Francis Lefebure - Phosphenic Mixing

Phosphenic Mixing

In 1963, he had the idea to study what happens when an individual thinks about a particular subject during the presence of the phosphene. This idea was the origin of the principle of "Phosphenic Mixing", a method that supposedly develops memory, intelligence, the sense of initiative, artistic intuition and creativity by mixing thoughts and phosphenes. In November 1975, the World's Inventors Fair in Brussels awarded Lefebure the Silver Medal for his method: "Phosphenic Mixing Applied to Education" which in 2004, has been printed 16 times and has sold more than 58 thousand copies.

He thought that the method was fruitful and remarkably easy to apply. Since then, he spent all his energy on perfecting this technique, teaching it and applying it to other sensory organs.

Every reader that would relate their application of the method to him became collaborators (their names have always been quoted alongside the fact that have discovered, unless Dr Lefebure was asked not to). Thus, after twenty nine years of work, he managed to accumulate a considerable and unique documentation.

The collected information underscored the part that Phosphenism could have played in the origin of religions and lead to the publication of a book: "Phosphenism and the Origin of Religions" ("Developing Clairvoyance by using Phosphenism").

It is during this period that he thought he solved the great enigma of his youth: where did Galip's strange power of laying on of hands came from? Indeed, he believed that phosphenes could be very easily transmissible by telepathy. The zoroastrian areas were the only places in the pre-industrial world where oil naturally sprang from the ground. Thus, since the dawn of prehistory, a stock of human beings has had a much greater material ease for producing bright and permanent fires, though they could not analyse the details of the process: thinking while focusing on a bright fire. Without being aware of it, they practiced Phosphenism. This could be why in this area, there are individuals who are supposed to possess a secret knowledge, that could be magically explained because they have particular gifts produced by the instinctive practice of Phosphenic Mixing.

Later, the extension of the principle of Phosphenic Mixing to breathing led him to write "The pneumophene, or the breathing techniques that open the doors to the world beyond".

A similar extension to the sense of movement led Lefebure to write "From the Praying Wheel to the Spiritual Dynamo, or the Kundalini-triggering device". This book, based on supposed scientific experiments, shines a new light on eastern esoteric traditions. It was followed in 1988 by volume II that describes new applications of the Gyrascope. Lefebure considered that "thanks to the phosphene and the various types of Gyrascopes, a door has been opened in 'esoterism'. The phenomena qualified of initiatory are finally open to everyone. The force liberated is like burning lava sweeping humanity."

Meeting Daniel Stiennon was a deciding factor for the diffusion of phosphenism. He created an association then, very quickly a company that is now present in different points of the world.

The works of Lefebure can be compared to the works of the greatest esotericists. After thirty years of organizing lectures and seminars all over the world, and several of the books having been translated in various languages, some think that Lefebure has had an influence on researchers since 1945, but many others don't. Mrs Alexandra David-Neel had, for example, studied the book that is the cornerstone of Phosphenism: "Homologies" and knew Lefebure. Of course, many drew influence from his works without ever quoting him. On the contrary, Lefebure always quoted his sources.