HEALING HANDS

Some hands can heal. This seems to be a miracle but is actually a physical process that takes place through bio-magnetic fields. Scientific research shows that bio-magnetic energy emanated by the practitioner resonates with particular molecules in the receiver and initiate a cascade of events that can stimulate the repair of cells and tissue.

Such healing effects are studied in differentiated ways. For instance, research presents evidence of certain frequencies emitted from practitioner’s hands that ‘jump-start’ healing processes in receivers.

Although scientific research strongly suggests that healing may be initiated, less certain is that everybody can sense the resonance and use it to ‘tune in’ to imbalanced areas by providing proper electromagnetic fingerprints. Able body-workers sense more and can develop brain rhythms that lead to stronger and more coherent magnetic fields which facilitate detection and repair in the receiver.

Biophysicist James Oschman has brought together evidence from a range of disciplines to provide an acceptable explanation for the energetic exchanges that take place in body-mind therapies. He addresses a growing interest in the role of natural energies in maintaining health and wellbeing. http://energymedicineuniversity.org/faculty/oschman.html

While solid knowledge is growing, much is still hypothetical and waits for scientific studies that can reject or confirm implicit beliefs and explicit statements.

~ Courtesy: Elise Pattyn

SCIENCE AND ASTROLOGY

It is scientific to say that without knowledge of scientific proof we cannot have an opinion, including about astrology. But a scientist would appreciate curious colleagues who take astrology as an object of study, just like chemists study molecules, economists study capitalism or physicists study gravity.

There is an endless number of hypotheses to be derived from the astrology books, tested and statistically analyzed. But even if a hundred hypotheses are rejected we can still not say that astrology has no validity because a much larger of number of hypotheses could be confirmed. On the other hand, even if a hundred hypotheses are confirmed we can still not say that astrology has validity because a much larger of number of hypotheses could be rejected.

The curious scientist may not only appreciate the testing of statistical relations between stellar constellations and human behaviors, but also value the physical research that increasingly confirms energy relations of different frequencies that occur at many levels, from the molecule to the universe, and may produce cause-and-effect relationships between the behaviors of stars and humans.

And the curious scientist, aware of what physicists have realized for long already, knows that cause-and-effect cannot explain everything that happens but that synchronicity sometimes replaces causal relations. For instance, in 1964 the scientist J.S. Bell, working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland, has found that the supposedly separate parts of the universe are in fact connected in an intimate and immediate way. It provides repeatedly tested proof that cause-and-effect thinking cannot explain everything.

The shocking news is that science has shown its own limitations. And even after half a century this conclusion is far from being understood in its consequences. The word synchronicity is the proper term to be applied here. The same word synchronicity may apply to what astrologers study.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem

PARADISE OR WISDOM

As fetuses and infants we live with subconscious illusions of total comfort, perfection, grandiosity, timelessness, limitlessness, centrality, almightiness and total control. We usually overcome such paradisiacal illusions only to a certain extent and ban, under pressures of the social and physical environment, other parts of those illusions to the back of our minds. Developmental psychology has been demonstrating those features since the 1970s.

Now, when conditions allow, those subconsciously remaining parts of infant illusions can grasp their chances, come back to the fore and infuse our feeling, thinking and acting. Growing wealth, social power, spiritual enlightenment, technology or car driving, for instance, can remobilize our undigested paradisiacal illusions, until real life unmasks our reappeared fantasies.

For quite some prominent people, overcoming the subconscious paradisiacal illusions of early childhood is just too hard. Instead of helping them to deal with reality on the ground, their fame or power inflated their illusions and made them derail, even to a fatal extent.

Exposed rapists such as IMF leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn and American TV hero Bill Cosby, or the  fatally addicted singer Amy Winehouse are recent examples.

Others, on the other hand, are fortunately in a position where they can honestly and courageously confront themselves with early paradisiacal illusions that are still lurking in them. They may even develop real wisdom.