Evolution of SCENAR, SCENAR generations, and COSMODIC features

(Excerpts from "The SCENAR Fair" by Irina Kossovskaia, 2007)

Let me begin with a brief journey into history.

Alexander Karasev first came up with the COSMODIC idea in 1992 and partially implemented it in his SCENAR VX735v5Ag model, which just a few years ago was the most expensive and the most sophisticated SCENAR on the market. This model presented a blend of SCENAR and COSMODIC technologies.

It took some time for Alexander, however, to completely ‘go COSMODIC’. 2 years ago the 715 model came to existence as the first fully COSMODIC device. Since then, he also built the C-DOVE and re-designed the 705 and the 735Ag. This last electronic wonder combines SCENAR and COSMODIC as two separate devices in one case.

Since both SCENAR and COSMODIC technologies are based on electrical stimulation with the feedback feature (which is the distinguishing characteristic of a SCENAR device), we call SCENARs incorporating only SCENAR technology ‘the first generation’ SCENARs, and the ones with elements of COSMODIC ‘the second generation’ SCENARs. There are certain differences and particularities in the ways different generation SCENARs interact with the body and in the ways they need to be used (we will touch on that a little later).

When I asked Alexander Karasev how he came up with the idea of COSMODIC in the first place, he surprised me with the answer. My ‘new age’-prone brain expected something like ‘that was channeled information’ or ‘it came to me in the altered state of consciousness’… Nothing of that sort. It was the natural progression and development of an idea that Alexander formulated way back in the 80th.

Here is ‘the elevator pitch’ for this idea, or a very brief and simplified to the extreme description of the concept – just to give you an overview before we dive into the depth of the matter.

There are three ways of dealing with pain in the human body (I am using ‘pain’ here as a generic term meaning any bodily dysfunction). You can overpower the pain, putting the stronger signal on top of the pain signal. This is the way the TENS unit works. You can also ‘add to the pain’, blending the device signal with the pathology signals and making the pain signal more ‘visible’ or perceivable. That way the body gives a stronger re-action on your action, activating its adaptive mechanisms and producing a stronger healing response. This is the way homeopathy works – and the SCENAR, which we often call ‘the electronic homeopathy’. There is also a third way. You can directly strengthen the adaptive response, not challenging the body by increasing the pathologic signal, but simply helping it by adding to its healing efforts. That’s COSMODIC.

Now let’s start all over again, but this time more in-depth and somewhat ‘more scientific’.

Alexander separated several levels (or zones) of body’s sensitivity to outside influences. The body responds to the influence only if it falls into one of those zones; if the influence is outside the zone parameters, the body remains indifferent to it. The higher the zone, the ‘narrower’ it is, and the more difficult it is to fit into it.

Working in the first zone is simple and foolproof. You just shout at the body, overpowering the pain it is experiencing with a hammer-like signal. It does not do much for healing, but it certainly kills the pain, fast and without fail. TENS units work on this principle (or CHENS, as it is pronounced in Russian). CHENS was the first electro-stimulator that Alexander built - and he never stopped since. According to him, there was a good reason behind Dr. Frankenstein using electricity to revive dead matter, a reason worth exploring. J

Electro-stimulation devices built to work in the first zone do not require much engineering or sophisticated fine-tuned electronics. In order to hammer the nervous fibers, the dynamic characteristics of the device signal (or the signal changes corresponding to the body’s dynamic response) are not very important; even a slight change in the signal shape beats the body’s tolerance effect, providing for increase in neuropeptide release. That allows for incoherency in the characteristics of the ‘output cascade’ (don’t ask me to explain what this electronic term means; I have only a vague idea that it has something to do with the quality of a feedback feature) - if electronics are not precisely matched and tuned, even if coefficients are lost, the device will still work how it was intended to, for symptomatic pain relief. This is important from a business perspective, because this way, relatively effective devices can be produced quite cheaply.

