The Future of
Energy MedicineÊÊÊ
Some day the life-force
energy will be considered as real as electricity, magnetism or gravity, and it
will easily stand up to the scrutiny of clinical double-blind experimentation.
When the life-force is accepted as real, it will forever change the worldâs
fundamental understanding of physics, chemistry, biology, psychology and
medicine. Our very conception of who we are and our relationship to each other
will be altered forever.
For thousands of years the Chinese with Chi, the Japanese with Ki, Indian Yogis with Prana, and the Hawaiians with
Mana have worked with the life-force energy and built various elaborate
systems÷for healing, the martial arts, and consciousness raising activities.
Throughout the world there have been countless other cultures who have become
aware of, and have similarly acknowledged and utilized these energies as well.
ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ It seems so ironic that we live in a
society where scientists have come up with a fascinating new way to describe
the centuries old wisdom of life-force÷it is now most often referred to as
ãnonsenseä or a ãplacebo.ä In these ãmodernä times we live in a strange culture
that has steadfastly refused to acknowledge the existence of this most
fundamental energy÷the animating current of life. The hardened scientific
stance has been that that which can not be measured with existing
instrumentation either does not exist or is not worth considering. Since
scientists act as modern day priests to tell the common people what is and is
not ãreal,ä they simply denounce the existence of this tremendously valuable
resource. For the millions of people who place their trust in such authorities,
the result is that the various types of healing modalities such as
Quantum-Touch, Polarity-Therapy, Reiki, Chi-Gung, Acupressure and Acupuncture,
which use life-force energies, are all relegated to the fringes of society.
ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ I have found that many physicists
enjoy tearing down energy healers by explaining that the word ãenergyä when
used by a physicist has very precise meaning. From their perspective, energy
causes work to be done on the physical plane, meaning that something tangible
and measurable has occurred.
ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ There are many who will
rightly say that our own experiences and empirical evidence have overwhelmingly
shown us that the life-force is real. I would never argue with this
perspective; however, to accelerate a paradigm shift, we can do far better than
that. I believe that there can be great value working within the double-blind
model.
ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ Deepak Chopra wrote, ãTo promote the healing response, you must get past all the grosser levels of the body÷cells, tissues, organs and systems÷and arrive at a junction point between mind and matter, the point where consciousness actually starts to have an effect.ä I believe we are now at that point.
ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ In 1977 I became aware of a highly
demonstrative method of running the life-force energy in a way that appears to
be especially suited for research purposes. Since that time, I have observed so
many extraordinary and clearly definable physical effects that I believe it can
stand up to the rigors of double blind experimentation. Here are some of the
more dramatic examples of and reasons for this contention:
ðÊ Life-Force energy from the hands of lay
practitioners regularly becomes so intense, that peopleâs skeletal structure
will spontaneously shift back into alignment with only a light touch.
Professional chiropractors have been awed and amazed that they can use
life-force in place of the vast majority of high speed adjustments. X-rays
clearly show bones moving. (As a note, the body directs the movement of bones
as it deems fit using its own intelligence. The practitioner never decides
where bones should go. Similarly, adjustments made this way tend to hold, since
no force is used and no reaction to the force is created.)
ðÊ When Dr. Norman Shealy, Ph.D., founding
President of the American Holistic Medical Association, applied life-force
under my direction, he found that his most difficult chronic pain patients with
20 and 30 years of constant pain who had not responded to any traditional or
alternative modality, all received lasting pain relief from a single group
healing session.
ðÊ In a preliminary study underway in
Pennsylvania, patients whoâs blood oxygen levels have dropped below 92% during
surgery, universally respond to the life-force and their blood gas levels went
up about 5% on average and stayed there. (Since these patients are under a
general anesthetic, we can assume that the placebo affect would be minimal or
nonexistent.)
ðÊ In another preliminary study underway in
Pennsylvania, people with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome almost
universally experience a dramatic raising of skin temperature in their icy cold
limbs when intense life-force energy is applied to spinal plexus affecting the
limb.
ðÊ In a study I conducted at the University of
California in Santa Cruz, basket ball players experienced an average 50%
reduction of their pain from the application of life-force energy. All 13 cases
of inflammation had been significantly and immediately reduced.
ðÊ When water is charged with a strong field of
life-force energy, people consistently use the same adjectives to describe the
change÷they will most often call the charged water ãsilkier, smoother, softer,
thicker or syrupy.ä When wine is charged, it tastes smoother and with far less
aftertaste.
ðÊ When a strong field of life-force energy is
applied to the head of people laying down, the vast majority will go ãoutä in
five to ten minutes. This is totally outside the literature in physiological
psychology. Experienced mediators who have often said that they had never gone
into such a deep mediation, or so quickly.
ðÊ When Dr. Norman Shealyâs staff were taught
to direct the life-force energy, his accountant, secretary and one of his
nurses were all able to affect other peopleâs electroencephalograph readings at
a distance. This was something that Dr. Shealy had thought that only world
class healers such as Olga Worrall were capable of doing.
If ãenergyä is defined as doing work on the physical
plane, clearly from the above examples, work is being done. The ability to change the taste of wine, to cause
skeletal structures to shift, or affecting peopleâs EEG readings are all
examples of the impact of a strong field of life-force energy. When research is
conducted in the areas of physics, chemistry, biology, medicine and psychology,
I feel confident that we will in time see the birth of a new branch of science
that I like to call ãLife-Force Science.ä
I envision a world where the life-force is
considered real. What if people knew life force was real? I imagine Life-Force
Science being studied at every major university and medical research center
around the world. Having new tools to measure or evaluate the impact of
life-force would be like putting on a new pair of glasses with which to view
the world. We could then consider:
ðÊ How does
the use of the various kinds of body work and energy therapyÊ affect the life-force?
ðÊ How does
the use of organic and fresh live foods affect our life-force?
ðÊ How does
the use of pesticides or other forms of toxic waste affect the life-force of
the plants or the animals or people who ingest them?
ðÊ How does
the suppression of symptoms with drugs, or the use of antibiotics affect the
life-force?
ðÊ How does
the repression or suppression of emotions effect the health of the individual?
ðÊ How does
creativity, hope, gratitude and love affect peopleâs life-force?
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When life-force is considered real, concepts that
people who are holistically minded take for granted would start to make sense
to everyone. I can imagine a world where healers are working in every hospital,
emergency room, ambulance, retirement home and institution; a world where every
elementary school child learns to do healing. When a child is acting up or gets
hurt, there are other children ready to give them some energy. By the time
these children finish high school, they would all be extraordinary healers.
What may seem self-evident and obvious to those people who have studied the
healing arts, for political, religious, social and economic reasons has
remained quite a mystery to the culture at large. I can only imagine how
wonderful it would be to live in a world where the life-force was not only
acknowledged, but widely embraced and cherished.
Paradigms are notorious for dying hard. In time,
with enough research and of course, publicity, the old Newtonian model of
health will give way to a new appreciation and acknowledgement of life-force.
When life-force is considered real, people will know that healing is real, that
it is something everyone is capable of doing. Healing is the easiest of skills
to learn, and perhaps most important, our love has more impact than anyone ever
imagined.
Richard
Gordon, one of the pioneers of energy healing, is the author of Quantum-Touch: The Power to
Heal, and Your Healing Hands÷The Polarity Experience, a best-seller
and a classic guide to energy work that has been translated into nine
languages. Richard can be reached at PO Box 852, Santa Cruz, CA 95061-0852;
(888) 424-0041; mail@quantumtouch.com;
www.quantumtouch.com