Does Healing Energy Exist?
by Dr. Bruce Forciea
In my nearly twenty year exploration of alternative medicine and healing I have often
wondered about the concept of healing "energy." Healing energy is a mysterious
thing indeed. Many people can definitely feel it but it escapes scientific
measurement. When scientists try to measure this energy in the form of the four
forces of nature (electromagnetic, gravity, strong and weak nuclear) they usually
come up empty handed.
My hypothesis about healing: that all healing is in essence exchanges of information
provides an answer to the mystery of healing energy. A number of leading scientists
including James Gardner, John Barrow, Paul Davies and Nobel laureate Christian
de Duve have put forth ideas that support the concept that life can be understood in
terms of exchanges of information. In complexity theorist James Gardner’s new book
“The Intelligent Universe” he posits what he calls the selfish biocosm hypothesis in
which the universe is much like an intelligent being. The universe evolves on a path
to preserve information. It does so by producing life that also evolves to higher states
of complexity in order to preserve the information in the universe.
If we live in the midst of what could be called a cosmic computer perhaps what we
experience as healing energy may in fact be healing information. Researchers at
Princeton University have measured changes in information in the form of changes
in the outputs of random number generators in healing practices. Random number
generators should produce a series of ones and zeros that cancel each other out.
When these devices are placed in healing practices or have intention directed at
them they deviate from randomness by producing more ones or zeroes.
These measurements of decreases in randomness are measurements nonetheless
as compared to the lack of success in measuring healing energy. Perhaps these
fluctuations picked up by the devices represent a change in some kind of
informational field surrounding a living being. The healer does not send healing
energy to the patient but somehow changes the informational field surrounding the
patient. The healer acts as an information source much like in a communications
channel. The patient receives the information and integrates it with the result of
moving toward a state of greater complexity or healing.
If this is true then healing energy will be understood in a whole new light. The search
for an elusive kind of energy will transform into a search for information.
by Dr. Bruce Forciea
In my nearly twenty year exploration of alternative medicine and healing I have often
wondered about the concept of healing "energy." Healing energy is a mysterious
thing indeed. Many people can definitely feel it but it escapes scientific
measurement. When scientists try to measure this energy in the form of the four
forces of nature (electromagnetic, gravity, strong and weak nuclear) they usually
come up empty handed.
My hypothesis about healing: that all healing is in essence exchanges of information
provides an answer to the mystery of healing energy. A number of leading scientists
including James Gardner, John Barrow, Paul Davies and Nobel laureate Christian
de Duve have put forth ideas that support the concept that life can be understood in
terms of exchanges of information. In complexity theorist James Gardner’s new book
“The Intelligent Universe” he posits what he calls the selfish biocosm hypothesis in
which the universe is much like an intelligent being. The universe evolves on a path
to preserve information. It does so by producing life that also evolves to higher states
of complexity in order to preserve the information in the universe.
If we live in the midst of what could be called a cosmic computer perhaps what we
experience as healing energy may in fact be healing information. Researchers at
Princeton University have measured changes in information in the form of changes
in the outputs of random number generators in healing practices. Random number
generators should produce a series of ones and zeros that cancel each other out.
When these devices are placed in healing practices or have intention directed at
them they deviate from randomness by producing more ones or zeroes.
These measurements of decreases in randomness are measurements nonetheless
as compared to the lack of success in measuring healing energy. Perhaps these
fluctuations picked up by the devices represent a change in some kind of
informational field surrounding a living being. The healer does not send healing
energy to the patient but somehow changes the informational field surrounding the
patient. The healer acts as an information source much like in a communications
channel. The patient receives the information and integrates it with the result of
moving toward a state of greater complexity or healing.
If this is true then healing energy will be understood in a whole new light. The search
for an elusive kind of energy will transform into a search for information.
| Dr. Bruce Forciea's New book presents a new paradigm for healing with alternative medicine by using information channels. |
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