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RESPONSE TO JOHN COWAN'S PAPER: THOUGHT AND MIND AS THE PROJECTION OF MENTAHOLOMORPHIC FIELDS BY THE BRAIN: A PROPOSED MECHANISM
Get PDFResponses to the classic mind-body problem typically led to theories reducing mind to matter, matter to mind, epiphenomenal views of brain producing mind without feedback, mystical or creationist views of spirit producing mind and matter alike (again often without feedback), direct dualistic interaction between mind and body, or to the identification of both mental and physical realms as aspects of a neutral or more fundamental phenomenon. The growing sophistication of research in the cognitive neurosciences in recent decades, however, has enabled the formulation of more precise questions, at least, about the mindbody relationship. Since the decade of the brain in the 1990s, neuroscience has come to study the complexity of brain process, from its molecular mechanisms, to its neuronal firing patterns and localization of function, to its signature brainwaves and other "biofield" manifestations. Most importantly, the cognitive neurosciences have identified neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) in the higher frequency bands of brain function, ranging from gamma at 30 to 60 Hz (cycles per second) and higher. Specific areas of the brain, associated with the thalamocortical oscillations (TCO), seem to be involved in producing these frequencies. These oscillations and their electromagnetic signatures have been strongly correlated with general presence of consciousness in waking and dreaming and the specific experiences of consciousness. The intensities and frequencies of these oscillations and their electromagnetic emissions have also been shown to be greater in healers, meditators, mystics, and psychics, who have presumably cultivated higher states of consciousness
SCIENTIFIC AND BUDDHIST VIEWS OF ENERGY
Get PDFIn 2004 Alan Wallace presented a Keynote Address at the ISSSEEM Fourteenth Annual Conference titled, "Scientific and Contemplative Views of Energy." This article addresses topics included in that address: A discussion is made of (1) energy as a primary attribute of the objective, physical world, (2) energy as a secondary attribute of the subjective, sensory world, and (3) a nondual contemplative view of energy in the world of experience. Included are explicit references to ways the body-mind can be healed and balanced energetically, suggesting a complementary relation berween scientific and contemplative views of energy. A brief overview of the history of modern scientific concepts of energy, beginning with the debate berween Newton and Leibniz is addressed and the evolution of these concepts through Helmholtz, Maxwell, Michelson and Morley, Einstein, and Feynman, are traced. Readers will see how the concept of energy has slipped from the status of a real substance in objective space to a mathematical abstraction. But it remains an elusive concept that is central to the physicists' view of the origins and nature of the cosmos as a whole. Science, since the time of the absolute Cartesian split berween subject and object, has sought to understand the nature of the real world, existing independently of human experience, beyond the "veil of appearances. The implication is that subjective experiences of all kinds, including experiences of subtle energies, are secondary to, and derivative of, objective, physical processes. This metaphysical assumption has led to a radical imbalance berween scientific knowledge of the physical world and of subjective experience, including the nature of consciousness itself. Many contemplative traditions of the world, including Buddhism, have sought to understand a unified world of experience, which includes a spectrum of subjective and objective phenomena, with no absolute division within this spectrum. Within this world of experience emerged the Greek concept of pneuma, Indian prana, Tibetan loong, Chinese qi, Japanese ki, and Native American mana in their respective medical traditions, all of which are present in the body and the environment at large. Such intersubjective energy, like the energy of the physicists, is thought ro underlie, empower, and regulate all physical and mental phenomena. Practical applications have been found for these theories of energy in the field of healing and balancing both the body and mind. The bodymind effects of the meditative refinement of attention in the Buddhist tradition are noted, with explanation on how it is related to the experienced subtle energies within the body and their relation to the mind
PART ONE: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL MODEL OF THE DREAMING STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Get PDFDreaming has been well studied by psychologists, anthropologists and neurophysiologists. Yet few models to date have really attempted to explain the spatial domain, temporal zone and energetic substances of the dream state. Space, time and energy are all important concepts studied in physics. This paper presents a useful model by implementing some pertinent ideas from theoretical physics and mathematics to explain how the waking and dreaming states can be directly experienced through multiple dimensions of both space and time. Furthermore, these dimensions are accessed almost effortlessly simply by shifting into other states of consciousness that closely resemble waking and dreaming. Such states include hypnagogic, hypnopompic, reverie and day-dreaming. Although the realm of each of these discrete states has a distinct uniqueness, experiencing perceptual imagery is what all of these states share in common. In this multidimensional model, sensation and imagination represent two vital abilities of perception
PART TWO: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL MODEL OF THE RELEASED STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Get PDFAstral projecttion and out-of-body experience are two phenomena that very few researchers of consciousness have attempted to really understand. Although numerous people of multiple cuirures from all over the world have reported these phenomena, epistemologists have yet to formulate any satisfactory theories or models that map out rhese experiences. This paper provides a working model of these experiences by urilizing multiple dimensions of motion, space and rime. Besides sensation and imagination, a vital ability of perceprion that is highly emphasized in this multidimensional model is emotion
THE EFFECT OF NON·CONTACT THERAPEUTIC TOUCH ON THE HEALING RATE OF FULL THICKNESS DERMAL WOUNDS
Get PDFThe effect of Noncontact Therapeutic Touch (NClD on the rate of surgical wound healing was examined in a double-blind study. Full-thickness dermal wounds were incised on the lateral deltoid region using a skin punch biopsy instrument, on healthy subjects randomly assigned to treatment or control groups. Subjects were blinded both to group assignment and to the true nature of the active treatment modality in order to control placebo and expectation effects. Incisions were dressed with gas-permeable dressings, and wound surface areas were measured on Days 0, 8, and 16 using a direct tracing method and digitization system. Active and control treatments were comprised ofdaily sessions offive minutes of exposure to a hidden Therapeutic Touch practitioner or to sham exposure.Results showed that treated subjects experienced a significant acceleration in the rate of wound healing as compared to non-treated subjects at day8 (Mann-Whitney U; Z =-5.675; n =44; p<.OO1; 2 tailed), and at day 16 (X2 =16.847, df =1; p<.OO1). Statistical comparisons are dominated by the complete healing of 13 of 23 treated subjects vs. O of 21 control subjects by day 16. Placebo effects and the possible influences of suggestion and expectation of healing were eliminated by isolating the subjects from the Therapeutic Touch practitioner, by blinding them to the nature of the therapy during the study, and by the use of an independent experimenter who was blinded to the nature of the therapy. The findings of this study demonstrate, at least, the potential for NCIT in the healing of full-thickness human dermal wounds
Illuminated Physiology and Medical Uses of Light
No full textABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to bring a broader understanding to the physiology of light metabolism in the human body and to present novel techniques of utilizing light diagnostically and therapeutically. Much work has been done to use light to achieve altered states of consciousness, and there is much research documenting the presence and activities of light within the body. However, this paper seeks to promote the utilization of light as a primary treatment. A brief explanation of the author's novel diagnostic technique, BioResonance Scanning™, and novel treatment technique called NeuroPhotonic TherapyTM is detailed with clinical gems and case revie
