

2010
 Table of contents
Illustrations v
Acknowledgements vii
Disclaimer vii
Foreword ix
Preface xi
PART - I 15
1. The Challenge of the Shroud 17
2. Mystery in its History 24
Hungarian Pray Manuscript 30
Sudarium Christi or the Face Cloth of Christ 32
3. Shroud under the Microscope 33
4. Words that the Blood Speaks 39
5. Mystery, but a Comprehensive Mystery 44
Photonegative character 45
Spatial dimension encrypted 46
X-ray like image 46
Superficiality and Minimum viewing distance 47
No directionality 47
Foreign objects endemic to Jerusalem found 47
Anatomical Accuracy and Forensic Examination 49
Human DNA 49
Nailing the Wrists Not the Palms 50
6. Three-Dimensionality: An Aura of the Original 51
7. C14 Dating - Square Peg in a Round Hole 56
8. Human Radiation and Other Theories 61
Scorch Theory 61
Radiation Theory 62
Traversable Lorentzian wormhole 64
Nuclear Radiation 67
Dr. Petrus Soons’ Holographic Findings 67
Isabel Piczek’s Quantum theory 68
Discrete energy values 71
9. A ‘Snapshot’ of Resurrection? 73

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PART - II 77
10. Forgotten Science of Palingenesis 79
Alchemical Palingenesis 81
Paracelsus – First to mention Palingenesis 83
Du Chesne’ account – Proof of Bodily Resurrection 84
Jacques Gaffarel’s account of Palingenesis 84
Kircher and the Imperial Secret 86
Disraeli – Vegetable Phoenix 88
Browne - Finger of God makes Sensible Structures 89
Ole worm and Langlot’s formula of Palingenesis 90
Ebenezer Sibly’s detailed Account of Palingenesis 91
An Incident of Human Palingenesis 94
Father Schott: Sparrow Revived in a bottle 96
Abbe Vallemont: Not a solid body but an apparition 97
Otto Tachenius: Acid-Base Reaction 99
The Monk-alchemist Ferarius 100
Oetinger and Biblical Promise of Resurrection 100
Ice Palingenesis: Imprint of Images in Ice 102
Carl Linnaeus’ encounter with palingenesis 103
Digby’s Palingenesis of Nettles 104
11. Natural Magic – Practical Part of Science 107
Indian Alchemy: Show of Snakes 108
Pliny’s Catalogue of Wonders and Albert Magnus 110
Moreau de Vautour: House full of Serpents 111
William of Auvergene’s Liber Vaccae 112
Miscellaneous Folk-magic Accounts 114
12. Proof for Soul’s Existence – Watters 118

PART - III 121

13. Magic of Quantum Reality 123
14. Holography: How it Articulates the Aesthetic Message 126
15. Biological Blueprints 131
Dela Warr’s Images and Benford’s Findings 135
Kirlian phantom leaf effect 138
DNA Phantom Effect 140
Holographic transmission of bio-information 144
Morphogenetic fields 146

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PART - IV 149
16. Shroud Image vis-à-vis Holography 151
Photo-negativity – A pseudoscopic effect 151
Three-Dimensionality: a trait of Bio-hologram 156
Superficiality of the image 158
No Directionality 159
Optimal Viewing Distance: 160
Half-tone effect and the Dehydration of linen 161
Mechanically Transparent’ Man is a Hologram! 162
17. Conclusion 165
Bibliography 170

