Energy Healing Experiments: Science Reveals Our Natural Power to Heal » (Reprint)

Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology, medicine, neurology, psychiatry, and surgery at the University of Arizona and director of its Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health. After receiving his doctorate from Harvard University, he served as professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University, director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center, and co-director of the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic, before moving to Arizona in 1988. He has published more than four hundred scientific papers and coedited eleven academic books. He is the author of The Afterlife Experiments and The Truth About Medium and coauthor of The Living Energy Universe.

William L. Simon is a screen and television writer and bestselling author.

A healer removes the pain of a broken wrist in fifteen minutes. Another removesan ovarian tumor in a couple of weeks. Still another, from thousands of miles away, regenerates the nerves of an injured spine for a patient on whom the doctors had given up. These sound like tabloid stories but could they be true? They are just three out of millions of instances in which healers have claimed to manipulate energy fields to cure the body.

Books on vibrational medicine, prayer, and spiritual healing present readers with an array of historical and current discoveries and techniques. But so far nobody has addressed the reality of healing through comprehensive scientificresearch. The Energy Healing Experiments fills that void. Harvard-educated Dr. Gary E. Schwartz provides scientific experiments and evidence to reveal the truth about the existence of energy fields and unlocks their potential for enhancing your health.

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Are energy fields real? And if so, can they be used for healing and health? Yes, according to Schwartz (The G.O.D. Experiments), a professor of psychology, surgery, medicine, neurology and psychiatry at the University of Arizona. He tells marvelous stories of such healings and uses experiments to confirm that the human body is a bundle of energy that can be healed by another such bundle of energy. One story is of a four-year-old boy, Philip, whose heart rate dropped precipitously following surgery; a Hindu avatar, by merely touching Philip, increased his heart rate to 80 beats a minute. Through experiments with EEGs and EKGs, Schwartz says, he and others have found that our bodies are masses of biochemical energy, that such energy connects us to plants and other animals, that this energy can be harnessed for healing and that some people are in touch with their energy and use it to heal others. Schwartz's research has not appeared in peer-reviewed journals (due to their bias against such work, he says), so skeptics will want to wait for his experiments to be replicated. But those disposed to believe in the healing touch will find support for that belief. (Aug.)

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Foreword   Richard Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS     1
Preface     5
Everything Has Energy and Conscious Intention
My Eyes Are Opened     9
Examining Energy Healing     15
Unlocking the Mystery of Invisible Energy Fields     21
Experiencing Human Energy Fields     29
Perceiving a Person's Intention     35
Learning to Detect Energy and Consciousness     45
Sensing the Energy of Minerals and Crystals     55
Our Energy Fields Connect Us with Everything
Interplay-The Heart and the Brain     67
How Your Heart's Energy Can Affect Another Person's Brain     81
Your Body Can Affect TV Satellite Dishes     93
How Healers' Hands Affect Magnetic-Field Meters     103
How Healers Affect the Invisible Light from Plants     115
Plant Communication and Botanical Cell Phones     129
Testing Energy Healing in the Laboratory     137
Testing Medical Intuition in the Laboratory     151
All Healing Involves Energy and Conscious Intention
Energy Healing and the Placebo Effect-A New Vision     165
How Energy Healing Works-The Living Cell Phone     177
How Spirit and G.O.D. Play a Role in Energy Healing     189
Envisioning the Future of EnergyHealing-Awakening to Energy Living     201
We Are All Energy Healers     217
Frequently Asked Questions     223
Recommended Readings     235
Understanding Universal Energy     241
Acknowledgments     245
Index     251