Toward disease-specific therapies in mind-body cancer research: reverse engineering, epigenetic feedback and in vitro/ in vivo combination protocols

Although we have significant experimental evidence demonstrating that specific meditation forms correlate with particular effects on biological targets, mind-body  therapeutic applications are still very rudimentary and poorly standardized, consisting of little more than exercises designed to trigger a parasympathetic response.  If the sole physiological effect of meditation were related to the relaxation response, then indeed most forms of meditation would be expected to work in similar ways and achieve similar results. But as we have explored in a previous panel discussion anchored by Michael Persinger and his group [Bajpai et al., Journal of Nonlocality, II-2, 2013], the convergence of photobiology  and qigong experimental research  indicates that specific brainwave patterns correlate with specific biophoton emission frequencies, microtubule conformational states  and biological effects, both at the level of the operator’s body and in remote targets. Of greatest clinical  interest is the ability of focused intent to produce target-specific, directional effects, while leaving control samples unaffected – a feature that has been documented by over a hundred  in vitro and in vivo controlled qigong experiments and corroborated by several hundred  Random Event Generator (REG) studies conducted at Princeton and other university labs.  While the physical modeling of such remote effects is still speculative, the potential applications are sufficiently intriguing to warrant an empirical  leap ahead of the theoretical staging.  If cancer is “a disease of geometry” due to a  “misregulation of the field of information that orchestrates individual cells’ activities towards normal anatomy”, as Chernet and Levin argue [Chernet and Levin, J Clin Exp Oncol 2013, S1], could we find a way to design  and calibrate specific meditation forms to predictably achieve intended electromagnetic effects  at a biological target (such as  a tumor)?  The present paper proposes a general approach that might  take us a step closer to tailoring such targeted mind-body interventions  through the use of reverse engineering, rapid-expression epigenetic feedback and an in vitro/ in vivo combination protocol

The Locked-in Syndrome of Panpsychism: Integrated Information Theory, Orch-OR, TGD and the Search for the Right Experimental Model

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A Split Beam Approach to Remote Mental Interactions: Expectation, Bonding and Temporal Footprints

An intrinsic calibration method is proposed as a general approach to isolating specific variables of mind-matter interactions. Also described are additional protocols designed  to identify REG, electromagnetic and metabolic signatures of information/energy transfer, entanglement windows, experimenter expectation and subject-target bonding in remote perception and psychokinesis experiments.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to G.U.T.

Is the increasingly common decline effect seen in mainstream sciences like medicine and biology a sign of wide-spread flaws across the research/publication continuum, or a harbinger of deeper structural shifts in our interface with nature? Are biological systems primed for nonlocal communication and sustained quantum entanglement, as the evidence from quantum biology and experimental parapsychology seems to suggest? This discussion reviews the current data and outlines several mind-matter modeling candidates, together with the promising research venues they open

The Shape of Selfhood: An Impolitic Panel Discussion on Consciousness and Scale

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Bigu State: Can Meditation Trigger Alternate Metabolic Pathways Through Epigenetic Changes?

Based on  preliminary reports, case studies (Roy, 2000; Yan et al., 2002b)  as well as  an in vitro experiment conducted at University of California,  San Diego (Yan et al, 2002a)   we propose several new tests designed to confirm and further investigate  the ability of human cell cultures treated with Yan Xin Qigong to survive for extended periods of time, in the absence of medium nutrients, when compared to controls. Specifically, our supplementary experimental protocol is intended to ask the following questions: 1. Are there changes in gene expression following the Yan Xin treatment when compared to controls, what physiological/metabolic  processes are  these genes associated with, and  how does the gene expression profile evolve throughout the duration of the experiment under conditions of nutrient deprivation?  2. Is ambient light necessary for the extended  survival of the treated cells?  3. Are there biophoton emission (BPE) changes noted at the test culture after the External Qi (EQ) treatment and how does that BPE profile evolve throughout the duration of the experiment, compared to controls?  4. Finally, is there any evidence of information or energy transmission between different cell cultures, that might support the hypothesis of a “remote metabolism” as described by Pitkanen (2013b)