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 ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Ventral and dorsal images on the Shroud of Turin
2. Negative image (frontal view)
3. Negative image (dorsal view)
4. A 16th c. painting attributed to Giovanni Battista della Rovere
5. Hungarian Pray Manuscript from the Budapest National Library
6. ‘L’-shaped holes in the Pray Code manuscript
7. ‘L’-shaped holes in the Turin shroud
8. Face image: Photographic positive and negative image
9. Image showing forearms and nailing in the wrists
10. Face image on the Shroud with clear bloodstains
11. Kai’s Bryce software reveals depth-information
12. 3-D image after using a Warp filter
13. First 3-D Shroud image made in 1976 with NASA computer
14. 3-D image of Shroud man
15. Enhanced VP-8 Emulator Relief of Face
16. 3-D relief image of Shroud man
17. Edward Hall (Oxford testing laboratory) and Michael Tite (British
Museum)
18. Picture depicting a wormhole
19. A Laboratory showing how a simple spirit may be extracted to
present flowers and herbs in full bloom
20. Animal Palingenesis: A resuscitated sparrow
21. A Resuscitated Rose - from Vallemont’s Curiositez de la Nature
22. Holographic Recording Process
23. Holographic Reconstruction Process
24. Dela Warr image of a foetus
25. Dela Warr photograph was created with the usage of a VP-8
analog analyzer
26. Dela Warr photograph was created with the usage of
Bryce4® software
27. Cut-leaf and its Kirlian image placed side-by-side
28. Cut-leaf is positioned directly on top of its first Kirlian photo
29. DNA phantom - the discrete replica like structure of the DNA
30. Picture revealing the 5-fold fine structure of the band like image
of DNA
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 Acknowledgements
Many people have helped bring this book to fruition. Chief among them
are: Mr. Barrie M.  Schwortz, Official Documenting photographer of
STURP, Dr.Marina Shaduri, PhD, Head of the Centre of Bioholography,
Tbilisi, Georgia, Dr. Matti Pitkänen of Finland, Nigel Kerner, renowned
author, Paolo Di Lazzaro, Chairman of the International Workshop
on the Scientific Approach to the Acheiropietos Images, Italy, Deacon
Peter Schumacher, Director, Shroud Exhibit and Museum (SEAM) Inc.,
Alamogordo, New Mexico, Dr.Petrus Soons of Panama and Dr.R.P.Bajpai,
Vice-Chancellor, Kurukshetra University, India. I record my very sincere
thanks to them. I am especially grateful to Joseph Marino, a long-time
Sindonologist, who spent his valuable time and expertise to correct and
edit the first manuscript. Also, a note of thanks is due to my friend
Bhuvana Narayanan who provided valuable advice and encouragement
throughout the preparation of this book. Librarians at several institutions
aided my efforts patiently. Without listing them all, I must at least thank
those at the University of Chicago Library Service, and those at the Madras
Institute of Developmental Studies, Adyar, Chennai. I have, of course,
stood on the shoulders of many ancient authors. The works are theirs; I
have only collected them and tried to bring them into the realm of current
science. To all such authors whose writings I have made liberal use of, I
would once more express collectively, and with all sincerity, my great sense
of indebtedness. Last, but not the least, I would like to thank my parents
and my sister for all their love and support. They have worked very hard
to provide me the opportunity to obtain the best possible education and
knowledge.

Disclaimer
This book is intended to provide a scientific explanation to the mysterious
image on the Holy Shroud of Turin and if the explanations offered in
the book hurt in any way the religious sentiments of the readers directly
or indirectly, I, as the author, apologise to the readers. Use of words like
phantom, apparition etc., to connote the resurrected body of Christ is not
invidious. If such terms offend, readers are requested to substitute more
acceptable phraseology in their place. The reproduction of illustrations, or
the borrowings of quotations, does not necessarily mean that the respective
authors agree with the ideas contained in this book.
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The isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field

has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest
of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis
something toward answering the demand; who are we?

Erwin Schrödinger, Science and Humanism (1952)

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 FOREWORD
Dr.Petrus Soons
3-D Shroud Researcher

A year ago Chidambaram Ramesh contacted me by mail asking questions

about the 3-D work that we had been doing the last 5 years on the image of
Jesus Christ on the Shroud of Turin, resulting in the production of a series
of holograms of the body. We have been in regular contact ever since and
he sent me the draft of the manuscript of this book and later asked me to
write a foreword to this work.
If you take on yourself to write about the image-formation mechanism
of the image of the Man of the Shroud, you stand on many shoulders.
Many scientists and non-scientists have tried to find an explanation for
the image-causation mechanism, but until now nobody has been able to
answer this riddle.
Mr. Ramesh walks the unconventional path and gives us a solid basis
for this by explaining the image formation mechanism to a process that
is much like Palingenesis, which is the resuscitation of plant-images from
their ashes. In Palingenesis, the decomposed parts of organisms display
the corporeal “hologram”-like phantom image of the entire organism they
constitute. It is reconstruction of the whole from the parts which is very
similar to holograms where the parts contain the whole.
Going a step further, quantum holography that operates at the atomic
level works on the same principle as conventional holography does and is
able to explain the phenomenon of Palingenesis as a quantum holographic
pattern that is entirely characteristic of the object in question. The writer
gives a series of examples that show unequivocally that all biological
organisms are basically quantum holograms and are connected with each
other and with a universal holographic quantum field.
In the last chapter of his book, Chidambaram Ramesh gives us his
explanation how this holographic 3-D quantum matrix of the body of
Jesus Christ could have projected itself onto the surface of the Shroud
linen, creating the image of Our Lord Jesus on the Shroud. He gives us
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also an explanation of some of the very specific characteristics of the

