The Lucia Light Creators

The Lucia N°03 has the effect of inducing various states, such as deep relaxation, meditative or dream-like states.

Austrian clinical psychologist, Dr. Engelbert Winkler, and neurologist Dr. Dirk Proeckl, first developed the Lucia Nº03 device as a part of their research into Near-Death Experiences (NDE) and the many psychological benefits that often were a result of such experiences. Looking at ways of replicating the benefits of NDE’s, they hit on the idea of simulating one of the key motifs of the experience – interaction with light - and developed Lucia. Not surprisingly, the resulting findings are equivalent to that of the measured reactions of subjects who are long-time meditation practitioners.

DR.MED. DIPL.- PSYCH. DIRK PROECKL

Neurologist and psychologist now working in private medical practice, focusing on the interaction between the psyche and the nervous system.

Education

• Medicine - Universities of Saarbrücken, Regensburg, München.

• Psychology - Universities of Regensburg, Freiburg, München.

• Post-graduate research work conducted at several clinics in Germany, Switzerland and Austria:

  • multimodale psychosomatic rehabilitation of migraines

  • neurotransmitter distribution within the central nervous system

  • readiness potential in the electroencephalogram

  • dipol source analysis of colour evoked potentials and of epileptic potentials in the electroencephalogram.

DR. PHIL. ENGELBERT WINKLER

Clinical & health psychologist, supervising psychotherapist, and legal expert witness. Graduated from Innsbruck 1989 with qualifications in philosophy, pedagogics and psychology, later adding additional certification in logotherapy, existential analyses and hypnotherapy.

In 1994 Dr. Winkler founded the Kooperative Familieberatung, a Tyerolean governmental welfare initiative offering both out-patient and residential care, with particular emphasis on the care and treatment of children and young persons with extreme behavioral problems. The centre, of which Dr. Winkler remains director, has developed outreach programs for homeless teenagers and those not fitting the criteria for admission to other centres. The XXL-project of Kooperative Familienberatung is designed for a maximum of eight teenagers, aged between 14 – 18, to live in their own apartment.

Exploratory Focus

• Neuronal basis and effects of near-death experience.

• Development of Lucia Nº03 Light.