Working in the second zone is trickier. The organism itself works on the second level of sensitivity, and if we want our signal to be recognized in the ocean of other signals the body is swimming in, it has to be somehow different and as dynamic as the body itself, changing in perfect concordance with the body’s response. This is the zone SCENAR was invented for. Here, you don’t shout at the body, you don’t use too much energy. It is enough to speak on the same level with the body, engaging it in the dialog and provoking towards taking care of the problem. What would our life be without challenges? SCENAR presents such a challenge, increasing information about a problem (in other words, ‘adding to the pain’). Responding to the challenge, the body heals. All SCENAR needs to do is to support the constructive dialog with the body while it goes through the healing cycle.

However, it is easier said than done. The above task requires sophisticated mathematics, precisely describing dynamic changes of the impulses in interaction with the skin, and finely tuned electronics providing for the functioning of a feedback loop, which would constantly monitor the body response and synchronize it with the signal changes. And here we go again with the characteristics of the ‘output cascade’, which in this case have to be coherent. Inevitable in production, ‘dispersion’ of the characteristics of the output cascade (30% on average) leads to a situation when a good amount of produced devices falls ‘out of the zone’, becoming less (if at all) clinically effective. The better the devices are tuned, the less the percentage. Tuning, though, is a long and exhausting process, requiring many man-hours, and becomes nearly impossible in mass production. To summarize, it is difficult and expensive to produce a good device for working in the second zone; good SCENARs are rare.

For the second zone, it is also very important to be ‘in the right place at the right time’. Therefore, methodology becomes paramount to efficiency. If you miss the spot, or chose the inappropriate time, the body will not ‘hear’ you and will not respond. This is why we occasionally need complicated techniques and protocols, which ought to be precisely followed; and thus the need for extensive training. In other words, the therapeutic effect of the device in the second zone becomes rather conditional and depends a lot on the operator. Tricky.

These complicating methodological factors can be eliminated, if you are in the third zone. For this zone, it does not really matter where or when you apply the device – it will be equally effective. Methodology becomes unimportant. This is nice, of course, but there is one problem – it is EXTREMELY difficult and very expensive to build a device for working in the third zone. Mathematical analysis becomes way more complicated than for the second zone (try to handle 46 feedback loops at the same time!), and the device cannot even be tuned. Human minds cannot outsmart it enough to handle its fine tuning – the device has to be built in the way that it tunes itself; only this can ensure that it is actually ‘in the zone’. This is a step towards artificial intelligence, in my opinion. We are talking COSMODIC, of course.

Alexander Karasev was contemplating the idea of COSMODIC since 1992 – and only two years ago has released the first device built entirely on COSMODIC technology, the EX 715Ag. In his opinion, every idea has to go through its natural evolution, and it is not good to skip one or two turns of the evolutionary spiral; it is almost like cheating Mother Nature. Let the idea ripen, and when the time is right, a new quality will come to existence without struggling or beating your head against a brick wall.

COSMODIC came to existence as a natural evolution of SCENAR, when technological advancements allowed it.

Both SCENAR and COSMODIC use dynamic electrical impulses. These impulses even look similar on the oscillograph screen. The COSMODIC impulse is not as high-amplitude as the SCENAR one though; it is smoother and softer - working in the third zone requires whispering, not talking loudly. However, this is not the only difference; it’s not even the main one. The major difference is ‘the spectral saturation’ of the COSMODIC signal.

Spectral characteristics of an electrical impulse cannot be displayed on a screen; they do not have a graphic representation. You can let your imagination run free picturing the COSMODIC signal, in which the low frequency SCENAR impulse is used merely as a carrier for other dynamically changing high frequency oscillations, representing information. It is just like a radio station: its main wave, which has a fixed frequency, carries information in the form of various other frequencies put on top and perceived as sound. It is ‘information’ that determines the effectiveness of SCENARs of the third zone (or the second generation SCENARs), not the stimulation of nervous fibers, as such. (Just so you don’t get confused with terminology: technically speaking, adaptive electrical stimulators working in the third zone of sensitivity are not SCENARs, they are COSMODIC. However, as the word SCENAR already became generic symbolizing an entire new field of medical science, we also call COSMODIC devices ‘the SCENARs of second generation’ – it is perfectly logical, isn’t it?)