Shroud image, the photographic negativity and the built-in body-to-linen
3-D information in the grayscale of the image that ought to be explained
by anybody who proposes a new image-formation mechanism.
When you reconstruct a hologram from the master-hologram, it
produces a real and virtual image of the object in 3-D. A copy of the
virtual image is always positive. A contact copy of the real holographic
image however, is a “negative” image as we can observe in the Shroud
image. Photographs of quantum holographic manifestations as recorded
for example by Dela Warr’s device show spatially encoded 3-D information
when subjected to the Bryce Program or VP-8 Image Analyzer, and this is
what we can observe in the Shroud image also. Another series of specific
Shroud image qualities like the non-directionality, superficiality and the
half-tone effect can also be explained with this quantum holographic
idea.
The ideas in this book are a challenge to our intellects. It is like
Chidambaram Ramesh says in the end of his book. If it is not the final
solution to the Shroud mystery then at least it can serve as a feed for
further thought on the subject and stimulate a new generation of Shroud
researchers.

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 PREFACE

I scantly remember a street magic show I once enjoyed in my boyhood.

The performer conjured images of a scorpion on a screen by lighting up
an oil-lamp. The images were corporeal and, behold, three-dimensional!
Though such street shows were common in those days, they were thought
to be in the nature of some sort of trick. Being young, the incident made
me curious. Later, after a couple of decades, I came across a vernacular
book on folk-magic illustrating a method for exhibiting scorpion images.
It explained; a scorpion put inside a coconut and buried in horse-dung for
forty days, will yield a spirit, which if lighted with a cotton wick, would
produce images of scorpions as far as the light reaches. This caught my
attention and my mind raced with possibilities. During my second year of
graduation in Mechanical Engineering, I got introduced to the wonderful
optical phenomenon of holography. Considering the ‘corporeality’ and
‘three-dimensionality’ of the objects displayed under holography, my
mind, as quickly as a flash, contemplated a viable holographic connection
to the scorpion images displayed in the folk magic.
Afterward, the idea of alchemical palingenesis – resuscitating spectral
images of plants and flowers from their ashes – induced my curiosity
further. I made an extensive study of almost all the available literature
relating to this strange and marvellous phenomenon. Given the nature of
the 3D images as described in the processes, I could easily infer it is a form
of holographic field making a vortex of subtle ash particles, which in turn
makes visible the exact pattern of the plant inside the phial.
This being so, certain factors reinforced my belief that these ‘miraculous
images’ would have scientific significance. First, how our bodies and
other organic entities are formed has always been a baffling question of
developmental biology. The conventional genetic theory failed to explain
satisfactorily how genes code information about the morphology of
organism. Structural complexity of the genome is insufficient for organism
development. Ninety per cent of the DNA in humans and mice is the
same and there are enormous parallels between human DNA and that of
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a housefly. Likewise, the amount of DNA in some species of amoebae is

about 30 times as large as that in humans. If so, how can the DNA alone
account for the complicated structural formation in organisms? Besides
the genetic means, there should be some mechanism to guide the physical
constitution of organisms.
Second is the phenomenon of regeneration. If the whole head of a snail
is cut off, a new head grows out of the body as complete in all its parts
as the previous one. Why have many animals the power of regenerating
amputated members? How is that when the tail of a lizard is torn off,
a new one sprouts in its place? There should be, I wondered, some sort
of pre-existing substratum, as upon a model, to guide the atoms and
molecules during the entire process of regeneration, and each cell should
be well aware of the blueprint – whole within the parts (a substratum -
superstratum relationship)!
Third, there are umpteen ideas and theories, both ancient and
contemporary, to suggest that morphological development of our body is
more ‘structure-related’ than ‘chemistry-related’. Starting from the almost
forgotten theory of Preformation 1, down to the latest findings of ‘Hox
genes’ which display spatial collinearity 2, there has always been a ‘structure-
based concept’ wherever attempts are made to explain morphological
development. A precise blueprint of the body is hypothesized to guide the
process of bodily development.
These facts led me to believe that there are some subtle morphogenetic
field patterns to guide the architectural development of organisms; and
the 3-dimensional images we see in the natural magic and palingenesis
are nothing but some form of subtle patterns made somehow visible to
physical perception.
It was during the course of my scientific pursuit of these wonderful
phenomena of nature that I unexpectedly came across the Shroud
mystery. I could observe and discover a close resemblance between the
phenomenon of 3D image creation in the natural magic (in the case of
palingenesis also) and the 3-dimensionally encoded image in the Shroud
of Turin. I thought the underlying science of these natural phenomena, if
explored, would offer a working hypothesis to coordinate and explain the
puzzling image on the Shroud of Turin. Another matter that reinforced
my ideas is the nature of the ‘Resurrection body’ of Jesus Christ. Whether
the Resurrection body was a materialistic one with ‘flesh and blood’ or

Preformation Theory maintained that the adult animal is already preformed or pre-
1.

existed in either the sperm or the egg.

