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Get PDFAmerican Indians punctuate each sweat lodge incantation with, "All my relations!" In the Indian view our "relations" include not only family members past and present, but also all creatures populating both physical reality and the spirit world. As scientists we typically consider "all our relations" in a less personal and less poetic way, yet we base our understanding of nature as it reveals itself to us in the relationships we uncover. In this issue of the Journal our focus in discovering the impact of subtle energies is both internal and external, both personal and universal. Each article explores at least one facet of relationship between inner and outer worlds
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN A MAGNETIC FIELD
Get PDFA Tibetan meditation system of 1882 suggested a way in which self awareness in student monks could be facilitated by using a bar magnet suspended NORTH UP over the crown of the head. This suggestion led to the design, in the present study, of a double-blind test of magnetostatic perception in meditators using a bar magnet oriented either NORTH UP, SOUTH UP, or ABSENT. Effects were evaluated with a questionnaire having five experiential categories, physical, emotional, mental, extrapersonal (parapsychologic), and trans personal. Two weak magnetostatic fields with strengths of 14 gauss (1.4 milliTeslas) and 140 gauss (14 milliTeslas), measured at the crown of the head, were used. Analysis of experiential data collected in three experiments revealed significant and consistent differential patterns of gender-related responses. Experiential subcategories which showed gender by magnetic field interactions included: Experiment I: (1) Physical Energized, 92) Physical Sensory Perturbations; Experiment 2: (1) Physical Energized, (2) Emotional Enegized; Experiment 3: Using a different protocol and analysis procedure, similar results were found. Major contributors to the interaction were: (1) Physical Energized, (2) Physical Body Perturbation, and (3) Physical Passive. The consistency of gender-related differential response patterns in these three investigations raises a question of gender based differential responses to "electromagnetic environmental pollution.
NON-PHARMACEUTICAL TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION USING A MULTIMODAL APPROACH
Get PDFOne hundred forty-one individuals suffering from chronic depression, unresponsive to previous drug therapy, were treated with a 44-hour program of education, Cranial Electrical Stimulation (CES), Brain Wave Synchronization (BWS), musical conditioning, and a mentally programmed quartz or glass "crystal" randomly assigned with therapists and patients blinded to the crystal's composition. Eighty· four percent of the depressed patients were improved at the end of two weeks of therapy, apparently as a result of the multimodal therapy and group interaction. The results at three months follow-up suggest a positive subtle energy effect of quartz: 70% of the depressed patients who received quartz remained improved, while only 31.5% of the depressed patients receiving glass remained improved. These differences are highly statistically significant. It appears that mentally "programmed" quartz may offer a significant reinforcement to allow patients better long-term recovery than would occur with placebo (glass). The cost effectiveness of such a therapeutic approach is significant. Other therapists are encouraged to replicate these studies
IMPROVEMENT OF CIRCUlATION USING THE RADIAL APPLIANCE
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to determine if a subtle energy device, the Cayce Radial Appliance, could improve circulation in the extremities. There were two aspects to the study: a doubleblind, placebo-controlled experiment and a small clinical investigation. In the experiment, 30 subjects were selected for cold extremities, with the criterion that either the hands or the feet had to be below 800 F during the initial measurement session. To measure improvement of circulation, we used digital thermometers to record the temperatures of the thumbs and big toes on both hands and feet. Subjects were instructed to use the appliance 16 times; laboratory measurements were taken during the 1st, 4th and 16th sessions. Skin temperature turned our to be a difficult variable to work with, due to the wide variability in temperature apparently unrelated to the experimental siruation. The strongest results were observed in the 4th session. During session baseline, differences between hand and foot temperatures of the experimental group were significantly greater than those of the control group (t [13,11] 2.49, p '" .02). The 16th session did not yield significant differences between the experimental and control groups. However, in the experimental group, there was a correlation of r (9) -.56 (p '" .07) of hand temperarure increase with the number of days it took to complete the 16 sessions. That is, those subjects who were more consistent in using the appliance may have obtained better results, though statistically the result is only suggestive due to the small sample size. In contrast, in a clinical follow-up study with five subjects and no control group, we found that all subjects had a substantial increase in hand temperature following three sessions on the appliance (Mean increase'" 8.40 F, SO = 3.3). This increase was well in excess of that seen in either the experimental or control groups in the previous study. One important difference was that in the clinical study, use of the appliance was closely supervised, whereas in the blind study most of the appliance sessions were conducted by the subjects alone in their homes