|
|
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Speakers on Saturday the 20 October.
09.30 am: MINDS EXTENDED IN SPACE AND TIME
Rupert Sheldrake
|
| |
Abstract
We have been brought up to believe that minds are located inside heads, and memories are stored inside brains.
But these views are much too limited. People can influence others at a distance just by looking at them, even if they look from behind
and if all sensory clues are eliminated. People's intentions can be detected from miles away, as when dogs know when their owners are
coming home and in telephone telepathy. Our minds seem to extend beyond our brains through attention and intention. They also extend
in time, picking up both individual and collective memories, and sometimes linking us to our own minds in the future. Rupert Sheldrake
will explore possible explanations.
back to top
|
11.00 am: BIOELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF THE HUMAN BODY
Michal Teplan
|
| |
Abstract
Investigation of bioelectrical properties can be approached by impedance analysis and by passive registering of bioelectrical
potentials. I shall review background of these methods and present recent achievements and actual challenges in these fields.
In the second part impedance analysis of acupuncture points and pathways will be addressed. Although use of acupuncture is
relatively well established in Western medicine as a complementary diagnostic and therapeutic tool, its physical and medical
characterization is still largely unknown. Surprisingly, there is a lack of firm evidence about distinct electrical properties
of acupuncture points. Acupuncture sites are supposed to possess lower impedance and higher capacitance. Our investigation was
focused on critical assessment of electrical properties of single acupuncture points and properties of meridians measured between
two acupuncture points of the same meridian. In the first step we attempted to localize acupuncture points from impedance modulus
maps. Then investigation of properties of acupuncture system by vector impedance analysis in acoustic and radiofrequency range was
followed. Our experiences with measurement techniques confirm difficulties in methodology and conditions of measurement.
Impedance analysis of acupuncture system deserves further attention along the need for improved understanding of physical
mechanisms behind basic functioning of this relatively broadly used medical modality.
Michal Teplan holds a research position at Institute of Measurement Science of Slovak Academy of Sciences and is also building Center for Advanced Human Studies,
both in Bratislava, Slovakia.
His interests are focused on diverse biophysical and biomedical areas with emphasis for discovering the unknown at the edge of mainstream science.
back to top
|
11.30 am: LESSONS FROM THE LAB: ENERGY HEALING EXPERIMENTS ON CANCER
William Bengston
|
| |
Abstract
More than a dozen experiments on mice in half a dozen labs, including three medical schools, indicate reliable full
lifespan cures of mice infected with normally fatal cancers. These cures were brought about by "energy healing"
techniques, and have been replicated by skeptical volunteers. Clinically, these same healing techniques have also
been applied to selected individuals with positive results. Additional research has looked at some correlates to
this healing, including EEG and fMRI entrainment, and anomalous geomagnetic micropulsations in the surrounding space
of healing events.
This talk summarizes some of these data, and offers some thoughts on what "lessons" can be learned from the research.
There are variations in the amount of evidence for each lesson,
and they are prioritized by what can confidently be concluded and what remains as speculation.
Confident conclusions include the simple statement that energy healing can cure cancer under controlled laboratory conditions.
More speculative assertions include such questions as whether healing can be taught.
In all cases the "take home" message remains the importance of basic research for the energy healing community.
SSE president, Professor of sociology at St. Joseph's College in New York
back to top
|
|
|
