Authors: James L. Oschman
ISBN-13: 9780750654005, ISBN-10: 0750654007
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Date Published: June 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Focusing on the wealth of information emerging in the area of energy medicine, this unique resource explores mechanisms by which mind and body processes influence the body's healing and performance potential. Content draws on an extraordinary range of sources to explore theories of human energy — from physiology and biophysics, to examples drawn from the realms of "spontaneous healing," cutting-edge athletic and artistic performance, the martial arts, and various contemplative and spiritual practices. Providing new insights and theoretical models, it offers ways to apply these concepts directly, practically, and clinically.
Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Prologue | ||
Introduction: Energy Medicine Today | ||
Ch. 1 | A Brief History of Energy Medicine | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Energy Medicine Today | 13 |
Ch. 3 | A Place for Science | 24 |
Ch. 4 | Prof Takes on Cancer | 29 |
Ch. 5 | A Kitten and a Fly | 36 |
Ch. 6 | Sensation and Movement at the Edge | 42 |
Ch. 7 | Another Way of Knowing and Moving | 50 |
Ch. 8 | Introducing the Living Matrix | 57 |
Ch. 9 | Properties of the Living Matrix | 84 |
Ch. 10 | The Living Matrix and Acupuncture | 120 |
Ch. 11 | More Clues from Acupuncture | 139 |
Ch. 12 | Continuum in Natural Systems | 164 |
Ch. 13 | A Crisis in Bioenergetics | 190 |
Ch. 14 | Introducing Biological Coherence | 193 |
Ch. 15 | Limitations of the Neuron Doctrine | 216 |
Ch. 16 | Sensation and Movement | 225 |
Ch. 17 | Neural Communication | 239 |
Ch. 18 | Muscle Contraction | 242 |
Ch. 19 | Biological Coherence: The Davydov Soliton | 248 |
Ch. 20 | Solitons and Muscle Contraction | 257 |
Ch. 21 | Sensing Solitons in Soft Tissues | 262 |
Ch. 22 | Soft Tissue Memory | 268 |
Ch. 23 | Soft Tissue Holography | 281 |
Ch. 24 | A Continuum Pathway for Sensation and Movement | 296 |
Ch. 25 | Quantum Coherence in the Living Matrix | 300 |
Afterword | 313 | |
App. A | John McDearmon Moore, Jr. | 338 |
App. B | Magnetobiology and Electro-dynamic Fields in Therapeutics and Human Performance | 342 |
App. C | Mechanism of Energy Transduction in Biological Systems: New York Academy of Sciences Conference | 346 |