Little Hawk - what has being sceptical to do with the porno industry -a non-seqitur if I ever saw one!

The porno industry appeals to the Ooh-Aah in us all. Ooh-Aah!

Wolfgang, I'm hoping you have the time to take a look at these studies by Toni Bunnell M.Sc., Ph.D, Faculty of Health, University of Hull, UK

The Effect of 'Healing with Intent' on Pepsin Enzyme Activity

Complete details of that experiment in pdf format

And a quote: The rate of breakdown of egg albumen by a 1% pepsin solution was followed using a Jenway 6051 Colorimeter at a wavelength of 470nm. An effect due to healing was indicated by experiments using percentage light transmission (%T) as an indicator of reaction rate. Across 20 separate trials the reaction rate of the enzyme sample 'healed with intent' was found to be significantly greater than the unhealed sample (p = 0.03).

The Effect of "Healing with Intent" on Peak Expiratory Flow Rates in Asthmatics

And a quote: The results obtained in this study suggest that the delivery of "healing with intent", for a ten-minute period, produces a significant improvement in breathing efficiency in the majority of asthmatics, using peak expiratory flow rate as an indication of lung function. As such, it would appear to be a valid complementary therapy for use with prescribed medication.

... In previous studies, healers have been shown to produce 70-V surges of electricity in addition to anomalously large magnetic fields from their hands ... Sugano et al., noted that EEG changes observed in healers during healing are predominantly an increase in alpha waves across the brain.24 Increased changes of brain waves from baseline to healing periods were recorded in experienced (effective or expert) healers compared to those less effective. Healers also tend to evidence increased activation of the right hemisphere during healing. Receivers of healing show increased synchronicity of alpha waves as well as increased EEG amplitude in the frontal areas. This observation and that of another study is in agreement with later studies demonstrating that, during healing, the healer's alpha brainwaves synchronize with those of the healee, so that both will be resonating at the same frequency, known as sympathetic resonance.18,23,24 In addition, healing has been shown to have an effect on enzyme activity, eliminating any possibility of the existence of a placebo effect.4-8,10,12


And here is Dr. Bunnell's summary of his own work: A Tentative Mechanism for Healing

If these studies are reliable (and I'll trust your expertise on that one, Wolfgang), they show very positive results for energetic healing indeed! Conducting preliminary studies on energy work using animals, plants, enzymes etc as subjects rather than humans seems like an excellent idea. That way, the effects of the energy itself could be measured WITHOUT the introduction (and interference) of the human psychological variable (ie personality or "state" of receptivity).

Hey, doing all this research on-line about energetic healing, I'm almost tempted to go back to university and finish my Masters, using THIS as my thesis! The hallowed halls of academia might prove to be a MOST refreshing change after almost a decade of being immersed, for better or worse, in "New Agisms".

daylia