The correspondence between the order of Hox genes on the Chromosome and their
2.

domains of expression.
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a spiritual one has been a long-lasting and great difference of opinion in

Christendom. Many contend that the body of Jesus was the spiritual body –
and, though most real of all substantial things, it was an ‘appearance’ from
the physical standpoint. Thus, the Resurrection of Jesus Christ has close
linkage with the phenomena of palingenesis – the spectral resurrection of
plants.
Now, one might be tempted to ask whether these play-like phenomena,
even if assumed to have scientific basis, can resolve the long-lasting mystery
that enshrouds the Shroud of Turin. I will not say this would put to rest the
mystery wrapped in the Turin Shroud. A non-professional like me should
not rush to conclusions on issues on which experts in the fields are still
unclear. Nevertheless, I trust my propositions would certainly give a good
start in the right direction.
Then again, there is a fear in a corner of my heart that my propositions
in this book could easily be thrown out in no time by a group of people
who arrogate themselves as the sole representatives of the official science,
and who would be pleased to regard what others speak of as ‘unscientific’,
or simply lable it as ‘pseudo-science’. Yet, the strength of my belief goads
me to think that science has a real surprise for the skeptics!
As Einstein rightly said ‘the most beautiful and the most profound
emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical’. Natural magic is
nothing other than unexplained phenomena of science. This, superficially
viewed, may appear to be impossible and hallucinatory, but should to be
considered in a scientific perspective. Phenomenon of natural magic is a
manifestation of science. In the words of Francis Bacon, ‘natural magic is
the science which applies the knowledge of hidden forms to the production
of wonderful operations; and by uniting activities with passives, displays
wonderful works of nature.”
As regards the mysterious image on the Shroud, it is a common
proposition that no ancient artistic technique could have been able to
imprint the 3-dimensionally encoded human figure on the Turin Shroud
with anatomical and circumstantial exactitude. Recent discoveries in
quantum science come in as a potent aid in elucidating remarkable facts
on the subject. I theorize that the formation of 3D images of plants and
animals in the magnificent phenomena of palingenesis is also the work of
quantum holographic processes and that these evidential proofs can help
in the unravelling of the mystery wrapped in the Shroud.
The principal objectives of this book are:
‚‚ To provide a concise form of Shroud history
‚‚ To outline some of the important characteristic features of Shroud
image that warrant scientific analysis

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‚‚ To provide several evidences largely drawn from the alchemical

and natural magic genre, in support of 3-dimensional image formation
from the bio-matter of decomposed animals and plants
‚‚ To make a scientific analysis of the phenomenon of 3-D image
formation in nature with regard to the latest findings in the quantum
realm
‚‚ And to correlate it to the 3-dimensionally encoded image imprinted
in the Shroud of Turin.
The chapters of this book can be broadly grouped under four main
parts. The first part makes a brief survey of the documented history of the
Turin Shroud, how the Shroud got its scientific lure, major tests conducted
on it and results thereof, and finally the astonishing characteristics of the
Shroud image revealed to the world thanks to major scientific studies and
researches.
Part two takes the readers to an entirely different field of knowledge
– the forgotten science of resuscitating spectral plants from their ashes
(palingenesis) and natural magic. They are full of amazing ‘hard-to-find’
information relating to visual manifestation of 3D images of plants and
animals from their decomposed phlegm.
Part three serves to explain how the various discoveries of science,
especially those in the quantum realm, are pointing more and more to a
‘holographic field’ where matter is guided by commonly invisible energy
templates. It also offers to explain in a simple way what a hologram is, its
optical characteristics etc., as per classical science.
Finally, in Part four, attempts have been made to make a proper synthesis
of all the three, viz., Shroud image, 3D images forming out of decomposed
parts of plants and animals and the idea of quantum holographic field
patterns. The theory is simple: the spectral 3D images manifest from
the decomposed phlegm of animals and plants are nothing but their
‘quantum holograms’ and similar quantum holographic manifestation of
physical body was responsible for the imprint of the mysterious image on
the Shroud of Turin. A detailed comparison between the characteristics of
Shroud of Turin and those of holograms is made out in chapter 16.
The hour is close upon us when we shall commence our retrospect of
one of the most wonderful theories of the past – the theory of palingenesis,
and the investigation of one of the oldest mysteries of humanity – the image
on the Shroud. If you’d like to write to me, my home and e-mail addresses
are on the back of the title page. I promise to respond to all of you who
communicate. In the meantime, I hope you find this book informative
and interesting and I thank you in advance for taking the time to read it.
Do enjoy the book!

