HEALING RESEARCH: WHAT WE KNOW AND DON'T KNOW

Since the first major clinical trial of prayer at San Francisco General Hospital was published in 1988, numerous follow-up studies have emerged in both humans and nonhumans. Assessments and reviews of this field have varied wildly. Dr. Dossey will offer his view of where this field stands, and will offer guidelines on how best to do healing experiments. Dr. Dossey will survey the history of healing research, describe its accomplishments and shortcomings, and discuss the challenges in this field for the future

SPIRITUALITY, SCIENCE AND THE MEDICAL ARTS

After a century of neglect, spirituality is returning to the practice of medicine. Controlled studies in distant healing and intercessory prayer challenge ingrained assumptions of the nature of consciousness and the mind-body relationship. Current evidence suggests that consciousness can both insert information into the environment, and extract information ft-om it. Both these vectors are health-relevant. Although energy-based models of healing may suffice to explain many of the phenomena taking place within the healer and healee, and in the immediate vicinity of each, a genuinely nonlocal, non-energetic framework is necessary to explain how the spatiotemporal gap separating the two is bridged. The implications of nonlocal mind transcend health and illness, and involve the survival of bodily death and immortality. This material was originally presented as a Keynote Address at the ISSSEEM ElezJenth Annual Conference June 16, 2001

BUT IS IT ENERGY? REFLECTIONS ON CONSCIOUSNESS, HEALING, AND THE NEW PARADIGM

When consciousness is involved in healing, it manifests either locally or nonlocally. Although local manifestations of consciousness can be described by the known tenets of physiology and contemporary physics, nonlocal effects of consciousness cannot be so described. Any comprehensive model of mind-based healing must account for "limit cases" such as nonlocal, distant healing effects which are apparently immediate, un mediated, and unmitigated; and effects which display time-displacement. It is questionable whether energy-based models of consciousness and healing are capable of such explanations. It is proposed that nonlocal models of consciousness must transcend a reliance on an energy metaphor. Such emerging models contain profound practical and spiritual implications

BUT IS IT ENERGY? REFLECTIONS ON CONSCIOUSNESS, HEALING, AND THE NEW PARADIGM

When consciousness is involved in healing, it manifests either locally or nonlocally. Although local manifestations of consciousness can be described by the known tenets of physiology and contemporary physics, nonlocal effects of consciousness cannot be so described. Any comprehensive model of mind-based healing must account for "limit cases" such as nonlocal, distant healing effects which are apparently immediate, un mediated, and unmitigated; and effects which display time-displacement. It is questionable whether energy-based models of consciousness and healing are capable of such explanations. It is proposed that nonlocal models of consciousness must transcend a reliance on an energy metaphor. Such emerging models contain profound practical and spiritual implications

HEALING, ENERGY, & CONSCIOUSNESS: INTO THE FUTURE OR A RETREAT TO THE PAST?

Numerous controlled studies suggest that conscious intent can mltlate helpful changes in a variery of organisms, including human beings, at great distances. These events appear (0 be genuinely nonlocal in nature. They do not yield (0 explanations based in classical concepts of energy, space, time, and causation. Classical models of distant healing, including the concept of "energy," must be reexamined. A new theoretical perspective, anchored in the nonlocal nature of human consciousness, may be necessary if we are (0 progress in our understanding of nonlocal healing events

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The tip of the iceberg: placebo, experimenter expectation and interference phenomena in subconscious information flow

A multi-disciplinary dialogue on the experimental evidence for nonlocal bio-communication, its emergent characteristics, impact on mainstream sciences and future research directions.

Tinkering with the Unbearable Lightness of Being: Meditation, Mind-Body Medicine and Placebo in the Quantum Biology Age

There are empirical indications that mind-body therapies have a nonlocal quantum component, in addition to the psychoneuroimmunological pathways that have been the focus of the predominant experimental paradigm.  The discussion below addresses the evidence and proposed theoretical mechanisms supporting this conclusion, and makes the case that there should be a convergence of research agendas between mind-body interventions (including placebo),  photomedicine and quantum biology.  Specifically, the role of endogenously generated biophotons in the regulation of genetic expression and the apparent ability of mental intent to direct biophoton emissions to specifically targeted tissues needs to be further evaluated from the perspective of photobiomodulation mechanisms, with a special focus on the spectroscopy and dosimetry of these emissions. Finally, the possible role of long-term meditation in enhancing quantum biological effects has to be further investigated at the level of cellular and macromolecular remodeling, both in the brain and the body

Healing Words : The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine

Americaxxi, 291 p.: illus.; 24 c

KATA-KATA YANG MENYEMBUHKAN: Kekuatan Doa dan Penyembuhan

xxiv; 279 hlm;15 x 23 c