Just as you would have a hard time trying to graphically display signals of your favorite radio station without losing the richness of reality, the real COSMODIC signal cannot be shown on a two-dimensional screen. Pure joy was pouring out of Alexander when he informed me that their lab has just purchased a top of the line piece of equipment (a spectral analyzer, I presume), which allows him to finally SEE the signal of the device that he created. Until that point, the COSMODIC signal was pretty much imaginary – and now Alexander can thoroughly enjoy the endless rows of figures the analyzer spits out. Those figures would probably not make much sense to most of us, but for Alexander Karasev they mean the world – a world beyond scientific paradigms, full of possibilities and excitement, where no one has gone before…

Of course, COSMODIC impulses constantly dynamically change in accordance with the changes in the body (that is the main distinguishing feature of adaptive electrical stimulation, overall). At the same time, an assessment (or, as we habitually say, ‘diagnostics’) of the body condition and the feedback feature in COSMODIC cardinally differ from all SCENARs and SCENAR-like devices. In Alexander’s own words and using electronic engineering terms, “COSMODIC processes information from 46 feedback loops and calculates and re-calculates the coefficient of distortion, the coefficient of feedback turn-on, as well as dispersion, or the deviation of spectral characteristics.”

In other words, in processing information COSMODIC acts like a living system (more so than SCENAR). Furthermore, it acts like a coherent living system (that supports its own coherency by constantly tuning itself up) willing and able to share its coherency with another living system ‘in need’.

As you can imagine, building COSMODIC is difficult, labor-intensive and expensive. It is still well worth it, of course, if you are concerned with efficiency of the device and want to facilitate as many healing miracles for your clients as possible. But COSMODIC is not a good money-maker. If you want a no-fail business and fast cash, go with the devices of the first zone (not even the second).

At this point you are probably asking yourself: why would anyone want to go into troubles of creating such a sophisticated system and the signal that is so complex that cannot even be visualized?

They say, if you want things effectively done, go right to the top and talk to the management. The COSMODIC signal is created for us to be able to work directly with the CNS (central nervous system), or ‘the body’s management’, versus working through peripheral nerves, as SCENAR does. As we are ‘working through’ the management, there is a much greater chance that the body will cooperate and follow the corrective COSMODIC influence.

The above becomes possible because of the particularities of the COSMODIC signal, or rather a series of signals. Unlike SCENAR (which stimulates the body with single impulses or pre-set batches of them), COSMODIC forms ‘adaptive regulatory bundles’ of impulses, which cannot be pre-set. The body itself determines the formation of these bundles when responding to the influence; hence, they constantly change, or ‘float’. The main quality of these bundles is the ability to carry information, mimicking normal regulative activity of the body. In the body, the nervous system constantly sends bundles of impulses, which contain stimulating, as well as sedating information. It is called ‘the dual regulation of functions’, and is mandatory for normal functioning of all of our organs and systems. COSMODIC does just that – sends both stimulating and sedating signals, depending on the situation and on the nervous system response.

In Alexander’s view, COSMODIC works somewhat like a tuning fork. It exposes the body to a harmonious tuning system, and if the device has a ‘floating’ signal spectrum, it can tune itself into vibrations and frequencies of any organ or tissue in the body, re-establishing healthy vibrations and a coherent state of functional structures. As in any systemic interaction, the more coherent system (COSMODIC) first tunes itself into the state of a less coherent system (the bodily structure) and mirrors it blending vibrations of both systems and creating a new, stronger functional unit (microresonances in COSMODIC make it possible). This new unit then regains the state of coherency, as COSMODIC rebalances itself carrying the body along. The healthy healing and coherent vibrations in this process will be amplified (microresonances again) – and when it is achieved, COSMODIC tells you, ‘enough’.

COSMODIC does not ‘add to the pain’, challenging the body - it ‘adds to healing’ supplementing, harmonizing, and amplifying the body’s adaptive reactions.

This delicate process requires piece, quiet, and concentration. With COSMODIC, it is not recommended to move the device along the skin during the treatment session. Just leave it on the selected spot; it will systematically tune itself into different parts of the body – perceptive clients can actually feel which part of the body the COSMODIC device is currently working on. It will consecutively screen the bodily structures, revealing pathologic causative chains (chronologic chains of events in the body that brought it into the current pathologic state). Apparently, COSMODIC is designed to target the root of the pathology rather than its manifestations.