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 17. Conclusion

I admit there is mystery in the resurrection; but there is no impossibility. I do

not see one bit more difficulty in bringing a resurrection body out of a dead
and corrupt body in the grave, than in bringing the bright fragment blossom
of a rose out of a dry, ugly, and repulsive root

John Cumming (1855)

We have now come to the end of our inquiry, our survey of the problems
connected with the puzzling Shroud image, and the attempts to solve it. It
may be helpful at this juncture just to draw a few threads together.
It has been pretty firmly established by various researchers that the
Shroud is not a painting in any known sense of the term. When taken in
concert certain conclusive facts about the Shroud – it conforms to the Gospel
accounts, anatomically perfect, light and dark are reversed, extremely
superficial, there is no mark of paint or brush strokes, fibres of the cloth
were not cemented together by any foreign material, depth information
of the image has been encoded three-dimensionally, occurrence of high
level of bilirubin in the bloodstains, abundance of microscopic dust in the
foot-area of the imprint, to name a few – these are enough to make even a
skeptic believe in the natural causes of Shroud image. But science does not
rely on ‘collaborative evidences’ but requires empirical tests and concrete
results of proofs. The clear recognition of this fact will enable one to avoid
certain dialectic confusions. The study on the Shroud image made so far
offers clues in plenty to arrive at its cause.
At any rate, the Shroud cannot be a hoax. In order for this inscrutable
image on the Shroud to be a fraud, the prankster could not have managed
with any mammal blood, but would have had to use real human blood
to bring realism. He would have had to possess a high degree of not only
anatomical and medical knowledge but also of great Gospel knowledge to
defraud. These factors, though not likely, are of course feasible, and the
hands of a fraud could not be ruled out on these grounds alone. But the
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balance of probabilities leads us to the solid and irrefutable conclusion

that the image cannot be a fake.
Why would a forger take tremendous pains and be clever and ambitious
to produce a fake image on the Shroud is a million dollar question that
nobody has yet been able to explain. Did he opt to strain every nerve
just for the sake of fooling humanity? No faker would have foreseen that
his work ought to have met anatomical exactitude, biblical narrations,
scientific inquiries etc., for no intellect of his time would have been able
to comprehend such latent details. Even assuming he attempted this out
of passion, how could he have envisioned the idea of ‘negative image’ or a
painting with reverse shade, and executed it as back as in the 14th century?
How could he have incorporated the image intensity versus distance
correlation into the Shroud image? How could he have ensured that the
impression of the image did not penetrate a depth less than 1/100th of a
hair?
Now, even assuming all these queries can somehow be explained, there
are still questions hanging over such an assumption of a faker. How could
he have been able to bring in the X-ray effect amazingly in the case of
hands, where one could easily observe metacarpal bones and phalange
bones of each finger? What could have made the pollens grains, endemic
to Palestine region, appear on the Shroud? Who could have brought the
samples of limestone on the Shroud from Jerusalem? And, as Stevenson
commented, if the Shroud was a creation of the Middle Ages, then its
forger must have ordered the mites to go with it! Hence, by no stretch of
imagination can it be concluded that the Shroud image was a human object
d’art.
Having arrived at the fact that the Shroud could not be a work of
human, there are some questions in connection with it that one may fairly
ask. How did the Shroud image happen or what caused it to happen? Is it
a candid work of Nature or work of Providence? If a work of Nature, is it
governed by the known laws of Nature or science? Or, if it relates to the
recondite regions of current science, can it be understood with the aid of
contemporary science?
Many researchers have attempted to connect the Shroud image to
the Resurrection of Jesus. But such assumptions, if viewed in isolation,
are totally speculative views of theology. A parallel phenomenon of
Nature which could be able to attest the resurrection phenomenon is
the resuscitation of plants from ashes, or palingenesis. It, as we have seen
thus far, is a marvelous phenomenon of Nature, capable of revealing to
the world the three-dimensional, otherwise imperceptible, subtle body
underlying the material body of organisms. Palingenesis makes it more

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