This article from New Scientist (found via Schwartzreport) ends with this statement: “If the results turn out to be real, she says, the implications are profound: we may have to rewrite physics and chemistry.” To which I add: It’s about time!

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This article, from Wired magazine, came to me via the Schwartzreport. Editor Stephan Schwartz rightly says:

Think about what this report is saying. The meaning beneath. It is saying that our consciousness has the power to affect the functioning of our physical organism down to cellular level. Additionally, the data shows we know which component of our organism to affect, even though we know nothing consciously of that organ, its location, or its function. Ask someone where their pancreas is and what it does. Yet in any placebo/medication double blind drug study better than a third will routinely produce the effect sought by the medication being tested. Previous studies have shown that across the board placebo will result in about 35 per cent of the people who are getting the sugar pill treatment doing as well or better than those receiving the actual medication.

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My rough estimate is that Robert Bruce’s weekend conference drew 40 to 50 people, and if any of them were disappointed, I didn’t happen to meet them.

The conference was titled “Energy Works,” and it was held at the headquarters of the Association for Research and Enlightenment, the Virginia Beach organization founded by psychic Edgar Cayce in the 1930s.

The main speaker was Hampton Roads author Robert Bruce, author of the classic work on astral projection, Astral Dynamics, which we published 10 years ago. He is also the author of Energy Work and of Practical Psychic Self-Defense for us and, with Brian Mercer, of Mastering Astral Projection for Llewellyn.

Robert has been studying and practicing and teaching about energy work for a good long time now, and he has had enough experience as a public speaker on three continents that he is able to be his authentic relaxed self even while presenting the most esoteric information. A very personal and personable speaker, he uses stories and questions to good advantage as he covers the terrain.

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21. Energy work

Wednesday Sept. 28, 2005. We’ve been friends for half a century, my brother and I, and with time and change our friendship has only deepened. Over the years, we have continued to introduce each other to whatever new we find that is of value, and it becomes a part of us both, and we therefore relate in yet another new way, on another new level. I have found it particularly satisfying that he – and our sister Margaret – listened with interest to my early explorer’s tales, at a time when no one else would. And in turn, he made and communicated his own explorations and discoveries, including two friends with highly developed psychic abilities.

One of those friends, Don, lives in San Francisco, and so these days, when Paul meets me at the San Francisco airport, it is common for us to proceed to Don’s flat so that the three of us can spend some time hanging out together.

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This is from the U.S. News and World Report website (http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/2008/01/09/embracing-alternative-care.html)

There is hope! We’re gradually making our point about conventional medicine’s incomplete picture. 

By way of the PEERS network. This message is available online at http://www.WantToKnow.info/071106heartmathchanges

“HeartMath’s research shows that emotions work much faster, and are more powerful, than thoughts. And that-when it comes to the human body-the heart is much more important than the brain to overall health and well-being-even cognitive function-than anyone but poets believed. Briefly re-experiencing a cherished memory creates synchronization in your heart rhythm in mere seconds. Through its research, the Institute of HeartMath proves that health starts with love.”
– Ode Magazine, June 2005 Issue

Dear friends,
The Institute of HeartMath (http://www.heartmath.org) has conducted extensive research showing that good health starts with love, and that love can reduce stress. Simple, quick exercises such as re-imagining a cherished memory can significantly improve your health when done on a regular basis. With a client list which now includes such leading companies as Hewlett Packard, Shell, Unilever, Cisco Systems, and Boeing, the HeartMath Institute has developed a powerful track record in helping managers and employees to decrease stress and increase joy in their lives and work.

In the space of less than 15 years, the HeartMath Institute has published a large body of scientific research in established and respected publications such as the Harvard Business Review and the American Journal of Cardiology. I highly recommend the HeartMath exercises and a visit to their inspiring website. The below, highly inspirational article on HeartMath was published in the excellent magazine, Ode. Every issue of Ode is filled with stories which deeply inspire and empower. As stated in the below article, may we all remember that we can change the world, starting with ourselves.

With heartfelt love and best wishes,
Fred Burks for the inspiring and educational PEERS websites

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This little report from Live Science — http://www.livescience.com/health/070617_touching_faces.html — was included in the ever-useful daily Schwartzreport. It interested me chiefly because it was an indication that science is slowly catching up to interconnections between people that it has long assumed impossible.

Last year I was writing a little book on health and healing — written not from research but from my own experience — and I gave some thought to the fact that some prospective fathers feel the pains of the prospective mother. “Myth!” says science of the phenomenon called “sympathy pains.” But I know otherwise, because when I am engaged in healing work, I often feel where the person’s problem is, a phantom pain or ache that then goes away when it has finished serving as beacon. I know that lots of healers experience this, though some of them discourage it lest they be tempted to take on another’s health problem.

Anyway, as I say, science is gradually beginning to catch up, and will do so quicker if it can just discard its materialist superstition.

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Did you ever wonder why it is that Jesus could perform miracles and you can’t, even though he specifically told his disciples that they (and presumably others) would do greater things than he had done? Why are you unable to performing miracles? Or – are you?

This is a chapter from an unpublished manuscript of mine on health and healing.

Chapter 5. Intuitive knowing

Everything we need to know to heal ourselves or to help others to heal themselves is to be found in the world’s scriptures. That’s why they were put there. This shouldn’t be a surprise. What should be a surprise is how little we use what we have been given.

An old joke says that the churches are filled with Christians who want to go to heaven, but don’t want to die to get there. What if they are misunderstanding what Jesus meant? Jesus said that “the kingdom of God is within you.” That doesn’t sound much like “wait till you’re dead and hope you get to heaven.” Similarly, Jesus said, “I have come that you may have life and have it more abundantly.” I think he meant “life more abundantly” not merely after we die, but now. (more…)

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Would you like to say more about the discontinuity between who Michael had been and who he was after the incident with the door?

Sure. Good idea. We smile.

You think yourselves much more stable, more unchanging, than you are. You think this so unconsciously that it can be hard to persuade you that it is so. It seems to you that you see changes in yourselves over time that “prove” that you don’t see yourselves as basically unchanging. But we would say that as usual, this is a problem of language making a thing seem like its opposite. (more…)

Monday, April 9, 2007

Alright, it’s 7:30 a.m., who’s up? Joseph again?

Maybe nobody. Too much wine last night maybe….

All right, 10 minutes and a cup of coffee further on – I’m open to communication. I guess I will ask a question and see what develops. Someone please, what are the implications for him, for me, and for others, of Michael’s experience with a crack on the head opening him up?

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